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[batmanschmatman]

I've been thinking about that flood we had a while back, where we turned into people from history, I guess? And whoever I was, it wasn't like he was anyone important, but it still made me think about a few things.

Now, I'm not saying everyone turned into some direct ancestor or something, but it kind of made me realize I really don't know that much about my family history. For all I know, that kid was some distant relative of mine. I know basically nothing about my mom's side of the family except that she was a dental assistant before she married my dad and her dad died when I was five or six, and anything I have about my dad's is kind of spotty.

When you're a kid, you don't usually ask too many questions about where your great-great whatever grandfather came from, or why he decided to move somewhere or enlist in the army, and if they did say anything about it, I don't remember. And if I have any living relatives, they either didn't know I exist or didn't have an interest in taking me in after my parents died, so it's not like I can just call them up and ask questions. But it would be kind of interesting to know something beyond a really vague Dad's side was Romany, Mom's was probably something from western European.

[Private to Rorschach]

You been keeping out of trouble?

Comments

[batmanschmatman]

I could. Want to do it with me?

[peektuttut]

I think you could con me into that.

[Private]

[batmanschmatman]

Good! I was hoping you'd be interested in it. Anything in particular catch your attention?

[batmanschmatman]

Con. Please, it'll be fun. You get to brag about adding to your already frightening language repertoire.

[Private]

[batmanschmatman]

Sometimes it's interesting, being in someone else's shoes for a few days. You might have learned something about her you'd never known about before.

[peektuttut]

I do like bragging.

[batmanschmatman]

Yes. [Is this seriously a question.]

Re: [Private]

[officerrenaldi]

...She was a fussy old Jewish lady who moved from Jersey City to the West Coast because she thought she had what it took to be a movie star and instead she goaded her son into becoming a cop and marrying an irish catholic cop from a family of irish catholic cops. What else is there to know?

[batmanschmatman]

Modesty isn't a word you're too familiar with?

[Private]

[batmanschmatman]

I don't know. I never met her.

[batmanschmatman]

Don't worry about it.

Re: [Private]

[officerrenaldi]

....You really dig the idea of family get-togethers don't you?

[sixthanimorph]

... hey, Dick?

[batmanschmatman]

It's pretty easy to tell with a video camera if someone's messed around with it, and they're set up in places people can't reach easily, usually, so they don't generally get moved around by accident.

[peektuttut]

I'm so familiar with it. I'm more familiar with it than you.

[truth_is_cold]

I was the very first of my species. It was... unusual.

[batmanschmatman]

Yeah?

[sixthanimorph]

You oughta...

No. It's nothing. Never mind.

[Private]

[batmanschmatman]

My parents died when I was eight, and my adoptive family is kind of on small side. I've kind of been missing out on big family get togethers for the last fifteen years of my life.

[batmanschmatman]

Keep bragging, kiddo. You haven't gotten too tall to noogie.

[batmanschmatman]

That does sound unusual. How much of a time difference was it for you?

[Private]

[batmanschmatman]

What's wrong?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph]

Nothing, it's...

[It's that he knows the next time he sees you it's gonna be with Riddick and Alex, it's gonna be coming after you and he wants to say something but he can't, even now.]

Just a dumb question, that's all it was.

Re: [Private]

[officerrenaldi]

[Well. Color Carla embarrassed. There's a long quiet sound as Carla breathes deep.]

...Is there any way I can crawl out of this while...maintaining my cool exterior.

[there's a faint blush on her cheeks] ...If not, I am well and truly sorry for that. You can have my brothers. All four of them. They're all cops too and pains in the ass.

...well one of them trained tigers, but.

[truth_is_cold]

Thousands of years ago. A whole civilization away. [Back when the Commonwealth was still warlike and conquering.]