You're as lethal and as cunning as a remutated lynx

[stepintoshadows]

Who: Grinch!Schach and YOU!
What: General holiday festivities-inspired lurking and ruining.  AKA a day in the life of a holiday-hating creepy vigilante
When:  Breach...whenever!
Where:  All. Over. Town.  Wherever there's Christmas preparations happening.
Warnings:  Inspired by this, and also Rorschach is Rorschach.  There will be ruthless destruction

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8 AM -- Town Center

[stepintoshadows]

Rorschach stood on the green, waiting. Watching. He knew they had to be arriving soon, the hustle and bustle of daily life would soon begin. It was just a matter of patience.

Re: 8 AM -- Town Center

[strangehstorian]

[JUST JINGLING ON BY IN A RED SANTA DRESS AND COAT HUMMING SOME ANNOYING CAROL DOO DOO DOO~]

8 AM -- Town Center

[stepintoshadows]

[WHAT. What is this. INTOLERABLE.

There's a creepy man in a trench coat and a weird moving mask following you now. He's trying to be covert about it. And failing spectacularly, mostly because he stalks for a few dozen feet than runs to hide behind something, then goes back to stalking after a minute or so.]

8 AM -- Town Center

[strangehstorian]

Hm?

[She peers behind her. What was that? She could have sworn she saw something purple.]

10 AM -- Diner

[stepintoshadows]

People would soon be coming in for their breakfast, lazy as they were. It was truly disheartening, how late they put things off. Productivity was key.

He plucked a co-ordinated centerpiece from one of the tables and crumpled it in a gloved hand, as if offended by the color. The entire holiday was an exercise in excess, an excuse for the celebration of gluttony and vile self-indulgence. It was nauseating.

12 AM -- Shadowy Alley

[stepintoshadows]

He needed to prepare, to create a plan. A means to disrupt this whole thing. It could not be tolerated; once it was removed entirely they would see their folly.

Rorschach skulked in the alley, digging through the refuse piled in the dumpsters. There had to be something here he could use.

An unwitting accomplice appears?

[batmanschmatman]

Dick liked Christmas just fine. It was a time of giving and being with people you cared about, so even if he wasn't really into the whole religious aspect necessarily, he still got something out of the season, and so he carried along his business just as happily as anyone else.

So, when he spotted the familiar guy in the costume rummaging around in a dumpster, he asked in a curious voice, not accusatory in the slightest: "What are you doing?"

huzzah!

[stepintoshadows]

Rorschach looked up from the dumpster almost as an afterthought, head tilting in a silent question; he hadn't expected to be disturbed, had thought he would be long gone by the time anyone bothered to look, so while he wouldn't say it was a surprise exactly, it hadn't been predicted.

Or accounted for. Ink swirled and danced in hesitation, uncertain jumps and shifts.

"Looking for something."

guh sorry life won't stop eating me

[batmanschmatman]

In a dumpster? Well that certainly wouldn't do. Yes, Rorschach was kind of scary what with the whole wearing a creepy mask all the time thing, but Dick was compassionate (or naive) enough to not mind and not run away screaming.

"What?"

2 PM -- General lurking

[stepintoshadows]

The lights drew him, called him like a whistle beyond audible hearing, like a missing tooth draws a tongue's attention. He needed to see what he was up against.

He reached up to touch a bulb, bright blue, the twinkling in his hand offensive. He pressed fingertips together, popping the glass into shards and crushing them into a powder.

The string went dead. Under his mask he smiled.

[ichoosefight]

[ FROM OUT OF NOWHERE although he probably knew she was standing there, watching disinterestedly. ]

Grinch or Jack Skellington?

[ This question should clearly be self-explanatory. ]

[stepintoshadows]

[He knew. He just didn't care; he figured if she wanted to stop him she would.]

Disgusting holiday. Conspiracy by leaders of commerce to empty pockets of naive citizens.

[Is that enough of an answer?]

[ichoosefight]

[ She shrugs. ]

Can't argue with that. 'Disgusting' is kind of a strong word, though.

4 PM - Whenever -- Choose your own!

[stepintoshadows]

Is he in your living room, crushing the wrapped presents he found in your closet? In your chimney, trying to booby trap it against Santas? Trying to steal your ornaments off your tree? Burn it down?

Anything's possible!