Questions!
Jul. 15th, 2013 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maidmalapertI want to do a question meme and Jill hit 10,000 somewhere in the plot and things have been happening! So I am doing one. Also feel free to give me AU's to make up >.>
Ask me anything about Jill, Mau or Eliza's Brother or Chance if you want.
Ask me anything about Jill, Mau or Eliza's Brother or Chance if you want.
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Date: 2013-07-15 10:35 pm (UTC)&/or Jill as a DC superhero
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Date: 2013-07-15 10:51 pm (UTC)Right now she's kind of worried about him, given his, er, busy last few days. He seems like someone who's really good at getting stuff done and kind of terrible at taking care of himself, so she's sort of... prepared to be exasperated... but also prepared to make sure he gets basic eating and sleeping needs met because what else do you do for a friend. She'll just keep an eye out and see if he needs reminding.
BUT YES overall he's someone she finds really easy to be around. I mean it's Jill Pole okay, it is her lot in life to be friends with brave boys who are logical and sometimes pedantic and occasionally deeply worrying or a pain in the ass.
REVERSE and then I'll do Jill as a DC superhero.
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Date: 2013-07-15 11:50 pm (UTC)Basically, Tim without memories is defined by several things that would still lead to his becoming Robin if he was in the DCU: a need to help other people, a sense of *obligation* to help -- if he's capable of it, then he *has* to do it, no choice -- and a willingness to sublimate his identity into the job at hand. He compartmentalizes, he over-identifies, which is why despite knowing his real name, he's thinking of himself as Eclipse right now - Eclipse is the name that means Amethyst & Aather & saving the world, and since that's what he has to do, that's who he is. The job is the person and the person is the job.
That's probably more detail than I needed, but: like a duckling (or other small bird), Eclipse imprinted and imprinted hard on his team. He was primed to be friends with them by his own mindset. And Jill & Eureka are the ones he bonded to most quickly.
With Jill, it's partly because she's easily been the most social, but he's had CR with other social people that's lead to him being more wary and less open. I think it's mostly that he saw a kindred spirit -- someone determined and self-sacrificing and concerned for how they could be their best. The stubbornness helps, too. I know some of that makes it sound impersonal, in a general way -- a team thing, a colleague thing, a mission thing -- but for Tim, there's nothing closer to his heart than the sense of *what has to be done.* It's the same instinct that cements his relationships with Batman & Nightwing & Spoiler (and later Batgirl) in canon.
Right now, if there was trouble, or a quest, or a task that had to be done -- Jill is the person he would turn to instinctively, who he'd trust to be there with him with the same spirit, getting the job done. He trusts not just her but her intentions (and that's where the level of comfort comes in - Tim has an obsessive need to understand things, all the things, all the times, and things that baffle him tend to make him flinch -- but because he trusts her to do well and mean well, he doesn't feel that need as strongly with regard to her.
Hopefully that makes some kind of sense.
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Date: 2013-07-16 01:02 am (UTC)JILL AS A SUPERHERO, huh? Okay this is going to take a little lead up.
Once there were four children. Their names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, and one summer holiday they were chosen and granted super powers by a lion-like spirit from a higher plane: Peter got super strength; Susan got enhanced vision, hearing and coordination; Edmund got invisibility; and Lucy got healing. There was some messy backstory, but eventually they became a really close-knit family team of heroes, a fact they hid from everybody except the old professor they were staying with that summer -- he didn't have any super powers of his own, but he happened to be an expert on beings from higher planes, and ended up becoming their mentor in terms of how they could best use their powers.
The kids kept going to school and superheroing in their spare time, until a couple of years later when this dragon shows up and starts terrorizing their town. The Pevensies (or, as they are known in costume, the Stag, the Rabbit, Foxboy and Kit) head off to stop it, and eventually figure out that it is actually their really obnoxious cousin Eustace, who has been transformed by a less benevolent being from the same higher plane as the one who gave them their powers. SO they figure out how to untransform him but he is left with dragonish powers, but after his ordeal he is much less obnoxious and joins their team.
Eustace being so much less obnoxious (and more inclined to help other people) gets him a lot of notice at school even though nobody suspects he's actually Firedrake, the new superhero in town. Mostly it gets him more enemies, but it also gets him a friend, Jill Pole, who eventually does notice there is something weird going on with him and confronts him about it. He trusts her, so he decides to tell her the truth. She doesn't have any superpowers, but she ends up helping out anyway, and getting sort of reluctantly adopted into the team as a sidekick.
She keeps training (especially with Susan, who teaches her archery) and becoming more and more involved in missions, but she doesn't really have a code name or costume, she just... does stuff... and knows the family and struggles along and ends up helping a lot sort of by accident. She's a really good guide, so that helps.
Tragically, Susan/the Rabbit gets killed off (probably unnecessarily horribly because you said DC superhero). At this point, the lion spirit thing shows up again and gives the Rabbit's power to Jill and tells her to take up her mantle, which she does.
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, haha
How is Tim settling in to Aather generally?
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Date: 2013-07-16 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-16 01:20 pm (UTC)