Chocolate Eggs, Marshmallow Peeps

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There were a few holidays that Wrath really liked with all of his heart. One of them was Halloween. Another was Christmas. Another was Valentines Day, and International Pancake Day, and then Easter. And although to the untrained eye this might seem like an utterly random assortment of days, there was something that all these holidays had in common: food.

More specifically, candy.

It helped that there was always something to eat around the house, but it helped even more that there were such amazing holidays designed to sate his never-ending sweet tooth. The worst things about this otherwise entirely perfect holidays was the fact that they had to end. No matter how much he wished it, the holidays couldn't, wouldn't, and simply didn't last forever.

BUT! In his extra-dimensional genius, he found a way to make these days matter even more than they already did. And that involved a little thing called "stockpiling."

If he was careful and budgeted his candy well, then he wouldn't have to worry. It would be candy time all the time, and really, wasn't that the most important thing?

His brilliant plan involved buying as much candy as he could all in one go. And if that meant that no one else got candy, then that wasn't his problem. It was their fault for having the poor judgement of not being him.

He walked up to the counter of his favorite candy shop. The sweet scents mingled wonderfully in his nose. "Yeah, so... let me make this simple for ya..." He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet. "I'll take all the candy in your shop, thanks."
 

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Hudson was nothing if not a grumpy old man, but even he had a soft side. He wasn't going to be yelling at people all the time - no, he could be perfectly fine to most people, assuming they didn't get on his bad side. In fact, if you were respectful (and he meant actually respectful, not just the bare minimum) and did what you were supposed to be doing, Hudson could be downright pleasant.

Which was why he'd gone down to the candy store.

He didn't care either way about candy. It was fine sometimes, and too sweet others. He didn't have a sweet tooth, but he didn't hate it either. Even so, he knew that kids had a sweet tooth, and he knew they were easily plied with candy.

That was the plan, and it remained the plan up until the moment when he heard a kid (no more than seventeen, if he was being generous) announce his intentions to buy all the candy in the store. The surprise shows on Hudson's face for only a minute, but it lingered on the shop keepers for even longer.

"Do you - do you have the money for that? I'm not sure.." The shopkeeper stammered, looking a whole lot like a deer in the headlights. Hudson let out a snort, intervening on the poor man's behalf. He obviously wasn't the owner - just a part time worker - and he likely couldn't make a sale that large.

"If you plan to buy everything, you'd have a better time buying from the owner directly, and getting a bulk order. It would be cheaper." Hudson cut in. That was how things usually worked.
 

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Alistair likes machines not tools. Tools do "things". Machines have "Processes". That was how he justified his absolute failure at designing simple systemed constructs, and what set him apart from Aedan. Aedan makes tools and upgrades to standard stuff, Ali makes systems and complex things. Their only common ground is AI, and that is where Aeden beats Alistair at complexity. To top him, while Aeden used the bathroom in some shop they stopped at, Ali was working on making little machines to take sugar from the sweets throughout the shop and produce cotton candy. Number one was nearly done when two people entered, leading to Alistair awkwardly scooting from his hidden spot on the floor away from the door.
 
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