Silent Night
Rated PG-13: violence, language, brief sexuality, some mature concepts. Takes place at Christmas time but is not exactly a happy seasonal story.
Bruce Wayne/Batman, Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Kathy Kane/Batwoman, Barbara and James Gordon, the Joker, and all other important characters
belong to DC Comics/Time Warner and were created by Bob Kane.
I am using them without permission, however I have not and don’t expect to make money from this.
Based (loosely) on events in Batman 408 and Detective 485, also influenced by other stories and the animated series.
Batman's new partnerships with Nightwing and Batwoman are torn apart when the Joker strikes in deadly fashion.
This is set in the AU created in 'Birds of a Feather', based
on the Batman comics of the 40's and 50's with some elements from the present-day version, and
taking place a few years ago.
It includes only the Golden/early Silver Age characters:
principally Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Alfred, Commissioner Gordon, Kathy Kane (the original Batwoman), and Barbara Gordon.
Think of it as taking the Batman and Robin of the 1940's, modernizing them, and giving their story a twist.
Complete.
To a large extent this AU series has been my effort to blend the older and newer versions of Batman and Robin/Nightwing in
a coherent and believable way, especially the story of how the team broke up and later reconciled. The canon version of
that breakup from Batman 408 just made no sense at all. Why would Bruce suddenly decide that being Robin was too dangerous
for Dick to do anymore? Why would he do it when Dick was at least nineteen, and after he had come close to death many
times before? Most of all, why would he barely wait for Dick to be out the door before taking on a younger, less
qualified Robin? Then, Jason Todd was killed. You'd think Batman would be through with partners at that point, but no, he very
soon had another teenager as the new Robin. Now the pattern has repeated: Tim Drake left, Stephanie Brown took over
and promptly got herself killed too. Lots of dramatics, no logic.
I realize this version has now been revised (and probably will be again!) but the new one doesn't seem much better, with
Bruce now 'firing' Dick for not being around enough. Anyway, I thought such a drastic break between two people who
obviously care for each other very much had to have more motivation behind it, so I made my own version. I hope you like the results.
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