Okay, there's no way I'm gonna match the other comments you've got, so I'm just gonna say my piece. I think this could be the quintessential Roy piece. It doesn't touch on Lian or Cheshire or even Ollie, but I think it gets to the core of the character.
He's always seemed to be a little bit the outsider, a little bit harder hit by the blows others shrug off. When Dick was rebelling against Bruce and the other Titans were growing up their own way, Roy was falling apart without Ollie (or Dick, or Lian, or so many others). He's more than just a Badass Normal who goes to the gym a lot, he's human in a way no one else... demands to be.
Donna's parents died in a fire too, before CoIE clusterfucked her continuity. There must be something to that. Dick lost his parents under the big-top and maybe there are just a few people Roy trusts enough to hold him together, because he knows they've felt what he's felt.
That might be pretentious, but it's almost 2 A.M. where I am, so please put up with the gushing.
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Date: 2007-08-09 06:48 am (UTC)He's always seemed to be a little bit the outsider, a little bit harder hit by the blows others shrug off. When Dick was rebelling against Bruce and the other Titans were growing up their own way, Roy was falling apart without Ollie (or Dick, or Lian, or so many others). He's more than just a Badass Normal who goes to the gym a lot, he's human in a way no one else... demands to be.
Donna's parents died in a fire too, before CoIE clusterfucked her continuity. There must be something to that. Dick lost his parents under the big-top and maybe there are just a few people Roy trusts enough to hold him together, because he knows they've felt what he's felt.
That might be pretentious, but it's almost 2 A.M. where I am, so please put up with the gushing.