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Jason Todd ([personal profile] robintohood) wrote in [community profile] metalogs2023-12-21 06:06 pm

[Closed] Happy Deathday

Who: Jason Todd [personal profile] robintohood and whoever has CR with him
What: Jason dealing with his deathday anniversary
When: December 20th to 21st
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: PG-13 level violence and mentions of self-harm and suicide ideation

[The closer it gets to December 21st, the less present Jason Todd the civilian is. It's harder to catch him at the Descendant during this month because he hasn't been there as often as he usually is. He's not spotted as often at other places either his favorite libraries or any bookstores. Meanwhile, there's an increase in Red Hood appearances.

At first, the crime lord is seemingly burying himself with his work and trying to regain what his gang lost last month. Plenty of fights with other gangs, muscling in on territory, dodging bullets from mobsters. The beatings he dishes out on goons seem to have intensified. But as December 21st creeps closer, even most of that work gradually gets less attention from him.

The beatings continue though with a change in what information Jason wants out of his victims.

In place of most of his crime lord work are solo recon missions. Lots of decrepit properties are checked. Unused fairgrounds, warehouses, and even empty properties that used to be toy stores get searched. Jason's always on the lookout for reports of gruesome crimes involving things like deadly laughing gas, frozen smiles, and clowns too. Jason knows the Joker loves gimmicks.

For all of Jason's vigilance though, there's not even a chuckle or any other hint of the mass murderer. The quietness feeds into how unsettled Jason feels. He’s expecting something to happen. That's how the Joker works sometimes. He’s a sick freak who likes to put his own twist on special occasions.

So Jason keeps searching around Central City. That's what he tells himself what he's doing. He has so much rage, fear, and other negative feelings he doesn't want to contemplate. Once he finally kills the Joker he’ll finally feel at peace.

It’s either December 20th or it's December 21st when one might spot the Red Hood in Central City.

He could be zooming all over the streets on his motorcycle. He could be curbstomping and bludgeoning someone with a tire iron outside of a dive. He might be lurking on a dark rooftop overlooking the city, or staking out a waterfront warehouse.

Whatever the case is, he’s clearly in an extremely foul mood]

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levelshift: (tell me absolutely everything)

[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-06 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks a little disappointed that this is what he's getting, and he shakes his head.]

Be more specific than that. [He taps his phone.] I want addresses of all the locations he's operated in, bank account numbers, names and profiles of criminals he's hired. Give me the livestream videos and posts and all the metadata, including banal shit like IP addresses. And shit like where exactly you shot him, and with what kind of weapon.
levelshift: (the infinite pit of Index's stomach)

[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-06 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pen and paper? What is this, the Middle Ages?]

Do you seriously not have any of this uploaded into a database somewhere? Even something unstructured is fine.
levelshift: (hey LISTEN)

[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-06 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Not even some kind of encrypted cloud connection through your phone?

[Accelerator please that kind of thing is only normal in Academy City.]
levelshift: <user name=patch-robots site=livejournal.com> (facepalm)

[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-07 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Accelerator slumps back in his chair, putting a hand exasperatedly to his forehead. God, way to make life inconvenient for him!!]

Then just give me access to whatever you have. I'm not exactly proud of it, but I can analyze data better than a supercomputer. If I've got enough data I can probably come up with some inferences for you.
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[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-07 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He's going back to his coffee, taking a sip.]

Mostly just a lack of data. I mean, it's possible to analyze gaps in data in their own unique way, and I'd be better at it than a supercomputer because those things are limited by their programming. But too many of them and I don't have enough to work with. I'd only be making guesses like a normal person would.
levelshift: (who exactly are 'they'?)

[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-08 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm.

[He takes the phone and starts pulling stuff up. To an external observer this would look like a bored teenager scrolling endlessly through a phone without reading anything at all, but Accelerator is taking everything in and committing it all to memory. And as he does, and as he opens more files, he's plotting addresses on mental maps, and drawing imaginary lines between those locations, dates, names, and so on. The only time he actually has to slow down is when he opens the video recordings, because those have to play out in real time. When that happens, he looks a little annoyed.

Anyways, it takes him no time at all to go through everything, and when he's finished he closes his eyes for fifty-three seconds to ruminate. Then he opens the Notes app on Jason's phone and types a few things in. Inferences, like he said.

When he's completely finished he slides the phone back over and picks up his coffee.]


There you go.
levelshift: (who cares about saving the world)

[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-08 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[There is a reason Accelerator is named after particle accelerators.

He waves a hand dismissively and takes a sip of his coffee.]


You didn't have a lot to go off of, but this is better than running around with no direction.
levelshift: (yeah whatever)

[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-08 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Ugh, gratitude. Gross.]

Tche, it's not like I was doing anything important. It's no big deal.
levelshift: (hmph)

[personal profile] levelshift 2024-01-08 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Damn right it is.