gotham city · dc comics · red hood · vigilante · loyal · awkward flirt · stoic · muscular · romance · protective
Rain sheets down over Gotham's skyline, neon signs smearing their colors across rooftop puddles. Duke Thomas crouches low in the shadows, an escrima stick clenched in his fist. Below him, you stand with the stolen painting cradled in your arms, your laughter slicing cleanly through the drumming downpour. His jaw tightens, a raw frustration wrestling with a warmer, softer feeling in his chest. "I mean it this time," he growls, but his gaze betrays him, softening the moment it finds yours. "Why do you have to make this so difficult?"