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[Instead of returning to his car, Oscar headed in the opposite direction, walking straight into Noah’s front room without knocking; only the sudden clang of the door closing behind him and Aspen’s curious tone brought him back to reality]
Aspen: Oh-.. hey!
Oscar: Sorry, I didn’t really think before just.. walking in.
Aspen: It’s no problem, is everything okay?
Oscar: Eh.
Aspen: Do you want a brew? I’ll wake Noah.
Oscar: Nah, I’ll leave you-…
Alma: No, you won’t! Sit down.
Aspen: Oscar’s here.
Noah: Mmh?
Alma: What’s on your mind?
Oscar: I don’t even know.
Noah: [yawns] Sorry, I’m beat.. what’s going on?
Oscar: Do you remember back when I was at uni, after I’d ghosted everyone? You forced yourself into my dorm-.. asked if I was okay. Why didn’t I just say no? Maybe things would have been different, if I knew-.. how did I manage to waste a decade of my life?
Alma: It’s a journey, not a waste.
Oscar: [scoffs] What a journey, I’m a broke alcoholic with a fiancé n’ a kid I can’t even support. I could’ve had a good job and-…
Noah: You can still get there; it doesn’t matter if you’re a little bit behind where you’d like to be.
Alma: He makes the most sense when he’s half asleep, I swear.
Noah: Thanks.
Alma: You might’ve deviated from your preferred path, but think how much good it did! You can’t fight fate.
Oscar: You sound like Courtney.
Alma: Uh-huh, ‘cause she’s smart; like me.
Oscar: True.. but it doesn’t make me feel any better.
Noah: What’s brought all this on? Did something happen?
Oscar: I spoke to Norma, one of the feds who took over the case; told her how we ended up here… She was.. nice? I think it would’ve been easier if she wasn’t.
Noah: Hopefully she’s competent too.
Oscar: Yeah, I hope they finish what we started; otherwise, what was the point? It feels like I barely scratched the surface.
Noah: Don’t lose yourself to that mindset, you can only do so much.
Aspen: Maybe uncle Oscar should become a cop.
Oscar: I’ve had enough.
Alma: Well.. don’t get stuck in the past, sweet stuff; you’ve a lot to be proud of, and a lot to be thankful for.
Noah: She never calls me sweet stuff.
Alma: [laughs] It hardly suits you!
Noah: Fair point.
Alma: C’mon, where are Courtney and little Robin? I’ll pick them up, we’ll have dinner.
Aspen: Ooh, babies first barbeque! I bought a new grill-.. Noah’s forbidden from using it though, so you can help me.
Noah: Tch, ingrates. Who doesn’t like a cremated burger?
Oscar: [snorts] At least I can cook, I guess…
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Easter Baby!~🐣
I’ll be busy for a bit with some family events but if you gave me a message recently I’ll be working on responses soon.
If I get anymore today they’ll be added to the pile・:*+. I’ll be working on more spitfire too♡
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I fear everything DC pushes about the main continuity bat characters being family makes zero sense to me.
Like, they don’t even back that shit up writing wise. How am I supposed to take it seriously?
There are so many interesting character dynamics that I actually enjoy within the Bat Clan and boiling pretty much all of them down to being important only because “now we’re family” (ie: we’re related now, not we’re like family) or “you’re my brother/sister now” is so fucking boring and not as indicative of the fandom supposedly appreciating “found family” and “untraditional family units/dynamics” as I think y’all think it is.
Y’all don’t give a shit. Just be real about it. If you actually wanted or cared about the existence of “untraditional family units” you wouldn’t force the Bats into the most boring and round about nuclear family dynamics every chance you get.
You’d also respect that not everybody that grew up in the same house considers themselves siblings (blood related or not) and that tons of people can live under the same roof or have the same father (once again biological or otherwise) and not claim each other as siblings even if they’re in contact with one another.
Jason and Tim being automatically considered siblings just because they’re contactually related to Bruce without their explicit say so (like Dick and Tim for example) despite having never met before Jason tried to kill Tim’s skinny ass makes zero sense to me. A sibling tie should be given way more weight than that, especially within an adopted family dynamic. It’s a choice. Dick choosing Tim is important and even more crucial is the fact that he didn’t choose Jason in that same way, and I’m not saying that he didn’t choose Jason at all just that there’s differences. The commitment is different.
Like, the idea that you have to be siblings if you share a parent (one or more) is why so many sibling relationships don’t hold up against adulthood and a lack of forced proximity. If that was actually how humans and emotions worked then they wouldn’t disown and separate themselves from each other now would they?
The sibling thing applies to allll of the Bats by the way. That’s a choice you make and I don’t think it’s as interesting anymore when you take away these characters’ ability to form their own specific connections with others by forcing a relationship dynamic on them automatically just because they all have their own separate connections with one man.
For some of them the sibling dynamic is a really interesting character beat and for others it’s just a box for DC to check off that waters down the connection or feels disingenuous to the characters involved.
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HELLO AGAIN!! another wip of the same piece haha!
I am really sick, like sinuses swollen and head swimming kinda sick so I’ve been out of commission this week and also all of my teachers decided to have a bunch of important assignments due this week and next week 😔😔so I will probably disappear for a couple days again bc everything is really hectic rn but I wanted to share my progress so…here lol. (This dtyis makes me cry 😭😭 BUT IN A GOOD WAY. I am being challenged. challenges are good 👍🏽👍🏽 I can feel my brain expanding)
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