ATLAS

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ft. antiazaria:

   ☽. She feels confusion coming from the younger ; it’s been recommended to her that she introduce herself to new recruits. However, Raven’s not really the most SOCIAL person on the planet. In her rounds, she’s already frightened three people and annoyed two - she hopes the young Hush isn’t added to either of those lists. But… who can tell ?? 

  ☽.  ❝ No, there wasn’t any rule that stated against it at all. ❞ She simply states, hands at her sides, hidden beneath the deep indigo fabric of her cloak. Maybe she creeps closer to get a further look at the creature, big eyes blinking. She has always thought cats were rather… misunderstood ; she’s never really had a pet before, but if she said she hadn’t considered adopting a cat before, she’d be lying. ❝ …Animals are good if you need any emotional support. ❞ Which is why maybe she needs to consider one again. ❝ Does it have a name ?? ❞      

   “ what kinda monster doesn’t name their pets ?? ” colin asks, lighthearted now.  he can brood with the best of them, thanks, but what’s their to brood about right now ??  “ his name is golem. ”  he scratches the animal behind it’s ears, and the better part of one ear was lost to a scrap years ago, presumably.  he doesn’t touch on the emotional support -- god knows colin needs that, but he’s not exactly a sharer.  

               “ --- do you want to hold him ??  he’s a lot friendlier than he looks, i promise. ”   

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ft. bluebeetlc:

“Hey -” Jaime can’t help but yelp in surprise as someone runs into him, and his armour is half-way over his body before he manages to calm Khaji Da enough to realise it’s a false alarm. Ever since the convergence both of them have been on high alert, and it doesn’t take much to set the scarab off to suit up. It’s been tapping into Jaime’s emotions more and more over the years and as handy as that can be sometimes… other times, it doesn’t always end so well. “Whoa, sorry - unconscious reaction, esé. We’re a little nervous with.. you know, everything going on, guess it makes me a little jumpy.” He explains, a little embarrassed as the blue armour disappears.

   colin is, in a word, baffled.  in a couple words, fucking baffled.  for half a second, he’s pretty sure he’s hallucinating.  he’s never seen...a bunch of armor just pop out of nowhere.  it makes the boy look alien, and it actually makes colin take a half step back.  before he realizes it, he’s on the defensive, standing like he’s ready for someone to throw a punch.  “ yeah -- okay. ”  eloquent.  he cocks his head as the armor disappears gradually.  he clears his throat, tries to calm his thrumming pulse before it can set off his own weird reaction of pulsing veins and stretching skin.  “ i think everyone’s jumpy, ” he admits.  “ didn’t mean to startle you. ” 

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    colin’s posture doesn’t exactly convey great confidence.  his hands are shoved in his pockets, shoulders slouched in a way to make him look a little bit smaller.  the last few years && a hell of a lot of supervillain grade steroids have shot him up like a fucking beansprout, and colin still isn’t used to it.  and especially not here, not where colin can’t quite get his balance.  this is the place to be, but being here might not be his place.  it’s a weird thing to get his head around.

brooding is cut a tad short as he hears a garbled little sound, meow-adjacent.  tearing his gaze from the window and it’s unremarkable view, colin crouches down to pick up the cat.  it’s an ugly little thing, a true testament to gotham resilience.  she looks like god wanted to make a hairless cat and gave up half way through, left colin with a cat with a few patches of fur and the meanest little face you’ve ever seen.  all aloof exterior forgotten, colin makes a little kissy face at it and grins at the answering purr, stilted and loud.  “ no one said we weren’t allowed to bring an animal, technically, ” he says by way of explanation.

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    supposedly COLIN WILKES made it through the convergence. HE is SEVENTEEN and i hear they sometimes go by HUSH. it seems they tend to be EMPATHETIC, but VIOLENT. rumor has it they used to run with N/A, but do they have what it takes to keep up? mr. oz better keep an eye on this one going forward. 

someone told me you wanted to meet a tiny baby angel, or maybe i’m just projecting Again.  fair warning, colin has an extremely brief comic history, so a lot of what you’re about to read was either inferenced from the text, entirely my own decisions from playing him over the last couple years, and specific circumstances i’ve decided on just from this rp. 

CANONICALLY speaking, colin is a gotham boy.  he grew up in an orphanage where it was heavily implied that he was abused (as well as abused in a few of his foster homes).  he received very little care and attention from his supposed guardians.  he grew up a really angry kid and was notorious for bouncing around foster homes.  colin has always had some pretty significant mental health issues.  he’s got anger issues, intense paranoia, and multiple debilitating fears, including that of bats.

STILL CANONICALLY - colin was chosen by scarecrow, at the direction of hush/tommy elliot, to be a victim of one of his experiments.  colin was subjected to a heavy dose of fear toxin as well as pumped full of the same venom that gives bane his powers.  he was basically a mindless, terrified monster, unaware of what he was doing.  he was forced to attack batman, but batman realized that beneath whatever rage-y scary monster he was fighting, colin was just a child && was able to break the influence scarecrow had on him.

colin was saved, more or less, and healed from his encounter, but he was returned to the same orphanage he had been in before.  however, a couple years later it was discovered that colin had retained some of the ability the venom gave him.  he was able to harness that power and transform himself at will.  after discovering this, he took on the name ‘abuse’ and dedicated himself to helping other children who were also being abused. 

this put him in the path of batman and robin ( dick and damian, at the time ) while they were simultaneously tracking a ring of child trafficking conducted by victor zsasz.  long story short, colin revealed to them that he was also a hero (albiet a pretty low profile one).  damian then gave colin the equipment he needed to keep working in gotham city, including a motorcycle and base of operations.  they were buddies, guys. 

so here’s where the line between canon and headcanon get a little blurred.  it is heavily implied during streets of gotham that colin was chosen very intentionally by hush because he resembled a young tommy elliot.  a flashback lets us know that a lover of tommy elliot ( another villain, peyton riley ) possibly had a child about the same time colin would have been born.  at the very least, colin is meant to be sort of thought of as a stand in for tommy elliot in the story, but i tend to go with the headcanon that colin is the son of hush.  which is actually super important to colin in this particular rp. 

AND HERE’S WHERE THINGS GET ALL NON-CANON: after the point where damian died and colin felt he was without his support network, colin went looking for answers as to why he was targeted by crane and what hush’s involvement in the whole process was.  ya boy had....Questions.  so he went looking, followed a few trails, and that eventually lead him to Papa Hush.  

To be clear, Hush’s interest in Colin was never ever born out of any sort of paternal instinct/affection.  He didn’t see Colin as any sort of potential legacy, more as a tool that could help him.  Same as before.  Colin was a tool that could get at Batman, and tbh I think Colin always sort of knew that, but he also was desperate for an actual parent in his life, so he got manipulated a little.  Colin’s time w/ Tommy was a pretty tense time all around.  Colin was using Tommy to learn as much as he could and hone himself as a crime-fighter, Tommy was using Colin to do things he wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.  

So essentially, Abuse/Colin Wilkes dropped off the face of the planet, and there really weren’t a lot of people who would have cared that much in the first place.  So he was able to pretty seamlessly remove himself from the hero scene in gotham and become an extension of tommy elliot.  however, of course, since colin is a certified good boy, eventually he decided that he had learned all he wanted to from his father (also he couldn’t stomach it anymore tbh) and left.  this was only shortly before the events that made this RP happen transpired.  literally just a week or two after colin left hush’s company, a bunch of big heroes were wiped off the face of the planet, and that kind of changed colin’s plan.  up until that point, colin’s plan had been to remain a small-time hero in gotham, using any newfound skills he had to truly protect the people he perceived as powerless.  

but now he’s here, and he’s like a fully fledged little teenager instead of a ten year old and my heart is so full about it.  he’s adopted the name Hush as his own, but i’m sure tommy would beat his fool ass for trying to do that.  colin isn’t that worried.  if your character is someone who is/was gotham-based they’re more than welcome to recognize him, but he PROBABLY hasn’t seen them in four to five years, so keep that in mind.  if you wanna go w/ something else, tho, just message me and im sure we’ll be able to work something