#titans rewrite

[aaaurora-space]

Dick and Donna being siblings. Rewrite Verse dialogues edition!

Siblings who were trauma-bonded by emotionally unavailable superheroes... my Roman Empire.

Donna finally turns and freezes. Dick's standing there with his hands in his jacket pockets, smirking.

DONNA (grinning): Well, well, if it isn't Boy Wonder himself.

She moves in for a hug but then stops dead when she notices Rachel behind him.

DONNA (horrified): No.

DICK: I haven't said anything!

DONNA: You don't have to! I know that look on your face. And it's not "Hello!" or "I missed you so much!" or "Sorry I haven't called you even once!"

DICK (shrugging apologetically): Hello, I missed you so much, sorry I haven't called you even once?

DICK: Donna, this is Rachel.

Donna nods at Rachel and crosses her arms, staring at Dick with a mix of annoyance and concern.

DONNA: Dick, this is a mess.

DONNA: Not everyone is a hero. But you are. Always were. Always will be.

DICK: Hypocrisy much? That goes right back at you.  

DONNA: Oh, don't turn this around. You know it's different with me.

DICK: It's not.

DONNA: It is.

DICK: Is not!

DONNA: It is!

DONNA: Kory's language caught my interest after she... yelled at us.

DICK: At you. She yelled at you.

DONNA (turning to her book): Anyway—

DICK (chuckling): Sweet child?

DONNA: Yeah. That's what Diana used to call me. Sweet child.

DICK: Her motherly skills were a work in progress.

DONNA (snorting): You'd know. What did he call you?

Dick tilts his head back, staring at the ceiling. A tired smirk tugs at his lips.

DICK (mocking gruff voice): Dick! How could you be so reckless?! You are benched for LIFE! Batmobile is OFF LIMITS!

They laugh. A beat.

DICK: He did call me champ sometimes. Whenever I aced a training. Or just in public, you know, for the brand. But what I really loved was when he called me a hero. After saving someone, helping those whom he could've missed. 

DONNA: You don't know what harms you more. When they scold. Or when they praise.

[undertheknightwing]

enjoy a tiny piece from my 'Deathstroke' rewrite cause I'm super hyped,,

“Gar! Stop! Stop!” He remembers Rachel’s screaming as she tried to pull him off of Jason before the Boy Wonder took a permanent nap. Luckily, her attempts to stop him brought him out of his animalistic rage.

Dick entered the training room a few seconds after Gar returned to normal, missing all the chaos and Jason didn’t inform the man about what just happened. Thankfully. But he’ll never forget the terror in Jason’s eyes and how he spoke to him, what he said:

“You stay away from me, you fuckin freak!”

“You need to get that shit checked out, by like a fuckin’ priest!”

And maybe Jason is right. Maybe Gar is just a fuckin freak who needs to be drenched in holy water, cause he can feel evil deep down, he always could.

[redjaybathood]

I keep trying to find Titans rewrite posts I made while/after watching Titans TV season 1 and just cannot, but main points were, as far as I remember it:

1) Rachel should not be dreaming prophetic dreams about Dick Grayson - and I still stand by it because as it turned out, she didn’t need him to fight Trigon, she needed Gar though. So, let’s keep it regular nightmares and maybe, include Gar.

2) Jason Todd needs to have expressed, shown, motive for “fuck blue lives” attitude and we, the audience, need to be shown why breaking a cop’s back was a thing to do, and “because he can and wants to” is not cutting it.

3) If we get Dawn and Hank getting Jason Todd, this plot point should go somewhere.

After s 02 ep 01, I think we need to keep the 1st in mind, and concentrate on the 3rd. Writers dropped the ball greatly on it, I think. There was no point to Hank and Dawn getting Jason except for Jason to find Dick at all (and the second tracker, what the fuck?), but there was no point to Hank and Dawn getting to the house at all. I think the intent behind it was, Rachel didn’t need Jason, she tried to get Hank and Dawn to help her and the gang, and Jason was just a person who could find Dick and with him, the rest of them.

So let’s say Hank and Dawn use Jason exactly for this. He activates the tracking, the finds Dick’s location, and Dawn and Hank just ‘ok see ya’. 

“Bullshit”, Jason says. “You came to me. Without me, you had nothing. I’m coming with you, babe, like it or not.”

 Dawn can’t help it but her lips are twitching. She doesn’t need to look at Hank to know exact face Hank makes, mouthing ‘babe?’ to himself, and then exploding.

“We don’t need a wannabe Robin around, kid, so stay the fuck out of our way.”

“That’s really original,” Jason says. “Anyway, I kinda owe Dick - we left things on a bad note. I - was kinda asshole to him.”

“You can work it out on your own time,” Hank says, moving past him, dismissing Jason entirely. “God, the rich pricks thinking they are entitled to...”

“Hey,” Jason says. “You don’t know me.”

Hank turns back. “Do I need to? It’s obvious. Doesn’t matter where the Bat dug you up from, you just went on with it. Took the suit, the name, everything. You think it’s a game, don’t you? It’s not. People get hurt. People get killed. It’s disrespectful, treating it as you do.”

Dawn tries to move Hank along. “We don’t have time for this,” she says, glancing back at Jason apologetically. He doesn’t seem a bad kid, to her. Maybe a little misguided. She doesn’t want to end it on a bad note, even if she wouldn’t want to spend a four hours drive to the house in the same car as he and Hank, bickering.

“A game,” Jason repeats, blinking. He looks almost serious, for a second, before blinking and smiling crookedly. He raises his hands. “Sure, a game. A race, even. You going to get there how fast, with your old ass truck? I, on the other hand, have a whole fleet of state-of-art engines that would get us there in two hours with change, to choose from. But whatever. Go on. I bet you will get there just in time to see me just wrapping up.”

“Hank?” Dawn says. Because time is of the essence, and if the boy offers, she knows that she is going to do. 

Hank, thank god, doesn’t put up that much of the protest.

They arrive to the house to find Donna shooting at - alien princess, it turns out. It looks like they tried it all except fire at the house from the alien ship. They are just about to do it when the barrier magically disappears. It’s a trap. Everyone knows that, no need for Jason to point it out (though it was more like a grim irony for him).

They still go all in.