"Ah! Well, the answer wasn't more gruesome on this particular occasion!" he chuckles, not about to pretend that life in Gotham isn't a game of survival every day and that even mayors don't get to escape that truth.
He takes a moment to take stock of Tim--young, keen-eyed and critical, clearly unimpressed with Oswald and no doubt informed by whatever version of The Penguin he knows from his own version of Gotham. Ed had been good enough to warn him about the possibility of Gothamites from different times and incarnations of the city. While on the one hand, that leaves Oswald with various people he's never met acting like they know him, it also presents opportunities to capitialise on.
After a moment of quiet reflection and Oswald lightly worrying his lower lip in a mild, crooked little smile, he shrugs.
"You know... It's hard to say at any given time how one event might lead to another. Or not, as the case may be. The reason why Mayor James was dealt such a cruel and unusual fate?" He gives Tim a face of mock sympathy for a guy, "That is not my story to tell. That was someone else's methods of dealing with the shortcomings of Mayor Aubrey James. I had my own methods."
Yes, it sounds very ominous, and yes, he is entirely capable of making sure any number of terrible things could have happened to James, but in point of fact Oswald was downright tame and reasonable in this case. If Tim's mind wants to fill in the blanks, that's not Oswald's concern.
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He takes a moment to take stock of Tim--young, keen-eyed and critical, clearly unimpressed with Oswald and no doubt informed by whatever version of The Penguin he knows from his own version of Gotham. Ed had been good enough to warn him about the possibility of Gothamites from different times and incarnations of the city. While on the one hand, that leaves Oswald with various people he's never met acting like they know him, it also presents opportunities to capitialise on.
After a moment of quiet reflection and Oswald lightly worrying his lower lip in a mild, crooked little smile, he shrugs.
"You know... It's hard to say at any given time how one event might lead to another. Or not, as the case may be. The reason why Mayor James was dealt such a cruel and unusual fate?" He gives Tim a face of mock sympathy for a guy, "That is not my story to tell. That was someone else's methods of dealing with the shortcomings of Mayor Aubrey James. I had my own methods."
Yes, it sounds very ominous, and yes, he is entirely capable of making sure any number of terrible things could have happened to James, but in point of fact Oswald was downright tame and reasonable in this case. If Tim's mind wants to fill in the blanks, that's not Oswald's concern.