[OOC] CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One

[Lord Wraith]

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Cap and Canary was very close to happening. Instead, I've had to alter course... More on that soon enough.

@Eddie Brock

Huh, that'd be a fun couple actually.

[Eddie Brock]

@Eddie Brock Is that what you want with Jay Garrick?

@Sep

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Huh, that'd be a fun couple actually.

@Lord Wraith

Yeah, I thought so, too... Thanks, @GreenGrenade!

[Master Bruce]

In other news not related to superhero sex lives, I spent about two hours of my yesterday evening reading the first page of the IC thread for the first time. So far, you all are knocking it out of the park on these characters. I was moved, excited, anxious, and curious all at once about where your characters were all going, and each one of you earned the obligatory 'like' that I was reserving to confirm my status of having read it.

As I told Byrd in a private message, I had originally submitted the concept for UOU with a mixed feeling, since I wasn't sure making the game "Ultimate" was all that nessescary and that the One Universe concept would work on it's own. But I'm very glad I did, since it's led to some interesting new takes and directions to go off of. I was pretty jazzed to think of eventually having Bruce interact with a few people by the time I was done.

I'll get around to reading Page 2 at some point tonight, and continue that pace until I'm done. But well done, all of you.

Especially you. You know who you are.

[Hound55]

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Fun fact: the only reason I ever started putting the two together was because in that particular version of UDC, the players who were using both Barbara and Starfire made them way older than Dick, so I had to basically pull a whole 'nother romance out of thin air. And the more I wrote it, the more I liked it. In comics canon, yeah, I go Dick/Babs all the way. In my own head-canon, though, that's another story.

I could get behind Bruce/Dinah. It'd probably be healthier for Bruce since Dinah's already on the right side of the law, and it'd allow him to dunk on Ollie. And anything that is bad for Ollie (comics-Ollie anyway), I approve of.

@AndyC

Let's not act like Dick doesn't have an ass that would bring all the cougars to the yard...

[AndyC]

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Let's not act like Dick doesn't have an ass that would bring all the cougars to the yard...

@Hound55

Yeah, but in-game he was like 15 at the time. And unless we wanted to turn UDC into a reenactment of Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher," I figured someone in the same age bracket would be more appropriate.

[Lord Wraith]

Especially you. You know who you are.

@Master Bruce

Oh you.

Let's not act like Dick doesn't have an ass that would bring all the cougars to the yard...

@Hound55

There was definitely a point in the initial run of his blue and black suit that Dinah told Barb if she didn't snatch up Dick, then she would.

Not saying Dinah is a cougar, but I always saw her as five years older than Dick or Babs.

[Eddie Brock]

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Yeah, but in-game he was like 15 at the time. And unless we wanted to turn UDC into a reenactment of Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher," I figured someone in the same age bracket would be more appropriate.

@AndyC

Wait, we didn't? Shit, I was playing that game all wrong...

[Hound55]

# Dick Grayson's theme Here's to you, Mrs Robinson plays #

[Bounce]

I was pretty jazzed

@Master Bruce

[AndyC]

# Dick Grayson's theme Here's to you, Mrs Robinson plays #

@Hound55

"Miss Gordon, and Miss Koriand'r, and Miss Kyle, and Dr. Isley, and Dr. Quinzell, and Miss Al Ghul, and Miss Lance, and Miss Bertinelli, and Miss Zatara....you're trying to seduce me."

[Bounce]

As much as I ship Babs and Dick, the Dick/Kory pairing in the Teen Titans DCAU movie made a convincing case for my changing my mind there.

[AndyC]

As much as I ship Babs and Dick, the Dick/Kory pairing in the Teen Titans DCAU movie made a convincing case for my changing my mind there.

@Bounce

I like Dick/Kory, but I've never really been able to consider them an OTP. They always struck me as each other's respective side-piece.

[mickilennial]

It was very wink-wink. But in Killing Joke, Bats officially hits it and quits it.

@Eddie Brock

So does the Joker.

[Lord Wraith]

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I like Dick/Kory, but I've never really been able to consider them an OTP. They always struck me as each other's respective side-piece.

@AndyC

Dick kind of strikes me as the kind of guy who always defined himself by being liked by girls but eventually grows older and realizes he doesn't need all that noise and eventually forms more platonic and meaningful relationships.

Basically what I'm trying to say is I don't see there being any OTP for Dick.

[AndyC]

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So does the Joker.

@Inkarnate

Dammit, I thought I was gonna have the "yeesh, too far" joke of the night.

[mickilennial]

Dammit, I thought I was gonna have the "yeesh, too far" joke of the night.

@AndyC

I live to displease.

[AndyC]

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Dick kind of strikes me as the kind of guy who always defined himself by being liked by girls but eventually grows older and realizes he doesn't need all that noise and eventually forms more platonic and meaningful relationships.

Basically what I'm trying to say is I don't see there being any OTP for Dick.

@Lord Wraith

Ironically, the fact that Dick and post-injury Barbara can't really have crazy rooftop Halloween sex I think makes them a much better pairing. Like you're saying, as he grows up he should get less interested in chasing tail (or rather being chased by tail), so a relationship where that's not really an option anymore makes it that much more important for him to grow as a person. I think he's still very much a romantic and a loverboy at heart, but by the time he's an actual adult, he's looking more at a love with a capital L. He can't really get that from the world of sexy people in skin-tight spandex, and Barbara's the closest thing to a normal person he knows. Plus, since she was always more emotionally mature than him, I imagine he'd feel like he has something to prove, to show that he's grown enough to be ready for her.

I mean, to each their own--especially in regards to DC which has about eighty trillion different incarnations of their characters.

[Lord Wraith]

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Ironically, the fact that Dick and post-injury Barbara can't really have crazy rooftop Halloween sex I think makes them a much better pairing. Like you're saying, as he grows up he should get less interested in chasing tail (or rather being chased by tail), so a relationship where that's not really an option anymore makes it that much more important for him to grow as a person. I think he's still very much a romantic and a loverboy at heart, but by the time he's an actual adult, he's looking more at a love with a capital L. He can't really get that from the world of sexy people in skin-tight spandex, and Barbara's the closest thing to a normal person he knows. Plus, since she was always more emotionally mature than him, I imagine he'd feel like he has something to prove, to show that he's grown enough to be ready for her.

I mean, to each their own--especially in regards to DC which has about eighty trillion different incarnations of their characters.

@AndyC

I fully agree to this. But that Barbara seems to be long gone from DC's line up sadly.

Note, I am way behind on both Rebirth Nightwing and Batgirl's titles but I'm like 99.9% certain that Babs has not been confined to a wheelchair again haha.

[AndyC]

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I fully agree to this. But that Barbara seems to be long gone from DC's line up sadly.

Note, I am way behind on both Rebirth Nightwing and Batgirl's titles but I'm like 99.9% certain that Babs has not been confined to a wheelchair again haha.

@Lord Wraith

Blame Gail Simone. She was so indignant over how 'harmful' The Killing Joke was to Barbara that she decided to undo it and remove years of character development, turning her back into just another Bat-kid and ultimately damaging the character far more severely than any amount of bullets through the spine.

[Lord Wraith]

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Blame Gail Simone. She was so indignant over how 'harmful' The Killing Joke was to Barbara that she decided to undo it and remove years of character development, turning her back into just another Bat-kid and ultimately damaging the character far more severely than any amount of bullets through the spine.

@AndyC

Hipster Girl of Blahside.