[Meme] a softer prompt
Feb. 15th, 2012 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
runespoorMy impulse control is notoriously bad. (If you didn't know, you must be new.)
Inspired by the tragically non-fitting to my fandoms ficathon on lj.
Give me a character (or grouping of characters) and a prompt inspired by the webcomic “a softer world”, or several such prompts, and I'll write you something about it.
archive: a softer world
(you may want to take a look at the a softer DCU tumblr for inspiration, but you can give me other fandoms if you’d like.)
Inspired by the tragically non-fitting to my fandoms ficathon on lj.
Give me a character (or grouping of characters) and a prompt inspired by the webcomic “a softer world”, or several such prompts, and I'll write you something about it.
archive: a softer world
(you may want to take a look at the a softer DCU tumblr for inspiration, but you can give me other fandoms if you’d like.)
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Date: 2012-02-17 04:04 pm (UTC)DCU, Cassandra Cain, http://asofterdcu.tumblr.com/post/3955558494/evillordzog-she-totally-means-artemis
DCU, authors choice of Bat-family members, http://asofterdcu.tumblr.com/post/3931599450/tonguebox-jumping-on-the-bandwagon-original
DCU, Bruce Wayne/Batman, http://asofterdcu.tumblr.com/post/3910248470
DCU, any of the Bat-family with "my parents are DEAD" issues, http://asofterdcu.tumblr.com/post/3949465722/fuckyeahdickgrayson-art-from-batman-dark
DCU, any Robin, http://asofterdcu.tumblr.com/post/3909654317/remnantof-thats-my-baby-u-u
diversion tactics
Date: 2012-02-18 12:01 am (UTC)(it was this or Steph, and I thought of this first.)
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Eyebrows frowned into a squint, Nightwing looked around again at the island around them. "Is it Gargoyle again?"
Robin, who'd been sneaking glances at Batman when he thought no-one was noticing - and if they weren't Tim, people probably wouldn't notice - startled. "Gargoyle's back?"
"Yes, we had to deal with him a few months back," Nightwing said, "but I thought we'd done away with him for good. This looks like the trick he pulled on us last time: the island, the-- hallucinations--"
"I feel real," Robin pointed out. By Tim's observation, he must be only a few months before the end of his tenure as Robin. "Time-travel seems more likely to me than hallucinations."
"Gargoyle didn't transport us to an island that last time, either," Batman reminded Nightwing. It was still Dick's voice. "We'd got there on our own, remember?"
"...Still," Nightwing replied, but sounded like a concession.
"Let's assume it's a coincidence for now," Robin decided, the leader of the Titans. "What else do we know?"
As one, Nightwing and Batman, Dick and Dick, cocked their head at Tim, while Robin (Dick) quirked his eyebrow at him. "Tim?" Batman asked.
Nightwing was smiling, and the corner of Robin's lips was quirking in a way that would soon widen into its own smile. Tim shifted.
"It wasn't--" he croaked, paused, and cleared his throat, before speaking again, in a more controlled tone of voice. "It wasn't Gargoyle."
Nightwing grimaced.
"Too bad, we already knew how to get him," Robin shook his head.
"Titans shenanigans, or Gotham freaks?" Batman said, lightly amused.
It was Circe, playing a trick on Wonder Girl's friends, Tim carefully didn't mention. It could've been worse. It could've been a trick of Neron's.
"You okay, little brother?" Nightwing asked, concerned. "You're pale."
Robin strode up to him and slung his arm around Tim's shoulder. "Hey, don't worry. You should sit down; nothing's trying to kill us right now, so take a break for five minutes."
Robin's arm was warm around him, and Batman - Dick - tousled his hair in a gesture that made Tim long, while Nightwing nodded in agreement.
Tim shivered, and tugged his cape a little tighter around him.