[Thread] A Bored Harley is a Dangerous Harley

[thedoctress]

Characters: OUHarley Quinn, OPEN
Where: The Bank
When: Sometime in the evening
Summary: Harley's wandering around and missing the Joker... A lot.
Warnings: Harley's being...well, Harley. Meaning she's switching emotions around so fast, you might get whiplash trying to keep up.

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[got_a_hamster]

The flailing and shrieking were rather attention-grabbing, really. Simone's footsteps slowed, then stopped. She peered at the oddly-dressed woman with a mix of bemusement and concern for several seconds before approaching. Not, it must be noted, quite to within arm's reach. She could learn her lesson eventually. "Are you all right?" she asked. It seemed more polite than asking the other woman if she was entirely sane.

[thedoctress]

Harley glanced up, not standing just yet. "Humph, do I look ok?" She asked bitterly, shifting to sit indian style, elbow on her knee, chin in hand.

"I'm stuck in another world, without my Puddin', and I can't start any trouble without this cuff thing shockin' me!" She complained, half-sulking, half-glaring at the girl- as if, somehow, this was her fault.

[got_a_hamster]

Simone's eyebrows rose slightly as she peered down at the other woman. "Considering my usual benchmark for 'okay'?" she replied dryly. "You looked upset. There isn't really a way to say that to a stranger that doesn't sound asinine."

She did at least have the grace to avoid remarking that everyone there had been taken from their world, and in many cases their loved ones as well. True as it might have been, it was also utterly irrelevant. Instead, she just frowned slightly and asked, "Why would you want to start trouble anyway?"

[thedoctress]

Harley sighed. Somewhere in the back of her mind, the psychiatrist part of her brain was listing off how she was in denial and being selfish; Because she wasn't the only one who'd lost people.

But really, who listened to the sane part of their minds anymore?

"Why would I wanna start trouble?" Harley echoed, as if she'd never heard of such a question.
There was long pause, becuase Harley had to really think about this- she hadn't really thought of why... Well, aside form the obvious answer of the Joker.

"Because it's fun! it's one big joke!" She declared at last, grinning. "Everyone needs some laughter in their lives, and that's what me an' Puddin' do!" She waved her hand, like she was trying to wave off some kind of annoying bug. "Sure, some people get hurt, but that's funny right? Ya know~ 'Its always funny until someone gets hurt- then it's hilarious!'"

[gm_kragok]

Kragok was on a walk, relaxing, when Harley's unique voice caught his ear. It was easy enough to walk over to where she was, watching as the woman berated the cuff on her arm, and take it all in with a sinister chuckle. "That won't do anything," he declared, stepping closer, "unless of course your goal is to scream yourself to sleep." He stopped a little more than six feet away from Harley and lowered his hood, his mechanical eye glaring at her with a piercing red gaze. Her outfit, her style... The red and the dangling cap looked like a mockery of Echidna trappings, but Kragok pushed that thought aside.

"What are you doing, Harley?" he asked.

[thedoctress]

Harley jumped slightly at Kragok's voice, twisted to look at him... then went right back to sulking.

"I'm bakin' a cake." She stated sarcastically, "what does it look like I'm doin'?"

She was quiet a moment, before sifting so she was facing him, sitting indian style with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. "I miss home. I miss Mistah J and my babies." She confessed, before getting a good look at the Echidna for the first time.

"...You're a lot shorter then i though you'd be." Harley stated bluntly, one eyebrow raising.

[gm_kragok]

"Echidnas aren't as tall as humans, true, but we're just as effective. Agile, strong, fast, and we heal much faster than humans," he replied. She was an interesting woman, Kragok had to admit. She acted much like Lien-Da, fiery with fury one moment and then chipper and friendly the next. He wondered if she were anywhere as manipulative as his twin sister. Somehow, he doubted it. Her fear when she had been speaking to him was obvious, but there was something else to it. He'd had trouble picking it up, but the shudder in her voice seemed less like fear, and more like... excitement. Was she naturally this submissive to people like Kragok? If so, Kragok thought to himself, perhaps he had best impress upon her that his was one of the strongest wills around. With no ulterior motivation here, he at least was assured to not try and take too much advantage of Harley

[flipping_bird]

Screaming, crying, Mistah J -- it could only mean one thing. Robin flipped off the roof, landing lightly on the ground, a little amused despite himself that Harley had found her way to econtra's empty bank, but concerned too -- if there was anything that would bring home just how foreign this place was to her, this was it.

An unhappy Harley Quinn was a dangerous Harley Quinn -- okay, admittedly, she was dangerous even when she was happy. But still. "Bank's closed, Harley."

[thedoctress]

Harley flinched and started at the voice, purely out of habit, then immediately went back to sulking.

"Go away birdboy... I ain't in the mood." She sighed in a depressed manner and gazed up at the bank.

"Ya know? This reminds me of me and Mistah J's first bank job. It was real romantic an' he totally swept me off my feet... I hope he shows up soon."

The poor girl really seemed utterly lost without the Joker. While she was a danger without the Joker, and could easily hold her own, sometimes it was easier to play the helpless damsel.

[flipping_bird]

"I can tell." You didn't have to be the world's greatest detective to know that this was not a happy clown. Robin didn't move. "I'm not going to start anything Harley -- if you don't."

He looked at the bank, though it was now firmly associated in his mind with his and Tim's stint as their dark counterparts. "Does look a bit like Gotham, doesn't it," he agreed. "It's one of the few things here that does."

[thedoctress]

"Yeah..." She sighed and pulled the hat, gloves, and eyemask off, rubbing at her make-up.

"I keep expectin' B-man to come swoopin' down outta the shadows." She glanced about in a mockingly nervous way, before dropping the hat and mask, wiping her stained-white hands on the stone. Most of the white make-up had been taken off, but some white stripes were streaked across her face.

"So what'd ya come here for anyway? Come ta kick me while I'm down?" Harley asked, rolling her eyes.