Title: Neither Fate Nor Fortune
[on the AO3]Characters: Barbara (Jason, Bruce, Jim; Bruce/Jason)
Rating: PG-13
Series: Bring on the NightWarnings: character death, ableism, violence, depression, offscreen underage, and all the content warning that comes with only mildly sanitized vampirism.
Summary: Barbara becomes Oracle, and Gotham's dead Robin is a vampire.
Canon timeline: I'm going with the idea that
The Killing Joke takes place some months before
Death in the Family. I'm playing loose with the chronology of some of the post-
Death in the Family pre-
No Man's Land storylines because of reasons.
Inspiration: I made canon soup from sources as diverse as Gotham Knights #43-44-45, Batman: Turning Points #3, Batman Chronicles #5 (Oracle Year One: Born of Hope), the DCAU, the Elseworlds
Thrillkiller and
Supergirl & Batgirl (spoilers for the latter two), Batman #424, and
Gotham Central. I may be forgetting some.
Thank you to Discowing for betaing and cheerleading, to
salinea for bearing my regular whining, and to
moetushie whose remix of the first fic made me want to go on.
written for the
dcu_bang 2012, this fic is accompanied by a fanmix made by
ecto_gammat whose link is pending due to the hurricane.
( In Greek mythology, the bearer of bad news has no name. )