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The Night Watcher as he was known by those few criminals who had been unlucky enough to meet him, woke up approximately an hour before the sun was to set. He took his time dressing in dark but normal clothing. He didn't like to stand out, this city didn't need a savoir it needed someone to clean it up, only a savoir or a hero wears a costume and mask, he was something different. He wanted to blend into the crowd be one with everyone else appearing only when needed and disappearing just as fast. These were the powers the night, and the city had given him, and he would use them to save the city that had taken his family. Since the Titans left the city has become a hell hole, a greater hive of scum and villainy could not be found. The Night Watcher checks his security systems and sees everything is in order "Yet another uneventful day, perhaps the night will be more entertaining" he says quietly to himself as he activates his city surveillance system, tapping into the city's traffics camera's and businesses surveillance cams. From his outpost in the old observatory, previously inhabited by Professor Chang, he can see the entire city, watching for any disturbance in the night. He has converted most of Chang's old equipment to suit his own needs, turning the telescope that Chang used for a laser, back into a telescope. Using the computers to power and display his surveillance systems. Further more be installed a state of the art security system to keep others out of his home, as he wouldn't want anyone getting their hands on his equipment. Everything he did he did for a reason, keeping some of Chang's equipment in tact was done purposely, he can use it to to analyze evidence should he ever need to. The weapons and illegal materials however, The Night Watcher decided to destroy those, no need for these to be used by anyone, I would rather save the city with my hands, the city should be saved by one of its own. Not some faceless "hero" hiding behind a mask he thinks, remembering what he had said to himself when he found the observatory and locked away the weapons. He returned his attention to the many monitors in the main room of the observatory. He saw a lot of the same stuff he saw every night, fighting between a few people, drug use and sale, rape, prostitution, more of the same filth he saw every night. He needs to go fix it but he doesn't know where to begin.

"I suppose Ill help the women and children tonight, at least there is hope for some of them." He says with a sigh, jumping out of a window and heading into the city. He runs along the roof tops of tall buildings not afraid of falling, the city will guide him to the correct path as it always does. As he patrols the night he sees a young girl, she looked no older than he, on the corner of a street dressed in revealing clothes. The Night Watcher drops down to street level a block away and walks by her, "Hey hun, looking for some fun tonight?" she asks him with a wink. "What are you doing with your life? Do you enjoy this life? I know you're miserable, the men you spend your nights with treat you with no respect. You deserve respect, you deserve better than this, go home to your mother and father, or whatever family it is you have run away from and let them help you. Return to school and make something of yourself." She was stunned for a moment before responding "What gives you the right to ask me these questions? You're no older than me, and you are walking through the same shady part of town that I am, why should I listen to you?" He is not at all stunned by her direct question and responds quite easily "That is quite simple, I came here to help you. My mother died doing what you are doing, it's a miserable life, one I don't want to see anyone else go through so please try and help yourself" She nods not saying anything and at that he scurries up a nearby fire escape making his way back to the rooftops but before he get's far he hears her call up to him again "What's your name?"She asks him, and he smiles at her "They call me The Night Watcher, it is my duty to watch over the city in the night protecting the innocent and helping those that I can." He said leaving her as he ran across rooftops disappearing into the Night.