Atton's Coruscant, Saturday

[suitably_heroic]

This would not be the first time that Atton woke up a girl. It would, however, be the first time Atton woke up a girl while on Coruscant, and so there'd been a lot of groaning and complaining for about half an hour until he realized just how badly he could freak out Mical with it.

Also, the boobs. He'd lost another half hour on the boobs.

Of course, by the time it was time to pick up Sparkle from Portalocity, both had kind of lost their novelty factor, and he was left with a body that didn't balance quite the way he expected. Which meant no training, because he was absolutely not going to break a toe or something in front of Sparkle, thank you very much. He was going to have to do something he'd half-promised Sparkle at... some point, instead.

Though, he realized as he waited in the Portalocity office, at least no one had accosted him about being that Jedi today. (And Jedi tunics were unisex, which was nice and easy, at least. Even if he'd had to steal one of Mira's bras. He was just... not going to tell her about it later.)

[[ for the kid, and phone calls, what have yo. ]]

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[myownface]

Hey, he could still play the games that counted! That had to matter for something, right?

"You're just playing Uno wrong," he decided.

[suitably_heroic]

"I'm going to take a pack of Uno cards and nail them on the wall of shame next to the sabacc ones," Atton said, "To serve as a warning."

Just FYI.

[myownface]

Sparkle didn't look super concerned. The Uno cards could probably take it.

"Good idea. We wouldn't want any Uno decks being needlessly mauled if they don't have to be, after all."

Now he kind of wanted to know Atton's feelings on 'Go Fish.'

[suitably_heroic]

Murder.

"You're abusing your adulthood," Atton said, "Playing inferior card games. I'm revoking your adult card."

[myownface]

Sparkle took a moment to consider that.

"Does that mean I get to go back to watching Saturday morning cartoons and eating chocolatey cereal right out of the box?"

Because he could get behind that, honestly.

[suitably_heroic]

"Wearing pyjamas and going to bed before curfew, and no gentleman callers," Atton said. "Oh, and no chocolatey cereal. That poodoo rots your teeth."

Laying down the law, Rand.

[myownface]

"I wear pyjama bottoms anyway," Sparkle pointed out. "Since I share my room with a girl."

And, you know, Raine was great and all, but Sparkle just didn't like her like that.

"And I still need to get laid. So I'm like halfway there already."

Sparkle needed to live a little, clearly. Though he'd never be to bed before curfew. Ever.

[suitably_heroic]

"Nah. See, before this whole Uno incident, I would have been supportive of your quest to get laid," Atton said. "Now, I'm going to say wait until you're older. Maybe fifty."

He was kidding!

Besides his feelings on the Uno incident. Those were real.

[myownface]

Poor Atton. Card games certainly were serious business, Sparkle was beginning to see the light.

"... Might be easier to get laid at fifty," Sparkle mused. "I'll either be, like, that hot middle-aged guy who still manages to rock the tattoos, or... I don't know. Super distinguished. Calling it now."

Maybe he'd still be a complete dork, just older.

[suitably_heroic]

"Or you'll be that guy where everyone's like, 'he looks like he used to be pretty, but wow, he's really let himself go'," Atton said sagely. "It's the skinny thing. Never know how that's going to pan out."

[myownface]

Sparkle wrinkled his nose at that.

"God, don't even tease," he replied. "I have absolutely zero intentions of letting myself go, trust me. Oh my god Atton, I have standards."

[suitably_heroic]

"But will you have standards when you haven't gotten laid by age fifty?" Atton asked. "These are the real questions."

He came to a stop by the nerf stand - okay general meats, but whatever, they had nerf - and smiled at the shopkeeper.

Look, she was Twi'lek.

[myownface]

"I will too get laid by fifty!" Say that a little louder, Sparkle. "Give me at least a little credit, here!"

Hello, Twi'lek shopkeeper. You had customers who were apparently going to put on a show, now.

[suitably_heroic]

To be fair, they did that a lot of the time.

"You play Uno," Atton said. "No way you're getting laid before fifty. Then maybe you'll meet some old person who plays Uno."

[myownface]

"Yeah, well, maybe he'll be old and hot, and we can be over-the-hill sexy man-children together."

Sparkle had it all figured out, here. Anyway, he liked older men. This absolutely seemed like a win for him, except for that 'thirty more years of not getting laid' part.

[suitably_heroic]

Yeah, but they wouldn't be older anymore at the time, would they? Sparkle would be an older man.

"And I will shun you. I will shun you within an inch of your life," Atton said. He nodded at the Twi'lek. "All the nerf you've got, please." Beat. "Well, half of it."

[myownface]

"You're going to shun me and make me carry the nerf, aren't you?"

Call it a hunch. A wild guess, really.

[suitably_heroic]

"Yep," Atton said cheerfully, as he handed over the credit chip again. "It'll be your training for the weekend."

[myownface]

It would actually be pretty effective, Sparkle decided.

"Sure, sure," he sighed. "It's still not as bad as moving, like, a box full of books or something."

Probably. Depended on how much nerf the Twi'lek lady had on hand, here.

[suitably_heroic]

"We could pick up something heavier," Atton mused.

Mad with power, this one.

[myownface]

".... What in the world would we get that's heavier?"

Okay, so Sparkle was feeding this power madness, sure, but curiosity was a powerful enemy, here!

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shrugged. "I could do with some more engine parts for the Hawk... maybe a new navicomputer... or an astromech..."

Astromech could move on their own, but where was the fun in that?

[myownface]

"You'd have me carry half the nerf in the market and a whole droid?"

Sparkle was kind of incredulous to the point of laughing, now. What? Seriously?

[suitably_heroic]

"Maybe just the navicomputer," Atton allowed.

Because that was so much better. "It'll be good for you. Character-building!"

He wasn't serious. Well. He probably wasn't serious?

[myownface]

"I've got plenty of character!" Sparkle? Was still laughing. Dammit, Atton! "How heavy even are navicomputers, anyway!?"

He'd try it, but don't be surprised if he dropped it.