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[overlyprecocious]

Dick and I are joining the Alliance. if anyone needs to know.

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[reneger]

never have i been happier to have spent my later teen years dead, catatonic, and being trained by killers

[mostdangerousbird]

You haven’t been traumatized until you’ve been hit on by a male doctor while stealing records dressed as a female intern.

[reneger]

pretty sure i couldn't have pulled that off, even before i hit my growthspurt
though i also would have been quick to beat the shit out of them so even if i could have i would have been shitty at it

[mostdangerousbird]

Apparently, no one would’ve believed me as a male intern.

Being Robin continually messes with your head.

[ He still has a confusion reaction to that exchange. ]

[reneger]

if we remember this when we go back you should point them out to me
i'll beat the shit out of them belatedly

i'll beat the hell out of bruce too because what the fuck

[mostdangerousbird]

He didn’t know. Take it as a success. I passed.

I’m the one who asked for more undercover work.

[reneger]

how old were you?

[mostdangerousbird]

I don’t know. Maybe 16. It’s immaterial, nothing happened.

[reneger]

i'm pummeling all of them

[mostdangerousbird]

I was expecting to be mocked.

Dick had nothing to do with it. For the record, my objections had more to do with it exacerbating and confusing things that I was already struggling with.

private.

[reneger]

you were a child being thrown into shit you shouldn't have ever had to deal with

i am not okay with any of it

Private

[mostdangerousbird]

You could say that about any Robin.

Look, I

I appreciate that you want to. I mean that. I thought I was the only one bothered. But you know it’s not the worst thing that’s ever happened. You can’t go around pummelling everyone who made me uncomfortable before I turned 18. Some of them were normal. Some of them were Ra’s al Ghul sister. It’s not worth it.

private

[reneger]

( robins get thrown into a shitton of messes. jason remembers several of his own, knows dick had countless close calls, steph has. so has duke, and damian. but this isn't the same as that. it's different and jason can imagine the mindset that went behind it and it makes him sick. )

i can, i will, and it's completely worth it

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[mostdangerousbird]

He thought I was cute and asked me out to dinner. That’s it. I don’t want to be a victim. I was a closeted mess and I hated how the costume felt like drag, because it felt too close to things I was trying to bury, but I only complained about it afterwards. I could’ve refused, and Bruce and Alfred were listening the whole time.

Private

[reneger]

( there are several half-written responses that get erased before jason sends them and pisses himself off even more. settles on something less--inflammatory. less likely to piss tim off, too. )

it's not about you
it's about them
he knew better

Private

[mostdangerousbird]

[ Tim knows the he is Bruce. He just doesn’t know how to argue it, because if it were someone else, Tim would be reaching the same conclusion.

(But he was basically an adult at 15. There’s a different scale.) ]

I don’t want you in trouble.

[overlyprecocious]

oh yuck

no one’s hit on me when I was undercover as a girl yet

[mostdangerousbird]

I was hoping that wasn’t a shared experience.

[overlyprecocious]

i wasn’t undercover as an intern at least?

[mostdangerousbird]

As long as YOU were okay with it.

[overlyprecocious]

it was ok ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mostdangerousbird]

Those are not the same thing, and Jason's out for blood.

[overlyprecocious]

why would Jason be mad about it?

[mostdangerousbird]

He’s not big on passive obligated acceptance.

[overlyprecocious]

it's basically just high-ish stakes dress-up