Richard "Dick" Grayson (
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sixthiterationlogs2018-12-09 06:31 pm
OTA Come One, Come All
WHO: Dick Grayson
WHERE: Fountain, then other various spots around the village.
WHEN: First few days of his arrival.
OPEN TO: Everyone!
WARNINGS: Little bit of language, nothing too bad.
WHERE: Fountain, then other various spots around the village.
WHEN: First few days of his arrival.
OPEN TO: Everyone!
WARNINGS: Little bit of language, nothing too bad.
Arrival
This was the last thing that Dick expected to be doing today. Not that he expected to do a lot of the things he'd just been doing that same day. So maybe Dick should be expecting the unexpected today. Or the last few days. Or the last few weeks--- okay, you know what, maybe Dick should just be expecting the unexpected. Waking up in freezing cold water? Check. Almost drowning in freezing cold water? Also check. Swimming upward as fast as he could, Dick was glad that he was able to hold his breath underwater for such a long time, even without anything from his utility pouches.
If there was any hope that it'd be a little bit warmer when he broke free from the water, Dick was sorely mistaken. Hauling himself out of the water, he sat on the edge of the fountain and took stock of where he was. And what he was wearing. All of the above made no sense to him, because this was most definitely not Gotham, and this was most definitely not the clothes he was wearing before he got here.
"Oooookay, Grayson, what did you get yourself into now?" Asks himself out loud, and even though it was cold, Dick took off his shirt to wring the water out of it.
Mice are Fantastic
The mice in this place were insane. Dick had been steadily following a few of them, just because they weren't anything he'd ever seen before. Sure, he'd seen mice before, and he'd seen rats (plenty of those in Gotham and... everywhere in the world, in every city, honestly), but these mice were almost pretty? And they kept turning things into ice. That's what he was following them for, because who heard of mice turning things into ice?
Not Dick, that was for certain. "This is so cool." He said with a grin, watching one of the mice turn a bucket into a frozen bucket full of frozen water. Unintentional pun for the win right there, which was why he was grinning. Crouching down on the ground, he set his pack down on the ground, which was a mistake, as a mouse ran over it and now everything he needed? In that pack? Was a block of ice.
"Shit." Waiting till the mouse was away, he picked up the block of ice pack and, trying to figure out the way to hold it and not freeze his hands off, he went to wherever he could find a fire to get everything out of that. It's not like he had fire powers that could help with this. Right?
Roof Time
In the right conditions, every roof was a good roof to be on. That was in the right conditions, like on a nice, spring night, with the wind cool and crisp but not cold enough that it froze through you. And no rain. Rain might be good for hiding in plain sight sometimes, but otherwise the rain got in your eyes, even with goggles on. Rain could be your friend, but snow? Snow was never your friend.
Especially on a roof. Which was why Dick was not on the roof of the inn just yet. He was going to get there, he was determined to get up there, but it was cold, and he wasn't wearing his suit. Still, he wanted to be up in the air. Maybe it wouldn't be as high as what he was used to, but he needed to be up there. It didn't matter if he slipped a little, he was used to that.
So he traveled to the side and began to climb up, scaling the building like a lizard.
Wildcard
Dick is everywhere he can be, exploring where there's people (especially if the place is warm).

Mice are Fantastic (Not at All)
It had taken a while, but he'd figured out how to tap into the same fire that Squall and Altair had used to help him out. Had taken some time, but the fire was there, and sure he couldn't produce a lot of it at once, but he could do something. Enough to keep the mice away.
The curse drew his attention and when he saw what was going on, he smiled. Whoops. Looks like the universe was after someone else at this point.
"Need some help?" Nida asked as he paused, no fire on his fingertips just yet.
Love them they are cute!
"Huh?" Came the eloquent response when he heard someone ask him a question, and he turned, passing the block of ice back and forth from one hand to the other so they wouldn't get frost bitten.
"Oh! Hey! Yeah, yeah, I could use some help. I need to find someplace with a fire going right now, the mice--" And one almost ran over his foot, so he hopped out of the way. "As cute as they are, I kind of need what's in the bag." Dick grinned.
They've almost killed Nida twice now
With that Nida closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and held his hand out in front of him. Just like calling a fire spell, just not actually in the same form. Doesn't have specific ways it appears. Instead it's fire from his outstretched hand, sending some of the mice scattering.
"Best option is the inn. I can escort you there and you can plop the pack down in front of the fire. Maybe if I can get some water to put it in I can try and melt the ice a bit for you too. Don't worry, the thing is water proof. Not fireproof though."
Another mouse darted closer and Nida just cast some fire right at that. There was still fire hovering near his fingers, but the mouse was darting off.
Nida-sicle :D
"That's good to hear. The waterproof part, I wouldn't be lucky enough to get the fireproof pack." Grinning, he was about to stick out one hand to shake the other man's when he thought that maybe shaking the hand full of fire was probably not the best thing to do.
"Let's get out of here, before either of us ends up as frozen as my bag is, huh?"
There literally was one at some point
He shook the fire out of his hand before offering it out to Dick. First to shake, then for the pack.
"I'll show you to the inn, okay?"
And I MISSED it? For shame on me.
"Thanks, I appreciate it. My hands were starting to get pretty frozen, too." He rubbed his hands together to get them warm again with a smile. "To the inn, then! I'm Dick, by the way, nice to meetcha."
Well He Got Better.
Not everywhere could say that.
Arrival/BODY SLAMS U
She also had a cat following her, with brown and green feathers instead of fur, to protect her from the menacing mice. But that was less important than warmth, which she could clearly see the man at the fountain was lacking. People did visit the fountain from time to time, but their clothes didn’t usually stick to their skin.
“Hey,” she called from a couple of yards away, “you okay?” If he wasn’t getting hypothermic she wasn’t going to run.
HAY GURL HAY
Dick looked up from his shirt, and glanced over at the person to whom the voice belonged to. And stared. Stared, because while he might be able to accept... a lot of things with this place, so far, like the fact that this wasn't Gotham, and he woke up in a fountain.
He didn't expect to see someone he knew, here. For once, he's at a loss for words, and just kind of stares at Steph.
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"Sounds about right. Hold on, there's towels over here."
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"Thanks..." Dick finally said, because he wasn't sure what else he was supposed to say, and he'd always had manners drilled into him. A lot of manners drilled into him.
"Stephanie Brown? Is this for real?" He looked down at her feet, where the peakitten was, and that did not help make this real.
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“Excuse me? Do I know you?”
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"It's me, it's Dick. Dick Grayson." He looked at her with confusion clearly written on his face. "We have a lot of mutual acquaintances... we know each other?" Dick frowned. How could she not know who he was? They weren't really close, but... this was strange.
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"Grayson?" She's heard it before, from Jason, she realizes. His face... no, not so much. He looks like a lot of guys she's seen. He could be Nightwing, but he could just as easily be some rando.
"Who do we have in common?"
roof time.
"Y'know, there's these marvelous inventions called doors," he drawls, lightly amused. "I hear they're great for getting into places."
:D
And remembers the last things he's heard from that voice. Dick finally gets a handhold onto one of the edges, and hauls himself up a little higher. High enough that there's a chance for him to perch and look down, because he needed that height advantage. It was easier to get the drop on someone then for them to get the drop on you when you were the one in the taller position.
"I wouldn't say doors are the best way to get into a place, sometimes. Windows are pretty good too, or so I hear." Dick said carefully, looking Jason over from head to toe. Could someone look different and the same at the same time?
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Until now. Jason recognizes his voice right away, even though for him, it’s been years since they had anything approaching a meaningful conversation. Some things don’t fade to the passage of time, especially when it’s something as important as the voice of someone you’ve admired since you were a child. Jason’s eyes go comically wide with the shock of seeing Dick in one of the places he least expects.
“Grayson?!” His expression quickly shifts into a frown. “What the hell are you doing here?”
A stupid question, of course. What are any of them doing here?
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"Sorry, cliche, I know. But I have no idea what I'm doing here, and you... how long have you been here?" Because he didn't look like he'd just arrived like Dick had. He looked like he'd been here for a decent amount of time.
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"Perfecting my macramé technique," is his deeply sarcastic answer, "what does it look like I'm doing here?" Another dumb question, but in reply to an equally dumb question on Dick's part, so Jason figures it's justified.
"Been here a few months," he says, with a defensive shrug. "No big deal. This isn't even my first time getting kidnapped to some weird alternate dimension. You'll get used to it. Maybe."
Mice
Gesturing to it, he's not willing to just thaw it himself, maybe because he thinks it's more interesting to see him discover what he can do. And also, because then he can see how he reacts. "You can melt this," is all he says, like that's all the advice he actually needs.
Re: Mice
That was the most zen like thing he'd ever heard. And he'd heard a lot of zen like things in his time. "Yeah, if I can get this to a fire of some kind, I am pretty sure it'll melt fast enough." Dick agreed with the man, looking up and over. "Maybe if I had something cool like laser eyes I could do it in a flash, buuuuuuuuut..." He shrugged.
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"You can do this too. Or maybe you can just show off laser eyes," he deadpans, as if that would also be a sight to see.
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"Laser eyes deserve to be shown off, unfortunately it'll have to be by someone other then me." Dick chuckled, passing the bag from one hand to the other so his hands wouldn't get frozen. "I don't know if I can do that, too. I can't do that back home."
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At least for now.
"It helps," he adds, gesturing in the direction the mouse went scattering. "Burns so they don't freeze you."
Mice are Fantastic
Wanda stood in a cute outfit that wasn't exactly made for the cold weather. It didn't bother her. She was used to the cold and had found a way to harness those fire powers the way she would her own magic. It wasn't exactly the same but it was comfortable. Energy flowed and was shaped in the same ways, even if the appearance of the energy was different.
She lifted a hand and focused on a point of light before pressing it lightly against his backpack. Wanda wasn't going to burn his backpack in the process. "You should check and see if you can do this too. I don't know how but a few people have been given this ability."
Likely for a very short period of time.
Re: Mice are Fantastic
It's the fact that he's stuck in scrubs and she's got on a nice outfit that made it wrong. Why was he stuck in scrubs? Was this a normal thing? And not even nice scrubs, some kind of light gray in color scrubs. He couldn't get blue, like a surgeon or something?
"Hey! Yeah, I could use a hand, the mouse kind of ran over my pack and... wait, you have powers?" Dick held the pack away from him, letting her slowly start to melt through to it with wonder. "Wait, you think I could do that, too? I doubt it, I mean, I've never had powers of any kind like that before." Though if people were being given powers...
"Wait." He moved the pack from one hand to the other, slowly, trying not to dislodge her's in the process. "What do you mean given?"
Mice are Fantastic
"Usually but these are different." Her powers as Scarlet Witch had been taken from her months ago. "Those who bring us here can give us powers." She looked up at Dick. "I'm not sure how it works." It was something that Wanda wanted to look into but there weren't enough hours in the day while also getting ready for winter.
She met his gaze and her lips pulled into a soft apologetic smile.
"I don't have many answers but there is a computer system in the bunker that allows people to select abilities. Other times there just given to us. Like this."
Re: Mice are Fantastic
"Do we... know anything about the people who brought us here, beyond them giving us powers?" Dick couldn't help but ask, and he held the ice as steady as he could, watching her try to pull the backpack from the hole. He did return her smile with one of his own, though.
"There's a bunker? Sorry, I'm kind of new to all of this, any information about anything to do with this place is a good thing in my book!"
Mice are Fantastic
"Nothing." She shook her head, her lips pulling into a frown. "We only know that they've left labs for us to find around the island." Which hadn't been fully explored because it took weeks to travel from one end to the other. If they had a car, then it'd be a lot easier.
"It's fine." Wanda's expression softened. "I can try and answer some but I don't know everything." She had been in the village for over a year, so she knew quite a bit. "The bunker is where the base of the fountain is. There are tubes leading up to it. Sometimes people get stuck in there and we have to get them out." Before they drown. "There is a computer system in there that's… unsettling."
She didn't know if she should say everything or let him take a look at it and adjust to the new knowledge. It was a lot.
Roof
Sure, he's only been in the village for like two and a half weeks, but Billy's seen his share of weird stuff. He tries not to judge, tries to remember there are people here from all sorts of places, tries to remind himself of what he and the others must have looked like when they first started fighting crime, but--nope, some things are just still kinda weird. Case in point, the figure now crouching on the eaves of the inn, looking out over the village.
Still, weird doesn't mean he has to be rude. Which is why the teen lifts an arm in a wave upwards, his other hand still in the pocket of his wool coat.
"How's the view up there?"
Re: Roof
Maybe he could fashion a mask out of something. Naw, that might be too much of a bother. At least it wasn't the cowl, though with the way this place looked and felt right now, a cape would be nice to have. And Dick hated wearing a cape.
"Pretty good!" Dick called out, looking down at the young man with a grin. Just because he was lurking didn't mean he wasn't going to be friendly!
"You can see most of the village from up here, you should come on up!" Offers cheerfully.
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Billy grins back at the invitation, shaking his head as he tucks his hands back in the pocket of his coat, shoulders hunched against the cold. "I don't know, I'm pretty sure I'd end up falling and breaking something, if I didn't just stick to the wall," he calls back. He wouldn't necessarily mind, he misses being in the air, but without his powers a second story fall is a pretty real threat to consider.
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Still, this kid has a coat, so he doesn't seem like he's in need of a cape right now. "I'm sure you wouldn't." Dick chuckled at the image of him sticking to the wall, though. "Sorry, not laughing at the falling a breaking a bone, laughing at something else, scout's honor!"
He rubbed his hands together to get them to warm up. "What's your name?"
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"I'm Billy. What about you? I mean, we're gonna be calling you Frosty if you stay up there too long, with what you're wearing, but still."
Roof
She was turning the corner when she saw a man climbing up inn wall, watching him curiously. Hawke was also somewhat of a roof percher, so after a moment she joined him, although her climbing was much more confident as she'd done this many times. It wasn't terribly slippery at the moment so she hauled herself gracefully to her feet. She was without her signature bow and arrows, since carrying them around was only useful when she planned on using them.
"If you like climbing roofs, you might find a few friends around here who climb a lot higher than this." She spoke to him like this wasn't their first time, like they were friends already. It was just her way, as was her bright smile.
da roof da roof da roof
"I'm used to a lot higher then this myself, so maybe we can start some kind of club." Dick couldn't help but laugh, rubbing his hands together conspiratorially. Also to help get them warm, because they were a little chilly, and climbing was sometimes easier with gloves on. His Nightwing gloves, anyway.
Or the Batman gloves. Those, too, helped with climbing. "We could scale the tallest peaks of... whatever is around here that's really, really tall."
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The last time Hawke was on a roof like this it was with 7, and she smiled fondly at the memory. "One of my good mates I met on a roof, guess I might be adding a new roof buddy to the list." She turned and offered him one of her cold hands. "The name is Hawke, with an e at the end, since everyone assumes the bird." It's not that she minds, though, just easier for if he sees her name on a network.
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"Nice to meet you, Hawke with an e at the end." Dick said, taking her offered hand and shaking it with his own cold hand. "I'm Dick." Spelled like the--- well, you got it. He was already ready for the bad jokes about his name, that's just standard practice.
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Hawke's eyes widened at the name and she grinned. "I know we just met, but why in the world would you voluntarily go by that? It's just begging for crass jokes." Of which she was holding back remarkably well!
Roof
Wait. No. Gargoyles don't move. Or peek over the wall when they hear someone else climbing up.
"Oh, hello!" It's the chipper tone of someone who's pleasantly surprised to find someone on his favorite remote jogging trail more than a brooding superhero ruminating over his awful lot in life. "Don't slip on the icy patch!" he offers helpfully, pointing out a frozen-over chunk of moss right where an otherwise perfect handhold would be, and quickly adds, "I can leave, if you're here to be alone."
It's almost like he has semi-regular chats with his coworkers on rooftops or something.
Re: Roof
"Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for it, now, that's a real help." He was sincere about his thanks, because it meant he didn't slip and fall and break anything. Which was always a danger, but it's what he didn't mind dealing with.
"No no no, don't leave! I mean, you don't have to leave, I'm not looking to be alone. I just wanted to get somewhere a little higher up then usual, you know?" Dick shrugged. "It's a thing."
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