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Mute Point by Chromosome
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), Red Hood: Outlaws - Patrick R. Young & Nico Bascuñan (Webcomic), Red Hood: Lost Days, DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
08 Mar 2026
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Roy Harper always knew that behind the Wonder Boy smile, Dick Grayson was as cunning and manipulative as they come. Especially when it came to family. So when Dick calls in a favor, and Roy ends up signing on as the ASL interpreter for his estranged brother, he has no idea what he’s really signing up for.
Jason Todd is brooding, arrogant, and scarred by more than just trauma: a walking disaster with a tongue sharp enough to draw blood. But Roy figures he can handle it. He’s seen worse. Done worse. Hell, standing half-naked in front of strangers doesn’t even crack his Top Ten Most Embarrassing Moments.
Dodging bullets in broad daylight, though? Yeah. That definitely wasn’t in the job description.
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"Look, I’m sorry. This is just… new." Roy scrubs a hand through his hair. "I care about you. I don’t want anything to happen to you — is that really so hard to get?" His voice softens, hands signing gently now.
"I’m deaf, not stupid."
Roy is going to fucking strangle him at this rate. "That’s not what I meant and you damn well know it!" -
Bookmark Notes:
Ch. 8
Really loving this, can't wait to see how the story progresses.
Jason's reaction seriously hurt my heart, like, I know this will have a happy ending, but I'm still scared for him. -
Bookmark Notes:
Ch.8
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Bookmark Notes:
Title is a slur, author is well-aware and very defensive about keeping it: “it’s a play on words you’d get that if you read the story.” Still unacceptable, it is not a fun in-joke it is a slur.
Entire work (tbf I did quit reading after the zoo scene it was too offensive and inconsistent in characterization of Lian to keep going) includes egregiously offensive and negative representation of what an ASL interpreter is and does. They cannot be high-school dropouts without a GED, there are educational and other requirements. They would never call their clients a “charge” that the are hired to “babysit” and can barely “tolerate” so just lets them get by with lip reading (which, most of speech sounds happen behind the teeth with the tongue so invisible which means no one can lip read perfectly and an interpreter knows that).
Roy acts ashamed of his own daughter being Deaf, though in theory he learned to sign for her. Roy repeatedly states and acts as if he is not there to and should not advocate for his client. Interpreters cannot assign sign-names, those can only come from a Deaf person. Refuses to treat ASL like a real language.
Frankly it feels like the author has very ableist views regarding Deaf people as a burden who should be grateful for any iota of effort the people around them put into accommodating them. If this was a story about Jason’s family being in the wrong Roy would be correcting the poor behavior (or at the very least be horrified by it if afraid to speak up), not condone it.