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[personal profile] knightbynight 2024-12-10 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Bruce lifts his eyebrows - both of them - in a way that's a bit unusually... human, and gestures down along his body and to the space Zerxus has only just now decided to vacate by standing.

Every ounce of his expression and body language is clearly saying, are you joking right now.

It's not even mean, just.

Come on now, man.
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He grins - sharp, sure, but the amusement is real and the threat to bite that comes with that many teeth isn't exactly a threat.

"No, you won't."

He's not going to let that happen.
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[personal profile] knightbynight 2024-12-10 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's going to be a very short conversation; I don't remember my childhood. We can go back to finding you pajamas and a closet, though." What. It's an offer. He's also not even unwilling.

...and considers everything past Asmodeus adopting him not exactly childhood which is perhaps odd, given that he was seven.
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[personal profile] knightbynight 2024-12-12 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
He does lead the way - all the way down that hall to the back of the Manor, where there's a suit of rooms that was likely once his parents.

Meaning he's walked through the unused portions and past remnants of his human life without a second glance for... a very long time.

"I did investigate my parents," he says, casually. "There wasn't anything there to inspire any desire to know more." He sounds... disgusted.
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It isn't, at least, a truly huge suite of rooms and is largely open in concept. A balcony off one set of double doors, walk in closet, a sitting space and bedroom that flow into one another.

...a bathroom that he absolutely does not use, that leaves him staring at the door wondering if he should bother giving Zerxus his own rooms or just put him there for the duration.

It's back to very gothic and opulent, but not quite as ostentatiously so as the more public areas. Heavy, dark, a lot of black with red and gold accents, heavy furniture, but less... gleaming features and better lighting.

He goes to the heavy dresser, and opens a top drawer. "I don't understand the nature of the question or skepticism. How does anyone investigate anything?"
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[personal profile] knightbynight 2024-12-12 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
He doesn't look up from the drawer, or his task at finding a matching set of pajamas to answer. "I'm certain that any view of anyone found after their death would be at best skewed, one direction or the other."

He does straighten then, and tosses the pajamas onto the bed. "I'm also certain that, by virtue of it being after they're dead it doesn't particularly matter. Though if you manage to get killed here, I'll certainly be interested to see what Elias thinks of your decision to leave him for Gotham."

He ... might actually.

God this was going to end badly for someone if he falls too far into being interested in anything here but sex and opportunity.
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[personal profile] knightbynight 2024-12-12 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've not the first idea what it is you think 'knowing' there is a 'chance' you'll die has to do with his reaction should it actually happen. I don't even know why you believe you know how he feels about it, now."

He pauses at the dresser to say that, then goes to the closet to pull open the double doors, and starts sliding through options, gravitating towards the ones with more red accenting.

Frankly, he likes those least.

He is at least aiming for more day to day wear than more formal.

...and frankly he also likes those the least.
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"You've argued about it?"

What. The. Fuck. Who does that? Is that normal? The picture of their relationship he's getting was already odd, but that one has him turned away from the closet and just staring at Zerxus in utter bafflement.
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[personal profile] knightbynight 2024-12-12 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
He does not look less baffled. "But why would you want it to be? Or for him to?" What in the world is the point? That isn't how power works and that's a hell of a power differential?

He's not thinking about Jason. How much push back he accepted.

The consequences of that, he's thinking about.
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There's a faint, faint twitch of a smile at the last bit, something that doesn't so much soften his expression as come close to humanizing him. "That sounds very much like something you would do, in a fit of certainty so strong it's nearly become arrogance."

You barely know the man, Bruce.

"You should change." Clothes. A tendency to be that self-assured. Both apply.
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"I feel perfectly free to do whatever I'd like. Unfortunately, you've now made it more appealing not to."

It wasn't even a request.

Not that that wouldn't have been something he could have leveraged, but this? Now it's just some sort of game. In part because he doesn't want to look away.
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"Self-image issues?" His tone is wry, too, but it's also somewhat pointed. He doesn't look away, at any point. He doesn't get less interested, either. In fact, given where his eyes end up settling and the way his gaze sharpens, he finds those scars interesting and at least a little bit of a turn on.

...it's more than a little bit.

Though: "You should shower before you dress again. It'd be a shame to waste the clean pajamas and sheets" Let the way they get dirty be fun at least.

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"Can you?" He sounds amused, but in a way that's still at least fairly gentle and with some... teasing? humor. Almost. It's not even awkward. Like the only kind of play he understands at all is either sexual or violent. "Are you sure? I am available to help."

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