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[scathefires]

Who wants to help me settle a bet? I've got two questions if you do.

One - do you have an expression where you're from that goes "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"?

And two - what the hell do horseshoes and hand grenades have to do with each other anyway?

private to seifer and nida.

So we never went camping, back in the village.

[that's. pathetic, but it's the best he can do for offering an olive branch to his brothers.]

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[doesnotsparkle]

I know that saying, granted, I've only really heard it in my time living in America. The best example I can think of for what they have to do with each other is you can have close calls with hand grenades,while the game horseshoes seems to count when you get close enough to count.

It is the best i have, I have never played the game, but I have dodged a hand grenade before.

[scathefires]

Hmm ... well, the part about hand grenades makes sense, I guess I just don't know enough about horseshoes to make that connection. Didn't really have a lot of countryside where I grew up.

[doesnotsparkle]

Well, that narrows a lot down. A city native.

[scathefires]

Born and raised. Too much open space makes me nervous. Last place I was dumped was like that, but I don’t remember any horses.

[doesnotsparkle]

I am quite the opposite, I was born in an open seaside community in Napfioli, it took me awhile to adjust to cities, but I also have never been around horses. Outside of the steel kind.

[ Ghost Rider's taken him for a rider on that terrifying bike before. Plus, Jack used to pick him up from work on his bike to. ]

[scathefires]

Guess you can get used to just about anything, given enough exposure. I never thought I'd get used to getting dumped in weird corners of the multiverse, but here we are.

[doesnotsparkle]

Given as someone in my unusual predicament, I can confirm, you get used to anything after a few minor freak outs.

[ And a good cry or two.]

Hopefully this will be my only stop in the multiverse, but I to have heard how these things work.

[scathefires]

If this is your only layover, I'd say you're pretty lucky. I know a few people who've been through a few places like me.

[doesnotsparkle]

Considering I am never lucky, something tells me this is just the first of many.

[scathefires]

Wow, Mike. I think you’re even more depressing to talk to than me. My hat’s off to you.

[doesnotsparkle]

I would apologize but you keep calling me Mike, I feel this is fair.

[scathefires]

[he's definitely not wrong.]

Sorry - must just keep slipping my mind. All those traumatic brain injuries I keep getting.

[most of that is. not exactly true.]

[doesnotsparkle]

....

[ He arched a brow at that.]

Pray tell, just how often do you have traumatic brain injuries?

[scathefires]

Not as often as I used to. Hard to tell when the last time was, with all this jumping around from place to place, but it was back in Gotham. I, uh ... got in a fight and ended up blowing up the building we were both still inside.

[doesnotsparkle]

... My dearest friend, you have such a phantasmagorical life.

[scathefires]

[that brings out a laugh from jason that is both warm and open.]

Yeah, I guess that’s a word for it. Apparently, in some places, my life’s a comic book, so that might explain it.

[doesnotsparkle]

I would assume my own could be, the world I mean. With people like the Avengers and Spiderman, it seems rather fiction worthy.

[scathefires]

Oh, you know the Avengers? I met a few of ‘em in the last place I got spirited away to. Wasn’t super impressed.

[doesnotsparkle]

Their not impressive, their mostly a pain in my ass if I'm perfectly honest. But, they keep me out of Jail so I have to play nice.

[scathefires]

Yeah, do-gooder types usually are a pain in the ass.

[jason knows a little something about that from experience.]

I tried playing nice for a while. Didn't work out so well for me, so I gave it up.

[doesnotsparkle]

[ Michael nodded. ]

Seems we agree mostly, I simply keep trying for my own sake, no one elses.

[scathefires]

All I ever got from tryin’ to be something I’m not is ... a headache.

[that’s not all. he also got killed. 🙃]

[doesnotsparkle]

And this is why I carry aspirin.

[ Did he? no, it doesn't work for him, but it seemed funny to say. ]