That too. There's definitely been more than one in my universe, but don't ask me how many.
[Not because it's a secret, per se - just because he doesn't actually know. There are a few pitfalls that come of not being interested at all in superheroes until he had abruptly become one, and a lack of knowledge about the community as a whole is one of them.
Including the number of Robins. Have there been two? Twenty? Nobody knows.]
How'd you know that, anyway? Have you run into much alternate universe stuff yet?
Yeah, but at least I don't have to live with it. It happened back home. And... I'm guessing you've got the guy-who-doesn't-know-you problem going on here, yeah?
Yep. It was just the one time, though - I think it's something that the Justice League has to deal with a lot more. You mean you guys haven't run into it back home yet?
Unless you're in the superhero business, in which case it makes perfect sense.]
Yikes. Sounds like you guys have been busy. So... gorillas? Are you talking about the Ultra Humanite, or is there more than one evil ape running around?
[Jaime's brow wrinkles, something that could easily be mistaken for contemplation about evil gorillas, but it can just as easily be taken for him listening to something else.]
Gorilla Grodd: gorilla supervillain. Daniel Garrett fought him.
[So apparently fighting evil gorillas is some sort of legacy thing. Who knew?]
Huh. So we got more than one evil gorilla, and so do you guys. I feel like I was led to believe I'd be running into a lot more evil bears and wolves - [and tigers and lions, oh my?] - and stuff like that than gorillas. Talk about false advertising.
[ See, certain things don't escape Robin's notice, and one of them is someone going quiet and squinty and then suddenly having more information than they did a second ago. That reads SUSPICIOUS in large blinking letters. ]
Huh, did I? [Wait...] And you actually caught onto that? For all you know, I just really don't like the smell of, uh... [He peers over the side of the building.]
All that non-existent trash out there. Wow. This city's really clean.
[Okay, he's just bullshitting because he usually saves the whole 'there's a computer living in my brain and it talks to me literally all the time' talk for second impressions at least.]
Also, I have an AI inside me that talks to me sometimes.
So. AI, huh? [ Hey, at least Robin's taking it well. Then again, it's getting pretty hard to surprise him these days. ] With specialized gorilla knowledge? Gorillapedia?
Though then again, he is taking it rather well, not making noises about him being a cyborg or the AI being imaginary or anything, which is always a happy occurrence. Jaime doesn't think that the Scarab is all that weird, all things considered, but other people seem to get a little wigged out by it... or they're just giving him a hard time.]
But uh, yeah, an AI. It's not specifically interested in gorillas? It just knows which ones are overtly supervillainy, for some reason.
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[Not because it's a secret, per se - just because he doesn't actually know. There are a few pitfalls that come of not being interested at all in superheroes until he had abruptly become one, and a lack of knowledge about the community as a whole is one of them.
Including the number of Robins. Have there been two? Twenty? Nobody knows.]
How'd you know that, anyway? Have you run into much alternate universe stuff yet?
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[ He's getting used to it, but it's still strange. Still, he shrugs like it doesn't bother him in the least. ]
What do you think is weirder, when a stranger knows you, or when you're the stranger to someone else?
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Man, I ran into one alternate universe version of a friend who wound up killing me in that universe. Trust me, the weird never actually stops.
[He actually stops to think about that one, though.]
I wanna say the second one. It sounds like it would suck more, anyway.
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I dunno, I think the murder-friend thing might be worse. Maybe the worst. Ever.
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Unless you're in the superhero business, in which case it makes perfect sense.]
Yikes. Sounds like you guys have been busy. So... gorillas? Are you talking about the Ultra Humanite, or is there more than one evil ape running around?
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Gorilla Grodd.
[Jaime's brow wrinkles, something that could easily be mistaken for contemplation about evil gorillas, but it can just as easily be taken for him listening to something else.]
Gorilla Grodd: gorilla supervillain. Daniel Garrett fought him.
[So apparently fighting evil gorillas is some sort of legacy thing. Who knew?]
Huh. So we got more than one evil gorilla, and so do you guys. I feel like I was led to believe I'd be running into a lot more evil bears and wolves - [and tigers and lions, oh my?] - and stuff like that than gorillas. Talk about false advertising.
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What was that all about?
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[If he sounds innocent... that's because he is. C'mon, Robin, you can't expect him to know what his face is doing at all times.]
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[ Robin squints, cocking his head a little. ]
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All that non-existent trash out there. Wow. This city's really clean.
[Okay, he's just bullshitting because he usually saves the whole 'there's a computer living in my brain and it talks to me literally all the time' talk for second impressions at least.]
Also, I have an AI inside me that talks to me sometimes.
[Smooth.]
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[ SO SMUG. ]
So. AI, huh? [ Hey, at least Robin's taking it well. Then again, it's getting pretty hard to surprise him these days. ] With specialized gorilla knowledge? Gorillapedia?
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[YOU'RE NOT SO TOUGH, ROBIN...!
Though then again, he is taking it rather well, not making noises about him being a cyborg or the AI being imaginary or anything, which is always a happy occurrence. Jaime doesn't think that the Scarab is all that weird, all things considered, but other people seem to get a little wigged out by it... or they're just giving him a hard time.]
But uh, yeah, an AI. It's not specifically interested in gorillas? It just knows which ones are overtly supervillainy, for some reason.
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