beatrice_otter: Batman with the Batsignal shining (Batman signal)
beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2008-03-06 09:25 pm
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The Beginnings of All Things are Small by thedeadparrot (PG)

Fandom: DC COMICS
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: [personal profile] thedeadparrot
Author Website: Nightvision
Why this must be read:

When Dick Grayson sees Wayne Manor for the first time, he thinks that it looks like it could eat him.  It's hard to say it didn't.  Written for Lady Sarai in the Yuletide 2006 Challenge.

This was written as a Batman Begins fic, but really, it could fit into just about any Batman incarnation.  [personal profile] thedeadparrot shows us Dick Grayson's life as he comes to Wayne Manor, his realization of his parents' murder, and how he comes to be Robin.  More than that, she gives us a picture of life in the manor with a grieving boy, a man who doesn't know how to relate to him, and one English butler.  It takes the bare facts that are so often used as mere back story and brings them to life in a lyrical way.

The Beginnings of All Things are Small