april catch-all.

[beknight]

Who: bruce wayne (beknight) & various others.
What: shenanigans for april
When: throughout april
Where: everywhere
Warning(s): none yet, will add if needed.

Comments

[beknight]

Very subtle.

[ Re: that F word. He makes a soft noise. ]

This is Gotham City. I was born here, it's where I've lived most of my life.

[willrevile]

Thought I'd go along with the atmosphere. [ The car, the armor, the bazooka. Subtlety, that's definitely the name of the game they're playing here. ]

Gotham, [ he echoes, interested. Not anywhere he's heard of. That's not surprising, given the nature of this place - but also, his world went through a nuclear holocaust that lost much of history. (Gotta wait 'til old Earth stuff comes more in vogue in TNG.) ]

Are you a terrorist or are you whatever the opposite is?

[beknight]

What do you think?

[ Not that Bruce gives half a shit about other people's opinions, negative or otherwise. Accustomed to engendering one more than the other, however — but Jim's perspective isn't wholly baseless or reactionary, despite whatever he thinks about ~the dungeon~, it's a useful angle. ]

[willrevile]

I think you're dangerous and smart enough to be either. [ Jim looks at him, calm and honest. ] Though my gut tells me you're good. Since you seem to hate it if I think anything positive of you.

[ And he's clearly not thrilled Jim is seeing this. Jim thinks-- if it were something awful, Alan would find it easier. ]

[beknight]

[ If it was something terrible — broken bones, the brand, any number of nights he's had to show cruelty, it would be easy. It would just be that. ]

[ Jim likes him. His cheerful relentlessness has made it absolutely clear he's not going anywhere. Unstoppable force meets immoveable object? Hardly. He trusts Jim, that's not a currency Bruce is rolling in. ]

[ — so the answer is not this is what made me. The horrors of a past can linger. Even the most determined, the most resilient, can lose their way if they walk in the dark too long. But it's what you reach for, — what you desperately try to hold on to when all else crumbles. ]

You go with your gut.

[ He won't approve. But he knows where he is now — that Jim will leave the front porch light on, there'll be food in the fridge, it'll be somewhere to rest for a while. ]