The Beach; Saturday Afternoon [ 06/26 ].

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By Neptune's beard, this was different!

However, Aquaman was not a man to let different keep him from enjoying a beautiful day at the beach! All the sun and air he'd been getting this past month and a half was really starting to get to him, so a beach day was well in order! Plenty of swimming and maybe some sandcastles, a few ice cold root beers, and a cross word puzzle!

Well, the cross word puzzle might have to wait. He was finding it difficult to hold a pen with his hands currently as they were. A small, minor detail, however!

[[ it's going to be one of those long afternoons at work, I fear. Open beach is very very open! ]]

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A beautiful day on the beach, indeed. Enough to make Jane stop playing hermit and head down to get some water and sand, and hey, even work on her tan.

...Or stare at the lego person, that could work too. Yes, Jane was a lucky person.

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Said Lego person was waving at Jane was best a Lego person could.

"Come have a refreshing root beer!" he offered. "There's plenty in the cooler!"

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That was incredibly bizarre, but it was slowly turning into the expected bizarreness of the place, if that made sense at all.

"That's something I can't reject." Because even if it was a living lego, cold root beers were always a valuable offer. So Jane made her way towards lego!Aquaman, trying not to smirk too much.

"Good Afternoon. Are you an...islander? Or you just arrived?" From some Lego land?

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"Oh, codfish, no!" said Aquaman with his usual hearty chuckle. "I came in at just the start of the summer, to do tour at teaching our fine young citizens the art of home economics! It's outrageous! I am, however, not usually plastic, but flesh and blood!"

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"So you are a teacher", said Jane as she sat on the sand, grabbing one cold root beer. Yes, it was good. "Home Economics...I remember when I took that course." Although she was sure that this guy, plastic or not would probably do things quite differently. Which was fine, since she hadn't been too fond of her own Home Economics class.

"I believe you then." She didn't think it was that outrageous, but oh well, she wasn't plastic. "Are the students at Fandom receptive of a Home Economics' class? And...do you need help opening that beer?"

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"Oh, no, don't trouble yourself," said Aquaman, waving one C hand dismissively before trying to get the cap off himself. Which was...in theory, you'd think it would work, but so far, no such luck.

"And they're quite good with it; at least they were last semester! Very tenacious! Even though some of the tasks might have been beyond their abilities, they still tried their hardest to succeed! It's very encouraging, to have such incredible potential among the next generation. The children, after all, are our future!"

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Yeah well...there was Jane, being slightly trouble at seeing how the lego man wasn't really getting anywhere with the beer. Sipping in silence, she decided to give him some more time.

"That is good to hear, I guess." She and kids...well, she hadn't gotten to that, and for kids she needed John, and, oh well...let's not get into that. "I have wondered about the possibility of teaching, as I'm told it's not impossible...but I think I'll take this easy; I don't come from a, how would you put it, world? Where I come from there aren't things as powers, or super villains..."

Just assassins, mind you. A lot of assassins at times.

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Diligently, Aquaman kept at the bottlecap, which stayed firmly in place. Still, he kept the conversation going steadily along.

"That's a shame," he said. "I always feel they make things far more interesting, but I suppose I am a bit biased, being a superhero myself!"

And it turned out that Lego Aquaman could still wink, as he offered one to the lovely lady right then.

Still no luck with the cap, so Aquaman found a solution. One of his hands, the blue one, while plastic at the moment, could still turn into water. It was just a slight bit of an abuse of power, but for delicious, refreshing root beer, it was worth it! So he surrounded the cap with a powerful water stream and popped it open.

"Ah! There we go! And forgive my rudeness, ma'am, I haven't introduced myself! I am Aquaman, king of Atlantis and Fandom High teacher, but we already covered that second part. Who might you be?"

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Superhero huh? Well, that was a first for Jane.

And if she wasn't entirely sure, she saw how he turned one of his hands into water, and opened the beer with it. That was pretty awesome, considering he was a lego.

Aquaman? That certainly made sense...? She assumed it was his superhero name or something, and decided not to ask for his "real" name; maybe it was impolite to ask for it.

"Jane. Jane Smith; I'm the owner of Strokes of Genius, a store in the town that specializes in selling art supplies. Although back in my world I had...a very different job. You could somehow compare it with being a superhero, maybe." Well, she felt the man was reliable, so maybe it was time to get it out of her chest.

If he asked.

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"Is that so?" asked Aquaman cheerily. "Law enforcement, then? Because they're the true superheroes of our everyday lives!"

While he'd gotten the bottle open, there was still another issue. The fact that his arms right now only bent slightly, and no more, thus making it a bit of an issue to get the drink to his mouth. Oh, fish fins...

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Alright, maybe she wasn't so close to being a superhero. That was a fair try though. Still, he was a lego. There was nothing to lose.

"I was, or am, an a- I did jobs for money...arguably, most were good, but maybe I did cross the line once or twice." And killed a lot of people.

Was it so wrong she wanted to feed him? He looked...cute and ridiculous at the same time.

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And it was a very kind sentiment, but Aquaman would be worried his wife might get the wrong idea.

"Ahh," he nodded. Or, well, bent forward a little bit because his head didn't really move that way today. "Mercenary work, then. Vigilantism! They always do add an exciting diversity to the mix!"

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Angry wives were dangerous. Just ask Jane.

"Yes...something along those lines. Not really heroic...but yes, exciting." She felt like walking in very dangerous waters now. "Tell me more about your world?"