usedacrobatics | Dick Grayson 002 Ⓡ video

[The Pokegear snaps on, and Dick, in a nice waiter's shirt, slumps down against a wall and sighs.]

So this is, uh, ridiculously embarrassing.

[His hair's slicked back, too, and he's loosening a little bow tie with his other hand. Tugging at it with a little more force than strictly necessary.]

Exactly, um. Does anyone have any tips for how to... like, not go broke? How do people keep track of money? How do you not run out?

I plead lack of maturity, lack of understanding of the value of a... whatever the unit of currency is here, I don't even know.

And yeah, okay, if you all want a good laugh at my expense, my foster father is a billionaire, both through inheritance and being the CEO of a worldwide corporation. Go ahead, I've heard all the rich kid jokes and I don't really care, I'd just be grateful, in return, for a little--

[There's a voice yelling in the distance, something about not being paid to take breaks; Dick jumps up and shuts off the feed immediately. He does have a work ethic, okay, he was a circus performer until he was nine, but that money was all put in the bank.]

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Eh, I just leveled up and then plowed over all his Pokemon.

He doesn't seem to be a strategy-man.

I am a fan of the steamroller technique when I actually play the games.

That kind of takes some fun out of it, though. Not that the steamroller thing isn't fun, but it's a different kind of fun.

I guess.

I've always done the steamroller thing in real life.

... You know, when, I CAN. It's awesome.

I guess it's probably more fun since the pieces only fall into place for it to work every now and then, though, huh?

_{[Heather's tough, but 'steamrolling' isn't exactly something a scrawny seventeen-year-old girl with zero training can do. ... So when the opportunities DO arise when she can just pulverize the shit out of an enemy without having to dodge and strategize her way into victory, she... enjoys it a little TOO much.]}

["In real life" gets his attention, although he decides to downplay it.]

Yeah? That doesn't exactly sound easy.

[For him, it's nearly impossible. He's a short thirteen-year-old. If he's got the element of surprise to work with, he can usually slam a few people out of the commission before the others catch on.]

You get into a lot of fights?

_{[Well-- to be fair, that wording had been carelessness on her part. She doesn't think this isn't real life... but it's easy to set it aside from the somewhat harsher reality she'd come from by using the misleading phrase. Compared to home, and barring the more unpleasant sides of life here, this place was practically paradise.]}

Yeah, you could say that...

[Not really an enthusiastic confirmation. Not even an absolute one.

Not sure how to read that.]

I won't, if you'd rather I didn't. Say it, I mean.

Nah, no worries.

It's pretty accurate.

_{[She cracks a grin, though whether it's genuine or just to reassure him that he hasn't committed some sort of social faux pas is hard to tell.]}

I was that kid who got sent to the office all the time in elementary school for biting.

Things ain't changed much.

[And indeed he cannot tell, but he smiles back.]

That kid. Were you very discerning, or was anyone fair game?

Don't worry, I never bit a person who didn't deserve it.

... On some level, anyway.

Mr. Robertson never exactly gave me a reason, but I'm pretty sure he was secretly a puppy-kicker. He had that look.

_{[HEATHER'S DAD WAS ON FIRST-NAME TERMS WITH THE PRINCIPAL OF THAT SCHOOL AFTER AWHILE.]}

Wish I could have been you. I had to settle for letting my dad threaten to pull funding. It was a drag.

There's a certain satisfaction in knowing that at least five teachers referred to you as "The Velociraptor Kid" during staff meetings.

... Funding, though. You're one of those rich kids, huh?

It's when they refer to you as that and everyone knows exactly who they're talking about without asking-- that's when you've made it big.

[He laughs a little self-consciously.]

Uh, sort of. Foster kid. So... yes, in practice, but at the same time...

Ohhh.

Yeah, I gotcha.

_{[And she does, actually-- not the 'rich' part, obviously, but...]}

I was adopted, myself.

Yeah? Sorry I left the membership cards back home, but I could probably teach you the secret handshake over this thing.

[Because there's not exactly a GOOD answer for that, is there?]

_{[There really isn't, although to be fair, Heather is hardly broken-up about the loss of her biological parent. Considering she technically committed matricide and doesn't feel guilty about it at all, that would be sort of weird. Adoption rules when your bio parents are sociopaths.]}

Eh, who needs cards. Secret handshakes are good.

Bet I could score a sweet treehouse for headquarters if I got up off my butt and went looking.

The best part is you wouldn't even need a ladder if you had a flying type with the move and the badge.

[Or if you're an acrobat.]

Nope!

And that 'Rock-Climb' move'd work, too.

Come to say, some kind of rock fortress would probably be cooler than a tree house. Less common, at least.

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