I'm nearly human look at me

[unobtainableredemption]

Characters: Kaine and OPEN
Date: Sometime after the bottle event
Location: Various
Situation: Various
Warnings/Rating: PG-13 to be safe (for Kaine's mouth)


Option 1 - Fire Sector
[Kaine’s standing in front of a storefront, looking through the window at the mantle displayed on the other side and debating whether or not he wants to buy one. Not for the fashion, mind you, but for something he could temporarily wear to cover his face and conceal the giant shiner surrounding his left eye. It’s a cliché, but you should really see the other guy.]


Option 2 - Water Sector
[He had intended to go right home, but now that his face was concealed by the hood of his newly bought mantle, Kaine finds himself walking right past the door to his suite, eventually winding up in a park in the water sector. It's clear by the path of destruction as he enters that one of the baby turtles had been through recently--the rubble had not yet been pushed to the side. He found himself smiling despite himself. When were they going to learn that they couldn't destroy everything?

Kaine sits on one of the benches and pulls the hood low as to cover his black eye, and just stares out at the mess. He could head home some other time.]


Option 3 - Metal Sector (Wearing this costume, though he still has short hair)
[He had forgotten how heavy the outfit was. It was the complete opposite of his Scarlet Spider costume—bulky with ridges and angles that have angles. Then there was the cape. What was he thinking when he added a cape to this thing? There was no reason for it whatsoever. Not like the raised “veins” of the costume, which had once pressed upon the scars of his degeneration to slow its progress, but now just serve to remind him of where the scars used to be. It was perfect.

He couldn't be the Scarlet Spider anymore. Not after what had happened in the bottle. It only served to remind him just how different he was from the others, and just how far he had fallen from what he could have been. And then he found this, his old outfit that once kept him alive, the outfit he wore during the year he spent terrorizing both Reilly and Parker, as well as anyone they might have cared about… and if that wasn't divine intervention, he didn't know what was.

Kaine leaps to the next building, never losing a stride in his step. He’s trying to get used to the suit’s bulk by doing something he’d done hundreds of times in it before... but if he bothered to stop and think about it, he’d realize just how suspicious he looks dressed like that leaping across rooftops at a sprint.]

OOC: If you want to roll with something other than those, feel free to either PM me, reach out to me at redconfession, or just start a thread, your choice.

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Closed to May

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[After his talk with Peter went better than expected, he decides to try his luck with his other pseudo-family member, May. After briefly stopping by his suite to change, he knocks on one of her second floor windows, one with a light on.]

You got a minute?

[daughteroftheoriginal]

[May avoids leaving her suite in costume- some things are just way too obvious when she's trying to protect her secret identity, after all- so her suite's windows don't get opened up to the point of being able to let a full grown person in.]

Yeah, what's-

[It isn't until she gets to the window that she actually gets a look at him.]

-whoa. Kaine? What the heck are you wearing?

[unobtainableredemption]

Something your father would recognize in an instant.

Now let me in.

[Option 1]

[funkindofwicked]

[She waited around. For a minute or two. But Tea is too full of frustration, anger, and too many things she doesn't want to think about. So she's dropped in on what looked like the exchange of weapons from some dealer to a gang behind an abandoned warehouse and was knocking some heads together.

Hopefully, Kaine doesn't mind she picked from the menu already.]

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[Kaine would have been surprised if he saw Tea waiting like she said she'd be. So much, in fact, Kaine runs right past the park without sparing it a glance. He doesn't know exactly where she is now, but he figured that if he follows the path of destruction (that wasn't left by the turtles), he'd find her... and he was right.

It doesn't take long for grunts from gang members being roughed up in one of the alleys below to reach his ears. Kaine slows to a stop on the warehouse roof above and peers over the edge. Sure enough, there was Tea with a rage that completely dwarfed his own. He briefly wonders what happened... then he reminds himself it's none of his damn business.

Kaine leaps off the building into the alley below, his cape billowing as he lands on a gang member attempting to sneak up on her.]

Someone's having fun.

[funkindofwicked]

[She heard him before he swooped down, but really she was a little preoccupied with punching kedan in the face and elbowing one hard enough to break some ribs. Tea glances over as the wind shifted from the movement of his cape and pauses just long enough to give him a more thorough look over. Then she laughs.]

And someone's been picking through the bargain bin for a new look.

Option 3!

[burnseternal]

[Saint Walker is still new enough to the city to crave further exploration of his surroundings. The Metal Sector seems to be as good a place as any to begin, its architecture as foreign to him as the Water Sector's is comfortingly familiar, but he soon finds himself wishing for a better vantage point. Luckily, this is easily accomplished by easily scaling the side of one of the buildings. The inhabitants of this place may think him strange for it, but he's an outsider already; what's one more oddity to add to the pile?

It's not so long after he's climbed to his new perch that Kaine makes his arrival swiftly known. It's not so easy to miss someone sprinting across the rooftops, after all.]

Hm. I can't say I was expecting company, [he remarks, regarding Kaine - and his strange attire - curiously.]

Re: Option 3!

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[Kaine slows down when he sees that there's someone on the roof over, but skids to a halt when he sees exactly who is there. That's... that's an alien. It's the first time he's ever seen one up close (yes, he knows the Kedan count as alien but they look human enough he forgets most of the time).]

...The rooftops are a lot more crowded than you'd think they'd be.

[Kaine's pretty proud of himself for being able to string together a coherent sentence, considering all of the incoherent ones thought up first.]

[burnseternal]

Apparently so! [Saint Walker smiles at Kaine, as odd as it feels to smile at someone without any visible features. Perhaps it's simply a quirk of some human beings - after all, Hal Jordan also seemed to favour wearing a mask wherever he traveled.]

And why is that, I wonder? I'm here for the view, you see, but somehow I doubt that that's your reason for jumping across the rooftops.

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[problematical]

[ River's been watching the man preen in the window reflection for a few moments now from across the street, her slight figure easy to miss in the bustle of the crowd. She weaves her way through the people though until she's almost at his elbow. ]

You shouldn't fight.

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[Jesus Christ she scared him. He had been so focused on the mantle he hadn't heard her approach.]

Some asshole got a lucky shot trying to take my wallet. I only protected myself. [And by "protected myself" he means "sent the guy to the hospital".]

[problematical]

[ River is wearing a grin that's just a shade this side of shit-eating as she jumps too; she often does the same to Jayne, knowing exactly how far to keep to stay out of reach. ]

Played a game where he didn't know the rules so you won, but you can't call him a sore loser.

[ Though if he's in the hospital he probably is sore. ]

Bowling

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Arriving/Mingling

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[ The bowling alley was pristine, to the point where Kaine wouldn't be surprised to learn that it had just finished construction yesterday. The hardwood and linoleum showed no signs of wear, and neither did the shoes being dangled in front of his face. It made him wonder why the kedan who owned the place had bothered to create it at all, because clearly there wasn't a demand for bowling alleys on a turtle.

Unless, apparently, your names were Kyle Rayner or Peter Parker.

This mess all started several hours ago when Parker showed up at his front door unannounced, and started loudly proclaiming that they should go 'bond.' The ensuing argument (okay fine, bickering) caught his next door neighbor Rayner's attention, and the next thing Kaine knew he, Parker, Rayner, and three of Rayner's friends he didn't recognize were being ushered into the brand new bowling alley in the Wood Sector, and bowling shoes were being thrown at him.

Did neither of them understand the word "no"?]

[escarabajo]

[Jaime's methodically stuffing his feet into his own hideous bowling shoes and eyeing the brand spankin'-new wooden lanes. It looks relatively... normal and Earth-ly, for a kedan construction. Kyle must know his way around a bowling alley.]

Are we putting bumpers up? Because I'm pretty much useless at bowling unless we're, uh. Granny-throwing here.

Bowling!

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[Despite his early reluctance to get involved at all, Kaine was finally worn down, and he was beginning to improve, if he did say so himself. Thought his score might not be anything worth celebrating, he was doing all right for someone who had never gone bowling before. At least he wasn't in last place (he wasn't quite sure why that mattered to him in the slightest, but it did).

Kaine released the ball. Down most of the lane it stayed straight, just as he had lined it up to be. Then, as it neared the pins, it began to veer left... too far left for it to hit a decent amount of pins. So he did what anyone would do in that situation—fire a minuscule amount of webbing from his wrist to correct the ball, which promptly corrected itself upon being hit. His hand barely moved from his side when he flicked his wrist to fire the projectile, trying not to draw attention to what he had just done. Not because he didn't want to be called out for cheating, but because he could barely come to terms with how pathetically involved he had gotten in the stupid game in the first place to resort to that to avoid another gutter ball.

And for the record? He bowled a strike. ]

[mendelian]

[He might not know how Kaine accomplished it, but Connor knew enough about trajectories and spin to know that the chances of that ball hooking left and then right to correct itself were slim.]

Nice shot.

[There was something about the way he said it though. This was supposed to be a friendly match, and whatever just happened won't be continuing in the next frame. He won't say anything more pointed than that, though, because he was actually having a nice night and enjoying the company. It was a welcome break from the recent chaos.]

Mid-Game Break

[imaginate]

[Halfway through the... thing that's a bowling game between people who a. need to have fun, and b. people who drag such people to have fun, Kyle calls a general break for grabbing some refreshments. There's no vending machine up there yet but there's a small counter, and he grabs a couple of bottles of juice and some small crispy snacks. The kedan aren't much for bowling but they've been watching and a few are in the other lanes, copying. This could catch on.]

Don't fight over it!

[Cheerfully, as he puts the tray down on the small table attached to one of the couches there.]

There's some other stuff there; this looked the most interesting.

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[When Kyle called for break, Kaine remained seated and just stared out at the lanes. He's still coming to terms with the fact that his neighbor and Peter had managed to drag him out here, with no less than four other people. At least the angry midget ninja kid seems to hate being here as much as he does.]

Remind me again why you dragged me out here?

[He takes a handful of some of the crispy snacks. You drag his ass out here, he's stealing your food.]

And speaking of here, what Kedan was stupid enough to build a bowling alley when no one--other than apparently you and your friends--knows how to bowl?

option 3

[modernized]

[It's just another night, really. Bruce...left, and it's been a little rough for all the bat-people. No one really voices it, but it's easy to see. Life goes on however and he knows how his boss is - he would be annoyed if things stopped functioning just because he was gone. Terry knows that well from intuition alone.

So he's a little more solemn tonight, after finishing working a case, and is on his way back when his visual monitor catches sight of a shady character on the roofs. There are plenty of vigilante/hero types living on the turtle, but it catches his attention enough to pursue. Though he intentionally doesn't maneuver in a very stealthy way, trying to see how the figure would reac to being followed. Not quite the "bat way", but then again the boss isn't exactly around to chide him anymore. He'll miss that.]

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[If it wasn't for Kaine's night vision, he would have missed the figure flying barely visible in his peripheral vision. As it stood, he barely sees him anyway thanks to the full cloth mask hindering some of his vision. He had gotten used to it fairly quickly 5 years ago, but that was before he'd been spoiled by Parker's fancy Spider lenses. And he doesn't think anything of it. There are a few dozen heroes in this city, and this isn't the first time he's run into one when he was out in costume. He's just forgotten which costume he's wearing.

He finishes his leap to the next building and spins on his heel to jump to a building to his right. Even with his enhanced agility he finds himself skidding due to forgetting about the added bulk of his particular outfit, not to mention the loss of traction. Whatever Kaine's thoughts on Peter might be, he least concedes the guy can create an efficient costume. Forcing his feet to stick to the floor, he brings himself to a halt. He takes a few steps back before breaking out into a running jump to the building in question. It isn't until he reaches that particular building does he realize that the bat kid's still there.]

Don't you have some gangs to break up?

[modernized]

[He lands on the building in a crouch position just as Kaine speaks, rising up with a small shrug motion. It's when the shrouded man speaks does he realize that he knows the voice.]

Already broke 'em up. [He takes a moment to note the get-up.] Got to be honest - I liked the spider costume more.

Other option

[spiderkid]

[Peter told Miles about Kaine "giving up" the suit, the life, whatever. But Miles wasn't sure what to believe. Especially after Kaine had told him he could come over for sparring lessons not too long before. Okay, well maybe it was a while ago, but still.

Miles shows up at the Fire Sector address Kaine had given him, costume under his clothes and mask in his backpack, and knocks. He shuffles nervously from foot to foot while waiting, unsure how welcome his presence will be. He knows he's not a part of the "family" thing the other Spider-People have going on (even if he doesn't know the degree of closeness they all share), and he feels a little awkward intruding on their lives, but... who else does he have to go to?]

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[Kaine had been working out when he heard the knock at the door. He contemplates ignoring it, but the last time that happened he wound up going bowling, so rather than face that level of hell again, he just grabs his towel off the unused training dummy by the door and crosses the living area of his suite to his front door. He mops his face with the towel with one hand as he swings the door open with the other, speaking before he bothers to see who's there.]

Can I help you?

[He pulls the towel away from his face and looks down at his visitor. He hadn't expected to see Miles. Honestly, it took him a few seconds to remember he even gave the kid his address. After he had made the initial offer and Miles never came, he just figured the kid wasn't interested. Guess he was wrong.]

[spiderkid]

Oh. [Shoot, looks like Miles is interrupting something.] Is this a bad time? I can come back later. [Looking down, to himself, he says,] I should have called ahead...