#ew mobile (the computer is to far away and im lazy)

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I'm sorry, but when I read the first few sentences I immediately thought of stalker baby Tim. Like, him stalking the batfam so much he finds Jason's Ao3 and becomes his number one fan. Tim (being so mad about the story being unfinished that he) learns necromancy just so that Jason can finish it become Robin again.

But Jason doesn't come back so Tim thinks he failed when he didn't and catatonic!Jason gets picked up by Talia (was it Talia? iirc it is) like in canon. So Tim just does the next best step after trying (and not failing) to raise the dead, and shows up at Dicks house.

Everything is the same, but Jason didn't forget his readers (and his favorite regular) and decided to finish the story before he went to Gotham to carry out his gatekeep gaslight crimelordboss his way into taking over Gothams underground. Except he got behind schedule by 2 weeks so he updated it before he went out for the Big Showdown™️. So Tim gets an update email from Jason's Ao3 about the second to last chapter being posted (he's sentimental, okay?!) and he just gets so confused.

Like, does necromancy work on a time delay? Is Jason just walking around as a skeleton? Why hasn't Jason shown up at the manor when he clearly had enough time to write and finish his fic?? Tim totally doesn't Constantine to ask if necromancy has a time delay (it doesn't and just reaffirms the Brit's belief that Gotham is worse than hell because of that weird ass question from the weird ass smart one).

Cue to Red Hood showing up and stiring the pot the same night he posted the last chapter when Robin!Tim, Batman, and Red Hood are in the middle of the Big Showdown™️. And Red Hood accidentally quotes a line from his fic, and Robin immediately shouts out the authors handle without thinking. As Robin here believes that Jason came back the same age as he died so Tim is running every program he has to locate a freshly-not-dead 15 year old who might not have a fleshed out face (heh) anymore. Clearly Red Hood is another hardcore fan of Jason's works.

While Red Hood just pauses, because, like, what? The fuck? There's only one person that comes to mind on who would be able to remember that hyper specific quote so he just quietly says his favorite regulars handle. And Robin reacts by coughing into his fist as Batman looks between them in confusion and ready to go back to fighting at a moments notice.

Both Red Hood and Robin just stare at each other in contemplative silence as they both want to talk about the just finished fic, for different reasons. Robin believes that Red Hood (who has been rising up in Gothams underground for the last 2 weeks) is another fan because Jason didn't look like he could grow into a fridge when he. Y'know, died. Red Hood was just embarrassed at being caught out as the author by accidentally quoting from his own fic during a fight by Robin. Who is his favorite regular.

"So uh. How'd ya like tha' last chapter?" Red Hood wasn't ready to face his favorite regulars criticism after finding out that they're on opposite sides of the law. It wouldn'tve hurt as much if it was coming from a civilian, but Robin has read every single of his works. Robin, as his successor the placeholder has a lot of emotional weight on his favorite hobby.

"Oh, well. I couldn't read it since someone decided to commit terrorism tonight. How'd you even get the time to read it? You started blowing up buildings, like, 5 minutes after the post." Robin just couldn't understand the gall of this crime lord, who is tarnishing Jason's work by reading it, to ask how he liked it when he interrupted his reading time. Tim couldn't even get past the first paragraph before he had to suit up!

"Wha'? Kid, I wrote the damn thing, why'd I read it?" Jason was expecting to have his ears be bleeding from the yelling and cursing, not from the high pitched screeching of his name. The bear hug felt though.

DP x DC Prompt #58

Jason has been writing fanfiction ever since he got access to a computer. They weren't always the most popular, especially since he was writing fics about classics, but that's not why he wrote them. He wrote them for himself.

However, since he always had Robin stuff going on, his author notes had become something of a meme at this point. No one really believed him anymore when he apologized for late updates due to breaking his arm in three places or anything like that.

Then, he died. He had been two chapters away from ending his story, damnit.

But it's fine, he's back now. He apologizes for late update since he, ya know, died and finishes that story. Then, he finds out there's another author out there with notes ... very similar to his own. And a lot of humor about his own death.

Maybe PhantomNotBill087 and him had a lot more in common than being fic writers.