voice testing oh god

[grapples]

You don't have to hold your breath waiting for me to chastise you, or insult you, or tell you that what you're trying to do is worthless. If you know me as well as you think you do, you should know that isn't how I operate.

You'll believe what you want. I won't try to stop you, but I'm not going to encourage you either. Not when I have this much work to do.

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[buttpatting]

Coddling them only makes them like you more, you'll find.

Any sort of attention is good in their books.

[grapples]

Least is best in my book. I think that's going to be the theme of our relationship.

[buttpatting]

It's unwise to underestimate them.

They might end up liking you far more than you ever thought they could.

[grapples]

Not underestimating. Just giving her the benefit of the doubt.

Speaking from experience?

oh my god 90's batman.

[nottheshoe]

Someone sounds like an optimist.

[grapples]

You have a funny idea of what optimism is.

[nottheshoe]

And you apparently don't understand sarcasm. [Have a shrug pointy ears] At least y'ain't whinin' like a baby about how th'muns operate.

[hahaaaaaaa fuck you nike, you do the same thing.]

[grapples]

[girl, look at who you're talking to. is this the face of a someone who gets a joke?]

Where would the point in that be?

[ace_of_knaves]

You know what they say, don't you?

All work and no play makes a Bat something something.

[grapples]

[oh wow, long time no see. last time he saw you, you were a smeared all over the street. good news, the Bat Glare (TM) is universal all across the multiverse. this one is no less effective than the one Joker should be used to.]

You know I don't play like you do.

[ace_of_knaves]

No, of course not.

You're all business, you are.

Ho-hum.

Still, that's why we work so well together, isn't it? We'd be a dreadful double act if we had the same shtick.

[grapples]

Worked well, you mean.

[maybe he can afford to be so calm about this because he knows how this story will end; or rather, ended. it wasn't really a test of willpower the first time around. he had nothing to grapple with because for the first time in a very, very long time he had never felt so sure of something in that instant as he had in the cockpit of the Batwing, on the stairs to the rooftop of the cathedral. dangling over the ledge, clinging to a crumbling stone fixture.]

You aren't going to be doing any encores anytime soon.

[ichoosefight]

You know you make people nervous just by looking at them, right?

[grapples]

[here comes the Bat Glare (TM). does he even need to say anything?]

[ichoosefight]

[ Yeah, yeah. ]

I'm just saying, you can't really blame the mun for being intimidated. It is sort of the look you were going for.

[grapples]

If she's intimidated, that's something she needs to sort out by herself. She knew what she was getting into.

how do i selina

[ex_lusted501]

All work and no play again? You're never going to enjoy yourself.

[grapples]

I don't like mixing business with pleasure. It never ends well. [you should already know that.]

[terryplz]

When is ever not work to be done?

[hello bruce this is future bruce, guess what you're going to be still doing 50 years from now.]

[grapples]

[bruce from 2019, meet bruce from 1992.]

That's a trick question, isn't it?

[terryplz]

Rhetorical.

[As usual.]

They're in over their head with this matter, but you know that as well as I do.

[questionslinger]

Oh God, it's adorable the way you think anything you do or say will affect what they do.

[grapples]

[just sort of...stares. does he know you, sir?]

It's adorable how the point went over your head.

[questionslinger]

[ When he realizes you don't he's just going to be offended. ]

Why are you looking at me like that?

[silvestris]

Oh, but work can take on so many forms. Haven't you ever wanted to travel abroad again, get some new tricks to take home to our dank little cesspool?

[Bruce!]