It's really cool to read comics-based fics here, and I love that you inserted Dick in at this point because that was what I wanted as well when I first read Knightfall. It's like, yeah, there are both in-universe and out-of-universe reasons why nobody called Dick at this point, but as a reader who loves Dick, I was mentally yelling at Bruce and Tim and Alfred lol. (Side note, Dick was with the Titans at this point and didn't move to Bludhaven until after the Knightfall saga and Prodigal, but I get what you were going for.) I think you will really like Prodigal - it's my favourite Dick comic :)
comics-based/missing scenes fics are my fave on here too! it's so fun to see people fill the stories out more when they don't have the same constraints comic writers have. and i've never heard of prodigal before, tysm!! i was seriously wondering why they didn't even mention dick haha, i'll have to jump in and read that :) i knew dick wasn't in bludhaven until nw1996 but i figured it couldn't hurt to smoosh the timeline a bit lol. thanks for reading & commenting!
The out-of-universe reason why nobody called or even mentioned Dick is that at that time Dick was in the Titans comics and Batman and Robin were in Batman comics, and each set had a different writing team. If Dick was regularly in Titans books then he could only make cameos in Bat books, and that was the way it worked.
The in-universe reason why nobody called Dick is that by this point, Dick and Bruce have been on the outs for a long time, beginning with Dick's departure from Gotham when Bruce fired him and continuing through Batman: Year Three (when Dick visits Gotham in the wake of Jason's death) and A Lonely Place of Dying (when Tim comes into the picture by tracking down Dick and insisting to Dick, Alfred and Bruce that Batman needs a Robin). Prodigal is part of the Knightfall saga, being the followup to KnightsEnd, and is the comic that establishes Dick and Tim as brothers, as well as reconciling Bruce and Dick's relationship after so many years and marking Dick's return to Bat books (yay!). I do recommend Batman: Year Three as well if you want to read more about Bruce and Dick's relationship at this point in time.
i've been reading through the 80's teen titans stuff recently but haven't quite gotten to the 90's, so i've def seen some of that separation between the titans and the bats! i didn't realize until somewhat recently just how long dick was almost exclusively with the titans tbh, i always kinda assumed that by the early 90s he was in bludhaven. (which i should've known isnt true since i've read nw1996 and i literally know thats when bludhaven is introduced but whateverrr lmao)
also i knew dick and bruce were on the outs post-death in the family, but when i read a lonely place of dying it seemed like they had somewhat made up? or were at least amicable? i guess in my mind i thought they fought immediately post-jason, and then post-knightfall (when bruce makes azrael batman instead), i didnt realize they were still beefing in tim's early years as robin! they really did not let them reconcile huh??
tysm for sharing your recs!! i've been kinda winging my batfam reading and mostly just picking up what feels right next, but that method obviously leaves a bunch of gaps in knowledge haha. i'll def need to pick up year three and prodigal!! my only real experience with dick & tim's relationship so far has been their interactions in nw1996 and the occasional team up, so i for sure need to read more with them :)
also you'll have to forgive the inaccuracies to dick/bruce and dick/tim :') i really thought they had all made up a bit more by this point in the timeline whoops haha
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