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[werewolfing]

[he'd rather be used like this than think he's violating her by existing in her proximity, really. it's only okay to live a life of making other people uncomfortable when the discomfort comes from their own small-mindedness.]

I guess I'll come up with something if that happens.

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Wonder Girl's taken too, for the record.

[In case that's what he was gonna go for next.

It's a little bit easier to just talk like normal, like everything isn't fuck up.]

Used to be the Girl Wonder, when I was Robin.

[werewolfing]

[he'll go with it, because it's much easier to slip into banter than it is to try and deal with messy things like feelings.]

Girl Wonder has a good ring to it. Acceptable nickname change.

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The best part is that it's adaptable, although I can't say I'm a fan of Girl Hostage.

[Not that she got tied up nearly as much as the boy Robins, but still.]

[werewolfing]

Yeaaaah, pretty sure that'd get panned by every critic.

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[That gets a quiet huff of a laugh, a little more tension draining from her posture.]

Boy Virgin was always a good one to tease my ex with, when he was Robin.

[werewolfing]

[his turn to huff a laugh, shaking his head.]

Harsh. Obviously he missed out.

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He was never interested in that sorta thing.

["sex". the word you're looking for is "sex"]

[werewolfing]

[peter doesn't understand. he doesn't understand at alllllll. what is wrong with you, tim drake, that you did not hit that with the fist of a thousand suns.]

...did he happen to be a eunuch?

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[Now she laughs for real.]

Jesse asked me if he was gay. But he's neither, as far as I know.

[werewolfing]

[good. that's good, even if he is genuinely baffled by the foolishness of this ex-boyfriend. he shakes his head, clucking his tongue.]

Seriously skewed priorities, man.

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He was kind of a dork, I think girls scared him a little.

[just a little.]

[werewolfing]

And yet he landed himself the Girl Wonder? Miracles never cease.

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I went after him, actually. He had a girlfriend when we met.

[And then he didn't C:

Steph you homewrecker.]

[werewolfing]

Ooh, that explains it.

[it's okay, steph, peter's girlfriend more or less decided that she was going to get with him come hell or high water or logic too.

he's just smart enough to bang her. a lot. even though she's pregnant with someone else's kid.]

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I think he finally learned that girls exist this year, got himself engaged and everything.

[Sort of...

She mostly just sounds amused, anyway, even if she'd been angry at the time.]

[werewolfing]

[peter raises a very eloquent and bushy eyebrow.]

Man, did he get a training montage or something?

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I think a bunch of his friends dying might've changed his perspective on some things.

[a beat]

Uh. They came back.

[so it's okay to make jokes like that????]

[werewolfing]

Well gosh, I guess if they came back then it's an after-school special in the making.

[dry, deadpan, like that's not profoundly disturbing on several levels.]

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Mm. [She gets that tone, even if death isn't such a permanent thing where she comes from.] Bart and Conner were as good as new. I was back, too, but I'd never actually been dead, so.

[ok steph]

[werewolfing]

[he's starting to wonder if she's not exaggerating her survival, yep. but there is nothing that will be made better by pursuing the answer to that, so he's sure not gonna.]

Best way to come back, I guess. Hard to say, people usually stay dead where I'm from.

[except you, peter. and all those other exceptions.]

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The paperwork was hell.

[Because there's paperwork for that, in her world.

Of course there is.]

You get to come back if you're important enough, usually. Superman, Flash, Green Arrow, they get second chances. We've even got, uh, Lazarus Pits. You toss a dead body in and they'll come back, though it gets kinda fucked up sometimes.

[Jason.]

[werewolfing]

I don't even want to imagine the paperwork.

[the mention of lazarus pits makes him shudder a little, though.]

That's kinda jacked. Convenient in some ways, I guess, but that has to fuck with your head.

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I think the worst part is not knowing. If they'll be back, I mean. It's hard to mourn for someone if you keep waiting for them.

[Like Tim with Bruce, even if he'd been right.]

[werewolfing]

Yeah.

I wonder if it makes life more or less valuable if you can just get it back like that.