"I know that." And he felt as if maybe he should defend Roman's intelligence, but it was a tough call. "Roman's just paranoid." There was that. Paranoid and very bad at coping with change or anything that felt bad to him. Usually Victor put some energy into things not being bad for Roman, but he had less of that drive currently.

"I'm not upset. Good luck with your experiment." Seemed like a good enough reason to do this. "Even after this, you can let me know if people are giving you trouble. By the way. Never liked bigots."

That was true enough too. His parents had never been conservative, so even before Victor got to choose who to hang out with, he had had acquaintances that were outside of what the Gotham elite felt the norm should be.