paradisa | 05 | baby butz

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05 | baby butz | action

Sage, no! Come back!

[How can these kids be so fast?! Larry is chasing after one of his two brand-new three-year-old daughters, who has apparently decided to take after her daddy and paint beautiful masterpieces... On the walls of the castle lobby. She's also managed to stay just out of reach of the out-of-shape Larry so far.]

Nick, help me!

I'd love to, but I'm a little busy!

[Phoenix, on the other hand, is struggling to catch another little girl who has decided that the large staircase is in dire need of some finger painting. He keeps managing to inch close enough to grab her arm, but he's too afraid of hurting her to do that, and so she continues wriggling up the staircase, slowly painting it with a big, blue stripe as she goes.]

Olive… I appreciate your color choice, but you can't paint the stairs...

...you know what, I give up. Paint the walls. [He flops down in a chair and watches as his daughters continue defacing the castle. Come join him, Phoenix!]

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[He does join Larry, sinking into another chair nearby and exhaling deeply.]

These pizza children are going to be the death of me.

...I don't want you to die...

[He peers at Nick closely as if examining him]

...

...you look fine to me! No worries, man.

[He grins... It's hard to tell if he was serious or not.]

...you do know that was...

[Give up now, Phoenix. Explaining hyperbole to the embodiment of hyperbole is not going to end well.]

...it might be the death of the castle, at any rate.

[As he says this, Olive dumps all the rest of her blue finger paint on the floor at the bottom of the staircase.]

[Larry watches this and just... Sighs...]

I was not cut out to be a father... Nor do I have feelings for you in the slightest, so I'm still not sure why we were paired.

...definitely straight, how bout you?

[Kind of forward there... Still feeling a little on-guard after that incident with Konoe, are we, Larry?]

[Too bad Phoenix isn't drinking anything right now, because he'd probably have just done a spit-take. As it is, he fixes his gaze solely on those little girls terrorizing the castle interior and says the first thing that pops into his head.]

I promise you I don't have any feelings for you either.

Okay... Don't know what the castle was thinking then.

[He watches as Sage dumps the paint all over her head... That wasn't exactly non-toxic...]

I don't think the castle picks people for crap like this based on whether or not they have feelings for each other, Larry--I've been stuck with Edgeworth for the past few... "situations"... after all.

[When Sage dumps paint all over herself, Olive decides that looks wonderful and joins in with what's left--and then promptly devours a crayon.

Phoenix is on his feet and hurrying to scoop up both children to stop them from this nonsense.]

...

[Larry just sits and observes... He really isn't thrilled about this... Not daddy material at all...]

...Why don't we give them to someone else?

I don't want to give them to someone else!

[He sort of half-wails this, despite the fact that he's currently holding Olive upside-down--accidentally!--in an attempt to get her to be quiet.]