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multiversallogs2012-01-11 12:15 pm
controlledvariable) wrote in multiversallogs2012-01-11 12:15 pm
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I went out into the night
Who: Stephanie Brown. Anyone who wants to meet Batgirl (Open).
What: Patrol.
Where: Starting in Mog Hill and heading towards the Spatters, passing through Bonetown and other neighborhoods.
When: Misdi/Coardi. Any time between sunset and sunrise.
Notes: Characters can run into her if they're on the rooftops as well, or if they're down on street level getting into, or up to, trouble. Rather than setting up a thread for each neighborhood, just LMK which area you're in.
Warnings: Violence/death/gore in the thread with Snape.
She had planned to wait longer until breaking out the Batgirl suit, not wanting it to be completely obvious that 'Batgirl' and 'Steph' were one and the same, but recent events have made her realize patrolling is more important than secret identities right now. And it's not like it matters if people know, they can't exactly go after her family or anything.
Even so, she was sticking to the rooftops, her aim for the night mainly reconnaissance. She's heading to the Spatters purely because the pamphlet warned against it, but she'll be making stops along the way to check things out. The city is big, and considering the distance she needs to travel, she expects to spend most of the night out. Having her grapple gun makes things easier; swinging across rooftops is quicker than running across them and she might get a lift from the El train by riding on top. She briefly wishes she had her car here, before reminding herself that she wouldn't get to see as much driving through streets as she does watching from above.
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Batgirl. Laura doesn't even blink; as far as codenames go, it's less literal than her peers tend to use -- her people prefer names that more directly reference a set of extant superhuman powers -- but it's not that out of place, considering people like Black Panther and Captain America.
"I have extensive training."
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She won't actually say her name herself, just in case it's a trick. Spending too much time with Bats has made Steph paranoid.
"That include weapons training?" Which is Steph's way of telling Laura that she knows she's armed. Or, well, Steph is assuming Laura is armed, not that the 'knives' she saw on infrared were part of Laura's body, but that's neither here nor there.
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Speaking of weapons training. She'd laugh if she were the type of person to laugh, which would probably be better for everyone, but she's not. Instead, she looks straight ahead at nothing in particular. Laura holds her hand out in front of her, closed in a fist, and pauses there for a moment so as to not startle her, but the abrupt snikt! of her claws emerging from her knuckles tends not to be what people expect. They are in her knuckles, not attached to some device; there's blood on them and on her hands. She holds her hand very still, never pointing those things at Steph.
Which is, you know, great, because they look awfully sharp.
"I am familiar with hand-to-hand combat in addition to melee and ranged weapons." 'Familiar' being an understatement. She is the weapon.
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It does surprise her. She'd been expecting something after Laura held her arm out, but yeah, definitely not that. The surprise doesn't last long though, it quickly gets overwhelmed by curiosity and, most importantly, concern. "Does it hurt?"
Of course it's the first question Steph asks. She'll think about the rest of what Laura said in a moment, her primary focus right now is the blood on the girl's hand.
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After a moment, she retracts them with a similar snikt. There isn't even a scar on her knuckles where they emerged. She says nothing -- the answer to that question is almost certainly 'yes', but her feelings on the matter are inexhaustibly conflicted and how does she even begin to categorize hurt, on the scale she knows it?
"What is your training?"
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"Um, how long have you got?" It'd take a while to answer that question properly, "It's been a bit haphazard, so it's a long story." She's not quite avoiding the question; she'll answer, she just doesn't want to say a lot if Laura doesn't care to hear it.
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Also, everyone's situation's a little complicated here. That there's such a high incidence of superhumans, vigilantes, soldiers, warriors, and leaders in their cohort hasn't gone beyond her notice.
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"I took a break for a while, when I came back I got some training from different people in the same business, mostly martial artists. But that was on and off for a couple of years." The bitterness in her voice is fairly obvious; Steph had loved working with Black Canary, but it'd been stopped for reasons she still doesn't understand. And then Cass had stopped training her too, just because Bruce said so. She'd been mostly on her own then, until she became Robin. "I went through a four month period of pretty extensive training with one of the best in the business."
"After I had a falling out with that trainer, I spent a year not doing anything vigilante related, though I kept fit by doing kata, weight training, gymnastics, and other stuff like it. I've been back at it for a little over a year, and I've had consistent training for about six months of that, with assorted teachers."
There's a fair bit she's left out, mostly her reasons for spending time away from being a vigilante and Steph's not sure why exactly she felt compelled to give Laura a somewhat detailed history. Part of it is wanting to prove that she can handle it, that she's been at this long enough to kno what she's doing. But she also just appreciates the chance to talk about this stuff.
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"You do not have powers." That's interesting. It is very unusual where she's from for adolescents to pursue this line of work without having already developed superhuman abilities in some way; most are mutants, who find themselves thrust into an increasingly violently hostile world at puberty and mostly need to learn to fight or die early. (The Young Avengers are exceptions, and even then, most of them have powers.)
The X-men round up teenagers and do their best to train them, and managed to not fail miserably at it in spite of Cyclops; the Avengers do, too, lately, she went to their academy for a while. Iron Man's Initiative had that same goal in mind, although he went about it in the most fucked way possible, of course, because... Iron Man. Fuck that guy. Someone that young seeking it out on their own isn't unheard of, but it's not common by any means.
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"There are people with powers in my world, and some of them do the superhero thing, but not all of us are."
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... because she knows a couple idiots and they're only alive due to luck, superhuman powers, or stubbornness. (She's thinking more Rockslide than Hellion, but...)
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Except for Bruce. Sort of. She's not sure if getting sent back in time counts as dying.
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