⚙ [open; building time is a go]

[morsecodes]

Date & Time: 4/23
Location: the training building
Characters: Leo and OPEN
Summary: Leo's destroying tinkering with things
Warnings: None~

Leo had started on ideas to fix up the training building before the first mission, but then he had gotten wrapped up with it, and....well, he got distracted. It happened so easily sometimes, he couldn't help it.

But with the mission over, and a little too much free time on his hands, he got back to work. He had already made a rock climbing wall (one that moved and shot out flames!), so now he was back in the training hall, trying to decide what to work on next.

So if you come in the training hall, you might find a male studying what he thought to be crude devices for training, or you might find him already tinkering on something, more specifically something of yours. Feel the need to bother him?

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[morsecodes]

"Pretty much. I mean, there's not much more for me to do here. Not the best fighter. I can, but I can't fight like you or Jason." Leo paused, then shrugged.

"I've been making things for people, too. One guy had me forge him a sword. Pretty sweet, if you ask me!" And even though the treadmill appeared to be working perfectly like he wanted, his hands were still fiddling with the controller, as if they couldn't be stilled.

[hunteresse]

There were still things that Thalia needed to learn, so many years that she and her brother had been separated, but that much was true. Growing up as she had, it was fight or die. With Luke, and later Annabeth, Thalia had lived- at least until they arrived at Camp Half-Blood but that day was not something Thalia would change even if given the opportunity. She wasn't one to back down nor was she one to hold her punches. Luke had learned that the hard way.

"That thing isn't for anyone, is it?" Regarding the treadmill still with that expression that seemed to say he might very well be short a few screws. After all, good old fashioned practice had worked wonders for her.

[morsecodes]

And though Leo had been on the run a lot in his life, he never had to fight monsters. The bullies and people he faced, he fought with jokes and pranks. The funny guy was always kept around and safe for the laughs, after all.

"Haha, wouldn't say so. But you don't have to have the swords trying to slice your head off, of course. Didn't think the mortals around here would like that all that much."

[hunteresse]

"You're still working on it then, or have you tried it?" Giving him a bland look. Personally, she'd stick with dummies or a training partner although a part of her wondered if he was even going to use it. Or, was he just going to build it.

[morsecodes]

"No, it's done, but...nope, haven't tried it out. You wanna go?" Leo actually looked at it hesitantly, then back to her. She wasn't expecting him to try it, was she? Because if she wanted him to prove how tough and awesome he was, he was all for it! Clearly she needed further proof that deep down, somewhere where she had to keep it hidden, she thought he was the coolest thing there was.

[hunteresse]

It was a quick motion, a motion that she had clearly done many times over the years (save when she was a tree, because trees didn't really move). But, one moment her hands were empty, and the next, her two hunting knives were drawn. Giving them a dept swirl, she put them back into their holders, before turning those electric blue eyes onto him. "That thing? Not my style."

[morsecodes]

Whoa okay she was fast. Leo's eyes got kind of wide and he took a step back, chuckling nervously. "So you're a knife chick? Alright, well the dummy's pretty sweet. Put an automaton skeleton in it, so it fights back."

[hunteresse]

"Knives? Sure, and sword, and spear, and shield. Bow and arrows. And yes, bare hands. Treadmill? Not so much." Although a dummy? That was what she had been exercising on earlier, but just the regular sort. Her eyes narrow in speculation.

[morsecodes]

"Oh. Wow." Color him impressed. He really is impressed. Beautiful, talented, and totally out of his league? Thalia was just getting better and better.

"Then the dummy really is right up your alley."

[hunteresse]

"Right. The dummy." Although what dummy she was talking about... Why, it might very well have been him. Then again, it might very well have been the actual dummy.

[morsecodes]

"Like I said, put a automaton skeleton in it, so it fights back. You'd probably like sparring with it." And he was talking about the actual dummy, geez.

[hunteresse]

"Possibly." She wouldn't know, after all, until it happened. Then again, she could probably find actual people to spar with if she wanted someone too. "Anyway, I'm done for today and going to grab something to eat- well, what they consider food anyway."

[morsecodes]

"Oh? Hey, wants some company?" Leo looked a little hopeful, but he wasn't expecting much. She had to keep up appearances, right? She couldn't act on any building emotions she was hiding.

[hunteresse]

"And leave your treadmill unfinished?" She assumed it was... Who knew. Maybe it had all the things on it that he wanted to put on it. "See ya later."

[morsecodes]

"It's finished, but I'm sure I could add more..." Leo mused. And naturally she had to get him thinking. Now he couldn't stop. Once the ideas started, he had to act, otherwise he might forget. "Later!"