097 [video/spam]

[batmanschmatman]

[Dick switches on the video feed to show he's sitting on a couch in his apartment, which for anyone who's ever been over to visit before probably looks a lot cleaner/well organized than it usually is. Tim is a lot neater than Dick and might have tidied up his mess for him while they were swapped. >>]

Sorry for anyone that was confused about the whole "swapping places with Tim but not exactly" thing. I'm pretty sure we're both back to normal now. [And almost like he's just checking to make sure things are in the right place, he rubs a hand briefly over his face and brushes some hair back from his forehead, smiling sheepishly.] I probably shouldn't think too hard about where we go when we're not here, should I?

Anyway, what languages do you all speak? I know the Barge seems like it translates everything to English - or it does for me, I guess perception could be different for someone who's used to something else - so there isn't a lot of reason for it, necessarily, but I was wondering if anyone would be interested in brushing up on their French with me. Or anything, really, I'm pretty fluent in a couple different ones and I'd be interested in learning more. [Basically, Dick is bored and understimulated, and this will help him feel productive. :c]

[Private to Jim]

You know, if you were going to start dating Shego, you probably should have told the one person on board who can talk her ex-boyfriend down from murdering you.

[Private to Rorschach]

Anything exciting to report?

[Private to Dean and Ariadne]

Just to get this out there, if you talked to the other me, I don't remember any of it, but I kind of remember you two talking to Tim. So if anything important was said, you might need to pass it along again. [He's half trolling half serious. :c]

[Private to Steph]

I didn't know you and Kara were buddies.

[Spam for Tim]

[It was weird, to come back and not really remember most of what had happened over the last weekend. His apartment was clean, a note was taped to the fridge making fun of him for being a slob and there was a Robin costume stashed in his closet, which really just confirmed what he already knew, and there was maybe a tiny part of him that was almost disappointed he'd missed seeing Tim as he'd been years ago.

But almost immediately, he felt guilty for thinking that at all, because as much as he missed Tim being a kid - cautious but still optimistic, and generally just a little dork - Tim had grown up. And even if it was weird that he'd changed, he still loved him. That hadn't changed, and really? Dick was proud of him and everything he'd accomplished, and he'd gotten over the ache that things were different. Tim was always going to be his kid brother. No amount of time or growing up was going to change that, and he loved Tim for who he was, not just for who he had been.

After mulling things over for a while over a bowl of cereal, Dick got up and left his room, heading down the hall to knock on Tim's door.]

[Spam for Ivy]

[Dick hasn't felt this stir crazy in months. Between getting pretty knocked out of commission for a while by a snake bite and bronchitis and then just general having done just about everything there was to do on the Barge at this point, he was almost missing feeling like he was running himself into the ground between being a cop and being a vigilante, and very, very occasionally having some time to himself. Things were easier when he wasn't basically forced to sit still and wait for things to happen.

So, for lack of anything better to do, really, he headed up on deck and decided the greenhouses were as good a place as any for a change in scenery, considering he didn't really spend much time there at all, really. He wasn't really expecting anyone to be there, and it didn't look like there was, initially, so he just opened and closed the door behind him, kind of just planning on attempting to meditate or something. Nothing wrong with some alone time, right?]

Comments

[myfedorarocks]

I speak English.

I'm fluent in Afrikaans, too, though.

[batmanschmatman]

I just know a handful of phrases. How'd you pick it up?

[myfedorarocks]

Native speaker.

[peektuttut]

[You and your cereal Dick, seriously. Tim hasn't really been brooding; it wasn't a BAD flood, really, it was just...different. And definitely interesting. He's still sitting at his desk, mulling over the note Dick left him when he hears the knock. So the scrap of paper gets set down, and Tim goes to open the door.]

I'm so glad you're not still me. I don't think I could take that.

[batmanschmatman]

Same here. Do you think we could fool people into thinking the flood never ended for us? [Rhetorical, since lol they probably could minus the being the wrong ages part. :c]

You busy?

[peektuttut]

With a little make up, maybe. [He turns, heading back to sit at his desk and waving Dick in behind him.] Not really. What's up? [Besides the whole turning into each other thing. :v]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

We speak English, and ^#!!>~+*#.

[They have two heads. Of course they speak ^#!!>~+*#.]

[batmanschmatman]

What's- yeah, I'm not even going to try pronouncing that in fear I'm going to accidentally insult your grandmother.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

[Scrad shrugs. Charlie says:]

If you wanna, knock yourself out.

[So maybe it was Charlie who shrugged.]

[Private]

[buildindreemz]

Nothing important was said, Dick. We just talked about how weird it is to swap bodies.

And for the record, I'm fluent in French, and I know a smattering of Italian.

What other languages do you know?

[Private]

[batmanschmatman]

A couple. I wouldn't mind brushing up on some Italian, if you were up for it.

[ Private : Audio ]

[surfaceshine]

A lot of circular conversation, mostly. Don't worry about it.

[ Private : Audio ]

[batmanschmatman]

How are you doing?

[Private]

[wemaketheworld]

Define "exciting".

[Private]

[batmanschmatman]

I guess I'll take that as a no.

Anything you want to talk about?

private;

[ichoosefight]

You didn't? Huh. Guess I haven't talked about her much. We hunted down 30 Draculas together one Friday night.

private;

[batmanschmatman]

How did that happen?

[gotgreenmagic]

Welcome back. If you remember speaking to my brother, feel free to pretend you didn't.

Want to spar later?

[Things with Tim are super awkward and beating up Kirk has gotten counterproductive so congrats you're her go-to guy now?]

[batmanschmatman]

[Jim is a loser who needs to learn how to actually fight instead of just bar brawling. :V]

Sure. You doing alright?

Private

[captain_jtkirk]

He's not going to kill me.

Private

[batmanschmatman]

It sounded like he was thinking about it.

Spammm

[chlorophylliac]

[Ivy's absorption into the greenhouse was probably the only thing stopping her from going stir crazy herself. While the plant-dense environment of her own cabin was a comfort, the isolation wasn't - too much like the handful of times she'd been permitted to have plants in her Arkham cell. The greenhouse presented a compromise: all the plants she needed, and a little human company at a tolerable distance.

She was kneeling behind a huddle of adolescent trees when she heard the doors close and glanced up sharply, frowning through the leaves, not yet able to see who'd joined her.]

Spammm

[batmanschmatman]

[Anyone who wasn't Ivy probably didn't have a whole lot of reason to come up here, so Dick just walks a little farther into the greenhouse and just because why not, flipped himself into a handstand, walking for a couple paces on his hands before realizing he wasn't actually by himself.

He flipped himself back upright, not really sure how to go about being chummy with someone who'd tried to kill him on more than one occasion.]

Ivy.

[scentbombed]

If it helps you any, it translates everything into Morporkian for me. And I speak Uberwaldian, of course. A little Genuan.

[batmanschmatman]

I'm not familiar with any of those. And I mean, I get why he translates it so there isn't a horrible period of adjustment for anyone who doesn't speak whatever language he picked to be the universal one here, but if he translates it for you and me automatically, what if you wanted to learn English and I wanted to learn Morporkian?