Now Kiss!

[unheiring]

Who: The Entire (Adult*) Population of the Grove
What: Spin the Bottle Round Three
When: Somewhere in Magic Month
Where: The Inn Lobby
Warnings: Magic will probably go haywire because what's funnier than your emotions spiking and making your windy magic go woosh

*Younger muses can set up their own Spin the Bottle behind the Inn or whatever. Be some punk little rebels I don't care, I'm not your dad.

After two months of terror, it's time for a little whimsy — or so Luca Aurelius says, at least. And since Ain is a perpetual bad influence on him, Luca defaults to the most menacing game he knows: spin the bottle.

The rules are simple, plop down in the middle of a circle and get comfortable. Or maybe you got roped into this by a friend and now you're trying to put on a brave face? Either way, it's time to wait: the bottle will land on you eventually, right?. At that point, the rules are simple: kiss!

You can be brave about it and lock lips, or something mildly more. Or if you're trying to play it cool, a kiss on the hand or cheek should suffice. Luca isn't really enforcing any strict rules. The bastard isn't even playing, what the hell.

(Or, to put it all simply and break the fourth wall: drop your character. Add a little description about their behavior/demeanor prior to the kiss, if you want. Then, wait for someone to tag you, while you do some tagging out of your own! Spinning the bottle is a mutual affair, after all. Just remember to take any escalations off comms and to your inboxes, you fucking menaces)

Hope you're ready to resolve some of that tension you've been ignoring!

Comments

perpetual bad influence

[eidxiety]

[Ain teehees and heehees the whole way to the game don't @ him.

It's been a long time since he's chilled out like this, so he will be playing! Boys will get their laps sat in for kisses though, unless they're smaller than Ain (6ft and built like a stick). Ladies get a kiss on the cheek, or the hand if you wanna pretend he has rizz for five seconds.

He will leave Dachie to go give kisses to the kids outside. Be careful, the owldog only knows Love.]

whore.

[thebladebringstheflame]

[Flamebringer is the opposite of Ain bc if you land on him, you sit in HIS lap. He will not sit in yours. He might also try to honk your ass sorry—

Women do not get any of this, you can have a kiss on the cheek though.]

vildred from my shows

[bladeascent]

[What better way to feel normal about your life than to, checks notes... play bar games? He didn't play last time because he was having a crisis but this seems like a nice time to try to be a person again.

Vildred is pretty formal about this though unfortunately. Men get a polite smooch. Women get a polite smooch on the hand (and he will even bow) (he's met royalty before okay). Anything else may require more goading. He might go get you a drink though afterwards so hey—]

urbain is 19/pushing 20 so viewer discretion advised

[justacityboy]

[He has also never kissed anyone before so uh.

Anyone can have a small! kiss on the lips before he tries to run off. Men might be able to tug him back but unfortunately he's Shy and Nervous. good luck godspeed i know this appeals to at least one of you]

Pavlova Cookie

[lovelyredthread]

[ He is here. Mostly because please god he wants to see the Mess unfold but also because he could use a little levity right now.

If the bottle lands on him, he usually goes dealer's choice on the kiss, but defaults to cheek kisses.

You can also gossip with him about what's going on, he'd love to stir a little harmless chaos. ]

Allen is. 18. and also like 40?? Anime was a mistake

[godsfavourite]

[ Allen is here! Mostly to be a social butterfly - he sees a gathering of people and has to slide his way into it. It's weird that they're playing The Kissing Game(tm), but sure! He can vibe! At least Till warned him this would probably happen-

He is participating, but only in the sense that he's flitting around to bother people. If he ever has a bottle hand on him, he'll give a polite little bow and offer his human hand out. ]

Right unlucky you got stuck with me, huh? [ He laughs. ] You can make it quick, though, I won't be offended.

here to ruin both of their days-

[lotusflower]

[Kanda did not realise there was a party in the inn. Kanda is here to raid the kitchen because they're out of tea and he doesn't feel like digging in the river for the shells to buy more. This is how he accidentally gets roped into whatever child's game they're playing, having no fucking clue what's going on as he stands in the middle of the circle like ? ? ? ?

Anyway, doesn't take him long to figure out what this crowd of people wants them to do. Uh.

...]

I'm leaving.

[Hopefully without stepping on someone but the queers have them CORNERED]

mean to kanda

[godsfavourite]

[ Allen will reach out to grab Kanda's wrist. Where are you going??? This is the only opportunity ever to kiss you consensually without having to think about consequences, he's not letting this go- ]

Oi, you're going to ruin the spirit of the game, Kanda! Come on, now, you really going to chicken out on me?

??? YOURE mean to ALLEN

[lotusflower]

[This is not the only opportunity ever you LIVE with him?? It's just that he thinks he's going to explode if he admits to himself that he wants to, despite getting close several times now. People are watchinggggg. His face is burning already and they're doing Nothing. Help.]

I didn't come here to play a game, [he says, staying in the circle because Allen has him and if he thinks about it too long he REALLY wants to kiss Allen,] and I'm—

[He can't say he's never kissed anybody because Allen knows for a fact that Kanda has, so that's fucking out, and he doesn't need this random circle of chucklefucks to know about Alma because they'll ask questions and he might just kill someone about it. Quick, he needs an excuse. Quick quick quick, brain work with him—]

I'm not sure you know how to kiss. [kanda]

[godsfavourite]

[ It's his only opportunity because Kanda doesn't like Allen and he's not gonna FORCE him or anything-

Although, now that he thinks about it, this is all kind of forcing him, isn't it? That feels a little yucky???? Maybe it's fine? Maybe if he plays his cards right, Kanda will be okay with it, and it won't be weird??? ]

I don't! I only got kissed once, and I didn't react at all. I'd really like a better "first kiss" so I don't have to think about it.

[lotusflower]

[The fact that these two are never on the same page is honestly incredible. But now he's been derailed, sorry partygoers—]

Who kissed you???

[Could you try to sound less, I don't know, concerned and gay about it.]

[godsfavourite]

Wh- oh. That's... right, you were...

[ Allen clears his throat, staring at the floor. ]

It was... on the Ark. Road did. So... it basically didn't count!

[lotusflower]

[Yes he was technically dead/despawned/in the void, yes he was a little fucked up after he killed Skinn, yes—]

Gross.

[Thank you Kanda, very cool Kanda, very insightful commentary. He still has not left the circle, and he looks a bit... stupid about all of this, like he's trying to ignore the people here. All they have to do is kiss, though, which is super easy and he would know because he's done it before ha Ha Haaaa...]

Fine. Then this can... count.

[Unless he also sucks at this, he wouldn't know, how is one even supposed to know that?

...is it gay if you tell a man that it Counts? Hold on.]

[godsfavourite]

[ He was T-posing waiting to be in render distance, yeah- ]

Haha~ My hero. [ It's gay, yeah. But you're gay, Kanda. Allen's seen your past, bud, he knows!!!

He gently moves his hand up to Kanda's shoulder instead, using him as a balance as he gets closer before Kanda can change his mind. Technically, Kanda should be the one initiating here, but... Allen has to stand on his tip toes, but he gently closes the space between his lips and Kanda's.

If Kanda asks... it's just this once. It doesn't mean anything, right? Just a game.

The flutters in his chest and the way his breath catches don't mean anything. In fact it means so nothing, it's why the kiss lasts maybe a second, at the absolute longest, before Allen is pulling away- ]

[lotusflower]

[They are vaguely holding onto each other (Allen's using his shoulder, Kanda's realising that Beansprout is Beansproutier than previously thought) and their lips brush and he feels like his head is going to explode. Fuck. Okay. That's normal, having his face burn this fucking bad all the way to the tips of his ears is normal. (It's not and he knows it's not, it's never been just a run-of-the-mill thing with him. Good god, it's just a soft kiss and Kanda feels like he's never wanted anything so bad in his life.)

The round is supposed to end as soon as they've locked lips, no matter how deep or long the kiss lasts. They kiss and everyone moves on. That's how this stupid-ass game he's been unwittingly sucked into works. Allen pulls away and Kanda slightly shuffles his left foot like he's about to step out of the circle.

Then he has a second thought and before he can think better and be less stupidly impulsive, he reaches out to grab Allen around the waist and pull him back in. Sorry hold on he needs to kiss you stupid real quick.]

[godsfavourite]

[ Allen is more than happy to lock this tiny kiss into the drawer of emotions he feels about Kanda that he can ignore. He’s happy to have this much. He wouldn’t- no, couldn’t ask for even this much, given the things he knows and done. So he pulls away, grateful, and if asked he’d say it’s only because now he’ll say this is his real “first”.

It’s more than that, but that’s between Allen and God. No one else.

So imagine his surprise when he goes to try and say something and Kanda pulls him in for a round two??? Wh. Hey??

What???????????????

Pardon the red to Allen’s ears, what is happening? Kanda knows all this isn’t necessary, right??? ]

[lotusflower]

[First step: Kiss Allen Walker on the lips. Success.
Second step: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Fuck dude, he genuinely didn't think he'd ever get this far. Now he has an arm around Allen's waist and he's pulling him in for the type of kiss you'd see in a stage play, bending Allen just slightly backwards enough to where one wrong move might tilt them both over. It's charged. There's electricity in there, years of stupid pining, goaded on by whatever hellish energy is in this room and the fact that when they were apart last, Kanda got hit with the yearning real fuckin' bad.

It's embarrassing.

He wants more of whatever the fuck this is between them.]

a butterfly here "begrudgingly"

[chonomai]

( she's absolutely got dragged here by tengen. the nerve. but she is staying willingly! she'll probably prefer cheek kisses................ unless )

a flaming himbo

[tempurahair]

[He is here, he is queer, and he is grinning from ear to ear.

Please kiss him he is so kissable.]

[tempurahair]

[Did Kyojuro do some slightly less than scrupulous things to get the bottle to land on Shinobu? Maybe. But the point is that it did, and now he's plopping in front of her.]

Hello, my dear!

[unheiring]

[Luca doesn't even need the bottle to land on Pavlova (especially if Luca himself isn't playing. He leans down and pecks Pavlova atop the head.]

Are you having fun menacing everyone?

the gayest bisexual you've ever seen

[bluebasketballed]

[kyojuro is here, which, given last time, means akaza is tagging along. and glaring at flamebringer like that poor man broke his kneecaps, stole his puppy, burned his house down, and framed him for murder. does fb even register he exists before this moment? we just don't know.

funny thing about sitting in on a game of spin the bottle? sometimes the bottle lands on you. his tune changes real fucking quick, and he's a deer in headlights.]

... What?

[unheiring]

[Okay I lied, Luca spins the bottle at least one whole time.His grin is absolutely devious when it lands on Ain, too.. He plays it casual as he ambles over and — taking a page from Ain's book, sits on his lap instead.]

It would seem the shoe is on the other foot.

[tempurahair]

[The way his head tilts like a puppy - ]

You do know what the point of the game is, yes?

[tempurahair]

[Hello Flamebringer. It's been awhile. And as fate would have it, the bottle has brought you together again. Kyojuro grins as he plops straight onto his lap. He is... not a lightweight man. Sorry about that.]

Hello, again!! It has been awhile!