[Open] Haven't seen the best of us yet~

[stalkingandplotting]

who: Red Robin or Tim Drake-Wayne and You.
what: General open post and a few promised closed starters
when: 19th - 30th
where: All over!
warnings: No content warnings yet. Spoilers for DC Rebirth.



Red Robin:

There's a new vigilante running a nighttime patrol of the city. He's caped, decked out in red and green light armor He doesn't seem to have special abilities because he uses gear to swing between vantage points and rooftops. He does, however, appear to be highly trained and adept at disappearing into the shadows despite his uniform's coloring, which makes it difficult to watch him beyond a stray glance if you're not superhuman or equally trained.

If you're quick and careful you might catch him on a computer built into the armor of his forearm, sitting on the ledge of a rooftop. Riverview, even taking the monsters into account, is much more peaceful than his home. The police aren't corrupt, they do their jobs and it leaves a significantly lesser need for vigilantism. Red Robin knows this is the ideal. The whole goal of their mission is to make themselves unnecessary. He just didn't bank on how boring it might end up.

University:

There's a new student around campus who may be inciting some whispers. He's got over a full course load at six classes, but he isn't showing any of the usual symptoms of overworked stress over achieving students have been known to. He's a freshman with a load of programming and engineering courses at as high of a level as he could get into without pre-requisite. Tim had grabbed as many as he could, to keep busy, but also because he wanted to learn as much as he could about this world's technologies and how to better work with them with his job. If he was working for the guard, he didn't want lives to depend on work he didn't understand.

He can be found coming out of a class or studying in the library, even going through the stacks or computer accessible files for more about the city and the moon itself. If you've met Tim before and you see him now, there's a marked change. He's still tired, and worn, but he's not the bland polite teenager he usual is in public. He looks enthused, and possibly even happy.

Open/Wild Card/TDM Prompts:

If you live on Floor 12, work with the Perimeter Guard, or just want to meet Tim and the above situations don't work, ping me dangerouspasttime

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[stalkingandplotting]

{Tim isn't exactly surprised because he was trying not to expect anything of a Flash teammate, but it's always nice to find someone who looks approachable on the other end of a business meeting. He smiles back, much smaller.}

Hey, you're Cisco Ramon? I'm Tim. I was speaking to you anonymously about some work you've done with Barry Allen?

[franciscoramon]

[ A look of recognition flashes across Cisco's face and he stands aside, letting Tim come in and shutting the door behind him. Presumably, the fact that he'd first approached Cisco anonymously means that he is trying to keep all this on the down-low, and Cisco gets that completely. ]

You're the vigilante?

[ It's only half a question. He'd only had one anonymous conversation that Tim could be referring to. A tiny furrow forms between Cisco's brows as he glances Tim over quickly. ]

No offense, but you seem kinda... young.

[ Sure, Thea isn't much older than this kid must be, but she wasn't working alone. She had a very scary very experienced big brother looking out for her while she was out keeping the city safe. ]

[stalkingandplotting]

{Tim appreciates his discretion, looking around for exits, and observing everything else around the lab as he's led in.}

I'm a vigilante.

{His teeth flash in a sharp grin that's gone just as quick as it appears.}

Gotham picks us young.

{And while Tim works alone a lot more often than most of the heroes his age, he's not always alone, and he's almost always in reach of back-up nowadays with the ever expanding network of allies they've built.}

[franciscoramon]

[ Tim might be checking out the surroundings, but Cisco is checking out Tim. But it looks mostly like friendliness, and only a little bit like suspicion. Cisco clears some crap off one of the rolling chairs and gestures that Tim should take it if he wants. Cisco sinks back into his own chair and picks up the container of candy he'd been eating out of, before Tim arrived. In any case, he doesn't seem at all bothered by the idea of talking with a vigilante. ]

Gotham, huh?

[ Cisco's never been; he knows it's a rough city, though. As far as he knows, there aren't any vigilantes (of the masked variety, anyway) in Gotham. And that's the sort of thing that Cisco keeps tabs on, even in far-away cities he's never been to. Never know when it could become relevant. ]

Candy? [ He offers the container to Tim, to take some if he wants, and as he's holding it out, asks: ] So how do you know Barry Allen's the Flash?

[ Yeah, he caught that. When they'd been talking on the network, all Cisco had said was that he knows the Flash. It was Tim who'd come to the door and dropped Barry's secret identity. It's not the first time Cisco's met someone here who knows who the Flash is, but it's still weird and unnerving when it happens. ]

And how'd you know I know him?

[stalkingandplotting]

{Tim is fine with a little bit of suspicion. It's healthy, and honestly makes him feel better about Cisco's intelligence and skills of self preservation. Some people he's met since arriving here do not instill the same kind of confidence.

He takes a piece of candy and the seat in the chair. He sits comfortably, but doesn't sprawl. There's a rigidity to his spine.}

Thanks. Because he's a founding member of the Justice League, and my former partner was also a founding member. Most of the founding members are known to the other capes.

{Tim shrugs, he's very careful about giving out the information Cisco's asking for without telling much about himself.}

Detective work. You're from Central. You worked for Star Labs. Central is the Flash family stomping ground, even if you hadn't worked closely with a Flash, you'd probably met one.

[franciscoramon]

[ Cisco takes in the information, nodding along, looking for any signs that Tim is lying or trying to play him. Not that he would recognize any of those signs even if they were there. Eddie and Joe were the detectives. Cisco's never exactly been the greatest judge of character. See: Lisa Snart, Eobard Thawne, Jay Garrick. But he's gotta try, anyway. ]

We haven't got a Justice League where I'm from. Or, at least, not yet.

[ Since that other Flash had mentioned the Justice League the first time, Cisco had remembered something. He doesn't even know how his brain had managed to dig it up, but back in the time vault, when Gideon had been talking about Barry's future, as director of the forensics division, she'd started to say something else. She'd said he was the founding member of... something. They'd cut her off before she could finish, and he wishes they hadn't.

But it makes sense. A future where there's a kind of Ocean's Eleven of superheroes, and Barry helps to found it. ]

Okay, yeah. Liiiiiittle stalker-y you know where I worked back home, but I'ma let it slide, because you're right.

[ Unlike Barry's secret identity, Cisco's affiliation with the Flash isn't something he's working too hard to keep hush hush here. He has other, more important secrets to keep. He doesn't mind if he lets that one go. ]

So... you know all this stuff about me, but I don't know anything about you. Except you're... Tim the- sorry, Tim a vigilante from Gotham, and you're thinking about keeping that up here, too.