Every time the batkids get into legal trouble (damaged property fighting a villain, entitled old ladies being mad they didn’t get saved first, Damian sueing a classmate for proprietary rights over an OC he drew in class, the ONLY person they want to be represented by is Harvey.
Sure, TEHNICALLY he can’t practice anymore, but this is Gotham, and the law system is made of tangled wires. If you pull the right one, you’re in the clear.
The hardest plaintiff is Jason, by far. Ironically enough, he has the simplest cases.
“Okay, so, HOLD ON— I have to TELL you to get out of the way when Bane throws an ENTIRE truck your way? If you can’t dodge death, it deserves to have you, period.”
“Lady, I’m not going to save your weird ass dog/frog hybrid science experiment , — who BIT me, by the way, — over an entire bank full of PEOPLE.”
“Oh im sorry I forgot to pay for the overpriced 12 dollar latte while RUNNING FROM WILD MANEATING PLANTS. “
Harvey, pouring a violent amount of vodka in his coffee: your honor, my client just needs a nap probably
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why did tim dismiss his suspicions on dr connor like that in chapter 12 ?
this is a REALLY good question so I started yapping!! spoilers for Red Robin and for LoF under the cut :3
for those not familiar with Batfam Lore (which is perfectly alright!!), Bruce went missing in "the timestream" last year (in LoF). He was believed to be dead and during that time, Tim was the only Bat that believed he was alive. (this is a very nuanced subject because everyone's perspective during that time isn't inherently wrong.) Tim was not believed and it caused a huge fight between Tim and Dick, mostly because Dick gave the mantle of Robin to Damian and told Tim that he wanted to "be his equal"
in my opinion, Dick had a good sentiment but with the wrong timing and handling of it. Tim doesn't do "equals" very well, and he was mourning the man he considers his father, at the time. he thought that Dick and he were going to be Batman and Robin together, and the expectation was thrown away. Then, when Tim suggested that Bruce was still alive, Dick became very worried that Tim was going off the deep end. Which is also a valid concern because Tim was isolating himself from everyone at that time. Steph had faked her death and not told Tim, Kon and Bart had both died. He was NOT doing so well.
That's why he had the fight with Dick and he left Gotham. He went across the world, searching for evidence that Bruce was alive in the timestream. Tim has a tendency to keep things close to his chest (tendency is a loose term, because at his core, this is what Tim is) and from what I can tell, this incident did not fix things.
In LoF (because here, we care about character development), when Bruce came back, the dynamic shifted in the family. Everything was different, Tim wasn't his Robin anymore, he didn't get to see Damian grow into a great Robin, Dick had to be Batman, etc. They have actually talked things out and the family is doing better than before, and have been in a long time. But Tim still keeps things to his chest.
Like how he discovered that Peter was from an alternate dimension. Tim admits in (chapter 9? I think? maybe chapter 10) that it wasn't because of Damian's smug attitude about figuring out he's Spider-Man, but mostly because he wanted to collect evidence and get his theory laid perfectly out. That way the others would believe him. Tim struggles with this even though he knows that his family is trying.
So when Peter says something that appears very contradictory (they have no reason to believe that Dr. Connors isn't Mysterio), Tim says that he believes him. Even if Tim is doubtful and will be creating contingency plans and theories about Dr. Connors anyway, he chooses to believe Peter. He saw that it was distressing Peter and wanted him to know they were on his side. So even if Peter turns out to be wrong about Dr. Connors, he had someone in his corner
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Keen!! No pressure or anything but will you ever write Jason&Damian-centric fics? hehe
Dick finds him on the top of the Old Gotham Cathedral at dawn.
Jason hears the sound of boots touching down behind him and doesn’t bother to turn around. Nightwing has always had a different cadence to his landing than the Bat. It’s lighter, softer. He can never really suppress the bounce to his step.
Jason runs his hand over the head of the stone gargoyle to his right once more, the weather-roughened stone catching against his bare palm.
“I’ll be gone by tonight,” he says evenly. “I just had a few things to take care of while I was in town.”
“Hood,” Dick calls softly, “Jason, please.”
Jason hunches deeper into his hoodie. He feels naked without his leather jacket.
In front of him, the Gotham’s skyline stretches out. The buildings are bathed in the pink rays of the newly rising sun. For a moment, the city’s darkness, the poison-riddled grime that covers everything, fades away in the sun’s burgeoning glow.
“What do you want, Wing?” Jason asks irritably.
Dick’s boots scuff against the roof's slate tiles as he moves closer. Jason knows Nightwing can be absolutely silent when he wants to. His shoulders climb up higher, practically to his ears. He doesn’t turn around.
“Aren’t you going to ask about the kid?”
“No,” Jason grinds out, ignoring the way his stomach twists. His hand clamps down hard against the gargoyle’s head, his fingers digging into the stone. He feels one of his thumbnails crack and tear.
“He stabbed Tim.”
Jason snorts softly as he rolls his shoulders back slowly, letting his hand fall away from the statue to rest in his lab. “I warned you about letting him near weapons.”
“It was a butter knife!”
Jason huffs a breath out his nose, amused in spite of himself. He pretends not to notice when Dick plops down onto the roofline three feet away from him. Out of the corner of his eye, he watches as the vigilante hunches forward, propping an elbow onto his knee with a sigh as he drops his chin into his hand. Even with Nightwing’s domino in place, Jason can feel Dick’s eyes boring into the side of his face.
“Jay, he’s refusing to speak in anything except Arabic. B is the only one who can understand him.”
The tilt to Jason’s lips falls away. “Don’t call me that. And the kid knows English. He’ll come around.”
“He’s not even five years old. He lost his mother. His home. He got dragged halfway around the world only to be left with strange people in a strange place.”
Jason glances over sharply, finally meeting Dick’s gaze directly.
“Does the Bat know you’re here, Wing?”
Dick grimaces. “He won’t stop asking for you, Jason. He cried himself to sleep last night, and the only thing he would say was your name.”
Pain lances through Jason’s chest as white-hot heat clogs his throat.
“What are you to him, Jason? You bringing him here—it’s more than just you owing Talia a favor.”
Nightwing’s white lenses stare at him unblinkingly. Jason looks away.
“You still haven’t told me what you want, Wing. You can’t guilt trip me into something if I don’t know what you’re asking for.”
There’s a beat of silence, and then Dick says softly, “Come home, Jason. Please, we need you.”
Jason surges to his feet, stumbling back a step before he catches himself. The scar across his neck throbs.
“The manor isn’t my home,” he rasps. “Not anymore. I’m not welcome there.”
Dick springs gracefully to his feet, following Jason’s retreat with measured steps as Jason continues to back away slowly across the roof.
“It is, you are,” he entreats, and then more softly, “please, for Damian. He needs you.”
Jason swallows, his throat working. He feels the echo of a warm weight in his arms, soft hair tickling his face, the fresh, clean smell of a baby wafting thickly through his nose.
“You don’t know what you’re asking for,” Jason whispers, his voice cracking at the end. But he stops moving away.
He can see the knowledge that he’s won wash over Dick’s face a second before the man smiles tentatively. Jason scowls in return.
“One week,” he spits out. “Just until the kid settles in. And the Bat stays out of my way. Don’t start playing happy families in your head.”
Dick’s smile grows. “Sure, Jay, whatever you want.”
“Don’t call me that,” Jason grumbles. But he follows Dick off the roof all the same.
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More details on this AU in progress here.
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