Come Together As One...

Like you can tell he definitely has/had a good amount of muscle but he also has his tummy that's so squishy and soft.

THEY'RE LITERALLY SO CUTE

I missed Ghostposting but it's too damn hot to use my brain, and dear @a-chilleus already did an excellent post about the Papas coping with the heatwave, I decided that today's round of Putting the Old Men In Situations is to headcanon wildly about what climate they WOULD enjoy being in...because this 110F/44C with 100% humidity summer Ain't It

Nihil: Enjoyed California when he was a young man, but misses the temperate, four seasoned climate of Romania from his childhood, something in his bones knows the rhythm of setting up the circus tents differently for autumn vs. summer shows to beat the heat, and he enjoys a good snow as long as he is inside and bundled up for it.

Primo: Is the only fucking monster thriving in this absolute nightmare weather. He heralds global warming as a sign of Lucifer's reign coming for this earth and sunbathes in glorious hellfire. Perfectly willing to waste water to keep his garden alive despite preferring to live somewhere utterly parched (he would thrive on the Equator or in Arizona) - if data centers get to waste water why can't he? And if the wretched heat deters visitors while he suns himself like a lizard, all the better

Secondo: Can handle the heat second best out of everyone, but prefers much, much less humidity - a dry hot place within driving distance of a beach is just fine by him. But his ideal would be an idealized Mediterranean, pleasantly warm, where he can relax in a lounge chair with a cocktail but without boiling alive.

Terzo: His ideal climate is air conditioning. Keep him inside. A temperate zone cityscape where he can sit in a penthouse, removed and remote from interlopers, but with a view that lets him people watch, to feel part of the rhythm of the city without it demanding he participate in its dance at all times. Likes a nice autumn wind whistling between the skyscrapers.

Cardi: While he definitely spent a chunk of his childhood at the Psaltarian beach house and enjoyed it, I think Cardi has the heat tolerance of a carton of milk. He prefers to be Very Dressed, gloves and sweatsuit and all, so he would be perfectly content somewhere that's briskly cool for most of the year. A month or two of a summer enough to swim in wouldn't go amiss, but he wants to drink his warm overly sugared latte in a blanket burrito and this is not the weather for it.

Just the mustache, though. His eyebrows were out gathering crust from the earth