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spoiler: tim fights a food coma
[ After a viewing of that edgy Flubber reboot Tim was talking about (and that neither of he nor Ann are willing to speak of for the rest of the night), he couldn't help but feel positively stuffed. The combined unhealthiness of a strawberry shake, a lava cake, XL popcorn, and extra extra butter would be lethal for more sedentary folk, but not Ann and Tim. Sure, they didn't go out and fight crime just yet (although doing so would have been a surefire way to burn off all that food), but they had other... more pressing matters.
All the while, Tim hopes Ann's been enjoying Gotham so far. It was easy to simply fly her over here - for a few days of summer break, is what they planned - what with Tim's access to the state-of-the-art Batplane. They'll pretty much fly the same thing back to Japan, where Tim can get a better grasp of what it means to be a Phantom Thief... once the rest of them get past the fact that he's an American superhero.
Until then, Tim's busy taking Ann to the Robin's Nest: a loft on the topmost floor of a skyscraper. Since the entire property belongs to Wayne Enterprises, Tim has no trouble having his very own place double as a separate, Robin-only headquarters. A home away from home, so to speak, though the Batcave is far from homely.
Once he and Ann are inside, Tim quickly flops onto the sofa, and he groans a bit. On the walk here, he's had a hard time finding the words to admit to his mounting food coma, which is already threatening to take him from the waking world. ]
I can feel it, Ann. A food coma, believe it or not.
[ He looks up at her from where he's lying down, and the sight of it must be rather silly. He already looks like he's just woken up from a nap, and has yet to get a proper grasp of his surroundings. ]
I really didn't think "carbo-loading" like that would have much of an effect, but... here we are.
[ With an apologetic smile, he decides against lying down any longer and sits up. Admittedly, there's something about his tired look, slightly tussled hair, and cozy red sweater that might make for an inviting sight. Though there's also a glimmer of resolve in Tim's eyes, as he doesn't seem willing to yield to sleep's pull just yet. ]
I can think of ways to shock me awake, Ann. I don't doubt they've been on your mind, too.
All the while, Tim hopes Ann's been enjoying Gotham so far. It was easy to simply fly her over here - for a few days of summer break, is what they planned - what with Tim's access to the state-of-the-art Batplane. They'll pretty much fly the same thing back to Japan, where Tim can get a better grasp of what it means to be a Phantom Thief... once the rest of them get past the fact that he's an American superhero.
Until then, Tim's busy taking Ann to the Robin's Nest: a loft on the topmost floor of a skyscraper. Since the entire property belongs to Wayne Enterprises, Tim has no trouble having his very own place double as a separate, Robin-only headquarters. A home away from home, so to speak, though the Batcave is far from homely.
Once he and Ann are inside, Tim quickly flops onto the sofa, and he groans a bit. On the walk here, he's had a hard time finding the words to admit to his mounting food coma, which is already threatening to take him from the waking world. ]
I can feel it, Ann. A food coma, believe it or not.
[ He looks up at her from where he's lying down, and the sight of it must be rather silly. He already looks like he's just woken up from a nap, and has yet to get a proper grasp of his surroundings. ]
I really didn't think "carbo-loading" like that would have much of an effect, but... here we are.
[ With an apologetic smile, he decides against lying down any longer and sits up. Admittedly, there's something about his tired look, slightly tussled hair, and cozy red sweater that might make for an inviting sight. Though there's also a glimmer of resolve in Tim's eyes, as he doesn't seem willing to yield to sleep's pull just yet. ]
I can think of ways to shock me awake, Ann. I don't doubt they've been on your mind, too.
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[ Ann Takamaki is in despair.
It's not because she isn't having an amazing time in Gotham (far from), or that spending time with Tim wasn't at all not everything she'd imagined it would be (it was), poor movie selection aside. No… it was because she'd been betrayed. Her constant companion, delicious junk food, has turned on her. She's a little surprised neither of them had given up halfway through, or that they'd even managed to make it back to his loft without keeling over on the way there.
In hindsight, it was all an awful idea. A delectable but short-sighted mistake. ]
Trust me. I believe it. I feel it, and I'm about to say something really, really terrifying, but… I don't think I ever want to eat again.
[ The good news about that would be that she could finally drop that five pounds she'd been worrying about all summer— the bad news is that she's pretty sure she'd just added another five purely in popcorn.
The sofa is a welcome sight, and just as he had, she could feel the temptation to curl up and sleep off the effects of a full stomach. Yet he looks just as alluring as sleeping away any guilt she might have about eating too much, and even though her movements are sluggish, she makes her way over to him and settles herself squarely on his lap. ]
You know me too well. [ She smiles, draping her arms over his shoulders. ] And, you know… they do say rigorous activity is the best way to get rid of a you-know-what coma.
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[ He knows he's not helping.
Once Ann turns the subject to never wanting to eat again, there's no way Tim's lying back down from fatigue. The news is just too much of a shock!
...Until Tim stops pretending to take it at face value. He almost thinks he's too tired to even joke about it, and yet-- ]
We'll have to fix that, won't we? Give you something else to hunger for.
[ It's when Ann lands squarely on his lap that the prospect of a nap finally sounds ludicrous. Having drawn herself so close to him, Ann is well within kissing distance... and Tim is fully aware of that. He grins at her comment, but finds he has no witty retort for Ann's mention of "rigorous activity."
Instead, he gets right to it, closing that distance. Tim even leans a bit to deepen the kiss, his arms snug around Ann's waist as he generously tends to her lips. He doesn't waste any time either-- putting his tongue to good use, warmly exploring her mouth.
Thank god they both have dessert breath. ]
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[ For a moment, she'd thought they'd both feel too full and gross to even consider doing anything other than lay on his couch and whine about poor life choices. That not being the case, she's more than happy to part her lips for him, shivering excitedly against him as his tongue caresses just inside her top lip. Ann presses in closer in response, arms drawing back to cradle his jaw in her palms, tipping his head to a better angle for her to kiss him more deeply.
If her estimate of their caloric intake is anywhere near correct, even with her own abysmal skill at mathematics she knows it's going to take far more "activity" than anyone could ever handle to burn off anything near the amount they'd consumed— but she's certainly willing to try. Let no man call Ann Takamaki a quitter!
They can just fight off their f-word coma with an s-word coma. It makes perfect sense. ]
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The sofa happens to be this over-sized luxury model, an admittedly bougie product whose presence should come as no surprise given Tim's background. Being what it is, the sofa certainly offers plenty of room to... maneuver. Which is why Tim, cradling the small of Ann's back, dips her down onto the flat of the sofa so he can slip his hand inside her leggings. Under her panties, his fingers delicately rub the general area surrounding her clit. This precursor is deliberately indirect, something to give Ann a taste of what's to come.
Other than herself, of course.
As Tim reaches in, he's also lying next to Ann at this point, his side on the sofa while he offers his other arm as Ann's headrest. He leans closer to her neck, generously peppering it with small kisses before he whispers in her ear. ]
If you want me to go lower...
[ He briefly tilts his head in the direction of her top. ]
That's gonna have to go.
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It takes a concentrated effort not to wiggle her hips to try to get more out of him than he's currently willing to give, face flushing deep red at the feeling of his comparatively cool fingers right up against the heat of her folds. God, that's hot. That and the soft lips paying attention to her sensitive neck are all it takes to turn her from human: person to human: puddle. ]
You're… such a tease. [ She whines, unsure whether she hates or loves it— kind of both? Maybe not right now, though. Right now she wants to tell him that he totally sucks, but god she wants this, wants him so much that she bites down her regular frustration to deal with her sexual frustration instead. She reluctantly withdraws her hand from where it'd snaked up the inside of his sweater, not sure when she'd put it there, doesn't remember doing it.
Her fingers work the buttons of her blouse loose one by one so she can shrug it off, leaving herself bare save for the bra she wore underneath. It's cute, light pink and patterned with white hearts, clearly not anything she'd worn with the intention of him seeing it. She hadn't really thought this would be in the plans for today, but now that they're here… it's what's happening. ]
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Concurrently, Tim's mouth attends to Ann's closest nipple, licking, nibbling, and sucking it in sporadic intervals. He's as fervent and precise doing this as he is down below, fingers now occasionally dipping inside Ann's sex - but only tentatively, tantalizingly so. ]
If I fall asleep doing this, feel free to slap me.
[ He conspicuously neglects to say where, before motioning to suck on Ann's other nipple. Watching Ann become putty in Tim's hands also has a way of... rousing him, and before long, Ann's bound to feel Tim's hardness against her leg. There's no reason to doubt Tim's enjoying this, of course, but now Ann's got solid evidence, so to speak. ]
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She breathes in a hiss and lets it out as a whimper, fingers threading deep in his hair, nails grazing his scalp. All it takes is a few swipes of his tongue to get her nipples standing at attention, back arching to press herself even closer against his mouth. He's still toying with her, but he's more or less giving her exactly what she wants, and it's not an entirely useless endeavor to rock her hips up against his fingers. It's easy to tell by the way his fingers slide over her just how wet Tim has gotten her already. ]
If you fall asleep, I will end you. [ He's the one who got her like this! So now he has to take responsibility for it. And judging from what she feels rubbing up against her leg… he's feeling the same way. Knowing he's turned on turns her on even more, and knowing she's the cause of it is even better. Ann bites back a grin, using her thigh to rub up against him.
She can tease, too, Tim. ]
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There's also a slight sting once Ann grasps Tim's hair, but it's nothing he considers distracting. If anything, all the attention she's giving him is keeping him alert, trivializing the challenge of staying awake in the middle of all this. As Ann bucks her hips against Tim's fingers, Tim pushes back in kind, maintaining a rhythm to deliver as much pleasure as he can through these ministrations - he's progressed from slipping inside Ann every so often to finally thrusting two fingers against her walls.
Ann will find that other aspects of Tim's training - all the strength training and martial arts - is paying off here. Tim doesn't seem to be exerting much effort with his arm, lean yet rippling as his hand pushes Ann's whole body with every thrust of his fingers. Though he lacks the bulk of a bodybuilder, Tim's proven his strength countless times, having shown the ease with which he could lift Ann. Though there's no lifting involved at the moment, this occasion is hardly any different.
Though once Ann starts rubbing her thigh against Tim's length, his strength falters a bit. It's not the fingers in his hair that distract him, but the sudden, sensitive pulse of pleasure that hardens him, that nearly gives him pause. ]
...Heh. Well, one way or another, I'm expecting a good finish.
[ Despite Ann's teasing, Tim's efforts are ceaseless, three of his fingers now inside Ann as his arm continues thrusting. His mouth is equally preoccupied, kissing Ann's neck when he's not kissing or sucking on one of her breasts. ]
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One hand remains embedded deep in his hair, fingertips pressing against his head insistently whenever he does something that feel particularly good. The other runs over his arm, shoulder, his back— anything she can reach, really, appreciating his physique even through his clothing. She likes it, enjoys comparing how it's different from her own, how he's hard in a lot of the places she's soft. She's been to the gym once or twice (but not much more than that) in her lifetime, knows how much work and dedication it takes to get a build like that! For someone who tends to give up halfway through a workout routine, it's impressive.
Her resolve to hold out here is also quickly crumbling beneath her. She feels the slight stretch as he adds a third digit, clenching around them tightly as they continue to push in and out of her. She clutches at him and hooks her foot around his leg, holding him there as if she's afraid he's going to go away or stop what he's doing before she can finish, the little cries escaping her getting higher in volume and pitch the closer she gets. ]
Tim— God. Fuck, I, uh— u-um…
[ She's expecting a good finish, too! ]
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[ Let's just say Dick's been a bad influence.
Fortunately, no amount of wordplay has detracted from Ann's euphoria thus far. Otherwise, she wouldn't be so... responsive. ]
Speechless, Panther?
[ Tim asks in a low voice, incessantly fingering her at a faster pace than before. He's sacrificed power for speed, delivering a consistent sensation as his three fingers move in and out of Ann's sex in rapid intervals. He basks in all of Ann's moaning, pleased with himself that he could reduce her to such a mess.
With past significant others, Tim didn't really prioritize sex and intimacy to this extent. He'd either say it was because he was too busy or because he was just waiting for the right moment, but if he were honest... it was a chasm he just wasn't ready to leap over yet.
Now, it's clear Tim's just found the right person. But no, he's not going to get too sentimental all of a sudden, what with all his handiwork still in progress. Ann might catch him smiling wistfully, but she's bound to forget once Tim starts curling his fingers inside her and applying more force yet again. He offers a different albeit equally consistent sensation now, ceaselessly thrusting his hand between Ann's legs as her wetness becomes all the more audible.
Tim's determined to continue, after all, until Ann's whole body quivers around his fingers and ultimately, she finishes. ]
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Especially not when, moments later, he's breaking out her code name in a tone that warms her straight to her core. It doesn't usually sound so sexy when she hears that name called out. In the heat of battle or when they're talking infiltration strategies… it just sounds like a code name. Serves its purpose. Here? God. It's different. It's also usually not Tim saying it, whispered in the middle of a middle of a rising climax. It takes her off guard but not out of the heat of the moment— if anything, quite the opposite.
And she hopes he knows damn well what he does to her, that it isn't just the what but the who that has her brought down the state she's in. At one point, she hadn't even been sure she'd ever want something like this at all. She'd had full confidence in her conviction whenever she'd told people she had no interest in dating, or the things that went along with it. So it had come as a bit of surprise, then, when she'd wanted not only anyone, but someone in particular… him in particular. Even now she occasionally finds the strength of her own desires a little intimidating, though she's thankful having a bit of experience under her belt makes it a little easier to act on it them and have them returned to her in kind.
Ann's breathing is labored, breathy pants between moans that are only growing louder. She catches just the barest glimpse of a smile on his face before he curls his fingers inside of her, has her squeezing her eyes closed and seeing fireworks behind her eyelids. Her eyebrows pucker in anticipation of release, hands grasping for him, gathering in his sweater and the hair at the nape of his neck. ] Tim!
[ She moans his name one final time and she's there, damn near expertly worked through to orgasm and fluttering around his fingers as she reaches the apex of her pleasure. Her body doesn't just quiver but convulses under him, toes curling just as her fingers had, face flushing a bright red that travels down her neck and over her chest, the color speckling her breasts. Even as she comes down off of it, nerveless fingers finally releasing him, she can't seem to catch her breath, legs and stomach continuing to quake long after she's able to open her eyes and look into his, letting out a breathless laugh as she cups his cheek with her hand. ]
Oh my God. Th-that was… geez.
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Once Ann's pleasure deescalates, the pace of Tim's fingers inside her slows down, until finally, he can relinquish his fingers from within Ann's walls. After feeling he's sucked Ann's breast enough, Tim shifts so he can comfortably curl up against her, a bit breathless himself.
There was definitely some exertion involved, he won't deny that. He's not too tired to kiss her cheek, though, and then her neck. ]
Yeah, it was... yeah.
[ Getting Ann so worked up seems to have gotten Tim worked up as well - as if a candid boner against her thigh wasn't enough evidence already. ]
I kinda didn't know I had it in me, to tell you the truth.
[ "Though you definitely had it in you, so to speak," it crosses his mind for him to say.
He doesn't. ]
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Having his mouth in so many other places had certainly felt damn good— amazing, really— but she'd kind of missed this. She wouldn't openly admit it to him, but kissing Tim just might be her favorite thing… especially when he still tastes just a little bit like lava cake. She runs a hand up and down his arm idly, shimmying up closer to him as her skin loses all of the color he'd put on it, cooling down so that she wants to lean in and steal a little of his body heat.
She pulls away to smile at him, still starry-eyed and giggly on the high of a fantastic orgasm. ]
Guess we know you do now, huh? [ Her hand continues down, ducking under his arm to travel his side and down his hips, and finally, finally, between his legs. She palms his erection through his pants, licking her lips as her dreamy expression shifts to something more mischievous.
He… is wearing way too many clothes for her liking, all of a sudden. ]
Lose the pants, Drake.
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omg lol it's okay!
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sorry for the delay! RL got super busy :T
aw, it's okay!! but also so rude, RL. hope it gives you a break soon!
thanks!!
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Ann wakes up first, blinking away the last vestiges of sleep and the strange dream she'd been having (Tim had no hair; it was very weird). She can't really remember having fallen asleep, just groaning at an absolutely cringe-worthy line and snuggling herself up close to the heat of the body still pressed up so closely against her own. It's a little disorienting, waking up somewhere so unfamiliar, rather than tucked cozy in her own bed at home, thousands of miles away, but nice. She tips her head up to get a look at the person she's woken up beside, the same person she'd apparently fallen asleep beside (and not the weird hairless one from her dream), and has to press her lips together between her teeth to keep the giggle that threatens to spill over at bay.
His sleeping face is so cute. She doesn't want to wake him up, but the urge is hard to resist, even with the threat of morning breath— she has to kiss him, just once, really lightly, before slipping off of the sofa to stretch. Her pigtails hadn't held up through the night, so she tugs them loose, running her fingers through her hair as she tip-toes through a minefield of discarded clothing, stooping down to pick through them for her own clothes. She finds them, but… decides to put on his hoodie, instead, pulling it over the leggings they'd never actually gotten around to removing.
Grinning like an idiot, she finally finds her way to her purse and retrieves her phone, filled to bursting with notifications from her messenger app— the Phantom Thieves' Group Chat. Curious, she makes her way back over to the sofa and sits by Tim's head, scrolling through the messages with one hand while the other gently combs through his hair (which he has, because he is not bald). The topic of discussion over the last day or so has been what it usually is when they're between heists— who will their next target be? Someone even bigger than before, someone more corrupt? ]
A new target, huh…
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He stretches, realizing how desperately he needed to all this time, and yawns as his tired eyes gaze warmly at Ann. By then, Ann's already sitting next to him, though - so he uses his stretching as an excuse to curl up against her yet again. At least his movements aren't obtrusive enough to stop Ann from combing through his precious, precious hair - he quite likes the feeling. ]
Huh? Target, you say?
[ Tim can't help himself, sitting up a bit to peer at Ann's phone and discern the visible text messages. ]
I've got a whole library's worth of targets, honestly, but I have yet to a come across a full-blown palace here in Gotham.
Though, if the metaverse is as expansive as it seems... hmm.
Are you up for some 'dynamic duo' action?
[ All this, and he hasn't even had his coffee yet - he deserves a medal! ]
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Oh well. If he's awake anyway, there's really no reason to stop, right? So she doesn't.
Still, she lets out a frustrated sound, somewhere between a huff and whine. ]
You were supposed to keep sleeping!
[ Seeing as that moment has passed, however, she tilts her phone in Tim's direction to give him an easier view— there's nothing being said in the chat that he doesn't already know, and even if he hasn't been officially inducted, he's still one of them, now, whether he likes it or not. She scrolls, one-handed, down until the last message, then lays the phone on her lap. ]
I'd say I'm game! But… it still has to be a unanimous decision. I can't go breaking my own rules just because I'm not in the country. Thieves' Code!
But if we do decide to go through with this… first, we'd need a name, to see if they even have a palace at all. Then, we need a place, and, then, a distortion… something to describe how they see the world.
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Names, I've got plenty of.
[ From his own phone, he pulls up Gotham's criminal database. The dirty laundry of Batman's Rogues Gallery is practically public domain at this point, but it's useful to have it all in one place - and that's precisely what Tim's been organizing ever since Bruce put him up to it. ]
Places, not as immediately available, since the smart ones are always on the move.
But an evening's patrol should be enough to notice a conspicuous distortion. Maybe even multiple, since it's Gotham.
Penguin and Black Mask have both been acting up, lately. Got their hands dirty in turf wars. I wouldn't be surprised if either of them sprouted a palace.
[ He keeps it to himself, but he'd personally hate to see what the Metaverse would make of Arkham Asylum. There haven't been new headlines on that place yet, nor word from police scanners... but Tim hopes he won't find anything remotely palace-like in the asylum's vicinity. ]
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There's… so many.
[ She doesn't know how to feel about that. Frustrated, a bit angry, even overwhelmed— there are so many crooked people in this world, and so few people with the power to do anything about it. ]
I am pretty curious how the nav works here— the idea of checking it out on my own was a little intimidating, so I've held off. I've only ever gone in by myself once. [ And that… didn't end up going too well. Of course, she didn't have a Persona or any idea what she'd been getting herself into at that time— but she'd make sure to never make that same mistake again. ] Like… I wonder if we could get to Mementos, even here? Would it even be the same place, or another place entirely..?
[ There's too many things even they don't know about it to know the answer to everything without having to find it out for themselves.
She pushes Tim's hair back, away from his face. It looks good like that, too— shows his bone structure, but is still there. Not bald. ]
We could try one now? [ She reaches down to pick up her phone, tapping the screen to open the app. Without a target's information, it's a bit like a virtual assistant, waiting for the right keywords. ] If they have a palace, it'll let us know, even if we're nowhere near it. We can figure everything else out from there. Where their desires are focused, and how their desires have warped their cognition…
[ She's starting to sound like Morgana. ]
Name, please!
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[ Fortunately, Tim only dwells on the grimness of their duty for as long as Ann does, letting business proceedings continue as he listens to Ann explain the Phantom Thieves' methodology. ]
Whatever Mementos looks like in Tokyo, I'm willing to bet it's a very different beast in Gotham. Even if it's just the two of us, I do think it's still worth exploring...
[ And yet, like Ann in the past, Tim still has no Persona of his own. He only knows of them through Ann and, after all the other weird things he's seen in this world, has absolutely no reason to show skepticism. Maybe the one weird thing Tim has yet to see is himself, but bald... and that might be worse than anything Mementos could throw at them. ]
Maybe my Persona will inexplicably appear in a dire yet crucial moment.
So out of everyone on that list, I think someone unhinged enough to provoke that would be...
[ He scrolls through the list on his phone, hurrying himself so he doesn't keep Ann waiting. ]
Jervis Tetch, The Mad Hatter. He's been at large ever since Black Mask mounted a breakout of key inmates from Arkham a few weeks back.
With Bruce on League duty, Dick and I have worked closely to undo most of the damage, and we have. Tetch is just one of the few who's managed to slip through our fingers.
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[ That's a little cryptic and hard to explain… so she just won't.
The amusement is gone just as quickly as it came. ] Mementos is… huge. Even if we go down there, there's no way we'd be able to explore all of it. It's taken us months to get as far as we have. And there's no guarantee we'd even be able to get very far even if we did have the time.
[ Of course, Tim's vigilante work is a lot more well known than even the Phantom Thieves. That notoriety alone might be enough to get them onto an even deeper level than they've ever been to. Would that affect their explorations at home, too? It's uncertain, but promising. Ann knew Tim would be an asset, but she might've underestimated just how much of one. (She hadn't estimated she'd end up falling in love with him, either— so math remains her absolute worst subject.)
For the moment, Ann abandons playing with his hair, content to watch it fall back in place. Instead, she lets her fingertips trace the shell of his ear. Even as she's listening and watching him work, keeping her hands off of him isn't going to happen. ]
Jervis… Tetch?
[ What a weird name! A weird name she repeats under her breath slowly as she keys it into to the navigation app, waiting as it seems to search, the mere seconds it takes feeling like it's dragging on for hours. She's starting to think that maybe this guy just isn't twisted enough for a palace after all when her eyes light up at the result: ]
…it's a hit!
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Just as the navigation app begins its search, Tim's about to begin braiding Ann's hair for fun. When Tetch turns out to be a hit, Tim simply kisses Ann's cheek in approval. ]
Nice one, babe!
Good to know I've still got a knack for finding creeps.
[ He soon shudders at the thought of a palace for the Mad Hatter. To cope, he continues braiding Ann's hair, fingers so accustomed to delicate and dexterous work that the braid is almost expertly woven, draped over her shoulder. ]
Yeah, if you knew what this guy was all about... let's just say he's got a fixation on all things 'Alice in Wonderland.'
...and I feel like I can only really explain this guy's M.O. over some coffee.
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We make a great team already!
[ Sure, the name is the easy part, but they got it on the first try! That counts for something! They've already got a target and Tim hasn't even had time to put on pants, yet.
But ohhh, him playing with her hair feels nice. No wonder he'd let her play with his for so long. She's used to having hands in her hair, but they're usually tugging and pulling to get her photo-ready— this is different. It's soothing, and proof that coffee is going to be necessary, because she could easily fall right back to sleep like this. If any of the million other things he's great at don't work out, Tim could have a future in cosmetology. ]
That bad, huh? If he's that creepy in real life… I can only imagine what the Metaverse would make of him. [ She doesn't even know anything about him and she'd ready to shudder alongside Tim. Yet, whatever kind of palace he ends up having, she doubts it'll be the creepiest thing she's seen in that world so far. "Princess Ann" still takes the cake. The whole cake. Didn't even leave a crumb for the other creepy things. ]
Sounds like caffeine is definitely in order, then. Don't think anyone could handle some weirdo's Lewis Carroll fetish without it.
[ Ann uncrosses her legs and stands up, offering her hands down to Tim, fingers wiggling. ]
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The Mad Hatter's been a thorn on our side for years. Long before I entered the picture, even.
[ He recalls Dick telling him a story about taking down the Hatter from back when he was Robin. ]
He has a penchant for mind control tech, and for kidnapping young women who remind him of Alice.
...and, yeah. I know. I hate that, too.
[ Just talking about him gives Tim the heebie-jeebies. He's never fallen into the Hatter's clutches, but he's always avoided substances and tech that could influence his mind like the plague. It's not that he took "Don't Do Drugs!" campaigns from elementary school to heart - he just knows that his mind is his greatest weapon, and he can't afford to have its sharpness dulled under any circumstances, for any excuse. ]
So, yes. Coffee sounds good.
[ Except when it comes to caffeine, apparently.
Before long, he and Ann get their bearings straight, Tim opting to wear his Red Robin suit beneath a simple (yet cuddly) ensemble of a hoodie and sweatpants, with his cape, gauntlets, and utility belts stored in a laptop backpack. The two head out to a nearby cafe: a local joint that serves what he considers to be superb mochas. He orders one for himself, at least, and takes the smallest of sips once it's served to him. ]
I just like savoring it, y'know?
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(She's at least glad she had the foresight to pack extra underwear in her purse, just in case.) ]
I know what you mean. That smell… [ Here she takes a deep breath, closing her eyes. ] Reminds me of our secret hideout.
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He takes another small sip of his coffee, equally proud to have spent the previous night with someone he loves - and even more proud to enjoy some sick coffee. ]
Back in Tokyo, you mean?
I'd sure love to visit. Thank god we don't need to book a flight!
[ He pulls out his phone, though, and the screen shows a digital case file with everything Tim has on the Mad Hatter. His smartphone (of his own design) can display a double-sided holographic screen for both him and Ann to see, but because that'd be a dumb thing to do in a public cafe, he settles for orienting the screen horizontally, phone laid flat on the table space between them. ]
Flying won't be necessary to find him, though.
From the way I understand it, he himself won't be a literal threat, right? It's all just his corrupt thoughts, which... are definitely worse.
[ After drinking a substantial amount of his coffee, Tim starts to speak in hushed tones. And from what he says, it immediately becomes clear why. ]
He uses mind control technology and hypnosis to influence others. His favorite victims are actually girls he can 'convince' to be his 'Alices,' and I hate to imagine what he'd get away with if Batman was never in the picture.
I also wouldn't put it past him to have a whole 'Wonderland' of a palace, but I swear, if I see an entire living Jabberwocky I'm gonna lose it.
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a million years later!!
and yet only a few seconds in louie time...