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"Happy 10th Birthday, Lucián and Longina Mertens-Bubblegum!"

10 Years Ago: UltimateOptimus (that's me!), recently getting into Cartoon Network's then-new Next Gen cartoon Adventure Time and fusing said cartoon's characters with his cool boys' toys stuff such as Transformers, Superheroes and heroScape, breathes with his pencils graphite and color and of his hyperactive imagination life into his Fubblegum (Finn X Princess Bubblegum) fanchildren Lucián and Longina Mertens-Bubblegum, firstborn twin son and daughter of Finn Mertens and Princess Bubblegum, then known as Liberátusz and Tsukimiya Mertens-Bonnibel of the Mertens-Bonnibel Crusade, as a heroScape Adventure Time expansion set of fictional crossover Adventure Time X heroScape collectible miniatures for said collectible miniature wargame.

And the rest was fanchild history.

Today: Lucián and Longina Mertens-Bubblegum turn 10 years old.

Young Lucián and Young Longina, the Mertens-Bubblegum Twins, clad in their school uniforms - Young Lucián in his Hub Island Academy Young Helper's Boys' Stuffed Collar Gakuran Nostalgic Student Uniform M with his Battle Mask/Battle Control Headset styled after his hat with built-in Better Reality Smart SuperComputer and his green Cyber-Hammerspace School TekBackpack (School supplies, from exercise books through pencils graphite and color to schoolbooks, to haul to school and back? Cyber-Hammerspace School Backpack.) and Young Longina in her Candy Kingdom Royal Academy Girls' Sailor Collar Serafuku Nostalgic Student Uniform F with her Girls' School Glasses with built-in Candy Kingdom Smart SuperComputer and personal Candy Kingdom Royal Academy Girls' School Royal Crown Headset with built-in Better Reality Smart SuperComputer and her pink Cyber-Hammerspace School TekBackpack like Dad Finn and Mom Bubblegum in their School Days before them, with Lucián's Legacy Weapon the MertensCaliburn and Longina's Legacy Weapon the BonnibelHammer in their Chibi Necklace Mode, Lucián's Chibi Finn Hairpin Token and Longina's Chibi Bubblegum Hairpin Token and blue-red roses pinned to their hairstyle, each side reflecting their father's and mother's DNA side, just turned 10 years old today as they went with Dad Finn and Mom Bubblegum outside the Grasslands in a beautiful Summer morning with clear azure skies and brightly shining sun above and rolling fields of Empyrrean green grass and an Edenic garden of blue-red roses with flights of Sapphire Comettail Butterflies and Bubblegum Honey Bees around them (with one of each - the Sapphire Comettail Butterfly being the crest bug of their dad's side and the Bubblegum Honey Bee the crest bug of their mom's side - resting on one such rose) and a rain of blue and pink rose petals flying all around them in the summer air, the Mertens-Bubblegum Twins were greeted with a Islands of Man/Candy Kingdom Tek Laser Flag that immediately unfurls when our young human/bubblegum mutant hybrid heroes first find it into a majestic laser flag that bears the Butterfly and Honeybee Crests and reads:

"Happy 10th Birthday! Lucián and Longina Dad and Mom"

Lucián, Longina, Finn and Bubblegum set themselves for the perfect birthday photoshoot with all the ingredients needed: rose-covered grasslands, rose petal rain, Sapphire Comettail Butterfly and Bubblegum Honey Bee Queen resting on a blue-pink rose, the Birthday Banner and of course the Mertens-Bubblegum Twins themselves and the holo-camera took the photo as soon as the Twins said the tagline:

"OK, Lucián and Longina! Say "Adventure Time!" "ADVENTURE TIME!"

The rest, again, is history.