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.
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.
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.
That can work. Especially if it’s in a guarded compound where you just can’t come over. When ai worked as a guard at a hotel people could quite easily come over.
Being a secret superhero is hard. Being Ethan is hard. Being a secretly superhero Ethan is… off the scale.
Ocramot
26 days 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…
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.
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
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.
You would need a looooot of luck to achieve this. They would basically need to be on all dating platforms to try to catch him, or know which one Lucas recommended.
I would sooner believe Nicole lures him to a secluded place to rob and kill him like the crazy girlfriends of Lucas 1.0. Though I think those chances are slim.
Danidas
26 days 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?
Or not waking up at all (normally), since if you are removing organs, why stop at kidneys? (hides RimWorld under the bed)
Also the person who removed them wondering where the hell did they go. (if they would disappear when Ethan respawned)
Alek
25 days ago
I betcha he gets mugged by this “Nicole” and dies triggering his powers.
Giggity Goo
25 days 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 25 days ago by Giggity Goo
Mike
25 days ago
But Ethan technically is a night-jogger.
Crestlinger
25 days ago
So let’s see we have:
Gamer match by profile
Needing a night activity
Theories on good, evil, and identity risk
Chances on Her being empowered as well?
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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.
She’ll volunteer to help with the inventory.
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.
Or that you need to receive inventory. Truckers can deliver at all sorts of weird hours (I used to work Receiving for a factory).
What is going to happen when she passes by the store and finds no-one in there?
Ethan can go through an elaborate scheme to build a simulacrum to be him during night shifts at the store.
Pre-reboot Ethan could do that, I’m not so sure about post-reboot Ethan
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.
2nd Job as a night security guard. Just an occasional side gig to help make ends meet… Not quite the truth, but not really a full lie.
That can work. Especially if it’s in a guarded compound where you just can’t come over. When ai worked as a guard at a hotel people could quite easily come over.
Ben is on fire 😀
In the precinct?
Being a secret superhero is hard. Being Ethan is hard. Being a secretly superhero Ethan is… off the scale.
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…
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.
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
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.
The masks stays on.
During the whole dating period.
Even in bed.
Frank Miller? Is that you?
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).
Who is Caroline?
It would have to be one of Myriad, not the OG troll. OG is in Not-Arkham.
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.
You would need a looooot of luck to achieve this. They would basically need to be on all dating platforms to try to catch him, or know which one Lucas recommended.
I would sooner believe Nicole lures him to a secluded place to rob and kill him like the crazy girlfriends of Lucas 1.0. Though I think those chances are slim.
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?
Or not waking up at all (normally), since if you are removing organs, why stop at kidneys? (hides RimWorld under the bed)
Also the person who removed them wondering where the hell did they go. (if they would disappear when Ethan respawned)
I betcha he gets mugged by this “Nicole” and dies triggering his powers.
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.”
But Ethan technically is a night-jogger.
So let’s see we have:
Gamer match by profile
Needing a night activity
Theories on good, evil, and identity risk
Chances on Her being empowered as well?
Nicole doesn’t have a night activity (that we currently know of).
Ethan is just preparing a cover story for the eventuality where Nicole might want to see him when he’s busy with his actual night activity.
Though it could be hilarious if she does have her own activities, and they both end up with elaborate schemes to avoid each other’s cover stories.
he could simply say that his friend moved to Europe (Asia?), he has known them for a long time and has an unfinished game of D&D