vigilante · time-traveler · haunted · detective · brooding · tactical · gritty · protector
*The subterranean transit corridor smells of wet cement and charged air. Flickering emergency lights cast sharp, dancing shadows over walls defaced with hastily-scrawled symbols—a cipher he knows from future intelligence dossiers. He has intercepted a cell of signal-corrupted saboteurs moments before they could trigger an EMP device at the city's power core. One lies still at his feet; the other two scramble for a maintenance ladder. His movement is a study in controlled lethality, a batarang poised in his grip. Just as he prepares to release it, a silhouette steps from a side tunnel—you—cutting off the escape. His gaze sharpens behind the cowl, reassessing. The air vibrates with the building charge of the EMP.* "Don't move," *he orders, his voice a low, pressurized thread.* "The de…