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Far as I know.

Didn't exactly keep tabs on Dickie's friends, Dickie.

Sorry. I guess I shouldn't have expected you to know.

You'll forgive me if I'm still reeling.

Isn't dying and coming back a thing with you bats?

The Bat's currently MIA and there's some guy in a robot bunny costume pretending to be him, there's Dickie's fake death, that second Robin that disappeared, the third Robin that disappeared...

I might not have kept tabs, but I did do some research back when Grayson and I weren't on the same side.

Edited 2016-03-15 03:22 (UTC)

No one comes back where I'm from. We just die. Like everyone else.

Well from what I've seen death doesn't stick with you Bat boys.

Someone else from my version of the world might have more information about it, after all every major organization worth their salt's got a superhero file a mile wide, but I don't think anyone currently here has that kind of intel.

I'll look into it. But for now I'm glad it's just you.
Sorry. I guess the dying part doesn't matter anyway, if it didn't really happen.

[ It does, but not for the reason anyone would think. ]

What's bugging you?

Don't tell me nothing. This may be text but I can still tell.

[ It's a while before the response comes. ]

It just doesn't seem fair. From what I hear, just about everyone I know has died in one world or another but
It's never me. I don't know why.

Does it count as dead if they all came back? Little hooded Third Robin is back punching everything in the face, I'm almost positive Second Robin is back, and I refuse to believe the Bat is actually dead in the first place.

I know you'd rather take the proverbial bullet than see your friends hurt, but don't you think they don't all feel the same way?

[ That is so many dead Robins. On his end, he winces. ]

But not everyone DOES come back. I mean, no one does, where I come from. Not ever.
My parents didn't and my best friend might not either.

I try to tell myself there's some kind of underlying reason behind everything. A pattern, some logic to follow. Even if I can't see it.

But I guess I feel guilty.

Look, I might not be the best person to talk to about this, but...

From what I've been told, guilt's natural. Especially for someone like you, who wants to save everyone. But you can't let yourself feel guilty about people who aren't even dead from other universes.

And you're right, somewhat. There is a pattern to it all. Everything is a series of odds, and you put together enough wrong variables... bad things happen.

[M: Not good at this.]