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You know they really missed out not making Grant a shorty like his father. It could have really emphasized his vulnerability and age; I like to imagine being him in the same “everyone looks at him and sees his dead parent” boat as Dinah II…
…Most importantly I love them idea of people just picking him up and carrying places :]
I mean EVERYONE btw. I’m talking Al just scooping him up under one arm and walking off while Grant yells at him. Roy, Bart, and later Tommy tossing him over a shoulder to get a reaction or haul tail out of a situation. Jesse re-enacting the “do I weigh anything to you?” meme. Reuniting with a Lian who’s almost as tall as him.
You know they really missed out not making Grant a shorty like his father. It could have really emphasized his vulnerability and age; I like to imagine being him in the same “everyone looks at him and sees his dead parent” boat as Dinah II…
…Most importantly I love them idea of people just picking him up and carrying places :]
Anyway, I think Al heard about Grant and tracked him down to “talk things over” offscreen. It’s all very awkward but sweet, and Al talks him into coming over to his mother’s for dinner. This becomes a habit.
Obviously we see a lot of on- screen conflict between the two because of how their angsty character arcs overlapped but I also think that they have that cantankerous, bickering sibling relationship- wrestling on the floor over the last slice of pizza, getting into ‘is water wet’ style arguments, generally antagonizing eachother
Al likes putting Grant into headlocks :)
Grant likes biting Al :)
I do think that there’s some dual sided tension over Al Pratt because like. Al got to know and love him as a father Grant is connected to the man in a way Al isn’t etc. They both know they’re being unfair to the other with these resentments but you can’t logic emotions :(
Hmm what else?
DC is really gonna give me breadcrumbs of Grant and Al’s “brotherly relationship” without anything of substance huh. Guess that’s my job now.
Ppl who know stuff about Al Pratt I summon ye
How would he react if like. He came back to life for realsies learned about Grant and had to deal with Roy already kinda being Grant’s dad?
Would any of his mixed emotions extend to his “replacement” or would it be 100 % “thanks for being one of the only adults to not make my kid’s life actively worse while I was dead” ?
Idk him well enough :•_•
*On their way to retrieve their collective emo*
Roy: I can’t believe you idiots lost Grant!
Al: Hey, this isn’t our fault! We’re ALL worried about him!
Jesse, while Rick comforts her: God, if anything’s happened to him- I won’t be able to live with myself!
Neal, in full Dr. Polaris gear, calmly: Oh, none of you will need to.
Roy: we know, Neal.
Neal: because I’ll kill you.
Roy: we know, Neal.
Tom, in the background with Lian: 😬
I want Roy to be Grant's dad and I want Al to meet his son and dote on him are two thoughts that can and do coexist in my head
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU, DCU (Comics), Justice Society of America (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tom Bronson/Grant Emerson, Grant Emerson & Al Pratt Characters: Guy Gardner, Al Pratt, Grant Emerson (DCU), Tom Bronson, Al Rothstein, Joan Garrick, John Stewart (DCU) Additional Tags: assorted background characters - Freeform, two hothead gingers duking it out on Thanksgiving in the backyard, Family Feels, Cute trash from an inexperienced author Summary:
In which Grant inadvertently gets Guy Gardner sent to the dog house, but makes his father’s Thanksgiving.
That victorious picture but w Jsa
something about the change from 90s solo/titans grant to 2000s jsa grant including a change in his physique. he goes from 16 to around 18/19 and he bulks up so much. in his solo and in the titans, he is a kid and looks like a kid. round-faced etc... look at him at his babyest
Damage #9
later, in the titans, here he is in an ill-fitting suit, still looking like a kid
Titans (1999) #17
and then after a couple of years,
JSA (2007) #4
look at those arms. he's still a teenager! but bulked up. maybe he went through a growth spurt and is taller too... but mostly i am thinking of him actively going to the gym and working out. wanting to look bigger and older and just be stronger. my baby 🥺
Currently the walrus meme/ question is my favorite Tumblr thing so I gave it to my boys. Also good comic practice!
Let it be known that if Mary had it already picked, there a good chance Grant was named after Ted.
Did this between comms
Jakeem: Wait, hold on, let me get this straight.
*points to Roy* I already knew he’s kinda like your dad
*points to Neal* and Dr. Pole-watzit’s your uncle
*points to the Als* and you found out those two are your bio- dad and godbrother… exactly how many heroes and villains are you related to, man?!
Grant: Well, you probably won’t believe this,
Crack concept of the hour: Grant Emerson custody switches, AKA people just stealing him from each other <3 It does not stop when he’s 18. Jesse yoinks him while he’s hanging out with Lian and 24 hours later Dr Polaris flies off with him.
Cracky AU where AtomSmasher kidnaps a junior member of the Teen Titans because, without any warning or context, he met a kid who looked just like his aunt Mary, with the name she and his uncle Al had picked out for their baby if it was boy, using powers very similar to said uncle 🙃
…he may have panicked a little
Cracky AU where AtomSmasher kidnaps a junior member of the Teen Titans because, without any warning or context, he met a kid who looked just like his aunt Mary, with the name she and his uncle Al had picked out for their baby if it was boy, using powers very similar to said uncle 🙃
…he may have panicked a little
How I picture Grant and company figuring this out tbh
All jokes and camp aside, I think Roy is more an uncle/big brother to Rose and Grant than a dad.
Very much there is a paternalistic dynamic- but that is not the same as being someone’s Dad, y’now? A lot of ppl’s stepdad ain’t their Dad.
My grandpa ain’t my Dad. My uncle half- raised me because I was the kid of a single mom and she trusted him enough to pay him like he was a daycare. HE ain’t my Dad, even if that relationship is no less profound.