[Dick nods along, committing the names to memory. He's pretty sure he's seen a few of them on the internet, so he can go look them up later. Having more trustworthy people is good, though he's a little concerned about three of them knowing about him without him knowing about them.]
[Obviously something to do with the previous place all four of them were at.]
[Then Jason goes and reminds Dick that he's terrible at being patient. All Dick can do is sigh, ducking a punch as drunkard the second's buddy comes up to join the fray.]
( you're a menace, he says, and jason grins. it's all teeth, feral and vicious in the way that fits just right on his face. jason swings his own cue stick out into someone else who's gotten thrown into the fight, knocking them over onto their ass before he's tipping his head back towards dick and just. turning the full weight of that grin straight at him. )
Someone has to be. We can't all be the golden boy.
( dick gets to be wonder boy, the golden child, and jason gets to be the menace who causes problems everywhere he goes. like starting bar fights with random drunks, and turning away from dick to shove his fist straight into the nose of some asshat wielding a broken bottle. it's not as satisfying as breaking kyle's face would have been, but he'll take it. )
[It's not like Dick tried to be the golden child. He just had the bad (or good) luck to be the first one. And Jason had the bad luck to come into things when Dick was on the outs with Bruce.]
[Which is why Dick rolls his eyes, grabbing the next punch that comes his direction and uses the hold to pull his opponent off balance and drives his knee into the guy's stomach and dropping him.]
And this is why I didn't bring you to the bar near my place.
( because he knew they were going this way, but also knew that jason likes to push it right to the edge of what's an acceptable level of violence for a bar fight? fair and reasonable. he laughs, obnoxious and loud in the way jason does when it's--a genuine laugh, not one he's pushing out for the sake of appearances. dick drops low to get out of a punch, jason dodges to the side and grabs hold of the arm of a man who tries to punch him from behind. flips him over his back and straight into another fight to knock over the two squabbling on the side. )
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Date: 2023-05-14 10:19 pm (UTC)[Obviously something to do with the previous place all four of them were at.]
[Then Jason goes and reminds Dick that he's terrible at being patient. All Dick can do is sigh, ducking a punch as drunkard the second's buddy comes up to join the fray.]
You're a menace, you know that?
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Date: 2023-05-15 06:03 pm (UTC)Someone has to be. We can't all be the golden boy.
( dick gets to be wonder boy, the golden child, and jason gets to be the menace who causes problems everywhere he goes. like starting bar fights with random drunks, and turning away from dick to shove his fist straight into the nose of some asshat wielding a broken bottle. it's not as satisfying as breaking kyle's face would have been, but he'll take it. )
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Date: 2023-05-20 07:47 pm (UTC)[Which is why Dick rolls his eyes, grabbing the next punch that comes his direction and uses the hold to pull his opponent off balance and drives his knee into the guy's stomach and dropping him.]
And this is why I didn't bring you to the bar near my place.
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Date: 2023-05-21 06:34 pm (UTC)Why? 'cause I know how to have fun?