Drinking it up

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Well, Ruffnut would be anyway. Hit Girl couldn't and definitely wouldn't drink anything alcoholic: as far as she knew, drinking dulled the senses, and that was something she couldn't afford. Maintaining the persona of two different people on the ship was no easy job, and it required her remembering herself and what she could and could not say.

Instead, she'd save a spot for her sparring partner to pop over and talk and converse. If the barmaid came over, she guessed she could order a soda or something. If anyone else wanted to converse with a ten year old girl wearing a superhero outfit though, they were more than welcome.

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[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"Yo!" Ruffnut slid into place with a tankard of Ale having grabbed it from the bar before she spotted Hitgirl. "Oh you don't have a drink yet? You can have mine if you want I'll go get another." She was in a pretty good mood despite the podpop having once again disappointed her.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"I'm ten. No one's gonna serve me a drink, and even if you got one for me they'd just take it away," Hit Girl answered. "Get another one for yourself though, I'll get something to drink."

She motioned the bartender. "Virgin Pina Colada, I guess, and keep 'em coming."

If she couldn't drink, a sugar high would have to do.

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut ordered a mead wanting to see if she preferred it to the ale that she sipped from after the bartender left.

"It's not like home, but it's better then nothing." She decided setting the mug down, "Where I come from kids your age are allowed to drink, but you learn fast how much is too much. There's no room for mistakes when the dragons come." She grinned as a quick memory of the first time Tuffnut had had too much flashed through her mind. He woke up the next morning ill and took half the day to do his chores.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Sucked to not be able to enjoy the same thing as Ruffnut, but try telling that to the beer patrons. Like she was going to overdrink like an adult would: as far as she was concerned, they caused enough trouble when they were sober.

"I can imagine. I know that kids my age get drunk a lot faster than adults do, so they hold off on giving us anything. Also, I figure they don't want alcoholic heroes, can't blame them. Would be nice though, to be thought if as a hero and not just some little girl playing hero in a suit, but I'll fix that soon enough."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"What the hell do they know?" Ruffnut waved her hand dismissively, "Back home the adults would probably love you for all the butt you kick." She smirked and sipped her beer. "You could probably take down four or five dragons with those gun things." There was a half a beat before she added, "Um but we don't fight dragons anymore so yeah."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Not a lot," Hit Girl said, not giving the adults the benefit of the doubt. "I already know that people here are going to either be bothered by how I fight or be ok with it, but those OK are pretty few."

She laughed. "I kinda prefer taking out corrupt humans, to be honest. Dragons have never done a thing to me."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"Well you can put a new catagory up there. People who think how you fight is awesome." She laughed and gave Hitgirl a thumbs up, "I bet those wimps who are uncomfortable with it would be impressed if they knew half the crap you had to do to get so fast or strong."

Anther sip, "They were stealing our food but like I said, that's been taken care of." She paused and added, "Well I guess now we gotta save the dragons by whupping the OHM."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"I'm not out to impress anyone. I mean, come on, the current situation is what it is: there's evil aliens coming to kill us. What I wanna know is why everyone isn't rushing off to do training, or trying to learn what they can about schematics. Instead, we have councils and ship captains and shit. Well I didn't vote for anyone, I don't know the face of the so-called captain, and as far as I can tell, they've done a pretty piss poor job."

She took an annoyed swig of her drink and jammed it on the table. "I mean, how do I even know I can trust the people on the ship? Stacy supposedly protects everyone except when you go down into the city. So with that, I mean, whose safe? As far as I can tell, you have to make your own rules in this dump."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"Where I come from..." Ruffnut started with a very serious look, "The strongest person in the tribe becomes leader, and usually it's passed down from leader to kin unless someone challenges them. I would have never believed that Hiccup would be a leader like his father before we took on the queen of the dragons." She had a bit of a dreamy look as she remembered the day that she and the rest of the viking teens had fought along side the warriors.

"Anyway, everyone has a job in the village and if you're too weak or unable to fight when the time comes you stay out of the way and do stuff like, put out fires and stuff."

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Dean stopped by after Meet and Greet. Meeting Merlin was surreal and he could use a drink. He then gave a curious eye to the kid in the superhero outfit though.

"Don't you guys usually hang out at that clubhouse joint in the city?"

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl looked up with a glare, and recognized Dean. She would have said hi, then remembered that they had never met with her in costume. She wasn't about to break that rule now.

"I'm too old for club houses, though I think those guys might be a little insulted with you calling it that. But if you're talking about those Outsiders, then no. I work on my own."

She sighed. What could she actually drink here?

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Dean shrugged as he ordered a beer, "Eh, they seem pretty laid back for superheroes, they'll deal. So more of a lone wolf deal? Nothing wrong with that, but better to have backup sometimes."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

She shrugged. "I only attended one of the meetings. They have a little to learn, but I can see a few of 'em have the stuff. There's beastboy, the water girl, that stuttering kid, the elf chick...they just gotta get those other guys strong, I guess."

She shrugged. "Actually, I have someone who has my back. Got hers too: not every day you have a kick ass viking training alongside you, right?"

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

He gave an approving look at that, "A bad ass Viking? Yeah, can't say I have. Usually my brother's watching my back, but only when I'm not watching his. And that's rare when I'm not."

Dean nodded, "I haven't spoken with them much. Seen some of them at training sessions, not bad for starting out. Depends on what you're facing though."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Lucky you have family here then," Hit Girl said, getting a pang of sadness, but not showing it. "But yeah, there are a few of them on the ship, and I think I'm lucky to know one of the ones that are fun as hell."

She nodded. "I've seen some on the battlefield, actually. Again, most of them have powers and magic or whatever, tends to make things a little harder to compare with though."

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

"Tell me about it," he readily agreed as he sipped his beer. "Was just me and my brother left for blood family anyway." It was much harder before Sam woke up, that was the truth. And he hoped neither of them got repodded or one before the other.

"I've heard about one of them, Hiccup? Haven't had a chance to talk with any of them though."

He snorted and shook his head, "Yeah well, powers and magic ain't everything. Usually as long as you got a good weapon, you're golden."

Dean glanced over at her, "So what are you having? I know Kang and Kaylee both."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Don't think I'll be seeing any family here unless Stacy brings back the dead," Hit Girl said. "But glad you guys are close."

Hit Girl gave a little bit of a grin. "That guy was pretty cool, actually. But not him, a girl from his world, Ruffnut. If you meet her, trust me, you'll know. She has...spirit."

She sighed. "Yeah, but big drawback there is that you need ammo. It's why it never hurts to have something to fall back on."

But MAN, it felt good to talk to someone who used weapons regularly and kicked ass with them.

She shrugged. "I dunno. I don't think they'll give me beer, so I'll have to settle for a sugar drink or something if they have it."

[supersonicracer.livejournal.com]

Sonic had seen some odd stuff in his life. Running past the Drunken Dragon, he'd seen another - a kid dressed up as a super hero in a bar. The hedgehog couldn't help but blink before shrugging and entering, taking a chair, setting it by Hit Girl... before going off and grabbing another chair, stacking it on top and finally sitting down, propping his feet up.

"So, lemme guess - you're Cosplay Girl, aren't you?" Sonic said, throwing caution to the wind.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit girl looked up-and saw a bright blue hedgehog, a familiar one at that, actually talking to her. Not only that, it was actually trying to insult her too. HER. Well, she could play along.

"If you wanna be that familiar, I guess I could call you anthropomorphic manifestation," she said. "Far as I know, hedgehogs aren't this big or blue. Get back into my imagination."

She knew he was real of course, but she also knew that she didn't like her outfit being called cosplay. That was what virgin geeks did.

[supersonicracer.livejournal.com]

Sonic looked at Hit Girl out of the corner of his eyes... and grinned. Dished it as well as she took it. Impressive!

"If I'm part of your imagination, I hate to see what happens when you really try!" he said.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"There's a lot of damn unpleasant things when I try," Hit Girl replied, taking a drink. "So what are you zooming around here for? Are hedgehogs even allowed to drink?"

[supersonicracer.livejournal.com]

Sonic shrugged. "Eh, just running around the city, see what awesome stuff it might have. Nothing's caught my fancy yet." He looked away from Hit Girl. "Then again, you should talk - you're about as old as some of my pals and here you are, guzzling away. I guess those 'Awms' destroyed drinking laws, huh?"

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

She shrugged. "Don't be dumb-these stiffs wouldn't give me a real drink. It's non-alcoholic cider. I'm just her to meet up with a friend. SHE can drink."

No, she was not sulking. "What do you know about the Ohm?"

[supersonicracer.livejournal.com]

Well, at least there was SOME sort of common sense on board this ship. Hearing her question, Sonic just shrugged.

"Just a bunch of big bugs we gotta squash." Sonic said, calmly. "No one's got a big can of bug spray, do they? Might solve a lot of problems."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Common sense had nothing to do with drinking in general, as far as she was concerned.

But at the last sentence, there actually was a twitch on Hit Girl's face. "You...didn't just seriously compare the Ohm to actual bugs like they're even remotely similar. I'm going to act like you were just joking."