Sure I made the body you're wearing and provided the base code you're expanding from but- you've been 'alive' less than a day and settled into a pretty solid sense of self. I haven't been able to watch this in real time before. Dum-E's well. Dum-E. J actively hid his first few signs of personality for fear it was some kind of unintended malfunction, which was a nice long talk I'm glad we're able to skip here so this is...new.

[ Full of potential. Endlessly fascinating for every little choice and it's not the same kind of pride a parent feels, because all he's ever done is offer the building blocks. Maybe with the Bots it's parental, with J? It's a partnership. With Bruce...he doesn't know what this'll be yet. And that's more than half the fun, this vague, nebulous space they're mutually feeling out, here. Something he can't quite predict.

Something he's not all that sure he wants to. ]

Besides. You've read Shield's writeup on me. Narcissistic tendencies shouldn't be that surprising. [ It's more the PR mask he puts on than him proper but- shit Bruce'll figure out for himself further on. There are seeds of it, sure, but that comes from growing up knowing you're the smartest man in the room. ]