rogue, meet hero

[peterxy]

Most of the time, patrolling is a dull, uneventful affair, somewhat akin to the Ankh-Morpork City Guard ringing their bells and calling "All's well!" at night.

Sometimes, it's not.

Dauntless was not expecting to run into two unpowered Asian gangs (Japanese and Korean? that's what it looks like at a distance) duking it out in the middle of the street. Granted, it's the evening, and it's not quite the most well-frequented of streets, but still.

He decides to call for backup, not because he wouldn't be able to take them on, but because he's supposed to do that whenever confronting another parahuman or a large number of non-capes, at least until he graduates. He turns the comm on and describes the situation - a bit over a dozen people on each side, arguing and brandishing blunt weapons and in some cases guns - then waits and watches.

Comments

[mxglam]

"I'd probably fly around, doing a half-baked and untrained form of patrolling without access to back up if I need it or knowledge about any potential normal patrol routes and interesting areas, maybe run into some other hero doing the same and tag along again, eventually get bored and go home."

[thinkering]

"Harmless until you provoke a villain, I guess."

[mxglam]

"Mmhm, but I think I acquitted myself quite well against teleporter-guy. Of course, if it was actually Purity or something I'd probably fly the other way, or the way to the Protectorate base."

[thinkering]

"She's bad news."

[mxglam]

"That's one way to put it."

[thinkering]

[mxglam]

Sigh.


...patrol patrol.

[thinkering]

Patrol, patrol, patrol.

[mxglam]

The event that happens first is her shift ending. No killing sprees happen.

[thinkering]

"G'night," Lorica says as she disappears into HQ.

[mxglam]

"'Night." They fly away, and decide it's as good a time as any to go sleep.

[thinkering]

Patrol patrol. Lorica gives a homeless dude the address of a soup kitchen and arrests a mugger and leaves a prostitute alone. Patrol patrol.

[mxglam]

"Fancy meeting you here."

[thinkering]

"Hello again."

[mxglam]

"Miss me much?"

[thinkering]

"Heaps."

[mxglam]

[thinkering]

Patrol patrol. "I alerted the media, but I'm not sure they won't just pick something and run with it."

[mxglam]

"...that would be very annoying."

[thinkering]

"Can't do anything about it, sorry."

[mxglam]

"I wonder if I could convince them to call me something else by using a very different pronoun? Like zie, maybe, or ey."

[thinkering]

"Strikes me as even less likely, but might work."

[mxglam]

"Well, you know, it could be exotic and funny. What's your gender? Hero. But what's in your pants? Justice," they say, changing pitch to indicate the different characters.

[thinkering]

"If you want to be classed as an independent hero and not a rogue you might have to interact with paperwork."

[mxglam]

"I don't wanna be classed as anything, I just wanna help people in costume and get really famous while doing it. The first part's the important one, by the way, I'm not about to start staging heists just to be famous."