first leap of faith ~ action

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

[While walking around campus today, you may come across one particularly handsome and well dressed...

...puppet.

It will just be sitting there. Chilling. Should you look away and back, however, it will suddenly be gone... only to be found sitting somewhere else nearby.

There's no one else around, is there?

Those with a quick eye may catch sight of a dark blur as the puppet moves. If you stick around long enough, the owner might even speak with you. Right now he's just testing the waters.]

Comments

[worthyheir]

He's creepy.

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

You just have no taste.

[worthyheir]

It looks like two villains from back home created an offspring. Why would I not find it creepy?

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

Hahaha...

Villains? Really?

[worthyheir]

It's a farcical name, but "crazy psychopathic costumed freaks" is too long.

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Where do you live, Gotham City?

[worthyheir]

You're familiar with Gotham?

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

Well yeah.

...You ain't really tryin' to tell me you're from there, right?

[worthyheir]

Bruce Wayne is my father. Do you still want to question whether or not I'm from Gotham?

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

[Dave in unable to keep himself from snickering.]

No really. Be serious with me.

[worthyheir]

Do you have a problem?

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

You just tried to tell me Batman was your dad.

Excuse me if I'm a little motherfuckin' skeptical.

[worthyheir]

[Opens his mouth, but then closes it. He reaches into his pocket for a batarang, but decides against it for the time being. Grayson would tell him to play it dumb.]

What are you talking about? My father isn't Batman.

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

Right, my bad.

[Of course he's not. That would be ridiculous. Much like everything here is ridiculous.

But seriously. Batman is fictional. Dave will believe so much.]

You caught me, though. I'm totally Harley Quinn's illegitimate Joker baby grown up in a lab and given special speedy powers. I was gonna tell everyone the big secret later, right when I announced my big Garden take-over, but you can be the first motherfucker to know.

[worthyheir]

Harley Quinn has never had a child.

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

That you know of.

[worthyheir]

[Spoken with sincerity and matter-of-factly.] Harleen Quinzel has never had a child.

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

And if I was from the future?

[worthyheir]

Let me phrase this a different way--you're full of shit.

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

[He laughs outright at that, and would have slapped Damian on the back if he didn't know it would go over poorly.]

I like you, bro.

[worthyheir]

[Glares. He doesn't trust you now. At all.]

I thought we established that you were never to call me "bro."

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you didn't really believe I'd stick with that, right?

I call everyone bro.

[worthyheir]

Why is it so unbelievable that I would be an inhabitant of Gotham?

[knightofmirth.livejournal.com]

S'kinda like sayin' you're an inhabitant of Wonderland, ain't it?

[worthyheir]

That would require Gotham to be--

[Pauses. Waaaaaaaaaaait.]

Whatever gave you the idea Gotham City was a fictional place?