Danny: What is this?
Jazz: It's not a big deal.
Danny: It is a big deal. You're going on a date with a no-good punk.
Jazz: Jason is a perfect gentleman.
Danny: He rides a bike, wears leather jackets, and is a "perfect gentleman." Hmm, I wonder if I saw that before. Oh, wait. I have!
Jazz: Is a girl not allowed to have a type? Leave it. I'm going if you like it or not. I'm an adult and can make my own choices.
Danny under his breath: Not if I scare him away.
Hours later
Jason: Hey, you must be Danny. I'm Jason
Danny wide eyed: Hello....
Jazz: We're going to head out now. Bye, Danny.
Danny weakly: Okay, bye.
Danny franticly calling Tucker: He walked in, and I swear to you, it was like a corpse that came back to life. He's not even being overshadowed or a ghost pretending to be human! He literally Came. Back.
Tucker: ....Let's get you a rosary. I have some holy water, too, if you want to come over, and I can put it on your forehead in the shape of a cross.
Danny: Yes, please.
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Jason: Oh by the way, your sister can't come over.
Danny: What? Why not?
Tim: Yeah Jason, what's the big deal? Trying to keep more secrets?
Jason: She's a redhead.
Tim, turning to Danny: She's not allowed over.
Danny: What???
Damian, just joining the conversation: What is all this incessant racket about?
Danny: They won't let me bring Jazz along!
Jason and Tim at the Same Time: She's a redhead.
Damian: Ah that explains it.
Danny: WHAT?!?!? WHY?? HOW???
Tim, patting Danny on the shoulder: You don't wanna know.
Damian: *Drops behind a car* What's the situation, Drake?
Tim laying flat on his stomach: One of my worst enemies is in the area. Level nine threat.
Damian: A level nine!? We must call for reinforcements. There is little chance you and I have to defeat them, as much as it pains me to admit it.
Tim: No!
Damian: What?
Tim: No, don't call for help! I don't want the rest to know about this!
Damian carefully moving his hand aside: It is too late. I pressed the panic button.
Tim: What!? When!?
Damian: When the words "level nine" came out of your mouth. It's effective to call as soon as an emergency presents itself. It's why the button is so easy to push.
Tim: NO! We have to leave before-
Danny leaning around the car to stare at them: Timothy?
Tim: *jumps to his feet* DAnIel! hEY! HoW ArE YOu?
Damian: Why did your voice crack like that? You should be far past that stage of puberty.
Tim: Ha HA hA sHUt Up DaMIan! AlLWays MaKIng joKES thAT ONe!
Danny: *laughs* It's good to see you haven't changed much.
Tim: I'M DONE WITH PUBERTY!
Danny: ....Congraulations.
Damian: What is happening? Who are you?
Danny: Oh, sorry I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Daniel Fenton but you can call me Danny. I'm Tim's ex.
Damian: ....what
Tim: MY EX. WHO I DON'T MISS OR RUN AWAY FROM IN PUBLIC.
Damian: Drake why are you shouting?
Danny: Tim has always been been like that.
Damian: ....No?
Tim: WeLP ThIs has been NIce but we gOT to Go-
Batmobile driving through a fire hydrant, smashing it to pieces, water bursting, A voice screaming over a microphone yelling from it's speakers: THE NIGHT, THE VENGEANCE, THE BATMAN IS HERE!
Danny: Wha-
Damian: *Points at Danny*
Tim: NO!
Batmobile: *Runs over Danny*
Tim: This is why I didn't want you to call them! Why'd you have to single Danny out like that when you know Batman is more violent in the daytime!?
Damian: Actions must be taken when the panic button is pressed. Fenton had to be taken out.
Tim: No he didn't!
Danny: *rolling off the Batmobile windshield* Can somebody take me the hospital?
Tim: Danny don't talk! He'll notice you're still conscious and- BATMAN DO NOT PUT THE BATMOBILE IN REVERSE TO HIT HIM AGAIN!
Damian crouching down to Danny crumbled form: How big is your medical deductible? I feel like you're going to use a lot of medical insurance in the next couple of minutes.
Danny: Please help me
Damian covering Danny's mouth and nose: Shhhhhhh...go to sleep. Go to sleep.
Tim: DAMIAN! STOP TRYING TO SUFFOCATE HIM!
Batmobile: *honk*
Tim: I AM NOT GETTING OUT OF THE WAY! STOP TRYING TO RUN OVER MY MAN!
Damian: Your man? *pressing harder on Danny's face* See, Fenton, this is a better fate for you. If you live, you'll have to deal with Drake not being over you, but you can avoid that if you sleep....That's right. Stop struggling. You don't have the strength anymore. Shhhhhhhh. Sleep.
Tim: *kicking Damian straight in the face sending him flying* GET OFF HIM! DANNY ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?
Danny, gasping for air: I'm good.
Tim: Im so sorry about Damian!
Danny: Its...cool....you should see....how my distant Not-relatives are....the day after....Truce Day. This is actually tamed.
Tim: Wow really- *Get hit by the Batmobile* AGHHHH
Oh no, a cursed idea. Batfamily fanfic, but told from the perspective of someone not in the family, comedy-of-errors meets reality tv style.
Like this person is in school with one of them , or is maybe a pa for one of them. Know none of their secret identities. And you just get them watching batfamily members doing interviews or interacting with each other or suffering through galas, maybe a kidnapping attempt.
And the person is supposed to be with 1 batfamily member, right? For a project or again as their specific pa, but that person keeps needing to make horrible excuses to go do things and the person finds them in all sorts of weird/unusual/unexplainable situations.
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These are rules I generally adhere to in my own writing, they aren't gospel or meant to be the end all be all of writing. Also it should be noted that like all rules, these too are made to be broken when and where it serves the text. This is not about grammar or Correct Use of King's English™, this is just a list of personal style choices.
Anyway.
1. Indicate who's speaking as quickly as possible.
See difference between:
"Wait, does anyone have an extra eraser? I could swear I brought one, but I can't find it."
"You can use mine. Though if you steal it, I will kill you."
"Nice. I'm changing my brother's name to Gerry, is that okay?"
"You had two weeks to come up with your backstory."
And:
"Wait, does anyone have an extra eraser?" Melanie asks. "I could swear I brought one, but I can't find it."
"You can use mine," Jan says. "Though if you steal it, I will kill you."
"Nice," Melanie says. "I'm changing my brother's name to Gerry, is that okay?"
Annie says, "You had two weeks to come up with your backstory."
But this looks like talking heads in a blank void talking to each other, so, give the characters bodies and physicality, which brings us to rule 2.
2. no talking heads in void.
Though people do just sit around talking without doing anything else, it's not that interesting to read and also, gotta remember that readers can't see what you see in your head while writing. You gotta actually give them something to latch a mental image onto, so. Characters should move and emote.
"Wait, does anyone have an extra eraser?" Melanie asks, rummaging through her bag. "I could swear I brought one, but I can't find it."
"You can use mine," Jan says, nudging his own eraser over. It's in the shape of an old fashioned motorcycle. "Though if you steal it, I will kill you."
"Nice," Melanie says and snatches it up to do quick edits on her character sheet. "I'm changing my brother's name to Gerry, is that okay?"
Annie gives her a flat look. "You had two weeks to come up with your backstory."
Now you can sorta tell what they're talking about. Just don't go overboard - dialogue has a momentum and a rhythm, and too much description can overwhelm it.
3. Character Action and Character Dialogue go on the same paragraph.
See difference between this:
Melanie rummaged through her backpack.
"Wait, does anyone have an extra eraser? I could swear I brought one, but I can't find it."
"You can use mine."
Jackson nudged his own eraser over. It was the shape of a motorcycle.
"Though if you steal it, I will kill you."
"Nice."
Melanie snatches it up to do quick edits on her character sheet.
"I'm changing my brother's name to Gerry, is that okay?"
Annie gives her a flat look.
"You had two weeks to come up with your backstory."
And this:
Melanie rummaged through her backpack. "Wait, does anyone have an extra eraser? I could swear I brought one, but I can't find it."
"You can use mine." Jackson nudged his own eraser over. It was the shape of a motorcycle. "Though if you steal it, I will kill you."
"Nice." Melanie snatches it up to do quick edits on her character sheet. "I'm changing my brother's name to Gerry, is that okay?"
Annie gives her a flat look. "You had two weeks to come up with your backstory."
Not only does it make the text way more cohesive and snappy but, once again, it's much more clear who is saying what - but even then, I prefer to use dialogue indicators. Text like this to me looks like maybe there's a voiceover going on or something.
4. No mixing and matching characters. One character per paragraph.
This is one of my most broken rules, but in general it's character per paragraph.
So, none of this:
Melanie rummaged through her backpack while Annie set up the DM screen. "Wait, does anyone have an extra eraser? I could swear I brought one, but I can't find it."
"You can use mine." Jackson nudged his eraser over and Melanie snatched it up "Though if you steal it, I will kill you." Melanie begun making quick edits.
"Nice. I'm changing my brother's name to Gerry, is that okay?" Beside her, Annie gave her a flat look.
"You had two weeks to come up with your backstory."
Mixing and matching who's doing what like this makes it hard to see who's saying what, it makes the dialogue messy. However, this is fine.
While Annie set up the DM screen, Melanie rummaged through her backpack "Wait, does anyone have an extra eraser?" she asked. "I could swear I brought one, but I can't find it."
"You can use mine." Jackson nudged his eraser over and Melanie snatched it up. "Though if you steal it, I will kill you," he added.
"Nice. I'm changing my brother's name to Gerry, is that okay?" Melanie ask, grinning at the look Annie gave her.
"You had two weeks to come up with your backstory," Annie says flatly.
Note that in mixing and matching like this, it's all the more important to point out who is saying what. In general though, I tend to minimise this sort of stuff.
5 is kinda rule 1 rehashed, but, again, indicate who is speaking upfront. Especially when there's a larger piece of dialogue.
Sometimes, people aren't actually reading - sometimes for various reasons they're using text to speech, or maybe someone does a podfic or something. Even in visual reading, when there's a big block of dialogue without indicators it can be hard to follow.
So instead of:
"If Melanie can change her background, can I add a cool uncle to mine? I want a cool uncle - like, a gunslinger or something. Or a wizard - oo, a wizard uncle! He can be creepy and vague and give me problematic spells!" Jackson says eagerly.
I'd rather do:
Jackson puts his hand up. "If Melanie can change her background, can I add a cool uncle to mine?" he asks eagerly. "I want to give Kaiser a cool uncle - like, a gunslinger or something. Or a wizard - oh, a wizard uncle! He can be creepy and vague and give me problematic spells!"
Especially so when there's multiple characters talking and maybe one character hasn't been talking as much as the others - if they jump back into the discussion, it should be noted.
6. Limit your bits.
But as said before, every rule is made to be broken, and I break my own rules all the time. When I do it, though, it's generally for the bit, to make the text more interesting. Stuff like bits of dialogue without any indicators who is saying what to show that there's a faceless crowd speaking all at once, or two characters going back and forth, stuff like that.
"Jackson's dude has Main Character Energy," Melanie says solemnly.
"Kaiser is the anime protagonist," Jan agrees. "We're just NPCs in his world."
"The cheerleaders of his adventurers."
"Founding members of his harem."
They nod in perfect understanding and agreement.
For a couple of lines, exchanges like this can be fun - if the back and forth goes on for 12 lines, though, it will get tiresome.
There are other bits I do, and again, I break my own dialogue writing rules a lot for stylistic reasons to make the text more interesting or to give it better rhythm, or whatever. Sometimes, there's no dialogue at all, sometimes there's no indicators. There's no actual rules in writing, even grammar is all made up. These are more guidelines than anything.
But I hope the effort makes the dialogue more readable.
I promise you can use "said" and "asked" so much more in your writing than your realise. People won't think your writing is bad. I swear. The words are basically invisible. You can use them. It's okay.
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Still on that time travel fix-it trope with Jason being the one sent back. He wakes up as a child again, maybe a week after he's caught stealing the tires of the batmobile. Still not adopted, but he's very aware that Bruce is keeping an eye on him. Jason isn't about to repeat history and let Batman adopt him again (maybe they were getting better back when he was an adult, but he also has a lot of regrets and wants a break from vigilante life. After everything he's been through, he's owed that, right? So this time around, maybe he shouldn't become a Wayne). But Bruce (both as Batman and as himself) keep trying to talk to him. Jason manages to escape every time, but Bruce is a clever man and will find a way if Jason doesn't take care of this now.
At a time where Batman is busy with a rogue or somewhere he can't keep an eye on Jason, Jason takes the opportunity and goes to New York/Bludhaven wherever Dick is living. Because he remembers how angry Dick was at Bruce then. If anyone would help Jason stay out of Bruce's grasp, it would be him.
Dick answers the door to this little kid wearing worn out street clothes glaring up at him. Dick, immediately on the defense, glares back. They do this for several minutes because they're both stubborn like that. Then...
"You need to stop him."
"Stop who?" Dick asks, because maybe this kid is in trouble and needs help?
"Batman," Jason says like it's obvious. Before Dick can deny/deflect/shut the door in his face, he continues: "He keeps trying to kidnap me and make me Robin."
Dick's mind blanks out as pure, unfiltered rage courses through him. Because now he doesn't care about what exactly this kid knows about him or Batman. How dare Bruce try and replace him?!
"The fuck he isn't," Dick snaps, and Jason smiles in relief. Because Dick will stop this madness.
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Danny(23) owns a petting zoo/animal rescue a few miles outside of Gotham. he has some animals from all walks of life; reputable breeders, other rescues, kill shelters, hoarding situations, breeding mills, ect. Be it dogs, to sheep, to goats, to snakes, to lizards, ro hamsters, to chinchillas, and much more- hes got a little bit of eveything. He makes sure they all have the right set ups, and can live as idealy as possible.
Damian(9) hears about this place and of course needs to check it out. Obviously, he needs to make sure the animals are taken care of and nothing else. And Damian just, immediately falls in love with the place. All the animals are so happy and healthy and the information packets are so well put together and accurate! He is disappointed that nobody is allowed to meet the animals in recovery, but he also knows its for the animals health and safety, which he appreciates. Hes impressed, and decides Danny just has to be his new father.
Bruce(34) thought taking Damian to the petting zoo/rescue would be a nice father/son bonding thing- he did not expect his 9 year old to then try and wingman him to the petting zoo owner, who, might Bruce add, is 10 years his junior!
Basically: Damian is trying to hook his father up with Danny because he wants unlimited animal cuddles. Bruce is unimpressed, Danny's equal parts amused and confused.
Danny watches this tiny little animal lover trying to hook him up with his dad. "Listen, Damian, I am not ready for fatherhood, and I am not ready for any type of romantic relationship, but I am always down to be the Fun Uncle."
Damian pauses and thinks it over, " I acknowledge your compromise and accept." Damian turns to Bruce, "Father, quickly adopt Daniel as your brother."
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So I literally had a DCxDP dream where Scarecrow finds an injured and delirious Danny and manages to synthesize a more potent Fear Toxin from his blood. Something something ectoplasm and concentrated emotions, yadda yadda.
I remember Harley Quinn goes to find Batman after Poison Ivy gets exposed and affected, which freaks Harley out because normally Pam is immune to toxins. She tells him that Crane is even more off the rails than usual.
There's a bit where the heroes find Danny drugged up to the gills and hooked up to a weird dialysis machine.
That's about all I remember. Not super coherent but I found it hella interesting (curse you, alarm clock!)
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Look... as a JayTim fan I'm just saying it's particularly interesting that Tim chose to make his nest- as Red Robin (an identity crafted for Jason), at the Monarch theater. In Crime Alley...
...where Bruce of present day has double trauma and avoids- as Jason also met Bruce and started down the path as Robin there.
And we all know that Tim knows both the stories of Martha and Thomas' death and Bruce catching Jason.
