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balance_logs2019-10-27 10:50 pm
bu773rfly) wrote in balance_logs2019-10-27 10:50 pm
Entry tags:
- ace attorney: franziska von karma,
- ace attorney: mia fey,
- danganronpa: kaede akamatsu,
- digimon: erika mishima,
- doki doki literature club: natsuki,
- doki doki literature club: sayori,
- final destination: alex browning,
- good omens: aziraphale,
- jjba: guido mista,
- persona: minato arisato,
- steven universe: rose quartz,
- the good place: michael
boo
Who: All troublemakers and part-time ghouls [that means open]
Where: The movie room, then the Quad
When: The very night of Halloween!
What: Get SPOOKY, get SLEEPY, get STUPID, it's a sleepover costume party.
Content Warning: none for the post; byocw (bring your own content warnings)
[It starts a few nights before, with a network post.]
10.27.xx 19:28:16 un:hudie
20:00....Halloween night...the movie room...
You'd better be there. You'd better be in costume.
10.27.xx 19:29:43 un:akapassionista
I can't wait to see everyone's Halloween costumes!! ♪♪(o*゜∇゜)o～♪♪
[You'd better. Because it's a party!
Kaede and Erika have dressed the room up for the spookiest night of the year. It's nothing professional - lights dimmed, music playing, store-bought balloons with jack-o-lantern faces on them, paper cutouts in pumpkin and ghost shapes stuck to the wall. A "bat" is fluttering around, but if you squint, it's actually just Erika's familiar with black paper stuck to her wings. There's some kind of plastic tub in the corner full of water and...apples? Is it supposed to be bobbing for apples? All in all, it has some kind of DIY charm to it all.
Of course, everyone's actually here for the refreshments, and there's plenty of those. Some Bender specials, mostly the non-enchanted fare, but you might find a couple of the milder curses and blessings on the table. Bowls of popcorn and chips and every other genre of snack food you can scrounge up at Fantasy Costco. Candy galore. A modest assortment of Faerunian treats familiar from missions. Paper cups and plates and napkins. Soda bottles and a water pitcher and a few big bowls of punch. (One is labeled "alcoholic". Be ye ware.)
And by the way, costumes really are mandatory. There's a sign out front saying so. If you came unprepared, there's a bin of costume components outside to choose from, capes and headbands and masks and whatnot, but they might not coordinate well. If you think you're getting in without making an effort, Kaede and Erika (themselves dressed in bargain bin warlock and bard kit, respectively) are ready and waiting to chase you down and apply whatever degree of force or Sleep they need to correct the issue, with costume accessories and water-resistant face paint in hand.
About two hours into things, the two get everyone's attention and move the party outside to the Quad. Out there they've got a campfire going, picnic blankets spread out for sitting on, ingredients for s'mores laid out, and...pumpkins! And tools for carving or painting them. A sign out by the campfire announces a contest for the best decorated pumpkins, but nobody ever comes along to apply judging standards, so everyone's just free to show off their creation.
Things wind down a little after midnight. You can head on home...or just sleep out here, between blankets under the stars. It's that cozy kind of night.]
Where: The movie room, then the Quad
When: The very night of Halloween!
What: Get SPOOKY, get SLEEPY, get STUPID, it's a sleepover costume party.
Content Warning: none for the post; byocw (bring your own content warnings)
[It starts a few nights before, with a network post.]
10.27.xx 19:28:16 un:hudie
20:00....Halloween night...the movie room...
You'd better be there. You'd better be in costume.
10.27.xx 19:29:43 un:akapassionista
I can't wait to see everyone's Halloween costumes!! ♪♪(o*゜∇゜)o～♪♪
[You'd better. Because it's a party!
Kaede and Erika have dressed the room up for the spookiest night of the year. It's nothing professional - lights dimmed, music playing, store-bought balloons with jack-o-lantern faces on them, paper cutouts in pumpkin and ghost shapes stuck to the wall. A "bat" is fluttering around, but if you squint, it's actually just Erika's familiar with black paper stuck to her wings. There's some kind of plastic tub in the corner full of water and...apples? Is it supposed to be bobbing for apples? All in all, it has some kind of DIY charm to it all.
Of course, everyone's actually here for the refreshments, and there's plenty of those. Some Bender specials, mostly the non-enchanted fare, but you might find a couple of the milder curses and blessings on the table. Bowls of popcorn and chips and every other genre of snack food you can scrounge up at Fantasy Costco. Candy galore. A modest assortment of Faerunian treats familiar from missions. Paper cups and plates and napkins. Soda bottles and a water pitcher and a few big bowls of punch. (One is labeled "alcoholic". Be ye ware.)
And by the way, costumes really are mandatory. There's a sign out front saying so. If you came unprepared, there's a bin of costume components outside to choose from, capes and headbands and masks and whatnot, but they might not coordinate well. If you think you're getting in without making an effort, Kaede and Erika (themselves dressed in bargain bin warlock and bard kit, respectively) are ready and waiting to chase you down and apply whatever degree of force or Sleep they need to correct the issue, with costume accessories and water-resistant face paint in hand.
About two hours into things, the two get everyone's attention and move the party outside to the Quad. Out there they've got a campfire going, picnic blankets spread out for sitting on, ingredients for s'mores laid out, and...pumpkins! And tools for carving or painting them. A sign out by the campfire announces a contest for the best decorated pumpkins, but nobody ever comes along to apply judging standards, so everyone's just free to show off their creation.
Things wind down a little after midnight. You can head on home...or just sleep out here, between blankets under the stars. It's that cozy kind of night.]
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The cocoon is complete. She thumps him a few times on the back, not hard but firmly enough to be noticeable. The intent is unclear. Testing his wrapped-up-ness? Bullying?]
If you want to do me a favor, you can never try to tell me what I'm feeling again. You're really bad at guessing.
[thump.]
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[But it's more of an idle thing, because his mind's more on what Erika wants to know and what he doesn't really want to talk about because it's a stupid problem tied up in a whole lot of shit that doesn't belong at a party meant for relaxing and unwinding, but --
But then there's her callout, and it's not the first time he's heard it. Will's told him the same thing, more than once, but he'd never been in a place to hear it before. And he's hearing it now: don't make the decision for them. Trust them not to drown with you. Besides that....she shares a space with him. She deserves to know, doesn't she?
He takes a deep breath, in, out, and he tries to settle that flighty urge that says it's better just to escape than open up, the natural scan of his gaze for the exits. After a moment, he squirms in the blanket nest enough to pull down on the front of the new hat Erika's loaned him. It looks a bit ridiculous but he absolutely can't manage this if he has to make eye contact.]
You know Arisato? Or uh, Sakamoto, or Kurusu? I'm....we're all from the same universe, or at least. Really similar ones. I've got the same power as them.
[He stops there, to check for potential understanding. It'd really help if she knew what a Persona was, at least, but he'll explain if he has to.]
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[That's overselling it a bit.
She's not thumping him anymore. Instead, it feels like she's probably sitting back-to-back with him.]
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[That makes this a little easier, at least.]
Mine's different. Castor--he ain't...stable. I've lost control before. If I got drunk and he slipped out...
[Pressed up against his back, she'll feel where an involuntary shudder passes through him. His voice has a quality to it like when he sleeptalks during his nightmares. Pain and fear and guilt and a thread of desperation through it all.]
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[Oops. Return of thump. It's softer this time though. And just one.]
Lots of people are. That doesn't have anything to do with you.
[She's picking up the subtext, of course. That this isn't just a now concern. If it were, he wouldn't be this wound up over the circumstances of one stupid party.]
You can still turn into someone else for a while without having to wonder if you can trust them with that. When the door's locked, find a window.
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He doesn't react to being thumped any more than he did the first time, but at the end, he...blinks. And looks at her with the sort of fuzzy half-clarity of someone trying to wake up from a particularly deep sleep.]
Huh? How do you mean?
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Try doing something you've never done before. Something pointless. Like....ugh, not dancing. Hmm.
[Getting anything out of dancing kind of requires a partner who knows what they're doing and that's not an available resource.
fuck okay this is a little harder than it initially seemed.]
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[With what little room he has to move his arm, he gestures, vaguely, in the direction of the extremely cheap costume wings. He wouldn't even be here if it weren't for her and Kaede.]
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[Chinscratch.]
Wait here.
[She absconds, as if he has any other option at the moment.]
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[Confused noise meet surprised noise as she just takes the heck off without explanation and he continues to sit there as a blanket mummy pondering how he arrived at this moment of his existence. It's a time.
Insert final jeopardy theme here as he waits.]