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isleofavalon2021-05-14 06:49 pm
ichoosefight) wrote in isleofavalon2021-05-14 06:49 pm
Once a Bat, always a Night Person [Open]
🧙 WHO: Stephanie Brown and YOU
⚔️️ WHAT: Settling in
🕒 WHEN: Around arrival: after midnight, 6am and afternoon
🗺️ WHERE: Around town, the breakfast buffet and outside a cafe
⚠️ WARNINGS: None
1. Old Habits
Steph has been staying up all night since she was 15 years old. That's 4 years of getting most of her exercise well after dark, and 1 year of night shift that may well have been more work than being a vigilante. Her arrival had been hectic and tiring, but she just couldn't force herself to go to bed at what society generally considered a 'normal hour'.
Instead she wanders the town after dark, taking a meandering route and keeping an eye on the rooftops, just out of habit. She has some of her weapons, but she has no intention of taking up the cowl again here. It's fricken Camelot, how much crime can there really be?
She barely notices anybody that might be on the streets. She has a lot on her mind, and not just deciding whether or not she's dreaming all of this.
She makes it across almost every inch of town before the sun rises.
2. Continental Breakfast
She happens upon the hotel's breakfast entirely by accident, and while she's actually on her way to bed she can't say no to free food. For a few days she's there every morning at 6am, hoarding muffins and keeping a half-full cup of coffee as close to her face as she can without looking too weird. She doesn't drink it, she just likes to keep it close. She's missed this smell. Given, it's probably not very good coffee, but it's a hell of a lot more coffee-like than what she's been drinking for the last few months.
Every now and then she takes a deep whiff of the untouched coffee and quietly sighs in satisfaction.
3. Magic was easier in books
Steph sits at a table outside a cafe, a truly gigantic mug and an assortment of coffee-condiments in front of her. The mug is full to the brim with latte, but it's already her second cup. Four packets of sugar and three wooden stir-sticks are pushed to the outside of the group, glowing brightly enough to be noticeable in the middle of the day.
She was trying to make them invisible. She hasn't had any success. Maybe she should try reverse psychology, she thinks. If she tries to make the sugar packet in front of her glow, maybe it will vanish instead.
She's been at it long enough that she's scowling as she focuses on the packet, making fists with both hands and splaying her fingers at the thing every time she makes an attempt.
"Glow," she mutters under her breath. "Glow! W...olg? Wolg. Lumos!" Unconsciously raising her volume, she makes a noise of frustration and tries one more time.
That final attempt has some effect at least. A dozen needles made of light pin the packet in place, stuck at all angles as if they had circled it when she wasn't looking. For a moment she just stares at it.
"...What?"
[ooc | brackets also accepted! ]
⚔️️ WHAT: Settling in
🕒 WHEN: Around arrival: after midnight, 6am and afternoon
🗺️ WHERE: Around town, the breakfast buffet and outside a cafe
⚠️ WARNINGS: None
1. Old Habits
Steph has been staying up all night since she was 15 years old. That's 4 years of getting most of her exercise well after dark, and 1 year of night shift that may well have been more work than being a vigilante. Her arrival had been hectic and tiring, but she just couldn't force herself to go to bed at what society generally considered a 'normal hour'.
Instead she wanders the town after dark, taking a meandering route and keeping an eye on the rooftops, just out of habit. She has some of her weapons, but she has no intention of taking up the cowl again here. It's fricken Camelot, how much crime can there really be?
She barely notices anybody that might be on the streets. She has a lot on her mind, and not just deciding whether or not she's dreaming all of this.
She makes it across almost every inch of town before the sun rises.
2. Continental Breakfast
She happens upon the hotel's breakfast entirely by accident, and while she's actually on her way to bed she can't say no to free food. For a few days she's there every morning at 6am, hoarding muffins and keeping a half-full cup of coffee as close to her face as she can without looking too weird. She doesn't drink it, she just likes to keep it close. She's missed this smell. Given, it's probably not very good coffee, but it's a hell of a lot more coffee-like than what she's been drinking for the last few months.
Every now and then she takes a deep whiff of the untouched coffee and quietly sighs in satisfaction.
3. Magic was easier in books
Steph sits at a table outside a cafe, a truly gigantic mug and an assortment of coffee-condiments in front of her. The mug is full to the brim with latte, but it's already her second cup. Four packets of sugar and three wooden stir-sticks are pushed to the outside of the group, glowing brightly enough to be noticeable in the middle of the day.
She was trying to make them invisible. She hasn't had any success. Maybe she should try reverse psychology, she thinks. If she tries to make the sugar packet in front of her glow, maybe it will vanish instead.
She's been at it long enough that she's scowling as she focuses on the packet, making fists with both hands and splaying her fingers at the thing every time she makes an attempt.
"Glow," she mutters under her breath. "Glow! W...olg? Wolg. Lumos!" Unconsciously raising her volume, she makes a noise of frustration and tries one more time.
That final attempt has some effect at least. A dozen needles made of light pin the packet in place, stuck at all angles as if they had circled it when she wasn't looking. For a moment she just stares at it.
"...What?"
[ooc | brackets also accepted! ]
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"Probably your world doesn't have them. There's a group called the Green Lantern Corps., they're like the space police. They'd definitely have been involved if there was some kind of invasion."
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"Green Lantern Corps? What kind of name is that?" She asked. "It's rather... uh, creative. Space police hm? That's a weird concept." The android replied, having a hard time understanding it.
I am coincidentally explaining GL in 3 separate threads simultaneously
"Seriously! They have an actual green lantern. They use these magic rings to make stuff out of light, I think, and only people with extraordinary willpower can use them. There are other colors, too! Blue is hope, red is anger... the non-robot zombies were Black Lanterns. If I ever knew the others I've forgotten them."
Oh my... lol
stupid space police :Y
She shakes her head in amusement. She has to assume the acid doesn't hurt the Red Lanterns, or why would they keep spewing it?
"I guess in space a colored light is the best signal you could hope for. Maybe other planets know more about them. I don't know what Blue Lanterns even do, if they aren't part of the space police-force."
Re: stupid space police :Y
She frowned a bit about the color light in space. "From my experiences in the Bunker and the flight unit during the surface descent, I don't think colored lights would do anything. Especially with all the stars." She told her. "But again, different worlds."
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"I wouldn't really know myself. Never been."
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"I dunno why outer space would be any different between universes. It seems like a pretty basic concept." She shrugs.
"I'm hardly an expert. Space kind of gives me the creeps, honestly. You know, since humans can suffocate and freeze to death, and have no innate ability to change direction in the infinite friction-less void." She shudders just thinking about it.
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“I lived at the Bunker, in space during my training. It was beautiful, you could see the stars out of every window. Though they look better from the surface in my opinion.” She mused looking up at the night sky.
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"There are more of them here than I remember in Gotham. Too much light pollution. And regular pollution, probably."
Her smiles fades as she watches the sky. It's been a long time since she saw the real Gotham night sky, and she doesn't know if she'll ever see it again.
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"I believe that's what it's called when you miss where you're from." Her voice gentle as she watched her.
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"Something like that," she answers dismissively. She doesn't want to bring A2 down with her own worries if she can help it.
Finish after your post?
"Seems like we're almost back to the hotel." She observed as they walked.
Sounds good!
"It'll be dawn soon too, I think. I'd better get ready for bed. It was nice to meet you, A2."