[Meme] Identity porn
Sep. 11th, 2011 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
runespoorGive me the identities and I'll give you the porn. So long as it's understood that identity porn isn't necessarily smut. And it may be quite short.
"identity porn" is the idea that a character isn't going to be written the same way depending on what they call themselves. (or the other way around.) For instance, Bruce, Bruce Wayne, Batman, and Matches Malone aren't going to be quite the same character; Dick/Babs isn't the same thing as Dick/Oracle or Barbara Gordon/Officer Grayson.
You can leave up to three requests, I'll work through the requests through the week, I probably don't do everything you ask but I promise I'll try to fill at least one request out of your three.
A helping of headcanon would probably help: Batfamily is rife with identity porn, Superman less so unless in Gotham, and the Arrowfamily thinks the Bats have thought way too much about this.
"identity porn" is the idea that a character isn't going to be written the same way depending on what they call themselves. (or the other way around.) For instance, Bruce, Bruce Wayne, Batman, and Matches Malone aren't going to be quite the same character; Dick/Babs isn't the same thing as Dick/Oracle or Barbara Gordon/Officer Grayson.
You can leave up to three requests, I'll work through the requests through the week, I probably don't do everything you ask but I promise I'll try to fill at least one request out of your three.
A helping of headcanon would probably help: Batfamily is rife with identity porn, Superman less so unless in Gotham, and the Arrowfamily thinks the Bats have thought way too much about this.
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Date: 2011-09-11 11:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-11 11:22 am (UTC)"identity porn" is the idea that a character isn't going to be written the same way depending on what they call themselves. (or the other way around.) For instance, Bruce, Bruce Wayne, Batman, and Matches Malone aren't going to be quite the same character.
In the case of Cass and Steph, for instance, the characters involved could be Cass, Steph, Spoiler, Robin, Batgirl, Black Bat, Cain, Cassandra (Bruce Wayne's adopted daughter), and probably a few others I'm forgetting about right now.
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Date: 2011-09-11 11:48 am (UTC)1) Helena Bertinelli on Bruce Wayne, Batman and Matches Malone.
2) As Barbara could tell folks if they asked, Oracle and Batgirl are two very different people.
3) Dick, Tim, Jason, Steph and Damian all know that it means something to be Robin. They just all differ on who/what Robin both is and is supposed to be.
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Date: 2011-09-15 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-15 03:59 pm (UTC)1) I've never seen Jason Todd in anything, so I have no opinion about him (I've only learned about the alternate Robins through Scans_Daily, and have never seen them in anything other than the occasional posted page);
2) Batman's an adult and they're kids/teenagers, which makes the idea of a sexual relationship rather exploitative and NOT what I'd expect of a hero.** Though I do think that reporters and columnists have speculated about Batman and the Robins a lot, probably to Bruce's intense irritation.
**To my mind, there are things that you cannot do and remain a hero. Rape, torture and sexual exploitation of those physically or emotionally weaker than you are among them.
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Date: 2011-09-16 05:32 pm (UTC)And Subtext, which I have been unable to avoid every time I wrote Jason so far.
because they're the characters I'm thinking about most at the moment...
Date: 2011-09-11 05:35 pm (UTC)Cassandra Wayne and (or /) Tim Wayne.
aaand
Tim Drake/Stephanie Brown.
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Date: 2011-09-12 04:35 pm (UTC)Let's see...
Bruce Wayne and Superman
Stephanie Brown and Alvin Draper
Conner Kent and Red Robin
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Date: 2011-10-01 09:32 am (UTC)