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crack_van2008-09-30 07:27 pm
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Robin, the Boy of Steel: An Elseworlds Tale by Syl (Teen)
Fandom: DC COMICS (Elseworlds)
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson (sort of)
Pairing: Bruce/Selina much later on
Length: novella (~75,000)
Author on LJ: [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
Author Website:
Why this must be read:
I'm going to squeeze in one last rec this month because it's a combination my two favourite things: Bruce-as-a-dad and Kon-el. Sort of.
Syl takes Kon's travel through Hypertime, the Elseworlds story Speeding Bullets where Martha and Thomas Wayne raise Kal-el, and various other comicverse bits to make this utterly awesome plotty fic. The premise: Jor-el, having lost his son to Krypton's death throes, agrees to send his nephew, Van-Zee, to the planet Earth in an attempt to save him. Mary and John Grayson arrive at Schuster's Field moments before Martha and Jonathan Kent and so find the baby Kryptonian who they raise as their son, Dick.
Dick's arrival into Bruce' life follows canon but everything after that is just a little bit different because of his powers. Syl depicts a powerfully loving Bruce. He makes mistakes but his affection for his adopted son shines through. Because he doesn't have Dick's (Van Zee's) spaceship, the process of figuring his powers out is slow and, at one point, fraught with danger. This was another story I read in one sitting. The numb-bum syndrome was worth it.
Robin, the Boy of Steel: An Elseworlds Tale
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson (sort of)
Pairing: Bruce/Selina much later on
Length: novella (~75,000)
Author on LJ: [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
Author Website:
Why this must be read:
I'm going to squeeze in one last rec this month because it's a combination my two favourite things: Bruce-as-a-dad and Kon-el. Sort of.
Syl takes Kon's travel through Hypertime, the Elseworlds story Speeding Bullets where Martha and Thomas Wayne raise Kal-el, and various other comicverse bits to make this utterly awesome plotty fic. The premise: Jor-el, having lost his son to Krypton's death throes, agrees to send his nephew, Van-Zee, to the planet Earth in an attempt to save him. Mary and John Grayson arrive at Schuster's Field moments before Martha and Jonathan Kent and so find the baby Kryptonian who they raise as their son, Dick.
Dick's arrival into Bruce' life follows canon but everything after that is just a little bit different because of his powers. Syl depicts a powerfully loving Bruce. He makes mistakes but his affection for his adopted son shines through. Because he doesn't have Dick's (Van Zee's) spaceship, the process of figuring his powers out is slow and, at one point, fraught with danger. This was another story I read in one sitting. The numb-bum syndrome was worth it.
Robin, the Boy of Steel: An Elseworlds Tale