Trying out a new muse.

[an_abomination]

Yeah, I'm sure there are going to be plenty of people who'd rather not see me around. Welcome to the story of my life. No one wants to tell me the truth and just about every girl I've met wants to kill me.

Maybe I should go back to setting Christmas trees on fire. People might have freaked out them but at least they didn't zoom away from me like I was the plague.

Who drops that kind of bomb on a guy and then leaves without answering a single question?

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[peektuttut]

Uh - yeah. She sure is something. [Aahah he remembers that one time he dated her while Conner was dead. WHAT IS HIS LIFE.] I'm betting the fighting didn't help with that.

[an_abomination]

[A very complicated one.]

Yeah, she told me I was hot and then she almost kicked my head off my shoulders.

[peektuttut]

[Welp.]

She likes you.

[an_abomination]

I seriously doubt that.

[peektuttut]

She said you were hot.

[an_abomination]

That means she finds me hot, that doesn't mean she likes me.

[peektuttut]

Give it time. Trust me on this.

And stop using your TTK on...anyone but the bad guys, really.

[an_abomination]

Depending on the answers I get, that's the plan.

[So far Red Robin hasn't lied to him, or at least as far as he can tell. He hasn't been the best judge of character, but he hasn't been tasered either. That's a start.]

It's funny, after I was done fighting with you guys I was thinking about how in another time and place, we could have been friends.

[peektuttut]

And we are. There's a theory about infinite parallel realities, where things are different minutely or hugely. I guess we know how ours are different, now.

[an_abomination]

We are? [Because it sounds like he's not just talking about the Superboy boy he knows and him]

[peektuttut]

[It's hard for him to hate Kon-El. Even Superboy-Prime was technically Clark. >> Tim shrugs.] Me and Conner, yeah. I don't see why you won't get there.

[an_abomination]

Some people might have trouble looking past someone wiping the floor with them.

But I wouldn't mind that happening either. [So far, he's had a rocky start with the one person he considers his friend-of-sorts.]

[peektuttut]

We wear body armor and beat people up for a living. Being beaten isn't really an uncommon thing.

You could always try apologizing.

[an_abomination]

[Slightly awkward.] I don't think a simple "I'm sorry" will cut it.

[And that's all he's got, really.]

[peektuttut]

Won't know until you try.

[an_abomination]

I'm actually trying with the you that I know from my world, but it's not going so well. [Then again, he hasn't actually said the words "I'm sorry".]

[peektuttut]

I didn't say it would be easy...but you might want to actually say it.

[an_abomination]

[But words are hard.]I will, as soon as he cuts the crap about spoon-feeding.

[peektuttut]

[Tim is verrrry familiar with this feeling.] Other-me does kind of sound like a jerk.

...Then again, if you did what he says...[He's just glad Connor was almost always on their side. The one time he wasn't went so badly.]

[an_abomination]

Yeah, he does.

[Pauses and looks thoughtful.]

But you know what I don't get? He's not a metahuman, he could step away from everything and be left alone. Most humans I've met seem to hate metahumans. Red Robin on the other hand, has set up a whole information network to help out metahumans and he risked his life for them.

Sorry! I was mid-move, it cut own on everthing. :c

[peektuttut]

[That gets the tiniest of smiles from Tim, and he shrugs one shoulder.] Maybe we're not so different, then. It's the right thing to do, Superboy. That's all there is to it.

No problem, hope the move went well!

[an_abomination]

[Thinks this over.] It's because of empathy, right? You might not be in the same situation someone else is in but you can still feel for them?

It did, thanks! c:

[peektuttut]

[Tim nods slowly, mulling it over.] Yeah, that's a big part of it. I can't just stand by and watch people be oppressed, metahuman or not.

[an_abomination]

[Look at him starting to get a grip on this whole sentient emotion thing.]

Not even me. My mun got my newest issue and it sounds like my quest for answers doesn't go well. Apparently you guys are going to bail me out of some trouble.

[peektuttut]

...Now my mun wants to check it out. But that's what I'd expect them to do, anyway. If they're even a little like the people I grew up with, they'd help you.