It's not that he's not good at them, because he does have a base level of competence with a lot of Bat-things, and he picked up a few tricks while on his own goddamn training trip, but there's just something so fundamentally irritating about having to put on a disguise if it's not simply a means to an end. He has disguised himself for purposes of reconnaissance or getting in close to someone or when it's absolutely necessary, here and elsewhere; but putting on a disguise for something like this, which is following someone a bit, that's annoying.
There's no reason to think Stephanie should instantly recognize him, but if she worked for Batman, then she had access to his files, and he is most definitely in Batman's files, albeit perhaps not as he is now. So, resenting the farce, he dyes his hair blond — ugh, dying it back tonight, definitely — and 'borrows' a friendly dog to walk it through the park where he's established Stephanie sometimes goes. A heavy jacket will partially disguise his build, and glasses (such eye-rolling as he puts them on) are as far as he's going to go with this disguise bullshit. The dog, a wolfy-looking dark gray mix of indeterminate breed, is just happy to be out and about. Jason walks him past Stephanie with only a glance, and they pause about thirty or forty paces past while the dog rolls around.
The last he heard of Stephanie Brown, she was dead, yet what he's seeing now is, in his opinion, different from the intel he was given by Talia. She seems older, for one, though not the age of the Tim who's here. She seems... well, he can't say for sure. He never saw her in action.
late ._. I am sorry.
It's not that he's not good at them, because he does have a base level of competence with a lot of Bat-things, and he picked up a few tricks while on his own goddamn training trip, but there's just something so fundamentally irritating about having to put on a disguise if it's not simply a means to an end. He has disguised himself for purposes of reconnaissance or getting in close to someone or when it's absolutely necessary, here and elsewhere; but putting on a disguise for something like this, which is following someone a bit, that's annoying.
There's no reason to think Stephanie should instantly recognize him, but if she worked for Batman, then she had access to his files, and he is most definitely in Batman's files, albeit perhaps not as he is now. So, resenting the farce, he dyes his hair blond — ugh, dying it back tonight, definitely — and 'borrows' a friendly dog to walk it through the park where he's established Stephanie sometimes goes. A heavy jacket will partially disguise his build, and glasses (such eye-rolling as he puts them on) are as far as he's going to go with this disguise bullshit. The dog, a wolfy-looking dark gray mix of indeterminate breed, is just happy to be out and about. Jason walks him past Stephanie with only a glance, and they pause about thirty or forty paces past while the dog rolls around.
The last he heard of Stephanie Brown, she was dead, yet what he's seeing now is, in his opinion, different from the intel he was given by Talia. She seems older, for one, though not the age of the Tim who's here. She seems... well, he can't say for sure. He never saw her in action.