grimm cmo

[vigilantics]

for all of your post-grimm shenanigans! 💕🔪
notes: she went back to gotham with hikage and belph, can world hop, got the leggy back

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[vigilantics]

I need to sneak into a party, but it'll look suspicious if there's just some young girl wandering around by herself.

[ there we go. perfect. ]

We'll blend in better with you.

[melancoffeea]

. . . And you don't have anyone else you could have gone with?

[vigilantics]

No.

[ she would prefer not to drag belph or hikage into something like this, considering neither of them can fight and hikage usually defaults to "we could just kill them" and steph is trying to. not do that. everyone else had been legitimately too busy. ]

It'll be fine.

[melancoffeea]

[ hikage seems like the ideal choice here. also, sandalphon is very? busy? ]

Good grief. That go-getter attitude of yours . . . Well? Where is this party?

[vigilantics]

[ KILLING PEOPLE IS BAD. ]

It's downtown. We should get going before traffic gets annoying.

[melancoffeea]

Lead the way, then.

[ so she can soon arrive to the conclusion that hikage would have been the better choice. ]

[vigilantics]

[ NO!!! HAVE CONFIDENCE, SANDY!!!

but time for them to head on out. steph is going to be borrowing a car that... definitely does not belong to her because it's $$$$ and out of her price range, it's good that batman is rich. ]

[melancoffeea]

[ the last time he was here, he saw countless vehicles on the way to the amusement park. the one stephanie brings to the party looks quite different though, and he slides into the passenger seat after a glance, because they'll die if he drives.

confidence? never. he fiddles with the tie—feels constricting—but does so gently to maintain stephanie's handiwork. ]

[vigilantics]

[ on one hand it'll be funny sticking a fantasy character in the front seat of a ferrari, but on the other, she isn't sure how to explain the damages to bruce. the fact that he is even allowing her to take this means a lot and it would probably be best to not break that trust immediately just for a joke. ]

Okay, so. There will be pretty tight security at the place we're going. Armed guards, but they're hidden as to not alert the guests.

[melancoffeea]

[ he looks out the window, soaking in their shifting surroundings as he absorbs her words. no questions as of yet—she'll probably answer them if he lets her finish explaining. ]

[vigilantics]

The main purpose for this is to confirm that the suspect has stolen a priceless artifact. The intel I have states that he's going to be showing it off to some guests that were invited to the party, so we have to find a way into the room.

[ so like, easy stuff. ]

[melancoffeea]

In other words, we draw the suspect's attention or sneak inside with the crowd. How are we supposed to do the former?

[ she operates under the assumption that he'll be any good at socializing, unless she intends for him to just stand there next to her. ]

[vigilantics]

How charming can you be?

[ ...

actually, she knows the answer to that question as soon as it leaves her mouth. ]

[melancoffeea]

[ . . . ]

I can hardly charm the inhabitants of a world I'm unfamiliar with.

[ let him live with the delusion that he can probably charm someone back in the sky realm. ]

[vigilantics]

You never know! You'd be surprised at what people end up liking.

[ maybe they think him being grumpy is endearing. ]

[melancoffeea]

[ i feel called out. ]

We'll see once we arrive. What else should I know to prevent suspicion?

[vigilantics]

Mostly just try not to stand out too much. If someone tries talking to you, brief conversation is fine, but we don't want people noticing us to the point where someone might wonder exactly who we are.

[melancoffeea]

[ he nods, finding that more than reasonable. then: ]

For the sake of brief conversation, what exactly is our relationship?

[vigilantics]

Oh, you're my boyfriend. Like that one time with the carriage and when Shirasu was a cat.

[ good times. ]

[melancoffeea]

[ that's what sweetums means? ]

That was entirely your doing, you know. I didn't intend for us to feign such a [ mortal ] human connection.

[vigilantics]

[ it's a mystery. ]

Sometimes you have to just wing it. It worked, didn't it?

[ ... ..... somehow. ]

[melancoffeea]

Yes, I suppose we did manage to wing it.

[ thinking about that detail sours his mood just a little for a fleeting second. back to business. ]

How much longer?

[vigilantics]

We're almost there, just-- oh!

[ she points at an upcoming building. it's not that hard to miss; the buildings in this area is already fairly fancy, but this one basically screams "i'm expensive." ]

There it is.

[melancoffeea]

[ to sandalphon, it screams, "i'm excessive." he gives the building a long, appraising look; quieting down to let stephanie manage the vehicle while he processes everything he's been told and is seeing. this is the last moment of peace stephanie will have before she dies inside from the imminent scene. ]

[vigilantics]

[ honestly

i don't know what she expected.

once they're nice and parked though, it's time for them to!!! go in and kick ass!! steph already scoped the area out beforehand so she knows where all the exits are already, at least. ]