#notbatboy 01

[meguminee]

@notbatboy​

So, this is the place she’s supposed to call home?

Her back sank against the wall outside the townhouse she was expected to stay in, a heavy sigh escaping her. Here, she was allowed to spend as much time outside as she pleased, but...

... She couldn’t feel happy, not when she didn’t have a single person with her. 

Just then, she saw a young boy passing by. He seemed strict, and Megumi instantly fell like he knew much more than her about this place.

“Excuse me!” She called out, moving away from the wall she was leaning on. “Even here... Is it possible for you to keep studying and go to school?”

[thefinitewitch]

@notbatboy

“.... There’s another??”

Virgilia looked around hastily with a nervous expression that didn’t match her usually elegant demeanor.

It was another child. Wandering around all alone. Oh, how much she pitied these poor children...! What kind of cruel individual would strand a child out here without their parents?

If it’s like this, it should be up to her to help, right??? So, she approached this child with a worried voice.

“Er... Young one... Are you alone here? You must be lonely, yes? Come now, don’t be sad. I can prepare you tea and cookies. Um... For children, the tea must be sweet, right? I’ll make sure to use plenty of sugar.”

[smallblueboyscout]

@notbatboy

It had been a few days since Jon had explored the Cotes ward, so he had decided to spend his time there to make sure there were no crimes being committed. He had yet to finish forming his hero team, so he felt the need to spend every day trying to stop the crimes he could.

This thought was derailed though when he thought he spotted a familiar face, a slow grin spreading in delight. 

“DAMI?!” He shouted, cupping his hands around his mouth to project his voice. Being without his super voice was annoying, but he could still shout. “YOU GOT THREE SECONDS TO DUCK BEFORE I HUG YOU!”

He jumped down from his spot on a building, silently grateful for not having used his invulnerability yet since a fall from that height would normally shatter bones, and bounded towards his best friend. He felt tears building up in his eyes, and he didn’t care if he got made fun of. His best friend was here!

“I MISSED YOU SO MUCH D!!” He shouted as he flung his arms around the smaller boy and squeezed him in a hug. “Oh thank Rao you’re here!! You’re really here right??”

[redwinging]

@notbatboy

Okay- that was definitely the Robin uniform.

Robin uniform meant a vigilante other than him existed in the area. That’s good.

... But it also meant Damian. Not as good.

That’s not to say Tim wasn’t willing to work with Damian, but he wasn’t sure Damian would be so open minded.

“Robin..?!”

Trying not to be too sudden (he knows Damian could put up a fight when provoked), Tim tapped Damian on the shoulder. Play it cool. He’s not trying to get shit for suddenly blurting out Damian’s real name while they’re outside.

“You have your... Uniform.”

Yeah. He’s totally not jealous that Damian was summoned in uniform and he wasn’t. Not at all.

“Scratch that. I can tell just by looking. That’s not the original Robin uniform, you got stuck with some cheap fake. It lacks everything that made Robin ready for combat.”

Oh, he’s totally not showing off that he knows the ins and outs of the Robin uniform so well. No way. Just making an observation.

[ryuujiin]

@notbatboy

Shit. This kid looks young. 

Ryuu could acknowledge that the person in question probably wasn’t much younger than he was. But it was still enough to cause concern.

... Or rage. Bringing kids here seems unfair.

“Hey,” He approaches carefully, not wanting to startle anyone. “are you out here alone?”

[gracefieldorphan]

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“‘Scuse me!” A sudden blur of orange passed through Damian’s peripheral vision. Something was coming his way, and it was coming fast.

That thing, which didn’t show any signs of stopping, yelled various warnings for him to move out of the way.

... Wouldn’t it make more sense for her to run around him? Not that it mattered, she had already tumbled into him and crashed into the ground.

“W-Weehh? I’m sorry, mister, I didn’t-”

Emma looked like she was about to deeply apologize, but then she realized the person she was talking to was another kid, and any hint of regret in her expression left.

“Well, I said ‘excuse me’, didn’t I? Ehehe!!”

[scncffrey]

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Small colorful and slightly armed children weren’t something he was usually afraid of, with most of the hotel residents being armed teenagers, but the kid had caught him casually pick pocketing one of the better dressed and ruder residents of the island. 

He felt defensive, narrowing his eyes at the loud toddler. “I’m not giving it back.”

[strigistricken]

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The atmosphere of the city late in the evening reminded Eda of the night market back home, which might’ve had her feeling nostalgic if she didn’t know how dangerous that place could be for someone who couldn’t defend herself.  She’d managed well enough on that lizard island without most of her magic, but sneaking around through a seedy area like this was territory she was more familiar with in a way that left her feeling less safe than she’d been upon her arrival.  At the very least she could give someone a good whack with the wooden pole they’d given her- no Owl Staff for sure, but it was better than being completely unarmed.

It did little for her nerves, however, and the slightest shuffle against concrete had her whirling around, pulling the hooded cloak she wore for the trip tighter around herself.

“Who’s there?!” she demanded, the pole brandished at her side as if it could aid in her magic at all.  For someone who lived on the Boiling Isles, it would never be a question of if something was following her, but rather what its nature was.  Maybe the reaction had scared them off?  That’d be fine with her.