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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Does being a mathlete honoree count?

[Bruce lets him play with the company's numbers sometimes, but he doesn't affect anything.]

[ Laughs. ]

Yes, that might help. Because accounting does still involve Math. It is just a matter knowing how much you can spend in a given time.

I feel really dumb for not picking up on that earlier. You don't even know.

But I've been getting a lot of good advice, actually, and not a lot of schadenfreude.

Schadenfreude ...

I must say that that isn't a word used very often by someone as young as you.

I believe that it is certainly not true you are dumb. This is just not an easy time for you, and that is something I understand. Before my father died, I was used to having someone care for me.

I apologize if I sound presumptuous.

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I might have been known to take my fair share. And my foster father and butler both are very literary guys.

[He shakes his head rapidly.]

Not presumptuous. At least, if you were, I didn't notice. That hits a little close to home, as the "foster" qualifier might have implied.

[ Foster? Then ... could it be possible that he was like her? Did he lose his family as well?

She suddenly became very sad. It was always sad for her to hear children going through the similar loneliness she went through. And Robin was so much younger than she had been too. ]

I-it does. I apologize. I did not mean to bring up sad memories ...

No, no!

[Dick held his hands up in a "T" for time out gesture.]

It was a long time ago. I'm... Well, talking about it is easier now. And the family I have now is good, too.

I am glad then. [ Not many boys were lucky enough to be adopted into a good family. ]

I am an orphan as well. My father died in a war back home.

[Bruce and Alfred were a little (or a lot) unconventional, but he didn't doubt he was lucky to have them.]

Sorry to hear it. It's... painful when it happens, and doesn't always stop, I know.

By the way, I don't believe you ever told me your name. Mine is Lacus Clyne ...

May I know yours?

Uh, it'd Dick. Dick Grayson.

I like yours better.

It is a pleasure to meet you, Dick Grayson.

Oh, and thank you for the compliment. It is nice of you to say so.

Uh, nice and accurate. Does it have any kind of meaning?

It means Lake in Latin. It was my mother ... that gave me my name.

I do not have many memories of her but I have my name ... to remember that she loved me.

I got my name from my dad. He named me after his older brother, 'cause his older brother named my cousin after him.

She must have loved you a lot, because it's pretty by itself and in its meaning.

I'd love to think so, but I really know nothing about her. I only had a handful of photographs ...

[ Her mother loved her, but never forgave her father for making their daughter a Coordinator. ]

Did you have a big family? [ A big family had always been what Lacus always wanted. ]

It depends on your standards, I guess.

[His voice gets a little quieter.]

Just me, my mother, my father, Uncle Rick, Aunt Karla, and my cousin, John. Dad and Uncle R. were always very close, and we were all one acrobatics troupe, so it was more like being one big family instead of two little ones.

[He shakes his head, ready to turn this back around to her.]

I think it's usually a safe assumption. Especially if she cared enough to pass you a name. Names have power.

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