Original Work: The Jedi Within by @dandalfthewhite (DandalfTheWhite on ao3)
DC & SW Crossover: Tim Drake (with the memories of Obi-Wan Kenobi) | Tim & Jason, Jason & Bruce, Jason & Dick
Rating: Teen & Up Audiences
Summary:
Eleven-year-old Tim Drake wakes up one day having the memories of 57-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was probably magic, but who knows. The Force is with him and that will leave its mark on Gotham City and its inhabitants.
Notes: a "just because it took so much love and effort" gift for @flowerparrish & hoebiwan!
Thought you'd appreciate this Hobby Drama reddit post. It's fun and I laughed a few times: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/xlzkcp/comics_dixon_dicks_off_how_to_be_so_prudish_and//
afssgs i have read it before and thoroughly enjoyed it. dixon. oh dixon. terrible. the only part that gives me pause is the assertion that tim had to give steph a lecture on why abortion was wrong because that, uh, didn't happen. *steph* was definitely one from the very beginning lecturing everybody else on why she would never, ever have an abortion. she gets mad at tim when she thinks he's telling her she should get one, when all he meant was she should go to the doctor
robin #58
she gets mad at her mom for bringing her to an abortion clinic & to an adoption agency
robin #58
tim is honestly notably. incredibly moderate and tame in this story in comparison. he doesn't provide excessive judgement either way, except for mildly agreeing with steph's mom steph probably shouldn't keep the baby
robin #58
really his stance during this is 1) you're too young to have a baby 2) maybe see a doctor and 3) sure i'll go to birthing class with you now that you've decided to have the baby. he doesn't represent an argument, because he *can't*.
because while i'm not denying any conservatism in his thoughts or actions during dixon's run--it was inevitable with dixon, just as you see it in his dick & bruce writing, but the fact of the matter is that tim was robin. and robin was proprietary to dc/bat editorial which meant that dixon would have been absolutely disallowed from getting overtly political like that with robin/tim because dennis o'neil would not have allowed it--had dixon actually tried to make tim go on an anti-abortion rant, o'neil would have refused that. that would have been an overtly controversial political message that would not have been allowed for the batman & robin brand and tim had to kept fairly moderate and uncontroversial because he was more than dixon (he was allowed to do anti-drug psas because that was fairly bipartisan and par for the course for kids/teen media in the 90s).
spoiler, however, was a dixon creation and was not a proprietary concern in the way that robin was, which is why she's allowed to be the conservative foil he can insert his views into. which is why she gets to be the one to go on a racist and classist rant.
god this is bad. there's some characterization of steph that other ppl tend to want to throw away that i want to keep, but this? this is absolute garbage, love ignoring this. it's just a very clear indicator on how for dixon, steph was not as constrained of a character--he had freedom to put his more controversial conservative views in her character, allowing her to represent his conservative beliefs vs the bat mythos
Hey I’m just starting Veilguard (finally!) and I wondered your take (as someone with good taste) on the coolest race/background/romance. Also the ones which impacted the story dialog options most? (I’ve had some mage ones pop up and I’m a shadow dragon which has had some fun dialog with an Neve.) I’d appreciate your thoughts!
(Sorry you sent this days ago and I just now saw it; was out of town for thanksgiving)
Well! I just today started my fifth playthrough because I have done literally nothing else with my free time this month. So far, I've played:
Grey Warden human mage who romanced Bellara
Mourn Watch human mage who romanced Lucanis
Shadow Dragon elf rogue who romanced Neve
Veil Jumper elf mage who romanced Emmrich
current playthrough is Antivan Crow human rogue who's going to romance Taash
aaand this got longer than it needed to so, under a cut!
I had a lot of fun with my Grey Warden and there was a lot of dialogue compared to the other factions I've played so far that was Warden specific because, you know, a lot of the plot of the game itself has to do with Wardens or involves Wardens. An additional fun aside was that when you meet Antoine and Evka as a Warden the pop up notification is that you're already friends with them, and that really comes through in the conversations you can have with them throughout the game, but it did make me sad when the pop up notifications for the other three factions so far was essentially "these are your annoyed-at-you-to-varrying-degrees coworkers."
I also really, really liked Mourn Watch. You get a lot of very entertaining flavour dialogue to go with your background, and you really get to open up your conversations with Emmrich because as a fellow Watcher, he doesn't feel the need to mask or hide his passion for your shared craft and calling, which is fun. I found with Shadow Dragons there was a medium high amount of faction-specific dialogue, but I did stymie myself a little because I was also romancing Neve with my Shadow Dragon and so a lot of the opportunities I might've had for faction-specific dialogue had to give way to romance specific dialogue instead. Veil Jumper has been my least favourite faction so far, which is funny because aside from Mourn Watch it was the one that spoke most to me in the lead up (they're studying history! they're being chaotic in the woods! I'm a historian who enjoys trees!) but one of my (honestly very few) serious critiques of the game is that I don't think they did a particularly good job at developing the Veil Jumpers as a faction considering how important they're supposed to be for the plot. You get a pretty limited amount of Veil Jumper specific dialogue compared to the other factions I've played, and you don't actually get to know any of the NPCs better because you're a Veil Jumper either.
So far of the romances, Emmrich's has had the most actual Romance about it, which is fun! You get a whole extra date with him that you don't with any of the other romances I've played so far. Also he's a very charming man and it was a very sweet romance over all. Of the four I've played all the way through, I've definitely thought all of them were very in character for each of the romanced characters. I did kind of screw my Bellara romance up because there's a crisis point later in the game that I made a questionable decision in, and it meant I didn't get the main major romance scene until after the end credits, but they did actually include it with suitably altered dialogue to track with the new position within the game, so they were clearly prepared for that to be a potential outcome, which I did very much appreciate.
Neve's and Lucanis's were about on par, imo, and I enjoyed them both very much, even if I wish (second actual critique even though this is going to sound silly) there was more opportunity for kissing in this game.
After I play this Crow romancing Taash, I'm going to play a dwarven Lord of Fortune and romance Harding, because I'm hugely curious if there's any substantive dialogue for a dwarf Rook, especially around Harding's personal quest and some of the revelations we get from the Regrets of the Dreadwolf quest, and then I'm going to go back and play my Warden again, except this time I'll have her romance Davrin, which I think will be as close as I can get to a canon playthrough since the game tragically does not allow me to wrangle Neve, Lucanis, and Davrin into one polycule :(
(and then, probably, my Mourn Watcher again except have him seduce the professor)
