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By JackHawksmoor

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Status: Complete; Oneshot; 2,189 words

Summary: "What are you talking about?" His father sounded puzzled. He had that tone in his voice that Damian always hated to hear. That careless, American tone. His father had never needed to earn his place in a family, so the idea that someone could take it away from him if he wasn’t worthy of it hadn't even occurred to him. Not yet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or: Damian and Bruce sit at Dick's bedside after Nightwing is injured on patrol. Damian has a few things to say to his father about it.

Authour: JackHawksmoor

Subfandom: Batman

Media: All Media Types

Relationships: Gen (Jason Todd & Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd)

Year: 2022

Summary:

'If Bruce had found Jason immediately after he was resurrected, how would Tim Drake have joined the batfamily?' AU. This involves Jason being a little more observant while running around rooftops, Tim unable to resist getting gymnastics training from the original Robin, macaroons, a minor kidnapping, and some light attempted murder.

Submitted by @kiragecko

Submitter's comment:

Granted, I don't follow every con/watch every interview, so I could be missing something, but it seems like every time he's been "homophobic", it's been in direct response to someone hounding him about Destiel. He's said what he's said on the subject, his answers haven't changed, and yet people keep coming back with the same questions as though theirs is the time he's going to break and go, "Yes! Yes! You get it!" It's been enough that I think he gets wary any time the preface of the question even might lean in that direction. I don't think he's homophobic so much as he's tired of being harassed about a fandom interpretation of his character with which he doesn't agree.

I genuinely have no idea what the hell I just read

General Point 1 : Female characters should overwhelmingly be your choice for trans woman headcanons. If they are not, you’re probably harboring significant cissexism/transmisogyny and need to check that out, since trans women are women, and there’s no reason to see us in male characters more than you would in female characters. Trans women are women, so there’s literally no reason for male characters to overwhelmingly be chosen for trans woman HCs (yet sadly, that’s how it still shakes out, currently)

General Point 2a : If you’re going to headcanon a male character as a trans woman, and you’re not a trans woman yourself, check around to see if a bunch of trans women have HCed that character as a trans woman. If so, great, go ahead. If not, maybe reel back and ask why you’re making that decision, and why it’s so important. 99% chance you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.

General Point 2b : Using trans headcanons to avoid dealing with shitty cissexist, comp het baggage is unfair to us. That includes trans men and trans mascs with shitty transmisogynistic trans woman HCs. That includes trans women and transfems with shitty transphobic trans man HCs. We don’t deserve to have our representation and fandom spaces inundated with mpreg, g!p, f*ta, etc., we don’t deserve to be a vehicle for people’s pregnancy/breeding kinks and their inability to imagine family-building outside of a cissexist and heteronormative framework. We don’t deserve to have our sexual lives equated with cis members of our assigned sex, as if there’s remotely an equal match there. etc. etc. etc., I’m not going to write an essay about it when I’ve already written thousands of words linked to on my education page

I think saying we sympathize with the steps Dan took is taking it a bit far- ‘have been forced to tolerate’, maybe? 'Quietly resent’? Very little is less sympathetic than a dirty cop who gets away with no consequences because it’s not fiction- it’s what happens every day and everyone knows it. So any moment of 'poor Dan have sympathy for him’ is a pretty bitter pill to swallow given the message it sends.

Oh, I agree!

For viewers who are more character driven, the fact that they’ve seen Dan’s perspective and have literally followed him down the path he’s taken tends to trump his actions because they’re sympathizing with Dan’s pain. 

For example, my husband actively wants Dan to die at this point. The moment he’s revealed as a dirty cop in Season 1 is where Dan loses any and all sympathy from him. He calls this “Walter White Syndrome,” when because we’re presented with actions from a certain point of view, we the audience automatically tend to equate POV with “hero.” 

I addressed this in a comment someone else made, but I’ll re-iterate it here. Dan burned through a LOT of my sympathy this season. I admire the writers being willing to actually drag the character down into the gutter in Season 4 and explore the really ugly side of grief manifesting as anger and scapegoating. But there are consequences and for me what really rubbed me the wrong way about Dan’s arc this season was Ella.

Ella has proof that Dan’s a dirty cop. Dan not only put Trixie in danger, he put Lucifer and Eve in danger. The fact that he never meant to put Lucifer’s life in danger is irrelevant - from Ella’s POV, the fact is that Dan almost got another one of her best friends killed. But she prioritizes mercy over justice, even after Dan actively tried to deceive her and manipulate her.

It’s Palmetto all over again. Dan is repeating the same mistakes he made in Season 1, trying desperately to stay one step ahead and not get caught rather than taking responsibility for what he did. And presumably Ella should have heard the gossip about why Dan had just been demoted when she came on in Season 2. 

Except that, at the end of Season 1, Dan turned himself in, bringing his arc to a close. Season 4, Dan’s storyline isn’t his actions, it’s his emotional journey and that’s what’s brought to a conclusion at the end of the season - with him getting therapy and making amends with Lucifer, Dirty Dancing style. 

But coping with pain is not the same thing as taking responsibility for your choices and that’s why I said that Dan needs to to have the consequences of his actions come back to him and really lose something important to him. Palmetto cost him his seniority on the force and was the final nail in the coffin of his marriage with Chloe. 

My husband is of the opinion that what Dan needs to lose next season is his life. Death in the service of who he actually wants to be is the only way for his character to atone. 

I would prefer Dan to live because I want him to actually have to deal with the consequences of his actions in the hopes that he finally manages to wrestle with his own tendency to choose the easy solution over the moral choice and find his redemption in life rather than death.