sweet-tart:firefly20ffm:-seethroughmyperspective:Awkwaaaaaaard. I hate this issue. I hate this issue
sweet-tart:firefly20ffm:-seethroughmyperspective:Awkwaaaaaaard. I hate this issue. I hate this issue. The part of me that likes Dick/Babs hates this issue. The part of me that likes Dick/Kory hates this issue too.It retconned Dick and Babs’ relationship so much. They were not dating when they were Batgirl and Robin. He had a crush on her and she played along sometimes. I mean, there’s about a four to six year age difference between them, IIRC. There is no way she could have taken him seriously back then.It also proved that some writers like to downplay their other relationships. I really dislike when people decide that they have to degrade a character’s former love to rationalize their current love interest. It’s mostly seen in fanfiction but the biggest case I’ve seen in comics is how some writers love to do this to Dick and Kory.He wasn’t keeping busy while waiting for Babs, Kory wasn’t ‘to fill a need for attention’….he loved her. LOVED. They dated for years -both in publication and continuity time- and they almost got married. So no, it wasn’t ‘always Babs- above all the others!’ And it’s worse with Babs- Dick is allowed so many flings and love interests while Babs is supposed to just sit there and pine? And in this issue, they practically have her say that she was stringing her past boyfriends (Jason Bard, etc) along while waiting for a chance to be with Dick. I’M SORRY BUT NO. Babs is supposed to be one of the strongest women in the DCU, not some pathetic girl trying to pucker up the courage to call her crush. AND DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THE SCENE IN THIS ISSUE WHERE DICK SLEEPS WITH BABS AND THEN HANDS HER AN INVITATION TO HIS WEDDING WITH KORY. IT’S INSULTING TO ALL THREE OF THESE CHARACTERS. Yes, we all joke and say that Dick’s a player (which he kind of is) but all throughout the NTT era- which this scene is supposed to take place in- Dick was a serious monogamist. He once broke up with Kory because she had to marry Karras for political reasons. I’m supposed to believe that he would cheat on her? Was the purpose of this issue to make us think Dick Grayson is a womanizing, hypocritical liar?This just made me really angry.I just need all this commentary on my page.And I want to add it makes me so mad when writers insist that Dick and Kory were just like physical or something like that. Ugh. This totally goes along with what I was saying the other day when writers push their own ships and stuff like that. Don’t ignore stuff that is canon just because you don’t like a relationship or character. That’s a bunch of bull shit. -- source link
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