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[heliophilic]

This is M. I'm most likely out punching someone. Don't worry, they deserve it.

Probably.

I'll call you back later.

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[performance]

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. ]

[heliophilic]

What's bugging you?

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

[performance]

[ 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.

[heliophilic]

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?

[performance]

[ 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.

[heliophilic]

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.]

[performance]

You're not the WORST person to talk to about it. If that helps.

[heliophilic]

I thought I was supposed to be the one cheering you up.

[performance]

I don't see why it can't be mutual.

[heliophilic]

Heh.

You're just like him.

[performance]

Wouldn't it be weird if I wasn't?

[heliophilic]

You have your differences too.

Sometimes I forget.

[performance]

This all really complicates the nature vs nurture argument.

[heliophilic]

Not necessarily.

You both just might have been "nurtured" differently.

[performance]

I guess that's one way of putting it.
Nice quotation marks.

[heliophilic]

Didn't feel appropriate without them.

But seriously, you two couldn't have been raised exactly the same.

[performance]

What makes you say that? Besides the obvious universal differences, I mean.

[heliophilic]

You move different.

I'd need to see you fight to be certain.

Didn't watch many Robin videos of him just walking around.

[performance]

We could go out sometime! If you wanted.

[heliophilic]

I like how you phrased that like it wouldn't be something I'd be interested in.

[performance]

I can feign modesty sometimes.

[heliophilic]

Modesty doesn't become you.

[performance]

Of course YOU'D say that.

[heliophilic]

Just because I don't know the meaning of the word modesty doesn't mean I expect everyone to feel the same way.

I've just met enough Dick Grayson's in my life to know they don't seem to know the word modesty either.

[performance]

Blame it on the circus.