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Trust is a fickle currency

THE CON/HEIST MEME

Maybe you have a team, maybe you don't, but when it comes down to it, you're all in this together...

Plan. Put on your best charming face and rob them blind. Use your skills to steal art, money, never have to worry about your livelihood. Evade being caught, live the thrill of knowing you're in a precarious place, a hair's breadth from ruin. You can handle it. Are you an unrepentant crook or are you a reformed thief? Essentially: are you a threat or benevolent benefactor? You steal from the rich but do you keep it for yourself or give to the poor? Not all grifters can be emotionless monsters, after all.

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[[i can't not put him up for this, let's be gay and commit crimes, y'all. more info in his journal!]]

[ could be some metaverse shenanigans, a real-world au robbery, crossover hijinks in another world - up to you! throw me whoever. ]

[Parker?]

_{[Aw yea!]}

[What's a little larceny and espionage between friends?]

[Would you like to follow up on our texting thread? As you know from our texting thread, Gemini's young, inexperienced, slightly psychotic but powerful ~~and having a mentor like Selina would be good for her~~. My idea's just an outline and I'd love to plot it our further, it's actually a con AND a heist and goes something like: Selina's on a heist, runs into Gemini, gets overpowered and to avoid a nasty case of death (and her heist prize getting stolen) she agrees to help Gemini track down the stolen diamond, leading to the con scenario. Is that something you'd be interested in?]

[ hey there! with a warning that i am a liiiittle bit slow atm, i am totally down! to save having to wait on my slow ass, do you wanna go ahead and get things going? :3 ]

The guard whistled quietly as he made his way through the darkened halls of the Gotham Museum of Art. The museum had been packed before closing for the opening of a new exhibition; Dreams of Egypt, a contemporary art show based around artists being inspired by Ancient Egypt. Now though the guard had the exhibition wing all to himself, his footsteps echoing as he made his way through the darkened rooms, sweeping his flashlight around the darkened rooms to check for anything amiss. Abstract sculpture in strange curls, paintings of what exactly he couldn't tell, none of them held the podgy middle-aged man's interest, but as he entered the room dedicated to jewellery he did pause, the beam of his torch glinting off a life size statue of Bastet cast in solid silver.

No doubt the contents of this room were why he'd been hired just to patrol this one wing every weeknight. Art! Who needed it? He'd much rather be at home watching the game with a can of cold beer, but the job paid well at least. Still whistling, he turned his back on the statue and made his way toward the door, pausing for a moment on the threshold. Was it just him or was he being watched?

[No worries, my health's not great and posting speed goes up and down as a result. Hope this works :)]

For her, it is a performance -- perfectly choreographed, every step practiced, every move skillfully executed. Selina watches as the guard make his rounds from rooftop through the skylight above, waiting for him to make his exit and then the show begins. The long braided thong of her whip comes down from the ceiling and hangs as she descends from it, the soles of her boots silently touching down upon the marble floor of the east wing of the Gotham Museum of Art. With a flick of her wrist the whip untangles itself from its anchor and drops and is quickly gathered in its usual fashion around her waist, making record time of the whole ordeal.

Perfectly choreographed, every step practiced.

She knows these halls, knows where all the goodies are. The Cat is not just a regular, Selina Kyle is one of the museum's biggest donors; she is deeply involved in supporting the arts. She has exclusive access to the museum's exhibits and she was eager to get a sneak peak at this particular collection. She's already made a shopping list. She navigates the museum's dreadfully outdated security with relative ease, slinking through the gallery, trying her best to ignore the siren call of some of the very tempting offerings... at least until she's secured what she's come for. It's just big enough that getting it out might be a little tricky.

She's got her eye on the prize and her prize is a bronze sculpture of an Egyptian cat. Just because she wants it. Just because of how much it's worth. Just because she can.

"Why hello there, beautiful," she smiles, the night vision goggles glowing in the darkness. "I told you I'd be back for you."

[ i am off to a GREAT start. i appreciate your patience. rl is crazy and i got a little bit distracted with another character this week, haha. ♥ ]

Oblivious would be one word, uncaring is another. The guard should probably do another round, but the security room has a TV and not wanting to miss any more of the game than he has to, and so doesn't hang around. By all rights Catwoman should be alone as she makes her entrance, the gallery is deserted, with no sign or sound of life. Yet unfriendly eyes watch her progress, anticipation rising as the thief makes the way to her prize, waiting for the optimum moment to strike.

The first sign of trouble is when Selina takes her next step, or rather tries to, as it seems her boots are suddenly and inexplicably stuck fast to the tiled floor. The second is the darkly amused voice that seems to ring out from nowhere. "I just knew you weren't going to miss this exhibition." The voice is feminine and distinctly smug and really Gemini has every right to be, days of research, hours of patient waiting are what's let her get the drop on the Cat and now she's going to enjoy her moment.

"How about a hug?" A tentacle bulges up out of the floor, rapidly coiling around the Cat's legs and racing upward, seeking to wrap around as much of her as possible as quickly as possible. Catwoman is a dangerous adversary and Gemini knows to incapacitate her as quickly, in case of the likely event that the feline fatale has some nasty tricks up her sleeve.

[No worries, I don't mind waiting for a fantastic post like that :D]

Edited 2021-02-07 14:52 (UTC)

She leans forward, her fingers itching, and it's just that extra little step she need to play her hands upon the cat and claim her victory that slips her up. The way her soles of her boots seemingly fuse themselves to the floor manages to trip her up -- a rare feat -- only for the "embrace" of that tentacle to catch her from falling forward. She catches on just as quickly.

This one again, she thinks, more annoyed than she is surprise. Selina's time is a precious commodity and Gemini is wasting more and more of it. Whatever she's wasted of her own time, all that research and patience, is her own fault. She struggles and strains against the tentacle's constraint in what she can only imagine looks like something out of one of those weird Japanese comics -- wouldn't Mr. Security Guard be surprised to see this! -- and the mental image is just enough to distract her from the panic that hasn't yet settled in. She leaps across rooftops and brings a whip to gun fights, but she's never been very good with that feeling of being trapped.

"Lean in a little closer, let me see your face. I want to give you a little smooch." She shoots back defiantly, now kicking and scratching, anything to loosen Gemini's grip. Those fancy, schmancy claws cost her a lot of money and they're sharp. "Or maybe I'll just scoop your eyes right out from your skull, instead."

Not knowing exactly what Selina was after Gemini had spread herself across the entire floor just to make sure she snagged the cat. Now that she has her, the surface of the tiled floor starts to flow like a liquid shadow, rapidly condensing into the coils binding the cat.

Those claws are sharp, enough that they slice into the tentacle in places, but when they do there's no spurt of blood, or indeed anything that could be described as human; just a strange rubbery blue goop that rapidly re-seals afterwards. Meanwhile the rubbery tentacle still surges upward unhindered, splitting at the cat's shoulders so as to ensnare both her arms and bind them tight to her sides.

Gemini's capable of constricting hard enough to reduce Selina to pulp, but while the thought is tempting it would entirely negate her plan. So she settles instead for compressing hard enough to hurt, making breathing more of a struggle than it has any right to be. Only once she's sure she has the cat fully trussed up does Gemini's newly reformed head weave into Selina's eye-line atop a spaghetti strand of neck sprouting off the coils containing her.

"Well you're welcome to try." She gives Selina an inhumanly wide smirk, the cat's struggles only increasing her smugness. "But I think it would be better for you if you listen to my offer, don't you think?" She drives that message home by flexing the coils around the cat's legs, exerting pressure that if it continues to build will snap the cat's kneecaps. That would be a pity, but she's sure Catwoman is smart enough to simmer down before that happens.

[Need a thief? OTA for gen/cast, M/F for ships.

Between S4 and S5]

[ I mean I haven't played him for a hot minute and I have no ideas but HI :DD ]

[ His powers are pretty much perfect for this sort of thing! ]

[ooc: slow tags. Can start.

An ear to the ground, and a penchant for sticky fingers]

[ If you'd like someone to stop your heist, have this lady! ]

[Post-Apocalyptic Gang Leader, Thief, drug dealer and prostitute. Happy to be partner in crime or play off of someone trying to get him to stop commiting crime(s).]

[He's a public figure but he's pretty good at going incognito when he needs to. Or playing accomplice to shenanigans.]

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:o Doesn't seem rusty to me!

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