Title: Collapse The Box
Fandom: Batman Begins Verse
Pairing: Gen
Categories: AU, Action Adventure, Angst
Length:Medium (14,600)
Warnings:Sentient Cities, Cannon typical violence, Child Abuse, Depression

Author on LJ: pagination
Website: Pagination's A03

Summary: When John Blake scribbles a quotation on a brick wall one winter morning, he's just trying to win a little luck.

What he doesn't expect to get is a reply.


Review: Pagination has a way with words. While short, this story packs a wallop and drops you down the rabbit hole into a world where a city is as alive as its people. Darkly, hauntingly, creepy the world building will stick with you for quite a while after you finish the story.

Pagination writes one of my favorite John Blake voices. He's very in character with the movie characterization. He is also a kid dropped in over his head and left to pick up the pieces. He never dwells on his past as one of Gotham's children, but he never loses his soul deep connection to the city either.

The ending is ambiguous, but fits well with the story and supports the feeling that this takes place in a world almost identical to that of Nolan's Movie Series.

Collapse The Box