Rossum
Not a Cyberman
- Location
- Earth
This is Gotham City, the crime capital of the world. A disfigured guy just branded a mobster right outside our high school and odds are good the only people capable of taking Two-Face down are a billionaire in a bat costume with way too much time on his hands or us.
If businesses or law enforcement were even remotely capable of dealing with super crooks, it wouldn't be Gotham. Also, we'd have to fence anything we steal the same as if we got it from a warehouse.
In that case we do it stealthy. Have Melissa dampen the sound of our break in, we use our intelligence to disable any alarms or cameras, we don't leave clues, etc. Plus, stolen car so they can't track us via plates.
As for what we would steal, we have super strength and our Daddy's been teaching us about business. We could grab a bunch of video games, electronics, clothing, jewelry, or other generic items we could sell on eBay or pawn off or whatever. Alternately, focus on stealing the end supplies that we will need like chemicals, electronics, or other supplies we know we will need for our inventions so we don't have to resell them.
Why would we be stealing crack? We're kids with superpowers running around in costumes. Do you think we're going to be selling drugs to our classmates or something?
As for thugs telling anyone about getting beat up by "a midget and a circus freak", this world already has Superman, Batman, Two-Face, and now Black Adam. Little people with superpowers beating up grown men to steal their stuff may be embarrassing but not totally outlandish. Also, they're going to have to tell their bosses something when they get bruises and suddenly all their money, weapons, and goods are gone.
Yeesh, fine. It was just a suggestion. Pardon me for thinking a cheerful girl with super strength might choose to dress as a brightly colored owl.
Point is: It looks to me like the choice between seeking out "thugs" to beat up and rob is more likely to attract attention then stealthily stealing from a warehouse.
Beating up thugs would be a mostly heroic thing that probably won't hurt any of the thugs working for people our Dad works with. But even then it would by default would be attacking men working for rival gangs. Also, I don't know how profitable it would be. We'd either be beating up poor people and grabbing a few dollars out of their pocket, or we would be stopping major operations from rival gangs and running away with lockboxed full of thousands of dollars or something (which would likely attract the attention of mob bosses).
Basically, actively looking to beat people up is 100% going to get us noticed even if you don't think our targets will be able to do anything about it.
Meanwhile, if we're out to rob some warehouses or something, we don't have to hurt anyone. We can just browse around the shipping warehouses, disable security systems, figure out where the loot we want is, and just grab some boxes full of stuff. The supplies in those boxes would almost certainly be insured and so long as we're not stealing military hardware, lead-lined cases of kryptonite or boxes full of batarangs destined for Wayne Manor. It's likely that whatever retail store or whoever would just collect on the insurance and not get bent out of shape.
With robbing warehouses, we're just taking things. We can choose to focus on getting supplies for our work, grab some easily sellable electronics good, or stumble across a big box full of Batman's crime fighting supplies or something. We can take our time, be stealthy about it, get what we want, and not have to hurt anyone.
As opposed to actively looking for armed criminals to beat up. Which would immediately get us attention and reveal that we have superpowers.
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