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batsdontdance) wrote2014-05-12 01:44 am
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PLAYER
Name: Plus
Age: 21
Personal Journal:plusone
E-mail: sounds_plus@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: [AIM] plusanagi [PLURK] oleseiyah
CHARACTER
Name: Richard "Dick" Grayson
Canon: DC Comics
Age: Mid to Late Twenties (which is an extremely rough estimation due to the rocky continuity and passage of time with comics)
Timeline: Pre New 52 Reboot, Before Bruce Wayne: The Road Home
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: The original kid sidekick, Dick Grayson grew up as a cheerful bundle of chatty sunshine, and very much of that has lasted him well into adulthood. Compared to a family of serious and focused detectives, Dick has retained a generally happy disposition and an optimistic attitude. He absolutely loves to talk (to the point where people are rarely even sure if he shuts up), and most of the time displays an ample amount of charisma and charm when talking to others. He was born a performer first and a vigilante second, and despite the need for secrecy, loves to be the center of attention when "performing," whether it be in the big ring or in the middle of a battle. He's not needy for it to the point of deliberately steeling any spotlight at least-- and conversely to this, he actually has a fairly low sense of self worth, being a bit humble and easily embarrassed.
He's fiercely loyal to those he loves, while at the same time being fairly quick to trust people and become attached; even if it's just a casual acquaintance, he takes it dangerously personally should they be hurt, and becomes doubly protective for those he calls friends and family His optimism and trust lends him an undying faith in the good and potential of humanity, genuinely and generally believing that the world is a good place despite ample evidence to the contrary. He strongly believes in the mission and morals that Bruce instilled in him as a child, and has an innate desire to do good and make the world a better place, like the Saturday morning superhero he was born to be. It's the very same reason why he became Batman in the first place-- he didn't particularly want to, as he had already achieved his own independence and identity as Nightwing that he was quite happy with. But his undying loyalty to Bruce Wayne and his need to make sure the people of Gotham were kept safe in Bruce's place made him more than willing to compromise.
While not naturally cerebral, he is himself pretty ingenuous and adaptable, and has worked hard to learn and study many expansive fields of knowledge, logic and deduction-- not to mention he has good instincts that have helped him along the way. He's gravely determined to pursue victory and success where the odds seem impossible, extremely well-disciplined, and throws his entire being into fighting, protecting, or success. That, and his generally people-oriented personality and willingness to help and give anyone a chance makes him a natural born leader, and one that is stern enough to command respect without being overbearingly unreasonable, but still authoritative and unafraid to be harsh with the enemy. Though he's not without his faults in that area, as he is also ridiculously stubborn and single-minded when he has a task at hand, and he's not always the greatest at communicating his feelings and intentions with those he's working with or close to, preferring to keep many problems to himself save for a handful of close confidants (maybe). He puts a lot of effort into maintaining his relationships regardless-- and in reality thrives when he's in a team environment more than when he's solo-- but can often be unintentionally inconsiderate about others' feelings and jeopardize them when he becomes too focused on something else or with poor communication. His upbringing and drive can lead to him acting as closed off and serious as his mentor, but usually he rides a happy medium of levity and gravity.
That said, he is a much more physical and instinctual (and thus emotional) person than the rest of his family. Though trained and well aware that he has to keep thinking, in the most pressing times it becomes a trial to keep his head cool and not run completely on instinct and adrenaline. Making mistakes can lead to failure and death-- Dick is not afraid of dying, but he is afraid of failing, of messing up, and of disappointing those that are important to him and who expect so much out of him, to the point where he will stress himself out big time to succeed. He puts immeasurable responsibility on his own shoulders, blaming himself quite often when something goes wrong, and thus blaming himself for the consequences and pushing himself harder to fix the situation.
Though he is very friendly and affable with people, and often goes to ridiculous lengths to assist people (he even bought out his apartment building so all the tenants could keep living there and got a poor man with a criminal record trying to turn a new leaf a job as the building's super when his daughter wrote a Christmas letter to the police department), it ends up leaving him a bit closed off with people he can't tell truth and secret identity thing to-- which is just as well, because he's quite atrocious at actually lying, and really doesn't like to do it anyway. He's bad at lying because he's an extremely genuine and sincere person, and eagerly wears his heart on his sleeve without any shame. Simply put, he cares far too much for his own good, and like many other things, it can have negative consequences. Some might call him a bit of a pushover for it, but on the contrary, he is extremely willful, and can be threatening and intimidating without remorse when he needs to be, though he lacks a certain ruthlessness unless truly pushed to the edge of desperation.
While he can tolerate anyone beating and kicking and attacking him with any amount of punishment (he will almost always put the life of a friend, ally, or civilian above his own-- heck, he'll even put the life of a lot of a criminals before his own if they're in immediate danger of being murdered), if you attack or cross those he loves, his temper will flair up to that same ruthlessness you wouldn't think him capable of at first glance. And for a nice guy, he has one raging temper-- he's very well aware that revenge and murder are bad, but on more than one occasion has been driven to both such actions from extreme anger and duress. Allowing his emotions to completely take over his judgment, he is more than happy to retaliate when his anger has been set off (though you can bet he'll feel incredibly guilty over it later on).
Background: Dick Grayson on the Batman wiki, however since that's hella long and this is a comic book character let me try and give an abridged version as best as I can
Dick was born into the world of strong men, bearded ladies and a three-ring stage, making up one third of a three-part highwire act known at the Flying Graysons-- the star attraction of Haly's Circus, famous for their performance on the trapeze without using a safety net. The other two parts were his parents, Mary and John Grayson, who raised him with love and trained him from a young age to be an immensely skilled acrobat that thrived on the crowd's vigor. For any other child, the lifestyle would've been a dream come true-- however, when the circus pulled into Gotham City, Dick overheard a handful of mafia gangsters trying to extort the owner of the circus for protection money, led by a man named Tony Zucco. When the owner refused, the star attraction became their main target: as punishment for his lack of cooperation, Zucco and his men sabotaged the Graysons' trapeze rigging for their final act, sending Mary and John Grayson tumbling to their deaths while Dick-- who was too young to perform in the final act-- was suddenly orphaned in an event that would soon be attributed by the police as an accident. In the ensuing chaos of the deadly fall, the youngest Grayson was guided and protected by Gotham's personal urban legend, the Batman-- after that night, he would later become the legal ward of the city's notorious playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne, whom Dick soon learned were one in the same.
Still filled with grief from his parents death as Zucco got off from the law scot-free, Bruce trained Dick to follow in his footsteps as a crime-fighting vigilante despite his dangerously young age (and the initially stern disapproval of the family butlerand surrogate mother Alfred Pennyworth), and helping him bring Zucco to justice for his crimes. Dick officially joined Batman's crusade against crime in Gotham as the original Robin, the Boy Wonder, and Batman's loyal partner. As he grew into a teenager, Robin teamed up with the sidekicks junior partners of other superheroes-- Wonder Girl, Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Speedy when he actually felt like being part of the team-- to fight crime together as the Teen Titans, a team and family which Robin would lead through many new members, incarnations, and years to come, and would come to depend on for emotional support.
The relationship between Dick and Bruce eventually grew rockier as Dick grew up thanks to Bruce's emotional closedness compared to Dick's and Dick's growing independence streakand teenage rebellion and desire to be treated like an adult. Eventually the tension came to bear as Bruce essentially fired Dick, whereupon Dick gave up his position as Robin and as Batman's partner. After a brief respite at Haly's Circus and seeking counsel with family friend and childhood hero Superman, Dick adopted a new secret identity as Nightwing, named for a Kryptonian legend and full-time leader of the (Teen) Titans and now living in New York, the Titans' city of operations. During this time, he also pursued his first serious relationship with Koriand'r, the hero known as Starfire, an alien princess from the planet of Tamaran, as well as making the acquaintance of the boy took on his old identity as Robin, Jason Todd. Unfortunately, the boy would meet his end at the hands of the Joker, paving the way for another young boy, Tim Drake (who Dick would eventually come to see as a brother) to worm his way into the fold and become the third Robin with Dick's blessing.
Though they were almost married (and probably would've been if it wasn't for interruption by yet another demon attack), Dick eventually broke up with Starfire and the Titans eventually disbanded, leaving Dick to be a solo crimefighter. Adopting a new costume, he returned to Gotham after the fiasco caused by Jean Paul Valley, finally making amends with his estranged guardian.
Soon after returned to Gotham, Dick moved to its sister city known as Blüdhaven, impressive in the fact that it was somehow an even more dangerous and crappy city than Gotham ever was. Filled with organized crime and a severely corrupted police department, Nightwing started his own crusade to redeem it. Seeking to repair the BPD from within, Dick took a job as an officer of Blüdhaven in addition to serving double duty against crime as Nightwing. After an earthquake nearly leveled Gotham and turned it into a No Man's land for a period of time, he also began dating Barbara Gordon, his childhood crush, daughter of the police commissioner, and ex-Batgirl turned into the information database Oracle, while the family also gained a new Batgirl named Cassandra Cain, who would eventually become Dick's adopted sister.
With the help of his superior Sergeant Amy Rohrbach and incurring the wrath of a criminal known as Blockbuster, he managed to obtain information to completely clean out the dirty cops from the Blüdhaven PD-- at the cost of setting Nightwing in Blockbuster's bad graces when the man learned of his secret identity with Dick Grayson. With the help of an ex-ally known as Tarantula, Blockbuster began attacking Dick's private life, leading to his break-up with Barbara, his firing from the Blüdhaven PD, the destruction of his apartment building and the death of his friends who lived inside, and Nightwing's angry and delirious compliance with Blockbuster's murder at the hands of once-again-ally Tarantula.
After the death of Stephanie Brown (aka the Spoiler) in a gang war in Gotham, Dick attempted to estrange himself from his family for his guilt over his willing participation in murder (Batman Rule Number 1, no killing), temporarily adopting the persona Renegade as he tried to serve Blüdhaven, only for it to be wiped out by the living nuclear bomb known as Chemo before the events of Infinite Crisis.
A year after the crisis, with Blüdhaven essentially a hole in the ground, Dick returned to his crime-fighting skulking in New York once again. The stint didn't last long, however, as the events of Final Crisis and the conflict with Darkseid saw the (supposed) death of his father and mentor Bruce Wayne, leaving Gotham without a Batman, the family without a leader, and Bruce's newly discovered blood son, Damian Wayne, without a father. With imposters (including the revived Jason Todd, better known as the Red Hood) running rampant in a city already on the edge and other members of the family unwilling or unable to take on the role, Dick grappled with Bruce's posthumous wishes against a successor and the inherent necessity of a Batman, and stepped down from his persona as Nightwing to take up the position as the new Batman. Though extremely close with the current Robin (still Tim Drake), he chose Damian his own Robin, believing in the child's capacity for good and seeking to give him the guidance he so clearly needed now that his real father was dead. He thusly became Gotham's new foremost protector, training Damian (as well as partially overseeing the new Batgirl, the also revived Stephanie Brown) and serving as a member of the Justice League of America in his mentor's place.
(It would eventually come to light that Bruce was in fact alive, and simply stranded in the past, but he doesn't know that yet oh well)
Abilities: Though lacking any super-human abilities, Dick is naturally athletically talented, and trained as an acrobat basically since he could walk, making him highly coordinated, flexible and light on his feet with fast reflexes. And after that, he was trained in multiple forms of martial arts to crate his own fighting style accentuated by his acrobatic talents. He's not the strongest guy on the block, but he's certainly nothing to seize at, and is extremely agile with high stamina, endurance, and pain tolerance. He has training with a wide variety weapons and has a general knowledge of how they work, but prefers and works best with a pair of escrima sticks (or whatever he can get his hands on that would be roughly equivalent.)
First Person: Test Drive thread
Third Person: So, let's take a mental inventory of what Dick actually understood of what was going on. He' woken up on some kind of train that didn't look anything like it belonged in Gotham, Bludhaven, or beyond-- dropped him off at the break of twilight, which conflicted with his cowl's data since, according to what they both last recalled, it should be nearing about 5 in the morning. Time travel? A distinct possibility, seeing as the Victorian architecture didn't look anything like you'd find in Gotham county. Not in this time period, and not this pervasively.
"Batman to Oracle-- can you hear me? O?"
Radio silence. Fantastic.
"Robin? Batgirl?" He cursed under his breath-- still nothing. So that just about confirmed it, he basically he had no idea what was going on. Magic, Time Travel or both were probably involved. Peachy.
He hopped off the train platform after his brief moment of mental review, making for the closest nook and cranny between two buildings he could find with his cape billowing behind him. It settled around him when he stopped and stepped into a crouch, providing a convenient visual barrier to allow him the cover to investigate the inventory in his gauntlets . Which was a nice way of saying, sometimes the cape actually had its uses.
He hummed with interest when he discovered his goal-- a pocket watch, as the signs by the station had mentioned. Kind of old fashioned, he thought to himself, and while he popped it open and did a bit of snooping at the device-- the sign said to announce yourself on the network, but he couldn't risk that right now. If whatever brought him here wanted Batman, he had to protect the cowl's secret--and if whatever brought him here wanted Dick Grayson, he couldn't blow that Dick Grayson and Batman were the same person. At the very least, not before he found out more.
So, the plan was as it always was to start-- reconnaissance. Really, it was kind of no different than when he'd first moved to Bludhaven, in a way. Stay up all night, collect information, investigate the territory, and figure out what to do come morning-- only slightly more ludicrous thanks to his missing partner, info-dealer, and the fact that he'd already been up all night on patrol.
Basically, it was gonna be a long night.
Name: Plus
Age: 21
Personal Journal:
plusoneE-mail: sounds_plus@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: [AIM] plusanagi [PLURK] oleseiyah
CHARACTER
Name: Richard "Dick" Grayson
Canon: DC Comics
Age: Mid to Late Twenties (which is an extremely rough estimation due to the rocky continuity and passage of time with comics)
Timeline: Pre New 52 Reboot, Before Bruce Wayne: The Road Home
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: The original kid sidekick, Dick Grayson grew up as a cheerful bundle of chatty sunshine, and very much of that has lasted him well into adulthood. Compared to a family of serious and focused detectives, Dick has retained a generally happy disposition and an optimistic attitude. He absolutely loves to talk (to the point where people are rarely even sure if he shuts up), and most of the time displays an ample amount of charisma and charm when talking to others. He was born a performer first and a vigilante second, and despite the need for secrecy, loves to be the center of attention when "performing," whether it be in the big ring or in the middle of a battle. He's not needy for it to the point of deliberately steeling any spotlight at least-- and conversely to this, he actually has a fairly low sense of self worth, being a bit humble and easily embarrassed.
He's fiercely loyal to those he loves, while at the same time being fairly quick to trust people and become attached; even if it's just a casual acquaintance, he takes it dangerously personally should they be hurt, and becomes doubly protective for those he calls friends and family His optimism and trust lends him an undying faith in the good and potential of humanity, genuinely and generally believing that the world is a good place despite ample evidence to the contrary. He strongly believes in the mission and morals that Bruce instilled in him as a child, and has an innate desire to do good and make the world a better place, like the Saturday morning superhero he was born to be. It's the very same reason why he became Batman in the first place-- he didn't particularly want to, as he had already achieved his own independence and identity as Nightwing that he was quite happy with. But his undying loyalty to Bruce Wayne and his need to make sure the people of Gotham were kept safe in Bruce's place made him more than willing to compromise.
While not naturally cerebral, he is himself pretty ingenuous and adaptable, and has worked hard to learn and study many expansive fields of knowledge, logic and deduction-- not to mention he has good instincts that have helped him along the way. He's gravely determined to pursue victory and success where the odds seem impossible, extremely well-disciplined, and throws his entire being into fighting, protecting, or success. That, and his generally people-oriented personality and willingness to help and give anyone a chance makes him a natural born leader, and one that is stern enough to command respect without being overbearingly unreasonable, but still authoritative and unafraid to be harsh with the enemy. Though he's not without his faults in that area, as he is also ridiculously stubborn and single-minded when he has a task at hand, and he's not always the greatest at communicating his feelings and intentions with those he's working with or close to, preferring to keep many problems to himself save for a handful of close confidants (maybe). He puts a lot of effort into maintaining his relationships regardless-- and in reality thrives when he's in a team environment more than when he's solo-- but can often be unintentionally inconsiderate about others' feelings and jeopardize them when he becomes too focused on something else or with poor communication. His upbringing and drive can lead to him acting as closed off and serious as his mentor, but usually he rides a happy medium of levity and gravity.
That said, he is a much more physical and instinctual (and thus emotional) person than the rest of his family. Though trained and well aware that he has to keep thinking, in the most pressing times it becomes a trial to keep his head cool and not run completely on instinct and adrenaline. Making mistakes can lead to failure and death-- Dick is not afraid of dying, but he is afraid of failing, of messing up, and of disappointing those that are important to him and who expect so much out of him, to the point where he will stress himself out big time to succeed. He puts immeasurable responsibility on his own shoulders, blaming himself quite often when something goes wrong, and thus blaming himself for the consequences and pushing himself harder to fix the situation.
Though he is very friendly and affable with people, and often goes to ridiculous lengths to assist people (he even bought out his apartment building so all the tenants could keep living there and got a poor man with a criminal record trying to turn a new leaf a job as the building's super when his daughter wrote a Christmas letter to the police department), it ends up leaving him a bit closed off with people he can't tell truth and secret identity thing to-- which is just as well, because he's quite atrocious at actually lying, and really doesn't like to do it anyway. He's bad at lying because he's an extremely genuine and sincere person, and eagerly wears his heart on his sleeve without any shame. Simply put, he cares far too much for his own good, and like many other things, it can have negative consequences. Some might call him a bit of a pushover for it, but on the contrary, he is extremely willful, and can be threatening and intimidating without remorse when he needs to be, though he lacks a certain ruthlessness unless truly pushed to the edge of desperation.
While he can tolerate anyone beating and kicking and attacking him with any amount of punishment (he will almost always put the life of a friend, ally, or civilian above his own-- heck, he'll even put the life of a lot of a criminals before his own if they're in immediate danger of being murdered), if you attack or cross those he loves, his temper will flair up to that same ruthlessness you wouldn't think him capable of at first glance. And for a nice guy, he has one raging temper-- he's very well aware that revenge and murder are bad, but on more than one occasion has been driven to both such actions from extreme anger and duress. Allowing his emotions to completely take over his judgment, he is more than happy to retaliate when his anger has been set off (though you can bet he'll feel incredibly guilty over it later on).
Background: Dick Grayson on the Batman wiki, however since that's hella long and this is a comic book character let me try and give an abridged version as best as I can
Dick was born into the world of strong men, bearded ladies and a three-ring stage, making up one third of a three-part highwire act known at the Flying Graysons-- the star attraction of Haly's Circus, famous for their performance on the trapeze without using a safety net. The other two parts were his parents, Mary and John Grayson, who raised him with love and trained him from a young age to be an immensely skilled acrobat that thrived on the crowd's vigor. For any other child, the lifestyle would've been a dream come true-- however, when the circus pulled into Gotham City, Dick overheard a handful of mafia gangsters trying to extort the owner of the circus for protection money, led by a man named Tony Zucco. When the owner refused, the star attraction became their main target: as punishment for his lack of cooperation, Zucco and his men sabotaged the Graysons' trapeze rigging for their final act, sending Mary and John Grayson tumbling to their deaths while Dick-- who was too young to perform in the final act-- was suddenly orphaned in an event that would soon be attributed by the police as an accident. In the ensuing chaos of the deadly fall, the youngest Grayson was guided and protected by Gotham's personal urban legend, the Batman-- after that night, he would later become the legal ward of the city's notorious playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne, whom Dick soon learned were one in the same.
Still filled with grief from his parents death as Zucco got off from the law scot-free, Bruce trained Dick to follow in his footsteps as a crime-fighting vigilante despite his dangerously young age (and the initially stern disapproval of the family butler
The relationship between Dick and Bruce eventually grew rockier as Dick grew up thanks to Bruce's emotional closedness compared to Dick's and Dick's growing independence streak
Though they were almost married (and probably would've been if it wasn't for interruption by yet another demon attack), Dick eventually broke up with Starfire and the Titans eventually disbanded, leaving Dick to be a solo crimefighter. Adopting a new costume, he returned to Gotham after the fiasco caused by Jean Paul Valley, finally making amends with his estranged guardian.
Soon after returned to Gotham, Dick moved to its sister city known as Blüdhaven, impressive in the fact that it was somehow an even more dangerous and crappy city than Gotham ever was. Filled with organized crime and a severely corrupted police department, Nightwing started his own crusade to redeem it. Seeking to repair the BPD from within, Dick took a job as an officer of Blüdhaven in addition to serving double duty against crime as Nightwing. After an earthquake nearly leveled Gotham and turned it into a No Man's land for a period of time, he also began dating Barbara Gordon, his childhood crush, daughter of the police commissioner, and ex-Batgirl turned into the information database Oracle, while the family also gained a new Batgirl named Cassandra Cain, who would eventually become Dick's adopted sister.
With the help of his superior Sergeant Amy Rohrbach and incurring the wrath of a criminal known as Blockbuster, he managed to obtain information to completely clean out the dirty cops from the Blüdhaven PD-- at the cost of setting Nightwing in Blockbuster's bad graces when the man learned of his secret identity with Dick Grayson. With the help of an ex-ally known as Tarantula, Blockbuster began attacking Dick's private life, leading to his break-up with Barbara, his firing from the Blüdhaven PD, the destruction of his apartment building and the death of his friends who lived inside, and Nightwing's angry and delirious compliance with Blockbuster's murder at the hands of once-again-ally Tarantula.
After the death of Stephanie Brown (aka the Spoiler) in a gang war in Gotham, Dick attempted to estrange himself from his family for his guilt over his willing participation in murder (Batman Rule Number 1, no killing), temporarily adopting the persona Renegade as he tried to serve Blüdhaven, only for it to be wiped out by the living nuclear bomb known as Chemo before the events of Infinite Crisis.
A year after the crisis, with Blüdhaven essentially a hole in the ground, Dick returned to his crime-fighting skulking in New York once again. The stint didn't last long, however, as the events of Final Crisis and the conflict with Darkseid saw the (supposed) death of his father and mentor Bruce Wayne, leaving Gotham without a Batman, the family without a leader, and Bruce's newly discovered blood son, Damian Wayne, without a father. With imposters (including the revived Jason Todd, better known as the Red Hood) running rampant in a city already on the edge and other members of the family unwilling or unable to take on the role, Dick grappled with Bruce's posthumous wishes against a successor and the inherent necessity of a Batman, and stepped down from his persona as Nightwing to take up the position as the new Batman. Though extremely close with the current Robin (still Tim Drake), he chose Damian his own Robin, believing in the child's capacity for good and seeking to give him the guidance he so clearly needed now that his real father was dead. He thusly became Gotham's new foremost protector, training Damian (as well as partially overseeing the new Batgirl, the also revived Stephanie Brown) and serving as a member of the Justice League of America in his mentor's place.
(It would eventually come to light that Bruce was in fact alive, and simply stranded in the past, but he doesn't know that yet oh well)
Abilities: Though lacking any super-human abilities, Dick is naturally athletically talented, and trained as an acrobat basically since he could walk, making him highly coordinated, flexible and light on his feet with fast reflexes. And after that, he was trained in multiple forms of martial arts to crate his own fighting style accentuated by his acrobatic talents. He's not the strongest guy on the block, but he's certainly nothing to seize at, and is extremely agile with high stamina, endurance, and pain tolerance. He has training with a wide variety weapons and has a general knowledge of how they work, but prefers and works best with a pair of escrima sticks (or whatever he can get his hands on that would be roughly equivalent.)
First Person: Test Drive thread
Third Person: So, let's take a mental inventory of what Dick actually understood of what was going on. He' woken up on some kind of train that didn't look anything like it belonged in Gotham, Bludhaven, or beyond-- dropped him off at the break of twilight, which conflicted with his cowl's data since, according to what they both last recalled, it should be nearing about 5 in the morning. Time travel? A distinct possibility, seeing as the Victorian architecture didn't look anything like you'd find in Gotham county. Not in this time period, and not this pervasively.
"Batman to Oracle-- can you hear me? O?"
Radio silence. Fantastic.
"Robin? Batgirl?" He cursed under his breath-- still nothing. So that just about confirmed it, he basically he had no idea what was going on. Magic, Time Travel or both were probably involved. Peachy.
He hopped off the train platform after his brief moment of mental review, making for the closest nook and cranny between two buildings he could find with his cape billowing behind him. It settled around him when he stopped and stepped into a crouch, providing a convenient visual barrier to allow him the cover to investigate the inventory in his gauntlets . Which was a nice way of saying, sometimes the cape actually had its uses.
He hummed with interest when he discovered his goal-- a pocket watch, as the signs by the station had mentioned. Kind of old fashioned, he thought to himself, and while he popped it open and did a bit of snooping at the device-- the sign said to announce yourself on the network, but he couldn't risk that right now. If whatever brought him here wanted Batman, he had to protect the cowl's secret--and if whatever brought him here wanted Dick Grayson, he couldn't blow that Dick Grayson and Batman were the same person. At the very least, not before he found out more.
So, the plan was as it always was to start-- reconnaissance. Really, it was kind of no different than when he'd first moved to Bludhaven, in a way. Stay up all night, collect information, investigate the territory, and figure out what to do come morning-- only slightly more ludicrous thanks to his missing partner, info-dealer, and the fact that he'd already been up all night on patrol.
Basically, it was gonna be a long night.