unrecked | rupert

[Yeah. Like a psychotic clown. Or a man who thinks he's a penguin. Or a guy with two halves of a face. It's fine.]

No, no magic. Batman would loathe to hear you say that, too. He hates magic. [Jason also doesn't much care for magic. It's a Bat thing.] They're capable because they're well-trained.

And they also have a lot of gadgets.

[He'd say they have a lot of money, but maybe that is too on the nose and would give Bruce away. "Rupert doesn't know who the fuck Bruce is." Still.]

Why does he hate magic? That's weird. [but anyways.] Ohh... Gadgets make sense. Like phones?

[the height of technology, in his very limited experience.]

I don't know. I guess because he runs on logic, and he doesn't have any to use.

[(bruce, in an annoyed voice) SCIENCE!]

Kind of. A little more advanced and a little more militaristic. Thermal radars, jets, the Batmobile, trackers. Things like that.

Magic isn't illogical, though...

[spoken like someone from a fantasy bullshit world!! anyways. his face makes it clear he understands 0/4 of those things.]

I... see.

[he absolutely doesn't.]

You didn’t understand a damn thing I just said, did you?

[Royce didn’t understand a lot of the shit he said either.]

Don’t worry about it.

Yeah, no, I'm drawing a blank on all four.

[a little self consciously, but he perks up as he continues on.]

But if you wanted to tell me what they are, I bet I'd think they're really cool!

[nerd.]

[Wow. This is a nerd.]

I don't know if you'd understand even if I told you what they were. But I could maybe draw them. I'm not an artist.

[I'm a murderer.]

If you wanted to, sure!

[can't wait until he draws them and rupert continues to obnoxiously ask what they do.]

[Why this.

Acting like this is sooo begrudging, he meanders over to the desk to sit down, pull the piece of paper and pen the hotel gave them down. He doesn't want to waste his paper on drawing pointless (to him) stuff, so he uses one corner on the backside.

He does the Batmobile first. It looks like this. Jason isn't a master artist, but he actually draws decently well?

Bats.]

—Oh, it's like a train! I've been on one of those before!

[swing and a miss!!]

Uh.

[He looks at what he drew. Like. Okay. He'll give a quarter of that to Rupert. The Batmobile kind of has a train-ish shape. Sort of.] It's a car. [He wants to say "so close," but it is not close.]

It doesn't run on any rails. Batman drives it. How about this one?

[He will doodle...a jet. The bat jet.]

So it's like a train, but one that isn't on a track? So you don't have to go in a specific direction like you would on a train?

[tilting his head, and then kind of making a face.]

I've been on one of those once, but I didn't get to hear what it was called.

Yeah—that’s called a car.

[HELP.

He glances up.] A jet. Well, a plane, but this is specifically a jet. [He draws, like, the approximation of a thermal radar. Kind of hard to show.]

This is a radar that shows you body temperature.

Wow...

[the future is cool!! he squints at the thermal radar, though.]

What's the point of that?

Making sure no one can ever get away from you, not even in the dark.

[>:)]

[a pause of decent length ensues...]

...Okay then! What's the next one?

No point in drawing it really. It's a tracker. About yea big--[He holds up two fingers to indicate size.]--and you stick it on something you want to keep track of.

Kind of like the thermal radar, but this one you just track the ping. Also, if someone is smart, they can get rid of it.

Oh, so... Like, if you wanted to know where someone was, you'd put it on their clothes or something?

Yeah, like that. Maybe not where they can see it, though.

Did you use that kind of thing a lot...? It sounds kind of intense.

Not all the time. Batman is who you should be more worried about bugging you.

[tilting his head with a frown]

But only criminals, right?

[haha

inwardly sweating]

I mean, Batman would probably bug you too if he needed to follow you for information.

...This kind of feels like it's getting more sketchy the more I know.

It wouldn't be Batman if it didn't feel sketchy.

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