<br/><div class="floatleft">(https://www.essence.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/images/2014/02/28/louis-allen-eye-candy-v-8.jpg)</div><hr/><strong>NAME:</strong>Jackson Hyde (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=309416.msg15038512#msg15038512)<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Costume (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzxBhjP2KqR4jAO6Ynl1mx3VvBkbLNoGRn9j1BB5jiVIK5N_qj)<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>August 25, 2020<br/><strong>TIME:</strong>Did I even go to bed early?!?<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Atlantis-->Secret Sanctuary, Happy Harbor<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong>This is a mission not a wake!<br/><strong>MOOD MUSIC:</strong>Get Up - James Brown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCkb6k_aow)<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong><strong>OPEN</strong><br/><hr/><br/><br/><br/>Jackson knelt in prayer as he always did before anything important, he was raised that way even before becoming an undersea prince.  It was both shocking and difficult to deal with being the son of his father’s enemy.<br/>But from death came forth life…a new life and he was still dealing with the fact that his surrogate family accepted him so well, even if some people didn’t.  He stood out in the council as there weren’t many people like him. Those on the surface world understood his meaning better than others, yet he was no stranger to adversity.  He worked long and hard to get to where he was among the Atlantean people.<br/><br/>Mera took him under her wing to help train him.  He gained some friends, almost a potential lover, but it was not to be.  He might have sabotaged himself, wondering so often when the shoe would fall, when she would come to her senses and see him.  Which would make her pull away as well, seeing that he was not like them.  He went away for a year only to come back and she was…in the arms of another.  Since then he has been a bit gun shy to get into anything like that.  He wondered if this stint on the surface world would be any different.<br/><br/>He knew he should have been more focused, so he created a sparring partner and patterned him after the Kryptonian Zod.  He looked just like the big giant that was on their team.  He would have to concentrate to hold the enemy together as well as fight.<br/><br/>It was difficult but he needed to ready, he needed to be perfect.  It was his first mission with the new team, one in which he barely knew.  He knew only Mari and their relationship was friendly at best.  When his battle was over, the massive Kryptonian water being had given him a bruise on the ribs and an achy jaw, but he knew the time and he had to go.  He should have been resting but he couldn’t, he swirled his hands and pulled the water into is body, he didn’t heal the wound so much as internalize it so it wouldn’t show at least, but it would still be sore.  It would possibly be better by the time they arrived wherever they were going.<br/><br/>By the time he arrived at the ship he looked refreshed and calm even if he wasn’t calm, but he was ready for battle as he walked upon the plane.  He moved in his stealth armor all but soundlessly, up the walkway of the ship.<br/><br/>He was nearly upon Mari when the system spoke.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;">Welcome, Aqualad.</span><br/><br/>He looked over the woman, that he found himself desiring to get to know long ago.  She was apparently either not interested or so focused on her mission within the dark continent to give him the time of day.  Either way, she was still gorgeous and was his normal cheery self.<br/><br/>“Good Morning..” ‘Lovely’, he kept that thought to himself. ”…Vixen, sleep well?  Or did you NOT sleep?”  He smirked he knew of her habits and couldn’t call her on them or he would be a total hypocrite.  He accepted the formality of using the Callsigns rather than normal names.<br/><br/>He then turned to Supergirl who had also approached them.  She was funny to him, but he wouldn’t laugh at her.  He could tell she was nervous so he wouldn’t do that to her.  He knew who he was and everyone had to find themselves on the mission and the team.  He would let someone else be Batman, someone else even be Supes.  He was more Flash or even Martian Manhunter, somewhere in between but more on the fun side.  Fighting to him was fun, especially with those that took themselves too seriously.  He battle-tested and to him, it was a challenge to be better, even against people that had more power than himself.  That didn’t make them better than him, it made it fun.  It took some efforts to rein in the bloodthirsty part of him that craved fighting.<br/><br/>He asked having spent some time with her to at least get to know her for her.  But he was sure she was like the rest of them and her answer, like Mari’s would probably be<em> ‘No!’</em><br/><br/><br/><br/>He asked he was sure he probably could but he was more tag along.  Wasn’t his mission.<br/>