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[ he isn't about to confirm or deny anything until he knows which part of what happened is being alluded to here. better to curate a fitting response. ]
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give me a bit to find a bigger apartment, i'll move out
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it isn't about that
we agreed to move past it, remember?
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this is you shutting me and mine out
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guilty as charged
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the shutting me out bit
i've had enough time to bulk up my wallet
and kas keeps pissing me off
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i'm not going to kick you out
that's not what i'm trying to do
if i wanted you out of here, then i would have told you ages ago
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i let it go
and now you're shutting me out
you can lie to my face all you want, i'm used to it. you can sit there and call me a shit guardian, you're not wrong. call me out on all the bullshit you want to, i don't care
but i am sick of playing mind games with people, and i'm not going to play them with you
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you want the truth?
ok here's the truth: when you told me that you trusted me, i panicked
i wasn't trying to be fake or lie to you
it's my panic response ok?
it's always been my panic response
and usually people don't notice it because in another world that's who i am to everyone
i never intended to get close to anyone after i'd showed up in new amsterdam. none of this is permanent. attachment will only distract me. so i'd kept to myself and i'd avoided getting to know anyone more than necessary.
that didn't happen with you
probably because i didn't think we would ever get close
but then we started hanging out more
i started to get to know you
like REALLY know you
and the more i learned about you, the more i found myself caring about you
which was fine
up until the moment you told me that you trusted me and i realized that it was the same for me
so i panicked
i told myself that i needed to put some distance between us
because what good would it do for us to get closer when i'm already working on a way to get us all home?
it was a total jackass move, i'll admit it
and i'm sorry
i wasn't trying to hurt you
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it's what he usually does, when someone throws feelings at him. because attachment is hard. harder still when something goes wrong, everything gets fucked up, and jason's left heartbroken wondering why the fuck he keeps putting himself through this shit. losing roy was a heartbreak, but it was one he pushed for himself. losing artemis and bizzaro was another. losing bruce and the rest of his family at the same time was--enough to break a guy. losing kovacs was oddly hard, because jason's pretty sure their whole thing was just bruising each other up for fun, but he'd gotten attached to that. losing cain was harder. there were so many he watched disappear one by one, up until the point he disappeared and ended up here. he's lost cass and steph already, and he'd just readjusted to steph's wit fucking him up. they'd laughed over putting a tramp stamp on jason, bullied tim.
because jason's an idiot who has forgotten how to keep it all in. to keep to himself, some asshat made him realize that pushing through in dark corners all by himself was fucking him over more than it was helping. he needs people to help keep his head above water, to remind him he's human, not a wrathful shadow haunting gotham. he's more than just the dead robin, the one who came back angry. and even here, two universes separate from his own, he gets stuck in it when he's left alone with his head.
jason doesn't self destruct harder. he lets the response sit for a while, watches several versions of 'fuck you and everything you stand for' scroll across the hud before he ultimately deletes them.
settles instead on some stupid shit an idiot glowstick threw at him that he may or may not have gotten from an anime, jason didn't do any research to back it up, that'd be going way too far. )
nothing is permanent, not even anything back where we originally came from
sometimes it's okay to just let things be
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it has happened time and time again throughout his life and his relationship with others, enough for him to start subconsciously bracing himself for the inevitable anger and accusations flung his way — sometimes deserved; other times, not so much.
a part of him is riding on receiving that response.
it's familiar territory. it'll distract him from the discomfort of knowing that he just let slip a bunch of things that he should have kept buried inside because they're either too personal or they work in direct opposition to what he's been aiming to achieve.
it's great if other people can open themselves up to new relationships, despite their current circumstance, but he isn't able to. ]
to what end though?
am i supposed to hedge my bets on the potentiality of forgetting everything once i'm back home so i should just do whatever the hell i want now with zero regard for those who i might leave behind?
just letting things be is easy, but whether you should depends on how willing you are to accept the outcome and take responsibility for it, disregarding what that outcome may turn out to be
i've already fucked that up once in my life in a big way
i'm not willing to do it again
[ not without weighing the pros and cons. not without knowing the full scope of things. not without thoroughly going over every single little detail first and mapping out all of the ways it can go horribly wrong, and then scrapping everything and starting all over again just to quadruple check you didn't miss anything the first few times. ]
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closing yourself off doesn't help anyone
not you, not the people you're around, not this place, not anyone back home
you're always going to leave people behind
how many have you fucked off from back home? i don't know jack shit about anything you've gotten up to aside from the thor clone incident, which was a real crap move
but i know it's just as if not more fucked than the shit going on around me back in gotham
life is hard
losing people is hard
shit hurts, nothing is ever going to be perfect, everything is going to fall apart, you'll probably die tragically, maybe come back a few times, die some more
hurt terribly everything something goes wrong and it's either on you or you're blaming yourself for it even if it isn't
let it go elsa
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easier said than done
[...]
but you have a point
maybe i haven't been approaching things in the best way
[ it's impossible for him to just 'let it go', yet jason's words are at least something to think about. ]
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i don't care if you lie to me, insult me, call me out on my bullshit, fight me, start crap for no reason, whatever
but if you start the fake friendly act and use it to cover for trying to fuck off, i'm done
panicking is a normal stress response, i'm not going to judge you or hold it against you
i've probably handled things worse
if you trust me, then trust me to know how to work around your fucked up problems