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[littlecousin]

[There's an extremely attractive blond woman on the other end of the feed, looking a little wet and a lot disgruntled. Nita's features are distinctive--high-arched eyebrows, pointed ears, and if you're looking very carefully, gill slits along each side of her neck.]

PSA. If you were thinking about leaving, bad news. You get about half a mile out and something knocks you back into that same coma we were all in when they fished us out.

[She is so disgusted you don't even know.]

So unless you really enjoyed that six-hour cart ride, I'd start looking at other options.

[And there's Kon in the background looking soggy and miffed. He huffs and pushes away wet hair from his face.]

Yeah, like doing a Dorothy and finding some ruby slippers.

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video; anonymous

[cowled]

[The laugh that follows that statement is actually almost genuine.]

A what? God, no. I mean, maybe to my students, but you'd have to ask them about that. I'm a professor of anthropology.

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

Most professors are villains if you ask me. But then, you don't look like the old crazy guys.

Anthropology? Doesn't sound exciting.

video; anonymous

[cowled]

Thank you...?

[seriously is that a compliment or otherwise.]

Well, it depends on who you ask. Anthropology is one of the most fundamental facets of modern science. Without knowing the foundations that build humanity, how can we possibly hope to anticipate the future?

[He can and will keep going until your eyes glaze over, Kon. He really can.]

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

It's a compliment. Sorta.

[He blinks slowly, letting his head dip a bit and snap back up.]

Snoresville, got it.

video; anonymous

[cowled]

Well, you sound a little disappointed. I can work on my evil laughter, if it makes you feel any better. 'Muahah I'm grading papers'?

[He is seriously glad he spent all those years practising his acting, otherwise he'd have blown his cover by now.]

You know, I'm always happy to take on new students.

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

Terrified, I'm totally shaking in my boots.

Yeah, think I'll pass. Not cut out for that [pause] learning stuff.

video; anonymous

[cowled]

Oh? What makes you say that?

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

The fact that I seemed to have been expelled. Maybe the detentions for skipping on class to save people.

video; anonymous

[cowled]

Perhaps the school simply wasn't a good fit.

[Yeah he knows all about that incident, Kon.]

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

Maybe. Or maybe I wasn't the good fit. Wasn't so bad.

[Bruce, so nosey.]

video; anonymous

[cowled]

That's a very negative outlook, you know. Is there anywhere you feel might be a good fit for you?

[Psychoanalysing a Super. Hardly new.]

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

Nah it's cool. I wasn't made for studying anyway, it's only cause I'm young that they made me go.

I dunno, I mean...I guess I'm sometimes okay with a team? As long as I can get along with them on some level.

video; anonymous

[cowled]

Oh? What sort of team?

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

Superhero, duh. Can't you tell by the uniform?

video; anonymous

[cowled]

Isn't there generally more... to it than that?

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

Well yeah, but come on, giant S shield? Thought that'd be a dead give away.

video; anonymous

[cowled]

'S' for... superhero?

[trollface.jpeg. or as close to it as Bruce ever gets, anyway.]

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

...Wow you really are clueless, huh? S shield is a symbol for...nevermind. No, I'm Superboy.

video; anonymous

[cowled]

Not clueless so much as from a world without any sort of superheroes at all.

[His voice is just so mild. Gosh, Kon. Think outside your box.]

Superboy. I see.

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

...Really? What kind of sucky ass world are you from then?

Yeah, only cause I told you.

video; anonymous

[cowled]

I always considered it rather normal, to be perfectly honest. Superheroes were reserved for... comic books and the cinema. Fanciful imaginations. Heroes are firefighters and police officers and normal people who rescue individuals from car accidents, that manner of thing.

[He exhales. This is the very fabric of his world being challenged, okay?]

Well, thank you for telling me.

video; anonymous

[tactile_telekinesis]

Oh yeah, I mean firefighters and stuff are still heroes but we have people like me. Superheroes, not just in comics. There's villains as well.

[Squirm Bruce, squirm.]

Uh, you're welcome.