That was my pupal stage, before I came into myself. I did appreciate the card. Batwoman, this is Dr. Victoria October. October? My deadname didn't have half the panache, I'm afraid.
Detective Comics #948 by James Tynion IV and Marguerite Bennett, art by Ben Oliver
As we all know, victoria was born ~about~ 10 months after behemoth's first emergence. this would mean she was born in October 1993, right? Amy is around the same age, a couple months younger. But the thing that's getting to me is that Fleur's death was in 2007. 2007? Victoria and Amy would have been 13 in 2007.
So why is it that amy says this "Her body wasn’t even cold when people were putting microphones in front of us. We were kids. Not even in middle school. That fucks you up." (Interlude 16.Y). You were in middle school. 8th grade, if their middle school was anything like mine. It was apparently over the summer, so actually they would have recently graduated middle school, starting 9th grade in the fall.
If Fleur had died before amy and victoria entered middle school that would have to have been 2 years prior, in 2005. But we know she was alive for the Boston Games, since she appears in ashley's memories, and we know the boston games were 4 years before ashley gets recruited by she slaughterhouse 9 (in 2011), because ashley says so.
"[Ashley had] broken [her hand] after killing [Blasto's] giant four years prior, and it hadn’t healed quite right, despite her best efforts."
So how do you reconcile this? Is ashley misremembering 4 instead of 6? It's possible, she doesn't exactly have a calendar. Am I reading too much into the "even" in "not even in middle school?" That's what the worm wiki thinks. Did Wildbow make an oopsie? Is there another, infinitely more nuanced answer? Are you bald?
Before I transitioned, I though that it might be the cure for everything I considered wrong with me. And it wasn't. I'm still every bit the prickly pear I was beforehand. I still have nights where I get lost in doubt and depression. But now I know that those parts of me are a part of me. Not just a symptom of the body I was living inside of. And that knowledge makes me strong.
Detective Comics #970 by James Tynion IV, art by Joe Bennett
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