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(ง︡'-'︠)ง ([personal profile] controlledvariable) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2014-01-04 12:43 pm

[open] delicate in every way but one

Date & Time: Late December/Early January
Location: The woods around Exsilium
Characters: Stephanie Brown and you~
Summary: Hunting! Doing stuff! No it's mostly just hunting
Warnings: Some descriptions of killing stuff, will update if it gets worse
Notes: This is mostly for people I talked with on the CR meme but feel free to tag in if you'd like to do a thing! You can run into her in the woods or in her way back into town or whathaveyou!


[Back when Ellie taught her to hunt, Steph never thought she'd have all that much use for it; they had plenty of money in old Exsilium, enough that she never worried about running out of funds or food. It definitely wasn't necessary on the moon, but now that they're in this snowy landscape and there's rent and utilities and food costs, it helps to catch some of their own meat, either to eat themselves or trade for something else. The killing part she's got down pat, though more often than not she takes the animals to one of the butcher's in Exsilium, rather than trying her hand at gutting and skinning. Ellie did teach her those parts, and it's not that Steph's worried about how gruesome it can be, but she's not good enough, and she doesn't want to waste anything due to a lack of skill.

So she sticks to the hunting, which is where she spends a few afternoons a week. She wears her Batgirl suit, sans cape and cowl, under a pair of jeans, a shirt and light coat, because the suit itself is heated, keeping her warm without layers that weigh her down. She picked up a rifle (illegally) while staying in New York, and she handles it with ease despite that whole no guns rule; it's been a long time since she's worried about that.

Mostly, she sticks to hares or rabbits, with the occasional penguin (though she always trade those, not wanting to take a dead bird back to the apartment she shares with an actual duck). The deer are tempting, and more than once she lines up a shot only to let it go, because she knows she can't haul the whole thing to a butcher. The smaller animals are easier to string up and carry back to civilization, even if it means she has to be extra careful about each shot, aiming for the head and succeeding nine times out of ten.

While she doesn't take any pleasure in killing, there's something familiar and reassuring in having to move silently through the woods, in the way she has to stop and listen for sounds of movement, in those final moments before she takes a shot. It's almost like being back on patrol, stalking criminals across the rooftops, spending hours on a stakeout, even though the snow covered woods is nothing like the streets of Gotham. It still helps, and she usually leaves the woods feeling better than when she went in.]

lucency: (❝ ᴛʜᴇ sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ ʟɪɴᴇ.)

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-09 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
I already know you aren't going to shoot me.

[ they might not be exactly close, but belle has a feeling she knows steph better than to think she'd just shoot people to silence them.

she does, however, pluck the penguin up from the ground protectively. just in case.
]
lucency: (❝ ᴄʀᴏᴍᴇ ʏᴇʟʟᴏᴡ.)

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-09 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Your friends would also be disappointed. [ SHE DIDN'T SAY FAMILY

BUT THAT'S TOTALLY WHAT SHE MEANS.
]
lucency: (❝ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴏғ ʙᴀsᴋᴇʀᴠɪʟʟᴇ.)

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-09 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh. ]

He has said that he thinks of me as a friend. I just mean it might not be as foolproof as you think.
lucency: (❝ ᴍᴀɴsғɪᴇʟᴅ ᴘᴀʀᴋ.)

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-09 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
And you clearly love him enough to have that confidence in him.

[ steph

steph just say u r happy

and that u have ur frans

steph. ]
lucency: (❝ ғʀᴜɪᴛs ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ.)

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-10 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ on one hand that is something rumplestiltskin would say in a time of denial.

on the other hand that's exactly her situation with rumplestiltskin. so she grins.
]

So - um. I suppose that means you don't really care about him. Whatsoever.
lucency: (❝ ᴘᴀʀᴀᴅɪsᴇ ʟᴏsᴛ.)

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-10 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, no. They may have left that part out.
lucency: (❝ ɴᴏʀᴛʜ ᴀɴᴅ sᴏᴜᴛʜ.)

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-12 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ SHE STILL DOESN'T BELIEVE YOU

SHE KNOWS YOU CARE

THAT'S WHY YOU DO SHIT INSTEAD OF SLACKING OFF.
]

I suppose that's supposed sound very convincing.
lucency: (❝ ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟɪᴛʜᴅᴀʟᴇ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ.)

W O W IT LOOKED FINE TO ME wait was it really

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-12 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I don't, no.
lucency: (❝ ʟɪᴠᴇs ᴏғ ᴘᴏᴇᴛs.)

tragedy tbh

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-12 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Why can't you admit it? [ belle do not get sentimental.

too late.
]
lucency: (❝ ɪ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴛʜɪs ᴍᴜᴄʜ ɪs ᴛʀᴜᴇ.)

i will never let you live it down

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-12 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ SHE DOES NOT TURN THAT FROWN UPSIDE DOWN INTO SOMETHING SMUG. that then turns sheepish. because smug isn't a good look on her lbr. ]

I'm glad.
lucency: (❝ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴛʜɪᴇғ.)

cackles into the night.

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-12 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ don't be mad that you're doki, steph. ]

It worked, didn't it?
lucency: (❝ ᴊᴀɴᴇ ᴇʏʀᴇ.)

bc everything is tsundere in this thread

[personal profile] lucency 2014-01-12 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
To be fair, I only asked about it.

[ and made a victory-scoring sadface.

who knew.
]

too late

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WE AREN'T HAHAHAHAHAAHA

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IM KIDDING

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WOW TSUN HARDER

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SHE DIDN'T ACTUALLY.

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o i guess i lied

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r u sure

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