On Events At Valar Tonight/This Morning

[not_speedy]

First of all, thank you. I think the last couple weeks really, REALLY proved that I didn't belong there, and when you saw a way to let me go out with appropriate fanfare and melodrama that showcased the awesome stuff I've taught you about writing in the last year and a half...you went for it and you made it epic and awesome as you could.


I guess I kinda feel bad for Ollie, since you made him have to take me down and everything, and to go back to the rest of the mission group all relatively normal whilst carting my corpse around and everything but, you know. It'll be as good for him as it will be for me. We need to not be in the same game with each other and I need to be in a game with one of the "adults" who are still adults to ME, preferably an Ollie or Dinah, but I'll take anybody really, who is willing to sit me down for a really, really long time and help me work through the clone stuff, the abandonment and attachment issues, and everything else, before I try to be anywhere anything like normal again.

You did the right thing letting me go, and I'm glad you gave Ollie the closure HE needed after all. He deserved that after all he's tried to do for me and I think this way, he'll have peace a lot sooner.



For a situation that took you by surprise when the first season ended and I was already in a game, you've done incredibly well handling me, my moods and everything else. Moving forward, after I've had, maybe the summer, to relax, I'd rather go somewhere totally canon next time. Turns out I really need my 'family' around.

-Me

Comments

[not_speedy]

Yeah, really kinda does. I mean, good run and all but... We lost it somewhere around....April I think...and never looked back from it really. But yeah. Perspective. And stuff.

Definitely glad. Being free is kind of awesome.

[peckish4action]

Yeah, she [thumb over shoulder] had the other version of me into a bad place over at the sex game. But he has the habit of bouncing up on his own, so she just waited him out.

Though Wally here helped. And so did the other version of you.

So, I'm basically saying. We're here to help each other out. It's what friends do.

[not_speedy]

See, my usual habit is to bounce around getting angrier at stuff, and her. So it was better in the long run, I think.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I did have some friends who helped along the way. It was a good thing in the end.

[peckish4action]

... well, you're Roy Harper. Of course you bounce around getting angrier at stuff. But you figure how to resolve things, in the end. And once you have your target... you never miss.

I am glad, though. All alone's really not a good option.

[And he knows some of that.]

[not_speedy]

That was profound. Careful I don't go ahead and get my head turned or something after that.

No, no it isn't. it's much better now, I think.

[peckish4action]

Roy, you have a redhead little wonder who is uniquely equipped to get your head unturned right up. All the more fun for me to try, just watch out for that vertigo.

[And, since they have repeated the 'good? better now' thing a few times now and Dick trusts that Roy'll let him know if something changes...]

... think she'll like the trapeze? Lian, I mean.

[not_speedy]

...You are not seriously putting my future child on one of those...

Wait. Who am I talking to. Of course you are. [And Roy's more amused at the prospect than anything else. That's probably pretty telling, really. Considering he's had dreams about taking an INFANT crime fighting though? Who is he to talk, really? ]

[peckish4action]

You know it, Mr. I-never-miss.

Considering her parents, I'm pretty sure she's going to have no problem with things like balance and flexibility, after all.

[not_speedy]

I'm just gonna say never let me see it first hand because I'll probably freak out. That whole protective streak thing.

Though you're right. She'll probably be awesome in the business.

[peckish4action]

Don't worry. She's NEVER going to go anywhere high enough to hurt herself until she's ready for it... and, even then, never without a net.

She'd be spectacular.

[not_speedy]

Thank you for making me feel a lot better about that.

I'm gonna raise the most badass ninja in the world. Clearly. Well, you'll probably be the ninja part but.

[peckish4action]

You're absolutely welcome, Roy!

[... laughs.]

Well, I'll certainly help out. Between her mom and her aunt and me, Lian'll be undefeatable.

[Beat.]

Unless she wants to go for ballet or something.

[not_speedy]

Ballet. Oh wow. There's a thought.

...Alfred. Alfred probably knows people.

[peckish4action]

... and they call me the optimist.

[Only compared to Batman, but still.]

I'll ask him.

[not_speedy]

I'm just busy being floored by the idea.

[Well hell, compared to BATMAN, sure... ]

Contingency plans. Just in case.

[peckish4action]

... sure, let's go with that. Contingency plans.

[not_speedy]

We don't need the world to hear about the new ballet based superhero in town YET. I mean give the time and all, insert eyedart here.

[peckish4action]

True, true. She has to get there on her own.

[not_speedy]

toe shoe based weapons on the other hand though. THOSE could be built now...

And even if that's not LIAN'S thing surely there's a dancer out there who wants to take the next step....

[peckish4action]

[Pause.]

Yeah, there is. Her name is Natasha Romanoff.

[... what. In this place, he can know such things!]

[not_speedy]

Okay, point. Good universe team up for the win?

[Seems legit. They know that muns exist after all!]

[peckish4action]

... I was going to ask if you're sure you want somebody like her hanging around Lian, but then...

[Cheshire.]

I realized that was a silly question.

[not_speedy]

I? Just burst out laughing that it took you that moment, even though it WAS a moment to recall that. I think we ought to be safe. Slightly.

I mean I'm friends with a Barton so...

there MIGHT be an in.

[peckish4action]

Hey, none of us are actually perfect, we just try.

[And Dick just MIGHT be sticking his tongue at Roy. Because he will be the best role model for Lian, amirite?]

[Then he quirks his mouth.]

She's got a Barnes or two over here. [Or five.] I'm sure we'll manage it.

[not_speedy]

The batfamily are mortal after all? Well color ME surprised.

[Totally the best.]

Sounds like a plan then between us all.