@Lady @aescling like the reader obviously knows the rumors arent correct bc we know who batman is, therefore the rumors are just supposed to be signaling the perception of batman as an unknown figure / force of nature
Except their phrasing did a bad job at that
@Satsuma @aescling yes but usually i do not place those contradictions in direct apposition within a single sentence, as though one flows directly from the other in a logical fashion