pc catchall for dick (heh) (unpredicktable)

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What do you think that is, at this point?

[She sounds honestly curious.]

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Breaking into the rooms on the floors we currently have access to? [ baby steps??? ] We need to learn as much as we can about this place and what happened here previously, since it's sounding a lot like it might happen to us, too.

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Are you planning on round two, then?

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After such a successful round one? Of course.

[ he burnt his hand. ]

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[Her gaze is definitely drifting to his hand.]

Some people might question your definition of successful.

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You kidding me? With the team's track record back home, I'm just happy nothing exploded.

[ young justice: we are a team of young, covert operatives

also young justice: we blew up the thing we went to on our mission ]

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So you’re the superhero team sort, not the I work alone sort. Good to know.

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[ he... falters, a bit. ]

Kinda. Or, I... used to be. I'm kind of on a sabbatical from teams. [ he shakes his head ] I started when I was nine, so, I had a partner back then too. I graduated from that a couple of years ago.

[ use your words and say you were a sidekick, dick ]

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Flying solo after all, then?

[The ‘why’ is evident in her tone, but she doesn’t ask it outright.]

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Heh, yeah. It's... It's been a pretty long year.

[ he clearly does not seem like he wants to talk about it ]

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[She hears that, so she lets it rest, choosing not to pry. All the same:]

Offer's still open. [To talk to her, that is. Anyways!] I'd bet it goes quicker now. Missions, and all that.

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Yeah, I know.

[ but the wound's still very raw and he talked about it not long enough ago that he's willing to poke at it again, so! moving on! ]

It's a lot less coordination, that's for sure. Just me patrolling the one city.

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Hopefully the city isn't that big... But I guess my perspective on that is a little skewed. New York is pretty huge.

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It's a decent size. [ but... more importantly: ] New York, huh? Mine's in Connecticut.

[ young justice is the funniest universe because for once gotham isn't in new jersey ]

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Well, I grew up in Massachusetts, so... Not that far off at all. You'd almost think we were from the same world, if not for the whole superhero thing.

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It's a very slight difference.

[ he's smiling, though. ]

There's a couple of us from different "Earths". It makes it a little hard to distinguish.

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Yeah. Especially since... If they're similar enough, how specific do you have to get before you've realized they branched off at some point?

[She doesn't have an answer for that, but it brings her to her next point.]

It's tough to navigate. But - what year was it for you?

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2016. [ he's quick to answer with this FAR OFF FUTURE YEAR, and pauses ] It was July back home. You?

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2018, so... Not too far off in the scheme of things, I guess. It was September.

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Wow. The far-off future where I could legally drink.

[ dick, please. ]

Honestly, the differences between our two Earths have to date back by at least-- ... Well, way further back than you'd think. It's amazing they're even that similar to begin with.

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Yeah. I don't think I would have missed the whole superhero thing, at least. How long has that been going on...?

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The first recorded superhero became active in 1938. Maybe a dozen or so more heroes started up in the years after. After the second world war, superhero activity died down and most of them retired until a boom of superhero popped back up in the late nineties. The numbers have only gone up since then.

[ it's a good thing... dick knows his superhero history ]

There have been records of people with supernatural abilities going a lot further back than that, though. But for "classic" superheroes, that's about it.

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[She seems pretty interested in this history lesson, tilting her head.]

Do you all have different abilities?

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[ first off, important: ]

I don't have any powers. [ uwu ] And... yes and no. There is a wide variety of abilities and powers out there, but there are some definite repeats. There are a lot of people with superspeed around, for example.

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[A pause for a few seconds, and then:]

Wait, really? Then... Can I ask why you're doing it?