[voicewaking; gameprepping?]

[redripoff]

It's been a year.

And you've gotten sloppy. Forgive me if I'm less than enthused.

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[evenrobin]

Sure, if that doesn't mean 'consumed, paranoid and obsessive'. Which isn't the legacy you got.

Yeah, that's a big seller. Here's the Boy Wonder, folks, he's not that bad!

[redripoff]

I'm not! What would you know about it, anyway? [--MYSTERIOUS STRANGER?]

[evenrobin]

[SMIRK] I know a lot about you and your legacy, Mr. Drake.

[redripoff]

Oh, wow, well I'm not sketched out at all anymore.

Who are you?

[evenrobin]

Oh, Boy Stalker is calling me sketchy.

[cheeky grin] I hope you got my good side.

[redripoff]

You're just--not gonna answer me? Because I seriously have other things to waste my time on if you're not. [gpoy]

prettiest bird in all the land

[evenrobin]

[exaggerated sigh] I just did. I thought you were a detective.

But, you know, if I've gotta be obvious. [one moment she's slipping a hand in her coat; the next she's flinging a batarang at him] Think fast!

he is a creature of dignity and grace, yes

[redripoff]

[Catching it is second nature, come on. Scowls, turning it over between his fingers.] ...Stolen?

she is...just a jackass, really

[evenrobin]

[with a slight smirk] That'd be a step up from the tires.

[redripoff]

[The tires.] So--alternate universe? Or are we taking a more McGinnis route with this?

[evenrobin]

Alternate universe, far as I can tell.

[her smile twists, goes wry] Kind of hoping other things turn out different.

[redripoff]

I can't see how they wouldn't, based on...well, based on a lot of things. [Huh.] Are you--the only one?

[evenrobin]

What, the only one who's different? Far as I can tell. Haven't met you yet, though.

I figure I could, but that might fuck things up. ...Maybe I should, though.

[redripoff]

Like things are fucked up now? There aren't a lot of ways you could make things worse.

I'd watch out though--if your-universe me is anything like...well me, he probably has a small file and a small crush on you.

[evenrobin]

Yeah, point taken. Unless this was all meant to happen anyway, or some bullshit like that.

...So you've actually gotten less creepy with time.

[redripoff]

Yeah, the next five years are looking good. The goal's retirement at twenty-seven.

[evenrobin]

[that gets a laugh] He jokes! I knew there was a Robin in there somewhere.

[redripoff]

Please. A month with Nightwing is humor's equivalent of a year's combat training with Batman. Call it another piece of the legacy.

[evenrobin]

...You two are close, huh?

[redripoff]

We're brothers. It comes with the territory, y'know?

[evenrobin]

...Yeah, I guess.