batman slash recs: batman/jim gordon

[cimorene]

I keep pimping this story to everyone and their mother, even if as far as I am aware they don't actually like slash, or Batman. And meanwhile I keep trying and sometimes succeeding to convert people to Batman/Gordon! So I thought I'd post a few recs here.

First of all, the current must-read, and I mean this for everyone, not just those already interested in the pairing:

The Clues in Front of Us by solaras is a post-TDK WIP. She's got six chapters up after, I suppose, two weeks or so. Her update rate is pretty good, is what I'm trying to say, so I consider this fairly safe as WIPs go (I generally avoid them when not DESPERATE FOR SOMETHING, ANYTHING TO READ). This story is Gordon's POV on his blossoming friendship with Batman and, at the same time, his friendship with Bruce Wayne, who seems to be seeking him out for political reasons. The summary seems to indicate that he's eventually going to start putting the pieces together. Now, the narrative voice is delicious perfection, ringing astoundingly true. The pace is exquisitely slow, the UST developing at an appropriately controlled speed. The atmosphere is nice. The dialogue is, at times, hilarious and fantastic. The parallels between the two story lines are very satisfying and neat, too.

Other recs:

First Priorities, by jen_in_japan, is Batman and Gordon gen and extremely short.

Getting Close, by jen_in_japan, an established-relationship piece saturated with angst and mood. Also very short and well-executed, although the flashback to the beginning of their relationship is a little bulky around the edges.

All Kinds of All Right by sua_lay is preslash focusing on Batman and Jim's son. There's awww, and some angst, but the implied things about Batman and Gordon's relationship are what stand out.

Dropping Masks by planetgal471 is a little longer than the others, and particularly the dialogue and the pivotal scene in the middle are remarkably good. The beginning and the end are both a little abrupt and seem slightly out of place, where an episode with Gordon's kids and some references to his divorce seem out of place in relation to what is otherwise a pretty specific (and cool) plot device. But that device is really cool.

Comments

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, there's the canonical interests. And there's Harvey Dent. In the animated series Batman and Harvey were totally intense. (I don't buy Harvey in *this* Nolan-based universe, mind. Not unless he comes back from the dead, which the writer has denied stringently although I think he totally SHOULD.) And I totally believe Batman with Superman, even if I don't want to read it. And besides Two-Face and Catwoman, Batman's relationships with many of the canonical villains are kind of complex. I mean, a lot of them aren't all bad, just like, bizarrely crazy monomaniacal terrorists bent on something or other who might or might not help Batman out at some other time with some common enemy...

...and there's Robin of course. And Alfred. And R'as al Ghul.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool. I'm looking forward to watching the animated series, we're still working through Batman Beyond. Is the intense relationship with Harvey before he becomes Two-Face?

Hee! "not all bad - just crazy monomaniacal terrorists" Hee!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Hm, well, I haven't watched since I was a kid, but they were close friends before the accident and their relationship continues being nuanced after. Two-Face actually has sort of... two personalities, and so it's ambivalent. He's a bad guy, but he can be sympathetic and rational as well, as I recall, if only maybe occasionally. And Bruce still is kind of all torn up about the tragedyyyyyyyy that happened to him.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Close friends, huh? *looks interested* Wait! You shall not turn me from my love of Jim Gordon! *covers eyes*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Not that I ever received a slashy vibe from them. But any genuine friendship is, you know, plausibly amenable!