What are her leading characteristics?

baffledkingcomposinghallelujah asked:

Today I'm thinking about how Terry has a point. Tish was remarkably unfazed about sweet Abigail Queen's annoying handsome brother a) being the arrow b) having a family of professional badasses and c) with a non zero number of kills between them. She is actually the perfect Queen daughter in law. She got on board like super quick and just rolled with it in a "sure this is normal" way and I feel bad for Terry who's so lonely. ASH!

Poor kid. When Tish met us - I mean, actually met our family for the weirdos we are - she had just run the gauntlet. Traumatic near death experience after traumatic revelation after traumatic near death experience. By the time Jon’s hood came off, I think she was tapped out of surprise.

After that, she didn’t jump on board right away. Her brain probably needed time to catch up, you know?

Shared trauma can bind you to someone pretty tightly, and she kept close but not too close to us. Especially to Jonny. There was just an arm’s length of distance while she figured out how she felt about everything. At least, that’s my best explanation for all those dates she and Jonny went on without actually dating.

You mean Tish as maybe my maid of honor someday? That could work, if she wears a high neckline and a shade of pink that clashes with her hair. (I kid, I kid!)

But if you mean Tish at her own wedding, presumably to Jonny, first you’ll have to convince them to actually do the thing. They don’t seem to be in any hurry.

I kept the coloring of the original, and I thought it was important to match the drape of the hood exactly. People should recognize him by silhouette in the dark. There were some other details I threw in just because I liked them, like the braid across the shoulder.

Functionally, I worked panels of armor into most of the jacket and large parts of the pants. He’s more protected than Ollie was, back in the day, and he looks it.

Basic bitch, if we’re being honest.

The imbalance used to bother me. Not only could I never buy him anything as extravagant as his gifts to me, I couldn’t even afford to keep up with his lifestyle. I couldn’t routinely buy a plane ticket to Gotham at a moment’s notice, and my wardrobe didn’t cover all the nice places his parents wanted to take us.

A lot of his invitations also came with, “And here’s a card to use if you need something to wear.”

I started to feel very unpleasantly... kept.

He maintained that it wasn’t a big deal, and he never made me feel indebted to him. But I got a few passive aggressive comments from acquaintances and even good friends about how very generous he was, wow, you played that one right, didn’t you?

I got more and more tense about it, until finally Jon got impatient. “I’m not seeing how this is even a problem. I like being able to give you things, and honestly it’s annoying when you don’t let me, because then we can’t do whatever it is we were planning to do before the money thing stopped us. Are we going to not do things because some snotty girl from your theory class makes snotty comments?”

With time, I got used to him sharing so casually and generously. Or perhaps I just got spoiled. Regardless, I use the card without any guilt now.

It was only ever weird because she made it weird. It’s just money.

For all intents and purposes, she lives with me. All her shit is here - including her most annoying shit, like single-purpose kitchen gadgets that make the drawer stick. She sleeps at my place, she does the dishes at my place, and it is my shower drain getting clogged up with her hair.

She just won’t admit it for some weird reason. She won’t give up her lease, and if anyone mentions Cake Cafe, she says, “Oh, I live just around the corner,” as if she actually spends more than 5% of her time there.

I don’t get it, but it’s not really worth fighting over. Like I said, she sleeps here.

I’ve thought so for years.

But then, I’m kind of biased in favor of the IT girl getting the guy.