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[peckish4action]

So, I'm still new here so I thought I could ask.

If you can't contact somebody and you can't find them around the island, does that mean they've gone back home? Or something's happened to them? Or something else entirely?

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[peckish4action]

Batman doesn't like guns!

[The comment comes in too quick, then Dick bites his lower lip, but forges on.]

Back in my world, Batman's Red Robin's mentor. I am not really acquainted with Red Robin, not like that, but I don't imagine he'd like guns, either.

But I see what you mean. It's... I think there are different sides to it. On the one hand, you can't expect to become a vigilante and just... have people's trust. It'd take years to earn it. The same as a good police officer would, really, only since there are usually fewer vigilantes, they are under way more scrutiny. Also, they have less backup.

Another thing is that the Avengers? Red Robin? They're still people. Sure, they put themselves over the law, to one degree or another. But they make mistakes, too. That's part of why people judge them.

... sorry, I - Batman is a big thing in Gotham, where I come from. Batman and Robin. Especially since the police force was really... corrupt, when they started out, well. A boy's gotta have people to look up to, right?

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[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

Smart man, Batman - I don't like guns, either. But, like the badge, they provide me a means to fight crime and keep order I would not have otherwise. I'm not... bad at hand to hand combat. But I'm not great, either, and most criminals aren't so kind as to not carry weapons themselves. I'd only get in the way or get myself killed, if I went in unarmed. I'm no Batman, or even Red Robin.

And like you said - it would take years to earn trust as a vigilante. Those are years this city doesn't have, without people enforcing the laws - and we don't have enough of those, just now. Plus - I admire people who devote their lives to this. I really do. But that's... not me.