#hcc cleo

Who in the staff do you all ship secretly? Do you have any crack ships that would never happen but are just funny?

Cub: I think the world would weep in devastation if Cleo and False ever confessed their love for one another.

False: Devastation?

Cub: For no man nor creature could truly withstand the power such a partnership would produce.

False: Oh, right...

False: Yeah, I can see that.

Cub: Unless the world was a Ren Faire. Then they would bask beneath your collective craftsmanship.

False: [nodding]

False: We'd truly be unstoppable.

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Joe: In another world, Cleo and Tango would be a thing, for sure.

Cleo: Pfft.

Cleo: Yeah, I'll keep that in mind if I'm ever in the market for an itty bitty little boyfriend.

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Bdubs: Me and Etho.

Cleo: Wow, nobody saw that coming.

Bdubs: YOU BE QUIET, CLEO.

Etho: No, no... I think he's on to something.

Bdubs: YEAH, CLEO.

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Impulse: Would it be weird if I said I kinda think Bdubs and Zed would be kinda cute?

Impulse: I mean, it is weird, I do know that.

Impulse: But I do think it's kinda cute the way they pester each other, ya know?

Tango: ... traitor.

Impulse: Oh, be quiet, you.

Tango: [Huffs]

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Wels: I ship myself and a paid redundancy.

I asked the discord for quotes from the fic to draw while I'm travelling to Italy and this is the first very shaky train drawing heh

"Daddy needs a new pair of wire strippers" ala Tango and Cleo's conversation from chapter 4 of the Hermit Coffee Co.

Direct quote below the cut

Doc: He's a good manager.

Doc: I'm happy to let him run things independently in my absence.

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Xisuma: He said that, did he?

Xisuma: Wow.

Cleo: High praise from the boss man, that is.

Impulse: That's a good question, actually.

Cleo: I mean, without a doubt, it's X, right?

Impulse: Yeah, you're probably right.

Cleo: Although, Joe is a close second.

Impulse: And you joined because of Joe, right?

Cleo: Yep.

Impulse: Wait, does that mean you were here before X took over as manager?

Cleo: Just after, which means I just managed to avoid working under Doc's management.

Impulse: ...Lucky break?

Cleo: Oh, yeah. Based on what Joe's told me? Definitely.

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Joe: Oh, he wasn't that bad!

Joe: Cleo's just being dramatic.

Joe: She's probably talking about the time Doc fired a guy on the spot for constantly burning milk.

Joe: But in his defence, that wasn't the first thing the guy'd done. I mean, everybody burns milk occasionally, it's whatever, you know?

Joe: It was the burning milk on top of the LSD he was selling in the Bin Shed.

Xisuma: ...

Xisuma: Oh yeah, I remember that guy.

Xisuma: Nice chap, actually.

Xisuma: Thick as a post, though.

Tango: Oh, I've got this one.

Cleo: Of course you do.

Tango: Breakfast.

Tango: Smoothies.

Cleo: Knew you were gonna say that.

Tango: Ice. Milk. Oats. Banana. Peanut butter. Honey. Blend. Pour. Rinse.

Cleo: Oh, the horror~!

Tango: It's just so many things!

Tango: And so many ingredients!

Tango: And the freakin' peanut butter and honey is at the other end of the bar and it makes this whole mess and I mean–!

Cleo: Truly, Tango, how do you survive?

Tango: I don't, Cle.! I don't.

Tango: I'm dead.

Tango: Every time somebody orders one, I'm dead. I die on the spot. Boom. Insta-kill.

Cleo: ... You're joking, right?

Tango: ...

Tango: Well, yeah...

Tango: Obviously, Cleo, I mean, I'm still here aren't I?

Cleo: No, ugh, I mean–

Cleo: Your bloody housemate is the main one buying the damn things!

Cleo: It's his fault we make so many of them.

Tango: Oh no, I'm well aware.

Tango: That's why I always make Impulse deal with it.

Cleo: Oh...

Cleo: Oh, yeah, that tracks, actually.

Cleo: [raises their hand]

Cleo: Generally I tend to have possession of the store's collective Braincell.

Cleo: Unless Joe is here.

Cleo: Then I make him take it.

Joe: Mhm mhm mhm.

Cleo: and if not us then... Probably Impulse? Grian might have had it once. Solid might, though.

Joe: For a limited time.

Cleo: Oh yeah, none of these guys can be trusted with it for any longer than an hour.

Joe: Oh, what about False?

Cleo: I take it back about Impulse. It's False.

Joe: Definitely False.

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Bdubs: Did they say me?

Bdubs: ...

Tango: Oh, me and Zed went as Red Riding Dude and The Wolf.

Zed: I was the wolf.

Tango: Hell yeah you were.

Cleo: Sorry, did you say 'Red Riding Dude'?

Tango: Yeah, I did! He's my super cool hero alter ego.

Zed: He skateboards.

Tango: He does. He's also a sharpshooter. Cool as hell.

Zed: The wolf is also a sharpshooter.

Tango: Yeah, we're both sharpshooters.

Cleo: Right. Awesome.

Cleo: You know, I was going to accuse you of having fragile masculinity, but actually, this is much funnier.

Tango: Cleo Cleo Cleo. Red Riding Dude isn't afraid of skirt or two. He's a Red Riding Dude because he's the coolest guy on this side of the AquaTown River.

Cleo: Just on this side?

Tango: ...

Tango: Is this because I said it was the worst drink ever and now I'm being punished?

Impulse: What? It's not the worst drink ever... I think it's pretty delicious, actually.

Tango: No, yeah, it's a good drink if you're just drinking it. It's the making it that frickin' sucks.

Impulse: Ohhh... yeah, it is kind of annoying, I'll give you that.

Cleo: You know it's worse for Tango, though, don't you, Impulse?

Tango: No.

Tango: Be quiet.

Impulse: Why's that?

Cleo: Well, because X stores the oats so high that he's got to go on his little tippy toes to reach them.

Tango: I hate you.

Cleo: Pftttt–

Impulse: Aw, T, don't listen to them.

Tango: ...

Impulse: You're not that small.

Tango: ...

Cleo: Really, I don't know why you don't just borrow Bdubs' steppy stool.

Tango: I'm leaving.

Impulse: No, Tango~

Cleo: Bahahaha

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Tango: Oh, right, yeah. Favourite stuff.

Tango: Erm.

Tango: My favourite colours are probably red and orange.

Tango: And as for favourite animal...

Tango: Oh!

Tango: There's these little wild lizards back in the Blaze isles that are like super freaking fast and they live in the cracks of walls and rocks.

Tango: They're like, kind of an iridescent gold colour.

Tango: Me and my brothers used to try and catch them, but they were always way, way too fast for us.