It is. ( A beat, and she could just leave it at that and hang up, but-- )
I convinced some boys once that the only reason hoods said Batman was because they were too afraid to say a girl beat them. ( There's a smile in her voice, but it's fragile, and she's angry with herself in the next moment. As if those had been glory days. Her voice remains calm, her anger is for herself alone. )
In Gotham the Bat means more than any other symbol could. It's-- primal. It speaks to all of us.
( Going back to Huntress had been hard; she does not think Stephanie would enjoy losing that symbol, not when the Bat has been so much more a part of her life than it has for Helena, so definitive. Spoiler, Robin, Batgirl. She's carried Nightwing's mantle, and Oracle's. They both went on to become something separate, but-- the reasons were different. )
Question is, what do you want to do? Be ambiguous? Be frightening? Do you just want to stop people talking down to you because your name suggests you're a child? What?
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I convinced some boys once that the only reason hoods said Batman was because they were too afraid to say a girl beat them. ( There's a smile in her voice, but it's fragile, and she's angry with herself in the next moment. As if those had been glory days. Her voice remains calm, her anger is for herself alone. )
In Gotham the Bat means more than any other symbol could. It's-- primal. It speaks to all of us.
( Going back to Huntress had been hard; she does not think Stephanie would enjoy losing that symbol, not when the Bat has been so much more a part of her life than it has for Helena, so definitive. Spoiler, Robin, Batgirl. She's carried Nightwing's mantle, and Oracle's. They both went on to become something separate, but-- the reasons were different. )
Question is, what do you want to do? Be ambiguous? Be frightening? Do you just want to stop people talking down to you because your name suggests you're a child? What?