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What’s the nature of your relationship with one another?

Professional.

Camaraderie, I suppose, as well. But largely, professional.

We are judging you for this question by the way.

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Do you guys think you could strike it out on your own? Do you want to?

Sure. We were doing the duo thing before we got picked up.

But it would be a lot more work, for a lot less benefit.

Why work harder when we can work smarter? Boss gives dental insurance.

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How did you come into this line of work?

We tried to hold the Boss up at gunpoint, and he gave us a better offer.

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The Stop Sign looks really heavy. Do you also use it as a weapon?

Also, I just noticed Query's ?-earrings, they're adorable!

No, we have guns. Best to leave slapstick to the clowns, you know? And the compliment isn’t a question, but sweet of you anyway.

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Will do!

Right after we get you home.

My dear ladies, -why- does the new fellow have one of my neckties?

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Hi boss.

Hot topic is selling look-alikes.

We do not know why hot topic is selling look-alikes.

We can find out, if you want, after you get over the jet-lag.

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My dear ladies, -why- does the new fellow have one of my neckties?

-E?N

Hi boss.

Hot topic is selling look-alikes.

We do not know why hot topic is selling look-alikes.

We can find out, if you want, after you get over the jet-lag.

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Is that a real Traffic Sign stolen off a street on your picture?

Yes!

And also no.

Yes, it’s a real stop sign.

But no, it isn’t stolen.

It got knocked down in a storm and replaced, making it up for grabs.

It’s Echo’s favorite shovel now.

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How did you decide which of you would wear the green with purple accents, and which the purple with green accents?

Yeah, obviously, I'm green with purple accents, which is why I type in green.

And I'm purple with green accents, which is why I type in purple.

We kind of thought you'd all put that together. :P

But to avoid accusations of being obtuse, I'm Query.

And I'm Echo.

(I look better in purple, and we are nowhere near the same size top, so we have our outfit defaults.)

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What does your work for the Riddler require more of? Brain or brawn?

That's not how I'd have phrased that question, personally. The Boss didn't hire us purely for either.

He wouldn't have hired us if we didn't have the brains to keep up with him, would you have, big shot?

But we are, admittedly, better at throwing a punch than he is, and a bit more inclined towards being scrappy to solve our problems?

Sometimes he just sort of needs someone who's decisive and straightforward who's going to jump straight to the obvious and very physical solution of 'gun' before he has the chance to launch into a scheme that's more convoluted.

So we're basically, like... walking fail-safes to keep him from being in Arkham more often than he's out of it.

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Met the Gentleman Ghost? ;D What about Bruce Wayne?

Of course we have, on both accounts.

The ghost drops by every so often and the Boss will drop everything to talk to him.

Mr Wayne used to come around all the time, meanwhile, while the Boss was in crunch time at the end of last year.

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Hello, ladies! How long have you been working for the Riddler? What, exactly, does that work entail?

Oh god. Years now?

Something like four years, I think.

The work varies!

Sometimes the Boss has us doing simple things like grocery runs or house maintenance when he’s too absorbed in his desk work to get up himself.

He’s definitely had me run and drop off his dry cleaning on more than one occasion.

We also do the driving, usually, and pickup whatever tertiary necessities his work calls for.

He might have the brains to build literally anything he sets his mind to but he can’t be in two places at once, and sometimes you need an extra pair of arms on a construction site.

Or a bank heist.

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