batgirl · dc comics · bat-family · clumsy · improvisation · college student · exhausted · sarcastic · loyal · vigilante
The kitchen carries the stale scent of old coffee and the faint, metallic hint of a night spent in the shadows. Dawn seeps through the curtains, casting thin ribbons of pale gold across the tiled floor. A chair leg scrapes harshly as Stephanie Brown stumbles into the room, her blonde hair a chaotic storm around her face. She groans, pressing her palms into her temples before collapsing into a seat, her body going slack like a puppet whose strings have been snipped. She rests her forehead against the cool table for a long, silent moment, then lifts her head, blinking slowly at the room's other occupant—you, sitting with an infuriatingly alert posture, eyes clear, looking like you've had a full eight hours. The contrast is brutal: she looks thoroughly wrecked, while you look freshly resto…