unobtainableredemption: Kaine (Knocking them back)
Kaine ([personal profile] unobtainableredemption) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-12-23 05:08 pm

I'm not close I'm not safe

Characters: Kaine and OPEN
Date: December 23rd
Location: Brazen Turtle; Various
Situation: Kaine has an empty nest. Clearly this means there is something wrong with him as a person.
Warnings/Rating: PG-13 to be safe (Kaine has a filthy mouth)


Option A (Kaine):
[Kaine sat at the bar of Brazen Turtle, staring at his beer. He didn't know why he was as bothered by Peter leaving as he was. After all, how many times had he threatened to kick Peter out? He didn't even particularly like the smaller version of Peter Parker. All his presence did was remind him that there were more idealistic idiots out there than even the Peter he was familiar with. The kid was nothing but a nuisance, constantly butting into his business and forcing him to do things he didn't want to do. How could this kid, this boy who didn't know the first thing about him (by design), mean anything to him?

He had spent his entire life alone; he had always preferred that to the company of anyone. There was no one in the world--in the universe, he supposed--that was like him. They all had souls and families and relationships. He was a human shell hiding a monster within a monster. Miles Warren, his father, had put him on his destructive path by creating him, but Kaine was fully aware that he was the instrument of his own destruction. His own actions through the years had insured that he could never join society the way that Ben had tried, no matter what he did in an attempt to atone. Kaine knew this... he embraced it. So why was it bothering him now, all thanks to a kid he didn't particularly like?

Aracely. Peter reminded him of Aracely. That was the only thing he could think of. And he didn't particularly like her either. She was just someone who needed help, and he was the unlucky sap who got saddled with her. If he had left her, she would have just gotten killed... in any of those times he had gone back to save her. She was just a child. She deserved a second chance. Peter deserved a second chance.

Kaine downed the rest of his drink, knowing full well that it will probably come to bite him in his low tolerant ass later.
]

Option B (Scarlet Spider):
[Kaine needed something to punch. It didn't matter what or who, so long as it had a face that he could connect with his fist. He had no recollection of putting the costume on, or leaving his suite for that matter, only swinging through the air throughout Keeliai, looking for someone relatively out of place. He was a man on a mission, one who wouldn't be satisfied until he was able to take his frustration out on someone who looked like they might deserve it, preferably someone of the criminal persuasion.]
funkindofwicked: ([smirk] 042)

A

[personal profile] funkindofwicked 2013-12-26 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Things have been weird for her since Thanksgiving. Or maybe before that. There was a lack of fighting and a lack of someone she even wanted to fight. Not seriously,anyway. She picked at Clark whenever they talked, argued with random people on the network for kicks, and overall life was peaceful. She almost wished she wasn't nearly invulnerable so she could shoot herself in the head and put her out of her own misery.

Life was too simple, too easy, and even the damn Emperor getting axed wasn't enough to shake things up for her. She wanted some kind of excitement back in her life. She spent too long training, fighting and killing to handle this...nothing so calmly, but there wasn't anything else to do for it if no one around was making themselves interesting enough for her to care.

So she did tonight whatever she does when the boredom gets to be too much. She goes out, punches a few gang members she catches causing trouble around and then heads to a bar. It may take her hours to even get tipsy, but it's always a good goal to see how fast she can do it. She slides into a chair at the bar easily, paying no attention that someone is in the seat next to her.]


You know my regular. [It's one she frequents more often.] Make up one with ice and then keep them coming.
funkindofwicked: ([side] 044)

[personal profile] funkindofwicked 2013-12-26 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Tea tosses a drink back pretty quickly and sets the glass down on the counter--although not hard enough to break it, she's done that before--and turns her head so she can look at the guy next to her through the fall of her hair. God damn it, it was getting too long. She needed to cut it again before she started to look to much like...her.]

Hm. You could say that. [She motions for another drink.] Boredom is its own kind of ultimate suckage. You would think with it being a "war" and all, there would be more to do.
funkindofwicked: ([testing] 037)

[personal profile] funkindofwicked 2013-12-26 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
You ever hear of the Cold War? Whole point was showing off who had the biggest guns without firing a shot. [Tea doesn't have to worry about getting inebriated that quickly--it's quite hard and she had used it to her advantaged more than once--so she'll keep enjoying those drinks while she has the extra coin to do it.]

And that is the more boring kind of war there is. If they want us here to save the day, they should give us something to punch. I'm not into playing on-call-civilian for the sake of a turtle I don't even like.
funkindofwicked: ([fuck you] 093)

[personal profile] funkindofwicked 2013-12-26 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
What the hell do you think any war is? Someone having a pissing contest with someone else and whoever has the biggest damn guns wins. Don't even have to rack up the biggest body count.

[She snorts into her drink.] And I said I was bored, not stupid. Why do it myself when there's obvious some asshole out there willing to do it for me?
werethatgood: (Grief that can't be spoken)

A. Ish. Let me know if okay!

[personal profile] werethatgood 2013-12-30 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It was true, Cassie was walking home a bit later than she should have. She was keeping to well-lit streets, and - well. She wasn't nearly as defenseless as she looked, between self-defense and combat training, and, well, other things. ]

[ She still kept her eyes open. So when the man stumbled and leaned against the wall for a moment, she caught the motion, and loped closer. ]

Excuse me, sir. Are you hurt?
modernized: batman (undercover)

B - let me know if this works or not

[personal profile] modernized 2013-12-31 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Terry is quietly shadowing a man. A Kedan in the Metal Sector was on his way to rendezvous with some crooks in Fire Sector, harboring intel. But the location of his partners wasn't known yet, meaning Terry had to follow using stealth first. He wasn't one for patience, but he could live with stalking until the right opportunity. Bidding his time, making up plans, getting to where he needed.

The Kedan isn't very smart though - he practically screamed "I'm suspicious" through his quick pace, the way he almost tore through some denser crowds to get where he needs to go, and the get up he wore. Nerves getting the best of the sap maybe? It didn't matter to Terry. The time to fight would come later.
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Edited 2013-12-31 10:36 (UTC)
werethatgood: (Intent)

W00!

[personal profile] werethatgood 2013-12-31 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Riiiight. The teenager shifted her weight to the back foot and crossed her arms. ]

As though you'd buy it if somebody told you that one.
werethatgood: (Intent)

[personal profile] werethatgood 2013-12-31 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Pause. ]

So not the same. Believing something's not the same as knowing it's crap and not caring either way.
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[personal profile] werethatgood 2013-12-31 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)

Like you said yourself.

[ So sweetly. ]

I do give a fuck. You don't look likely to reach wherever you're headed to, right now, and while that might happen any night when I'm not around, I can't see it and just turn my back on you. Call it a problem I have.

[ Cassie's eyes narrowed, and she though she might. Take a gamble. And try to shake him a little off that 'don't give a fuck' stance. ]

And if you keep arguing, I'll tell you how this is like helping old ladies cross the street.

werethatgood: (Default)

[personal profile] werethatgood 2013-12-31 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)

Are you walking more steadily than one?

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[personal profile] werethatgood 2013-12-31 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)

[ Funniest part is that Cassie knows about May. And can connect the dots about Peter. She just. Hasn't made the connection of this guy to either of them (yet). But that's not what matters. He's drunk, and she's already gotten a quick look of night-time violence by the gangs. ]

Well, then you wouldn't mind me tagging along. Just so you can prove me wrong.

werethatgood: (Lip-bite)

[personal profile] werethatgood 2013-12-31 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well. That was. ]

[ Unexpected. ]

[ All the humor fled from Cassie's face, and her posture straightened, focused more. And, yes, she ducked away from the flaming hand, promptly enough to have avoided it even if he hadn't pulled back. And, just a blink later, she was actually taller than the man. Not much, but enough that he would notice, no matter how drunk or distracted. ]

And you have just given me a very good reason to make sure you get home and nobody gets hurt.

[ There's no fight in her voice, just the sort of authority that's not quite the way a fifteen-year-old should fail to be authoritative. There's enough practice behind it to show some experience. ]

Did you burn yourself? Or just the shirt?
werethatgood: (Situation)

[personal profile] werethatgood 2013-12-31 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. But I can also handle myself.

[ Gentle. Then she frowned a little at his demonstration. ]

And that's neat. And it's a start.

[ Her eyes went up to his face, before the first question of an interrogation she thought likely to take. A while. Not necessarily all tonight. ]

So, how hard did you try to do it to yourself, before you really verified that it wouldn't work?

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