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[ There's no voice, no response, just a different change in the quality of the sound to indicate that a message is being recorded. ]
[ There's no voice, no response, just a different change in the quality of the sound to indicate that a message is being recorded. ]
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Date: 2014-09-06 09:39 pm (UTC)From:Dick's brow furrows behind the mask. Provisions? ... Family? And the rest of it — oh, he knows this is an important talk, but he doesn't know what ground is safe to tread upon. The talk of family, he doesn't know how to prepare for that. It's not a comfortable topic for either of them. But the responsibility, that legacy... he thinks he has the words for that. ]
I wanted this, you know. I knew the risks. I still do.
[ Because the legacy that Bruce is worried about... that's the one that matters to Dick. ]
And I don't regret any of it. I don't know who I'd be without it, but I know I'm better because of what you taught me.
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Date: 2014-09-17 09:12 pm (UTC)From:There's silence for a while. I wanted this. I knew the risks. I don't regret any of it. I don't know who I'd be without it. They're all things that Bruce understands himself on an intense personal level; they're all choices he made for himself. Dick had been given two opportunities to walk away from that mantle: the first, arriving here on his own months ago, the second when he'd been confronted by a strange Bruce Wayne, a man who didn't really know him, except from stalking conversations with Alfred. He could have abandoned it, but he has pride in it; in what he's doing, in who he is.
That's what he's really inherited. The bat itself could come and go, but the spirit of it is a part of Robin. It isn't just a name and a symbol, it's an unspoken promise, a bond, a legacy. It's at the heart of everything. ]
If you need anything, speak to Alfred. Repairs, financing, technology.
[ He seemed contented somehow by what Dick had said. If he had anything more to add on the subject it had been tucked away for later. ]
Your team. It's growing?