sensibility_is_pitiful



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    ‘Who’s dead?’ A tinny voice sounded through the phone speaker, ‘it’s five in the fucking morning so someone better be dead.’

    ‘Jason,’ Dick glared at Tim as if daring him to speak. The younger boy shrunk into himself instinctively.

    'Why don’t you tell your hungover little brother about the dangers of hard drugs?’

    The other side of the call fell silent and then-

    ‘Ten minutes.’

    The line went dead.

    Or: Tim throws a party. Dick's not impressed. Jason just wishes that he wasn't the only person in this family with a functioning brain cell (all drug use is by side characters only).

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    14 Jun 2023

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    Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.

    When he wakes up and claws his way out of the water, the sun has set, and the lights of his house are on. He is cold and wet and his lungs burn.

    But most of all, Tim is alone.

    (If you die and no-one is there to see it, were you ever alive in the first place?)

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    24 May 2023

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    Well-behaved boy (10) is looking for big brother (11-15). Must meet up with me three times a week, for at least two hours each. Overall duties include helping me with homework, playing videogames with me, and showing me how to play catch. 10$ per hour.

     

    Tim, lonely and in desperate need of company, decides that if his parents are not going to give him a sibling, he's going to hire one instead. Luckily, Jason Todd-Wayne shows up in the nick of time.

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    11 May 2023

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    Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a universe where letting his children dress up in capes and follow him into vigilantism seems like a good idea.

    Bruce is determined that it isn't going to be this one . . . Despite his children's repeated attempts to convince him otherwise.

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    08 May 2023

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    What are brothers for?

    (Or: some minor dimensional travel, pseudo-kidnapping, and a whole lot of meddling.)

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    06 May 2023