Fifth Floor Common Room, Sunday afternoon

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

After spending part of yesterday giving his equipment a solid field test as he learned how to fight a giant robot, Bruce felt that today was a good day for quiet reflection, a short break from training, and watching a couple hours of shows about real life crimes on the Biography Channel. He wasn't sure why there was a two hour block of crime shows between Finding Hulk Hogan and I Survived... or if this was a regular thing, but it gave him something to focus on and take notes about discreetly in a small notebook.

Yes, this is how he liked to spend lazy Sundays.

[OOC: Open CR!]

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[exspeedydotcom]

Roy was in search of food.

This was pretty much standard. He was, after all, despite everything, still a teenage boy. "Hey, Bruce," he said, since calling Bruce 'dude' or 'bro' or any of those other normal things would have been extremely weird. "How's it hanging?" That even felt wrong.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Better than it had been recently," Bruce said after giving Roy a strange look. Yes, even he thought that question felt a little weird. "Just trying relax with some television after the excitement of the weekend. How are you doing?"

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter was bruised, but smiling when he showed up in the common room. He grabbed a can of soda from the fridge and sat down on a couch.

"Huh. Big on true crime stuff?" he asked.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Bruce!" Rilla cried happily when she saw him. "Did you get the hat I left? I was in such a hurry that I was afraid I might have put it by the wrong door."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I'm a TA in the Science of Deduction class. I figure some outside study couldn't hurt," Bruce said.

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"You know, I've heard that teacher is kind of a hardass," Peter said. "Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. How's the class, over all?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I did, Rilla," Bruce said. "It's very nice. Thank you for it."

Well, he did get it and it did require giving thanks. Meaning two thirds of that wasn't so bad, was it?

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's a class about deduction taught by a man named Sherlock Holmes," Bruce said, figuring that really said it all. "He expects a lot, but it's very rewarding."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"You're very welcome," Rilla said, blushing slightly. "How have you been? I've been holed up inside for the last week."

Aside from gorging herself on peach cobbler, of course.

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"...So he was that confident in his abilities he got his name changed?" Peter asked, thinking the guy was just a giant egotist.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Mostly the same, up until the weekend. Then I got a little extra exercise in," Bruce said with a small smirk. "But I can't argue with the way you handled it."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"No, his abilities are that good and he is apparently a version of Sherlock Holmes," Bruce said.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"You went out in all of that?" Rilla looked very impressed. "You're like a storybook hero!"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Not really. I just followed a few other students and teachers into the maze," Bruce said.

Then helped destroy a giant robot. But he wasn't mentioning that in the name of false modesty.

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"...ow," Peter said. "I just ran through a real-life Tunnels and Trolls adventure and that concept still hurts my brain."

He took a sip of his soda. "So... drug habit?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"And made it out again," Rilla said. "I've read my Greek myths--that is no small feat."

[exspeedydotcom]

Well, he was favoring one shoulder a little after a handwavey fall during 'the excitement,' but he didn't think Bruce would care about that. "Good, good," Roy said. "Got to shoot some...goblins."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Haven't asked, haven't noticed anything, he is either an occasional or recovering smoker, though," Bruce said.

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, smoking. So badass," Peter said, very droll.

He shook his head and took another sip. "Is he as rude as people say though?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Well, you've got to do something to keep in shape," Bruce deadpanned. "And what's the point just using the gym?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Around here, that kind of thing is likely to happen every few months," Bruce said. "It starts to get less impressive after a while."

Except for when it involved a giant robot.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"He's blunt and observant. He's not afraid to say what he sees," Bruce said. "Some people might call that rude. I'm not so sure about that, though."

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything. He figured if someone didn't call that rude, they probably were in the habit of doing that too.

Peter, well, he knew he was an ass. He embraced it.

"Fair enough," Peter said. "Might have to try and take whatever he teaches next term."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'm not sure about that," Rilla said. "Why would it be less impressive?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It becomes routine," Bruce said. "Do something spectacular enough times and it starts to become old hat." Which was why Bruce wasn't planning on stopping intensive training even when he eventually became the scourge of crime in Gotham. If he let that become old hat, it was practically signing his own death certificate.