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"Feel That?"

+ @toshapeshift​ asked:  ❛ this is a good look for you. ❜

❝ You do know what happened when I get angry, right? ❞ That's better than saying 'you wouldn't like me when I'm angry' Isn't it? @toshapeshift​​ / sc

It’s a valid statement. Gotham has one of the highest crime rates in the country. In dark, grimy alleyways, what waits for you on the other end could be your demise. Muggings, murders, kidnapping, robberies---all of this and worse are a part of the average news cycle, and GCN has no problem broadcasting it all to the city’s population in a never ending loop of misery. 

“The best and worst of my life has happened here,” he murmurs quietly. Pensive stare watches the foot traffic below them, couples huddled together against the chill and dock workers making their way home from a late shift. “Too many moments to walk away from.” A beat of silence passes before he speaks again.

"A couple blocks in that direction,” he nods his head northwest, “is an ice cream shop, one my parents would take me to. Special occasions. Good grades. Just because.” He doesn’t look at Mystique as he recounts this story, eyes focused on some point in the distance instead. “When I broke my leg and couldn’t go, my father hurried as fast as he could to bring me some.” 

The corner of his mouth twitches, but he can’t quite bring himself to smile. It hurts too; the remembering. “It was almost entirely melted by the time he got home.” Grief stings him at the memory, prickling across his chest and threatening to break him if he lets it. A tense muscle in his jaw flexes as he swallows it all back down, burying it beneath his purpose.

“There are good people here. Innocent people.” Like the people on the street below heading home or getting a bite to eat, the family owned bodegas still open late to serve the public. Thousands of different lives going on separately yet intrinsically intwined with every person they meet in their day to day lives.

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Being caught in the rain, so thoroughly soaked probably should have garnered more of a reaction out of Atieno. But despite their window shopping with Mystique being ruined by the change in weather, they seemed more relaxed than anything else. They moved quickly and quietly with their friend towards the overhang of the theater so that the pair could at least get something of a reprieve from the sudden change.

@toshapeshift​ made my spider-sense tingle: ❝  it’s pretty straight forward,  you can either keep a secret,  or you can’t.  ❞

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