Third Unused Utility Belt | Video

[hellofist]

[Hello there Barge. Cass is in the library, sitting on the floor with a bunch of books spread around her. When she turns the feed on, she's got a copy of A Tale of Two Cities in her hands. She'd recognized it as the book she had tried to read when she had stayed at Tim's apartment, but it was only the spine and the cover she knew. She still has no idea what it's about, or even what it is.]

Um. Don't know lots of things. Trying to learn. Reading, how to... use comm. But...

[Well, staring at words and trying to will them into making sense? It's not very effective.]

Need help. Had offers. Cashing in. [It's possible she got that phrase from Dean.] In library. Anyone can come, need... lots of help.


(ooc: ABSOLUTELY ANYONE is welcome to come and see Cass about reading, even if they haven't previously talked to her about helping out. Come and poke the little bat!)

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[hellofist]

[Something like that happened in Gotham, too, and it makes just as little sense hearing about it happening in Rorschach's world as it did then.]

Dumb. They need us.

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[wemaketheworld]

Don't seem to think so.

[A pause, and then a sigh. Well. The Rorschach equivalent of one, anyway, it really just kind of sounds like a grunt. One day someone will catalog all the sounds he makes that aren't words and translate them and everyone's lives will be easier.]

No more costumed villains. Relegated to drug busts and common criminals.

[Granted, those are the ones he tended to go after anyway, drug dealers and pimps and rapists and the scum that lurk in dark alleys, but even so. The villains retiring tended to make it harder to justify their existence even if there hadn't been plenty of other reasons the public stopped wanting them around.]

Going to read or going to talk about old days?

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[hellofist]

[Luckily for Cassandra, she doesn't need a Rorschach dictionary to understand him. It's all in is body language, and she nods in response to his question.]

Yes, reading. Start with... your book?

[She doesn't suggest his issue to suck up. It's more that she wants to learn more about him and he doesn't exactly show a lot of signs that he's going to tell her himself.]

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[wemaketheworld]

[That will probably take some getting used to, but it will be nice to have someone around who he doesn't need to explain himself to. Doesn't have to assume they'll translate what he means the right way instead of stomping off in a snit from miscommunication.]

Not my issue. Only made cover. Newspaper, not book.

[But he pulls it out of the pile anyway. The one they published right after the Comedian's murder, the one with the article about the manhunt, about the Keane Act. About the murder and what the police, with all their supposed insight, had to say about it.

He pokes at the title at the top, the insignia in black and white, stars and stripes; almost patriotic.]

"New Frontiersman."