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Log: Gonna make a comeback this time.

who: Jason Todd
what: Just a batboy out being his hot mess self.
when:the 6th-20th.
where: Around the Quarantine.
warnings: Violence, and language will update with more.

A: Communal housing & Garage
The last thing Jason had expected upon getting home from work and showering was the sound of the front door. After a quick conversation with another member of the Parameter Guard and a familiar set of keys shoved in his hands, Jason ran down to the elevator without bothering with a shirt or shoes. When he saw the red and chrome machine he couldn't help but smile. He had been saving since he arrived to try and buy a motorcycle even close to this one. And it had it's own little reserved spot. Like it belonged here as much as him. He smiled, almost cheeky, the way he had so often as a boy before pocketing the keys and making his way back inside and up to finish getting dressed.

Jason found his way back down to the motorcycle once he was done with his normal afternoon busy work. Slipping on he just sat there and let the engine idle a bit. He had missed his bike. He sat there awhile before slipping off to look over each part to make sure everything was as It should be.

An hour or so later, he tore out into the night speeding.

B: Trixie
A few nights after the fight at the sleazy bar, Jason made his way to Trixie, after all, it was the best place to go when he missed his replacement, not that he would ever in any life admit that. Plus Loki was still there, and he hadn't gone to see the guy in awhile. Friendship, or whatever it was, was a two-way street. He gave a nod to the bouncer on his way in, if it was Nico a moment was spared to talk to his creepy friend.

After making his way inside he didn't go to the VIP but to the bar proper to sit and do his usual taking in of people around him. A book opened on the counter as he quietly read. He would go hunt Loki down soon but a chapter or two at the bar while he nursed a beer wasn't a big deal it would kill time.

C: Floor Six
It was pushing three am when the window near Jay's room slid back open. He always vanished around ten or eleven, stepping in he yanked the bag over his shoulder and he looked around at his roommates, if they were asleep or not. His jacket was zipped up as he made his way right to the bathroom. He made quick work of disarming the taser in his body armor and pulling it off in chunks. Each part he hides hidden in his bag as he made his way back out. The bag shoved in the trunk as he shed his pants and grabbed the red cloak up wrapping it around himself as he headed into the kitchen in just the boxers and cape. Making himself a bowl of cereal and moving to sit down at the TV.

D: Random Club
It was a Saturday night, and while he should be out patrolling, or god knows what else. He opted instead to shake off his loneliness by going to one of the clubs. He had even dressed the part, and styled his hair pretty neat, which wouldn't last if he actually danced with anyone. He hadn't told his roommates where he went, he never does after all. Once he got in, he went to the bar and had a couple drinks to start the night off. As the night went on, he eventually made his way to the floor.

He was feeling better as the night went on. Dancing with different people, and just generally pretending to be someone else. Jason Todd had a night off, so, he was trying to be like any other twenty three year old on a Saturday night. He wasn't looking for anyone to take home, just for a few minutes of unattached fun to the thumping club music.

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Ever since the fire Yuffie had more restless than usual. She didn't like sleeping in the assigned bed so she began to spend less and less time on floor six or ten or any other floor in between. It didn't feel like it was safe or home. She cared more and more of her gear with her, leaving only a few spare changes of clothes and a bathing suit next to her bed. She didn't think anyone would notice since she kept odd ass hours anyway.

Tonight she'd been sneaking in with a collection of pilfered goods in her arms. She was planning to hide them under other peoples beds until she knew what they were worth. Some of it was jewelry and watches while other bits were magical crystals and the random things she could find while she was out. Almost everything that she had collected was shiny.

She heard the shower running when she slipped through her window and took extra care to be quiet. With so many out and about on her floor she wasn't sure who it was. She didn't want to take any chances. She dropped her loot on her bed quickly, miss judging the distance as a diamond necklace clatters to the floor. She quickly covers everything else up with a blanket and then looks around to see if the noise woke anyone up or alerted whoever had moved from the bathroom to the kitchen.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

She was lucky that tonight not as many people seemed to be running around the floor. Which was why Jason felt comfortable enough to sit around in his boxers, the cloak was mostly just in case he fell asleep there or someone young walked in and threw a fit. He was standing in the kitchen with the cloak left on the chair when he heard something hit the floor.

His bat instincts were sharp, all his training came into play as he closed his eyes listening silently almost letting himself trans, doing so seemed to make his body think he planned to meditate, which he hadn't done in awhile. The glowing marks of the All-Caste lit up their pinkish lights across his chest. Marks never normally seen. He moved lifting his bowl of cereal up walking silently to the other set of beds past the kitchen. His blue eyes could see perfectly well in the dark. He could see the light outside hit that diamond necklace on the floor as he shifted and leaned in the doorway taking a bit of his cereal while his chest glowed...in his boxers like this was just completely normal. Waiting for her to explain.

Yuffie acts before she even knows who was coming. A clock beneath her glows a dull orange color giving her added speed as she silently dashes across the room to the door. Her bed was close enough that she didn't have to move far but she moved in a blink of an eye, appearing in front of Jason with the dropped necklace gathered in the palm of her hand. She didn't know if his eyes were good enough to see her with haste but she didn't want to stop and ask, least anyone else woke up.

"Will you not eat in here?!" She hissed under her breath, her dark purple eyes glaring at him. "You'll wake someone up." She whispered again, this time even softer than her initial hushings. Yuffie didn't know what Jason was expecting but his chewing was so damn loud! It was the worst part about cereal. It was impossible to be stealthy while eating it.

The glow from his chest caught her eye; partly because it was glowing and partly because it was at eye level. "What the... is this like Materia?" She brushed her fingers along her chest, completely forgetting the stolen item that's residing in her palm.

Oh his eyes were not even able to see the necklace but the steak of black of her hair as she moved with her haste. His All-caste training had changed him in ways most would never pick up. He would deny it forever but most humans didn't survive the training he had taken. The training that kept the pits effects from pushing him off the deep end.

He looked down at her and lifted the spoon taking another bite, looking right in her eyes. Always defiant. He turned through and kept eating as he made his way from the room towards the chair where he usually camped out. "Don't know what Materia is." He spoke through another bite as he shifted and sat on the floor instead of on the chair, working on the cereal not caring who heard him. He was sure Ed and Al were up somewhere. Hes almost never fully alone at night but his words left the invite open to join him as he crossed his legs. This is why boxer briefs are important, no goods flashed her way.

His reaction was annoying. Yuffie knew that this was Jason being Jason but it was still annoying. She grumbled a bit, stashed the necklace into the pocket of her shorts, and then followed him into the main room. Her pilfered items were at least covered on her bed, and no one would think it was that odd considering how messy she usually left her bed.

She stopped in front of Jason, standing with her hands on her hips. "This is materia." She flicked a green orb into her hand and then carelessly through a level 1 ice spell at the counter. It covered most of the kitchen in ice before Yuffie released the spell. "It's magic." Though there were rules when it came to using some of her materia.

"Your chest glows. Why?" She suddenly wondered if he was like Cloud. She remember their conversation on the rooftops, when he hadn't remembered who she was. Some how it all felt relevant though Yuffie ended up circling back and wondering what her nickname was. He had called her something before. 'Y' or 'Yuff' maybe... It wasn't important but Yuffie couldn't stop thinking about it.

She was right, he was just being himself, which was never sunshine and rainbows. Luckily for her he didn't care about the necklace. Almost all of his clothes had been five finger discounts while he was on his acid rain date with Loki. He looked up from his bowl as she frooze the kitchen a slight glare given before she released the spell. The kitchen was his favorite place besides the shower. He sat the bowl down then and lifted his arms into place. Closing his eyes.

"It's magic." he mirrored her words as he started to repeat a set of words. "Accept the Darkness, Embrace the Light. Accept the Darkness, Embrace the Light. Accept the Darkness, Embrace the Light." a breath between each as the marks on his chest started to glow more. A calm washing over him as he let his mind wander. "It's a kind of magic, Yuffster." There it was like he could read minds.

Yuffie was a fan of food and as such, kitchens. She would never do anything to permanently hurt the kitchen but she also knew that it'd get Jason's attention.

She watched his chest as it glowed and felt the urge to touch it. "What kind of magic." She lowered herself to the floor so she was sitting next to Jason. She was leaning a little to close to his chest but she didn't think he'd mind. "Accept the Darkness, Embrace the Light." She mumbled as she reached out to poke at his pictorials. "Being a ninja is kind of the opposite of that."

Wutai had it's legends about dark and light but they went back to the legends of the Ancients and Leviathan. Which Yuffie only remembered about 25% of. She looked up when he used the nickname and smiled. "Yuffster? That's what we're going with?" Her voice was light, making it obvious that she liked the name.

His chest was as hard as one would expect for a man who works out like he does. He was basically as warm as one would expect, the light didn't produce heat, and while lines could be seen their clearly not always there.

"Old magic, learned from a very old group of nomadic assassins." Why was he telling her? becuase no one ever asks him. They just accept it. He's Jason Todd he gets shit done. No one ever asks. It was refreshing to be asked. "Stop that." He cracked one of those blue eyes. But to be funny he also made one of his pecs twitch when she went to poke again. At heart he would always be that playful boy. "not exactly, they were kind of like that. Its about accepting the inner darkness, the darkness in your heart so that the light of the world doesn't blind you."

He nodded as he closed his eyes. "Yep, seems fitting, unless you'd like to be Scarlet. My little cat burglar friend, I'm sorry but Cat Woman is already taken."

Yuffie smiled as he flexed his pectoral but backed away. She leaned back on the palms of her hands as she eyed Jason. "Neat. The Ancients have old magic but a lot of it is healing. Healing abilities are kinda a big deal because only the Ancients can do it." It was interesting thinking about it now. "That's sorta like some of the training I went through but it was also during a war so things were complicated." Supposedly.

She snickered softly at the nickname. "I don't want to be Cat Woman. Cat's weren't ever my thing. Scarlet isn't so bad but that sounds more like a code name than a nickname." She rolled her shoulders in a shrug at his 'cat burglar' remark. "It's a hobby. I used to steal a lot." Sometimes killing her targets, "It's a hard habit to break when I get bored."

That and she liked shiny things.

"You aren't going to rat me out, are you?" She studied him with her dark purple eyes like she was trying to see through him.

"The All-Caste were pretty cool. Their all dead now, me and Essence are kind of the last of them. I'm the last Human brought into their ranks." He spoke as he shifted then and the glowing faded off as he rolled himself over from sitting cross legged to pushing himself up off the floor with his forearms, the rest of his body going in the air. Cereal then showing off, of course.

"She was pretty cool though, and like you it was kind of a hobby. Scarlet's the sidekick of the nefarious Red Hood, the scourge of the underworld." He looked at her from his ridiculous pose. "See their may be an opening in the heroing department, the world could use a few more people kicking the shit out of bad guys. And no, Im not going to rat you out. I already told you I met Batman boosting his tires, what makes you think I give a shit about a bit of theivery? I'm not in the military like I tell people, Yuffster, I'm an outlaw."

"That looks cool. I wonder if it's hard to learn." She was naturally curious though it often got her into trouble. Not that Yuffie ever needed help getting into trouble.

When he stood up, she followed. Not as showy but agile and quick. "Aww. Here I thought Scarlet wasn't taken. You super heroes with your spandex and all your taken names. You guys know how to take the fun out of it." Though Yuffie already had about twenty given titles that ranged from Treasure Princess to The Single White Rose of Wutai.

"Oh. Well technically I am too but also a princess and a ninja and a thief and part of the world regeneration crew. Maybe I do to many things." She hadn't realized how much her life had changed from when she had first ran into the Turks and Avalanche. Then there was Cloud and that group and her life hadn't been the same since. "Who's the Red Hood? I need to tell his sidekick to pick another name."

"I used to fall every time, murdered quiet a few tables in my day." He spoke, focusing on pushing himself up. He had learned it from his training but it took a long time to pick up.

"Technically it's not here. And Scarlet's been on her own a long time now." He explained as he started to push himself up more on his hands. He was more doing strange push ups than standing. "Please, I wear leather not spandex. I left that shit behind with the pixie boots and short shorts. And Do no ask about that, I was a lot smaller in my youth." A big man like him didn't need to be in booty shorts. "All the names are taken, shit even Red Hood is the second generation." He spoke as he focused on his breathing and pushed himself fully onto his hands. He was gonna fall, but he wanted to hold out as long as he could.

"See a woman of many skills. Skills that can be used for good and bad, and stealing high end explosives." he grinned before he tipped more to one side. Twisting as he started to fall so he hit one of his knees on the way down. And for once she gets to see a weakness in him. He flinched and took a deep breath. Guess who has a bum knee. This jerk. "Your talking to the Red Hood, and his partner flew the coop, they all do after awhile. Fuuuck that hurt."

Yuffie snorted. "I do not want to see you in short shorts." Technically Yuffie wears short shorts but it's out of sensible fabric like khaki and black; if the color black was a fabric.

She watched him and his weird push-ups. It made her want to sit on his back. Who knows, maybe Jay's feats of strength could be used as a side show. They could go touring all over... Yuffie's mind was getting off topic. "That kinda sucks, doesn't it. Like no one has their own name." Though from Yuffie's tone, it was obvious that she understood. Technically the title of ruler was the same way. She'd been bred to take her fathers position though that all went to shit the day her mother died and the gap between her and her father became too big to cross.

"Is that why you wear red all the time? I always thought it was because it was sexy." Like why Yuffie almost always showed off her belly. "Explosives are easy. So are traps." Her traps didn't always work but when they did, it was awesome. "You okay?" She asked as she stared at his knee. "What did you do?" I probably wasn't something that white materia could fix but Yuffie saw no harm in asking.

"Technically, you are right now. The boxers I'm wearing are enough of an idea." Becuase seriously, the boxer breifs were longer than his old scaly panties. He kept a hand on his knee before shrugging at what she said. She wasn't wrong.

"Well, names are more legacies back home. Like if I hadn't gone and died, I would have eventually been the next Batman." A fact that stung, but he remembers giving her his secret before, so why bother lying now? As for Red Hood, I stole the name. Its the old name the man who murdered me used. I stole it from him and made it something for criminals to fear." He grinned as he said it despite the pain, why? He loved fucking with the Joker. If he couldn't kill him he would just pervert the man's old name.

"Well, that and I do look damn good in red." He spoke as he shifted his leg out and sat back against the chair's bottom. "I'll be fine, old injury acts up when I jar it." pain was glorious, it reminded him he was alive. "part of being tall, your knees go bad first." It sounded better than the truth. "See you might do good as an outlaw."

Yuffie looked down at his crotch. YUP! That shows more than she wanted to see. Not that Jason wasn't super hot or anything but he was kind of a whore and Yuffie liked people that were harder to get.

"That sounds like a good reason to steal a name." Yuffie chuckled. There was a bit of awe and appreciation in her tone. She enjoyed fucking with people, more so if they deserved it. Sometimes fucking with them was all you could do. "I get it. Maybe Scarlet isn't to bad then. If I'm going to super-anything I want a kick ass name. I've been known to go as The White Rose of Wutai but that sounds too long. What about White Rose? That taken?" Ignore the fact that Yuffie wears dark colors and then red or blues when she wasn't wearing black.

It'd be obvious to Jay that she was considering being an outlaw, if only because she was taking thing name thing very seriously. "Why you think I'll be good at it?" She asked, giving him more questions to answer.

Thankfully he wasn't reveling to much. If he was he'd have on some pants. But late night and being where he considered it home, yeah fuck pants. He was a bit of a man ho, he wouldn't deny it, but he also didn't have a lot of interest in younger girls. He was into older women. Though, Yuffie would likely be just his type in about five or more years.

"Yep, if I cant blow his deranged brains out, at least I can piss him off." He shifted his leg slowly another moment trying to work through the pain. "I don't think it is, I mean it doesn't fit my red scheme but fuck it, do your own thing, Yuff." He spoke managing a grin. "You'll do just fine. You have skills, your nimble and you already hunt the rooftops. The job of the Outlaws is to do what the heroes wont do. We break the rules they laid in the sand which is why we are the Outlaws. I put the bad guys in the ground, the heroes all have a no killing rule. Even Nightwing wont go that far. I do. And while you don't have or need to kill, you would be reconisence, sneak and get information, and report back, and I'll help you keep from getting caught ripping people off. I also now the crowds you can hauk that shit to to get some cash."

Yuffie perked up by the end of Jason's remark. "Really?" She looked both surprise and suspicious. Not that she thought that Jay wouldn't help her out if she was in a tight spot, just that he was more likely to help if it was life or death, not petty crimes.

Her shoulders rolled in a shrug before she threw herself across the couch. It was comfortable and it meant that she didn't have to watch Jay stretch out his knee which was weird and made him seem a lot older than he was. She puffed a short breath of air before nodding her head. "Okay." She agreed with a flash of white teeth.

"I'll help you out. Not that I think I'm going to get caught but I like back up and selling the shit I steal. I cannot tell you how much crap I have stashed around here. I don't mind killing people. It's actually what I'm used to on Gaia. This no killing thing is stupid." This was the mindset of someone who grew up in the middle of a war where killing people was just another part of life. Yuffie's been fighting since she was a kid.

"Look, let me put it to you like this. I've lived on both sides of the coin and I can tell you one thing for certain. I dont want to be a crook, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, and picking your battles is one thing. I've decided to trust you so that means I'm gonna help you when you need it." he explained it. A moment later there was a pop and finally Jason laid his head back on the chair. Finally. Well, at least that was what that was. Last thing he wanted was to have to go get a cane for a few weeks again.

"Find some red and black and we'll start this in a week or so. I plan to a safe house to stash things at. And shit, Yuffster, you should have said something sooner, there's a dive bar I go to a lot that i could easily scrap that stuff for cash for you you. Or introduce you." he offered once he lifted his head back up he grinned. "See, you and I are going to make a good team. Sometimes a motherfucker needs to die."

Yuffie nodded her head in a brisk motion. "I try to steal for a good reason." Sometimes it's because she's bored but more often than not she has a goal in mind and steals from very specific people.

Boiling her reasons down, she steals from jerks and asshats.

"I can do red and black." Black was definitely a color she had a lot of and enjoyed wearing. Red was pretty sweet too, so she'd find something that would work while still looking ninja like. "Oh, introduce me. I mean you can take the stuff down there too but I want to go and see."

It wasn't that she didn't trust him but Yuffie didn't expect Jason to be around forever.

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Log: Gonna make a comeback this time.

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