Yes this is the fic I've been stuck on for over a year even though it's so close to finished

It's set in YJ, with the idea that Tara gets to redo the 24 hours between her alerting Deathstroke and the finale as many times as it takes to get right. But she keeps on getting it wrong, and not realizing she doesn't have all the facts, and people keep on dying- so can she get it right before she loses it? (And I am 100% going to tag it 'everyone but Halo dies' so. A lot of death. I lost count of how many times I've killed Brion.)

It's a really fun character exploration!

Have a snippet:

She didn’t bother answering him. She strode forward, staring at Bedlam. “I used to hate you more than anyone. But now I see you are a mere pawn that wants to be king. How pathetic.”

“Tara, you were working for Deathstroke? How could you?” The words caused her to snap her head towards Brion. The crowd, the camera, other heroes, even the Markovian government official in the background no longer mattered.

“How could I? How could I? Did you think that once I was rescued I would be your sweet little sister without any scars, so eager to be saved? Did you think that I would forget about the fact I was alone at the embassy because you invited me there and then abandoned me? Or how about the fact that for all the ‘poor Princess Tara’, the people of Markovia did nothing to rescue me and instead made sure I would not be able to return home even if rescued? Did you expect me to just fall in line as you decided to become a murderer, kinslayer, and usurper? Because if nothing else, I have never killed someone I shared blood with!”

Brion took a step back from her and raised his hands, bafflement and horror painting his face. Normally Tara would have stopped and apologized. She should be more well mannered as she was raised. He couldn’t have known, she kept this from him. Normally Tara would not have judged the brother she loved so harshly, tempering rage with love.

That’s one thing I appreciated about WHTTCC? and Death and the Maidens even moreso because it was definitely a choice by Gaiman and Rucka to use Martha as the parent of prominence. And in terms of her as a living character, Dini and Snyder did at least a little exploration of her as an activist. So I think it’s something that some writers are slowly becoming a little aware of as an issue. Sort of. Though I’m not sure if Joker!Martha helps or hurts here.

It is getting a bit better, but it’s still really prominent. I noticed it when watching Gotham and the Joker movie as well- Thomas Wayne is very present, but his wife is kinda a footnote who exists mostly as a string of broken bloodied pearls. I will say some comics are better, and that Batman v Superman did a good job of connecting her symbolically to Bruce’s empathy/connection to humanity. (Actually, the DCEU is *really good* and making mothers prominent/important.) And Pennyworth makes her very well rounded and important, making her in the creator’s words ‘the vigilante’ to Thomas’ detective.

It’s also not just Martha Wayne. It makes sense that Jor-El would be the center of the story, but Lara kinda gets the shaft. Is she also a scientist? A priestess? Judge? House wife? It so easily depends on the author, but she usually seems to be written as a prop in the background. It’s even to the point where some characters don’t have mothers with names. (In the comics, King Victor’s wife doesn’t have a name so YJ used Gregor’s wife instead. Which is especially egregious since as a consort presumably such a wife would be Very Important.)

I don’t wanna hear shit from Anakin about morality after he committed AT LEAST one war crime

Admittedly, so does Obi-Wan (False surrender being the most glaring), and in Rebels Leia (smuggling weapons/supplies to a militant group under the guise of aid). While in TCW it can be explained as being on purpose, sometimes I think the writers aren’t completely aware of what is or isn’t a war crime.

Huh. I kind of felt like without the scarab and with how Jaime felt useless to help made him have an epiphany where he realized he wanted to be a hero and help people. It felt in a way a callback to a similar scene in the preboot where he wears a similar outfit when fighting the Reach.

Ah, that makes sense. S2 was my favorite for a variety of reasons, and not just because it had a lot of Jaime. S3 was definitely a... there was potential, but a ton of things were handled so poorly. I really agree on the gore for Halo especially, but also how it was handled with Vic and in so many other cases. In some ways it makes s3 satisfying to write fic for, because there was potential but it felt so buried and wasted.

Lethal’s right. The shops have been prepping for Christmas for a while, but outside of Tumblr I’ve seen one case of Christmas talk and that was this: facebook.com/JustJed…

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