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( A sleepy Steph starts up the video, yawning a little before she takes her thumb off the camera to reveal herself. She's not messy or sloppy or anything like that, just yawning. Her voice is very matter-of-fact and she nods occasionally as she speaks to confirm how right her point is. )
Y'know I think this place needs to give newbies a warmer welcome. Hotels give you like coffee and maybe a fruit basket? We need that, waiting in our suite for us. Maybe with a cute message card saying something like, "Welcome to our city, and oh, remember you're stuck here! Have a mocha on us!" It's common courtesy to give folks some kind of compensation.
( She pauses. She's forgetting something, isn't she... Oh, right! )
Oh yeah, I'm Stephanie. Or Steph. Probably not Stephie. ( Bad memories associated with that one. ) Aaaand I really want a mocha. That actually sounds really good right now. Nice to meet you and especially nice to meet you if you know about a Turtlebucks close to the Wood Sector.
( Confirm her secret identity in this place as an ordinary and hilarious college student? Check. She honestly is seriously thinking about her situation, but for now she doesn't want that to show through as Stephanie Brown. Gotta be safe and all. )
I think that's everything? Laters.
Y'know I think this place needs to give newbies a warmer welcome. Hotels give you like coffee and maybe a fruit basket? We need that, waiting in our suite for us. Maybe with a cute message card saying something like, "Welcome to our city, and oh, remember you're stuck here! Have a mocha on us!" It's common courtesy to give folks some kind of compensation.
( She pauses. She's forgetting something, isn't she... Oh, right! )
Oh yeah, I'm Stephanie. Or Steph. Probably not Stephie. ( Bad memories associated with that one. ) Aaaand I really want a mocha. That actually sounds really good right now. Nice to meet you and especially nice to meet you if you know about a Turtlebucks close to the Wood Sector.
( Confirm her secret identity in this place as an ordinary and hilarious college student? Check. She honestly is seriously thinking about her situation, but for now she doesn't want that to show through as Stephanie Brown. Gotta be safe and all. )
I think that's everything? Laters.
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Oh, definitely hard on everybody. Some people react terribly to the lack of gift basket filled with weird crackers that no one eats and samples sizes of products. Nothing says welcome to the neighborhood like three dryer sheets and a coupon for a free car wash. I guess.
[He shrugs. No one's ever said that life has to make sense, so why should gift baskets?]
It can be done! I've managed without coffee this long. I keep waiting for a coffee drinker to show up before their morning cup in a full-tilt caffeine rage. Y'know. 'Give me coffee, or I will...' I'm really not sure what they'd threaten with. Pop culture tells me they can't function without it, so I'm gonna guess it'd be incoherent whining.
[Straightening up, Bart's face slides into a more serious expression, the grin settling into a faint smile.]
OK. For real for a second. You OK with the whole concept of your sitch, or did you tune out the kedan when you got here like some people do?
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I listened. And I asked questions too, y'know. But I'm handling it. It could be worse? And it seems like I've got a lot of friends here, so I know I'll be fine. Hopefully I won't get kicked out of school for being absent, though.
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[Anyone who can make it through that long ride with the kedan going blah blah blah the whole time and still laugh is A-OK in his book. He brightens at hearing that she's already got friends here.]
You too, huh? I know it was a huge relief when I showed up and found my best friends and a whole slew of other people here. How many is a slew, anyway?
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( Totally believable. Like not even questionable at all. )
How many is a couple or a few, really? I think the only one that's absolute is a pair. By the way, does it look like we have or will have any mutual friends so far? They say three's a crowd, but clearly that person does not know how to have fun.
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[If she was lying, it just went whooshing over his head. His face is stuck like this for now, anyway.]
Yeah, um. About that. I was looking at the rest of your feed and... yeah. I think we've got some peeps in common.
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And one of them is definitely the third in the crowd that doesn't know how to have fun. Let's kick off this mutual who-are-you thing. My last name's Allen, and I'm from Keystone City.
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( She grins, as if the hanging out with the peeps is the only thing she actually cares about in this conversation. Very important peeps. )
Oh cool! More people to go caffeine crazy with.
( Batcrypted )
Brown, Gotham. And do you mean Tim?
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[Gotham's a big city, and Bart's fairly sure that he's never met any Stephanie Brown. But she makes the no-fun leap to Tim without any help at all, and Tim definitely knows her so...]
And yeah. I mean Tim. Cause I definitely don't mean Kon, and Dick's always seemed pretty cool.
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( Detective time! Knows Tim and Superboy? Red hair? She's got a hunch or more than that, just maybe. )
You're one of Tim's friends, right? I worked with you guys a long time ago. I went by a different name back then, though. Does Spoiler ring any bells?
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[The name cuts off in a gasp because, yes, it does ring a few bells. A few not-all-pleasant, the-things-my-team-used-to-get-into-because-we-hid-things-to-protect-our-friends bells. Bart's eyes widen as another memory surfaces - Tim actually screwing up and blurting out a real name back then when secrecy was his golden idol. And he makes the connection that he couldn't stand still to make 15 and 3/4: he has met a Stephanie, because Stephanie is spoiler.
Bart gives her a firm nod.]
I went by a different name back then, too. Remember Impulse? For the record, I've had "It's a Small World After All" in my head for the past three seconds. It's played 7 times already. Make it stop.
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I remember. ( She laughs. ) That was so long ago, god... I'm hoping I didn't make a bad impression back then. 'Course I only helped out from time to time.
Oh, and by the way? ( Her tone is like the proudest proud that proud can possibly get. ) I'm Batgirl now.
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Nah, you didn't make a bad impression back then. But if you don't stop humming on the feed, I'm gonna have to come find you and gag you because I will never get this song out of my head without headphones and Big & Rich on repeat.
[And Bart kinda beams at that reveal. Well, look at you, all grown up. It isn't a tongue-in-cheek reaction; Bart is genuinely happy to see kids grow into established codenames.]
That's you? Nice one. Also. This is complete validation. I was just ragging Tim the other day about how hot Batgirl is. Oh - tit for tat, I guess - Kid Flash, reporting for duty.
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Aw, but it's such a lovely song! I suppose I can stop, though, if I must.
( That gets a grin from her. )
Yep, the not so one and only. ( She almost wants to ask how Tim responded to that, but she resists. )
By the way... who's faster: you or Tommy?
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[Tim reacted in his usual Tim fashion. If there was anything eyebrow-raising about Tim's reaction, Bart would be prodding her for information.]
Are you seriously asking that? I am.
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( And so is Bart, but she just thinks this would be way cool. )
I'd love to see you two race, actually.
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How do you know how fast he is or isn't, anyway?
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( She shrugs it off. )
Oh, he showed me kinda? And said he could get to my suite in a few minutes. I just assumed you guys were pretty similar.