#blazingtroya

Why yes it is!  I'm super excited to get working on the pieces and have most of my patterns, but freaking heat guns.

Yeah, seeing Bruce in it would probably not be a very good motivator for Dick to switch costumes - unless he found himself getting distractingly turned on every time he put it on because Bruce's cleavage.  

(Of course, the cynic in me thinks Dan Didio's mental process was more like "oh noes, Nightwing is doing well? NO!")

But chocolate malt drinks are an institution here? XD I grew up on Milo. I switched over to Ovaltine recently because it seemed to go better with soy milk, but we end up rotating between brands between batches. 

I wrote this in bits and pieces, literally. One Sunday night, during a week when I was alone at home, I lay down on the couch to write the sexy scene, and that came out pretty well, so I went on to the scene where Bruce and Dick talk on the roof -- and, IDK what happened, something magical, but it was like the neurons in my brain were firing on all cylinders. All my feels suddenly manifested and came pouring out onto the page and it was just *awesome* :D

One of the things that really shaped this AU, though, was the portrayal of Thomas and Martha Wayne in Streets of Gotham (which I love): How Thomas used to be a playboy, and only buckled down when he met take-charge Martha at Leslie Thompkins' free clinic, and she couldn't care less about him to begin with but he cleaned up & she came around. :D IDK, it just really humanised Bruce's parents in a way they never had been, for me.

I wanted to write more, make it a full piece, but I figure that one snippet was the pinnacle of adorableness. :P