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[robintohood]

Small mercies I guess. How fucking jarring is it so far?

[forceforlight]

So jarring. So very, very jarring. The only thing keeping it from being worse is the fact that he mostly talks like he's thirty.

[robintohood]

But with a 10-year-old's voice

I guess that's one way to take a break from patrol

[forceforlight]

The younger Dick is coming over. Tim's here. They can keep him occupied while I patrol.

[Read: find some thugs doing something they shouldn't and work out some aggression.]

[robintohood]

[Jason knows exactly what Dick means]

I may or may not know some spots that need a little extra help

[forceforlight]

Send them to me later, then. And thanks.

[He'll deal with this existential crisis in the way of all Bats: violence.]

[robintohood]

[So proud of his big brother]

How much of a brat is he being so far?

[forceforlight]

Not too bad? Was sceptical of coming with me to start with because, and I quote, "You sleep on the couch." More because of three people being crammed in my apartment. Which is fair, but also this is hopefully going to be temporary.

Honestly, I'm not sure he knew how to be a brat at this age. Apparently the dark energy brought vision of his parents as zombies. He thinks that might have affected the age thing.

[robintohood]

[Jason frowns when he reads Dick's response]

It's possible. It's not even the first time people suddenly turned back into kids here. I got nailed by it last year, except I thought was still Robin

[forceforlight]

It's interesting that the body regressed in age but not his mind.

On the other hand, I don't think any of us would be able to really deal with a post-funeral Bruce.

[robintohood]

Yeah, no

NONE of us are equipped for that

[forceforlight]

God, I miss Alfred at times like this. Just...someone else to be the adult for a while.

[robintohood]

You want us to take turns then?

[forceforlight]

It's fine. It's probably not going to be for very long, after all. But I do think I'm going to up the 'looking for a larger space' thing. Just need to figure out what we need in terms of space.

[robintohood]

Bare minimum we're all gonna need our own bedrooms, a large kitchen, and at least a couple of bathrooms

Maybe something like what used to be a dorm?

Business should be up soon now that the Society isn't guarding the borders

[forceforlight]

Funnily enough, Bruce is refitting an old dorm in Excelsior. I saw it when Kyle called me to go look in on him. It's not a bad choice, really. And we could take out some non-load bearing walls to make the bedrooms bigger, if we wanted to. And we're in Tornado Alley, so basements are almost a given.

[robintohood]

Are we really a BatFamily if we didn't have a ridiculous basement?

Oh, we're gonna need a big garage too

[forceforlight]

I mean, if we wanted to be REALLY ridiculous, we'd find out if there's any urban caves and see if we could tap into those. But that might be a bit too extra.

Yeah, garage would be great. We'll have to see what's around the building we choose.

[robintohood]

Bold of you to assume this B didn't check for caves already

Also, our middle name in this family is "extra"

[forceforlight]

Does that come before or after John? Just so I know I'm signing my name correctly.

[robintohood]

After of course. We got dignity