Okay, could you maybe consider writing that legal AU? Because if so I might die
title: legal jargon
pairing: jason todd/dick grayson
rated: NC17 guys
warnings: nsfw, unsafe sex, kink (mild) un-negotiated kink, humiliation (mild), dirty talk, feminization (slight), public sex
an: hi Anon. i hope you’re able to rise again like our resident living dead boy because i did the thing!!!!
an redux: i feel like the old me with this one, but a better version who is more thoughtful? basically, see the tags. also, i know nothing about courtrooms. i once dated a law student? it didn’t help with this story though.
an the reckoning: shout out to my village @elwon (for encouraging the idea and outline) @volaviwrites (for the commentary and conversation), @carbonjen (for the quick edit and the suggestions), @markcat (for knowing what i’m trying to do and explaining how to do it never leave my brain). how did i ever survive without y’all?
special thanks: to @whipbogard for sharing the joy of one piece with me in the middle of this edit. it really kept me going!
the tags:
#LEGAL BATMAN #BUT NOW I WANT LEGAL BATMAN FOR REAL #I HATE COURTROOM DRAMAS #BUT I WOULD READ A BATFAM LEGAL DRAMA AU#HIGH POWERED BRUCE CRUSADING FOR JUSTICE #HARVEY PLAYING BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW #DICK FOLLOWING IN BRUCE’S FOOTSTEPS BUT SECRETLY FRYING UNDER THE PRESSURE BECAUSE HE’S EXCELLENT BUT THIS ISN’T HIS WAY #IDK #I JUST WANT LATE NIGHT RESEARCH SESSIONS WHICH ENDS WITH JASON BETWEEN DICK’S THIGHS FUCKING HIM SO HARD HE SCREAMS #AND THEN DICK WALKING INTO REDACTED DUE TO THE SPOILS
#SO IT WOULD REALLY JUST BE DICK FEELING LOWAND OUT OF TOUCH GOING TO A LEGAL LIBRARY TYPE PLACE? #IDK #ANYWAY #HE’S SHED HIS JACKET AND DIE AND KEEPS DOINGOBSCENELY CASUAL THINGS LIKE RACKING HIS HAIR BACK #LICKING HIS LIPS BEFORE SIGHING #AND THEN THIS SHADOW LEANS ACROSS HIM AND HELOOKS UP TO FIND A HANDSOME GUY HOLDING A #CUP OF COFFEE OUT TO HIM #YOU LOOK LIKE YOU NEED IT#THEY STRIKE UP A CONVERSATION #THAT LEADS TO A MAYBE YOU NEED A LITTLE STRESSRELIEF KIND OF MOMENT #DICK IS SO SO SO SO DOWN
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I like giving really extended author’s notes (or ‘director’s commentary’ if you will) about my fics, but since AO3 is hardly the place for adding those, ehm, guess it’s gonna be bonus content for the tumblr crowd?
Now chapter 3 of No Shadow Falls is up, I just really want to ramble a bit about the thought process behind it. Do people give spoiler warnings for their own fics? If so, consider this it. Please read ch3 first, just in case :’)
So this is that UTRH/Court of Owls mashup fic I mentioned a while back! The premise I wanted to do was basically ‘What if the Court caught wind of Robin!Jason being led into a trap by the Joker & saw a chance to get a new Talon’. Combine this with a little of ‘what if Bruce never found Jason’s body but still presumed him dead bc of the explosion and copious amounts of blood at the scene etc (even though he secretly keeps looking for him still) à la Arkham Knight’ and voilà, here we are.
Considering the fact this fic’s setting is contemporary, I actually imagine Joker would’ve recorded video evidence of him beating up Jason to taunt Batman with too... Hmm, maybe I should re-label this a UTRH/CoO/Arkham Knight mashup instead...
Did I mention that if you’re here for romance, you better strap in for the long haul? Because this is gonna take a while, alright
Prologue
Can you tell I like being poetic? Or that I enjoy parallel & contrasting sentence structures?
first & last paragraphs (the ’beginning’ & ‘end’) include ‘a boy’ & ‘a bat’
‘how the story goes’ vs the later ‘NOT how this story goes’
second & second-to-last paragraphs both start with ‘you see’
3rd & 4th paragraph start with ‘maybe’
the structural halfway point is between the 3rd & 4th paragraph, so between ‘an end (death)’ & ‘a start (resurrection)’
in those same paragraphs: ‘in flame and fire with ice building in his gut’ versus ‘in liquid and ice with fire running through his veins’
Yes, the prologue is from Jason’s POV through his death and resurrection
Chapter 1
The working title for this chapter was ‘Something In The Water (...it’s bodies)’ though I changed the location the body was found in the end.
That stream of consciousness that serves as the intro paragraph(s) is supposed to reflect the opening narration of the Court of Owls storyline, wherein Bruce muses over the Gotham Gazette's 'Gotham is...' column.
Also let me tell you I knew from the start I wanted to do a UTRH retelling but with Talons, and I still somehow forgot Dick’s leg was in a brace during the original UTRH story until I went back to fact-check.
[announcer voice] All names of the victims/CoO members are purely made up, canon can bite me because I don’t care much for the turn the CoO story took after a while but that’s a rant for another day
‘Dick is getting precariously close to the end of his rope’, get it?? foreshadowing that the victim was gonna be found hung up under the bridge? eh?? I like to think I’m funny when I’m not
Chapter 2
I re-wrote this entire chapter from scratch (except for the last 'night’) because I hated the first draft so much
Guys, I love Babs-as-Oracle. Dunno if I can do her justice, but please know I love her.
I don’t think this detail matters if you don’t know much about comics canon: Tim and Cass did stay in Blüdhaven for a while in the past, but they’re mostly back in Gotham now. They still have a hideout in the Blüd and drop by to visit Dick/avoid Bruce every so often, and Cass also spends a lot of time with Babs (& Steph, again, I’ll mention her at some point. so many characters to juggle, christ. I’m gonna level with y’all, I just do NOT want to deal with the War Games storyline in this fic, so don’t expect me to reference it)
Talon did, in fact, use a crude version of Batman’s grapple hooks to get the body up on the bridge. Why display it in the first place? See ch3: as a provocation to both Batman and Nightwing in specific, because Jason is a dramatic lil’ shit no matter what universe you put him in
The Talons in canon seem to have more weapons that fit their fighting style, but I went for the combination of grappling line + (throwing) knives for now because Jason actually does use a knife in UTRH. I might make him use guns, at some point, but for now it’ll be the usual improvised bat-gadgets like flashbangs, smoke bombs etc, plus knives
And thus starts our story of Talon messing with Dick
Chapter 3
The ‘Such Terrible Hungers’ chapter title is taken from the same poem as the main story title (’No Shadow Falls’), namely, Louise Erdrich’s “The King of Owls”. For obvious reasons.
This chapter, I re-wrote about fifteen times. I wanted to cry in frustration.
Anyway, yay, more Jason POV! (in my weird quasi-poetic format)
[insert obligated identity crisis because he was forced into a role he never wanted but it’s now useful to his cause]
Points I want to single out:
Whenever I use text in italics+brackets, it’s some form of unbidden thought coming to Jason’s mind
Drinking game: spot the references to how Bruce failed to find Jason/the Owls (”a detective who cannot find what he is looking for“) or how nobody seems to want Jason bc he’s Jason, they just want him as a substitute for Dick
This is also why Talon doesn't want to be caught, he wants to be found. Small but significant difference
There’s an underlying theme of ‘stories’ in my quasi-poetic chapters, so I really wanted to incorporate the classic ‘Once upon a time, there was...’ ‘One day, ...’ structure of fairy tales/bedtime stories. Lest we forget the CoO also had a nursery rhyme dedicated to them
“Talon never spilled his secrets but oh, how the Owls would have laughed if they had known.” >>>> the Owls ovbs interrogated ‘Robin’ (Jason) while he was in captivity, but they didn’t get much info from him. I’ll mention the details in some later chapter!
Yes, I do the ‘Night-Wing’ ‘Gray-Son’ spelling thing on purpose to show that Jason’s mind isn’t all alright at this point
The switching between ‘the Gray Son’ & ‘Gray-Son’ is also on purpose to show the cracks in Jason’s conditioning/the Owls’ failure to brainwash him fully
I try to keep most of Jason’s core characteristics intact - his focus on victims + helping them, his disdain of Batman’s methods - but I’m going to have to change some bits to fit the Talon narrative I think. We’ll see how it works out...
That being said, he’s mostly gonna be messing with Dick because he’s petty and bitter, but it turns out to be more fun than he thought it would be. After all, our boy severly lacks human interaction & Dick is a relatively expressive person (the polar oposite of the Owls’ haughty/better-than-thou/distant demeanor & even Batman’s carefully controlled reactions)
Bonus scrapped story element: at one point I had the idea to have Talon be as good as mute because of a particularly brutal blow (from the crowbar) injuring his throat/vocal chords. I couldn’t think of a way to incorporate it on top of everything else though, so that remains an idea for another time...
(Seriously though, Jason and Cass silently bonding over speech issues, sign me up. Especially bc Jason loves literature and Cass is into theater it seems, you can do so much with that)
Batman Ninja comes out to the public this month so I can finally start making a print series! I really wanted to do something based on hanafuda cards; my family has some sets, yet I never learned to play…but I’ve always loved the designs of each suit! To start, here’s Dick and Jason :) Dick’s is based on the March suit which is designed with sakura and flower viewing curtain. Jay’s is centered on the August suit and, because I’m a sucker for patterns and symbolism, the design on his robe is based on the ayakashi Noh mask: these characters are vengeful spirits, usually warriors.
Will probably adapt these to shirt designs once all of them are done, too.
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