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So, we've got a lot of people talking about finding stuff to do, or like, being kind of out of synch with the rest of us, timeline wise - between psycho brain experiments anyway, dude, really? - and since Lydia was talking about movie nights and stuff, I was thinking we should watch Star Wars again.

I know it's weird doing this kind of thing when like, people know about some of us from movies or whatever, but where I'm from, if you wanna get by in the 21st century, you've gotta see it.

Actually, maybe we should make a list. What other pop culture stuff should people definitely know about?

[This post is brought to you by Peter being really unwilling to discuss certain things.]

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[... He probably should have said this earlier, but he didn't, and he's not sure he's sorry about that. He's needed some time, and so has Powers, probably, because just. Jeez. Way to hit close to home, flood.]

Look, you can totally ignore this, or not respond or whatever, [He won't be offended.] But I wasn't trying to mess with you. I don't even know what any of that was. The Batman I've heard about isn't some teenager in the future.

So. Sorry. Believe me, I wasn't planning on any of that.

[For a lot of reasons, most of which he's not sure he wants to discuss with you. It's for the best, considering he still doesn't love talking about his own depressing origin story. u_u]

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It has nothing to do with me being a warden, it's that I've done this already. I mean, obviously you don't care, but stuff like this is why people turn into superheroes or criminals.

So what? More like so everything. Believe it or not, there've been plenty of successful people who haven't turned into radioactive murderers.

It has nothing to do with being a warden? More like it has everything to do with being an inmate. As soon as I arrived I was as good as branded; there's the idea that I had to have done something worthy of a sentence here, and so you're all on a witch hunt to try and find it. Only right and wrong are objective terms, and it's not my fault mine don't correlate with yours.

Far as I understand it, there are plenty of reasons for a person to turn to a life of vigilantism. Or of crime. Of course there's always a story, it wouldn't make for the time spent worth relating it otherwise. But I'm sure you don't stop to consider the life stories of every single person you cross paths with for more than a second. So why should I?

Because not doing it this time? Made you like this. Not Batman, not his dad, not other people's business strategies: you did it, because you decided you didn't care about McGinnis. If you're that pissed off about it ruining your life, you should care about that if nothing else.

But whatever. Obviously you've got this all figured out, so you can totally go back to feeling self satisfied about your eternity stuck here putting up with the Admiral because you're totally not supposed to be here. I'm sure that's super fun to lord over people.

[His face affixes itself in a silent snarl, and there's a long pause where he contemplates shutting the line off by hurling his communicator into the wall, during which his anger is so heated it wouldn't be a surprise if Peter could somehow hear it.]

Who's attempting to lord over whom right now?

[He almost lost it during the flood - not once, but twice. It's only by reminding himself of that failing this time he's able to dial it back again. And even then, it's only barely.

He knew responding to this would likely end up being a mistake.]

I don't know why, out of all the possibilities, you ended up getting thrown into that suit during all of this. But regardless of your own personal history, it doesn't make you an expert on much of anything: not Gotham, not it's so-called heroes, and certainly not my own history.

You're just a boy, who signed up for this pleasure cruise in pursuit of some pipe dream ideal you should have long outgrown. You get this one, this time, for free, because as you said...it was an accident.

I won't be so forgiving in the future. Interpret that however you will. It's nothing less than what you've been doing this entire conversation anyway.

[Peter doesn't bother responding. He might be a sassy idiot, but he knows you're not listening even a tiny bit, so why bother? He's got his own issues to work out thanks to the flood.]

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