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Hey, guys! [ Wearing a pretty sweet red and blue hoodie (his uniform, as it were), Jon raises a hand to give a wave to the feed with a sheepish smile on his lips. The angle of the camera shifts after a moment, showing a decent amount of computer hardware running behind him, though the screens are a bit too far away to make out what's on them. Sitting at one of them is some other tiny nerd. ]

Robin and I uh. . found some stuff, yeah. Since most've this stuff seems to belong to someone else, we wanted to see if anyone wanted their stuff back. . ?

[ Jon gets pushed aside because he is obviously doing this wrong. ] You’re forgetting that first we will need proof of ownership, Superboy. These items could hold someone’s very life at stake and can’t be handed off to some stranger.

[ The camera pans over to where some notes and a pill bottle with it’s label ripped off rest. A hamster scurries across the table and nibbles at the tip of a page for a moment before Jon reaches a hand out and picks it up. ]

Paper isn’t good for you, Hammy-Bruce. Anyway--if either of these’re yours, and--[ Mumbles to himself for a moment, under his breath. Something something, Robin’s real rude. ]--you can prove it’s yours, I’ll come run it to you?

His name isn’t “Hammy-Bruce” it’s “Bat-Hamster!” [ Robin is heard complaining in the background before the feed cuts off. ]

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[ Mondo can only wonder what kind of live Robin used to live, with how adamantly he wants to keep his secrets, and how he even seems to be familiar with adrenaline shots. It rings an alarm bell within him. ]

That can't be good, though... You're gonna break your body when you're still so young.

It isn't ideal, but one must do what they can to survive and protect themselves. Even if what you must do isn't pretty. [Damian sounds too familiar with some of the awful things people might have to do to survive.]

...

[ "One must do what they can to survive and protect themselves. Even if what you must do isn't pretty." Haha, shit. That hits way too close to home. ]

Even if you're told to kill your own friend?

[ ーWait, the hell's he saying to a kid? ]

No, sorry... Forget it.

It's best to avoid killing. [He did mentally mark this reaction though for possible future investigation. Not that he didn’t understand the concept of having to out right murder to survive.]

But forgotten. [Damian decides not to press because such a subject might lead down topics or questions Damian himself didn’t want to remember or contemplate.

Still, if this man was from the same world as the nervous nurse that he mentioned earlier, then perhaps his dilemma and hers were tied together.]

One question though. Are you and the nervous nurse from the same world?

[ That's right, that's the way it should be. No one should choose to kill, and yet...

Though unsaid, Mondo really appreciates Robin's approach to this matter ー he can only express that with a firm nod. The more they talk, the less he feels like Robin's someone younger. He's way beyond his years. ]

Yeah, I guess so. We came from the same school, just different year, probably. But I've never actually met her before.

[ Well... In the first place, there was no way to meet anyone else from the school, when there were pretty much only him and the rest of his classmates there, and... of course, the Mastermind who locked them down in the school, too. ]

[She did mention this school and a battle Royale style game. The teen's outburst making more and more sense now. Damian’s classmates had been his cousins or other members of the league.

They were often forced to do horrible things and at times even kill one another to prove their worth. The scare he left across his cousin Mara’s face one of the first things to pop into his head when he thought of his...family. He clears his throat to force the train of thought to come to a halt.]

I see.

[And he'll leave it at that.]

Welcome to Wonderland. You should talk to her. Perhaps help her be less jumpy.

[Seriously, it was annoying.]

[ He hopes Tsumiki hasn't told him anything about the school. It's not... something he'd really like people to hear, especially not kids, even if Robin's much mature than people his age. Not that he knows how old he is, but eh. ]

Thanks. [ Not just for the welcome, of course, but it's a good opportunity to compile everything in one. ] Heh, sure wish I could help with that. [ He shrugs. ] She gotta deal with it herself. I dunno what makes her like that... 's like she's tryin' so hard to appease peopleー [ Ah. Somehow, it begins to make some sense. Now that he says it aloud, he realises how that ties up with what he saw in her mindscape. ] Well, uh. I'll do what I can.

...Anyway. Gimme a poke if you need anythin'. Don't get reckless, ya hear?

I can't make that promise. [Mostly because he was guaranteed to break it. Unsupervised children of superheroes? Yeah, things were gonna get reckless. He abruptly leaves the camera to get back to work.]

You-- [ Well, to be fair, Mondo would say the same thing himself if he was on Robin's position, so... He sighs, but with a smile on his face. ] Then fight hard. [ Robin might have left by the time he said that, but that doesn't matter ー Mondo's got a feeling the boy knows better.

Still, it's pretty concerning. He should keep an eye on them when he can. ]