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[harborshore]

I'm stealing a meme from colouredmango (who is borrowing my brain for the evening, btw, and has promised to feed and care for it properly--no, don't ask) and liketheroad.

Ask me about a pairing I have written (or haven't and you think I should write) and I will give you five facts about them or a ficlet or a song that is CLEARLY THEIR SONG or their wedding china pattern, etc etc! Let's say this one is any fandom/band/etc that you can reasonably assume that I'm familiar with, yeah? Familiar meaning, you know, having heard of them.

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[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I'm really quite fond of that verse! *grins*


This is their song, and not just because I'm an unashamed sap, but rather because they actually don't have anybody else, and to say they have trust issues is understating matters. Lyn-Z moved out when she was seventeen, and lived by herself until she met Gerard, whose little brother had run away to Gotham. Gerard had followed, but he hadn't found Mikey (side note: Mikey is okay). He had, however, found Lyn-Z, and so they shared a tiny shoebox apartment and got through the last year of high school together.

Three months into the year, Bob transferred to their school. He was quiet, sometimes viciously angry and prone to fights, but Gerard saw him help out in the kindergarten (it was a K-12) and resolved to figure out what this kid was really like. It took him a month to even get Bob talking to him, even with Lyn-Z helping, but finally they got Bob to smile at their ridiculousness, and then, then--his smile was really something, you know?

That night, curled up on the bed, Lyn-Z held onto Gerard tightly and said, face buried in his hair, "Gee, I want him too, I can't, he's just--"

And Gerard nodded, "I know, I know."

It felt too big for them, this feeling that maybe they were supposed to be three instead of two, maybe, maybe. But they figured it out.

[crowgirl13.livejournal.com]

I'm rather fond of it too. :) Especially since now there's MORE of it.

I'm all flaily-handed about this whole reply. First off - that SONG. Yeah, it's sappy but still perfect [and the sort of thing that's really needed in a Gotham AU, to lighten the Grim up a bit].

I love that they fell in together in high school! The way they met and got closer, then realized the triad connection makes sense. [I do wonder, though, what Bob thinks about all of this.] And oh, the emotional epiphany nestles so tidily into the setting so well [Okay, this might just be in my head, but it's like the relationship is cupped like a nesting doll in the greater whirl of Gotham. I love that so much].

And thank you for the aside about Mikey - I was worried for him.
Thank you!

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Bob is pretty determined to keep them safe, because they're both hopeless idealists, even before they discover Lyn-Z has a meta ability. (He was so pleased with himself for managing to get them out of the way of the Joker.) When they first met, though, he was pretty overwhelmed by the two of them. He tended to think of them as really bright, somehow, the way they smiled and laughed and talked like nothing in the world could break them.

I'm so glad you liked it, really. And no way could I ever kill Mikey. WAYS.