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[cowled]

Characters: Bruce Wayne and open
Date: During the mis-spell event!
Location: Lots of places in Keeliai.
Situation: Bruce Wayne is an octogenarian. This ends about as well as you can expect.
Warnings/Rating: Warning for talk of heart issues, so if this bothers or triggers you lmk and I'll avoid it in any threads we do.

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YOU DROPPED SOMETHING, LET ME HELP YOU.

[alphatar]

[The instant before the cane had a chance to clatter to the ground, it's instead suddenly being offered to Bruce by Korra. The wind follows right afterwards, blowing her hair about her face. A huge smile is stretching out from ear to ear.]

Here you go. [She sounds so, so happy right now.] You dropped this.

[cowled]

[... This is not a thing he needed in his life today. Bruce actually stares at her, managing through sheer force of will to keep the annoyance out of his expression.]

Avatar Korra. Thank you.

[Somewhere, out of the depths of his whole being Batman thing and all related abilities and focus, he dredges up a smile. It's only a tiny bit of a grimace.]

[alphatar]

[Of course that little grimace only came from not using his cane just then. Or at least, that's what she's assuming since he's smiling.]

Anytime! [It takes a second to register-]

I don't think we've met?

[No elderly gentlemen that she's aware of off the top of her head. The only few are patients at the clinic.]

[cowled]

[That smile turns wry.]

I don't usually look like this. It's Bruce Wayne.

[alphatar]

[The smile on her face drops and her mouth goes slack. Now that he points it out, she can see some of the similarities; even with the aging.

Now she looks a bit sheepish since she had a fondness for the Wayne family and had only met the head figure himself once in his office, right here in the Metal Sector.]

So it got you too. [This is the first case she’s seen where someone was drastically aged up. Something she’d tell Zatanna since the magician is looking for any and all effects the spell had.]

Would you like a hand? [She proffers out her arm for him to take.] I’m a lot sturdier than that cane, and I promise I won’t fall to the ground.

[All smiles, genuine ones because Bruce has amazingly nice kids (Damian not withstanding) which means he must be just as kind hearted.

Mostly the elder Dick Grayson would be to blame for her outlook.]

[cowled]

Unfortunately.

[That's a bit of a growl, it's the only thing that belies his true feelings on the matter. Zatanna is kind of on his shit-list for this, not a word of a lie.]

And thank you, but I should manage fairly well on my own. Being this age is hard enough without adding unnecessary reliance on other people.

[Dick does that to people, Korra. It's k.]

[alphatar]

[That one little growly note was understandable, it was easy for her to think of how unhappy she’d be if she got turned to the age Bruce Wayne was at.]

You don’t have to worry too much longer, my friend’s already working on it. Magic’s her thing.

[She raises her eyebrows and give an indulgent smile.]

There’s no ‘unnecessary’ part when it comes to me Mr. Wayne. [She wiggles her elbow as if that would make it all the more tempting.]

I’m the Avatar, it’d be weird if people didn’t rely on me.

[cowled]

Not enough of her 'thing' to apparently avoid causing it in the first place.

[He keeps his tone light and non-serious. He has every reason to be annoyed, and it gives nothing of his other persona away to be so. Not to Korra, at least, who's barely cognizant of her own nose in front of her face.]

Oh? In that case, who do you rely on, Korra?

[alphatar]

[A tiny wince at that, even if it wasn’t said with any serious intent. Honestly, she can’t blame Bruce for making the light hearted comment. If she ended up that much older instead of being some kind of super person, Korra would probably make the joke too.]

Me? [That had been the first time anyone asked her that and it takes a moment for her surprise at the question to subside.

While her family is a comfort, her parents weren’t the ones she turned to when things came down to the wire. Tenzin was her stick-in-the-mud mentor and his advice and training had helped her, but he wasn’t her fall back.

She gave a shrug and answered simply:] …me.

[cowled]

[Well, that's one thing she has in common with Batman. Bruce's brows draw briefly down.]

If you don't mind my saying so, that seems like an awfully lonely way to live.

[Shh personal insights shh.]

[alphatar]

[Giving a smile that was half apologetic and half what-are-you-going-do, Korra pushes her shoulders inwards in an awkward shrug.]

It’s how a lot of the past Avatars had to live. [Sure they had friends and teachers, but the Avatar was the what the people of the world relied on. It was unfair for the Avatar to do so to them, wasn’t it?]

But if it keeps people safe and maintains balance in the world, then it’s all okay.

[A beat.]

When I get my bending back anyway. [She’s still getting used to Super Korra.]

[cowled]

I was wondering why you were a little faster than normal.

[He says that with perfect congeniality, as if he was simply commenting on a haircut she'd gotten or a new pair of shoes.]

I thought maybe it was just my age!

[Ha, ha, ha...]

[alphatar]

[And this is why she likes Bruce, he’s so genial and amiable.]

My airbending isn’t that good. [She says it with a half smirk.]

But hey, you look good for your age. At least you didn’t get stuck as a four year old, right? [Because that would be a nightmare.]

But yeah, I think I got some superhero’s powers. Strength, flying, and speed. Which narrows it down to most of them. [Right now, Korra’s mainly thinking somehow she and Kara ended up switching abilities.]

[cowled]

[He chuckles.]

I don't know, I haven't paid that much attention to the superheroes. There always seems to be so many of them, it's a little daunting. Have you discovered anything else you can do?

[alphatar]

Yeah, it is. [Daunting is the best way to put. She thought she had big shoes to fill before she got here.]

Oh yeah! Hang on a second. [That question just brightens her day up and she hovers above the ground. She’s gone, a blue blur fading is all that’s left.

For about four seconds anyway.

Then she’s flying back holding an ice cold water bottle in one hand and an ornate rickshaw, yes: one (1) cart, in the other.]

Here you go. [She holds out the water and lowers the rickshaw to the ground.] And I rented this for you.

[Since Bruce doesn’t want to walk, and she can hardly blame him considering his current age, Korra’s opted to cart him wherever he wants to go.] Hop in and tell me where to.