Tim: because you live in Bludhaven! That's forever away from me. I'm being neglected.
Dick: it's a 45-minute drive.
Tim: NEGLECTED!
Dick: well damn, Tim, I'm sorry but I don't control child acquisitions in this family. What do you think is going to happen? We find another teenager on the side of the road?
Babs two weeks later: hey Batman and I found this teenager on the side of the road.
Batman, to Jim Gordon, on a rooftop: You have a daughter.
Gordon: ... Yeah
Batman: [prolonged silence]
Gordon: [quiet sigh]
Batman, lowering his voice: What do you do when she stands?
Gordon: [baffled whisper] What?
Batman: . . . What do you do when she stands there, looking at you as if she has something to say, but doesn't? Or as if she's waiting for you to reply to a question she didn't ask?
Gordon, normal volume: What?
Batman: 🧍♂️
Gordon: Um. When she does that, it's because she's messing with me. I usually speak first, ... but ... since you're you, waiting for them to--speak first works, too. ??
I love the whole scenario of people who don't know the civilian indentity of the Bats and Robins and complain about them to their face. And while yes, in some runs Commissioner Gordon knows Dick is Robin and Barbara is Batgirl, I just find the scenario of Gordon ranting to Robin that Dick Grayson is dating Barbara hilarious for three reasons, Gordon is ranting to this teenager about his teenage daughter and her boyfriend, two: Dick is taking notes for their next encounter and three: he can make Gordon cut him some slack.
Gordon: That little punk took her to the movies last night.
Dick: Did he have her home on time? Because I know that's a deal breaker for you.
Gordon: He did.
Dick: Your daughter was happy when she got home?
Gordon, grumbling: Yes. But she came home wearing his stupid letterman jacket. I was a kid once I know what that means.
Dick: Maybe she was cold.
Gordon: Robin, see you're a good kid. You'd think that. But rich little punks like Dick Grayson? Raised by Bruce Wayne, no less?
Dick: I see why you might think that, but doesn't he keep curfew? And he drives safe? He follows your rules, Commish.
Gordon: You have a point. Not one damn speeding ticket.
Dick: Then maybe he's OK? I mean you said he's always polite when he comes over. Mrs Gordon likes him.
Gordon: I guess. But there's also that, the kid just thinks he can come to my door without asking me to take Babs out. He just shows up without even clearing it with me.
Danny has gotten very good at getting into and exploring the internet. Not only from having to follow Technus through it, but also because it was fun!
So it shouldn't have been a surprise that when the time came when he had to escape Amity Park for good, he did it through the web. He had never gone outside the city's servers before, so he did get a bit lost, but soon he was exploring all around the world.
He knew he had to get out of the web eventually, but the persecution had left him a little traumatized. It was safe in there, and he was healing well, or at least his pixelated body seemed okay. And okay, maybe online food was a little tasteless and numbed his tongue, but it was keeping him fed, so who cared.
Through his exploration, he's found something strange though. It doesn't matter which server he jumps to, he always sees traces of the same digital signature. If he wasn't literally within the internet, he wouldn't have noticed, but it becomes easier to identify the more he sees it. So he eventually decides to follow.
That's how Danny ends up in Oracle's computer, and there was SO much to explore here.
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Something has gotten into her system. She hasn't told anyone yet. There's a big stakeout going on, and the bats and birds can't risk getting distracted, but it is driving her crazy.
She's been using her laptop for her Oracle activities to decrease the risk of the thing getting any information on current patrols, but she hasn't been able to lock it out of the data stored on her main computer or erase enough information to keep it away from anything sensitive.
It has been beyond stressful doing everything on a simple laptop after years of using her constantly upgraded setup.
Oracle can't even identify what it is. It isn't behaving like a virus or spyware, but more importantly, she can't get rid of it. It keeps avoiding all her attempts... almost as if it were alive.
After another frustrated night guiding the vigilantes of Gotham with her laptop, she decides to try and communicate with whatever did this. She creates an open chat.
She doesn't think it will actually get any results, but soon she's getting a text."Your computer is crazy!" accompanied by an anime-like emoticon of a pale boy with green eyes and white hair blinking.
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Or: From what I've seen, Oracle is carrying a crazy amount of work, and I think she deserves a little helper.
Bruce is working at the McDonalds in the Wayne Enterprises cafeteria as he’s trying to uncover corruption.
Tim is working at the Taco Bell because the show Undercover Boss sounded fun
Babs is pretending to work at Panda Express in order to access their cameras because SOMEHOW the fucking Panda Express has the only camera in all of Wayne Enterprises that she cant access
Jason is working at the Starbucks because he’s trying to poach employees from Bruce, but doesnt want to do any actual business stuff.
Steph is working in the Waffle House because it was too on brand for her to not take the job when offered.
Duke is working at the Burger King because this is literally just his job.
Damian (and Jon stacked on top of Damian to make them seem like adults) is working in the Popeyes as Dick hopes this will make him connect with people more (it will not).
Dick is working at the Smoothie King because he honestly just got lost and this is more fun than his real job.
Cass stole uniforms from every single restaurant in the cafeteria and is pretending to work at all of them. She hasnt been reported yet because the workers dont care and no one can find the boss (rip tim)