thinking about javier after the gang fell apart...
uhhh some thoughts below⬇️
what javier did between the events of rdr2 and rdr1 has always been in my mind. I just think he was an absolute mess. he wasn't coping with the fact that he not only lost the family he tried so desperately to hold onto, he also realized that he fucked up horrendously, and there's no going back to fix it and the guilt and regret eats at him like nothing else.
he really just. stops taking care of himself, I don't think he cuts his hair short yet but he lets it grow and doesn't care for it like he used to. he doesn't sleep, he never bathes, he drinks and cries when he's alone, he just wanders between cantinas in nuevo paraiso, hoping he stays under the radar of the government.
i like to think something happens that makes him snap out of it, whatever it might be. when he does, his hair is so matted he just ends up cutting it all off with his knife
like those 12 years are something I want to elaborate on bc it's still wild to me that rdr2 javier and rdr1 javier are the same person
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Everlasting Trio DP x DC Nobody Knows Au Pt 6
Part 5
Warning for very brief flashback implying vivisection
It is highly amusing to float to Red Robin's rooftop and see up close how intensely vigilant he's being. He looks like if a pigeon took off halfway across the city he'd fucking notice, but the ghost standing next to him and trying not to snicker goes undetected.
Poor guy. He really seems like the type to drive himself up a wall over a mystery - he's certainly been driving himself up a wall over Danny.
Danny has to force himself not to tickle the back of the guy's neck just to watch him flail.
He likes Red Robin, he really does. He didn't set out to torture the poor guy - Red did that all by himself, all Danny has been trying to do is help.
They can't pursue him the way they have been and expect him not to try and get some entertainment out of it. It tempers the annoyance, making their obsession with finding him a game.
Danny considers the box in Red's lap.
He's been doing the same thing with each box they leave him from the beginning: grab box, open pocket dimension, yeet.
Not even Bat trackers can transmit from an entirely different plane of existence, it would seem.
And the thing Danny has discovered about having died when an entirely different plane of existence opened on top of him and merged with his DNA?
He is a pocket dimension, in a way.
In other words, no need to expend energy to tear the fabric of reality to deposit his loot - all he needs to do is phase things into himself.
So Red will definitely notice when the box disappears from his lap and seemingly blinks out of existence, but at least he won't be seeing any neon green tears in reality open up in front of him.
That seems like a good deal to Danny.
He steps forward and reaches for the box-
NA NA NA NA NA NANA
Danny and Red Robin both curse and flail as the Ghostbusters theme rings out across the rooftop.
Red Robin nearly falls out of his lawn chair launching himself away from the sudden sound, almost dropping the lockbox in the process.
Danny frantically searches his pockets for his goddamn phone, pulls it out, has the fear of God struck into him at the idea of hanging up on Sam Manson and thus shoves it into his chest to go to voicemail somewhere where nobody can hear it ring.
In the dead silence that follows, Danny finds himself in something like a startled cowboy standoff where only one of the participants is actually visible.
Red Robin stands with feet braced shoulder width apart, lockbox in one hand and bo staff in the other. He is visibly bewildered and ready to throw hands.
He's staring at the space a little to the left of Danny's head, so at least he hadn't dropped his invisibility in panic.
Welp. No use trying to change plans now.
Danny lunges forward and grabs the lockbox, relishing in the squawk of shock and indignance Red Robin makes as it abruptly leaves his hand and blinks out of sight.
He doesn't anticipate how fast Red Robin will recover or move.
A hand wraps tightly around his wrist and jerks him back in an impressive estimation of where Danny might be occupying space.
Danny almost goes ghost right there. Not because he wants to, but because for a moment there are restraints around his wrists and ectoplasm on the table and bright lights and sharp blades and pain-
He swallows the growl that wants to well up in his throat as he turns and looks at Red Robin, teeth feeling a little too large and sharp in his mouth before he forces himself to calm down.
Red is staring him straight in the eyes despite Danny being able to see he's still invisible. Red’s hand looks to be wrapped around nothing.
“You're not going anywhere,” Red Robin says, voice low and slightly feral with the high of perceived victory. That, paired with the crooked smirk on his lips is kind of, uh- well. Hoo boy, that's all Danny has to say about that.
Well, he does have one other thing to say.
“Bet.”
The way Red Robin's face falls in disbelief when Danny phases out of his grip is nothing short of glorious. Danny's already floating off the roof and out of grabbing distance before Red finishes buffering.
“Are you fucking kidding me?!”
Danny cackles, tossing him a salute he can't even see.
“Better luck next time, Angry Bird!”
“Son of a bitch!”
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