1st Annual Halloween Block Party!

[iam_senpai]

Perhaps it's the leaves of fiery golds and oranges drifting on the breeze, or the sight of various hard squash being mangled into festive ornaments, or even still the bowls of candy left out simply everywhere in the Nexus that signifies the import of today. Regardless of when you take heed, Halloween has come to the Nexus.

Neat little handmade signs and fliers of all kinds lead to a particularly festive sectioned off block with the Crossroads Cafe at the center. The brick building has more than its fair share of decorations hung from every available windowsill and door. Hanging skeletons, jolly Jack-O-Lanterns, orange and black streamers cascading down and blowing to and fro in the crisp breeze.

The doors are propped open just waiting to beckon you inside. What are you waiting for?

((See the OOC post if you have any questions! Backtagging and threadhopping are fine. Come on in and have a blast :D ))



Coats and Costumes
The Cafe
Bonfire
Dance Floor
Haunted House
Side Halls and Storage

Comments

[hisideal]

"Would you show me some of your work sometime? I'm always looking for new pieces for my walls." Which Lex Luthor tolerates, her taste varies wildly and so her walls tend to be kind of a mess aesthetically. Whatever, she likes it.

"Yeah, that tends to help," she grins sympathetically. "The nice thing about learning how to fight is that you also learn when not to, which is incredibly handy, not a lot of people think about that aspect. People think you get into a ring or on a mat, and you just hurt people: that's such a narrow part of it."

[juststeverogers]

"Uh? Sure, if...if you'd be interested. I'd be happy to. Most of what I draw is my home. The city the way I remember it. Friends. Family. That kind of thing. I'll draw just about anything but when I'm left to my own devices, Brooklyn just kinda comes out more often than not."

He gives a bit of a self conscious chuckle but nods all the same. Lots of people in the Nexus like his sketches. He's gotten used to being asked about them.

"I don't..." Saying he didn't like to fight would be lying. Steve lives for it, some days. But he hadn't been trying to join the army because he wanted to kill anyone. That wasn't it. He wanted to make a difference. Do his part. And... "I don't like bullies. Of any kind. Never have. When I see something going wrong...I can't stand by. I gotta say something. Do something."

Even if it meant getting beat up. Which it almost always did.

[hisideal]

"What a wonderful way to remember people and things you love! I wish I had artistic talent but I am utterly worthless in that way," not that she seems upset about it, it's more of cheerful resignation than anything else.

But her expression turns serious when he makes his statement and she nods her head solemnly in agreement. "Bullies are the worst, people who delight in hurting and destroying must be stopped. I am lucky enough to be able to protect my city and its people from such evil, sometimes it can seem so overwhelming but I cannot sit by and let good people be hurt and used."

[juststeverogers]

"Yeah? I...have heard of a few people like that. Super heroes, they call 'em."

Steve sounds sad when he says it. Looking down at his own bony hands. It doesn't do to stand there focusing on what he hasn't got. He'd be dead by now if he did that about his health. Rather to focus on what he can do.

"I'm just a kid from Brooklyn getting beat up in alleys for sticking my neck out."