[ OPEN ] Bar Mingle

[luckynumberthree]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Wonderland's Bar, Fifth Floor (of the first Mansion)
When: During the Fourth Wall Event
Rating: ???
Summary: The Bar is open and scrambling to keep up with the sudden unexpected flood of new visitors. Stop by for a drink or a game or just some interesting company.
The Story:

The bar is always one of the popular places in the Mansion, mostly because it's such a big coping mechanism for the people stuck here - or at least a necessary stop for new arrivals who are still coming to terms with the fact that they've just been kidnapped into a pocket universe based on a children's fairy tale. And that there are other worlds out there much weirder than the one they came from.

Although it's not always the alcohol that draws people in. Sometimes it's just the atmosphere, or the promise of interesting information and gossip. Sometimes it's just to get 'out' as much as one can in Wonderland.

Whatever the reason, the Bar's three bartenders are here to happily serve, or you can help yourself to the stock and closet supply. Jo, Simon and Cami will all be around - and might even be pulling in some emergency help when the number of newcomers keeps growing exponentially.

Feel free to pull up a stool and have a drink!

[ OOC Note: Feel free to drop your characters in for a top-level of their own if they want to hang out here for a while. The bartenders may or may not hit up random threads that get dropped into their bar as well. Let us know if you'd like someone specific! ]

Comments

[signalized]

Why is there a child in here.

Definitely not the place where children should be. Of course, if he realized exactly who this child was he might react differently. (possibly very emotionally, Jason's death is something that still weighs very heavily on him)

So as it is, his voice is slightly sarcastic and dry as he responds.

"Too long, although if I'm honest I'm not entirely sure they card here."

[curiositykills]

"Aww, come on, I could definitely do better than that."

Ah, yes, overconfident as ever. Not that he'd actually do it, of course—not when there's someone who looks so much like Bruce around, and not when that's the exact reason that he's here. Behaving probably (definitely) wasn't his strong suit, but just this once, he'd try, even if it was for entirely self-indulgent reasons. Even if he was different, he was similar enough for Jason.

"They don't care much back home, either. Or they didn't. In my old home. But I guess people in the nice part of town have standards or something."

He thinks he's amusing. He amuses himself.

[signalized]

There's something about this kid that was familiar in a way that makes Bruce feel uncomfortable -- mostly because for him Jason has been dead for quite some time now and he has largely not dealt with his guilt and grief over that situation because it's not like Bruce is good with dealing with his feelings. But he tries to keep his voice even for now.

"It depends on what you call standards."

He's pretty sure as a kid if he had paid enough anyone would have let him drink. Money gets you too much in Gotham, sometimes.

[curiositykills]

"That's what I said," Jason replies, the amusement still present in his voice. "But kids like me, we belong in school, and smoking's bad for our health. Boy, do they hate when I do that."

There's a weird kind of fondness there, despite the fact that he's talking about something that clearly gets him into trouble. Who would've thought he'd ever look back on things like that with positive feelings? He always thought Bruce and Alfred worried too much, but maybe he kind of missed it.

[signalized]

"That's because you shouldn't smoke."

The chastising comes like second nature despite the fact that he hasn't actually had a kid to take of his own in a long, long time. And not that he can talk considering the amount of alcohol he drinks and the bottles of pills he keeps next to his bed.

But he never claimed to be a good example.

[curiositykills]

"What can I say? Bad habit."

It's more dismissiveness than shamelessness, but that's really how he saw it. 'You can take the kid out of the streets,' he thinks. Bruce had done a lot for him—he was grateful for everything he'd done for him—but some things just didn't change, did they? The most 'recent' days at home, when it felt like Bruce was nitpicking even more than usual, that's what he'd taken away from that.

"My 'dad' says the same thing, but between you and me, Alfie says he doesn't get paid enough to keep the smell out of the furniture."