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[orangetoughguy]

Okay picture this: Bill Murray. He's made up like a zombie or whatever but who the hell cares? It's Bill fuckin' Murray and some guy who looks like a rough neck drifter Woody Boyd. Toking up. Together. Playing Ghostbusters.

With me. With motherfuckin' me.

I gotta sleep after car bombs and cereal bars again.

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[orangetoughguy]

You tellin' me you got more skill than drawing buildings?

[This is how Freddy casually gets information about errrrybody.]

[boutant]

Do you have more skill than coming up with terrible nicknames?

[ He'll have to compete with her curiosity for the privilege. ]

[orangetoughguy]

I fix cars and I can name every single planet the Fantastic Four's ever been to.

[He likes him a challenge, especially with little girls. Nevermind that they're only 5 years apart.]

[boutant]

[ Call her a little girl outloud and she'll hurt you. She's at crotch-mangling height. ]

You sound way too proud of that last fact.

[ Don't mind her not answering your question. ]

[orangetoughguy]

Don't piss on the Fantastic Four, at least I'm proud of something.

[Poke and prod, but really it also keeps her talking about stuff that's not her hand because he does read the network and if it were him he'd want to talk about anything else but his accident.]

[boutant]

I'm not pissing on the Fantastic Four. [ She's pissing on his jizzing on the Fantastic Four. ] And I'm proud of things.

[ Oops, here comes her ego. ]

[orangetoughguy]

[After all the pissing on his Bill Murray cheerios gosh guys.]

I'll give you goin' to Paris. That's a freebie. What else you got?

[boutant]

[ Nothing is safe from the piss of the network. ]

It's not just going to Paris. It's living there, studying there, for five years.

Does fluently speaking French count, or is that another freebie?

[orangetoughguy]

[He can barely speak Spanish and he's been in California all his life so...]

Anything not French? Cause I mean for someone who doesn't agree with being called Baguette...

[boutant]

[ Do you even know what a baguette is, Sunny D? ]

Power tools. Bandsaws, drills, welding, you name it.

[orangetoughguy]

[It's like bread and shit in a bag that sticks out of a bicycle basket. But wait! This actually takes him by surprise.]

Bullshit. What do you need to know that shit for?

[boutant]

[ She's so proud. Both of his knowledge of carbohydrates and of herself, for surprising him. ]

Architects do build models, you know. [ There's a slight shrug. ] Besides, I had to take some electives other than art. Why not shop?

[orangetoughguy]

[There's some mild skepticism here but only because he's a dude and dudes are supposed to appear skeptical of chicks who know tools. Secretly he's kind of fascinated because Orange builds models too...not quite the ones she does though.]

Drill press? Panel saw? Sand belt? Arc welding?

[boutant]

A five-year-old could use a drill press. But yes, all of the above.

I'm usually stuck with paper and cardboard these days, though. The time crunch is too intense and materials are too expensive.

[orangetoughguy]

I'm usually stuck with resin, glue, and paints now.

[It's kind of a lie since he's working for Tony Stark too but but but....he just wants to talk about his model kits.]

[boutant]

For fixing cars?

[ That's obviously not the case, but she'll let him share. ]

[orangetoughguy]

No man for putting models together. I got resin kits.

[So proud.] I can do legos too.

[boutant]

What sort of models?

[ Legos. Really? Well... They do work... And they're fairly inexpensive, reusable (though if he's using resin, maybe not so much), and... okay, fine, they're fun. ]

Can I see?

[orangetoughguy]

Sure, I got pictures.

[Photos incoming.

LOOK AT THE SILVER SURFER ON HIS BOARD RIDING UP A COSMIC WAVE. LOOK AT HAL JORDAN WITH HIS ARCH NEMESIS SINESTRO. LOOK AT THIS MOTHERFUCKING LEGO X-WING. AND LOOK AT FREDDIE FUCKING MERCURY.]

[boutant]

[ She's... actually pretty impressed. Orange is clearly a giant nerd, but the fact that she can recognize over half of these figures isn't doing her any favors in that department, either.

And then she gets an idea. ]

How many more legos do you have?

[orangetoughguy]

A couple buckets?

[Yes. Buckets.] Why?

[boutant]

How do you feel about large-scale models? Say... a whole city?

[orangetoughguy]

Are we talkin' Metropolis or Gotham?

[boutant]

Too many explosions to keep track of. [ She saw The Dark Knight, okay. ] How about this one?

[orangetoughguy]

This place? I guess you can try the topside, I don't know anybody who's been around the underground enough to map it.