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Jason Todd ([personal profile] robintohood) wrote in [community profile] metalogs2023-01-03 09:34 pm

[OPEN/CLOSED] A Robin came a-knockin’

Who: Jason Todd [personal profile] robintohood and you
What: Jason’s been deaged back to his early Robin years. Antics ensue. Also contains one special closed prompt
When: January 3rd-4thish, during the age swap event
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: None for now. Will edit if needed.

[Somewhere in Central City is a small boy in a red, yellow, and green costume. It’s hard to forget someone in a colorful suit like that.

That is, assuming you can catch a good enough look at him. He’s effortlessly using his grappling gun and parkour skills to swing around and jump rooftops. You might see him as he tries to get a lay of the land.

Alternatively, you might see him fearlessly (or recklessly, depending on how you look at it) pounce right on top of a would-be armed mugger. He might not know where he is but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop fighting crime. It’s what any good sidekick would do.]

Attic Safehouse above the Descendant Bar (Closed to people who use the safehouse)

[Later that night, Robin is exhausted but isn’t ready to trust just any place to rest for the night. For now, he’s just perched on top of the Descendant, near the attic window]
mostdangerousbird: (146 - Pre Robin)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-04 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Robin just flew right over the alley. If anyone can help him, it’s Batman and Robin.

He’s not sure what they’re doing in Central City, but he’s relieved to know that they’re here.

Tim doesn’t think twice about jumping up onto the lower rungs of the fire escape’s ladder and climbing up like it’s monkey bars. Boy, the stairs are noisy.
]
mostdangerousbird: (075)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-04 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nope, just someone young and scrawny in clothes multiple sizes too big. He doesn’t look starved, with round cheeks and bright eyes, but he also doesn’t look like he belongs on a rooftop.

He hauls himself up onto the roof with that playground fearlessness of children.
]

Robin!

[ Oh. Oh, no, he doesn’t want to actually explain what’s wrong, and now Robin’s going to know what he looks like. Still…]

… this is so cool.
mostdangerousbird: (023 but you know that she’s watching)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-04 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Tim gives him a sheepish nod and points down between the buildings. ]

I was hiding in the alley.

[ There’s no reason to not tell the whole truth here - Robin is likely to help and unlikely to tell the Drakes that Tim somehow managed to get himself kidnapped. ]

I’m not supposed to be in Central City - I’m from Gotham, like you. But I woke up in a weird hotel, and the phone I took -

[ Horrified, Tim realizes that he’s stolen a mobile phone . He drops it and it bounces off his shoe with a clatter. ]

I didn’t mean to steal it!
mostdangerousbird: (146 - Pre Robin)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-04 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
It was - it was pretty scary.

[ He says it with uncertainty. It’s okay, right? To admit that he was scared, even though everything is - well, it’s not okay but. ]

I’m not hurt though. I checked when I was getting dressed.

[ He’d woken in a tank top and shorts - again, too big - but nothing was bruised, bleeding or painful as he’d thrown on what clothes could find and ran away.

He takes the phone awkwardly.
]

This had an account with my name on it, but I’m not allowed to have a phone yet.
mostdangerousbird: (146 - Pre Robin)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-04 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh - um.

[ He had been on a jaunt through Gotham on his bike to take pictures of Batman and Robin. ]

I was riding my bike. Then I woke up there. But it wasn’t a dream. I know the difference!
mostdangerousbird: (146 - Pre Robin)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-05 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Tim has to think about it. He starts to shake his head, but then points off in the distance. ]

I can show you where the hotel is - I’ll go back if you go with me.

[ It will be safe with Robin there.

Tim reaches into his pocket and pulls out a key ring and holds it up to show it off. Two door keys, a logoless motorcycle key, and more than a dozen keys to lockboxes, drawers, and storage units.
]

I have the keys.
mostdangerousbird: (144)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-06 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. That's why I had to get your attention.

[ It's said matter-of-factly, but it's absolutely a compliment. Tim has to clamber to get back on the fire escape from the roof, but once he's on, he's tap-tap-tapping his way down before Jason could stop him. ]

Do you think you'll find anything?
mostdangerousbird: (079)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-07 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a sort of thwump as Tim misses a rung and ends up full-body bumping the ladder. Never in any real danger of falling, with both hands and a foot safe, but it's a good lesson about not getting surprised on fire escapes. ]

It's Tim.

[ Maybe Jason doesn't pay attention to Bruce Wayne's friends' kids' names? Tim only knows the ones that his parents make him play with - the only reason he knows Jason is because he knows Bruce Wayne is Batman, that his first ward was the first Robin, and that the second Robin is therefore likely to be his newly adopted son, Jason Todd.

AKA, the boy who is, for once, following Tim, instead of the other way around.
]

Tim Drake.
mostdangerousbird: (127)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-08 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm okay.

[ He's already started moving again and won't have anymore trouble on the way down, not even when he reaches the end of the ladder and has to dangle and drop down to the ground.

Tim really doesn't want to go back, but, if Robin needs more information, well... there's not another choice unless Tim lets him go alone. Leaving Tim alone. He's normally fine with that, but the idea feels bad.
]
mostdangerousbird: (146 - Pre Robin)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-01-15 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tim nods. It’s obvious, but reassuring anyway. He’s so lucky to have come across Robin. He’s not going to wander off now. This is the safest place to be: with Robin. Even if it means going back to the creepy motel until something better comes along. Maybe they’ll see the Mad Hatter. ]
Edited 2023-01-15 18:51 (UTC)