batmanschmatman: (Neutral.)
Dick Grayson ([personal profile] batmanschmatman) wrote2012-01-19 07:31 pm

086 [voice]

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?
truth_is_cold: (rhade - pounds of hate)

[personal profile] truth_is_cold 2012-01-20 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Thousands of years ago. A whole civilization away. [Back when the Commonwealth was still warlike and conquering.]
truth_is_cold: (rhade - pensive)

[personal profile] truth_is_cold 2012-01-20 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
There are stories and suspicions about the man, but it was a surprised to discover what was true and what had been exaggerated.