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[ crying, tearing up, etc

anyway ace just looking at the poster like ? ]

... What's wrong with it?

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I'm going to ask you a very serious question. Have you ever seen a bee with eyebrows?

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I guess not?

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Then that should answer what's wrong with it. The bee has eyebrows. And teeth! The green guy shouldn't be out of his swamp, and who allowed a baby to join? It's almost blasphemous.

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You've got a lot of opinions on this, huh? I thought Will was big on movies.

[ Ace thinks this just looks like a weird ass pirate crew. He does not say that. There is a baby. ]

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[ nyeh. ]

He's seen a lot more than I have, I'll admit that, but he'd probably still agree with me. [ ...hm. actually. he has no idea this might be the type of movie will would see just to drive nico insane. ] I just have the opinion that bees should maybe not look like people. That's a normal opinion to have.

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[ looks at the bee ]

... I guess it is a little weird? [ he's laughing ] They do all look pretty different.

[ the styles aren't meshing it's like a collage ]

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See! The longer you look, the more it's weird to imagine. [ there is no argument he's just saying. ] But the rest of the city's kind of weird, too, so maybe I shouldn't be that surprised?

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Maybe the whole movie is a trick from the "supervillain".

[ he is clearly not serious ]

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Which means...we would have to go see it in order to defeat their evil plan? [ he is not serious. he is 15 and waffling on seeing what is bound to be a godawful movie. ]

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If we want to know what it is, it's the only way.

[ why not. why shouldn't they see a bad movie ]

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[ ...there's a slight, tentative smile. ]

Okay, well...what kind of a hero would I be to let you suffer alone? [ thanks. ] Guess we're going?

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Cool. [ this is a choice because ace has no actual like. theater etiquette knowledge he will react to everything but more importantly; ] Let's get snacks! That was the best part of the pirates one.

[ absolutely devastating to potc ]

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[ i have to debate this, but. ]

What pirate one? [ but yeah they will head inside! buy tickets for this monstrosity! and head for the snack bar. he's not immediately purchasing anything yet but he seems to be looking at everything available. ]

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[ ace is purchasing everything available. ]

The... what was it. Caribbean one. It had skeletons?

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[ squinting. ]

...I think Will told me about that one, but I haven't seen it yet. But I feel like maybe I should be concerned if the snacks were the best part. [ he says this, but he's grabbing like a single pack of licorice because food is still a foreign concept. ]

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I'm probably biased. Anything about pirates kind of makes me compare it to home.

[ ace has barely paid that he is already snacking on stuff, so the other bias is he likes eating. ]

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I think that's normal. If there were more movies about stuff I've experienced I'd probably do the same. [ at least nico is safe from a world where the pjo movies don't exist. also really glad he's just treats motivated, good for ace. nico's taking his candy and he's leading them to the theater. are there other people here? who cares. ]

How bad was the comparison anyway?

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[ the other people are going to hate them and it's fine. ace follows and munches ]

Good and bad? Some stuff was just plain weird, and some stuff was a little too on the nose. [ government hunting pirates, lol, etc. ] Like women being a bad omen on ships was weird.

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It was probably just to push the romance agenda. [has he seen pirates? no. but his vague understanding has allowed him this. up to the top row they go. ] I'm going to guess that you know crews that had women on them, then.

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Sure, most crews do. [ they are going so far up... doo doo doo ] Anyone can be a pirate. It kind of defeats the purpose if you're saying no to half the population.

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I guess that's true. How does a person even become a pirate though? They just decide to board a ship and call it good?

[ they can sit dead center at the very back. ]

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... Yeah, pretty much. Just set sail and be free! Some people join crews, some form their own.

[ sitting down munching on popcorn ]

Now whether people are successful or not is another thing entirely.

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[ they're really going to talk through the whole movie and that's okay. ]

Can you be a solo pirate? Or is a pirate only a pirate with a crew behind them? [ chews on a red vine. ] And what counts as successful anyway? Winning fights and finding treasure?

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You can be a pirate without a crew, but most of the time you'd be a pretty lousy pirate. I do know one guy that doesn't have one, but he's a Warlord, and I don't know if he had a crew before that. [ pauses in his chewing ] Warlords are pirates who have had their bounties cancelled by the World Government in exchange for basically doing their bidding. [ throws a popcorn up in the air to catch it in his mouth ] They asked me to be one when I was still captain of my own crew.

[ what counts as successful is a whole different brand so he has to chew on that first. and on some candy. ]