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July 21, 2025 by Tim


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Khaisz
Khaisz
1 day ago

Just tell her you do inventory during night at the store once in awhile.
Running a business can be demanding.
But can’t have simple solutions I guess, that isn’t the Ethan way.

ears
ears
23 hours ago
Reply to  Khaisz

She’ll volunteer to help with the inventory.

Eldest Gruff
Eldest Gruff
7 hours ago
Reply to  ears

Can’t. Labor laws. She’d have to be an employee. You can’t do free labor, even if someone is offering.

What? You want to be an employee? Can’t do that, it would be improper, imagine what the other employees would say if you’re shacking up with the boss.

pookysgirl
pookysgirl
19 hours ago
Reply to  Khaisz

Or that you need to receive inventory. Truckers can deliver at all sorts of weird hours (I used to work Receiving for a factory).

Ocramot
Ocramot
19 hours ago
Reply to  Khaisz

What is going to happen when she passes by the store and finds no-one in there?

Will B.
Will B.
18 hours ago
Reply to  Ocramot

Ethan can go through an elaborate scheme to build a simulacrum to be him during night shifts at the store.

Ocramot
Ocramot
17 hours ago
Reply to  Will B.

Pre-reboot Ethan could do that, I’m not so sure about post-reboot Ethan

Darkhorse
Darkhorse
9 hours ago
Reply to  Khaisz

I initially thought it a great idea. However, his last GF left him because he pretended to be home while she was ringing the bell. There is no reason why a new GF wouldn’t come over to the store.

Ethan needs something that she can’t just randomly turn up for. Night running is then better than being at the store. She can always want to come with, but knowing when that happens is a big deal.

Flanker
Flanker
1 day ago

Ben is on fire 😀

ears
ears
23 hours ago
Reply to  Flanker

In the precinct?

Kif
Kif
22 hours ago

Being a secret superhero is hard. Being Ethan is hard. Being a secretly superhero Ethan is… off the scale.

Ocramot
Ocramot
19 hours ago

I think it might be a good idea a dating app for vigilantes, that way they can match among them and do their own activities at night, and they wouldn’t need any cover story.

Of course it would be a good idea if it wasn’t a huge risk for all their secret identities, but still…

Darkhorse
Darkhorse
18 hours ago
Reply to  Ocramot

I wonder how it would go. Date at the end of the night. They arrive at her place. “Would you like to come up for a cup of coffee?” she asks. A good idea, as they need to go to their day job in a moment.

Maybe they can put on some filters, like “reporter,” or “cop.” That way they can make their lives needlessly complicated, as any good superhero is wont to do.

Paradox
Paradox
17 hours ago
Reply to  Ocramot

It wouldn’t be too hard to just put the superhero identity as the profile on such an app (or any dating app really)

Of course, that does open them up to walking into traps set up by villains, since most vigilantes would logically want to meet their dates in a secluded and non-public location

Dating already requires a level of emotional vulnerability, it’d be a lot harder when you have to make yourself physically vulnerable as well

Richard Weatherfield
Richard Weatherfield
13 hours ago
Reply to  Paradox

Yeah, even in real life cops face this sort of problem when they use dating apps. Some crook types will use the dating app to catfish the cop and set a trap for them to kill and/or rob them. They leave their jobs off of the profile to avoid such circumstances.

Argl
Argl
1 hour ago
Reply to  Ocramot

The masks stays on.
During the whole dating period.
Even in bed.

Steve
Steve
17 hours ago

Nicole != Caroline, as some predicted (unless she’s paranoid and goes by her middle name on the app).

But it does rhyme with… TheTroll (my prediction).

Richard Weatherfield
Richard Weatherfield
13 hours ago
Reply to  Steve

It would have to be one of Myriad, not the OG troll. OG is in Not-Arkham.

Steve
Steve
9 hours ago

He could still be directing them somehow. Drugs get in jails, coded messages get out. All you need is one guard as sick of superpeople as Emily was.

Danidas
Danidas
16 hours ago

Is this going to lead to Ethan waking up in a bathtub full of ice with out his kidneys and slowly dying only to re-spawn?

Alek
Alek
14 hours ago

I betcha he gets mugged by this “Nicole” and dies triggering his powers.

Giggity Goo
Giggity Goo
12 hours ago

Thoughts on him creating a second super-hero identity that never actually saves anyone or does anything (basically a completely ineffectual hero, but one people have seen and think is lame) as cover for his actual hero persona?

Like – he just admits “Yeah… I’m ____man” and she’s like “The dude who always shows up late?” and he’s like “Still getting the hang of it… but I’m trying.”

Last edited 12 hours ago by Giggity Goo
Mike
Mike
12 hours ago

But Ethan technically is a night-jogger.