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[thekingofghosts]

WHO: Nico di Angelo thekingofghosts & OPEN to anyone who wanders by!
WHERE: Out on the streets.
WHEN: After that storm on Monday. 8Db Sometime during the night.
WARNINGS: None!
SUMMARY: Nico + three skeletons are trying to be heroic (ish) and are probably actually just super creepy instead.
FORMAT: WHATEVER YOU WANT I'LL MIMIC. 8Db

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[wisecracka]

"Hey, whoa! Do you have a permit for that?"

A long pause, "Just kidding. Uh. Don't kill me."

[thekingofghosts]

Nico glances up, and promptly makes a face.

It's the 'adults are saying dumb things to me' face. The skeletons continue digging. "What's that supposed to mean?" He might sound just a touch offended.

[wisecracka]

"Err, it was a joke. I didn't mean anything by it. --Surprisingly that's not the worst first impression I've ever made, if you can believe it."

Myron rubbed his nose, since it was freezing cold and he refused to wear a balaclava or anything that might wreck his outfit, so his extremities were protesting. "Are they yours?"

[thekingofghosts]

Nico looks the most unimpressed ever. He is a brat, by the way. "Whatever."

At that motion, he can't help but give a sympathy sniffle - even in properly warm clothes it is freezing, and he can't easily rub his own nose through the face guard. He does glance down at his theme appropriate attire before looking back up at Myron, though. "... Yeah?"

[saylikewhat]

She's just kind of... swooping over the City like a noodley bat, as she does, when she spots something interesting down below. Marceline notices the skeletons way before Nico, since skeletal armies are kind of her bread and butter; her interest is immediately piqued, because another dead-raising type in the City? Awesome. Or maybe terrible! It all depends on whether they're cool or not.

This means that when she swoops down headfirst in a lazy spiral, coming to a stop right above the current car he's working on, she almost sounds polite and normal! Normal except for the fact that she's hanging in midair with one hand propped under her chin.

"Having fun there?"

[thekingofghosts]

Well, Nico didn't see that coming.

"Uh." He blinks up at the sudden appearance of a wild Floating Vampire, baffled for a split second before remembering to shrug nonchalantly to save face. With the reactions he resigned himself to getting in the City, this is a pleasant - if weird - change, so he just turns back to pointedly stare at the snow drifts and partially freed car he'd been working on. "... Not really."

But it beats sitting around bored, he can't complain that much.

[saylikewhat]

She chuckles a little under her breath, mostly just because she can.

"Well, yeah, if you're gonna be all boring about it." There goes the politeness, but her tone of voice is still friendly, and she smiles as she scopes out the skeletons a little more. It looks like she's thinking about something! Something deep. "I bet they'd look better with hats."

[doubleoohbaby]

Bond is out helping people too-- Just kidding! As if he'd be helpful. Hilarious. No, he's just out because he's the sort of guy he walks around at night, no doubt having just done some drink, sexing or killing. Possibly all of the above. Maybe not at the same time though.

At least he's suitably dressed for the occasion, suited, but with a smart coat on over the top, the collar hitched up to protect his neck and hands in pockets as he wanders past and... stops. Because the costume and the skeletons are an odd sight, even for this city.

"Are they getting practice for when Hell freezes over?"

[thekingofghosts]

"No," Nico interjects automatically.

Then he realizes he's talking to somebody and his brow furrows as he turns to look; though he's never actually seen Bond before, after a few months he's gotten pretty good at recognizing voices almost as well as faces from previous conversations.

Plus there's that bad humor. It's unmistakable! "... James?" And wow that feels weird, but he'd said not to call him Mr. Bond...

[doubleoohbaby]

"Ah, I barely recognised you under all that." Not that there's many other small summoner types he knows with an affinity for Greek culture. At least he now knows for definite.

"Doesn't this count as child labour...?

[thekingofghosts]

"... Oh." Right, that was the point of the disguise, Nico. Smooth move.

He pokes at the snow a few times with the tip of his shovel, sniffling because it's hard to rub his nose through his face guard. "Feels like it." He pauses, and then shrugs. "I got bored though." He glances up at Bond again, squinting slightly. "What are you doing out at... uh, now, anyway?"

[girlyboywonder]

[...That guy? Looks pretty cool. The skeletons are neat, but anyone can do skeletons. She's more impressed by that totally sweet armor (even if it's muffled by a coat). And, on the upside of wearing a pseudo-hero-disguise, she doesn't place him as that kid she's working on stalking. Disguise successful! This run-in is pure happenstance (for once).

From atop a nearby one-story building, perched at the edge of the roof-] Heya, spud. Need any more hands?

[thekingofghosts]

[Nico starts in surprise, glancing up the street, then down the street... then behind himself for good measure, even though it sounded like it came from somewhere to his front. He's sure he knows that voice. He's also pretty sure that there's no one else on the face of the planet that calls people "spud."] Wha..

[Finally, he thinks to look up at the building's rooftop, pulling off his helmet because it's sorta hard to tilt your head back with one on.] ... No. [Aaand now he's just staring.] Why are you up there?

[girlyboywonder]

[...oh. well. Now she recognizes him. Oops. There's a second or two of surprised chagrin before she recovers and pulls up the cheeky little half a smirk again. She can totally play it cool.]

Good view. Nice atmosphere. Great vantage for surprise snowball fights. What're you down there for?

[thekingofghosts]

[Nico wrinkles his nose, glancing pointedly around again.] Everyone is down here.

[Take that, ninja girl! He's totally not just jealous that he has no idea how to run around on rooftops or anything. So there!]

[reluctantlegend]

Josh had snuck out to patrol, which was ridiculous. Who has to sneak out to go do good deeds? He had forgone jumping from rooftops tonight though, since with all the snow they were rather slick and he found out the hard way it's hard to stop when jumping from one roof to other.

When he saw the skeletons though, he was glad he had gone street level. How often do you see skeletons digging out snow? Dressed in his own not very disguise-y costume of jeans, t-shirt, and trench coat Josh walked up to the group.

"That's pretty cool."

[thekingofghosts]

Nico looks surprised - well, his body language suggests that he does, anyway. "... You think so?" He's totally not used to good reactions, still, which is why he's out here in the middle of the night, instead of waiting for daylight.

Hey, wait. He totally recognizes this guy.

"You're-" he pulls off his helmet while he's thinking, thus proving that he completely misses the point of disguises by pulling them off the second he meets anybody, "Josh, right?"

[reluctantlegend]

As soon as the other boy takes off his helmet, Josh recognized him as someone he'd talked to a few times. Which, probably shouldn't have been a surprise since he doubted a native of this world would be controlling skeletons.

"Yeah, and you're Nico, right?" he asked. "And yeah, this is really cool of you to do."

[thekingofghosts]

"Yeah? I mean- thanks." He shrugs sheepishly, scuffing his foot against the snowy pavement. It really means a lot that Josh thinks so, since for the past half hour he has just felt silly and kinda cold. "I couldn't really think of anything else. I mean, I can't fight mor- er, regular... crime. I don't even know, like, most laws."