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ataraxion2012-04-08 11:28 pm
pertinacious) wrote in ataraxion2012-04-08 11:28 pm
| Batgirl | 001 | video |
[DUN DUN DUUUUUN! A masked vigilante appears on the screen. She has some very blonde hair and-- are those bat ears? She's also talking a mile a minute.]
Okay, so.... okay. We're obviously on a ship. In... space? With assigned numbers and communication devices. This would be a lot cooler if I knew the why and the how and the potential dangers. Mostly the why. Anybody get a 'why' yet? Not expecting something for nothing here, so...
Hey! I'm Batgirl. Would anyone mind giving me a tour?
Okay, so.... okay. We're obviously on a ship. In... space? With assigned numbers and communication devices. This would be a lot cooler if I knew the why and the how and the potential dangers. Mostly the why. Anybody get a 'why' yet? Not expecting something for nothing here, so...
Hey! I'm Batgirl. Would anyone mind giving me a tour?
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[He let his down. It's only fair. Steph reaches up SLOWLY, purposefully slow, and pulls off the mask.]
My name is Steph. This is going to sound totally bogus... but I think I'm from the future?
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[ He doesn't allow her the same privilege just yet, if not just because he's just standing there, so quietly shocked about what she's saying. He knows about the different time periods that people have come from, different universes from his own, even. But it had never really clicked that a situation like this could happen, someone from his past. Someone from his future. ]
[ Dick reaches up with a fist, scrubbing pointedly between his eyes. ]
Does -- he replace me? [ is all that manages to come out, just as unsettled as before. ]
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Only because you left intentionally. You became Nightwing. He wasn't going to replace you at all, it just kind of happened? ... A few more times. You still work with him! [Do NOT use past tense, Stephanie, do NOT!] But you mostly flew solo.
... Not even apologizing for that pun.
Look, I don't know much about alternate timelines or sci-fi junk, but I do NOT want to create some black hole because I messed with the continuum or something and told you about your future. The gist is, you didn't get fired and you're the best one out of all of us and I also like to think we're pretty good friends, but I could be totally wrong.
[More than friends, actually. Dick's like a big brother a lot of the time. To ALL the batkids, not just the adopted siblings.]
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[ He doesn't really have too much reason to believe her. His identity was well under wraps, sure, and it wouldn't be the first person who'd put two and two together - Artemis had, after all. But he did, for some reason. If not just because he wanted to believe it, maybe, bizarre as it was to have his future laid out in front of him like this. ]
[ But it wasn't an unwelcome idea. Becoming his own superhero. ]
No! It's okay, no tears in all of space in time. Not yet anyway. Continuum strictly protinuum for now. Steph. [ He actually offers her a small, crooked smile after a brief pause, and then even reaches up and -- hesitantly takes his mask off. She already knows his name anyway, right? ] At least if we're going to be friends, the flattery's a good place to start.
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This is bananas. You're so him. I mean you! That face-- Okay, cool it, Steph. Freaking out the Boy Wonder is not what I'm trying to do.
[She takes a deep breath and tones down the smiles.] Yes. Friends. Also partners? And what's the deal with Artemis, she seems legit. On your team? Is there anyone else from Gotham other than Crane? He's trying to convince me he's not a baddie Mcbadderstein, but I don't trust it for a second. Any other villains to watch out for?!
[More fast-talking. Just wait until she and Wally have conversations with each other.]
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[ yes whoops he's getting that happy pieces of glitter thing, and she's extra lucky his best friend is who he is. ] Whoa, okay. You and KF oughta talk.
[ Ignoring how much he misses the guy to address each point now! ] There's Megamind too, but he's... recuperating. He tried to call a mutiny on the ship, and it wasn't pretty. But he was stopped. We just have to keep an eye on him. You talked to Crane? [ Which is a point he's only brought up with Artemis before. The guy makes him nervous. ] I don't know what he's up to. I don't know if he's from before his crime career or a whole different universe entirely like he's claiming, but I don't like it. He doesn't LOOK like the Crane I know. But that doesn't mean he isn't.
[ Speaking of Artemis, and he holds up both hands. ] You can trust Artemis with her life. Trust me. She's had my back more times than I can count. She's a great teammate and she's one of the best archers I know. So if you're okay with that-- [ And he holds one of his hands out. ] Batgirl, huh?
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[It's a good thing her mom made her breakfast as per early-morning bonding tradition. Space takes a lot out of you.]
Heard about the mutiny, and yes. Definitely talked to Crane. I don't like it either... [Suspicious person of much interest.]
Good! I like her already. [What is this slyest of all smirks as she takes the offered hand and firmly bat-shakes it. No, placing 'bat' in front of everything will never get old.] The one and only! ... Sort of.
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[ Space is tiring, man. And mostly devoid of people who get up as early as Dick Grayson, okay, this is good. ]
So you got the blanks filled in some! Good. It's not much to report, I know, but- [ Is that a bit of sheepishness creeping in there? ] It's sometimes.
[ IT REALLY DOESN'T THO. Dick all but beams when she returns the shake; it's honestly rather dorky. That is until he freezes up at the end, just in the slightest. ] There's other Batgirls too?