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Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.

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well, he wasn't going to hallucinate himself?
This is comics canon and hallucinations. He could've totally hallucinated 12-year-old!just-became-Robin!Dick. Or he could've hallucinated the then-current Robin. But no, had to be the Robin who'd never grow up, the Robin who'd never stop being Robin.

Specifically Bruce/Jason comics recs or just about any comics rec?
Batman: Gotham Knights is the Best Series Ever to showcase the Bats as a family, picking up after NML, you just have to drop it after #49.

I'd rec the Brubaker and Rucka years on Batman and Detective Comics, but it might not be entirely to your tastes... Hm. During his run on Detective Comics, Rucka creates an amazing female character named Sacha, and she's the PoV character. Brubaker and Rucka both write a lot about Jim Gordon, and more Jim being awesome and Jim and Bruce being BFF is always welcome as far as I'm concerned.

During those years, there's a three-issue-long Vaughan-penned arc, which is about Bruce's identity issues and in which Dick and Babs play very important parts, and which has lovely Dick/Babs interaction. In case people forgot that Babs tops everything.

I adore the Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive storylines. Since they're crossovers they star the other members of the Batfamily. Admittedly not Huntress, but I really like the interaction of the core crew. The consensus is that Bruce is a dick in it, but compared to NML I judge his dickery pretty much non-existent. (I am biased.)

not just Batfamily-centric: Judd Winick's Outsiders. Far from perfect, but generally fun, and genuinely good original characters. You'll have to put up with a few issues of rather OOC Huntress, but it's short and it could be much worse. At least there's funny dialogue.

The canonical Bruce/Jason manifesto: Under the Hood. (which is also the manifesto of Jasonissocamp.)

It's just interaction I find interesting and compelling and hot?
I think I see what you mean. I can't explain it any better, though.

I wouldn't say that people usually ship Babs/Cass, but it's listed on the HoYay page of TVTropes, so apparently someone does. ...And Babs/Steph as well, at which I just throw my arms in the air. (Seriously, how come everyone sees Babs seriously higher on the Kinsey Scale than I do?)

the canonical with Dick which never ends well.
But... what does that ever have to do with shippability? (does Dinah/Shiva ever end well?) Even when they're broken up, they're shippable. And they do have their happy times, too. You just need to time it right.

As for chemistry, I find that Oracle as opposed to Babs has chemistry with everything. Roy tried to have phonesex with her. (Okay, so he flirted. It totally counts! that happened in the Arsenal mini-series, btw.) Oracle could have chemistry with a rock. I think it's because then, she's in control. Babs doesn't do intimacy well, so she doesn't do flirtation or romance often IRL. She does with Dick, because, well, she's in love with him and maybe more importantly, he takes orders. It lets her pretend that she's in control, even though of the two of them Dick is the only one fooled.