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.

oh my god 90's batman.

[nottheshoe]

Someone sounds like an optimist.

[buttpatting]

It's unwise to underestimate them.

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

[grapples]

You have a funny idea of what optimism is.

[grapples]

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

Speaking from experience?

[ace_of_knaves]

You know what they say, don't you?

All work and no play makes a Bat something something.

[buttpatting]

Quite a bit.

[It's hard out here for a cannibal.]

I was meant for simply dealing with when there was little else to do. Now I'm headed to a game with superpowers and a great deal of plans in the works. This was not what I was promised.

[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]

[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.

[ichoosefight]

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

[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?

[grapples]

But it's more than what most of the people here get. [it isn't patronizing or self-righteous, mind you; it's just something to point out.] If being shoved to the side to collect dust is what you were promised, then I understand completely.

[grapples]

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

[nottheshoe]

[Bro shes secretly ur biggest fan. your grumpiness fuels her glee.]

Some people think they can make th'muns change their minds. Most can't play th'mind game very well at all.

[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.

[buttpatting]

Yes, it was something more along the lines of collecting dust and being brought out once in a blue moon.

Apparently I'm "fun" which is something I really never thought I'd hear.

[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.

[ace_of_knaves]

You don't think so?

Oooh, how ominous. Do you know something I don't? Care to share it with the class?

[grapples]

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

[grapples]

I can do better by showing you. [it's pretty calmly phrased for a threat. soft, too.] You know that's the only foreseeable outcome to this.

[grapples]

Which is why I'm not going to try. When you get an idea - a really good one - in your head, you aren't going to stop to listen to reason. You either learn things the hard way or give up before you get that far.

[grapples]

If it makes you feel better, you don't look like the fun type to me either.

I'm sure that means a lot coming from me.

[ace_of_knaves]

Is that a threat? Are you threatening me? Moi?

When has that ever worked? In any universe?

HA!