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[her_own_rules]

[ She's nothing if not hyper suspicious of even the smallest details, at times.
You'll get to learn that all over again—for the first time.


Maybe. Just maybe. Somewhere in it is also the fact she trusts him enough that she doesn't want to have to safely couch her words for "public consumption" when she could just be answering him honestly, too. ]

I go back and forth on that, myself.

There hasn't been a duplicate of me here, the way there have been of all the boys since coming here. What would it be like to have another of myself? In our places. Or even in the wires. This place already feels too small more than half the time.

[newsbeat]

You'd probably get into fewer arguments than some people. Not naming names.

No kidding. I think it's worse because it looks like a city but there's fewer people here than in Smallville.

[her_own_rules]

It's a wonder that having two of them—and having them process their being two of them, or three—is still worse than having two Dick's, and three of Jason's at a time.

He's not fond of dealing with himself.


There's a great irony there that he's even less fond of.

[ It's a careful truth, that neither lies nor insults. Bruce Wayne can be the ultimate asshole at times. To the people he loves and needs to survive at all most of all. But there's only one person Barbara respects more at the end of the day. And she knows that he needs her in a way other people can't fill—and how much that both isn't a compliment (and is) and is her responsibility. Either way. ]

[newsbeat]

Third one is at least a different guy. I'm not sure we could take three of the absolute same guy. And...yeah, I've noticed.

[Clark likes both Bruces. He does, even if one is easier than the other — well, not easier, but they understand each other a little more. But both Bruces are sufficiently Bruce that even without having known either of them before Etraya, he's not surprised they have trouble getting along.]

Not that I want anyone to leave, but I do wonder about the logic of bringing doubles here. If there even was any logic.

[her_own_rules]

Not Kirk. There was another Bruce here before you & the Bruce from my world/time arrived. He was older. Much, much older.

[ It's not lost on her that they never got close, but she still feels a need not to start off with the grey hair or the fact he always needed the cane. He wasn't her Bruce—but he was what their Bruce might be someday.

Age-wise.

But. Also. If he lost all of them.
There's that protectiveness. Still. ]

Were alternate universes a thing in your world before you came here?

[newsbeat]

Oh gosh.

[What else can he say to that? Not much. But he can say it, or think it, with intensity. Gosh.]

As a concept, sure. Not something I ever had firsthand experience with. The closest thing was a pocket universe Luthor made and I don't think that really counts.

[her_own_rules]

[ It tugs the barest smile. Some things are Clark Kent through and through, no matter the universe, apparently. It tugs her from the stray thoughts.

(Where is he now? Is he home? Is he safe? At least as safe as any Batman, or Bruce Wayne, can be?
Will she forever not know, or only be left to wonder it? To hope regardless of proof?) ]

My world has been dealing with alternate universes—and alternate versions of people from those universes, and people who exist in both, or in one but not the other—for a long time. It's a pretty sizable staple at times, actually. Across universes, dimensions, and from the past and the future.

Enough that there are rules and ways of handling them,
depending on the severity of each event's circumstances.

[ But more to the point, and her question, and his comment before it. ]

Enough that it's pretty well understood, but those who have to deal with it know that the people on each side are still people, just different people at that. Which, maybe, Echo is using here, too. Testing the version differences for whatever it's looking for in its 'World Defenders.'

[newsbeat]

Not that I want to single out your world, because all worlds have their own wrinkles and there's plenty of complicated stuff happening in mine, for sure.
But it sounds like yours has a lot going on. Makes me worry a little bit sometimes.

[Like, what is going on there.]

I could see that being the case. Really wish I couldn't.

[her_own_rules]

[ Barbara isn't one pithiness or platitudes, but it is at the start and end of the day their world. Her world. The one where her father is. Steph and Cass. Dinah, and the Birds—all of the Birds, past and present. All of the Justice League; the same. And so many others, known and not. Heroes and everyday people.

A world she loves. A world she will fight for until she can't.
Until her spine no longer works. And then her fingers.
And she'll never stop trying even then.

She's shown it so many times. ]

Being a hero, in any world, is not for the faint of heart. You can't choose where you are born; but you can choose where you take a stand. So we do. No matter what comes at us, no matter how many times or how many ways.


It's not something a lot of them talk about a lot here. Understandably.

[newsbeat]

[That makes him smile, sincerely.]

I couldn't have said it better.

Yeah. I just wish we had better communication in general.

[her_own_rules]

[ It's an easy enough compliment to take—and it does matter,
even if he isn't the Clark from their world.

(Maybe even especially because he isn't.) ]

Which we—with Echo, or with certain people among the Bats and Birds?



[ He could say yes, and she wouldn't be surprised. ]

[newsbeat]

Well. I was thinking Echo, but.

[She said it not him.]

[her_own_rules]

[ It earns the huff of a laugh,
even if he's not there for it.

Fair. ]


I feel the same.

Even the pieces put together on the network aren't more than picking up and translating scraps and echoes. It's not actual communication from the top. And after so many years in, it feels almost too convenient that no world of someone pulled in has been given a single red or green light, either, only unrelated ones we've been sent to.

[newsbeat]

Yeah. And sometimes convenient things happen, sure. I'm not going to automatically assume bad faith.

[But he's not going to assume good faith, either.]

I do wonder whether this is a choice on their part or based on a truly alien way of seeing things. They might not even realize why it's a problem. Or maybe they do, who knows.