A Winter's Dawn

Also not a fan of Dick having family ties to Gotham at all, never mind them being via the ruddy Court of Owls.

But for the purposes of your proposal, let's take those as a given.

I think the Haly's training period was seen as necessary to define and develop potentially useful skills the candidates had. Calvin Rose, one of Haly's more recent Talon graduates, was an escapologist, for example. (What they did if the candidate either had no skills, or the wrong sort of skills, I don't know, but doubt it was to send the kids to a caring foster family with a scholarship to a good school to become a chartered accountant or the like)

Plus I suspect the Court never knew about Melinda until so many years after the fact that it would be irrelevant.

Heated Rivalry — 1x06 ⤷ COMING OUT (part 2/2)

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You have correctly guessed the vibes- it’s basically a pastiche of Buffy that exists within the DC Universe, and Kon was super obsessed with it in the 90’s!

(Young Justice (1998) #8)

Also Tim is so funny giving Kon this much shit over the show, but then not that long later when Kon was lost in hyper-time for a hot sec Tim went and recorded episodes for him

(Superboy Vol. 4 #65)

But yeah! It’s primarily brought up in YJ stuff, and sometimes is even plot relevant- like when Cissie got to guest star on the show after she won gold for archery

(Young Justice (1998) #33)

The show’s only gotten one mention I’m aware of in current continuity though, but hey, that’s something at least! It does still exist, Tim’s got the DVDs to prove it

“Oh my god, I killed someone!” This-was-the-most-clear-cut-case-of-self-defense-possible sobbed.

Trained-as-an-assassin-from-birth-but-left-after-her-third-kill put her hand on his shoulder. “You will learn to live with it.”

Nuked-a-city-and-doesn’t-lose-sleep-over-it was also there. “Hey, he was trying to kill you,” he drawled. “Sometimes good guys have to do bad things.”

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

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The wheel is completed but if you the mod want to change it at all feel free and I couldn't figure out how to get the link to work properly even un-anoned.

Thanks, have a nice day and drink some water

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