"It's a story," he says, the patience in the tone more a force of habit than anything else. Things like that stick around when one is the designated oldest sibling and, more importantly, the story teller. After all, none of them had ever had proper mothers and fathers who cared about reassuring their children of happily ever afters and how evil people could be defeated. That was a role he'd had to take on himself. Not his first lies, but certainly never his last. "If ya got told all the specifics, ya would be bored out of yer skull."

That much, Joker is fairly certain about. The more money that gets involved, the more ridiculous figuring marriage out is.

There are probably a few other things he could point out, like yes Sleeping Beaut was in fact asleep, but he doesn't feel like getting into it right now. Instead, Joker makes a small noise of affirmation. "Tell me about it anyway, yeah?"