[Hm. Maybe should've put more thought into this, but sometimes you have to give information to get information. So he shrugs, both at letting Dick take it as a compliment and to downplay his answer.]
Someone I knew used to call me Jumpy. Cute for a six year old, a little harder to be taken seriously as an adult.
[Except. Yeah, of course he misses it. Akane stopped calling him that a while ago, and the expression on his face is both soft and nostalgic somehow.]
Yeah, well...[He laughs under his breath.] Not exactly what I wanted a room full of strangers to know, but some things stick with you for a long time. Jumpy is why I never got a code name.
[It feels like an overshare, but hm.] But thanks, I think.
[There's a snort.] Is it really a code name if it's a real name? [But..he shakes his head a little.] Lucky for me everybody else settled on Junpei instead.
Shut up. [Still not mad.] Ace, Snake, Santa, Clover, me, June, Seven, Lotus and the Ninth Man. That's what everyone came up with. It almost sounds like a spy operation if you don't know what it's about.
His bracelet number was three. Like San. [And the whole thing about Aoi playing Santa Claus to Akane, but he's not going into that.] All of us based our names based on the numbers we were assigned.
We couldn't trust Zero not to use our identities against us. Unless you mean Santa's name, because yeah, it didn't suit him very much. [A lazy smirk.] Is it any sillier than some of the other names we've heard here?
That sounds...really gross, but alright. [He's trying to imagine this and it's not going well.] I hate to be a disappointment, but everyone I've ever known has mostly been normal.
[He grins lightly in response.] Whatever...get used to it.
[But he rolls his eyes.] Superheroes are still a grade above average, you know? Even if you're the normal one in your group. But if I'm rambling then you pick a subject.
[Or they just don't talk. He's okay with that, too.]
[ but before he can, the alarm rings because i absolutely need this pc to be ruined by that at some point and this is the funniest possible option because he fucking tries to jump and cover junpei from a potential attack from This Terrible Loud Noise ]
[The alarm rings, Dick reacts, and when he jumps to cover Junpei has no idea what the fuck he's doing and dodges, tangling himself up in the sheets and falling off of the bed with a loud yell.]
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Someone I knew used to call me Jumpy. Cute for a six year old, a little harder to be taken seriously as an adult.
[Except. Yeah, of course he misses it. Akane stopped calling him that a while ago, and the expression on his face is both soft and nostalgic somehow.]
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Jumpy... It's still kinda cute for an adult.
[ it's light and teasing, and he can say that shit because they've had sex one too many times, lbr ]
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[It feels like an overshare, but hm.] But thanks, I think.
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I had a teammate whose code name on the field was her actual name, so. I can't judge on your bad luck.
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[ because her boyfriend died. haha. anyway; ]
That's too bad. A whole group of people calling you Jumpy sounds like a riot.
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Shut up. [Still not mad.] Ace, Snake, Santa, Clover, me, June, Seven, Lotus and the Ninth Man. That's what everyone came up with. It almost sounds like a spy operation if you don't know what it's about.
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Can't relate. I'm the most normal guy in any superhero party.
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Showoff. But you're a kind of normal that makes sense. If that makes sense at all. Or maybe I'm just saying things...I dunno.
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[But he rolls his eyes.] Superheroes are still a grade above average, you know? Even if you're the normal one in your group. But if I'm rambling then you pick a subject.
[Or they just don't talk. He's okay with that, too.]
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[ but before he can, the alarm rings because i absolutely need this pc to be ruined by that at some point and this is the funniest possible option because he fucking tries to jump and cover junpei from a potential attack from This Terrible Loud Noise ]
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What in the fuck? [Shut! Off! The alarm!]