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Tweak says, "I got you this gazelle carcass"

eddie likes to (riddlethem) wrote in doors,
@ 2014-03-26 19:05:00

Entry tags:

catwoman, riddler, stephanie brown

[Private to Selina K]
[Right after reading this.]

Meow face.

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-28 03:02 am UTC (link)
	Tell that to allll the people I let die on Earth-3. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 03:48 am UTC (link)
	Edward, we're going around in circles, and I don't believe you. Are we shifting this conversation? I just wanted to be sure before we did. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Selina K/Eddie N

riddlethem
2014-03-28 04:12 am UTC (link)

We're going in circles because you think this is about you and it's not. I spent five years choosing the mission over people. Stephanie did too sometimes. It's how we're programmed. And, what's worse, is that if I got in my head that I was right, then I didn't think anyone was going to get sacrificed. That's what happened with you. That's what happened for a long time on Earth-3 until I saw the bodies of my friends pile up.

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 04:21 am UTC (link)
	Okay, tell me about Earth-3. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Selina K/Eddie N

riddlethem
2014-03-28 04:29 am UTC (link)

[Blink.] You know how hard I was trying to prove I could be a do-gooder? Well I got my wish and dragged Stephanie along for the ride. One second we're making waffles, the next we're getting hailed by Jokester in a middle of a war zone to fight Owlman. The best part, Selina, is that I thought me showing up was a blessing to these people. That I'd help save them instead of just post-pone their deaths a couple years.

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 04:36 am UTC (link)
	[The Syndicate isn't exactly her favorite subject.] I can't say I like Owlman very much. So, you went back? But not home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-28 04:40 am UTC (link)
	Exactly. And, in my universe the Syndicate laid waste to any kind of resistance in a matter of months. With me and Steph there convincing everyone to fight the good fight we extended life expectancy, but didn't really make any headway. We were next on the chopping block when we got zapped back. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 04:42 am UTC (link)
	We were fighting when I got zapped back here, but there were only four of us left standing at the time. I can't say the odds were very good. [...] How long? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-28 04:45 am UTC (link)
	Odds are never good against them. If you knew how many times I jump at a noise thinking they boom tubed after me you'd laugh. [Blink.] I didn't know you went up against the Syndicate. Was it all rogues against them or..? [Blink.] Five years. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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spacecowboys
2014-03-28 04:54 am UTC (link)

No, no rogues. Just us. It's what brought the Leagues together, somewhat, since it was all JLA plus one left standing. Maybe the rogues turned on them after I left, since Lex was running them at the time. Or maybe Owlman and Ultraman finally tore each other to bits over a woman. I don't know. [The cursor blinks.] Five years with the Syndicate? How the Hell did you manage five years against that? [And the cursor blinks and blinks.] I was worried they were here before. Do you think they're here now?

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Re: Selina K/Eddie N

riddlethem
2014-03-28 05:07 am UTC (link)

We were hoping they'd rip each other apart eventually, but I think Owlman liked playing with us too much. We're too fun. [Blink, blink.] Hiding, mostly. I'm an Arkham rogue first, so I know how to lay low for a long time without being detected. We had a literal underground base that worked out pretty nicely until it got raided. [Bliiiiiiiiiiiiink.] Well, it'd make sense to me. When I'm bored at night and I can't sleep and this fucking door doesn't open to Atwood anymore? I research all the little Syndicate rumors that pop up. There's talk of more facilities than the one you broke into.

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 05:50 am UTC (link)
	I take it being back here is a blessing and curse, then? [The cursor blinks.] Maybe it's just a name. No one followed you, right? That isn't possible, is it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Selina K/Eddie N

riddlethem
2014-03-28 05:59 am UTC (link)

I'm glad I don't have to fight anymore. But, I don't really know anything else. [Blink, blink, blink.] Muerte mentioned something on the journals about feeling an earthquake and I thought it might be Owlman following us back. Honestly, I don't even know how to prepare for the Syndicate coming here. Watchtower or not, the League is too green. They'll get wasted. So, maybe it's better if we just pretend it's not possible.

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	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 08:04 am UTC (link)
	[The cursor blinks forever.] This world, this Gotham can't stand against the Syndicate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-28 08:10 am UTC (link)
	And, that's why I can't get comfortable. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 08:15 am UTC (link)
	Comfortable or not, it doesn't change the facts. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-28 08:17 am UTC (link)
	What can we do? Waste time worrying about it? Warn the others? I've done this song and dance when there was actually a tiny window that things could go right and we still lost. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 08:20 am UTC (link)
	Even if Bruce manages to get all the little birds into the nest, and even if he brings the League in too. Even if all the hate that's eating at people in the Batfamily disappears, and I can't see that happening overnight. Even then, we can't win. I saw a much stronger Gotham fall to the Syndicate and, so it seems, did you. No, Eddie, maybe we just hope. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-28 08:23 am UTC (link)
	[Blink. Smile.] How much of that stuff do you have left? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 08:25 am UTC (link)
	I might be able to scrounge some up for a special occasion. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N riddlethem 2014-03-28 08:26 am UTC (link)
	I'll see if I can steal a little from Stephanie, then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Selina K/Eddie N spacecowboys 2014-03-28 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe it'll be enough. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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