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[ladybro]

Who: Kate Bishop and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Planetside
When: This morning

[ kate is down on the planet, hair tied back with a light-coloured bandanna. she's holding the device selfie-style -- a shooting aesthetic born of the snapchat and periscope generation. ]

Do any of you know the story of the one red paperclip? Some guy up in Canada started with a paperclip, which he traded for a pen, and then traded that pen for a hand-made doorknob, and then that for a camping stove (plus fuel). And he kept going until fourteen trades after the red paperclip... he got a house. A whole futzing house.

Well, my one red paperclip was a piece of foil-wrapped gum I was holding onto since the day I arrived. Two votive candles, one fishtail braid, some dice, a repaired rope bridge, wooden shoes, and a barrel of mead later? [ her free hand reaches for something off-screen, which turns out to be a simple wooden bow. ] This is my whole futzing house. Suck it, whatever intergalactic bank handles our fleet credits. Suck it.

[ later, she can be found celebrating her minor economic victory down at the BEACH -- sunbathing, or swimming, or just diverting herself by building odd shapes in the sand. find her there, or cooling off in the evening at one of the taverns -- a little sunburned, but looking thoroughly satisfied. ]

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[winn]

[ with eyes as big as they can get. ]

That. Is awesome. How's it handle? Oh - oh - and I got something for you too - [ bouncing with excitement. ]

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[ladybro]

It handles about as primitively as one might expect. But that's okay -- it'll get the job done. [ not that she has any jobs in mind, and not that she even stays focused after winn drops that generosity bomb on her.

her eyes are pretty big now, too. ] Are you saying what I think you're saying?

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[winn]

You bet your bow I am.

[ one supersuit: completed. ]

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[ladybro]

Winn, you devilish genius. [ so? pleased. ] When can I see it?

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[bullhorned]

He'd arrived on the beach with two buckets. This would have seemed like the sort of thing that would be conducive to playing in the sand, if it wasn't a solid wooden bucket and were it not for the fact that Gendry was squinting in the sun whilst Gendry was completely dressed for a day's labor. But he had not yet begun to filling either of them before he was suddenly gaping. It was unclear if it was over the sculptures in the sand or the fact that women seemed to be cavorting about in less than their smallclothes.

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[ladybro]

As far as Kate was concerned, she appeared perfectly respectable. After all, it wasn't as though she was on the clock. So, (naturally), she mistook the strange guy's expression for shock-and-awe at her wonderful Empire Sand Building. Kate dusted grains of sand off her palms and rose to her feet.

"Pretty impressive, isn't she? And that's just from memory." Her smile was wide.

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[bullhorned]

Ah. Gendry looked at that now. As someone who was well practiced in making things, he could see some work had went into this. He even knelt down to inspect the ridges along the wall. The real building must be impressive, was the conclusion he was forced to draw. Working with the sand wasn't so bad either.

"It won't last," he commented mildly. "Won't take much to knock it down."

He didn't really see the point in an adult making something like this.

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[ladybro]

"That's kinda the point."

Her brows raised. Kate crossed her arms -- not combative, per se. But a comfortable, closed-off piece of body language. And yet she felt a soaring bit of pride when she noticed how carefully he examined the structure. Actions, after all, spoke louder than words. He can't be that unimpressed with it if he'd go so far as to kneel in the sand to check it out.

A+, Katie.

"It's not about keeping it forever."

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[onlyanapple]

So you managed to game the system. Colour me impressed.

[He actually does sound impressed. He approves of anyone flipping The Man the bird, honestly.]

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[ladybro]

What is the colour of being impressed, anyway? I'm thinking it might be a cool cucumber-y green. A gentler colour than envy.

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[onlyanapple]

You know, I never thought of it until just now. That colour works, though. Not quite envious, but it's close enough to recognise someone's managed to do something you haven't.

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[ladybro]

Like envy, only nicer. Yeah. It works.

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[vagabond_code]

[That? -- That looked a lot like the bow Clint had been using these past couple weeks. His was on loan, of course, or at least he assumed the hunters of the village wanted it back. Probably. He'd have to ask them. Meanwhile, it was a relief to know that at least one member of team Hawkeye could carry their weapon-of-choice on board the ships of the fleet.]

Good going, Kate. There's a lesson for all of us in there somewhere.

[It was something like...
-- next time just buy a barrel of mead in the first place, and trade that for the bow. Or maybe it was something along the lines of...
-- after all these years and countless examples to draw from, enthusiastic, energetic, capable young women still failed to realize why it was that people would almost always make trades in their favor. Just how many hearts did she break in the course of this escalating series of exchanges?]

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[ladybro]

[ a lesson? good grief. but even clint can't put a damper on her mood. so: ]

Wanna help me take it for a spin tomorrow?

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[vagabond_code]

Really? You c'n wait that long?

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[ladybro]

Yeah, I can wait. [ plus she has no arrows. ] We don't all have the patience and poise of a five year old.

[huaaaaagh]

[So, beaches. They're awesome. Flying? Also awesome. The downside of putting the two together is that beaches, when sunny, are hot, and being high in the air is also hot. Add to that the fact that Kirito has a tendency to wear head-to-toe leather outfits means he's kind of dying in the air as he flies by.

That's why, while Kate's busy working away at her sand sculptures, she might hear a soft, flute-like noise from above about two seconds before a blur of black and grey dive-bombs into the ocean with a mighty splash.

He'll surface about ten or fifteen seconds later with a laughing gasp, shaking saltwater out of his ears.]

Whew...!

[ladybro]

[ it's a bird! it's a plane! it's...some sorta elf-dude?

at a distance, all she can see of the bobbing figure in the water is a set of impressive ears. but after a 'dive' like that, she can't help but feel a surge of concern. had the fall been intentional? kate can't tell. from so far away, the laughing gasps might actually sound like...normal gasps.

so she wastes no time and starts running into the surf. ]

[huaaaaagh]

[He's probably not helping her concerns any, since he's now floating face-up in the water, eyes closed, soaking in the cooling sensation of ocean water. He doesn't even register the splashing sound until she's almost upon him, since his ears are half-submerged, and when he catches it, he tilts his head to see what's up.]

...Oh, he-

[And now he's spluttering, because idiot, don't try to talk at that angle.]

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[beathach]

[have some polite and impressed applause, Kate]

Congratulations. Does this mean we'll get a demonstration?

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[ladybro]

Sure. [ a mock bow. ] One I find some arrows to demonstrate, too.

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[beathach]

Ah - yeah, those would be required too, huh.

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[unbearablynaive]

Congratulations on your acquisition. I presume it's fully functional?

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[ladybro]

Affirmative. I made sure to try it before I bought it.

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[unbearablynaive]

Very good, then.

I suppose I never did ask if archery was your specialty as Hawkeye, but it's good to know that assumption wasn't incorrect.