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crack_van2008-06-28 12:27 am
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Cage Match by glossing (Adult)
Fandom: DC COMICS
Pairing: Bruce Wayne/Jason Todd
Length: 5600 words
Author on LJ: glossing
Author Website: glossings
Why this must be read:
This is should be read because it nails the dynamic between Bruce Wayne and Jason Todd in Jason's days as Robin. This Jason is angry and aggressive, as he was, but he isn't overdone. This is very clearly Robin Jason, not Red Hood Jason, and the difference is achingly clear. This makes it very obvious to anyone why Bruce and the Bat family as a whole never quite recovered from Jason's death, and it makes Red Hood all the more hurtful. This boy, despite all his anger and frustration, can still be joyful even if it's for disturbing reasons. There's also a very awareness of class issues in this fic which highlight the difference between Bruce and Jason very well.
Dick was inviolable. Dick is what Bruce hopes, but doubts, he could be. Jason, arrayed in anger and spitting a rapid Tommy-gun fire of words and moods, is what Bruce fears, knows full well, he *is*.
What, then, to make of this?
Hours later, Jason is still wakeful. He raids the pantry for yet more food, then makes his way back upstairs. He stops near Bruce's room, where the door is ajar. He pads inside and helps himself to a painkiller from the bottle on the bedside table before sitting cross-legged on the bed. He munches a peanut butter and banana sandwich greedily, his free hand in Bruce's hair. The dark hair twines around his fingers; his skin appears blue in the moonlight.
Cage Match
Pairing: Bruce Wayne/Jason Todd
Length: 5600 words
Author on LJ: glossing
Author Website: glossings
Why this must be read:
This is should be read because it nails the dynamic between Bruce Wayne and Jason Todd in Jason's days as Robin. This Jason is angry and aggressive, as he was, but he isn't overdone. This is very clearly Robin Jason, not Red Hood Jason, and the difference is achingly clear. This makes it very obvious to anyone why Bruce and the Bat family as a whole never quite recovered from Jason's death, and it makes Red Hood all the more hurtful. This boy, despite all his anger and frustration, can still be joyful even if it's for disturbing reasons. There's also a very awareness of class issues in this fic which highlight the difference between Bruce and Jason very well.
Dick was inviolable. Dick is what Bruce hopes, but doubts, he could be. Jason, arrayed in anger and spitting a rapid Tommy-gun fire of words and moods, is what Bruce fears, knows full well, he *is*.
What, then, to make of this?
Hours later, Jason is still wakeful. He raids the pantry for yet more food, then makes his way back upstairs. He stops near Bruce's room, where the door is ajar. He pads inside and helps himself to a painkiller from the bottle on the bedside table before sitting cross-legged on the bed. He munches a peanut butter and banana sandwich greedily, his free hand in Bruce's hair. The dark hair twines around his fingers; his skin appears blue in the moonlight.
Cage Match