Thinking more about emt's in gotham, i imagine they have to do training for rogue-specific scenarios, it's not just regular medical training, they also have to have supplies and protocols for responding to victims of the gallery of rogues that could be up to something. Very funny to think about Roxy who just wanted to do something good and now is getting the details on all the shit that goes down in gotham.
On the topic of the Adult Women, i've been considering how to handle tana and knockout for a while, they're by far my least favourite part of sb '94 and at the same time i can't view them as entities within the story because it's so obviously a fetishized narrative that depicts grown women being attracted to teenage boys as very good and hot actually, and it's predatory on so many levels that this was being sold to teen boys. God. Anyway.
The Tim and Roxy parallel is something i didn't realise i needed. Head in hands oh my god. I think about that moment where tim was walking out into the school with a baseball bat all the time, and just, bernard watching another friend walk out into danger and there's a ghost keeping him in place and he has to tear himself away from that past because shit is happening NOW.
The bernard and superboy meeting in my head has always been comically awkward. Bernard definitely thought roxy was like, a criminal, or in witness protection services, cuz she's a terrible liar. She doesn't even try to hide stuff, she just stops talking when people pry too far, and bernard is prying. Then she rocks up to the aftermath of some big fight and starts fussing over superboy and bernard's like oh! not what i thought she was hiding.
(Snippet i wrote a while ago because i was amused by my own idea of roxy being a terrible liar (also she uses Lamb as her last name as a symbolic thing, she's in her redemption arc))
Roxy Lamb is a bit of an enigma.
At a first glance she’s deceptively open, like a shallow pool that lures you in until you take a dive and then whoops, there goes your head cracking on the tiled floor. Bernard gets information out of her easily at first — she gossips and gabs like the rest of them — but there’s a trip line hidden somewhere in the bramble of their conversations, and without warning Bernard will find himself slamming into that pool bottom.
Her dad? Oh, he’s an old bastard Roxy tells him, but she says it fondly. Later she offers the tidbit that she used to move around a lot for her father’s work, and it’s longer still before Bernard gets the hint that the work in question was more than a little shady. Then he tumbles over the line and she snaps closed. As soon as Bernard asks what Roxy’s dad actually did for work, her lips press together.
“Management,” is all he gets, and then the conversation is over, for good. No amount of careful prying will get her to share the information that he can practically see trying to climb from within her.
Roxy is simply not a good liar; in fact for someone who keeps so many secrets, she’s comically bad at it. Bernard can always tell there’s something just behind the words she’s saying, a hidden meaning only she knows how to decode. It was what drew him to her in the first place. Roxy was so openly hiding some secret, something big, and far be it from Bernard to not pry where he isn’t wanted.
Here’s what he knows so far; Roxy’s parent’s split when she was very young and her father was left with sole custody, she has a younger brother who she talks incessantly about without ever mentioning his name, and a close family friend who she only refers to as “X”. She mentions things that are.. weird; cloning and secret experiments and government programs.
Bernard is almost certain that Roxy is a criminal. Or part of the rich elite. Or both.
Another important thing to me about this au is that Kon calls Bernard "bernie" despite his protests because Kon is Annoying and The Worst (affectionate). I like to imagine that it becomes a fond thing after a while, nicknames are very personal to me and i like messing with what characters call each other lmaoo.
