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NIGHT IN JAIL MEME

The Night In Jail Meme

No matter how careful you are, no matter how good you try to be--well, sometimes things just happen. Maybe you need to fudge a few little rules for the greater good, or maybe you're a full-time villain with no regrets. Either way, everyone has to slip up sometime--and this time, there just so happened to be law enforcement involved to catch you as you fell. What happened to get you into this fiasco, and how will you cope?

Warning: This meme deals with criminal activity and confinement, and has the potential to get into explicit detail. Please be aware of any triggers you may have concerning subjects like these, and make sure to state any preferences you may have.

How to play:
1. Respond to this post with your characters--be sure to put their name and canon in the subject line, and include any preferences you may have.
2. Feel free to set up the scene yourself, or leave it to those who respond to you.
3. Click here to select a crime, and here to select a scene, or go to the RNG site and roll your own numbers.
4. Start playing! AUs and canon-blending alike are highly encouraged, as is characters who actually are cops or lawyers tagging around and getting to strut their stuff.

Crime

1. I fought The Law, and The Law won: You really don't mess around, do you? You're running right up against the law and government in its purest form. Did you try to resist arrest? Flee probation? Conspire to commit treason against the government? Maybe you didn't even do anything wrong, and you're being unlawfully held with no warrant, no conviction, and no hope of a fair trial. However it happened, it looks like you're in dire straits.

2. Civil disobedience: Fight the Man! You represent the will of the people! You're a political prisoner, and you regret nothing, even if the authorities are abusing their power and position. Whether you were organizing a peaceful protest, or engaging in a little ideologically-motivated terrorism, you're out to prove a point and ensure that justice will be served in the end.

3. No entry: You really shouldn't have gone in there, should you? Whether it was simple tresspassing, forcible breaking and entering, outright burglary, or just sneaking into an abandoned building, you've been caught somewhere you have no right to be.

4. Up with your sticky hands, this is a fuck-up!: So, what caught your eye? Some smug fat cat who needs to learn the meaning of charity? A bank or jewelry store that didn't seem to have surveillance? Vital medical equipment you just couldn't afford? Whether it was armed robbery or a more hands-off theft, you've taken what doesn't belong to you.

5. Let's take this outside: That was one hell of a fight! Who won? Hopefully you gave as good as you got. And hopefully the other guy is doing just as much time as you are. Assault, public brawling, illegal use of firearms, or even self-defense gone wrong--as long as it's violent, you're going to have a hard time explaining yourself to the police that pulled you out and patched you up.

6. Hit list: Sometimes, just roughing someone up isn't enough. Sometimes, a more permanent solution is needed. Cold-blooded murder plots, a struggle gone too far in the heat of the moment, or perhaps just a terrible accident on the highway--however it happened, you've ended another person's life.

7. Superheroics don't pay: Not your average criminal, are you? No, you're the sort who should really be dealt with by special forces, not your work-a-day beat officers. Maybe you're a diabolical supervillain whose scheme got foiled, (again) or you shouldn't be here at all--you were the guy in the cape trying to save the city! The citizens, however, don't seem to appreciate the fact that your heroic defense included large explosions, vast collateral damage, or dozens of innocent lives being held in the balance to bait you into coming to fight your archnemesis. Maybe you and your cellmate were the two super-powers slugging it out, or maybe you're master and sidekick, but one thing is for sure--no normal jail cell can hold you. Unluckily for you, it seems this prison was well-prepared.

8. Organized crime: So, are you the criminal mastermind orchestrating illicit operations all over the city? Are you a much-abused mook who just happens to work for this sadistic madman for a living? Maybe you're a mercenary hitman, or just a kneecap-breaker and debt collector. Whatever your position, you're not one to operate in a vacuum, and it looks like you've made one wrong step too many. Hopefully your colleagues will get you out safely--if you don't sell them out first.

9. White collar crime: A bit too sophisticated for dirtying your hands, are you? You know your way around the business world, and you know how to make it give you exactly what you want. Money laundering, embezzlement, corporate espionage..... so long as it involves a respectable workplace, there's a good chance you've got a hand in it. Did your boss finally find you out?

10. Indecent exposure: .....Wow. Uh. W-would you like a coat? Maybe you decided to streak for some reason, maybe you decided to skinny dip in a public fountain, maybe you couldn't find any covering for your walk of shame, or maybe you and your lover got caught in an intimate position in public, but whatever happened, you've bared it all to the wrong eyes.

11. Bad trip: You smoked what? And they found you where? Whether you were selling, using, or simply in possession of them, you've been caught with some illegal drugs. Drunk driving, sharing a joint with some friends, or maybe doing some of the harder stuff--you'll have a while behind bars to come crashing down and face the music.

12. Goddamned kids!: It isn't like this crime had a victim! Really. All you did was throw bricks through a few windows, or set fire to an abandoned warehouse, or spray paint graffiti onto public property, or maybe egg and toilet paper some loser's house. Whether you were vandalizing things, disturbing the peace, or just up to miscellaneous criminal mischief, you must have had bad luck to get caught by an officer having a lousy day.

13. Drunken shenanigans: Well, it looks like somebody had a wild night! You might be high-fiving your partner in crime and reveling in just how awesome that stunt you pulled was, you may be terribly hung over and regretting every second of your escapades, or you might not even remember what in the world you did to get locked up to begin with. Here's hoping it was at least fun enough to be worth the trouble you've gotten yourself into.

14: This isn't what it looks like! You've got the wrong guy!: Wow, it must really suck to be you. Either you were an accomplice who was thrown under the bus to take the punishment for everyone else, you were framed for a crime you didn't commit, there's a serious case of mistaken identity going on, or you were just some innocent bystander caught in the crossfire. Hopefully you can convince them of your innocence before it's too late.

15. Sweating the small stuff: Who shoved a stick up that officer's ass? Seriously, who gets arrested for littering? Or jaywalking? Or smoking at a bus stop? This is beyond ridiculous. Maybe if you can talk to some other, hopefully sane officer, you can get this whole mess straightened out.

16. You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant: Got the perfect crime in mind? Don't see your offense listed above? Mix n' match, choose which you want, or create your own!

Scene

1. Caught red handed: Oh, now you've done it. The sack of money is still in your hand, or the body is still in your trunk, or maybe you reek so badly of alcohol they sniffed you out from a block away. What'll you do, now that there's no denying what you've done?

2. On the run: Whether it's a high-speed car chase, trying to climb a chain link fence, or a grueling crawl through the sewer system, you're trying to evade justice. Hope you're good at thinking on your feet!

3. Busted: No getting out of it this time. You're getting a very thorough patdown, being handcuffed, and stuffed into the back of the patrol car. The arrest is in progress, and there's nothing you can do about it.

4. Police interrogation: Down in the station, this is your one chance to persuade them of your innocence--or have them crack your resolve and make you spill everything you know. Are they playing good cop and bad cop with you? Using illegal torture methods? Does anyone even know you're here, or are these a different sort of police entirely?

5. Guard and prisoner: The arrest and crime alike are definitely past you now. Now you've got to deal with the people holding your life in your hands for the long haul. Maybe if you're lucky, or persuasive, or just have something to bribe them with, they'll be inclined to make your life a little easier.

6. I want a lawyer!: Even a prisoner has rights, after all. You've been allowed some legal counsel, so you'd better make the best of it. Just how sympathetic are they? Do you trust them to do you any good? Or are they just one more of law enforcement's dogs?

7. Cellmates: It looks like you two are going to be roommates for a long, long time, whether you know each other or not--better make yourselves comfortable and get acquainted. Who knows some party games?

8. Your one phone call: You're in it up to your ears, now. Who will you turn to, with only one chance to contact the outside world? Will they come in to bail you out, or let you suffer the consequences of your actions?

9. Visiting hours: Awww, someone came to keep you company? How sweet! Hopefully they didn't come just to laugh at your misfortune.

10. The Great Escape: Maybe you and your cellmate are plotting to break out, or maybe a friend on the outside has come to rescue you--either way, you're busting out of this joint. Freedom!

11. Who was that masked man, anyway?: Got an idea for a scenario or relationship you can't see on here? Go wild!

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s1 sylar or previous cr for post s4!

Edited 2013-02-20 01:00 (UTC)

(So, if it were s1 Sylar, I was thinking maybe 4 for interrogation? Maybe he's been caught cutting off people's heads >_>)

I can do S3ish if that works.

(I haven't made it to s3 just yet (watching on netflix). Is he still beheading people for their abilities in s3? I don't have a problem it.)

s3 is his best season outside of one. But yes, he's still beheading people at that point. Just a heads up, I'm going to be a wee bit slow with my tags for the next day or so.

(Sounds great then. I'll change some things so that Blake is from New York instead of Gotham if you want? And I'll have a starter up soon. As for the slow bit, that's fine with me. ^_^

And I'm replying to you with every other account but the one I should be using.)

Blake knew how it would head the Gotham newspapers in the morning; Eleven year old orphan found beheaded. His name was Benjamin, and he would be mourned by his friends and workers at the orphanage, as well as Blake if nobody else. That's usually how Gotham worked, as sad as it was, no one really missed an orphan. Well, maybe except one.

But Bruce Wayne was a Son of Gotham, one of the elite. He was important.

Funny how money made someone more important than another, especially when life and death were factored in. But that's how this country, and especially this city, always operated. Money. And Blake was just a little too logical and sane a person to accept that.

But this had nothing to do with money. This had everything to do with the monster that killed Ben and John wanting vengeance. Sure, he may have been too close to the case, but the boys' home meant everything to him, it was him, and those kids were family. He helped and provided for them even when he couldn't for himself. They trusted him and this happened. Now one of them was a dead, cold corpse resting at a sewer's end and the edge of Gotham River.

He was told to wait for backup after calling it in. The anger he always masked had taken over by then, there was no waiting. He had to find the man that did this, look him in his cold and heartless eyes before he...before he fucking a put a bullet in his head. He'd face the consequences whatever they were.

"Police! Stop!" Warning shots were fired, though they weren't exactly warnings considering Blake was aiming for the man's head, two bullets whizzing stray past it. He curses under his breath. "Fucking coward," he growls when the figure disappears behind a corner of the alley, the officer sliding to a stop when he finds a dead end. "The fuck?"

(let me know if you want me to change anything or if he want to change to action spam, go ahead, I'll follow your lead!)

There was a reason for Sylar to target a child, he had tracked down Molly down earlier in his quest for power, but she managed to hide herself from him. This time he had found another 'special' child to focus on, and it would be one of those kills that might eventually haunt him in the future. It was all for something useful, phasing. It would prove to be useful in some situations.

He was on the run for a few days, but his luck would eventually run out when someone would recognize his face. Sylar was able to make quick work of most of the police officers that came after him, it was a literal blood bath.

It was the last one, the last one who was the most persistent of them all. He continues to run, and if he can avoid any further confrontation he can. This is when the new found ability that he absorbed would come into play, he would simply walk through the wall. He brings himself to a stop on the other side, and with a devious smile on his face he decides to play with the pig on the otherside. "Have you lost someone, officer?"

There's no way he's getting over, he knows it but it doesn't stop Blake from constantly glancing up at the wall that scales too high for any ordinary man to climb. He searches for a ladder, no luck. And nothing here is either sturdy enough or just unable to be stacked. He runs a hand through his hair, vision clouding with emotion until he blinks it away.

Just when he's about to call in for backup, that taunting voice stops him. "Where are you, coward?" He shouts, sounding a little mad even to himself. He looks up at the wall again...there's no way. "What...you kill a kid and can't own up to it?" The request for backup is called in whilst he moves back around to cut off the killer.

Gabriel leans back against the wall, and he's just going to wait there for the lone cop to come to face him. There's really no need for him to run, he can make quick work of one lone officer and whatever comes after him.

"I'm not exactly going to be a willing prisoner, if that's what you are asking. Now for the kid? He wasn't exactly a shining example of humanity either, he was already familiar with the system," Sylar tries to find his own reasoning for what he did. He doesn't exactly feel guilt for the kid, at least not now. He may never feel what a normal person does.

He pushes himself off from the wall, and he begins to casually walk away from the wall. "I did you a very big favor in the end."

John arrives just as the man begins to move, gun pointed and aimed to put a bullet between the eyes. His own were ablaze with his fury. "A favor?" He questions incredulous, finger ready to slip at any given moment now. "No, you haven't done anyone any favors until you've paid for what you did to that kid."

Every fiber of his being says to shoot, but John knows better even if he'd rather forget right from wrong shoot this bastard until he resembled bloody swiss cheese. "I have the suspect cornered at Kane Street," he informs into the walkie at his shoulder. The backup was less than six blocks out now, their sirens howling into the air. Blake's features became a mix of satisfaction then, only by a little.

There was no fear coming from Sylar as he stood the man down, and if he was going to die where he stood it didn't matter. "Yes, a favor." Sylar did his homework on the boy, he was methodical about how he went about picking a target. The child had a lengthy record of causing trouble in school, and was a familiar face to the police.

Sylar tilts his head off to the side to allow the bones in his neck to crack. "I'm sure the old woman he robbed would beg to differ." He can hear the sound of the sirens wailing in the air, and he holds his hands up in the air. "Are you going to shoot me? I would be one less monster for you to deal with."

The more he stares the perp down, the more his blood runs cold in his veins. He's come across plenty of nutjobs and sick-minded fucks, but this one, even if Blake wants to write him off as a common criminal, he has to admit he's different somehow.

"Tempting. You have no idea." He shifts a little, focus never wavering even as the sirens draw nearer. "But I'd rather know you were locked away in Blackgate to rot the rest of your pathetic life away." And just then, his gun lowers to the man's leg and the gunshot explodes into the air.

"Reinsurance you won't run again."

It seems that his goading did work in getting him shot, and he did not forget about how painful this was. Shouting out in pain, Sylar collapses down to one knee.

"I'm going to make the entire process a spectacle," Sylar spits out, as he places a hand over the wound on his bloodied leg. It stung, and he's not exactly in any position to flee.

He could still end this, he could just rip John to pieces if he wants, but he doesn't. Sylar continues to smile through the pain, and surely there's a reason to all of this.

John watches on as the man kneels there smiling wildly, the indifference clear in his expression. It's been awhile since he's faced a case like this one, and honestly, he really doesn't want to go through that again. But he had to oversee that justice would be had, for Benjamin if not himself.

"You'll get along with the rest of freaks there. Or hey, if you don't," John suddenly smiles, short and cold, "maybe they'll all play games with you." And not in a good way he hopes. The gun isn't lowered until backup arrives, cuffing Sylar and shoving him down into the backseat of one of the four cop cars there.

His assigned driver turns out to be none other than Blake, of course. "You and I are going to have words on the way." As if the gunshot to the leg weren't enough.

John will be in for a big surprise by the time they get back to the station, and Sylar's wounded will be healed. Sylar's not exactly happy that he got shot, but he was willing to play the part for now. "I'm sure I will." There were some specials inside of the detention center, and he just wants to enjoy the buffet.

"Are we now?" Sylar just laughs, as he slouches back into the seat of the patrol car. "I'm sure you're going to make an example of me, and I just have to wonder what your superiors will think." He tries to find a possible nerve with John for the simple pleasure to mess with him. "Police brutality never has been a favorite of the media's, but of course I killed poor sweet, Benny."

"What makes you think I'll resort to something like that?" But oh, how tempting it was to pull the vehicle over and pistol whip Sylar until he was bloody in the face. That was a kindness in comparison to what more creative minds in Gotham could think up. Sylar's baiting still didn't help, but like he said before, his future inmates would take care of him.

"So..." He goes on uncertain and cautious, not entirely sure he really wants to hear the answer to his coming question, but he needs to hear it. "Why'd you kill him? He was just a kid."

"You just have to take me somewhere quiet, and just dispose of me. It will save you a lot of trouble." Sylar continues to try to bait John into doing just that. If he was going to converse with this man, he was going to find ways to pull his strings.

The mention of Ben being just a kid gets a raise from Sylar, and a laugh. "He his parents had something I wanted, and they weren't exactly going to give it to me." He makes no mention of the kid having a special ability, nor does he mention his own. "So, I took something important away from them."

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NIGHT IN JAIL MEME

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switched to 1 and 2

Horay for prose!

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grr, so sorry!

I'm okay with slow.

^_^;;

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