[Open] Get this party started on a Saturday night

[forceforlight]

Who: Dick Grayson forceforlight
What: Housewarming/Birthday party at the Belfry!
When: 23rd of March
Where: The Belfry, Central
Content Warnings: None as yet
Notes: This is a gathering post! Feel free to top level and interact with each other!


It's definitely spring, finally, with the sun managing to burn off the worst of the morning chill. And, finally, with work finished on the main floor and winding down on the apartments, it's time to make things official.

Which is why the doors of the Belfry are wide open, music pouring out into the street.

Inside, the ground floor is mostly taken up by a large, open floor plan, communal living room. One wall sports a massive television, complete with multiple gaming systems that can be hooked up. Facing the television are a couple of couches and armchairs, set around a massive coffee table that has coasters and chips ready for people to dig in to. Another grouping of couches and armchairs are set away from the television, closer to the stairs and surrounded by multiple bookshelves stocked with books from an eclectic array of subjects.

Opposite the TV is a kitchen that takes up most of the wall, with two fridge-freezers with signs saying to help yourself to the cold drinks, as well as several trays of sandwiches and veggie plates, which will be replaced by pizza as the evening wears on. There's also a large, family-sized oak table with more chairs for people to sit on.

There's a blocked off stairway at the back of the room, an elevator in the tower at the front of the building. Two doors that lead from the room. One leads to a guest bathroom and the other is locked.

At the end of the night, before things wind down entirely, a chocolate sheet cake appears on the kitchen island, with Happy birthday, Dick! written on it. Apparently, there's more than one reason for the party, after all.

Comments

Jason Todd (DCAU version) | OTA

[robintohood]

Jason's still in a gloomy, antisocial mood but he knows that if he doesn't show his face even briefly for Dick's birthday, the rest of the BatFamily might try to check in on him and try to make him talk about things he doesn't want to talk about. So he arrives at the Belfry during the middle of the party, hoping that the crowd would make it easier for him to subtly slip in with little fanfare.

He drops off a wrapped present, gets himself a drink, and then lingers against a wall, away from most people. He has no plans to stay for the whole party but he also knows if he leaves too early, it could be another flag to other people to try and get him to talk more than he wants.

To help pass the time, he looks around and seems to be taking in how the Belfry is so far.

Dick Grayson (Comics version) | OTA

[forceforlight]

Things just happened to fall at the right time for Dick to hold the party at the Belfry. It's a good way to get to know the neighborhood while also letting people they know get to see the new building.

Dick moves between the groups mostly effortlessly, introducing himself to people who he doesn't know and greeting people he does. But he does, eventually, pull back to the kitchen with a drink to grab a sandwich. He looks up with a smile, offering the platter to the next person. "Want to pick first?"

Bette Kane | OTA

[feathersandflames]

Generally speaking, parties have always been Bette’s jam, whether it’s a house party, a stuffy Gotham society soiree for whatever is the charitable cause or disease of the week, or a celebrity/network-y thing where she’s supposed to be Bette Kane, professional tennis player extraordinaire. This party is none of those things, because this party has, in ways, more riding on it. At least to her. She’s never been invited to a Batfamily thing before. Different world, different rules?

She’s dressed in red – her confidence color – and she’s brought a gift with her, that she leaves with the other gifts. It’s not much. A throw blanket she ordered, patterned with designs of various Titan logos – Nightwing, Donna, Arsenal, Tempest, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy and, perhaps cheekily, Bette’s own. It seemed appropriate. Personal, but not too personal. Something to remind Dick of home without it being too overly sentimental. Something to make the Belfry feel like home.

Okay, it’s possible she’s overthought it a bit. Or a lot..

Bette does a quick lap of the party, getting the lay of the land, shooting smiles and nods at people she thinks look familiar, before helping herself to a fruit-flavored sparkling water, and finding refuge on one of the couches near the bookcases.