A friend of mine gave me the idea. [ he wonders how much he should tell, for half a second, but-- it's his name. ] It's a legend on his home planet. Said it reminded him of me.
[ it's remiss to say home about krypton, but it's the shortest answer to that one. ]
[There's something a little interesting about that, and part of him wants to ask more questions simply for the sake of asking. Dick is the kind of person who really only says what he has to in regards to himself, and while Junpei can't exactly say anything since he does the same, he wonders enough.
Instead of pressing about planets and people Dick knows, he settles on a nod.]
Weird how names other people come up with stick with you. [He gets that Dick picked it himself, but like. Same idea.] Nightwing does sound cooler.
Hey, I never said it wasn't! Way cooler than my nicknames and I already told you I messed up and didn't get a codename during the Nonary Game. Maybe I'm just jealous.
[He's joking, but also Dick please. It's an interesting response.]
[Junpei will never know about Tim probably. I assume it's Tim. I hate DC timelines.]
...hah. [That wasn't even what he was thinking of, but.] No, that's very you somehow. And I can truthfully say no one else has ever thought of that before.
[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.
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[ it's remiss to say home about krypton, but it's the shortest answer to that one. ]
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Instead of pressing about planets and people Dick knows, he settles on a nod.]
Weird how names other people come up with stick with you. [He gets that Dick picked it himself, but like. Same idea.] Nightwing does sound cooler.
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Robin's plenty cool!
[ dick will defend to death his old mantle, that's why he keeps passing it down?? and also because blabla sentimentality, bla ]
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[He's joking, but also Dick please. It's an interesting response.]
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though since his offense was mostly fake he just. grins a bit instead. ]
What, you don't like JT?
[ it's a bad nickname, dick, live with it. ]
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...hah. [That wasn't even what he was thinking of, but.] No, that's very you somehow. And I can truthfully say no one else has ever thought of that before.
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I'm choosing to take that as a compliment. So what nicknames were you talking about?
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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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