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[catlady]

Display Name: Cat
Profile Photo: workin' these angles.
Notes: the following comes after selina has spent her first week doing recon, like any good bat-adjacent would know to do in unfamiliar territory. she's aware there are some familiar faces here and vagueness aside, this is her reaching out. | ooc: i am going to be The Slowest™, my apologies in advance!! feel free to reach out if you wanna handwave/establish things if that's more your speed.

So, where are the hotspots in Central City? The nightlife, the culture? A half-decent burger? The hotel is nice and all, but I'm looking to get into some real trouble.

[ all hints if you know to read between the lines. ]

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[catlady]

Hey, I've considered that, too, but this place has a certain gritty grimey charm.

[reneger]

it's a little too crowded to really enjoy

[catlady]

Is that an unfamiliar concept for you? Pretty crowded back home, too, I think I could deal.

I'm all ears (or eyes and fingers as the case may be) if you have any better ideas.

[reneger]

busy?
i'll show you where you can find real trouble
since you asked

[catlady]

I can make myself available.

Why do I feel like you'll manage to make me regret this decision, though?

[reneger]

what's the worst that could happen?

[catlady]

Famous last words. Aren't you the one that likes to blow things up?

Where should we meet?

[reneger]

i've got no clue what you're talking about

north east end
i'll make myself visible

( by sitting himself down on one of the taller buildings available, bag of fast food on the ledge beside him, and a small but bright enough to be seen if someone's looking for it red flashlight on and pointed south. )

i blinked and, like, three days passed

[catlady]

[ she finds him easily enough, he's kind of hard to miss. she's still getting used to this place, still trying to map it out in her head. still trying to keep her head low and not bring any unnecessary attention, so when she first approaches him, she does so more discreetly -- a wiry little thing with sleek, black fur and bright green eyes. not a stray, judging by the very fancy collar. she meows in a soft little chirp as she brushes against the bag beside him. whatever's inside is like an explosion of different scents when she's like this, and it smells delicious.

the cat scurries off into the darkness, and it's the cat who reemerges in a much more familiar form. ]

I sure hope you brought something for me. So rude to eat in front of other people, didn't Alfred teach you better?

same

[reneger]

( the cat isn't a surprise; there are strays all over, and junior's got his own little cat friend he takes around with him. not that this one matches sleeper's description at all, but. jason turns in towards her while she brushes against the bag, raises a brow but doesn't say anything.

watches as the cat runs off, and then as catwoman appears.

not suspicious at all, is it. jason raises his shoulders in a loose shrug, then grabs onto the bag. lifts it up and back towards her. )

Burger and fries. I'm not a monster.

i honestly have no excuse this time, i just fuckin suck at tags lmao

[catlady]

[ the sound of his voice comes with an unexpected sense of relief -- she's gotten a sense of how things work here to know he's likely not the same jason from home, that their timelines might not match up, but the unexpected time out doesn't exactly put all that shit on pause. if she misses a beat at all, she tries not to let it show, pushing whatever's bubbled up aside for now.

selina takes a seat beside him, snatching up the bag in an instant before digging in -- a fry, first, to get things rolling and then the burger the very second she manages to get it unwrapped. the sense of smell is dialed down, now, but the tastes more than makes up for it. ]

God. [ look, she's going to need a moment. ] This is much better than whatever overly complicated and unnecessarily fancy bullshit they were trying to serve at the hotel.

[reneger]

( jason snorts, hand moving back to rest it's palm on the rooftop behind him while he turns towards her a little. not quite facing her, but close enough. they've seen all kinds of people show up here, from vaguely familiar to not familiar at all while mildly familiar with them. she looks--about right. there's no obvious physical differences, selina isn't noticeably extremely younger or older which is a good sign, but none of them are obvious tells. they'll have to have the good old fashioned what's the last thing you remember conversation, which jason always hates.

they'll get there eventually. burgers first. )

Best burger joint in town, far as I've found thus far. 'll show you where later, if you ask nicely.

[catlady]

[ oh, they can save that for last, even. she's not exactly looking forward to explaining all the drama back home and how, y'know, how she kind of set that whole thing in motion. oopsies.

she's already halfway through her burger when she stops long enough for any kind of conversation, rummaging through the bag for a napkin and some more fries. ]

I'm always nice. [ lol, that's a lie. ] I've tried a couple other places around the city, nothing that's really stood out to me. Although, I did find a place that makes an excellent latte. At least I've got the basics covered.

[reneger]

( she focuses on finishing off her burger, so jason takes the time to finish off his meal, also. may as well, he's not going to waste it.

i'm always nice earns her a half snort, half laugh noise. he doesn't need to point out it's bullshit, they both know it without jason playing captain obvious. he crumbles up the burger wrapper before pulling out the fries and setting them on the rooftop. the bag's the trash bag now, which is where the remnants of his meal go. )

How long'd it take you for that?

( in other words: how long has she been sleuthing around without the rest of them knowing it? )

[catlady]

A little while. [ avoidant by nature, dabbing the corner of her mouth with her napkin. it's easy to get comfortable due to familiarity but she's not trying to get too comfortable. ] Since the last... thing. The "Confluence" or whatever. [ shhhh, ignore how long this thread has dragged on, shhhh.... ] I won't lie, this is all a little above my pay grade. I'm street-level. I like to antagonize greedy, rich old men and steal shiny things. I'm not really well versed in this interdimensional kidnapping thing. This is more his kind of thing. One of those Justice League-y things. I've just been trying to find my footing here.

[ so, a little while, but not as long as she would have gone without reaching out if it hadn't been for a few familiar faces. ]

How long have you been frequenting the burger place?

[reneger]

Well-versed, but it's still way out of my paygrade.

( this isn't his first rodeo, although it's significantly different than traversing around universes with donna and kyle. well. kyle's here. but they're not skipping around places for funsies. jason waves it off, because they both already know he prefers to fuck with the asshats running gotham's underbelly than - well, this. )

Got here in March. There's a few of us who've been around a lot longer than that. ( he'd give her the rundown on the rest of them, but - ) Our timelines're all fucked. Some of us are a little behind, a little ahead, from entirely different sides of the universe.

[catlady]

Yeah, I kind of got the gist of that. You're the first one I've actually, y'know, come face-to-face with, but I've seen some stuff. I'd hoped this would all be very temporary, that I could drop in and get sent back home without anyone knowing I'd even been here... but then I remembered Bat spent thirty-seven years playing some kind of real life MMORPG with Wonder Woman, so like... I probably should start getting comfortable.

[ the sooner she rips off the band-aid and all that, start getting the uncomfortable reintroductions and recaps out of the way. things have always been complicated with bruce, so things with the bat family can be equally tricky. ]

So, how do you want to do this? The last time I saw you -- a version of you? -- Bruce and I were pulling you out of a burning building. We've been working together, trying something a little... ambitious, and BatDad is kind of BatMad about it. Before that? I don't know, I've been keeping my distance. We're on a break, so I don't exactly get regular updates on everyone. Things are never really normal, really, but it feels like nothing's been the same since Alfred... well...

[reneger]

( he hasn't gotten pulled out of any burning buildings as of late, but bruce being pissed doesn't sound like anything new far as jason's concerned. bruce is always getting pissed about something. )

You get pulled into a shit nightmare any time recently? Not a normal one, but one where one wrong move might've left you not waking up at all.

( not that it matters if they're from the same place. he knows he was behind everyone else until he suddenly wasn't. selina may be just. . . ahead in the timeline, or from somewhere else entirely even if alfred--if that lines up, as does the fun trip with diana a while back. )