on the sudden impulse to voicetest

[credential]

Already you see that you are not the first to stand in the way; you will not be the last.

What we do is not a game for children to reach for with spoiled hands like yours. You will stand down. Now.

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[xochipilli_cursed]

Or else... what?

[credential]

No. Ask a better question.

[xochipilli_cursed]

Okay, who was the first?

[credential]

Better.

[ He doesn't elaborate any more, but have a small smile. ]

You learn quickly, at the least.

[xochipilli_cursed]

I'm sure knowing which of the two statements you make you want to be asked about the most is a good life skill.

Here's another. What makes you think you have any real say in your fate?

[sixthanimorph]

Just because someone looks like a child doesn't mean they are one.

[credential]

And children are no longer taught to think in the figurative.

I fear for the future.

[sixthanimorph]

Who says I need someone to teach me how to think?

So I assumed you were being literal. It doesn't mean you need to talk to me like I'm an idiot.

[credential]

Your assumptions on both counts are not only misled, but telling of your age.

[ Tsk, boy. ]

What did you think I meant?

[debts]

[ Her mouth quirks, in a mild, plain kind of way. ]

That sounds ominous.

[credential]

[ Plain is a very deceptive description to be ever used. ]

If one believes in omens, yes.

[debts]

[ It's how things are, half the time, when you look one thing while being another. ]

And you don't?

[credential]

[ Then it isn't truly plain in the strictest sense, is it. ]

Do you?

[ Who believes in omens and luck, in this profession? ]

[highground]

Didn't think you guys were into working without backup. [So to speak.]

[credential]

Would you call an infant "backup"?

But you are Gotham Police, perhaps that would be apt.

[highground]

Yeah, well, you didn't seem to have a problem with that when you picked all those kids off the street. [No, this will never not be a sore point.]

[credential]

[ This world you move in has the most hypocritical notions about what children and adults are supposed to be. ]

Boys do not remain boys forever. Are they children only because they're young?

[wing_of_night]

[Have a Nightwing bristling at that tone.]

You'd do well to watch what you say and how you say it around here.

[credential]

[ now why do you seem familiar? ]

Says the man wearing a mask. Where did you get it?

[wing_of_night]

Gotham.

[That help with why he's so familiar?]

I know who you work for. I've tangled with him before. I've beaten him. Watch yourself.

[credential]

If you've fought him, then you know what I think of that.

Your city remains in need of saving.

[ No one could fault you for making things simple, at least. ]

and now i will use your voicetest to do one of my own orz

[convictions]

[ She regards him with neither pride nor admiration, neither coldness nor warmth. If there is a fire that burns in Ra's al Ghul's daughter, it burns white hot instead of red, yet she herself does not boil. That there is true control. ]

Our brother has found his voice.

meanwhile i quietly roll away in stoic glee over talia aaah

[credential]

[ Talia is fire, and Bane is coal - together they burn against the soil. In the face of that, men like Barsad are but kindling, brittle against the strength of their foundations.

He would not have it any other way. ]

Does it displease you, sister?

don't get too excited yet i have no idea what i'm doing orz ;;;

[convictions]

[ Kindling? Yes, perhaps. But the more fuel for a fire, the quicker it will burn and Talia — much like her father before her — is determined to see Gotham burn. Later, she will claim that vengeance is simply a bonus to seeing Ra's al Ghul's work finally finished, but revenge is kindling, too.

When she smiles, it is small and knowing. Not a kind smile. ]

What kind of sister would I be, to deny my brother a voice? The blind and the mute have their uses. But they are not us.

well whatever i already like this <333

[credential]

[ Nothing is ever kind in the world they move in; like the shadows, they betray anything that is like hope. ]

I would not dare presume, at what you intend. But the blind can see in the darkness at times, yes?

[ How does one speak to the woman who will lead legions to fire? ]