Found this via we_love_dick and I must say I'm glad.
Steph pulled her mask off, rubbing at her face to get at phantom spirit gum. Aha, that's how they keep their masks on! I wasn't quite sure how they did it. Thanks.
Steph followed after him, once more feeling the wind on her face as she seized it. Wasn’t so hard, once she started thinking of it like a dance, like gymnastics. No competition, just motion. Atta girl, Steph. That's a good way to see it. Dick could and I'm pretty sure *would* sympathize very much with the gymnast's point of view.
I really, really like Dick and Steph's conversations, particularly how practical they are (being about masks and makeup, the value of knowing where soil samples came from, food for long nights) and how matter-of-fact Dick is with his responses. They feel very easy and natural. I also really like Dick's sentiments (he still regarded the Batcave like other kids would an old treehouse = a lovely thought) and the descriptions that I can see in my head if I try (Dick somersaulted off the old still rings he’d been playing on and padded through the cave to the science section, where he saw the familiar yellow-rimmed black of Robin’s cape sweeping through the crime lab.) :)
Dick walked to the edge of the rooftop, kneeling down to look over it. “He was reckless, he was ferocious, he was… a hero. Just led astray. We failed him, all of us. We were so busy with our own little dramas and missions that we forgot he was just a kid.” I haven't read the comics although I've read the back story (I just found scans_daily not too long ago, and that among other things was what kicked my *passing* interest in these characters into a more *fannish* interest), but what are the dramas and missions that you're referring to? Or is it just the general sort of post-Crisis stuff they all had to deal with?
“Hey, no one deserves to wait five years for Batman to tell them he’s proud.” “Five years? That long?” “Well… on average.” Dick looked down at the city block below them. “Okay, still no crime? This is BS. Let’s go hassle the Penguin, see if he knows anything.” “Oh, awesome!” Steph brought out her grapple-gun. “Does he really do that ‘wak wak wak’ thing?” “Sometimes, but you have to really get him steamed.” ... The look Batman gave him didn’t confirm or deny, just asked. ... “I can’t expect everyone to be you,” Bruce said, either correcting or praising. Maybe both. ... “Hey, wait a minute,” Dick said, with Batman in mid-disappearance. He’d always loved spoiling that trick, though he only got to do it once in a great while. All of this = brilliance. The reference to the Penguin's laugh(?) is funny, and the characterization of Bruce is great too. It really is difficult to tell with him, huh, even for someone who knew him like Dick did.
Overall, great job (and I hope you don't mind the lengthy comment!).
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Date: 2009-05-14 12:48 am (UTC)Steph pulled her mask off, rubbing at her face to get at phantom spirit gum.
Aha, that's how they keep their masks on! I wasn't quite sure how they did it. Thanks.
Steph followed after him, once more feeling the wind on her face as she seized it. Wasn’t so hard, once she started thinking of it like a dance, like gymnastics. No competition, just motion.
Atta girl, Steph. That's a good way to see it. Dick could and I'm pretty sure *would* sympathize very much with the gymnast's point of view.
I really, really like Dick and Steph's conversations, particularly how practical they are (being about masks and makeup, the value of knowing where soil samples came from, food for long nights) and how matter-of-fact Dick is with his responses. They feel very easy and natural. I also really like Dick's sentiments (he still regarded the Batcave like other kids would an old treehouse = a lovely thought) and the descriptions that I can see in my head if I try (Dick somersaulted off the old still rings he’d been playing on and padded through the cave to the science section, where he saw the familiar yellow-rimmed black of Robin’s cape sweeping through the crime lab.) :)
Dick walked to the edge of the rooftop, kneeling down to look over it. “He was reckless, he was ferocious, he was… a hero. Just led astray. We failed him, all of us. We were so busy with our own little dramas and missions that we forgot he was just a kid.”
I haven't read the comics although I've read the back story (I just found scans_daily not too long ago, and that among other things was what kicked my *passing* interest in these characters into a more *fannish* interest), but what are the dramas and missions that you're referring to? Or is it just the general sort of post-Crisis stuff they all had to deal with?
“Hey, no one deserves to wait five years for Batman to tell them he’s proud.”
“Five years? That long?”
“Well… on average.” Dick looked down at the city block below them. “Okay, still no crime? This is BS. Let’s go hassle the Penguin, see if he knows anything.”
“Oh, awesome!” Steph brought out her grapple-gun. “Does he really do that ‘wak wak wak’ thing?”
“Sometimes, but you have to really get him steamed.”
...
The look Batman gave him didn’t confirm or deny, just asked.
...
“I can’t expect everyone to be you,” Bruce said, either correcting or praising. Maybe both.
...
“Hey, wait a minute,” Dick said, with Batman in mid-disappearance. He’d always loved spoiling that trick, though he only got to do it once in a great while.
All of this = brilliance. The reference to the Penguin's laugh(?) is funny, and the characterization of Bruce is great too. It really is difficult to tell with him, huh, even for someone who knew him like Dick did.
Overall, great job (and I hope you don't mind the lengthy comment!).