Hypothetically speaking...

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If you found out your dad wasn't your dad, what would you do? Would you care? Would it change anything?

Would you want to find out who is? Should you?



And what if you don't want to?

Comments

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

I guess someone's gotta. It'd be really useful if someone wrote a Batguidebook or something.

[mrsarcastic003]

I'll see what I can do about finding something like that for... everyone I know.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Best idea ever.

[mrsarcastic003]

Of course, I'll have to leave out all of the classified verbal and non-verbal cues. You know, like any Bat to human translation of "I'm hurt" or "I'm experiencing an emotion."

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

...lemme guess, it'll be a very, very short packet. Short and not saying much. Kinda like you.

[mrsarcastic003]

I think I resent that. Who's short? I've grown... some...

And besides. I can say entire volumes with a raised eyebrow. All of that will have to be in the dictionary.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

If Bart would stand still for long enough for us to compare, I bet he'd be taller than you.

Oh yes, your Very Expressive Eyebrow. One problem, your mask covers it!

[mrsarcastic003]

Ha. We'll see. If he stands still.

Says the dude with the x-ray vision. Besides--it's not my problem if the rest of you can't read subtle shifts in the angle of my mask.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it's any consolation, you're still taller than Oberon.

Hey, I don't x-ray my friends!

Will the book cover all that?

[mrsarcastic003]

...I'm not sure it is.

That's... probably for the best. ::grin::


Of course. Along with subtle shifts in body language that mean "Shut up," "No, really, stop talking," "I can kill you with my brain," and "I don't know why I'm friends with these people."

Bonus for the advanced reader: "Where's Cissie when I need her?"

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Unless they're really, really hot. And female. *smirk*

Oh, I've totally seen those first four. Does this mean I get to skip Robin Reading 101 and go straight to the advanced stuff?

[mrsarcastic003]

Dude, I'm telling Cissie. And Cassie, and Anita, and everyone you said that.

Also--I'm really, really hot, and I have occasionally dressed as a woman. Does this mean I should worry?

Sure. You can skip to the chapter on wordless grunts and the elusive eyebrow raised behind mask.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Joking! Joking!

Oh, please. You're not my type. And I am so not asking about that. At all. Ever. Great, thanks for that mental image.

Sweet. I know how much you can say with those wordless grunts.

[mrsarcastic003]

::snickers::

Probably for the best--if you ask, I just might tell you the story. No problem, man.

Damn right.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that it was mind control or a mission that Steph or Batgirl or any one of the many lady superheroes for some reason weren't available for.

If it was something else, I really don't want to know.

I hadda wear a dress once. We were trying to make Creeper laugh.

[mrsarcastic003]

Nothing that exotic.

...You have to try to make the Creeper laugh? He doesn't just... laugh because he's the Creeper? What are you doing wrong?

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

It was when all those Jokerized villains were around. Apparently, Jokerizing the Creeper makes him...really, really serious. And kinda deadly. Making him laugh was the only way to break him out of it.

[mrsarcastic003]

...Huh. Guess I'm glad I missed that part.

Though seeing you in a dress would totally have been worth it. Especially if I had my camera. I'd have blackmail forever.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Meh, it wasn't that exciting. Plus, you wore a fur cape! And I do have pictures. I have videos.

[mrsarcastic003]

Did you have to bring up Mr. Sarcastic?

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much. Mr. Sarcastic was epic.

[mrsarcastic003]

Mr. Sarcastic was the only way I could still be in Young Justice during that godawful reality show thing. He was meant to be over the top.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Oh, it worked.

...did you know Sterling asked me if I could get Mr. Sarcastic's autograph for her? I had to explain that he didn't exist, and then she got mad at me.

[mrsarcastic003]

...It worked that well? Seriously? Mr. Sarcastic actually had fans?

He was a jerk!

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Hey, people like jerks!