characters being competent
A collection of works where the characters are actually competent, as they would realistically be in the circumstances that they are in, or with the experience that they have through their story.
This all started because I kept getting frustrated whenever characters are written into the damsel trope a bit too hard, when, within the story, it does not make sense for that character to be.
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Damian's being picked on at school. Jason calls in the big guns.
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“The Red Hood has been good for Gotham,” Robin continued. “Crime in Park Row decreased by sixty one percent almost as soon as you showed up, and that’s even taking into account all the crime you commit. Drug overdoses have decreased by twenty two percent in adults and seventy nine percent in minors. Homeless minors are ninety two percent less likely to—”
“Kid,” Jason interrupted. “Enough statistics. What the hell is this about?”
Robin slowly lowered the tablet with his powerpoint presentation and looked up at Red Hood.
“You care about Gotham,” Robin summarised. “Gotham needs Batman. Batman is missing and so is Nightwing. We need you to fill in for Batman.”
“You want me to cover Batman’s patrols?” Jason clarified.
“No,” Robin said. “I want you to be Batman.”
Jason bluescreened.
(Or: Batman and Nightwing mysteriously disappear before Red Hood has even started antagonising them, Robin is desperate, Gotham needs Batman, and Red Hood is Batman-Shaped.)
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- Part 1 of The Right Substitution is Key
- Part 3 of Unhinged and Unrelated Jason Todd Content
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the long lost art of killing it dead by dustorange
Fandoms: DCU, Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
28 Dec 2021
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Red Hood is a criminal, so it doesn't make sense why he would bother dragging Nightwing back to Dick Grayson's apartment and bandaging his potentially deadly gunshot wounds. What makes even less sense is why Hood keeps coming back.
(a.k.a. another "Dick redeems Red Hood with the power of affection" fic but with even less mental stability.)
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Toward Eternity by SkyeBean
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
24 Jan 2024
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Following the brutal execution of Order 66 and the loss of the only home she's ever known, Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano goes on the run with her Master, Mace Windu, along with the few younglings who managed to escape the Temple with her.
As they flee the expanding Empire and fight for both their own survival and the survival of the culture they love, they'll face more than a few challenges. Even if they manage to survive, will Ahsoka ever be the same again?
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- Part 4 of Ahsoka is Mace's Padawan
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Kallus has been slowly intergrating into the crew when the Ghost is assigned to a normal supply run. The mission goes south, as it usually does, Zeb takes a hit, Kallus doesn't take it well, and the rest of the crew try to pick of the pieces. Another mission, another mess. Just another day on the Ghost.
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Sakura is not an idiot. She was praised for her intelligence, reached Top Kunoichi at the Academy for her brains.
So it doesn't take her long after being placed on the powder keg that is Team Seven to realize she is going to die.
Kakashi, career shinobi since age-six, has no idea what the hell is going on with his little pink-haired student or why there is such fear in her eyes. So he gives her head-pats. That's what you do for scared puppies isn't it?
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He can see Jason dying, over and over and over again.
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Though he could only see the back of the rifleman’s head, Lastimosa felt like he could recognise that dark mop of hair across a battlefield at this point.
“What are you thinking about Captain?”
“If this is the same guy who has been here all week”
“Affirmative. 3rd Class Rifleman Jack Cooper often uses the facilities rifle range at this time of day”
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A little shot about how Captain Lastimosa made the decision to mentor Jack Cooper.
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The first time she stumbled, her padawan said nothing, simply offering his shoulder for her to lean on.
The second time, Caleb made the executive decision that they needed to stop for the night, and sought out a good rooftop to get some sleep on. He scurried up a ladder, while Depa took a moment to try and collect herself, to come up with a better plan than ‘survive until their men stop searching the city’.
A sound reached her ears - that of a lightsaber activating.
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- Part 15 of What-If Star Wars AUs
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- Works:
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- Bookmarks:
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