#my half joking half entirely genuine headcanon is that it's actually a storyteller a-la pages

[thegreatyin]

YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!! like. the fact that it has a blackboard specifically for bat meetings and it can flawlessly write with both hands and its christmas gift is discarded pens that still contain Eldritch Secrets and in general it just. has such a strong personality outside of solely being "the mute one". it's great.

while on the topic of iron posting. a very small very insignificant thing that i really enjoy is that nobody really harasses it for not speaking. and like. we don't know precisely why it doesn't speak. it could be because it's mute, it could be due to an unseen injury, it could just be a selective choice, it could be that it never bothered to learn human language to begin with, etc etc. but there's never been a scene (at least as far as i can recall) where mr iron is specifically called out or pressured or anything of the sort. not even by its own haters 4 haters coworkers. and yeah this is realistically probably because its an ESPECIALLY deadly space bat that could kill you six ways from sunday if you pissed it off, but also, y'know, sometimes it's really nice just having a mute character that's treated Normally for once