2nd Annual Charity Carnival and Celebrity Date Auction!

[stanleecameo]

Who: Everyone
What: 2nd Annual Carnival and Date Auction Charity Benefit
When: the week of July 4th
Where: Gotham
Interactions: OPEN
Warnings: This is an open event thread. Thread jacking, hopping, character romance, violence, and any and all things in between are possible. (But if you're going to do some private intimate things please make a separate thread about it)



The first most noticeable thing was the lights. In a perpetually dreary place like Gotham they could stay on no matter the time of day, casting a warm glow all about the streets and parks that had been connected to create the Charity Carnival. The streets were opened up during the day so that people could get to and from work, then in the evening they were blocked off so that pedestrians could meander about freely withoiut worrying about the cross walks. But whether in cars or on foot; they could always see the lights.

In the inter connected parks scattered around the Wayne Resilient tower there were myriad attractions:

Boothes where games could be played for prizes,
Rides,
Foods of all kinds (mostlly either fried or sugar coated),
and even a small section where locals had rented tables to sell arts and crafts that had been hand made.

And at the center of it all was the Wayne Resilient tower which contained a 5 star restaurant that was the staging area for the Celebrity Date Auction to be held later in the week.

Even the first two floors of the building had been repurposed into a kind of exhibit featuring current and upcoming Waynetech devices designed to improve the lives of the people who used them. Including the prototype for a brand new line of Waynetech smart cars. The event was in honor of the 4th of July but the entire week had been scheduled and included things like live music, fire breathers, gymnasts and a petting zoo.

And on the night of the 4th of course; a fantastic fireworks display arranged by Wayne Resilient with another new innovation of theirs; safe fireworks. Specially designed for sound and color and burst with no heat behind it to endanger fireworks handlers or civilians.

With everything that had been planned and all the staffing involved it was truly looking to be a week to remember.

Comments

[purplehazegirl]

Mindy hesitated. Maybe Jason was right, after all, her mom had powers and she got killed. Her feet fiddled on the footrest of the swing and the soles squeaked against the grated metal. "...who did you know who died?"

[voted_dead]

"...Me." It was obviously one of the weirdest answers she could have received, but he wasn't going to half-ass it. Not when she was only now acknowledging the possibility that she wasn't utterly immortal.

[purplehazegirl]

She looked up at him with that scrutinizing look, as if she was trying to pick apart if he was lying or not.

"You?" She repeated quietly, carefully. "How...how did you come back?"

[voted_dead]

"Fountain of Youth." It was true, in its own way. "You wouldn't know it by its real name, but it's kept one of Iron Bat's enemies alive and kicking for over six hundred years."

[purplehazegirl]

Mindy frowned.
"Could it bring back mom and dad?" Her voice was so very small, quite uncharacteristic of the rest of the afternoon.

[voted_dead]

"I don't know. Ra's warned about the dangers of trying it on someone too long dead. He stole me-- my body-- from Iron Bat about a week after my death. I wasn't too far gone, I guess, but it still--" There wasn't a night that went by he didn't wake up in a cold sweat, remembering his first fevered moments of new life in the Lazarus Pit.

"It's dangerous."

[purplehazegirl]

Mindy, out of costume, was actually a very sympathetic little girl, and powers or not, had a knack for sensing when people were upset. So out of empathy for another person, she put her hand on Jason's.

"It must be hard to die..."

[voted_dead]

"Thanks. Look, if you want satisfaction for your parents' sake, I get that. But you can't afford to be careless. If a Kryptonian on Earth can die, or come damn near close to it... see what I mean?"

[purplehazegirl]

"But-..." She exhaled. "Fine. I'll try to be careful and you're calling the shots. But remember, I'm no helpless kid."

The ferris wheel had completed it's rotations and they were let out.

"By the way..."Mindy looked up at him. "Thanks. For...everything. For today. You probably came here to scope out bad guys but instead you helped me have a little fun."

[voted_dead]

"Hey, don't sweat it," Jason replied, patting Mindy on her hat-covered head.

"You helped me have a little fun today, too. I needed an excuse to have a corn dog again."

[purplehazegirl]

Night had long fallen and the carnival was all lights against a black, moonless sky.
They walked together, Mindy taking a step and a half for every one of Jason's.
She suddenly yawned, and her tired eyes followed the stuffed wallaby that was still snug and secure, nested in the crook of Jason's arm.

[voted_dead]

He was no Bane, but Jason was still just above the maximum human peak for strength. A handy tool sometimes, those Lazarus Pits. With a slight grin, Jason used his other arm to lift Mindy, putting her into a sitting position on his arm. "Don't worry; it's not too much farther," he encouraged.

[purplehazegirl]

The instant Jason's rhythm changed, Mindy's lifetime of training kicked in. Her entire body tensed as if she were anticipating an attack. Only an instant before he actually touched her did Mindy let herself relax.

She let herself be lifted up, her expression appearing quite perplexed for a moment. It took several seconds for her to relax in Jason's hold, but she didn't fight him.