villainy commenced [[1x1 w/ the-nug-king & hexspecs!]]

[grey matter]

"No, no, considering we found an seemingly replenishing pile of scrap things and Lazarus's cousin - oh, speaking of that, he has a villain cousin - can probably send us materials since she also makes things and will probably be visiting the Pile as well," Lucas said. "So we've managed to spark some agreement or whatever..."

"Yep, and she's older than me despite appearing in Inamonth after me. It was confusing... Speaking of the things she makes, I convinced her to make me these Heelyboots but then I realized I absolutely wanted to give Lucas some so here we are..."

"I did find it rather out of the blue when you asked me about my shoe size..."

"Well, it was planned to be a surprise, and it was a surprise."

"And so it was... oh, yeah, I still need to give the thing to you..."

"You can go grab it if you want and we can stay here if Three isn't too busy?"


[[Edit because I got caught up in writing: yES! Lucas and Lazarus would be... good parents yet incompetent. Like, they would lose the kid in a ball pit and go panic mode lol]]

[[EDIT 2: had an amazing idea for Lazarus being a professor of adapting to other worlds and stuff and his class would be super fun whilst also being super intense due to lots of simulation helmet use and like... I'll describe more soon, maybe in a doc, but like, I had a super idea for this.]]

[the-nug-king]

"Your boots continue to be awful. I, however, am free for the next half hour, luckily."

((Good!! Like Three's whole Thing is competence and also they'd be determined to not end up like Maedryn, and would read like 200 parenting books and be very anxious about it all. I just need to like, find a way to drop a kid on them, because while I think they'd enjoy parenthood once they got into it, they definitely don't think they Want kids.))

[grey matter]

"Okay, cool, I'm gonna run and grab all that... be right back," Lucas said, leaving Lazarus and Three alone.

"So... uh..." Lazarus tried to think of something to say to fill the gap. Would he even click with Three without Lucas around to bridge them? Well... there was that time he teleported in, so it'd probably be fine... except for the fact that he couldn't think of anything else to say after he and Lucas managed to smoothly mention just about everything of interest. "...man, I'm bad at aimless small talk..."

[[I present... professor xanthos's very intense yet somehow fun class about being adaptable in other universes. Their kid would be like "yeah it's just one of the dads's classes I'll breeze through it... hOLY-"
edit: Lazarus eventually learns how to small talk because aimless small talk is a Key Adaptability Skill-]]

[the-nug-king]

"I dislike small talk anyway. So. I'm not sure how much about me Lucas has shared with you, but please don't tell anyone else anything about me."

((Oh nice!!))

[grey matter]

"You have my word," Lazarus nodded. "I don't know the most about you, just some bits and pieces of you being Lucas's friend and a bit on some time you played five-dimensional chess. You... might know more about me, but I wouldn't know because Lucas doesn't tell me what he tells others about me and- now that I think about it, it isn't like we have too many people to talk to anyways..."

[the-nug-king]

"Well, thank you. I've heard about your history with Lucas, not much more than that. And you like poetry, and such."

[grey matter]

"So... normal-ish stuff, er- yeah, ish. That seems within reason... Say, Lucas never said exactly how you guys met... so how did you?"

[the-nug-king]

"I needed to know what he was doing in the Academy over the holidays, as part of my security duties. He then continued to interact with me."

[grey matter]

"Huh. Guess... guess he saw an opportunity. He probably already told you the story of how we met then, maybe? You did say 'history' in there..."

[the-nug-king]

((Help I don't remember if Three has heard the First Meeting story?? they Would remember though))