batmanschmatman | 051 [voice]

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051 [voice]

I don't know what that was - some alternate universe, some TV show gone horribly wrong, I don't know and I don't really care [Which is a big lie, he does care, especially if it's some actual counterpart out there in the multiverse who's growing up with a Batman like that.] - but it wasn't like that. I wasn't kidnapped by anyone, let alone Batman, and my parents weren't shot, they... they fell. I was eight when it happened, not twelve.

Bruce didn't abuse me, he didn't make me eat rats, he gave me a stable environment and that kid didn't have that. That kid thought he was a warden here. He had memories of being here for six months, and he was happy here and didn't want to go home. And he knew I existed, because of the other people from my universe being here, and he kind of... resented me, because I had what he didn't and I was from the "right" universe. It's like... being expected to be just like your dad or older brother when you grow up, only worse because it's a version of you.

And yeah, it was just a flood so maybe it didn't mean anything, but now I'm back and that kid...

Dammit. [And he kills the feed. This is turning out to be way too much to process right now.]

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Thanks. For looking out for me. Him.

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Not to defend him or anything, but I'm from the wrong universe. It makes you do crazy things.

You don't have to defend him. He was a good kid. Just kind of... rough around the edges.

And there isn't a right universe. There shouldn't be some standard of what's "correct" that we have to live by when it comes to that kind of thing. It doesn't make you any less of a person to be from one or another, and I wish he really believed that.

Edited 2011-06-13 03:02 (UTC)

I think it's easy to say that when you are from what most people consider the right one.

I already feel like enough of an asshole for making his life harder than it already was just by existing, Jim.

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[Tim clicks on the audio, takes a breath to speak, stops, takes another breath, and gives up. He has no idea what the fuck to say here. Sorry bro. :\]

[Dick does the same thing, and also has no idea what the fuck to say. Finally:]

Hi.

Edited 2011-06-13 04:33 (UTC)

[THERE IS NOTHING TO SAY CLEARLY. And yet:]

Hey.

[And we are going to pause. And think of what to say.]

Want to watch a movie?

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It's a lot to assume that the people we're replaced with exist somewhere, or have always existed. Don't be too hard on yourself.

It's a lot to assume that they don't.

I didn't say that they don't, only that either conclusion would be an assumption.

Enjoy your angst, I guess. Whatever helps.

Look, I know it's hard for some people to wrap their minds around, but I'm from a world that acknowledges that there's a multiverse. The chances that that kid doesn't exist somewhere? Are a lot slimmer then the chances that he does.

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The entire flood seemed to be based off... misconceptions. Ridiculous notions concerning certain people. Like the misplaced ideas other people had were given form.

I doubt that anyone affected is even remotely like they were represented.

Probably not. It seemed like everything was either super wrong or really, really exaggerated.

Were you affected? My counterpart was a little... distracted, after a certain point.

No. However, many people I know were. [Una gave him scientist bitch rape eyes, Harper wanted to touch his peepee, Brax made him call him daddy.]

One of them was able to recognize himself as they were written by a writer within their own universe.

Good one to get passed over by, but that's still no fun.

Really? Who? [Someone has been off network brooding for a while.]

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It was a flood, guy. That's all.

[Dick is torn between launching into a full scale explanation into why he doesn't believe that, saying he doesn't want to talk about it, or telling him to just fuck off because he really can't deal right now, but ends up settling for:]

It wasn't like that.

What was it like?

Well, he didn't make me eat rats, for starters.

Not right now.

[A beat.] Thanks. How are you?

Worried about you, as usual. But I guess your family's taking good care of you?

Edited 2011-06-13 15:21 (UTC)

[WHEN HE GETS BACK, THEN.]

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wry you taunt me :c