♌ A True Hat-trick - [OPEN]

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who: Leo and Anyone
what: hat shenanigans/pranking
when: All week during the curse week starting 6/17.
where: All around Vatheon - starting in the plaza, but feel free to have your character run into him anywhere public.
style: Starting with prose, but will change to match.
status: OPEN

Leo loved a good prank. He hated the last curse, but this one? Was a whole other bag of tricks. Or more accurately a bag of tricky hats. When the mark had glowed last night he hoped he wouldn't be affected by whatever wicked scheme the scientists could come up with to make his (and everyone else's) life hell.

He wasn't expecting this. But oh, was he loving it. The first hat he found was a thinking cap. He was already a pretty good thinker, but the idea of a thinking cap sounded promising, so he put it on and immediately began coming up with the best ideas! (Or what he thought were the best ideas.) He wrote them all down on a pad of paper as they came to him. But one idea stood out from the rest!

See, he had just come across the table in the plaza and it was piled with hats! All sorts of hats! It would be a lot of fun to try them all on. He went to remove the thinking cap to try on a space helmet. He quickly realized that he could not remove it. But, maybe he could put it on someone else. And how awesome of a prank would it be to go around putting these hats on other people? He picked out an array of interesting hats and began putting them into his tool belt.

A supply of hats was necessary to pick from to prank anyone he came across. And surely people would do everything they could to avoid the plaza once they caught wind of the curse, so he needed that supply to be mobile and stealthy.

[ooc: Let me know in an ooc note whether or not you want him to be able to get a hat(s) onto your character. I'm up for both successful and failed pranks as well as your character pranking Leo in return!]

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The hallway Dirk leads Leo down heads further into the house, and the pillow clutter of the living room abates, left either clean, or just unused. When Dirk stops, it's at the door of one of the bedrooms, and when he opens it, he gestures for Leo to come in behind him. It's pretty obviously his bedroom, from the little orange hat symbol on the door, and the shuriken embedded in it, not to mention the turntables visible against the far wall.

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Leo of course looks around the room as he enters it, taking in how full of things it is and how homey it really feels. His room here is pretty stark in comparison. But it's what he's used to, aside from the time spent in Cabin 9 at camp. His little private room there was pretty awesome. But it's not like any of that actually had belonged to him.

After spending 7 years alternating between foster homes and the street, he'd learned to live with what could fit in a backpack. It was only since he got here that he's really started to amass more than that.

His external reaction of course was a very low key, "So this is your room?"

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A year's worth of stuff has accumulated in Dirk's, not to mention he's used to living in one place, with no chance of moving. It's why the walls are covered with posters, and his things, although neat, are spread out all over the room.

"No, this is Jane's room," he says, deadpan, as he moves further into the room. "How much do you give a shit about fighting?" he asks finally, as he makes his way over toward a laid out pile of papers.

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If Leo were feeling himself he'd have elbowed Dirk and laughed but instead he just went with the laidback approach to appreciating sarcastic comments. Which was to say he didn't comment or react to it at all.

"Fighting's important." And it was. He'd been practicing with Annabeth, Summoner and on his own for the last month or so.

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"Yeah, but are you good at it?" Dirk looks at Leo with his arms crossed. "And do you have any weapons that aren't that bronze shit? It's not going to do you shit if you get into a fight here."

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"I can hold my own in a fight. And none of my weapons are made from celestial bronze."

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"Yeah? Then what do you fight with when you're not being sifu hotman? You told me what your pal Percy fights with, but you never said anything about what you use."

He had never taken Leo not carrying a weapon around as a sign that he didn't use one. Dirk was used to strife portfolios, where not carrying something around doesn't mean anything about the way a person fought.

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"Up close? Hammers, usually. Sometimes one, other times two. I've fought with a wrench and a circular saw before. I get what I need from my tool belt. From a distance I make remote controls to use with whatever machines are in the area."

Leo says all of this matter-of-factly instead of getting all hyped up about it. But at least what he's saying doesn't differ much except in tone from normal.

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This, Dirk isn't much sure about, being different from normal, because it isn't a topic they've really covered before. It's reaching a record for the most forced casual conversation they've ever had. "You ever thought about choosing a dedicated one?"

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"I've made some designs for one, but it's more like a swiss army knife of weapons and can only be made with celestial bronze." This is something that Leo should sound thrilled about, hands moving as he talks and filling in all sorts of details about it. But it's said with a shrug of his shoulders like it's no big deal instead of incredibly awesome and creative.

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"Like I'm surprised. What stopped you from making it?" Other than this ridiculous mood he seems to have gotten himself into.

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"Not done tweaking the design yet. And like you said, it's not much use here."

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"There could be a use to it." Somewhere in the back of his multitasking head, Dirk makes a note to bug Leo about those designs, sometime when he's not acting so uninterested. He bets it could have a lot of potential. "If you reconsider, I could lend you a hand in practicing. Or a sword, as it were."

An offer of help in improving from Dirk is a sign of Dirk's esteem. Of course, if Leo takes him up on it, he may regret accepting.

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"We can do that anyway." It's not like he hasn't fought hammer to sword before. And he's got that dagger that his mun totally forgot about. He's seen Dirk's boner-inducing awesome sword skills, so he knows that he's nowhere near any good to hold up against a full-out onslaught from Dirk, but maybe he'll take it a little easy on him in practice.

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And there's a brief smirk on Dirk's face. "Sure. Just give me a ring and I'll make your wildest dreams come true."

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Leo rolls his eyes and it's probably the most genuine thing he's done the entire time he's been here at Dirk's today. Even normal, non hipster Leo would have rolled his eyes at that comment. "Yeah, okay dude.