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capeandcowllogs2011-12-30 01:03 am
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Now that you've been broken down, Got your head out of the clouds
WHO: Hal Tighten and Roxanne
WHERE: A little coffee shop by her workplace
WHEN: Thursday morning
WARNINGS: Hal's a creeper and doesn't take "no" well.
SUMMARY: Hal meets Roxanne for a coffee date. Roxanne meets Hal to say "back off." This should go well.
FORMAT: Whatever works
The last few weeks have been disappointing. Hal was lost and confused after arriving in the City. People critiqued his outfit, mocked his perception on what was going on as naive, and dared him to risk fighting the entity responsible for their abduction. They talked a lot about there being many people with super powers, and that was downright unnerving. If they were telling the truth, the local heroes had to be pretty good at what they did! After all, the City looks like a city, and not a crater.
They weren't good enough, if Roxanne got kidnapped again! But that was nothing new, she was just a magnet for the villainous sort. Hal hadn't been in any position to intervene, since it happened before he arrived. So when they talked, for a very few minutes, she told him he'd been kidnapped. She didn't explain anything else, promised to talk to him later... and then she went completely incognito for a couple weeks.
He didn't want to risk fighting any of the heroes, and if they were so good at what they did, who cared! No one was going to notice. His designated foe Megamind wasn't around to thrash, and Roxanne wasn't around to watch. So he looked intently for messages from her for a few days, lounging around his place in the MAC. And when nothing came, he found other ways to pass the time and amuse himself.
Until today, that is, when suddenly Roxanne contacted him and invited him out to coffee. An invitation to coffee, Hal knew, was a way of having a sorta-date without actually saying it was a date. That comfortable in-between thing, when people aren't ready to put a label on their feelings just yet.
Superpowers meant he would comfortably arrive long before she would. He saw no need to dress up when they were still playing it casually, but flowers would be a good gesture. What did they mean, after all? Did they mean 'This is a date and this is a romantic gesture,' or just something friendly and platonic like 'I hope you enjoyed your vacation?' It was open to interpretation; whatever she needed to interpret it as for thetalk date to go well.
Hal sits at a table, decorated with various flowers in a hastily acquired vase, tapping at a handheld system.
WHERE: A little coffee shop by her workplace
WHEN: Thursday morning
WARNINGS: Hal's a creeper and doesn't take "no" well.
SUMMARY: Hal meets Roxanne for a coffee date. Roxanne meets Hal to say "back off." This should go well.
FORMAT: Whatever works
The last few weeks have been disappointing. Hal was lost and confused after arriving in the City. People critiqued his outfit, mocked his perception on what was going on as naive, and dared him to risk fighting the entity responsible for their abduction. They talked a lot about there being many people with super powers, and that was downright unnerving. If they were telling the truth, the local heroes had to be pretty good at what they did! After all, the City looks like a city, and not a crater.
They weren't good enough, if Roxanne got kidnapped again! But that was nothing new, she was just a magnet for the villainous sort. Hal hadn't been in any position to intervene, since it happened before he arrived. So when they talked, for a very few minutes, she told him he'd been kidnapped. She didn't explain anything else, promised to talk to him later... and then she went completely incognito for a couple weeks.
He didn't want to risk fighting any of the heroes, and if they were so good at what they did, who cared! No one was going to notice. His designated foe Megamind wasn't around to thrash, and Roxanne wasn't around to watch. So he looked intently for messages from her for a few days, lounging around his place in the MAC. And when nothing came, he found other ways to pass the time and amuse himself.
Until today, that is, when suddenly Roxanne contacted him and invited him out to coffee. An invitation to coffee, Hal knew, was a way of having a sorta-date without actually saying it was a date. That comfortable in-between thing, when people aren't ready to put a label on their feelings just yet.
Superpowers meant he would comfortably arrive long before she would. He saw no need to dress up when they were still playing it casually, but flowers would be a good gesture. What did they mean, after all? Did they mean 'This is a date and this is a romantic gesture,' or just something friendly and platonic like 'I hope you enjoyed your vacation?' It was open to interpretation; whatever she needed to interpret it as for the
Hal sits at a table, decorated with various flowers in a hastily acquired vase, tapping at a handheld system.
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Outwardly confident, he held his breath, waiting to see which way Hal would move.