who? Outis & Trix [ @dishonestly ] where? The Badatnam Skate Park, The Bronx, NKC when? April 29, 2022
Moments like this have Outis considering if selling her soul to Valerian is actually a better alternative. The notion is always easily dissuaded, since it’s just a brief moment of poignant bafflement as she goes through the motions of fulfilling a request no matter how utterly bizarre it is. At least, if she had taken the Valerian offer, she would probably be doing harder work than just fetching a skateboard from the Badatnam Skate Park’s lost and found. But then again, it would also come with endless press and media attention, as well as having to deal with office politics and corruption (probably, she has no proof but a company as large as Valerian must have a dark side to it, it’s show biz babey and all that), as well as having to sell her image and identity for the amusement of the people she is supposed to be protecting.
So not worth it at all, even if her work in BYOH means that she has to travel all the way from Liberty Glens to The Bronx in the subway while in costume. Mercedes is visible enough when out and about as Outis, but she is not well-known, so she does tend to draw the eye and get people pointing at her, wondering if she is a steward or just shady as hell. Which, she can’t exactly deny, considering her steward outfit consists of military cargos, a leather jacket and a Winter Soldier sort of mask getup. If people weren’t so used to stewards dressing in all shapes and forms, she is sure someone would have called the cops on her by now. And that would have been awkward.
She is lucky people have been desensitized to weirdness, even if she wishes some would be more aware and stopped with their whole “hero chasing” routine, since that tends to put them in more danger than not.
Turning into the skatepark, she glances around and sighs. Yeah, she has never been here, so she has no clue where anything is. Quickly, she finds the nearest person — a woman with dark hair looking towards the skaters, with a skateboard next to her — and taps her shoulder politely.
“Excuse me, sorry for bothering you, but could you tell me where the park’s lost and found is?”














