Does your AK!Jason have a plush toy?
Thank you for the ask!! He absolutely does!!
In my alternate ending to SandsofElsweyr's The Climb, he finds a tattered toy "Teddy" while looking for food, ( It's a trophy one of the mercs kept of their marks and then threw away) and he doesn't know why, but he keeps him.
it's a sad, ugly thing, an eye missing, half of the stuffing has fallen out-all greying and old and disgusting, soggy with garbage juice, and stays that way despite the poor soul washing it with bits of soap he manages to find-
(It's a little like him, a thought that crossed his fever-muddled mind more than once)
When Wintergreen's found him, and he's passed out from fever and exhaustion for several days, the food in his tiny duffle starts rotting and starts giving off a god-awful smell, and Wintergreen reluctantly has to go through it/ get rid of it, and that's when he finds Teddy, and carefully washes him and rips open an old pillow to replace the rotten, fungus-eaten stuffing and stitches him up, and puts it by Jason's bedside.
Jason wakes up from a Nightmare, panting, trying to shake off the feeling of the Joker's hands on him, and realizes with a jolt that not only is he unhurt and warm and no longer curled up in his tattered nest he built in an abandoned closet but also there's his stuffy, that he hides like a shameful secret, now clean, he barely recognizes it, smelling of lavender, whole with the neat little stitches.
He cries.
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One minute theyâre moving, the next theyâve been set upon by ninjas.
Thatâs the only way Curt Evans can think of to describe the sudden assault; armed men, terrifyingly agile, falling on them before anybody had any idea they were even there.
Itâs over embarrassingly quickly.
No oneâs dead, though theyâre all bruised. Jesus Christ. Heâs on his knees, badly winded and yeah, thatâs a cracked rib, and all he can think right now is, what just happened? A quick glance around at his squadmates says theyâre thinking the same thing.
The ninjas are wearing black and red, with stark white full-face masks and blood-red goggles. Several of them have swordsâswords, what the fuck?--but all of them have guns. One of them, smaller than the others, steps forward. They tilt their head, goggles boring into Evansâ eyes, before their hand snaps out and tears his dog tags from his neck.
âHey-!â
âShut up,â somebody elseâa manâs voiceâsnaps. âWe didnât ask you to talk.â Then, âWe takinâ âem back to base, sir?â
The man holding his dog tags doesnât answer. He just looks at Evans (or, well, thatâs what it looks like heâs doing) for a long moment before his arm flies out, swinging the dog tags like a flail. They hit him in teeth (thatâs a chip, ow) before the man flips over him (what the fuck?) andâhurk!
Air-air-air-airâ
His visionâs just starting to go when the chain loosens from around his neck. Heâs still gasping when a boot between his shoulder blades puts him flat on his face and then heâs kicked over, onto his back. A bootâs planted on his chest and a massive sniper rifle that looks leagues beyond anything heâs ever worked with levels itself at his face.
The expected death doesnât come. After two minutes of staring into those red goggles, his assailant scoffs and steps off him, snaps his fingers and jerks his head. The man from before nods.
âYessir. Get up, assholes, weâre goinâ for a ride.â
* * *
The ride is twenty minutes. Itâs a quiet twenty minutes, but it ends when they pull up to a massive military compound. High walls ringed with razor wire, security guards, and cameras. Big gates that look like something out of Jurassic Park. And an entire armyâs worth of men inside, from the looks of it; trucks, tanks, the whole thing.
What the hell?
The little man from before hops out before the car comes to a stop. Striding across the compound is a giant that looks like he could snap Godzilla in half. He stops, though, when the littler guy whistles, puts his index fingers against the side of his head, and salutes*.
âThink he and Antoine had a TC,â the giant says. âThey should be done soon. Why?â
A thumb jerks back towards the jeep.
âShiiit,â the giant says appreciatively. âHeâs not gonna like that.â
Whoâs not gonna like that?
The small man laughs. Not totally mute, then, and clearly not deaf. Impediment? Just an asshole?
âI donât think it was supposed to takeâthere he is.â
Oh.
Oh, good God.
Evansâ first, crazy thought, is that Gothamâs Bat has gone off the rails and set this up. Then theâŚthingâŚgets closer and he can see that itâs not quite the same. No cape, for one. And the full-faced helmet. It looks more like a cyborg than anything, but itâs coming this way.
âRiley brought ya a present,â the giant calls. The cyborg stops, looks at the blond man trotting behind it, and shrugs.
âSomething tells me itâs not Reeseâs.â
The voice is heavily filtered, sounding more demonic than human. The smaller manâRiley (huh, he knew a Riley once)--nods and erupts in a flurry of gesticulations. The cyborg tilts its head, sun reflecting off that blue visor, and remains quiet until Riley stops moving.
âGood call,â it says, and then itâs stalking towards them. Up close, itâs big. Well-armed. The insignia on the armor is unfamiliar and the armor itself is hard and sharp, almost medieval. âWell, gentlemen. What brings you out this far?â
Nobody answers. Then, quick as a snake, the cyborg lunges and pulls Evans away from the rest of his squadmates.
âCurt Evans,â the demonic voice growls. âYouâre in charge ofâŚwell, thatâs interesting. Operation Pleasure Time? Thought that was a soda.â
âI donât know what youâre talking about,â he says immediately. âWho the hell are you?â
The cyborg chuckles.
âThe Arkham Knight.â What the hell? Some freak escaped from Gotham? Evans has never set foot there, but one of his old squadmates had been a local. That guy was fucked up. âDonât play coy with meâwell, well, this is interesting.â
It plucks the small body camera from his vest and kicks Evansâ legs out from under him, lets him fall to the dirt in a heap.
âDrouot.â
âYessir.â
âTell Rogers to get into their camera frequency and run a cover-up.â Itâhe?--pauses. âNot that ridiculous jungle monster cryptid, something practical. Crocodiles.â
âAw, youâre gonna break his heart, boss,â the blond says. The Arkham Knight scoffs.
âHeâll live.â
âYeah, but heâll be annoying about it.âÂ
The Knight tosses the camera over and the blond disappears. Evans swallows.
âThatâs recording already,â he says, willing his voice to be steady. âIt doesnât matter what you do now, itâs been viewed.â
âNah.â The Knight sounds incredibly entertained. âWe have a scrambler. All thatâs been viewed is static.â
âWeâre not telling you shit.â
âI really donât care what youâre doing out here. I just care that you keep your mouths shut, and you know what they say about dead men.â
âWhat the fuckââ
âGet rid of them.â
âWhat, you wonât even do the job yourself?â Rodreguez shouts. âFuckinâ--â
BLAM!
âThere. I killed one of you.â The Knight reholsters his gun. âHappy? Now. Get rid of them. UnlessâŚâ He turns to look at Riley, who shakes his head. âNever mind. Just get rid of them. I want to see your squadron in two hours; see what youâve learned, huh?â
*Riley actually has two ways to refer to Jason: one is the shorthand symbol for crazy (index finger spiraled near your head) followed by ASL for knight. Crazy Knight=Arkham Knight. The other is this oneâEvans may not know the Family Politics here, but Riley respects, and thus salutes, very few people. So this is the more affectionate one he uses to Jason or with the Squad.
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