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    Vaguely Connected Harry Goodman & Mewtwo One-Shots by

    Fandom Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, POKEMON Detective Pikachu (2019)

    08 Sep 2019

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    16 Aug 2019

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    Love this. Tho since Mewtwo gets most of their genes from Mew it makes no sense Mewtwo should have any doubt about their having inherent good in them. They just demonstrated ability to heal others, which is like, what can be more inherently good? Besides, they have the saved a whole city, definitely good. *Hearts!*

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    Unforgotten by for ictus

    Fandoms: Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)  

    08 Jun 2019

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    Bruce has known Harvey Dent for fifteen years. They used to be friends, before Two-Face took his place.

    Now Harvey is back, but there are things he doesn't know. Bruce has decided it's time to fill in the blanks.

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    09 Sep 2019

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    Captured them so well!

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    A New Start by

    Fandoms: POKEMON Detective Pikachu (2019)  

    10 May 2019

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    After just a week, Tim realizes there are some practical considerations to uprooting your life, and that means he'll have to go back to his hometown for a bit to sort things out. While there he makes a surprising connection.

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    Minimum Height Requirement by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)  

    07 Dec 2017

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    Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a universe where letting his children dress up in capes and follow him into vigilantism seems like a good idea.

    Bruce is determined that it isn't going to be this one . . . Despite his children's repeated attempts to convince him otherwise.

    (Or: "When you're eighteen, you can do what you want. Until then, no capes.")

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    All the Roofs of Uncertainty by

    Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU  

    19 Dec 2015

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    For all the blood on his hands, Red Hood was never just a villain. And Nightwing never gives up on family, not for good.

    (Or: The one where Dick bleeds a lot and Jason argues with everybody.)

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    16 Jul 2019

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    Wow! I loooooove this fic! Although could be a bit more debate from the side of Batman regarding lawful state of society versus everybody doing summary execution as they please. What could possibly give capes the right to play judge & juries but that they simply can? That they are stronger and more resourceful than the average people. Then why can’t the rest of us try to do the same? So if capes can do that it means either A: the strong rules the weak and is thus above the law, or B: everybody can go kill whoever they deem unworthy to breath like Red Hood did, screw the laws. Either way, law and civil society slowly disintegrate and they fell into chaos. No killing for vigilantes is really not a random line, but the most base of lines. Once you killed someone, there’s no “unkilling”, the same should apply to permanent injuries as well.

    This fic is really great and touch many aspects deeply, especially from the pacifism angle (I love the talk from Lesley especially with emphasis on fundamental, systemic changes of it, also the “you can not judge a person’s worth by just looking at the lowest point” part which is rather essential to this fic), but when Jason mentioned briefly how Batman would not kill one innocent man to save whole a lot of people, which is a greater understanding of Batman essential than so many writers who thinks Batman is just the equivalent human form of a super strategical computer plus emotional constipation, the fic missed an opportunity to go deeper on the morality and subjective value of survival. There’s a major difference between a fighter and a survivor, and I’d think both Jason and Bruce is essentially the former, though based on Jason’s hard life growing up, it makes sense that he has got more of that survival instinct in him than someone like Bruce. It doesn’t mean Bruce’s world is naive. Sometimes people let their sympathy put the victim on pedestal, but the truth is, no one should grow up on the street dirt poor.

    There’s also the issue of the benefit of being in peace and tranquillity versus in a constant state of war. Always in a fight whether externally or internally damages your mentality, your approaches, and always eventually spills out. You can’t expect to save the world if you destroy yourself first. Where would be your direction then? Warlike man and such. Lesley could have touched on that. However, neither Batman nor Red Hood canonically get that, they in too deep, though Batman at least never fully give up on himself: he always maintains a line, and that’s something. Tbh how Batman can function as he does without taking regular vacation or being drained out is totally inhuman. But not even WW movie address this mentality thing, instead trudging on about how “noble” internal conflicts are, not realizing that to improve a self, you’ve got to accept, love, not just fight, yourself first( also there’s the thing that sometimes people tend to confuse acceptance with complacency/stagnancy yikes). So that’s not really strange not to be addressed here. In fact, the acceptance and growth of Jason and ending their family feud is a integrally constructive to this issue, even if it’s not addressed directly.

    Aside from that, the last chapter seems redundant. Maybe it’s a matter of personal taste but I think it could end at ch 11 very nicely, and followed up with a little slice-of-life sequel to wrap it up sweet. Right now it feels a bit off, like the last chapter shouldn’t be there and is too long. Also the manual ‘break’ seems rather unsophisticated compared to the rest of the fic. Is that an editorial oversight?

     (Edit: So I realized the beef I have with chapter 12, aside from the manual breaks, is mostly that I want to see the therapy much more than the family fluffs. I mean, family fluffs are usually nice to read, but it doesn’t feel quite right to go into excess here. Probably because the thematic weight of this fic goes much deeper, and it feels too light to put the resolution there. And the therapy feels like a good promise to not be delivered. I mean, Batman and Red Hood(and possible others) go to therapy, what a revolution! They certainly needed that.)

    This fic let me like Jason a bit more for the author’s portrayal of him get us into his head and heart. I’m happy that he eventually realized that even if there’s garbage to be cleaned(like Joker whom they can’t seem to keep locked up), it should not have been his responsibility, but the laws’, to clean it (not meaning death sentences, but humane and effective prison systems that actually helps people improve or at least keeps them from doing more harms). It’s both protection for his soul and the society. All in all, it is really well done and emotional. All the interactions are beautiful and spot on. This fic is easily one of the best fanfics I’ve read.

    PS, I remember reading Deacon Blackfire and thinking Jason was such a good kid... glad somebody gets that too.