He nods at him, taking a sip.
“I’m Lauren,” she says, taking a sip from her drink. “You?”
Hayden saw the kid put his head in his hands and tried to comfort him; “Don’t worry, you’ll get out if you talk and if you weren’t committing crimes.” Hayden realized that he didn’t mess up his communication, at least he didn’t think he had. Although, Hayden didn’t always know if he had bungled up his communication.
“Mm, sage advice.” Their guard drawled.
Since the incident at the Luthor rally, social media had been on fire. StandFast, of course, took the opportunity to continue their agenda:
https://twitter.com/StandFastMetro/status/1294770026969542659?s=20
And Lex Luthor also announced that he was going to make a recovery in no time. Truly the marvels of modern medicine:
https://twitter.com/Luthor0fficial/status/1294773053860257792?s=20
The Justice League’s spokesman also publicly condemned the actions of “Mosh Pit”, the hero responsible for the attack, after which the internet promptly erupted in a flame war over the rights of masks and metahumans as a whole. It was a pretty bad time for everybody involved.
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“Gideon Gold.” He nods. “Although I’m considering Invincible Man. Has a nice ring to it.”
“You don’t know.” Iosif mumbled through his hands, his voice shaking. “You don’t know what they’ll do to me.”
OOC:
Subtle
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The guard pangs with empathy. What has he seen? “Jesus, kid… Look, wherever it is that you came from, I just want you to know things don’t work like that around here, alright? You’re probably gonna be just fine.” She assured, shrugging lopsidedly, “The way I heard, it was a misdemeanour at best… and resisting arrest, sure, but mostly a misdemeanour.”
OOC:
Eh, my co-GM wanted to keep it, plus I feel like Luthor would be the kinda guy to get salty on Twitter if someone slashes his arm down to the bone 
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“Ahh, you’re a mask.” She nods appreciatively. “Where do you hang out? Gotham, Central City?”
“Crap” Hayden thought “I definitely didn’t need to get involved.” Hayden had already suspected that from the moment he saw that the kid had just curled up instead of fighting the police, but now Hayden’s suspicions were confirmed. “You’ll be committing misdemeanors again, erm that is, you could, not that you should.” Hayden said to the kid. Again, Hayden cursed his poor communication skills.
Iosif shook his head slightly and his hands followed the motion. “You don’t know. You never know.”
…What?
“I’m from Gotham originally, but I’ve got family near here.” He replies. “Although I have to be frank, I didn’t have quite the eye for this joint at first. She,” He motioned to Adelaide. “Insisted on heading in.”
“And to be honest, I’m hardly a mask.” He smiled. “Gideon Gold is who I am at this point.”
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She frowned a little, “If you say so.”
She promptly glares at Hayden, “You’re really not helping, y’know that?”
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Lauren nods. “I can appreciate that. Isn’t exactly a great time to be a mask, I can tell you that.” From far too personal experience, unfortunately.
“Oh, and for the record, ‘here’ isn’t a very good descriptor when you’re in here. I’ve met people from Australia, outer space, and the other land down under, all walking through that door.” She jerks a thumb in the general direction of the entrance. “Fun place.”
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Gideon rolled his eyes upwards with a slight shake of his head. “I shouldn’t even try to understand magic. It’s all way over my head.”
“…On that note, did you enter through Metropolis?”
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Lauren lets out a good laugh at that. “You’re right about that. Learning magic was a bigger headache than college. And it’s not even like I got good at it, I just found a shortcut.”
“…but yeah, Metropolis. You too, huh?”
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“I guess I should have clarified first before I said ‘family near here.’” He smiled. “How much family do you have in Metropolis? Or did you come for the education?”
Upon hearing ‘Metropolis’ he looked up, “What are the chances…” He mutters to himself, “Which part you two from?”
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“Oh, I’m too new to be from a part.” Gideon replied. “I’ve got an apartment and that’s about it. Still trying to find a good job; thought about being a boxer maybe, but that’d be a little unfair to my opponents. Even other masks.”
Gideon tapped slightly on the counter. “On second thought, I’ll have one of what Adelaide ordered.”
He nods, “That’s fair. You?” He asked the young lady.
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“Nothing comes out proper.” Hayden muttered.
Adelaide glanced over and spat a soaked wad of paper into a nearby ashtray. Wait wings? How about I try that! Wings are great but… How do the mechanics work around that?
“Name’s Adelaide. Assuming you’re a practitioner, family name, line of work? Consider this a freebie tip for a newbie. Magic is easy if you grasp enough and finetune what you can. Focus into one skill or else you end up spreading thin.”
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The head officer sighs, “Alright, if you insist.”
“Perfect.” Hardy smiles, “So what have you boys in blue found so far?”
“We’ve got video evidence that shows that the mask was the instigator from this security bot’s internal recorder. Many of the other recordings also show glimpses of this which proves it isn’t fudged, but this one seems to have the best uninterrupted footage of the start of the incident and its fallout.” One of the others explained, gesturing to the android in question, which was currently replaying the event on a holographic screen. Hardy approaches it, watching the looped footage with a pensive expression.
At last, Thelryn is noticed by one of the SCU officers, already agitated by the Nygma investigator’s appearance, “Move it, civilian, this is a crime scene!”
“Wait!” Hardy raises a hand, as though he were instructing an impatient dog. He glances between Thelryn and the footage. He taps on the holographic screen and pauses it around the point where Thelryn had begun grappling with the attacker. “Are you the man in this image?” Hardy calls over to Thelryn, pointing to him on the screen.
Rook, the bartender, nods, pouring Gideon his own glass of pineapple mojito. Since he’d already pocketed that 20 that Gideon had forked over, he wouldn’t need to pay him anything, so he simply slides the glass to him. “Enjoy.”
“Got that right…” The guard mutters back, crossing her arms. Some muffled yelling was coming from nearby. That interrogation seemed to be getting a bit heated. “I do not envy those guys…”
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