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[hardpity]

WHO: Peony and UNSUSPECTING LILIES
WHERE: Peony's EVIL LAIR
WHEN: EEEVIL night 76


[ the hot anime lord of the underworld has lured innocent lilies into his LAIR for a sleepover ]

Comments

[abandon_hope]

[ he IS good at hug. it also helps that Aides has about six inches on Kevin, which is a very good hugging ratio. he startles a little? he was not entirely expecting the hug to be good. but after a moment, he slowly puts his arms around Aides in return. ]

[hardpity]

[ releases him after a reasonable hug length ]

See? No sudden trips into the sky required.

[abandon_hope]

[ He sort of rubs at the back of his neck as he steps back. ]

Huh. I guess it was pretty nice then.

[hardpity]

My mom makes it a point to get a hug every time we meet up and every time we split up again...

[abandon_hope]

What's your mom like?

[hardpity]

She's really energetic. Um, my mom is the Chief Engineer of the institute and she's about as crazy with her projects as I am. Maybe a little more. When she gets really into something she'll just work on it nonstop until she's satisfied, so the rest of the engineering department has a hard time keeping up with her... Sometimes she'll walk out of the lab all excited and everyone else will have fallen asleep on the floor...

[abandon_hope]

...

Does she have your hair too? Hephaestus mom...

[hardpity]

No, she married in. I got my hair from my dad.

[abandon_hope]

[ Hephaestus. ]

What's your dad like?

[hardpity]

He's kind of like me, but with less anxiety... um, he's really serious. He works really hard... sometimes when he's dealing with a crisis he'll just sleep under his desk instead of going back to his room or anything because he can't take his attention off it... He's kind of gloomy and pessimistic but because he always plans for the worst-case scenario it makes him pretty well-prepared for emergencies.

[abandon_hope]

[ well that doesn't NOT sound like hades, ]

They both seem pretty nice.

[hardpity]

People keep saying that, but they yell at me whenever I do stuff like turn vacuum cleaners into fully automated attack drones so I dunno.

[abandon_hope]

...

Have you done that?

[hardpity]

Only ONE TIME.

[abandon_hope]

Okay, but - why?

[hardpity]

I was seven and saw an attack drone in a cartoon so I wanted to see if I could do it.

The answer was yes.

[abandon_hope]

[

okay, he laughs ]

[hardpity]

Now when I make drones they have failsafes.

[abandon_hope]

Probably a good idea. I guess.

[ he relaxes a bit. ]

I used to be into dumb things as a kid too.

[hardpity]

Like what?

[abandon_hope]

I - uh -

[ how did he not anticipate the most obvious response to that comment, ]

... Trading cards.

[hardpity]

That's a cool thing to be into. Lots of adults are still into trading cards. Was it the kind with a game you play along with or just collectables?

[abandon_hope]

Well - it started off as just cards? That's what it was back in the 40s. But later on it turned into a game too. With figures.

[hardpity]

Did it have a show? For a while there they were giving every popular card game a show.

[abandon_hope]

I - I don't know? I didn't get cable in the Underworld.