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[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]

You don't have to cartwheel in military school? Go figure.

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[thirdstrike]

Yeah, because it's military school, not cheerleading camp.

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[fehus]

Okay, I'm just saying, you both get yelled at by power tripping authority figures, wear highly fetishized uniforms, chant, and do maneuvers in unison. And there's a worrying interest in sports?

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[thirdstrike]

Fitness and sports aren't the same thing.

[ ... But the rest is accurate. ]

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[fehus]

Pom poms and guns. Also similar.

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[thirdstrike]

You've really thought about this, haven't you?

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[fehus]

I'm thinking about it now. And how funny you'd look cheering GO TIGERS! and doing a high kick.

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[thirdstrike]

I don't like sports enough to put on a skirt for them. Maybe if guns really were involved-- or at least flare-guns.

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[fehus]

-- I think you just came up with a way to make cheerleading like, way, way better.

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[thirdstrike]

Way better and way hotter.

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[fehus]

Literally.

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[thirdstrike]

You think they'd need lighter uniforms?

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[fehus]

I think they'd need lighters.

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[thirdstrike]

What the fuck, are you trying to turn me on?

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[fehus]

Gross? Keep your puny mortal boner under control.

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[thirdstrike]

Can't. It's not like I've been getting any lately.

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[fehus]

That sounds like a personal problem. Weren't you seeing a girl...?

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[thirdstrike]

It is a personal problem-- the only girls I've been seeing here are the ones I've been trying to teach how to fight. It sucks!

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[fehus]

You seemed friendly with one of the blond ones.

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[thirdstrike]

Maybe. I dunno. [ If Magnus means Beth, Carl isn't sure she likes him very much. ] Though it would be nice getting to make a girl breakfast for a change.

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[fehus]

Who are you making breakfast for? Your cousin? Yee -- oh. I do that too.

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[thirdstrike]

My cousin? Pfft, hell no-- for Mickey, mostly. And whoever else is in our house. You make breakfast for your cousin?

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[fehus]

Wait, I thought Mickey was your cousin. -- Yes. And whoever else is in our house.

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[thirdstrike]

What?! Mickey's not my cousin, he just dated my brother! Wait, who's your cousin?

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[fehus]

Oh. Uh, Annabeth Chase. The girl with the bat.