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WIP Amnesty: Birdwatching (DC Comics)
Title: Birdwatching: Five Things That Never Happened To The Robins
Fandom: DC Comics
Rating: As it is: N/A. As it would have been: R
Characters: Dick, Jason, Tim, Steph, and Carrie, in assorted pairings.
Note: At the end is an awesome poem which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sageness gave me, which would have been the title source.
5 things that never happened to the Robins, but should have, on a theme of watching. (or 4 of them)
Titles from the poem Sage posted, "an affinity for Bats"
"Glimpsed in Silhouette"
Tim watches Dick do a routine and remembers watching him on a rooftop and keeping silent (Tim is quiet when he's happy.)
and/or:
[Tim and Dick are out patrolling. Tim rappels down the side of a building; Dick bounces a la this. http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8343/img02034kw.jpg Tim is unutterably charmed, and thinks "I could never do that." Dick compliments him on his rappelling. (used in another story, but remember feel of idea)]
"A Sort of Song"
A live Jason story (T&J are classmates, and are on a field trip, literally birdwatching. They sneak off and make out.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwatching
From Monkeycrackmary:
I don't think Jason would wear glasses, unless he was going undercover at Brentwood to get intel on the freaky Drake kid who may or may not be collecting blackmail material on them.
"move like new tunes"
A story where someone watches Tim:
In Birdwatching. Carrie Kelley figures out that Tim Drake is Batman, at first to get him to tell her about her birth mother (Steph) but then, when she sees he has no Robin, "Batman needs a Robin!" and she makes herself Robin.
http://thete1.livejournal.com/606882.html
("I *knew* you'd find me if I just kept going out like this -- you're *Batman*. And I'm Robin.")
"calling into darkness"
and the currently best developed one:
"If she knew I were watching she'd kick my ass."
Tim watches Steph, newly recovered from injuries, pursue a criminal. The criminal shoots her in the tit and escapes (Tim tosses a tracer at them), leaving her knocked on her ass and with a spectacularly bruised breast & pissed off that she lost them and at Tim (since she ALSO put a tracer on them). Soon they catch up to the guy and bring him in using teamwork. A mystery and a Robin team-up and a bit of Steph-Tim romance.
Background: an AU where Tim quits for good in Robin 120, and Steph becomes Robin then. Then Cap Boomerang kills her mom and Tim comes back.
Do this as Tim, no longer Robin, watching Steph be Robin. She knows he's watching.
And do one with Steph watching. Apprenticing with Oracle with a broken leg, or maybe two broken legs. Title "The Shape of Things" She asks Oracle to borrow her workout equipment and Oracle takes her to the control room as well/instead
Note for "Birdwatching":
Subject: Re: Explaining An Affinity For Bats
Sage (sageness) replied to your LiveJournal comment in which you said:
> "The Shape of Things" needs to be a story title. As does "A Sort of Song"
Isn't it lovely? I keep thinking of them flying and flying, with Babs' voice in their ears telling them where they should be. (or Steph's in her Oracle trainingsegment.)
http://sageness.livejournal.com/906629.html
Note in Carrie's segment (add Te's story to notes) that Tim knows looking at her on the street that the pale redheaded girl is there for him. http://thete1.livejournal.com/606882.html
http://sageness.livejournal.com/906629.html
Explaining an Affinity for Bats
That they are only glimpsed in silhouette,
And seem something else at first - a swallow -
And move like new tunes, difficult to follow,
Staggering toward an obstacle they yet
Avoid in a last-minute pirouette,
Somehow telling solid things from hollow,
Sounding out how high a space, or shallow,
Revising into the deepening violet.
That they sing - not the way the songbird sings
(Whose song is rote, to ornament, finesse) -
But travel by a sort of song that rings
True not in utterance, but harkenings,
Who find their way by calling into darkness
To hear their voice bounce off the shape of things.
—A.E. Stallings
Fandom: DC Comics
Rating: As it is: N/A. As it would have been: R
Characters: Dick, Jason, Tim, Steph, and Carrie, in assorted pairings.
Note: At the end is an awesome poem which
sageness gave me, which would have been the title source.5 things that never happened to the Robins, but should have, on a theme of watching. (or 4 of them)
Titles from the poem Sage posted, "an affinity for Bats"
"Glimpsed in Silhouette"
Tim watches Dick do a routine and remembers watching him on a rooftop and keeping silent (Tim is quiet when he's happy.)
and/or:
[Tim and Dick are out patrolling. Tim rappels down the side of a building; Dick bounces a la this. http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8343/img02034kw.jpg Tim is unutterably charmed, and thinks "I could never do that." Dick compliments him on his rappelling. (used in another story, but remember feel of idea)]
"A Sort of Song"
A live Jason story (T&J are classmates, and are on a field trip, literally birdwatching. They sneak off and make out.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwatching
From Monkeycrackmary:
I don't think Jason would wear glasses, unless he was going undercover at Brentwood to get intel on the freaky Drake kid who may or may not be collecting blackmail material on them.
"move like new tunes"
A story where someone watches Tim:
In Birdwatching. Carrie Kelley figures out that Tim Drake is Batman, at first to get him to tell her about her birth mother (Steph) but then, when she sees he has no Robin, "Batman needs a Robin!" and she makes herself Robin.
http://thete1.livejournal.com/606882.html
("I *knew* you'd find me if I just kept going out like this -- you're *Batman*. And I'm Robin.")
"calling into darkness"
and the currently best developed one:
"If she knew I were watching she'd kick my ass."
Tim watches Steph, newly recovered from injuries, pursue a criminal. The criminal shoots her in the tit and escapes (Tim tosses a tracer at them), leaving her knocked on her ass and with a spectacularly bruised breast & pissed off that she lost them and at Tim (since she ALSO put a tracer on them). Soon they catch up to the guy and bring him in using teamwork. A mystery and a Robin team-up and a bit of Steph-Tim romance.
Background: an AU where Tim quits for good in Robin 120, and Steph becomes Robin then. Then Cap Boomerang kills her mom and Tim comes back.
Do this as Tim, no longer Robin, watching Steph be Robin. She knows he's watching.
And do one with Steph watching. Apprenticing with Oracle with a broken leg, or maybe two broken legs. Title "The Shape of Things" She asks Oracle to borrow her workout equipment and Oracle takes her to the control room as well/instead
Note for "Birdwatching":
Subject: Re: Explaining An Affinity For Bats
Sage (sageness) replied to your LiveJournal comment in which you said:
> "The Shape of Things" needs to be a story title. As does "A Sort of Song"
Isn't it lovely? I keep thinking of them flying and flying, with Babs' voice in their ears telling them where they should be. (or Steph's in her Oracle trainingsegment.)
http://sageness.livejournal.com/906629.html
Note in Carrie's segment (add Te's story to notes) that Tim knows looking at her on the street that the pale redheaded girl is there for him. http://thete1.livejournal.com/606882.html
http://sageness.livejournal.com/906629.html
Explaining an Affinity for Bats
That they are only glimpsed in silhouette,
And seem something else at first - a swallow -
And move like new tunes, difficult to follow,
Staggering toward an obstacle they yet
Avoid in a last-minute pirouette,
Somehow telling solid things from hollow,
Sounding out how high a space, or shallow,
Revising into the deepening violet.
That they sing - not the way the songbird sings
(Whose song is rote, to ornament, finesse) -
But travel by a sort of song that rings
True not in utterance, but harkenings,
Who find their way by calling into darkness
To hear their voice bounce off the shape of things.
—A.E. Stallings