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Jaime's cell phone is more or less plugged riiiight into his brain, so he tends to pick up like 99% of the time! If not, however...
"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."
If you want to reach Blue Beetle, his voice is technologically altered, a slight robotic tinniness to his otherwise human voice.
"You've reached Blue Beetle. Leave a message after the beep."
"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."
If you want to reach Blue Beetle, his voice is technologically altered, a slight robotic tinniness to his otherwise human voice.
"You've reached Blue Beetle. Leave a message after the beep."
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[He was almost one of them, caught in the Bleed, and the Justice League was on that case. He's still fidgeting without really thinking about it, getting crumbs all over the table before he ends up just setting the cookie down.]
Twenty-three people on my end. There was a hurricane - man-made hurricane, just some guy with powers looking for a quick buck. They would've been okay, but they weren't good enough for the tourist hotels to let them inside.
[His voice is flat as he recollects this, but there's something quietly angry underneath it. He's still angry when he thinks about it - angry, and sad, and guilty all at once, because while the Reach have proven themselves time and time again to be really bad guys, humans should know better when it comes to their own kind at the very least. And if there had been just one more hotel willing to let them in, even just one more guy with superpowers, they might have lived.
He can't say the same about what's going on here.]
This is a bit bigger than that.
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The anger in his tone does surprise her, but she's almost... glad to hear it, to know that this is something he does get angry about. She'd be furious, too, she is angry, just knowing that happened, but now isn't the time for it.]
It is. [a hell of a lot bigger.] This is bigger than anything I've done, too, and I really don't know if it's gonna get any easier.
[She won't lie to him about that, and she takes a breath, running her fingers through her hair as she tries to decide what to say next.] What matters is that we're making a difference, whether it's one person or a thousand. And I know that's hard to keep in mind after we lost a battle, but we delivered a hell of a blow to the United Earth's forces, and that's a lot better than having done nothing.
[She isn't sure if that's what he wants, or needs, to hear, but she's trying.]
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[He would worry, if it did. He doesn't want to become the type of person to just become jaded by death. Even if they can be regenerated here, it's something to take seriously. He refuses to just let it become normal, even if that would be the easier way to go.]
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[Not that it's gotten any easier for her, but she's not going to judge anyone who might become a little numb to the things they have to see.]
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Just because it shouldn't doesn't mean it won't, for some people. It's not like this is something that should be happening in the first place.
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[Considering all of them shouldn't happen, in her opinion, though at least war is more... normal, in a terrible sort of way.]
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You get used to the kidnapping, too. At least the Initiative don't have us cuffed to anything.
[So very, very wry. It wasn't even vigilante things that got her kidnapped most of the time, just her dad and his stupid friends.]
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He may not have been in this whole superhero business long, but as far as he's concerned, kidnapping shouldn't play a role in it.]
You've been kidnapped before?
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More than I'd care to admit. Daddy dearest used to like having a hostage, and then it's just one of those things that comes with being a sidekick.
[Not that she'd admit to being a sidekick most days, but still.]
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...Daddy dearest?
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[Most of the vigilantes and criminals in Gotham knew that Spoiler was Arthur Brown's little girl; she got used to everyone she met knowing that sort of thing.]
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Oh man, [he says, mouth tugged into a frown of sympathy if not empathy - he can't empathize with any of that, neither the evidently abusive parent nor the kidnapping.] That's... gotta suck.
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On the plus side, I've never lost a game of riddles.
[Humour is the best coping mechanism.]
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That's one way of looking on the bright side, [he says lightly, not quite indulging in the humour, but not dissuading her from a change of topic either.]
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I can find a positive in anything. [Which isn't entirely true, but there's a certain image that Batgirl needs to project.] Even this place has its upsides.
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Yeah? Like what?
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Nevermind that she was pregnant at his age; he seems a lot more innocent than she ever was.]
Even I won't remember any of this when I go home, I'm glad for the people I've gotten to meet. [Ellie, mostly, but Collette, too. Dick, even if she knows him at home as well, it's not the same. Saul, sort of.] I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Yeah. I can get that.