New muse and feeling conflicted

[hopeinthedark]

I appreciate your enthusiasm, really I do, but don't you think it's a bit soon? I do like the Selina you're bouncing me off of though. Maybe you can get a Bruce and Commissioner to test me with too.


Thank you for picking me up though. It's nice to know you believe in me.



((ooc: There might be minor spoilers in the comments. Tread with caution.))

Comments

[youshouldnthave]

Seems like the ether is just flooded with mes these days. It's almost enough to make a girl feel commonplace.

[hopeinthedark]

I don't think you have anything to worry about there. You are "The Cat" after all.

[youshouldnthave]

Officer Blake, the first thing you learn in my business is that something isn't worth much if it isn't the only one of its kind. [ Unless they're a matched set or something then they're worth a lot. Seriously. ]

[hopeinthedark]

I'd actually hate to see what an army of women like you could do. The world would be a lot less colourful.

[youshouldnthave]

Oh please, do you really think all those petty people living in their gilded towers add something to the world? I'm just taking a little back.

[hopeinthedark]

And what if those people started out like you or me? From nothing to everything. Would you still play Robbin Hood to them?

[youshouldnthave]

It doesn't matter what you were, it matters why you are. It's about what you do with the everything once you've got it. I don't see anyone leaping at the chance to sponsor a boy's home instead of buying a new Bugatti, do you?

[hopeinthedark]

Wayne did. Not everyone is as selfish as you believe them to be. Why not have a little faith in people? Even if just the smallest amount?

[youshouldnthave]

Bruce did a lot of things, not all of them smart. Faith is a luxury, the second you give a person an inch, you're done. Cleaned out.

Where'd you get that wide-eyed innocence back? Growing up like you did I'd think you'd understand better than most.

[hopeinthedark]

No. He did more than his fair share of foolish things.

Who said it was wide-eyed innocence? If you go around distrusting anyone and everyone you'll never get anything accomplish. Let alone change something.

[youshouldnthave]

Not really the best idol then, huh?

Go around trusting and you'll wind up dead. We don't all have the luxury of being idealistic.

[hopeinthedark]

The best heroes have flaws, that's why they're heroes. A perfect one wouldn't be worth looking up to.

I seem to still be alive. Funny that.

[goggleears]

This site is being deluged with new accounts. Most of them seem to be either me or you.

I'd call it ironic, but that wouldn't really be accurate. What might be is the fact that my mun now has accounts for both of us. I guess she's not so good at waiting, sometimes.

[youshouldnthave]

I don't need a hero. I look after myself.

Having a big bad Bat watching out for you probably helped a little.

[hopeinthedark]

I noticed that. Kind of interesting there aren't more of Bruce and Bane, even the Commissioner.

While my mun enjoyed you in the film, he said he could never hold onto someone like you.

[hopeinthedark]

Everyone had a hero once in their life.

Like you did? He certainly wasn't around my whole life. Looming in the shadows to rescue me from certain danger. I kept myself alive.

[youshouldnthave]

[ A pause. ] Yeah well, kids grow up.

I had it under control. So did I. So remind me again why we need heroes?

Thread jack in 3....2...1

[youshouldnthave]

To be fair, who wouldn't want to be us?

[goggleears]

Smart of him. And as for Mr. Wayne - well, let's just say he's had his time in the limelight. There have been years to catch interest and gather players. It's a little different for us.

How about we don't talk about Bane?

oh hi I borrowed an icon I hope it's all right

[goggleears]

Well, it's not like the job doesn't have its downsides. But I really think you're right on that one. And it's not like we don't always land on our feet.

[hopeinthedark]

Still had one though.

They're a symbol. Something, someone, for people to look up to and aspire to be in their darkest times. A shining hope in an otherwise pitch black world.

[hopeinthedark]

He's afraid of the claws I think. Even so, I haven't seen any Mr. Wayne's that are active again with the release.

Fair enough.

By all means, not enough Selina out there as yet. Sharing is caring~

[youshouldnthave]

People just need to learn that it's bad luck to cross us.

[youshouldnthave]

"Had" being the operative word.

If people spent less time looking up for people to be and actually being people, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.

[goggleears]

[She holds up her hands with a teasing - or maybe playful? - little smile.]

Do these look like claws to you? And I just had a manicure too; I think I might be offended. The claw thing is a popular trick for some versions of me, but that doesn't mean all of them. It's not as much my style.

That is one of the few nice things about being dragged here. He's not here.

A second nice thing is a entirely new world of opportunity just waiting for me, but maybe I shouldn't get into that with you. You probably wouldn't approve.