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[plasticbow]

[The feed opens up to Hearth, flat-faced as usual, clad (as always) in his candy-striped scarf and leather jacket. He shifts the view a bit to a girl standing next to him. Annabeth, clad in a simple t-shirt and jean shorts, gives a quick wave to the camera, looking…excited? Crazy? who knows if there’s a difference.

[She soon ducks out of the camera’s view, and the device turns back to Hearth. He then puts the camera back on himself and holds up one finger - the universal signal for but wait, there's more. He fumbles with his communicator for a minute, switching away from selfie-mode to reveal a positively gigantic LEGO display that very nearly fills the entirety of Fauxhalla's main living room.

[But wait. There's more.

[The camera slowly starts to move through the LEGO-city, following what are most likely very careful steps from Hearth as he makes his way through the city-scape. The handiwork is impeccable, what is probably hours and hours of work and attention paid to building some kind of crazy mismatch of Paris, Rome, New York, San Francisco, Boston, and then some new stuff thrown in that hasn’t actually been made yet?

[This continues through the room, down a hall, into another room that Hearth doesn’t walk into, and then back into the kind of main room/living room of Fauxhalla.]

I don’t know, Hearth - this took a while...[Annabeth’s voice comes from off-screen somewhere, but the feed continues, creeping around the corner to find Annabeth standing in the middle of the room holding what seems to be a wooden baseball bat.

[Finally, after a bit more fumbling with the camera, the feed seems to rest. Hearth steps back into view beside Annabeth, briefly crouching down to make sure that the communicator is picking up both he and Annabeth, as well as their massive LEGO utopia. He then straightens, reaches out of frame for a moment, and returns with a baseball bat of his own. He glances to Annabeth and then back at the camera, and very nearly seems to smirk. Not two seconds later and he's raising the bat high above his head and giving it a hardy swing against one of the nearest buildings, effectively shattering it into a thousand plastic pieces.

[The feed holds for a moment while Annabeth continues to look down at the bat. Then, after a second, she lets out a sigh and raises the bat in her own hands above her head, bringing it down on another section of the city.

[Hearth and Annabeth look back to each other, sharing a look, before they both raise the bats again and go back to swinging.]

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[fehus]

[THE MOST AGONISED ANYONE HAS EVER HEARD MAGNUS CHASE ON THE NETWORK;]

No! No! You promised you'd let me Godzilla! You promised!

[plasticbow]

[Hearth cannot hear your agony and he is indifferent to your suffering.]

Sleep. Lose. ["You snooze, you lose."

[He takes another swing at a nearby tower.]

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[athnvas]

You also said you were going to be home an hour ago.

[ SORRY MAGNUS BUT SHE COULD ONLY STALL HEARTH FOR SO LONG.... ]

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[nightmarist]

This is pornography.

[plasticbow]

[Hearth stares.

[Blinks.

[Turns and goes back to smashing towers.]

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[fehus]

Show me your search history?

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[disentombs]

More like a snuff film.

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[athnvas]

[ . . . . . . she kind of hates that a lot. like a lot a lot. but also? ]

Credit card info.

[ this doesn't all happen for free if you're going to get gross about it. :|| ]

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[perfectible]

But why?

[plasticbow]

[Hearth raises his eyebrows a bit, shrugs.]

Feels good.

Try it.

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[halloflamer]

[tone deaf;]

Why are you playing with kids toys?

[plasticbow]

[...

[He literally doesn't even know what to say to you right now.]

F-U-N.

New thing. Try it.

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[athnvas]

Pretty sure there's no age limit, for one, and for two- how old are you supposed to be?

[ judge and be judged in return. ]

[baphlement]

I, for one, support your destructive tendencies.

[plasticbow]

[He switches to text eventually, because, believe it or not, it's actually harder to sign with one hand than it is to type with one, and he's not about to let go of this bat.

[He keeps the video rolling, though.]

At least someone understands.

[fehus]

You're not going to be stepping on itty bitty legos for years, possibly centuries to come. Your support is meaningless.

[sanguinespell]

Yeah, I guess if anybody would...

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[pocketfulof]

Well...that seems cathartic.

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[athnvas]

Despite all odds....

[ she can admit when she's wrong, after all. ]

The clean-up is going to be the roughest part, but kind of worth it?

[plasticbow]

[He turns back to face the video just in time to catch "cathartic". Slightly breathless, he tucks the bat under his arm and signs:]

Feels A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.

VIDEO.

[thirdstrike]

[ Starry-eyed, voice full of breathless delight and awe: ]

Whoa. Awesome. How long did that take?!

VIDEO.

[athnvas]

[ she sits and thinks for a moment like she's counting off a list in her head. ]

A few weeks, mostly because I had work so we could only work a couple of hours a day?

[canonized_demon]

Daaaaamn son. Looks like a good time.

[plasticbow]

Feels A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.

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[lesterzeppelin]

[ Don't mind Lester all propped up by the camera with a bowl of popcorn. Where did he obtain it? How quickly is he munching on it?? Only Mount Olympus knows. ]

What did those poor Legos ever do to you?

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[athnvas]

[ oh dear hera. ]

Absolutely nothing. But we had to be efficient with our time to start the rebuild.

[sanguinespell]

Oh god, you're all like this.

[She'd have believed this from Magnus or Alex, but somehow she expected slightly better from Annabeth or Hearth?

At least Boy Nico probably wouldn't do this. Probably.]

[athnvas]

No, we're not.

[ c'mon nico give your girl a little more of a chance!!! ]

But it's also not that bad. Have you tried it?