(closed) you better watch out. you better watch out

[eggplanting]

Who: Steph Brown eggplanting, Bart Allen, Cass Cain, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Kon-El, Jon Kent
What: Slumber party with the DC vigilante/hero kids
When: Mid-December
Where: Bart's farm in Little Love
Content Warnings: hopefully none!
Notes: Threadjacking is encouraged, as is vaguely waving our hands at the concept of linear time so that we don't have to think too hard about logistics



'Twas the night week before Christmas, when all through the house...

Pretty much everyone was stirring, because there's a party to enjoy.

Calling it a party may be a slight stretch, when there's really only a handful of them and they're not going to get up to anything more intense than playing Mario Kart and watching movies from the 90s, but Steph thought that labeling it a sleepover might sound a little immature. The idea had percolated over the last few weeks; there's a good handful of them now, from roughly the same universe, but not all of them know each other well, and while Steph might not be as tactically minded as someone like Tim, it had seemed sensible that they do a little team building.

Also, it should be fun. That's very important.

With Bart being the only one living in a space that could actually be considered a house, she'd reached out to ask if he'd be cool with hosting, and had sent out texts to the rest of their friends once she had his approval. Not being a jerk, she'd also promised to swing by early to help set up, for all the set up that needs to be done when a handful of people in their twenties hang out. Mostly it involved grabbing a few extra bean bags, setting up the TV and game consoles, and adding a few seasonally appropriate holiday decorations.

The invitation texts served the secondary purpose of assigning everyone some kind of snack or beverage to bring, most of it falling into typical junk food fare. Chips and dip, soda, pizza rolls, pretzels (the soft variety, of course), mozzarella sticks, popcorn. People are welcome to get fancier, but she'd mostly suggested things they could eat as is, or food that's easy to pop in the oven. This isn't a gala thrown by Bruce, after all. And with none of them being particularly big drinkers, she'd just told everyone it was BYOB if they want to get alcohol involved in their evening.

It's unlikely any of them would want to get wasted. While they're all strictly off duty for the evening, 'drunken misadventures' isn't really the vibe Steph is going for with this whole thing; it's meant to be a relaxing, fun evening, where they can eat, watch movies, and get into unnecessarily heated arguments about video games before crashing wherever they can find a soft surface at the end of the night. As if they're normal young adults and not a gaggle of traumatized vigilantes and lab experiments.

Later in the evening, after they've all poured outside to make s'mores around an improvised firepit, she'll probably break out some silly party games, like Never Have I Ever, or worse, card games like Uno. Because nothing says fun like arguing over whether it's morally right to use two skips in a row.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Comments

[kid_flash_found]

"Of course he did. Because Tim plans for everything. Especially knowing that question will come up in any game of costumed Truth-or-Dare."

[robintohood]

Jason barks out a laugh.

"Yeah that sounds about right," he grins. "He had to have seen that one coming a mile away."

[kid_flash_found]

"Except for the part where he tried to convince us his name was Alvin Draper," Bart shakes his head at the memory.

"We really should have a worst disguise/alias contest sometime."

[robintohood]

"Oh? How bad do they get?" He asks, curious.

[kid_flash_found]

"I'm almost grateful there's not much to vary in legacy costumes." Which probably says all it needs to.

[robintohood]

Jason whistles.

"Got it. That bad. 'Alvin Draper' does sound pretty fake."

[kid_flash_found]

"If Dick were here, there's no competition."

Bart shrugs. "I've never really done much undercover stuff. I'm terrible at it."

[robintohood]

"I'm guessing you probably haven't had to do much of it anyway," Jason says. "It's different with us. Most of our work is about intel gathering and research than beating the hell out of someone."

[kid_flash_found]

"I'm not bad at pickpocketing and things like that, but research? Not really big on things you can't rush." Although he's way better than he was when he started.

[robintohood]

"Wish I had your speed when I was a kid pickpocketer," Jason smirks.

Superspeed always sounds useful but would've been especially great when he needed to steal for a living.

[kid_flash_found]

"It's not as useful as you'd think, at least for the actual act. You still have to move with the mark and distract them. Although I can't imagine relieving someone's clip being very possible without it."

Classic Flash trick for idiot bad guys. Especially when the slide bites them as it locks back.

[robintohood]

"True. It's the combination of speed, sleight of hand, and stealth that makes it work," Jason says. "By the time they notice, you should already be way out of reach."

[kid_flash_found]

"Assuming you let them notice at all." Not that he's ever stolen for the sake of stealing.

"It's kinda a family tradition, along with juggling and practical jokes."

[robintohood]

"Juggling?" Jason asks with a raised eyebrow.

Practical jokes in a family full of speedsters was easy to imagine at least.

[kid_flash_found]

"It takes a lot of timing to keep a dozen or more objects in the air. Especially if they're not identical."

[robintohood]

Jason thinks about this and nods.

"Makes sense. You guys would have some fun on what to juggle?"

[kid_flash_found]

"Max would make me practice with knives. Or axes." But it wasn't like he ever got really badly hurt on that front. "One time he even challenged me to solve a puzzle before the first piece hit the ground."

[robintohood]

Jason lightly snickers at the mental image. He's not alarmed as he knows Bart must've had superspeed by then.

"How'd that go?" He asks.

[kid_flash_found]

"It wasn't the solving it that was hard. But I didn't know there was a picture on the other side." And yeah, he was a strange kid back then. "You don't have jigsaw puzzles in a VR chamber."

[robintohood]

Jason looks back at Bart in mild confusion.

"What was the set up to this?" He asks.

[kid_flash_found]

"Oh, right. You don't know about the whole refugee from the future part of my life story."

[robintohood]

"Yeah, that's news to me."

[kid_flash_found]

"I'm from the future. By about a thousand years. Not that I ever got to spend much time there. So, well, I wasn't exactly the best fit when I got sent back in time for training."

[robintohood]

"Wouldn't sending someone back in time cause problems?" Jason asks.

Granted, he's basing that based on sci-fi books he's read. Time traveling was not usually part of being a Gotham vigilante.

[kid_flash_found]

"It's...complicated. But in my case, it seems like probably not. I mean, I'm here, and so is my evil clone, unfortunately." And the world is still standing.