#notwithoutrisk

[trickshotarcher]

teenlantern started following you

owlmanprime started following you

notwithoutrisk started following you

sophia-trackstar started following you

The papers on his desk were starting to pile up. He promise himself that he would make someone do them for him. The new arrival was a greeted distraction. "Yes?"

[notwithoutrisk]

breathinginthenightmare

"Scarecrow in the middle of the night in complete and utter darkness. Why am I not surprised?"

[nublia]

6, 7, 11

6. What are you excited for?

"I'm excited about getting to know all these new people suddenly! This dog especially..."

7. What happened tonight?

"Ah...I had to uh, take pictures of some kids who-"

"It was just a bad work day."

11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?

"Fully? No doubts at all? That list is fairly short."

"But I trust Clark, Querl, and Wally. Unconditionally."

[notwithoutrisk]

mistressofnature

Long time no see, Pamela.

[notwithoutrisk]

iforgemyownfuture

Shouldn't you be in space?

[onlytalia]

notwithoutrisk replied to your post: notwithoutrisk replied to your post: ((Random...

((If you want to add a little action along with the family tension, then you could add Ra’s father, The Sensei, into the story. Like he’s waging war against Talia for complete leader of LoA. Shutting up now //_//))

[[ NO SHH I LIKE THIS IDEA ]]

[onlytalia]

notwithoutrisk replied to your post: ((Random question I know, but how would you write Damian's introduction to Bruce if you were in charge of Batman and Son?))

((A zillion times better than Morrison’s version, that’s for sure!))

[[ I got like halfway through writing it and then I was like crap what if this would actually be boring ]]

[onlytalia]

((Random question I know, but how would you write Damian's introduction to Bruce if you were in charge of Batman and Son?))

[[ Wow good question, actually. I'll admit I'm not terribly schooled in Batman and Son (because Morrison and early SkrullTalia) and I've never thought of it before so this might be crap.

But I would hope that Talia would have dropped that tidbit of information before having him meet Damian. I wouldn't have had Damian as a test tube baby (because it makes absolutely no sense as I've mentioned before - why go through the trouble of sexing up Bruce if you weren't trying to put a bun in the oven and were just going to put a bun in a jar?). 

I think it would have been interesting for Talia to have still told this grandiose, rose-colored glasses stories about Bruce without intending for Damian to meet him because of Son of the Demon's events (and never wanting Bruce to know she lied about miscarrying and the reasons behind it, mainly to spare him and herself the pain of reliving it) - and then for Damian to get fed up with stories and strike out on his own to find his father.

Instead of "Mother's Manbats are holding you captive, I'm your son let's point a sword in your face and snarl a little bit", I think to have Damian mirror Bruce's youth as a sojourner would be interesting. Instead of Bruce's path where he goes off and trains and learns, Damian would be seeing real people and real problems and start to see, maybe, that there's more to the world than Talia and her dreams and love stories and lessons. Not necessarily for a long haul, but enough to leave Damian more bewildered than arrogant when he meets Batman. For there to be less bravado about it all.

Then Talia tracks Damian down and catches up to him and she and Bruce have to have the uncomfortable conversation.

Then for Talia to put her arm around Damian and look at Bruce and say "Beloved, this is our son." and then Bruce is of course shocked and angry and omg I have a son feelings.

And Damian is just confused because he wants to get to know his father but Talia wants him to return with her but her world isn't the same to him after he's seen what's outside of it.

In other words, I wish it was something more heartfelt on all accounts, not "MANBATS AND DEVIOUS PLANS EHEHEHEH BLOWS UP A SUBMARINE AND ALMOST KILLS US BOTH"

So then we have a Damian with Talia but pining after Bruce's life and his world even though he absolutely loves his mother and respects her.

He just..wants more.

I guess there needs to be action in there somewhere but eh it's late but does that makes sense? It would just be a shift in tone, you know? ]]