Post by Pamela Isley - Poison Ivy on Sept 24, 2011 0:58:27 GMT -5
Ghast's question gets a genuine puzzled frown from Pamela. That's what she'd like to know. Before all of this, he was so obviously and easily under her thumb like a good little puppet. Then suddenly he kills people and kidnaps her. She can only theorize that he decided his life was more important than a few guards and try to gamble everything in an attempt to scare her, or he went completely crazy under the constant stress of having her dangle his life in front of his eyes. Then again, she also started to suspect that something else was up, which is why she took the cautious route of getting out of there when she saw an opportunity.
"Well, obviously a 'hero' in name only," she replies, looking troubled, "And kidnapping me was the least of it - I saw the museum's guards when they were dragging me out..." She gives a delicate shake of her head as if she's still properly appalled by those murders. Actually, she was somewhat amused by it - Nightwing finally showing his true colors.
But though she's able to keep thoughts like that so buried beneath the surface that they never show themselves and her 'acting' skills are pretty much flawless, one thing she's unable to do is actually be innocent. She can fake it very well, but she can only guess at what a genuinely innocent person would do in any given situation, occasionally those guesses are a little wrong, and that tends to register as something being odd about her on a subconscious level even when the apparent facts are in her favor.
Like now, for instance: any naive young socialite like the one she pretends to be shouldn't be as comfortable with Ghast as she is, even though she's had a bit of a chance to get used to him. But the part of her that she's keeping buried merely doesn't find him to be aesthetically pleasing, and that's the full extent of any objection she'd have to his presence. And for one as focused on their own physical appearance as she is, it's probably surprising how little that even matters to her.
"Well, obviously a 'hero' in name only," she replies, looking troubled, "And kidnapping me was the least of it - I saw the museum's guards when they were dragging me out..." She gives a delicate shake of her head as if she's still properly appalled by those murders. Actually, she was somewhat amused by it - Nightwing finally showing his true colors.
But though she's able to keep thoughts like that so buried beneath the surface that they never show themselves and her 'acting' skills are pretty much flawless, one thing she's unable to do is actually be innocent. She can fake it very well, but she can only guess at what a genuinely innocent person would do in any given situation, occasionally those guesses are a little wrong, and that tends to register as something being odd about her on a subconscious level even when the apparent facts are in her favor.
Like now, for instance: any naive young socialite like the one she pretends to be shouldn't be as comfortable with Ghast as she is, even though she's had a bit of a chance to get used to him. But the part of her that she's keeping buried merely doesn't find him to be aesthetically pleasing, and that's the full extent of any objection she'd have to his presence. And for one as focused on their own physical appearance as she is, it's probably surprising how little that even matters to her.