Prison is an interesting way of dealing will children...
[ Claude like maybe Gotham does deserve to be conquered... ]
I should say that I've never actually been committed to prison, only that my brothers enjoyed locking me in the dungeons as a prank. Not quite the same, I imagine.
It’s not entirely different. You being let out is up to someone else, yeah? And that someone may or may not have their own agenda. [Haha.] But yeah. I get it.
It’s a correctional facility. You go when you’re under twenty-one if you commit a crime. It’s either to hold you while you wait for your court date—that’s detention—or to hold you after once they hand out the punishment—that’s confinement. Depends on what you do.
Since you’re a kid, they think if they fix you a little with programs, you’ve got a chance. But you don’t have any chance because they aren’t ever fixing the wild woods they let you right back out in.
[He debates whether or not he wants to make a joke that his career is in politics.]
Nah. Can’t exactly run for mayor when you’re legally dead. No one puts you in power unless you’re scratching their back anyway. The taint is on the inside. Down below. That’s where you gotta work.
There's plenty of power in grassroots movements, you don't need to be a "mayor" to effect change... Though you will need their cooperation. In most cases.
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[ Claude like maybe Gotham does deserve to be conquered... ]
I should say that I've never actually been committed to prison, only that my brothers enjoyed locking me in the dungeons as a prank. Not quite the same, I imagine.
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It’s not entirely different. You being let out is up to someone else, yeah? And that someone may or may not have their own agenda. [Haha.] But yeah. I get it.
It’s a correctional facility. You go when you’re under twenty-one if you commit a crime. It’s either to hold you while you wait for your court date—that’s detention—or to hold you after once they hand out the punishment—that’s confinement. Depends on what you do.
Since you’re a kid, they think if they fix you a little with programs, you’ve got a chance. But you don’t have any chance because they aren’t ever fixing the wild woods they let you right back out in.
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It seems like you've got a good grasp of how the system in your city works— or rather doesn't.
Ever considered a career in politics?
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Nah. Can’t exactly run for mayor when you’re legally dead. No one puts you in power unless you’re scratching their back anyway. The taint is on the inside. Down below. That’s where you gotta work.
[Bruce would slap him upside the head right now.]
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There's plenty of power in grassroots movements, you don't need to be a "mayor" to effect change... Though you will need their cooperation. In most cases.
You just seem to care about these issues.
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[He shrugs a bit.]
It’s probably because I lived it.
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[ He leans back. ]
Wish there were other people around to do that.
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Sometimes those people don’t do what really needs to be done. So you just have to do it yourself.
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So you are in politics. In some fashion.
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I guess you could say that. Sure.
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Sooner or later.
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[He could literally just ask to sit, but whatever.]
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[ gestures to a cushion... ]
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He will sit. He guesses. In his distrust.]
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what day do you want it