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BATMAN ♞ ǝuʎɐʍ ǝɔnɹq ([personal profile] cowled) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2012-11-10 09:35 am

well they call him the Prince of Gotham, anyway... (open)

Characters: Batman, Lina Inverse, and open to anyone else!
Location: 'Batman' will be on the Mainland, but Bruce Wayne/Devin Craig will be available on certain days on the Turtle. Because secret identities. They're a thing.
Situation: He's being the goddamned Batman that's its own situation I promise.
Warnings/Rating: Probable violence/fighting/injuries.
Notes: This log is good for 1-20th, give or take. He'll be available as Bruce Wayne earlier in the month (let's say 1-5th) and from the 12-13, and the rest of the days he'll be off Batmanning it up. Bruce will have his Batsuit from the 15-onward, but until then he'll be dressed in Ye Olde Batzorro get-up. Here.






[It's decades too late for any alien locale to cause particular unease as far as Batman's concerned. The desert landscape is harsh, yes, but it's no Apokolips. Still, there's something about it that he doesn't like.

Though truthfully, the same could be said of anywhere that isn't Gotham. It's the one place in the universe he knows with the complete and total intimacy of long familiarity. It's his home, both a prison in hard times and a refuge in the same. And it was a sign of how well Tim knew him that the simple act of bringing him back from cardiac arrest was to say tell him Gotham needs him.

These last three and a half months aren't the longest he's been away from Gotham, but they are in many ways the hardest. If he had something-- a direction, a clear goal, it'd be easier to endure. But between the secrecy of the Emperor and the clandestine nature of this place, he's come up with nothing time and again.

The architecture of Tu Vishan is seven hundred years old. The written language is as complex as any he's ever seen, though he's been working on deciphering it it's a slow, secondary project to keeping people safe.

But his family is here - as whole as it's ever been at any given time in Gotham. He's... trying with Jason, though every conversation they have feels like going ten rounds with Killer Croc, leaves him bruised and beaten in invisible ways. But Cassandra, Dick, Stephanie-- even Damian. Having them here, as much as it irritates him that they're as trapped as he is, he's... glad of their presence, as he is of Kal's and Lois' as well.

And Kon, if he has to admit it. (Though he'd rather not)

He has allies here, and he's come so far in this life as to be able to admit it without much more than a cursory grimace.

He's not happy.

But he's close, and that terrifies him.

So he shoves everything down and aside, throws himself into his work. It's what he always does when he has an excess of emotion he'd rather not dealing with. Bruce - not Bruce Wayne, but Bruce at his most human and vulnerable - ceases to exist, eclipsed by the Batman. The Landfall is a perfect opportunity, one he plans to spend largely alone.

Though, as has been said, 'no plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength'.]
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[personal profile] tendnottoweep 2012-12-06 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hah. Well, given what she's heard about him, she hadn't expected information to be easy to get from him. The evasiveness is still a little annoying, but there's not a flicker of it on her face. ]

Well, there aren't many people I can't find once I start looking.

With all the masked vigilantes, supersoldiers and so on here, you wouldn't stand out that much... and yet you've kept your head down. Why is that?
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[personal profile] withoutaworld 2012-12-09 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She shrugs, giving him a pointed look. ] I know. I don't see it stopping you.
nolimitation: (so in love with the wrong world)

[personal profile] nolimitation 2012-12-11 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Track down mad scientists, mostly. [ She says it completely deadpan, but after a moment she grins, glancing down as she shrugs. ] I'm in the FBI in something called Fringe Division. The official job description is a little more complicated, but that more or less sums it up.
withoutaworld: (what if no one's watching?)

[personal profile] withoutaworld 2012-12-11 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rikki pauses for a moment, glancing out over the city. The structure of it is different from home, the buildings too small, the architecture wrong, but still... being up here feels like a breath of fresh air after the monotonous blasted landscape they've been traveling through. ]

I didn't have a choice for a while. I guess I got used to it.
dragonswag: (all that glitters is MINE)

[personal profile] dragonswag 2012-12-16 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't mean they aren't still dangerous!

[ OKAY she's still kind of grumpy about this whole thing, and having her magic sealed off never puts Lina in a good mood. She darts forward again, trying to sink her blade into the injured llothi before it can lash out at her. She manages another strike, but she only just barely gets away, nearly tumbling down onto the ground. ]

Damn it! What do you want these things for, anyway? Hey -- they're not worth any money, are they? Is there a bounty?

[ and suddenly Lina's enthusiasm has increased 500x at the prospect of money. ]
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[personal profile] usavatar 2012-12-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
I can imagine. [Steve clasps his hands behind his back, keeping what - to a casual observer - looks like an unconcerned eye on the cafe and the street. Except for the fact that he's forgotten how to be unconcerned, unaware, unfocused.] She's a good person.

[A twitch of a smile.] Forceful, but she means well.
withoutaworld: ('cause I'm a joyful girl)

[personal profile] withoutaworld 2012-12-19 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rikki actually laughs at that, tilting her head to consider him as she looks back to him. ] Wow, um... thanks? I guess? Was that you trying to be encouraging or something? Because I think you might need to work on it.

[ Still smiling, she shrugs a little. ] It's okay. I guess it's not that much worse than ending up here, except... here, I'm not the only one.
dragonswag: (FLIPPING A FUCKING TABLE)

[personal profile] dragonswag 2012-12-19 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Wha -- that's why?! Are you kidding? These things are dangerous! They'd kill us, given half the chance! They were just trying to! Besides, do you know they're not worth anything to the kedan! We could be swimming in juulan for a haul like this!
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[personal profile] nolimitation 2012-12-20 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ She laughs a little at that. ] Well, you're welcome to if you feel the need, but I don't know how much good I'll be. I left my gun at home.
withoutaworld: (what if no one's watching?)

[personal profile] withoutaworld 2012-12-21 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... yeah, of course. [ She grimaces. ] But I don't think it works like that. Once you're dead... you don't really get to come back.

Maybe some heroes do, where I'm from, but... not people like me.
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[personal profile] usavatar 2012-12-26 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Steve helps pick up the papers in silence, letting the professor do what he needs to for the sake of appearances, irony, or whatever tangential motives the display fulfills. He offers the folder back without a word, straightens up again, and clasps his hands behind his back to wait for - for lack of a better word - his escort from the cafe. He'll wait as long as Craig wants, go through the motions of whatever theater seems necessary, but small talk has never been his forte.]

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