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He hit me and it felt like a kiss

Chapter 3: Small update + info

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Sorry I did not return to this sooner, many things piled up and as soon as i felt i regained some semblance of a schedule I had 23 fics that are still needing to be updated. I do promise that I will get back to this and i wanted to lets those who were wondering about it know. Sorry if this update wasn't what you were looking for!!

Here's a sneak peak at what I was writing if you're interested:

 

Dick could feel a pressure surrounding him, not one that was oppressive but instead comforting though the force behind it was more gloomy than he'd have liked waking up to.

The feeling only increased as he felt himself dislodge from the thickness that encased him.

To the boy it had only taken him a few minutes to rouse out of the deep slog he felt cradled in. But to his guardians, stuck outside only able to make guesses as to what was wrong with their charge, it felt like he was stuck in a slumber for a milieu.

Alfred felt like it was unlikely that they'd get any answers unless they'd taken the boy to the hospital, or at least Leslie's clinic. Bruce on the other hand had taken a seat when the boy had passed out. He'd taken to stare at the wall above the boy's head in a daze and stuck in the chair like he was cemented to it.

The elderly man didn't know what to do especially with his master and young master in such worrying conditions. He'd felt the oddest tug in his head to just take the boy up to their den, to let him rest in the area he claimed that they would share.

Just the thought of it warmed his head.

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Dick awoke with a start, his brain suddenly detached from the fog with a yank and he jumped out of his cot.

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Hope you enjoyed that :)

Lyrics and interpretation

I use a more Platonic interpretation of the lyrics, I did look at genius to see what the creator said about the lyrics and I felt like this comment made since to me: Saying that being physically hurt felt like a kiss, like something good, could mean that she just wants to feel something. Even if it’s pain, she feels it’s still better than feeling nothing. It also could mean that her mind is so twisted, because of the relationship, alcohol, or just because that’s the way it is, that she mistakes the abuse for affection.

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Originally when I was writing this I was gonna make Bruce more of a bad parent because that was made sense with the lyrics but in the end I didn't want to do that. So instead I used them in way that said them sparring and having a physical connection gave Dick a comfort and affection similar to a hug or kiss he would get from his parents that fed him except a bit more extreme because he hadn't had their feedings in a while and there were more powerful human emotions, if that makes sense.

Dick and Bruce

Dick and Bruce to me have a complicated relationship because Bruce (in this au) is about 15 years older than him and so while he does view him as son( he for some reason is very reluctant to admit this both him and Dick so they don't 'change') while Dick views him as a older and sometimes very grumpy + annoying uncle.

I think things will change in the future though, for better or worse I do not know

Click here for some information about Dick + incubi/sucubi

Incubi/sucubi feed their implings by lightly giving them emotions. They are able to control their output and start to help the implings input after they turn 4. Before that their parents shroud them emotions and the baby implings suck up the emotions, they do this for about 2/3 of their diet, the rest is milk.

Implings feed from their parents until they are able to feed light from crowds and other emotions, it starts about 5. They do this until they are old enough to feed from touch they are usually able to start feeding via touch once they’re teenagers. At that point they start to develop traits like their colorful tattoos and their horns along with their tails grow to full size.

Feeding from touch at a young age can be overstimulating especially if they’re going from just their parents to full burst of human emotions. The impling can become either very full very fast, sick or sometimes need to get rid of the excess emotions by ejecting them from their body. It puts a decent amount of stress on them to process a strong amount emotions. With implings like Dick who happen to starve or are fed scraps of emotions getting the full force of them can be incapacitating.
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What went wrong with Dick was that he was trying to slowly feed of the emotions Bruce had without touch, it took a lot of focus and once their skin touched he still was trying to feed from him. It was like trying to stop a car already plowing through a stop sign that was a foot away, if that makes sense. This stressed his body out and that is why he fainted. Where there would usually be a long period of progression that happened over a handful of years, Dick did in a night. Dick started to develop his tattoos because his body was starving and went into overdrive. After the feeding it thought he was ready for the start of his colors.

I might make a sequel idk

Thank you for reading :)

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