usedacrobatics | Robin 003 Ⓡ video/action for Goldenrod/FOURTH WALL

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Robin 003 Ⓡ video/action for Goldenrod/FOURTH WALL

This is your friendly neighborhood Boy Wonder speaking.

[Speaking, and standing dramatically atop Goldenrod's Radio Tower, with a Taillow fluttering behind him and another aerial Pokemon holding his 'gear offscreen.]

If anyone wants to be rescued, uh, now's the time.

[He reaches into his utility belt and removes a shiny red Birdarang.]

I've got my toys back.

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[Meanwhile, hanging out slightly less dramatically about thirty feet below him, there's a badass red coat attached to a girl in her late teens — one who is currently leaning out to peer up at her Friendly Neighborhood Boy Wonder™ with more than a touch of annoyance.]

What're you doing up there?

[This crime is hers, man, go away. B| ]

Enjoying the view. [He waves, and, with a line attached to his former perch, rappels down that same thirty feet.]

Why don't you join me?

[It's a little sad, maybe, that despite how well she hides it, the question throws her more than it really should. She's been back to working alone for the better part of a year, now, and the criminals out there who've already made names for themselves...they don't extend invitations to people they see as nothing more than upstart little girls. She's used to fighting for every inch of reputation she garners and never giving way when someone tries to take it from her.

She is not, in contrast, used to people being generally...nice.

Someday, she thinks, someone will see her and they'll instantly know who she is, why she's there. She's going to pursue her goals until her reputation extends across the entire world.

Though for the moment, it'd help if she knew where she was. Maybe this guy can help with that.]

Up there?

[She gives his rappel line an interested look, then shifts out and swivels until she can point her own right wrist at the top of the tower.

An instant later, her own powered grapple fires, connects, takes hold with an audible clink — and that's her cue to flash him a smug look.]

Sure, all right.

That's the spirit.

[Thank you for not needing a rescue, and excuse his professional interest in that toy of yours. It's one thing for a stranger to be up this high, but that little tool tends to be pretty specialized where he comes from.

Is her (metaphorical) hat white or not? No way to tell, really, but he leans towards yes, it is. A bad guy wouldn't appreciate the interruption. They'd just shoot.]

I was hanging around the top of the department store earlier, but it's higher here. Go big or go home, right?

[She'll have a lot of specialized toys one day, but this one will always be her old faithful and perpetual favorite. There are so many uses for a wrist-mounted grappling hook, for business or for leisure. When she'd first gotten up on this tower, it had been presumably for the former; now, with this masked kid's appearance, it's looking like it's shifting a little more toward the latter.

Which is fine. Even in her adult years, that metaphorical hat of hers is never completely black; just a variable shade of gray. Right now, it's whiter than — from a career standpoint — she'd like it to be.]

Go big or go home. Words I like to hear.

[So he's a friendly masked thrill-seeker of roughly her age or younger. ...Okay, she can get behind that. For the moment.]

Given that I'm not sure where I am, at the moment I wouldn't mind doing both.

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Hey there Boy Wonder. I'm diggin' the new look, but what's with the new threads? You finally decide to ditch the green?

KF!

[--which is about as far as he gets, before. Green? What does green have to do with anything? And...]

When did you get blue eyes?

[Well he got the abbreviation right, though he's always been pretty formal with the names until now so "KF" is new.]

Uhhh, I guess about the same time that your voice rose a couple of octaves.

[... HOLY SMOKES.]

And dude, did you run out of hair gel or what?

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Something is very, very wrong here.

[His mouth presses into a firm line.]

Can you tell something about me only you would know?

[There are lots of things that qualify, that Wally could answer with. But while Dick doesn't expect a correct answer -- the eye color and, now, the logo -- he seems... Sincere.]

You've got a crush on Starfire the size of Texas, but I don't think that's exactly an Area 51 secret.

[But hey, he gets it.] So alternate realities now, huh? Guess there's a first time for everything.

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[A rare video reply from an alien who's relieved to be back in his own skin.]

...Are people in sufficient distress to require saving likely to be able to make a broadcast stating as much. To you in particular rather than those in their immediate area, I mean.

Is that a thing that humans do.

This is actually what we would call a subtle threat. It's more of a message to others not to endanger people, because I'm watching.

The fun thing about criminals is that a lot of them are dumb enough to believe I really am that omniscient.

The criminals of your world must be exceedingly foolish.

[Admittedly, he's really not sure how the human justice system works. At all. At least not without the massive Pokemon backing up the rules.]

You are an agent of the law in your home, then?

A superstitious, cowardly lot. It's fun to take advantage of.

[His grin gets a little over-wide.]

Oh yeah. Back home, I am close, personal friends with the police commissioner.

['s daughter.]

[He's just going to assume that's a 'yes'.]

May I inquire. Does the human justice system on your world work similarly to the one adopted here, with the the forced labor regardless of what crime was committed. Or does it more appropriately deal with the criminal element.

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So, you got your toys and acrobatics back then?

[He's got one hand balancing on the point of the radio tower when he calls back, so he'll just let that speak for itself.]

Yes, thank goodness. What about you?