vigilantics | week 3, sunday

Entry tags:

* grimmoired,
belph

week 3, sunday

[ stephanie is in her bedroom, which isn't a surprise. she's also awake, given that it's been hours since the execution and the sound of people knocking on and off has since made it kind of hard to sleep.

anyway. so belph. ]

Um.

[ she has no idea what to say. ]

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Being a vigilante was about the most useful thing I ever did, and I only ever started being good at it after becoming Batgirl.

[ she sits up, wincing slightly. ]

Back home, I have this friend. Babs. She used to be Batgirl a couple of years back, and she was amazing. But then she got shot by this psychopath, and was paralyzed from the waist down. But Babs, ya know, she's smart. A genius, even. She realized she could no longer fight crime in the literal sense, so now she's doing it in the... digital one? She does a lot of crazy stuff with computers and our jobs would be a lot harder without her. But I'm not Babs. I can't really bring something like that to the table.

... So, you're concerned that your leg will hold you back too much?

Everyone will take one look at me, and they'll know that they were right all along. "Oh, poor Stephanie, she had to do something on her own and look how badly she messed that up."

And I guess they're right? Although this is still better than last time.

[...]

And if we put aside what everyone else thinks? What is that you want to do, Steph?

Good.

[ she knows that is a vague answer, but it pretty much encompasses all of her feelings on the matter. ]

Maybe I'll figure something out later. But... when I saw Tiger's claws come out and go towards me, my first thought was, "I'm going to die," it was, "Don't take Batgirl from me." So...

... Then don't give up on it. If it's everything to you, hold onto it.

Without your dream, there's nothing left.

[belph is definitely not speaking from experience or anything.]

] of course he isn't. never. ]

You can sound pretty romantic sometimes.

I'm always romantic.

[he is the complete opposite of romantic.]

...

Sure!

I'm almost hurt by your doubt.

You haven't even offered me a hug to console me after a great trauma... so I dunno.

You'll have to go into... hmm. No, Hikage and Shirasu aren't the hugging type either...

[ she actually sputters ]

Shirasu?

[ look. she's used to belph bringing up her partner at moments like these but she wasn't prepared for that name. ]