that last post about bvs and dick has me thinking like. All of Bruce’s kids have this immediate instinct every time they hear about some horrific event going on in Gotham. It comes on the news and they immediately think “dad will be there soon”. Maybe they’re in daily life or maybe getting suited up to show up and help, but they all instinctually know Bruce is going to be on the way or already be there, regardless of what the situation is. They know him and know he’s on the way to save people immediately. And if he ISNT there that means he’s locked up with something else (which they need to figure out) or something is wrong (which they also need to figure out)
And maybe Dick thinks, bitterly, that Bruce is so wrapped up in Gotham, during Black Zero of course his attention would be there, minimizing the destruction that made it across the bay.
And then Dick turns on the TV and sees Bruce not just in Metropolis (leaving Gotham behind) but running INTO the destruction there. Because his office in Metropolis is still his people and he’ll always come for his people. And if Dick can depend on him to do that, then he knows — in his heart — that Bruce will always come for him, too. No matter where he is.
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WIP excerpt for Jan behind the cut, who gave me a list of "dealer's choice" picks and is getting “den mom Black Zero”.
(( chrono || non-chrono ))
Batman says absolutely nothing, which is about as "Batman" a response as to be expected.
"Depends on how good yours is at keeping them alive," Black Zero replies dryly, because he does in fact need to know where to stick the lever; when he'll have to drag this stupid kid out by the neck and who he'll have to kill to do it.
Batman doesn't move his head at all, but those flat white lenses aren't enough to hide his eyes sliding back to Black Zero. They aren't even enough to hide where he's looking from a Superboy, stupid as those are.
The human eye isn't perfectly round, is the thing, and even if it were, it's not like the ocular nerve is any harder to feel.
Which is something any Batman that knows them knows, so . . .
So it's deliberate, Black Zero is sure, when Batman's eyes slide over to Superboy instead.
Everyone in this conversation wants to know where to stick the lever, after all.
"I—shut up, Jesus!" Superboy hisses, clenching his fists and looking some cross between mortified and furious. "What is wrong with you, oh my god, you are such an asshole!"
. . . alright, everyone in this conversation except for one idiot, Black Zero reflects resignedly, and just eyes him.
"It's the third one, isn't it," he says resignedly, because of goddamn course it's the third one. This reality is exactly stupid enough to let the third Robin have an actual outside-Gotham team's worth of impressionable teenagers. At least Nightwing has more personality issues when it comes to extended relationships. At least the second Robin was a loner. Or is, depending on the timeline. The third Robin, though—that brat's the genuinely social one.
Legitimately. Legitimately, he's social. He's social in Gotham, for fuck's sake. And not just until Batman pisses him off enough to run back to Bludhaven or San Francisco or straight into a crowbar! He socializes in Gotham, and Black Zero has not found a single reality in which even Batman managed to piss him off enough to make him quit the job! Not even one!
Black Zero suffers.
"Why the fuck would I know that?!" Superboy demands.
"You don't have to," Black Zero says, because half the League members in the room's heart rates had changed when he'd said "third", but especially because Batman's heart rate hadn't done a thing when he'd said it. "For one thing, he's the genuine worst option to have to put up with as being in charge of your little after-school club aside from that little pill with the resistance on 0027-Gold, and that's only because that one's a Robin and also a you."
"You are also a me, for fuck's sake, why are you so fucking weird about everything, dude," Superboy gripes, like Black Zero didn't very explicitly explain exactly why he's like this to him; why he's learned better than to be anything but this, and why he should learn the same. "And hey, you don't even know if Rob's in charge of us, I could be in charge of us! I've been in charge of teams before! You've been in charge of literal realities before!"
"I know he's in charge of you because he's the most personally-aggravating possible option to be in charge of you," Black Zero replies dryly, and Superboy . . . pauses, then makes a face.
". . . okay, fair, yeah," he allows grudgingly, lowering his clenched fists.
Ugh.
Black Zero would honestly rather put up with the starfish. The starfish is so much better than literally every other possible Robin he has ever encountered across all of Hypertime. The starfish is in fact genuinely likeable, which is not something Black Zero has had very much cause to say about anyone in any reality. And the second Robin he can at least respect the practicality and drive of, and Nightwing he can respect the skills and effectiveness of, annoying as said effectiveness is. Most of the Robins have some redeeming quality or another, in fact; most of the Bats do, even.
The third Robin, though. The third Robin is just an absolute nightmare. Also, both directly and indirectly responsible for so many problems in both 0027-Gold and just his life in general.
He is never, ever cloning another Robin.
"You could at least have had the decency to be from a Jarro reality, you little bastard," Black Zero mutters under his breath, pushing his sunglasses up into his hair. Would that really have been too much to ask?
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Paul Westfield having an intrapersonal homophobic crisis as he fumes and roils over how his Superman, made from his DNA, and is an extension of him, somehow came out as anything but straight.
"We pumped his head full of John Wayne and Star Trek, how did this happen?!"
Every scientist not having the heart or balls to tell him that alone could explain everything.
