#this is why ros is the way she is in 'a number of different selves'

[rozaceous]

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED

emerging from my tumblr soft-vanish specifically to derail this ask bc i fucking hate the ""broken back"" thing, just like i hate how p much every injury, or lack thereof is handled in dc. (an outline of the broken back plot can be found here.) he gets someone w healing powers to fix him up, fine, magic is about the only thing that's gonna get you back to normal at this point!

but my first question is--IF BRUCE HAS A SPINAL INJURY WTF IS ALFRED DOING TAKING CARE OF IT? you need an entire gd medical team for that! spinal injuries are SO serious! how did he even get transported back to the batcave? you'd need multiple ppl to move you and preserve spinal stability!

not only is breaking your back an incredibly non-specific injury, it is, regardless of that, going to be A BIG FUCKIN DEAL. some ppl take over a year to recover from a spinal fusion, and that's considered a very rote kind of back surgery! as far as i can tell, canon doesn't get into the specifics of what his injury entails, and we're just going la-di-dah abt whatever the fuck happened, and clearly he wasn't paralyzed, but i also wanna know wtf he's doing even sitting up and putting pressure on the vertebrae and--

how did he travel with this?? where is his neurologist?? where is his surgeon????? any PT in this joint????

if we're going to do the hand-wave of magic fixing it, fine, whatever, we're all reading comics and no one is pretending they have the high ground when it comes to plausibility, except we're also now in the realm of fandom meta and if i want an explanation for all this crap it's more doylist than wastonian, and i want something in-universe to explain things, SUE ME

enter in: bruce wayne is a secret meta with a subtle but profound healing/strength factor. this man has had so many concussions, should have broken so many bones, torn so many ligaments--if he's able to go out batting for YEARS at his intensity level, he either has a crack team of the world's greatest healthcare workers focused on keeping him in fighting fit and they have access to truly sublime medical tech, or he's a meta.

there's literally no other explanation for all 250+lbs of this man to be able to go out swinging one-handed on a grapple without out tearing his shoulder straight from his socket.

ooh! we're starting no man's land! i'm sorry if this question is heading spoiler territory, and you can refuse to answer, but i'm just wondering if you're going to include other vigilantes that were involved during the og storyline in your fic, such as azrael and huntress?

i'm gonna get choosy with the canon events + characters in the fic because not all things can exist without contradiction. azrael's everything makes me 😕 and he's not small enough to be some side event -> bane breaks bruce's back, then azrael takes over, then etc <- i cannot abide by this. wdym he just gets better and back to batting after getting his back broken?? batman ban yourself from gotham bc you're the real meta i don't fucking care this is a thing that kills @rozaceous dead whenever we talk about it

other vigilantes and heroes will pop in and out if relevant to the narrative. it's a rich and wild world out there and for the focus of the fanfic, we won't go into what every single character is up to all the time. that can be answered bts, but it's definitely a lesson learned that when you write a fic that explores a lot of worldbuilding, sometimes you need to step away from too much worldbuilding or 1) you'll never finish, 2) miss the main point of the fic (which is "dick's accidental chaos gremlin acquisition")

("what would a transmigrator actually look like from the outside, and can they make it?")

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my head almost melted trying to get information about these two events...but i think the chaos of it all can be leveraged. so next chapter, hang tight for...uh, tentative titles:

so what really happened in gotham?

#justgothamthings

tales from the cataclysm

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i hope that sorta answers the q or elaborates if i don't completely