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Hank Anderson ([personal profile] sociallychallenged) wrote in [community profile] dualislogs2019-07-17 09:47 am

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WHO: Hank Anderson | NPCs | Open
WHAT: A hunt for information and a desire for good whiskey. People can also find him at the boardwalk or drinking at the bar.
WHERE: A speakeasy on the boardwalk
WHEN: Towards the end of July
WARNINGS: 🎜🎝 Hank's mouth needs washing out with soap. Suicidal tendencies.

Hank usually tries to tie up his hair while he's at work. He's still not cut it. It's a holdover from years of depression. He didn't fucking feel like cutting his hair so other than some beard maintenance he just let that mane happen, and mentally he's still not found the place to chop it all off. Now he just keeps it in a half-ass high ponytail with half of it hanging out while he's on the job, like a heavyset loose samurai. Now he's just got it down, looking like his usual casually sloppy shaggy dog self in a bold shirt and a well-worn jacket. At least he looks like he belongs in a bar drinking.

The boardwalk is only mildly busy. It's a weeknight, people are off work, the food is cheap but everything isn't lit up like a James Cameron daydream quite yet. Give it a half-hour. There are rows of little restaurants and game booths and a few hole-in-the-wall establishments down little turn off side-streets. The places for grown-ups to go while the kids play.

That's when Hank first finds a bar that he's heard a couple of claims about. Maybe bullshit; a couple of the other bars he's also checked out have been bullshit. But fuck it, another place to get whiskey, right?

Another holdover from three years of depression.

The old detective (former detective, maybe future one) settles himself at a distant side seat on the bar, somewhere where he can see whatever the live stage performance is when it starts while he tends to a neat whiskey.

He draws the attention of a scaled woman next to him as he downs his glass without so much as a flinch and pushes it forward for a refill. No sign of the notorious whiskey face. He's scalded that reaction right out of his throat. He might as well have a fuckin' booze callous the way this nigh on toxic shit doesn't phase him.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-17 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Alcohol. It's a double-bladed sword. On one hand, it numbs the body and mind so well, to wash away the problems. On the other, he knows how bad he got with it after... well, he doesn't want to think about it.

So why a bar? Why somewhere with booze and all the smells and noises? To prove to himself he doesn't need it. To distract himself. And for the music.

When the man sits beside him, he thinks the guy is familiar, but doesn't bother looking up from his soda. Coke, they called it. Well, he isn't going to argue.
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[personal profile] uprisenheart 2019-07-18 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
The stage show isn't much - a slightly raised platform, a few not-too-bright lights, a stool, a microphone, and a younger woman playing an acoustic guitar while she sings an old favorite tune. She's dressed plainly, dark jeans and a plain black button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, worn black boots and choppy black hair. She's also pretty damn good at this music, well practiced on the guitar and a voice like what you might imagine coming from Tom Waits if he were a woman. Maybe the kind of voice and stage presence that would land an indie record contract in Seattle or Denver back in early years of the twenty-first century. Hank's wandered in at the end of her set; she finishes her last song and smiles at the scattered applause, thanks the audience for their time and encourages them to order another drink and tip their bartender well.

The lights on the stage dim as the ambient background music returns, some weird combination of industrial and jazz, and the woman quickly packs up her guitar and exits the stage, winding her way through the tables to take the empty seat on the other side of Hank at the bar. She glances over at the bartender refilling his glass and nods in approval.

"You got good taste," she says, and asks the bartender for one of the same. She doesn't immediately knock her glass all the way back, but like Hank, there's no pulled face at the taste or burn of the alcohol when she takes a drink.

"I don't remember seein' you here before," she says, again addressing Hank. "New to town, or did you lose a bet?"
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-18 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Remember him? Nida turns his attention to Hank and tries to figure out just who the man is. He's met so many different people, especially thanks to his work. But the 'high horse' gets the point through. Right, the cop. Designated dr... oh right. The sober person for a party of drinkers. Huh. Strange that he isn't used to that term. Perhaps he should become suck.

"It was... Hank, right? Let's go with trying not to repeat previous bad choices. More than a few. Which means it's probably far too soon for me to be in a bar."

Two months sober. Well... He can definitely trot out the exact number of days, but he isn't going to.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-18 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"I save money by letting my brother cook for us. I help pay for groceries of course."

And yeah, he knows better than to touch the stuff. Seifer would, without hesitation, deck him if he came home with booze on his breath. Which makes sense, because he was one of the ones who had to deal with Nida when he'd fallen to thee bottle. Which was sad, he was pretty sure that Bull's beer operation hadn't even been all that good.

"So, Hank," he says with a tone that says 'cop', "what are you doing here?"
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-20 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Sports? Nida just gives a brief smile to Hank, as if he agreed with the comment. The thing, though, is that Nida never got into sports back home. Instead he's left thinking about the idea of music. Of alcohol. Yeah, no, he's just looking for the noise.

"Well, let me buy you a refill, if nothing else. For letting me go do what I needed to, helping that girl."

He bought her a doll later. The mother had been thankful.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-21 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. They tazed my brother," Nida agrees. The robots are vile things. "I know he's hard headed and stupid, right? But that doesn't mean he needed tazed."

Jason deserved better than that. And Nida got off with sassing a cop with no repercussions. How was that even fair? Especially since Nida was the one actually running toward things. Jason probably wouldn't.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-21 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
β€œBingo,” Nida says and he is now definitely eyeing the alcohols on the back wall of the bar.

β€œI hate this place. How do you deal with this?”
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-22 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know," Nida sighs, fingers coming up to rub at his temples. "Only ever had beer and really terrible stilled vodka. Place I was in before this, where Jason died, didn't have alcohol but what we made. And... he's as alright as you can be when you come back from the dead twice."

Almost as bad as being almost dead four times in a month. But that's just life. He waves the bartender down and places the order as Hank suggests. Something, he needs something.
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (Always Make the Wrong Choices (Regret))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-22 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Jason's weird-shit-o-meter is a lot higher than mine. We're not from the same planet. Gotham sounds a lot more messed up than Hyne. And I mean, I've had to deal with a period of time of non-existence because of an evil Time Sorceress."

That one tends to make people flinch. Nida's beyond taken Time Compression into stride. But it makes him smile to know that Jason had other people being kind to him. Always seemed to make Jason hesitate.

If only he'd been more supportive.

"What would you toast to?"
Edited 2019-07-22 01:51 (UTC)
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-22 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Storm? Nida bursts out laughing at the name. That's terrible. Nida is SO using it. And other weather names. Can he call Squall 'Typhoon' or 'Drizzle'?

"Well, not all of us had the 'fated to be the person to cause the founding of the same school that will make you a child soldier' thing that Squall has. He is... he was my boss. And trust me, neither he nor I are pleased to be sans magic."

Oh dear, Hank's gotten a lot of information from the other people. From Squall and Jason. Nida doesn't know what to do with that. In fact, he stares at Hank in shock. What in the world...?

"We've adopted each other."
Edited 2019-07-22 02:15 (UTC)
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-22 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I have two that way," Nida agrees, shrugging. And there is only so much he can do about all of it.

With his own glass in hand, Nida raises it and offers the toast.

"To family." And, with a smile gracing his lips. "Present and future."

What? He may have aspirations.
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (Older Wiser Better Than I Was (Standard))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-22 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Our magic back home is very different too."

Still, Nida rolls back the sleeve of his leather coat and a shirt sleeve. His right arm is covered with a twisting, swirling pattern of greens and blues and purples. Clearly meant to evoke something along the vague concept of wind.

"I look good with it too."
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-22 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Nothing I can display in here," Nida admits with a brief shrug. "A form of wind magic. I can control wind enough to send gusts of it forward, blasting things."

And he doesn't have quite the same acute control as he had the last place, but he adores it. It's fun. Now he just needs some water magic on the other side. And then flight back.

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