one } voice; un: jane doe (they know what everybody knows)

[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.]

Comments

[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. ]