Now that I've had a chance to read this all through, I wanted to come back and tell you -- it's wonderful!

If this isn't the least fucked-up version of the Batfamily I've read, it's definitely in the top three. They manage to handle a lot of potentially dangerous emotional space without shutting each other down or out very much at all -- certainly a new high score on that level. They're *open* with each other in a way I'm not used to seeing, and it worked very well for me.

I am intensely fond of Tim here, and her issues, which manage to be both classically Tim *and* classically trans at the same time. And I love her relationship with Barbara.

I was surprised that the resolution of Jason's issues about intergenerational sex were so... hmm, I'm failing to find a decent word. Something like 'non-profound'? Despite the fact that "I'll just refuse to let my issues drive me off until hopefully I figure out a way around them" is the only solution I've seen in real life, I was somehow expecting something much more... dramatic? I'm not sure that I would have actually *preferred* anything different, mind you. Or even what it would have been. This story flows together well enough that I have a hard time seeing it having gone any other way.

And I must add that I am *glad* that they all ended up in bed (and elsewhere) together, because OMG those three were melting my screen. Bruce's first kiss with Jason, followed by the one with Tim -- so much *heat* and *flailing* in the very best ways. Um. The pommel horse. Yes.

So. You make me UTTERLY INCOHERENT with GLEE. I wanted you to know.