[ Friend things and flirting things are really hard to separate, as it turns out. Maybe friend things have kind of been flirting things this whole time. Or maybe friend things before are why flirting things are happening now. Or maybe they should examine why flirting things just kind of happen to them. It's complicated.

But Dick sighs patiently. ]

I mean you're the only person on Earth who's ever gotten past my tentacles of self-preservation. [ fingerwiggle ] And unless you're gonna try to convince me to tell the rest of the team who their fearless kinda-leader really is, it's gonna stay that way.