audio; anonymous

[demon_brat]

[Good evening, Keeliai, have your first Damian-as-Robin post. And, yes, it is the slightly different Robin voice, too.]

Considering the level of technology here, there was an item I found on the Mainland that might, I suppose, belong to one of the foreigners. It certainly doesn't match anything native, especially with the organic component in the consoles.

It is a laptop with a glowing symbol on it, and if anyone has something like that, back home, let me know.

[Yes, the specifics of the symbol are left out on purpose. Damian has to have a way to check if the item really does belong to the person who might answer.]

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[backwordscompatible]

[Unfortunately, the gears are now turning and she's not going to stop anytime soon.]

Except, since you have something that doesn't belong to you, someone's gonna have to find you sooner or later.

Might as well make it easier on yourself and make it sooner.

[demon_brat]

>Tt.< I am making it easy. I am actually asking.

[Nope. There will be a time and a place, if the laptop is claimed. Little more information.]

If I am certain it is the right person, I will arrange for a time and a place and they will find the laptop there. No interaction is necessary, is it.

[backwordscompatible]

[Guh. Wally was right.]

Well, what if somebody wanted to meet you in person just for the sake of meeting you? Do they have to schedule an appointment for that too?

[demon_brat]

[Of course Wally was right. This question actually gets... a delay in the response.]

People don't just want to meet me.

[It's... a fact he's pretty certain of.]

[backwordscompatible]

I do.

[demon_brat]

No. You think you do, but you don't know what to expect, nor what the reality is. I am not that kind of a person.

[backwordscompatible]

Of course I don't know. That's kinda the whole point of meeting somebody new, isn't it?

Then what kind of person are you?

[demon_brat]

Ask your Robin.

[backwordscompatible]

Why?

I want to hear it from you.

[demon_brat]

Because these things have only began to matter to me in the last year or so. He has more experience.

[backwordscompatible]

What things? You mean what people think about you? Or what you think about yourself?

[Then, a thought occurs to her: he'd called the other boy 'her Robin'.]

How'd you know Robin and I were from the same world?

[demon_brat]

Yes.

[Both.]

[... and then he presses a few keys to make the connection Bat-crypted. Because.]

Kid Flash. He responded to both of you.

[backwordscompatible]

Well, unless he gained some sort of mind-reading powers since he got here, I don't think he'd be able to answer the second one.

[She thought about his answer for a moment, then nodded.]

A lot of people seem to know a "Zatanna". For all you know, it could've been another mixup. [Testing you now.]

now video; still anonymous; still strongly batcrypted.

[demon_brat]

[Damian arches an eyebrow at the screen.]

You haven't known him very long, have you.

[It's a guess. But one that he is rather certain in. Because... because Grayson can make a guess as to what is going on in his head even better than Damian can himself, and he has no doubt the other version shares that. Especially since the conversations they have had.]

And among those who answered over the network and seem to know a Zatanna, he was the only one who did not expect you to be older. As in older than him, even.

been video; still thinks you're overly paranoid

[backwordscompatible]

No. I haven't. [She's completely willing to admit that, even though it's not really any of his business. And, oh, hi. You're younger than she was expecting.] We met about a month ago, I think.

[No matter how good he might've been at "guessing", however, that still didn't change her opinion of a first-hand account.]

Oh, please. This is Kid Flash. He was too busy pretending to flirt. I could've showed up with green hair, and he wouldn't've noticed. [A joke. Because she knew Wally hadn't actually been serious and would've noticed green hair.]

Very astute observation.

[demon_brat]

[Didn't Wally tell you this part? And Robin stares for a moment - you can't see that he's blinking behind the white-out lenses, but.]

So... I've actually known him - this one - longer than you have.

[Huh.]

[Annnd Damian stares.]

And that... makes a difference when it comes to who he will recognize or not?

[He hasn't had first-hand experience with West back home, when they talked here flirting wasn't a thing, and - well. Even with Grayson, that hasn't been much of a distraction. Se he's... kind of confused by that. Not for long, because he crosses his arms with a >Tt.< - but the reaction is still there.]

[backwordscompatible]

[She knew the other Robin was 'younger'. What she didn't know was that he looked small enough to fit in a breadbox. Or at least an overhead storage container.]

If it's true he's really been here as long as he has...then, yeah, I guess.

[She gives a fairly casual shrug. The whole concept of relative time was still giving her a headache. Best not to dwell on that sort of thing.]

Oh, you'd be surprised how easily he can distract himself from certain things.

[demon_brat]

[... like her own Robin isn't skinny and flexible enough to fit in the latter. Plus, stuffing this one in an overhead storage container will probably end in bloodshed. Sooner or later.]

He has been.

[Come on, it is not that difficult. ... actually, just ask the Doctor.]

Not all things, though.

[backwordscompatible]

[Excuse you. And that sounds more like a challenge than anything else....]

I'm still not entirely sure how that's possible.

['Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey' is not an explanation.]

It would've been enough for an initial conversation. My point is, you've been listening in, haven't you?

[demon_brat]

[You know it's true. And, well, less than a challenge and more a statement of fact.]

One of the options is time working differently here and there - like in a dream. Another may be that this is not actually real at all - there are technical and magical means both to achieve an effect similar to what is here. There are other possibilities, as well, if you really look for them.

[Damian is not very big on 'impossible,' really.
... of course not. That is the description, the explanation has a lot more words in it.]

[And Robin stills for a moment, then shrugs.]

I listen to most public conversations, here.

[backwordscompatible]

Feels pretty real to me.

[She might be willing to believe the notion of time moving differently, if it hadn't been for Wally seemingly coming from the future. That was what really threw her off.]

...that's kind of rude, you know.

[demon_brat]

It would be supposed to.

[... well, there are people coming from WWII. And a random knight in a shining armor. If it's Wally that throws her off, she can suit herself.]

It's practical.

[Not bothered by being called rude at all.]

[backwordscompatible]

[Well, people from WWI and knights in shining armor can easily be passed off as alternate universes. Wally can't.]

I can't say I'm all that surprised...but it's still rude.

[demon_brat]

[Zatanna, your logic is so fascinating.]

Why?

[backwordscompatible]

Because, unless they're people you know personally...it's really not any of your business.