tentative voice test, maybe looking?

[alight]

Wow, so.

You do know the phrase 'curiosity killed the cat', right?

[He eases his hands into the air in a gesture of (faintly amused) surrender. Like he's one to talk.]

Just checking. Never thought I'd see the day you'd pass over you-know-who [He makes little Bat-ears just to drive the point home. And no, he doesn't mean Voldemort, because that is entirely too terrifying to contemplate.] to take me out for a spin.

Can't say I mind. You know how I like working up a good sweat.

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[doesthemath]

They're just full of surprises, aren't they? Never a dull moment and all of that.

[She waves a hand slightly, dismissively.]

[alight]

[Never let it be said that Dick won't play up the charm for a pretty lady, so this grin? Totally the epitome of devil-may-care.]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[plains_hunter]

You're cooler than he is, anyway. Marginally.

[alight]

[Yikes. Yikes is a good word for how he's feeling at the moment.]

I'm pretty sure you should never let him hear that.

[Which is a redundant point. It's Batman. He's probably got the whole place bugged anyway. Somehow.]

[doesthemath]

[Wanda is minded to return the grin with a smile of her own, amused and light.]

It is when she has no qualms separating me from family or removing me from my own universe entirely. You wouldn't have the same objections?

[plains_hunter]

What's he gonna' do, beat my face in? There's a change of pace. I'm not afraid of him, like most of those nuts who keep getting shuffled in and out of Arkham. We're guys in animal suits. That's it.

[alight]

[Lady, he'd need both hands and an abacus to figure out how many times that's happened to him. Sometimes it seems like it was happening every other Tuesday and twice on weekends.]

Objecting takes energy you could spend on other things. [tiniest shrug.] Your best bet is probably just do the whole 'Survivor' shtick. Outwit, outlast, et cetera. Funny thing about [he jerks his thumb at the 4th wall] those types, they all get bored eventually.

[alight]

[Woe to he who thinks that Batman's greatest power lies in beating people up, but Dick isn't about to give away trade secrets to Thomas Blake, of all people.]

Speaking of Arkham. Word on the street is you haven't seen the inside of the slab in a while.

[Unlike Bruce, Dick's usually content to be at least neutral to enemies (former enemies?) until they give him a reason not to be.]

[doesthemath]

I'm not one to beat my head against a wall, but I'm also not one to simply resign myself to things as if they are inevitable. It doesn't matter much currently, as she has, as you've said, gotten bored with me and moved onto others. For the moment.

[She shrugs lightly, but as he's mentioned working up a sweat, she has to ask:]

Does yours have plans for you?

[greenteengenius]

You're probably the one they're attracted to. Isn't that generally how this works?

[alight]

Whoa now, I didn't say anything about 'inevitable'. There's a way out of everything, you just have to find it.

[Sometimes it means swallowing lock-picks. Others? You're probably better off not knowing.]

As for plans. Hard to say. She's... [he scratches a finger along his jawline. Holy stubble, Batman. Long night.] cagey like that.

[alight]

[-- that is definitely a Brainiac look-alike. If Brainiac had foregone all the plastic surgery and cybernetic implants weren't en vogue.]

It's more like, I think she figures we're [wherein 'we' equals 'the Bat-clan'] more like Pokémon. There was some maniacal giggling about 'gotta play 'em all'.

[Okay, he's exaggerating. But only a little.]

[doesthemath]

[There's an earnestness to his tone that makes her smile, perhaps because it seems so rare to happen upon it these days. Her teammates would sound quite different saying the same thing. Her brother especially.]

That doesn't surprise me much. Perhaps she doesn't wish to give you advance warning, since you believe you may be able to tip the outcome.

[brentwood]

Between you and me, I don't think B would appreciate Pi Day as much as us two.

[plains_hunter]

Word on the street is, I haven't even existed in canon for a while, thanks to all this new universe business.

[greenteengenius]

[Yup, definitely young, jungle-boy version Brainiac here.]

So you exist for completion's sake? I would be insulted.

[alight]

[He just leans against (idk something convenient for leaning) so he can brace his elbows against it and keep up that slight smile. Actual Chinhands Emote Richard Grayson.]

And you? What do you believe?

[alight]

[Feigning total ignorance over here--]

There's an entire day dedicated to pie?

[can you hear that 'e' on the end there, Timmy, and the faint note of incredulity there at the question itself. Bro-teasing (trolling?) at its finest. But it doesn't last. Tim knows better than to buy into him playing dumb for long.]

We could always ambush him and recite it to the millionth decimal.

[This sounds dangerous. Which explains why he's grinning.]

[alight]

[A grimace.]

Let's not go there.

[Dude, you think that's bad? Let him tell you 'bout the Batfam...]

[alight]

[Slightly weirded out, but he'll roll with it.]

I guess it doesn't bother me too much. I'm used to being part of a-- [the tiniest pause] set.

[greenteengenius]

Yes, so am I, but if my player wished to collect all the Brainiacs I think we'd all be annoyed. And possibly murderous.

[plains_hunter]

Hey, I might end up there. I AM Simone's favorite, you know. Maybe they'll knock a few years of wear and tear off this scruffy mug, like they did with everyone else.

Man, you guys have been getting hammered, there.

[alight]

[-- that's probably the furthest from a murderous statement he's actually ever heard from anyone calling themselves a Brainiac, now that he thinks about it.]

Lucky for me my type doesn't really do the whole [he draws a finger across his neck] thing.

[greenteengenius]

Lucky for her, you mean. Though I have seen many here threaten their mundanes and none manage to actually follow through.

[alight]

It's not the years that bugs me, it's--

[Becoming Robin at sixteen? No Titans? He's having a hard time even thinking about what that means about his place in the world, or among his friends. If they are even still friends.

And Damian...

Nnnnnnnnnnnnope not going there, thanks.]

Look at it this way. You're in the perfect position to sit back and eat popcorn.