Being the Go-Between

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When Kip Blackwell was a college football player at Gotham University, he played wide receiver and receiver on special teams, so the concept of blocking is not lost on him. Even now, completely blind as he was from the Joker's acid assault, his love of football and his tendency for using football analogies remains. So when Nightwing asks him to meet with the Riddler - or the former Riddler, Edward Nygma - he understands it's to run interference for Oracle, someone he loves and admires wholeheartedly...even if he cannot remember some of the time they spent together.

So, back on Earth from his typical stay at the Watchtower as Oracle's hands-on computer guru, Kip first attends Mass with his Aunt Justine (along with the requisite Sunday meal) before heading to Nygma's agency first thing Monday morning.

His smile and manner are, as always, sunny, far more so than the rainstorm pelting Gotham outside.

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"Well, I'll keep him in my prayers anyways, sir. Where there's life, there's hope."

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"You know, for a resident of Gotham City, you have an unusually positive outlook. It's .. rather refreshing. I seem to mainly keep company with cynics."

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That elicits a broad grin from the young man working at the elaborate computer setup. "Sir, when I think about this city of ours, I think of potential. I thank the good Lord I'm here where so much work's around to be done."

He pauses, then whispers conspiratorially, "Though I'd like some parts of it to smell better."