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Dick Grayson ([personal profile] cohero) wrote2024-04-26 06:10 pm

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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-05 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
( sent from his laptop since he's over at the tower currently. )

How good of a mechanic are you?
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-05 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Damian ripped out what I had in place of the passenger seat in the car. For a passenger seat.

( because his batmobile is a single seater. )
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-05 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose a passenger seat might as well get put in there. I just need to find one.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-05 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I have it stored at the tower.

( because... it's his. )

At this point, I might just turn a dining room chair into a passenger seat.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-05 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's where Alfred and I stay.

Was thinking something along those lines. Feel it could work.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-05 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
What about him?

Whenever you have the time.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-06 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
No. I mean in Gotham. It's where we live.

There's no garage code. I'll have to let you in.


( currently, only damian knows "the secret way in" when it comes to his own cave beneath the tower. )
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-06 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

Tomorrow works. Let me know when you're headed over so I can meet you.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-06 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
( since damian's dropping by yesterday, he'd forgotten that dick was coming over. too lost in his own anger and every other emotion that had unexpectedly swam to the surface and broken through the thick barriers of control he typically has over himself. he'd gone out. dealt with things. then returned to the tower and not said a word to anyone.

so when he gets the message from dick there on his laptop, he stares at it. scowls at it. shit.

he opts to ignore it first. ignore him. but. after a moment, he's there at the entrance. disheveled. black greasepaint smeared across his eyes and fading down his cheeks. not in the batsuit, but more something drifter-like. he stares at dick. seemingly blocking the way to come in. )


What?
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
( dick's saving grace is the fact that he's like bruce. from a different gotham in a different world that, while similar enough, is still not the same as the one so many of the others are from.

it's for that reason he eyes him through the smeared greasepaint there on his face and, ultimately, moves away from the door. steps inside. lets him in, basically. he doesn't look back to him as he starts down the hall but he's expecting him to follow. )


I've changed my mind. ( he says, stopping at an elevator to which he presses a button to open it. ) I'm putting it back as it was.

( because he's a solo act, regardless of how things are in other gothams. )
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
( the ride down is a quiet one on bruce’s part. staring to the gated door as he listens to the rumbling of the elevator around them. it’s secure. always has been. tucked away from view from others within the tower and used as a means to slip down beneath the tower itself into what used to be an operational wayne terminus. now it serves as his own batcave that only he and alfred know about. damian here knows. now dick does, too.

opening the gate, he steps out. makes his way for the vehicle that serves as his batmobile. the terminus itself is littered with parts and things and bruce’s own setup he has. it’s nothing like what he’ll come to eventually have later on in his career, but. before any robins made their way into his life, this is what he had to work with and build upon.

grabbing one of the nitro tanks that had been removed from the passenger side of the car, he brings it over. sets it down. starts the process of installing it back in after damian had taken it out. )
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
( a fleeting glance lifted from the tank he's working on putting back in, he looks back down. hands covered in grease and grim. )

Yeah.

( paying attention for a moment to make sure he's doing it right, he sets the tank in where it previously was. starts reconnecting it. )

I did a lot of street races when I was a teen.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
( again, he glances over to dick and, again, it's fleeting. focused on his task at hand, the batmobile something he'd spent hours and hours working on to get it just the way he liked. he's not about to mess his baby up with being careless. needs to make sure she's good to go in all the right spots.

still, he listens. )


The Nightwing one?

( he's assuming that's what he means. )
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
( he [mostly] catches the muttering coming from dick there as he helps with the work and while he doesn't say anything right off the bat at first, he does after a moment. after he takes a second for himself with looking down at the piece he's working on reinstalling. )

Where you're from... ( his gotham, he means. ) ...is there a Jason?
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
( he doesn't want to ask this. not when he notices the way dick stops his hammering when he goes and mentions that name. but... he can't help it. he wants to know. needs to, in some way. so, when he asks what he does, it's done both softly and carefully. )

Did he die?
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
( the joker killed him. just like damian said had happened to the jason that's here. bruce falls silent. gaze dropping. expression going blank as a means to try and keep himself — and his thoughts —composed. there's also the fact that both dick and jason had died... and so had damian. how many of them die? even with the whole miracle of coming back to life? three is already far too many for him to accept. )

Lazarus Pit?

( a thought he latches onto as a means to keep himself here. with dick. and not fall into whatever spiral of thoughts he has going on beneath the surface. )
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
( so there's similarities there. in death[s].

he hates that.

there's a lot to unpack with what dick says to him. what he lets him know. what he offers to give to him. he hadn't asked for any of it — hadn't demanded or expected it. yet he gave it over to him willingly and it has bruce quiet. pensive. until he finally lets himself look over there to dick. )


Maybe it was his fault.

( a beat. )

Mine.

( the bruce dick knows. )

For not protecting either of you better.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
( to hear that the version of himself dick knows had killed the joker... he doesn't know what to think of that. how to feel. he refuses to sink so low. to do the very thing that had been done to his parents. regardless of the anger. of the pain. of the guilt he carries with him over having lost them. no matter how many times gotham tests him and pushes him to the point of where he doesn't even know if it's worth saving anymore. he can't kill. he won't. not even here.

but there's something about the way dick says he and jason had been viewed as weapons. how they weren't meant to be protected that has him stare at dick. long. silent. as if trying to fit together pieces of a puzzle he only has some of the pieces for. and, with how things are here, could very well be two separate puzzles. )


He didn't think of either of you as sons?
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-07 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
( he's not sure what he expected. for all the similarities there seem to be between the gothams and those who strive to save it, there are differences as well. ones which bruce is still trying to figure out, as well as their similarities. partly to try and see if he can figure out how his own path might be carved within his gotham, and partly to try and see if there's some specific reason there are multiples from different gothams here to try and prove theirs worth saving.

how funny it would be if gotham had some sort of captivating hold on eos here, much as does to him.

he goes back to reinstalling the nitro tank, the car itself not needing much else than that. it's fine the way it is — the way he'd put it together back in his own gotham over a series of months. he just never needed the use of his passenger seat. until damian decided here that he did. now he — bruce — doesn't think it does. )


And you still want to save Gotham.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-08 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
( with the nitro tank reinstalled, he reaches down for a rag. takes a moment to wipe his hands on it. stares off to nothing in particular as dick goes and asks him that. it's a rather loaded question for bruce, given the point in time that he's from and everything that's going on and been going on in his own gotham.

licking over his lips, he looks down. strands of hair falling in front of his face some as he does. )


I don't know.

( he's not there yet in realizing what gotham needs is hope more than vengeance. )
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-08 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
( dick goes and asks him that and bruce throws a glance his way. keeps it there on him. before he drops it back down and gets himself up. )

Not that long. ( a beat. ) According to some of you here.

( he's checking on the nitro tank — making sure it's how it should be before he's pushing hair out of his face and standing there. tired. more so emotionally than physically. at least he's more or less got this covered. )
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2024-06-08 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine as it is.

( that is to say, he can do it later. another glance over to dick then. )

Thanks. For the help.

( for... telling him what he did. )
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[personal profile] her_own_rules 2024-07-06 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
If you'd like to get a closer look at what 'all this' entails,
the place I do everything back home is here now,
and it's all kitted out like home, too.
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[personal profile] her_own_rules 2024-07-07 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Southernmost middle island.
It's the only thing there right now.


[ She leans back in her chair,
tapping a single finger on her desk.

She needs to get a coffee pot in here next. ]