[OPEN Mingle] If music be the food of love…

[robintohood]

Who: Mingle post! Jason Todd (DCAU version) robintohood is also available in a separate top-level comment
What: Valentine’s Day season at the Descendant Karaoke Bar and Lounge
When: 2/1 to 2/13, before the February game event
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: None for now. Will update if needed.

[It’s early February and even a place as gritty and tough as Central City isn’t immune to the Valentine’s Day mood.

If one visits the Descendant around this time of the year, one may notice that some of the Gritty the mascot figures are holding fake roses and Cupid bows and arrows. Don’t worry. They’re safe. Really.

In addition, there are two types of songs getting a ton of play. On one side you got romantic and sweet songs such as Truly, Madly, Deeply, My Heart Will Go On, and As Long As You Love Me. On the other side is quite the opposite. These songs about heartbreak. A lot of them also are blow-out torch songs. Classic hits such as You Give Love A Bad Name, I’m Still Standing, and Should I Stay or Should I Go are getting performed with at least as much enthusiasm as the love songs, if not more. Even mobsters sometimes have rough love lives and need to blow off steam.

So whatever your feelings are about Valentine’s Day this year, come drop by for a drink, some entertainment and maybe a bar game or two. Chances are, you’ll be in decent company. Besides, what else could possibly happen in Central City this month?]

((OOC: Mingle post before this month’s big event! Have fun. Jason’s own top-level is right here. My contact information is on this journal's profile and I'm in the game's Discord server. Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns as well. I also have a feedback post.))

Comments

[feathersandflames]

I can relate, the Kanes aren't particularly great communicators either. Kate tends to be as walled-off and broody as Bruce is at the best of times. Honestly, with that in mind, you'd think I would have put two and two together faster where Bruce as Bats is concerned.

[Then again, Bruce had been so good at playing the carefree playboy, and Bette knew so many guys who fit that sort of profile that she'd never given Bruce a second chance, beyond trying to figure out why he never seemed to care much for her.]

I think family's always going to fight? Usually, it comes from a place of love, which took me a long time to understand, but then I've seen how some families just...ice each other out and act indifferent, and that's like way worse. Not the sort of thing I'd ever wish on my worst enemy.

[Not that she HAS a worst enemy, but an arch-nemesis would be nice to have, one day. That's when you made it, right? As a superhero? When you got an official arch-nemesis?]

[robintohood]

Sometimes icing the rest of the family out is necessary. Better than sticking around and having more damage done.

[Jason’s directly speaking from personal experience. Even now, he finds it strange he’s in contact with his family on this Earth]

[feathersandflames]

Like, every time I've been damaged, it's been because I was iced out? Mostly emotionally, except for that one time where I was a little too too and then I was nearly killed, but I got better. And hopefully smarter.

[It wasn't like she was ever going to go toe-to-toe with someone who could slice her open again without proper preparation.]

Has it been hard for you? Letting this group in here? The fact that they're from different walks of multiversal life has got to help somewhat, right?

[robintohood]

I’ve been making do. Sometimes the multiverse shit helps. Sometimes, it just makes things awkward. A lot of us have enough similar histories that feels almost exactly like home but then there would be curve balls we might’ve not been prepared for.

I was the last Robin in my world but obviously, that’s not the case with the worlds the others come from.

[It’s safe to say Jason didn’t take that bit of news well, especially as he found out the same day the Confluence dropped him off]