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[mostdangerousbird]

Display Name: Tim Drake
Notes: During the age swap event

[ There’s a spikey-haired child who has clearly already discovered Dep Gel. He’s sitting in a front of a grungy brick wall with badly chipping paint that shows the strata of different paint layers. Looks like an alley, with a thin line of corrugated metal just visible behind the boy.

Clever eyes would recognize that he’s sitting on the closed lid of a dumpster. It doesn’t look like a place for a boy of somewhere between 8 and a very small 10. ]

My name’s Tim Drake, and I’m in Central City. I’m not supposed to be.

I hope I’ve gotten this working. I guess it’s supposed to be mine? The account has my name, but that’s not right. You aren’t supposed to use real information on social media, especially when you’re a kid, because it can lead to abductions.

[ Tim glances around, like he’s expecting someone to come bursting in now that he’s said that outloud. ]

And I think I’ve been abducted?

[ He picks at t-shirt and leather jacket that he’s absolutely swimming in. ]

They changed my clothes.

[ Frowning, he looks confused at that, and as if he’s run out of things to say here. ]

You’re not supposed to give personal details online. I did, but I think the rules are different when you’ve been kidnapped? I’m not going to say my parents names or address, but I can’t walk home.

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[kid_flash_found]

[Bart clearly is trying to think.]

I don't know. Hopefully it's a temporary thing. Did you wake up in a place called Candy Lofts? That's where my friend Tim Drake lives.

[Until he knows more, he's going to assume this is a Tim Drake from a different time who may or may not have something to do with the one he knows. But gathering intelligence would be Tim's first step.]

He's from Gotham, New Jersey.

[mostdangerousbird]

I’m not where I woke up anymore.

[ Tim’s understanding of a multiverse is limited to science fiction books, and it’s alarming to have someone know where he was and where he’s from. ]

Aren’t you too old to be his friend?

[kid_flash_found]

I can tell that much from the dumpster.

And he's older than I am. Always has been.

[mostdangerousbird]

It’s a big city. There’s a lot of dumpsters. So that’s okay even if you’re one of the kidnappers.

[ Tim grins proudly at being clever enough to use this from a very average location. ]

If he’s older than you, he can’t be me.

[kid_flash_found]

If it helps, I'm not even in Central City.

[He takes a moment to move to where one can see the snow-covered farm and the miles of mostly open land from the window, staying in the frame to help make it more obvious he isn't using a masking program of some kind to alter the video]

That only works if you assume all universes are congruent in time.

[mostdangerousbird]

Wow, you aren’t kidding! You can’t even see a skyline!

[ To not be able to see a house or skyline at all is weird. Not unheard of, but it’s a place you visit, not live. ]

What else would it be? Universes split. You make a choice and there’s two universes?

[kid_flash_found]

Maybe sometime I'll tell you about the universe where we're all monkeys.

But no, sometimes the places that intersect between universes don't match up in time. Like on one side it can 2023 and another it's 1876 or whatever.

[mostdangerousbird]

Ook.

[ A bit of cheek goes into that shrug. ]

I’d eat a banana, but dumpsters aren’t known for fresh fruit.

And I don’t know if that makes sense.

[kid_flash_found]

It's a good thing you definitely don't have enough experience with multiple realities to get it. Seriously.

I'd invite you out to my farm, but I know you've got absolutely no reason to trust me. Man, I almost wish Dick were here.

[mostdangerousbird]

[ Years away from knowing to hide surprise, Tim looks confused, and his mouth drops open at the old-fashioned nickname. He has met a Dick: Dick Grayson. But it seems so unlikely that it’s the same one, right? Gotham and Central are big cities. ]

I don’t think I should be going to strangers’ farms.