[002] [Video, no mask] So, about that aging thing...

[mrsarcastic003]

Have we ever worked out whether or not we're aging here?

Asking for a friend.

[No, he's asking because his birthday has passed without having to have a party. Yes, the slightly smug look on his face is for you, Bruce. Enjoy.]

[Private to Kon, 75% Encryption]

I hear you're going to school me in chess.

[Yes, Dinah, he uses 'schooled.']

[Text to Dick]

you've got mail

[It's the flash drive again. Updated. More codes, weird number games, a few jokes from the Teen Titans about Batman, and part of a video of Bart driving the Batmobile with text scrolling across the bottom. "Don't let this happen to you."]

Comments

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[mrsarcastic003]

[thoughtful frown] I don't know. I can't really imagine growing up here, and then waking up and being a kid again. I guess I would hope not to remember it.

And as for the other... I really don't know. I guess... if you believe in some sort of afterlife, that's where they'd go.

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[cmdreffingshepard]

Seems kind of cruel to me, putting dead people here. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not. If you do, then you're depriving them of it. If you don't, then you're giving them false hope.

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[mrsarcastic003]

It does seem a bit callous, doesn't it?

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[cmdreffingshepard]

I was - sort of - dead myself for a couple of years back home. Sometimes, I have to admit, I kind of wish they'd left me dead.

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[mrsarcastic003]

...I don't think I've ever heard that reaction before.

[Because he does know people who have been kind of dead and come back.]

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[cmdreffingshepard]

[She gives him a wry sort of smile.]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not sitting here wishing I was dead. It's just... really complicated.

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[mrsarcastic003]

I can imagine. Being kind of dead sounds like it's pretty complicated in general. Let alone coming back.

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[cmdreffingshepard]

For one thing, the people who brought me back aren't exactly on the up-and-up.

Also, the paperwork is kind of crazy.

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[mrsarcastic003]

What? The red tape gets complicated regarding resurrection? I would never have guessed. [grinning, though, because. government.]

Sorry about the people you have to deal with, though. That... can't make it easy.

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[cmdreffingshepard]

Death is pretty simple, I've found. Life is complicated. That's all.

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[mrsarcastic003]

That... doesn't surprise me much, actually.

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[cmdreffingshepard]

It's kind of obvious, when you think about it, but I think most people just don't think about it, because we're so preoccupied with survival, or with finding meaning in the complexities.

Which is a good thing, of course.

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[mrsarcastic003]

Mm.

And I think that most people don't like to give a whole lot of thought to the subject of death. Especially their own.

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[cmdreffingshepard]

The ones that do end up going down bad paths.

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[mrsarcastic003]

Of some variety or another, yeah.