#dick and slade are BORING gar and slade are a TOXIC HOT MESS OF INAPPROPRIATE EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY

[pluckyredhead]

I know it’s because of a combination of the Teen Titans cartoon’s Apprentice arc and fandom’s general focus on Bats to the exclusion of all other characters, but if you want to write messy, fucked-up fic about Deathstroke and one of the Titans being caught up in a complicated dynamic of loving and hating and desiring and pursuing each other and fucking other people as proxy, it should 100% be Gar, not Dick.

Like. Slade and Dick just fight each other. Gar tried to kill Slade for sleeping with his girlfriend and wound up going on a date with him instead and then became obsessed with him and sometimes they held hands and cried while Slade was grievously injured and then Slade started trying to kill him again out of nowhere and Gar felt really betrayed. Slade and Steve Dayton are like basically wholesome golf buddies for all of the 90s while Gar is slinking around being possessed and wearing a vest with no shirt underneath. There is SO MUCH canon with so many weird dynamics to explore!

And yet there are over 2,000 SlaDick fics on AO3 and only 8 Beaststroke. Pathetic.

#i don't actually want sladegar fic i just feel like it's an injustice #dick and slade are BORING gar and slade are a TOXIC HOT MESS OF INAPPROPRIATE EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY #but this fandom can't even be bothered to write vicgar and they were ACTUALLY MARRIED for like twenty years so what did i expect? #beast boy #garfield logan #deathstroke #slade wilson