16728/A Meeting of the CPUs

A Meeting of the CPUs
Date of Scene:	06 April 2025
Location:	Backstage (Robin's Roost), Monarch Theatre
Synopsis:	Nikki and Willow meet, and then Nikki offers Willow to see the cats. Next time : House Tour!
Cast of Characters:	Nikki Hawkins, Willow Rosenberg

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Nikki Hawkins has posed:
Anyone else who's hanging around the Cave right now wouldn't hear anything. What they will see is Nikki Hawkins, also known as KiKiLuvs, sitting at the main computer in the central hub of the cave. She's surrounded by cans of Red Bull, Rockstar, and Monster; bags of various chips like cheetos, doritos and fritos - and perhaps a scattering or few of deli/corner store sandwich packages. All three screens are pulled up, one seeming to be running code, one has a variety of cameras up, and the other looks like a couple websites with rankings from both Smite and Overwatch. The teal-haired gamer sits in a crouched position, headset on, and she's drinking another Monster while clicking through the coding windows, typing things every so often.

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
Willow was coming here before she headed home. Complete with a tupperware container of cookies - chocolate chips. Her students were getting down to exams. And she, herself, was cleaning out her office. Her next office wouldn't be in the students area.

Things were changing.

In more ways than one.

Like this - the Roost. She was kinda afraid, and nervous, and excited all at once!

Ergo the cookies, Cookies, she had found, were an excellent ice breaker.

But she wasn't the only one here. Surprise, surprise! She presumed this was the resident computer guru. Looked like it! Willow was quite interested in what the person was up to. After all, compsci was one of her majors!

Nikki Hawkins has posed:
Lucky for Willow, even while in The Zone, Nikki keeps an eye on the blips of arrivals. Since Willow's allowed in here, it was a good blip and not a bad blip. So she takes a moment to pull herself from the monitors, does a sweep motion of everything on the desk to go into a trash compactor under her desk, and then she takes off her headset. Waiting until she can see Willow before lifting a hand and waving a bit in greeting.

"Hello! She must be the one Tim was talking about, cause Nikki's never seen her before. Nikki is Nikki." The third-person speaking, overly excitable young woman says with a huge smile on her face.

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
*blink blink*

Then a giggle.

"Oh my!" Nikki /was/ Nikki. Then, again, there weren't many girls (or boys!) called Willow. She still doesn't know how her uptight, Jewish, parents came up with the name 'willow'. "I'm Willow. I've got chocolate chips cookies - handmade. They almost didn't make it through the day. My students were eyeing them. A lot."

She put the container down and pointed at the screens. "Nice get up."

Nikki Hawkins has posed:
"Willow. Yes. That's the name Tim gave. Tim says Willow is moving in? Is she excited?" Asking this and then she looks at the container of cookies and smiles. "Nikki loves cookies!" She says this and then looks back to the computer set up.

"This is just what Tim had set up before. She changed it a bit to suit what she needed to do with it, with Tim's permission of course. Her other set up is in the computer room in the house. Nikki's a professional gamer as well as doing this stuff for Tim." Wait. Would Willow know Tim as Tim? Or as Red Robin? She gets that wrong.

A lot.

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
Willow grins.

So much to take in. "So, you refer to you as a third person?" She nods."I am pretty much Willow, but sometimes I will refer to my Dark Willow personality. It's sorta complicated, Nowadays she /is/me, unless she thinks I am drifting back to the way I used to be. Sometimes I refer to her as an entity separate from me, but really she isn't."

"UH.. I have played? But I am not a good gamer. I'm a bisexaul. Don't worry I only bite when you ask me to." That was a joke, and she flashes a smile. "Uhm. He's Red Robin here. I don't have a superhero name. Just Willow. I'M on the Justice League of America, sometimes a titan. Always a Scooby. I'm entering my Doctorate in CompSci and Maths. I use my computer in magic. No, I do know that I should not be able to scry with my computer - but it works for me, so don't knock it?"

"Phew. Oh, I have two.. three homes if you count my parents. But I do.. actually.. more? Isn't that strange? I forgot the Titans tower. Anyways, my Gotham apartment is my main base. Where I get my mail."

Nikki Hawkins has posed:
"Nikki also has a place in New York where she can go if she needs some quiet time... but Tim does good at giving Nikki quiet time anyway so she almost wonders if she should sell her home there. But then...if other things happen..." She trails off at that bit and then shrugs her shoulders and never loses her smile. Tilting her head a little while listening as Willow goes on.

"Nikki doesn't have a superhero name either. She goes online by KiKiLuvs...but that's no superhero name. She works for Wayne Interprises in the robotics division as well as everything else. Like keeping Red Robin safe, and playing online to keep money in her pocket." There's a pause, and then she turns to snag her Monster for another guzzle. "Nikki never went to college."

There's a thought on anything else she can say. "Oh! We have cats. Does Willow like cats? Nikki can introduce Willow to Phoebe and Dexter."

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
She listens to Nikki's curriculum vitae. "Neat! I work for X-Corps. I'm actually the only non-mutant who works for them. They have been really good for me - giving me time off during the school year. I turned down Luther Corp though."

Willow is type AA+++ (if such a thing exists).

Then she opens up the tupperware and steals a cookie. "Want one? I do like cats. We don't have one because me and Buffy are busy people."

Nikki Hawkins has posed:
Nikki takes a cookie just after being asked if she wants one, biting it in half and chewing. "These are yummy!" Saying this and then she motions. "That cats are in the main house. Has she seen the main house yet? Dunno if Tim took her in from the house entrance or the secret entrance. Well, Nikki thinks it's secret cause she doesn't know where it is and has only seen Robin and Superman use it."

Oh. Yeah. Did she not mention she knows Supes?

Anyway she starts walking towards the stairs that least to the main house. "Phoebe is a tortie shell, Dexter is a tuxedo. They're both really nice cats. Nikki adopted them together cause they're a bonded pair..." She explains while walking, completely assuming Willow is keeping up.

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
"I helped rescue Superman - that's how I got invited to the Justice League. Cross my heart." And she does. "I helped everyone cross outer space with a portal. We were glad to have him back." Willow thinks a minute. "I do know his mundane name. He's really nice. Compared to Batman. He scares me a little bit."

As for keeping up? Willow is excellent at that, seeing as she is a bit that way herself.

"Phoebe, and Dexter." A snicker escapes her. "Like the tv shows, perhaps."

She only knows the street entrance.