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Title: would he have loved you and not let you down?
Fandom: Dark Knight Rises
Disclaimer: not my character; title from Dido
Warnings: … shades of Jason Todd. Also, spoilers.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 465
Point of view: third
John Blake is a good man.
Robin isn’t.
Batman doesn’t use guns.
Robin does.
… John Blake died on a bridge, when men following orders blew a last chance all to hell.
Robin rose from his ashes, ascendant, as Batman died.
.
Bane’s rhetoric is madness, and merely a way to the pass the time, to offer hope to a lost city, all the better to twist the knife.
John Blake is angry about it, defiant, doing his best to protect what he can and bring down Bane’s army. Bring down Bane, if he can.
But Robin… John Blake knows that Robin would’ve joined up with Bane the first chance he got.
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John Blake pulled on a mask, a long time ago. John Blake can be angry, but it’s a safe anger. It’s anger at people he can see, people he can fight – anger for a city being held hostage, for people dying in the streets.
Robin had been furious at life itself, at the world, at everyone and everything. Robin’s fury would’ve swallowed him whole. Robin’s fury woud’ve made him stupid, would’ve gotten him killed.
So John Blake pulled on the mask and locked Robin away, because John Blake is a survivor.
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John Blake is a good cop. John Blake is Commissioner Gordon’s protégé. John Blake tried leading people to safety, when the world was falling down around their ears and a madman almost succeeded in blowing them skyhigh.
John Blake died on that bridge, and no one noticed.
.
His dreams, the first night after Gotham was saved, were full of screams and blood and gunpowder. Mushroom clouds and red snow and kneeling before a gaping gun barrel.
He had nightmares he hadn’t had since he was a child, and all new ones.
He wondered if this was how it felt to be a dead man.
And then he let the mask go.
.
Robin takes to the streets, prepared to do whatever necessary to save his godforsaken city. He’d been born on these streets, ran them as a child, survived.
He has so much anger. And he finally has an outlet.
Good men have to restrain themselves. Good men have to follow rules and obey laws.
Batman was good.
… look where it got him.
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John Blake would’ve happily been Batman’s sidekick.
But Batman’s gone and only Robin is left.
.
There’s a lot of work to be done, but he’s not afraid of hard work. He’s not afraid of anything anymore.
He survived the city falling down, and he’ll survive picking it back up, and he’ll use guns, if he has to.
If Batman doesn’t like it… well, then he can drag his ass back here and take back the cowl.
But until then.
Until then, this city is Robin’s, and he’s doing things his way.
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Title: would he have loved you and not let you down?
Fandom: Dark Knight Rises
Disclaimer: not my character; title from Dido
Warnings: … shades of Jason Todd. Also, spoilers.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 465
Point of view: third
John Blake is a good man.
Robin isn’t.
Batman doesn’t use guns.
Robin does.
… John Blake died on a bridge, when men following orders blew a last chance all to hell.
Robin rose from his ashes, ascendant, as Batman died.
.
Bane’s rhetoric is madness, and merely a way to the pass the time, to offer hope to a lost city, all the better to twist the knife.
John Blake is angry about it, defiant, doing his best to protect what he can and bring down Bane’s army. Bring down Bane, if he can.
But Robin… John Blake knows that Robin would’ve joined up with Bane the first chance he got.
.
John Blake pulled on a mask, a long time ago. John Blake can be angry, but it’s a safe anger. It’s anger at people he can see, people he can fight – anger for a city being held hostage, for people dying in the streets.
Robin had been furious at life itself, at the world, at everyone and everything. Robin’s fury would’ve swallowed him whole. Robin’s fury woud’ve made him stupid, would’ve gotten him killed.
So John Blake pulled on the mask and locked Robin away, because John Blake is a survivor.
.
John Blake is a good cop. John Blake is Commissioner Gordon’s protégé. John Blake tried leading people to safety, when the world was falling down around their ears and a madman almost succeeded in blowing them skyhigh.
John Blake died on that bridge, and no one noticed.
.
His dreams, the first night after Gotham was saved, were full of screams and blood and gunpowder. Mushroom clouds and red snow and kneeling before a gaping gun barrel.
He had nightmares he hadn’t had since he was a child, and all new ones.
He wondered if this was how it felt to be a dead man.
And then he let the mask go.
.
Robin takes to the streets, prepared to do whatever necessary to save his godforsaken city. He’d been born on these streets, ran them as a child, survived.
He has so much anger. And he finally has an outlet.
Good men have to restrain themselves. Good men have to follow rules and obey laws.
Batman was good.
… look where it got him.
.
John Blake would’ve happily been Batman’s sidekick.
But Batman’s gone and only Robin is left.
.
There’s a lot of work to be done, but he’s not afraid of hard work. He’s not afraid of anything anymore.
He survived the city falling down, and he’ll survive picking it back up, and he’ll use guns, if he has to.
If Batman doesn’t like it… well, then he can drag his ass back here and take back the cowl.
But until then.
Until then, this city is Robin’s, and he’s doing things his way.
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Date: 2012-07-28 11:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-28 02:03 pm (UTC)Thank you for reading~
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Date: 2012-07-28 03:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-28 10:22 pm (UTC)Thank you so much!
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Date: 2012-07-29 09:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-29 04:25 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2012-07-30 11:44 am (UTC)Bitter-sweet but believable.
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Date: 2012-07-30 02:05 pm (UTC)Thank you for reading!
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Date: 2012-08-11 06:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-12 04:19 am (UTC)Thank you so much!