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[girlyboywonder]

[ My god, is this really a video post coming from the NV that always uses nothing but text? There's a weirdly blonde, glasses-less, costume-less Carrie, pretty unrecognizable from the redheaded be-visored Robin that last used this NV signal, staring thoughtfully at her device with the baseball diamond as a backdrop. ]

Wow. Siren's Port. [

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[ ...woah. Wait, is that- ]

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[ ....

yeah, give him a moment. ]

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[ finally... ]

....Carrie?

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[girlyboywonder]

[ there's a second where she actually looks surprised, but then there's a smile melting in over that. ]

Hey. I can't believe I forgot the coolest part of the Port.

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[ ...oh. oh, she means-

Yeah, he sort of has to grin right back at that, quick and maybe a little too bright. ]

Missed you at Thanksgiving.

[girlyboywonder]

Yeah, sorry. I was busy breaking into the president's office.

[ just gotta take a second to brag, okay. she's still high on the success of that one. ]

I'll hit it next year, promise.

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I'll believe it when I see it. [ but wow is that really kind of impressive. After a careful, considering pause- ]

-What did you do to your... [ hair he means to say. Except wow is that really a rude question and why didn't he think this through before. ]

...um. Goggles.

[girlyboywonder]

Tossed 'em. [ An easy smile, a touch of the slang she used to use all the time when she was... oh, speaking of. ]

The name's all yours now, by the way. You don't have to share anymore.

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[ ...oh. well. ]

...Why not?

[girlyboywonder]

I didn't really need a mask or a cape anymore, so I dropped it.

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[ ...what. what even. ]

...You go with spandex instead or something?

[girlyboywonder]

No. [ A beat, and she's sinking into something a little more serious and professional, a little less relaxed. ] We don't use costumes very much anymore. They get too much attention.

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But how else are the bad guys supposed to know who to run scared from?

[girlyboywonder]

How often do bad guys actually run scared from a bright yellow cape?

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[ oh. well. that's...

maybe a question he could have done without, after all. ]

...It's so they don't take us seriously. Like we're just dumb kids who don't know better.

Don't you remember this stuff, Carrie?

[girlyboywonder]

I remember it. That's just not the image I go for anymore.

[ whoa did that come out a touch coldly. maybe so! nothing aimed at Dick, just an air of professionalism where before there would only have been casual and relaxed. ]