eggplanting: (I'll find my way out of the grave)
stephanie brown | batgirl ([personal profile] eggplanting) wrote in [community profile] metalogs2022-12-17 10:21 pm

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

Who: Steph Brown [personal profile] 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.
mostdangerousbird: (071 shade never made anybody less gay)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2022-12-21 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
“I’ve got stories you wouldn’t believe,” Tim says with a wide grin. “But you don’t want to talk shop.”

He does put the phone down though. “I never said it was boring. It can be fun. Mildly terrifying, but often fun.”
robintohood: (To lose this higher)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-12-21 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
"So it's chaotic fun then," Jason says as he offers a bowl of chips. "Got any examples?"
mostdangerousbird: (071 shade never made anybody less gay)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2022-12-26 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Tim thinks about it. There’s a couple different expressions that all equate a certain fond amusement. Finally… “Someone else in this farmhouse has driven the car.”
robintohood: (I'm a myth and I'm a legend)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-12-26 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Jason stares at Tim in amazement and disbelief.

"No way," Jason says. "How? And what'd Bruce do afterwards?"

Knowing the kind of security that would be on the car, Jason can't imagine Bruce not knowing.
mostdangerousbird: (074 something soft and really quite dumb)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2022-12-26 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
“There was more than one at the time. One of them happened to be in my possession in San Francisco.”

Because he’d arranged it. And forgotten to tell Bruce. And conveniently hid the evidence. “He flipped out, but realistically it was low risk. He’s pretty pragmatic once you reorient to his worldview, and I’m put to better use as Robin than being grounded in my room. If he found about the plane, that might’ve been different.”
robintohood: (Without hope)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-12-26 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Jason's amazement further increases.

"You took the plane?" he says, stunned. "How? Closest I got to the plane was to just sit in the backseat."
mostdangerousbird: (120)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2022-12-26 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Tim looks surprised at that. They all know how to pilot, so for Jason not to know how seems off. Yet another reminder that he’s not quite Jason. “The issue would’ve been that I let Bart man the controls, not that I was flying the plane.”
robintohood: (I have my flaws)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-12-26 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Why were you using the plane in the first place?" Jason asks. Joyrides with the Batmobile were easy to imagine. Taking the Batplane for a spin seemed a bit much.
mostdangerousbird: (107)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2022-12-28 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
“Because I can’t fly of my own accord?” Many decisions about planes are made because people can’t fly.

“It’s not comfortable being carried long distances; it sucks for the people that can fly to have to tote us around like suitcases; and it’s hard to have a team conversation.”
robintohood: (Never gonna try to)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-12-28 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Makes sense," Jason admits. "Can't say I had much experience with either. I knew the controls to the Batplane but never really got a chance to put in my hours for it."