Randomness. I'm writing a fic featuring Guy's mostly-forgotten alien clone, Joe (Dear DC: Give him Amon Sur's Sinestro Corps ring.), so I dug all of his appearances out of my longboxes and re-read them for reference and inspiration. Among those were Birds of Prey #9-#14, where Chuck Dixon did something not-sucky and introduced Black Canary to Joe.

But what amuses me is what Dinah says when she first sees Joe. She's just busted him out of his imprisonment, and he's stark naked and busting the heads of the poor Iron Brigade... and she still thinks that he's the real Guy Gardner.

Title: A Different Guy
Author: Duskdog
Claim: Guy Gardner
Characters/Pairing: Guy, Dinah, some flashbacked Ollie and Hal
Rating: R (implied naughtiness)
Word Count: 1,496
Prompt: Cry/tears (T12; P32)
Continuity: Very early Justice League International (as in, before "one punch"). Flashbacks/rememberances of Green Lantern/Green Arrow #116.
Summary: Black Canary knew Guy Gardner the way he was before, but it doesn't make him any easier to deal with now.
Disclaimer: Blame DC.
Author's Notes/Warnings: This is a weird pairing, I know, but the last page of GL/GA #116 always struck me. Dinah and Ollie really seem torn up about Guy's death there even though they didn't know him well, and I always wished the writers would at least acknowledge the fact that they knew him before his personality shift. It must really be strange looking at someone with the same face as someone you once knew, when his words and actions just don't match up with what you remember.

 

( Dinah didn't cry over just anything, not even when she was younger, but he had been such a nice man back then. )