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sticksandbones2023-08-01 02:37 pm
simplicitas) wrote in sticksandbones2023-08-01 02:37 pm
[OPEN] elsword's housewarming party!
Who: Elsword & You
What: Housewarming party!! Snacks!! Mysterious river noises!!!! A mushroom probably!
When: Early August, in the evening
Where: Elsword's house :D
Warnings: frat boy party stuff probably
Elsword has been building a house. And, when August rolls around (time is weird here, just go with it, it Feels like August ok) he manages to complete it. Which means...
a) moving really shitty furniture into the actual rooms, sorry this is all the Shopkeeper could spare, he'll buy and/or make nicer furniture later
b) installing a chandelier (dangerous!)
c) going around to the grove's residents to ask if they want to live with him
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d) inviting people to have a "housewarming party", and explaining "I've never had one before but it sounds like fun" (you are here!)
There's food aplenty (mostly fish) cooked up and ready to eat, and the Shopkeeper has provided further party snacks, which is a fun way of saying there is a single large bowl of pretzels on a coffee table that looks like a halved tree. There are apples picked from the apple tree by the river's edge (Elsword has already thanked the forest for those). There's water. It's not the most extravagant party food, but there should be enough to go around. Just be sure to share with your fellow housemates and/or current partygoers, please, it's only polite.
There are games, too, but not anything too exciting. Elsword doesn't have any board games, and video games are a myth where he's from, so you'll all be playing verbal games like Two Truths & a Lie or Truth or Dare, which may or may not devolve into the most fratboy shit ever. There's no liquor here to make you immune to questioning your life choices, after all.
Outside on the patio are some of those awful, terribly uncomfortable plastic chairs likely pulled from the back of the General Store, but at least you can sit down and enjoy the sounds of the river nearby. The rushing waters, the sound of something croaking, maybe some gurgling... it's all very normal. There's nothing happening in the water. Elsword has even tried to create fake fireflies outside by using some of his magic to make little yellow orbs that float and bob in the air. It's quieter than inside, too, and is a nice escape from the partying. A relaxing time.
At the end of the night, after everyone has partied out, Elsword takes to cleaning up. He'll tell you not to worry about it and just let him handle everything, but if you stick around to help, you might find him staring into the shards of a mirror.
[OOC: hi this is a mingle. please do the mingling. do not kill each other. ty.]
What: Housewarming party!! Snacks!! Mysterious river noises!!!! A mushroom probably!
When: Early August, in the evening
Where: Elsword's house :D
Warnings: frat boy party stuff probably
Elsword has been building a house. And, when August rolls around (time is weird here, just go with it, it Feels like August ok) he manages to complete it. Which means...
a) moving really shitty furniture into the actual rooms, sorry this is all the Shopkeeper could spare, he'll buy and/or make nicer furniture later
b) installing a chandelier (dangerous!)
c) going around to the grove's residents to ask if they want to live with him
and
d) inviting people to have a "housewarming party", and explaining "I've never had one before but it sounds like fun" (you are here!)
There's food aplenty (mostly fish) cooked up and ready to eat, and the Shopkeeper has provided further party snacks, which is a fun way of saying there is a single large bowl of pretzels on a coffee table that looks like a halved tree. There are apples picked from the apple tree by the river's edge (Elsword has already thanked the forest for those). There's water. It's not the most extravagant party food, but there should be enough to go around. Just be sure to share with your fellow housemates and/or current partygoers, please, it's only polite.
There are games, too, but not anything too exciting. Elsword doesn't have any board games, and video games are a myth where he's from, so you'll all be playing verbal games like Two Truths & a Lie or Truth or Dare, which may or may not devolve into the most fratboy shit ever. There's no liquor here to make you immune to questioning your life choices, after all.
Outside on the patio are some of those awful, terribly uncomfortable plastic chairs likely pulled from the back of the General Store, but at least you can sit down and enjoy the sounds of the river nearby. The rushing waters, the sound of something croaking, maybe some gurgling... it's all very normal. There's nothing happening in the water. Elsword has even tried to create fake fireflies outside by using some of his magic to make little yellow orbs that float and bob in the air. It's quieter than inside, too, and is a nice escape from the partying. A relaxing time.
At the end of the night, after everyone has partied out, Elsword takes to cleaning up. He'll tell you not to worry about it and just let him handle everything, but if you stick around to help, you might find him staring into the shards of a mirror.
[OOC: hi this is a mingle. please do the mingling. do not kill each other. ty.]
these two killing me--
At least he resonates fairly easily with that "felt something within" comment. Maybe she's a bit like him, then? He's always been told he's a special case. A free will amongst a sea of people who would always give in to the Call of the Sea? It's alienating, isn't it? he wants to ask. To be "special". To be... alone. ]
W-well, I think... maybe... it's just because my ocean back home is probably a lot different than yours... I wouldn't be discouraged. [ He's not going to kinkshame for that-- ] But I-I'm also just bad about rushing into... those sorts of things...
HONESTLY this can only get better from here
You are most... Right. Yes. No its okay... [ Those sorts of things? Skinship? ] Oh... Do you not like holding hands or touching that much - I am so sorry. I can refrain, my people... We are very physically intimate with one another, erm um... I know the Kingdoms aren't.. I mean... We are very comfortable with holding each other, and hugging. After all it was how we kept each other warm when we travel through the mountains.
[ Caoimhe looks down a bit, rubbing the side of her arm. ] Though, mostly I only laid with Maeve of Caragh... When I could not, because Maeve was rather popular to bed beside. I often slept with the Bison. [ At that point she smiles, and her fingers press upon one another sheepishly. ] I do miss... Sleeping and cuddling with my family... I do not think anyone here is okay with that... Elsword often comments on my sleeping everywhere, but I find sleeping on the floor more comfortable then the bed he has offered. It... Just feels weird to sleep in one place for so long..
Ah - I ... Spoke so much I am sorry. I just get excited when, I get to share more of myself with you. We may be from different oceans, but I feel we are the same in many ways!
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Ah- ahh... I wouldn't say I don't like physical contact or anything like that. But maybe not to the degree you and your people have shared with one another...????
[ Are there bonobos in Arknights? Who knows. If there are, then maybe this would sound just like that sort of society-- ]
No, no, I get that impression, too! We share a lot of things in common. It's quite nice, actually. I don't... really ever feel so... [ Hhhh, words- ] ...uh, open to someone, I guess? I feel like it's very easy to talk to you, Caoimhe, and that maybe you might understand me.
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[ She means. To cuddle for warmth, to share a bed and sleep gently. To keep you close and know she is not alone in our more weaker moments - sleep. She will not ever come near you, fearing that perhaps. She has made herself seem unsightly, and finds herself feeling the same way her people made her feel. She feels... So sorry for thinking she could be close with Mizuki like that. A sort of platonic intimacy, shared between people who are comfortable with touching or holding one another.
Caoimhe thinks, it has to do with her - not him. She is so sorry. ]
Oh..
[ Is what she initially felt but what she discerns from Mizuki's words here is that - she matters to him. They are friends, and she supposes that he simply does not care for skinship. Her heart races still, and her mind does not shy her away from anxieties - but she tries... Because she values her friend so much. ]
Y-Yes... [ Taking a short deep breath, she goes from tense... To someone attempting to relax. ] To be fair... I... Enjoy talking to you the most out of everyone here... I feel like I am home.
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N-no, no, hugging is different than- You can still do that, you just-- y-you can't put hugs and sex in the same category?!
[ Whoop there it is- ]
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[ HOW? Did the conversation get here!?!?!? Caoimhe is mortified in some ways but absolutely embarrassed and apart of her wants to hide in a corner in cry. She would never force anyone to think of anything so intimate with her - she feels so sorry for him! That he had to think that! ]
I assure you - I was talking about, [ She tries to start from the begining as if this was all a story she failed to tell. ] our similarities in maybe being both from the sea. I had hoped in speaking to you about it - that I could learn the truth about myself - but but but - I only meant about that!!! W-When you spoke of skinship - I thought you only meant of touching and hugging! No ! My - My people are - are open in their loving of one another in a way that is inherently genuine and non sexual - we are a people of love and giving - not not not - not like that in that way - Just in a very - we lay in bed with one another when the nights are most cold - we sing every night to each other so that the woods may hear our song - so that as we rest we sleep to the sounds of someone being there - awaken to the sounds of our people being there - always our caravans are full of song - always we show our love for the world around us - to our people - such is our ways!! Such truths have kept beasts and monsters from us for they know our capacity - they know the way of song means that the Tuatha de is near - we protect ourselves from them in this way so that we may all live in harmony- our our our.... Our People!! M-My people normally do not lay with me often - to rest - to sleep - they do not - - because of the situation regarding my birth - most people were more afraid of me being an ill omen since it was that I was unable to prove my worth of being a child from the sea god Beithir - and and - I could not dance - - my singing - my singing is not so heavenly like C-Caragh who sounds as if she were blessed by the siren's voice herself - or or my dance - my dances are not so flowing like the waves of the ocean - like Maeve - how her moves gently match the way that the waves dance - I - I - I, I merely mean that we are very loving - that I wish nothing more then to give too - I wish too to hug and to hold - I - - - to have sex!?!? N-No No No No !!! I would never force such a thought of someone like me - that - - I - - OH!! By the GODS! By the PLANES!! - - Was that what Godwyyn meant - [ IT ALMOST HITS HER RIGHT NOW AFTER MONTHS!!! ]
IS THAT WHAT HE HAD MEANT WHEN HE SPOKE TO ME IN THAT FASHION!?!?! WHEN HE WANTED TO TAKE ME TO THE BED AND WRAP ME AROUND HIS FINGERS!?!?!
[ SHE IS JUST GOING TO KEEP TALKING IF NO ONE STOPS HER!!! SHE BROKE!!! ]
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Light, chime-like laughter.
Before Caoimhe can talk herself to exhaustion, Mizuki takes the steps forward to finally give Caoimhe the close, warm embrace that he so loves to give. Of course he wants to share these sorts of moments with her. Of course he wants to hug his friends. Of course she is his friend. ]
Hey, hey, hey, if you keep talking so fast I won't be able to keep up!! It's alright!! [ A squeeze. ] I'll give you as many hugs as you would like.
[ There's so much to address here?! But, uh, Mizuki mostly just wants her to calm down first and foremost. ]
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[ Just like that she is - grounded. She supposes, or whatever the better term one would use for folk of ocean waters. Her high pitched blabbing on about so many thoughts bombarding her mind and the light warm chuckling her friend offered. Followed by his grounding hug, reminded her truly of home. She missed home - I WANNAN GO HOMEEMEMEMEMEMEEEE!!!! ( insret sandy.gif ) ]
....
[ It takes her a moment, but she gives a shaky long exhale. As if with all the speaking she had done - her lungs held so much breath within them. ]
I am so sorry... [ And then... She hugs him back. Tightly. ] I-I wish Maeve or Caragh were here... They would... Be able to explain better... I am ... I am not good with many things, I suppose... Explaining... My own feelings, is a struggle of mine too.
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It's the autism.] so I try to do my best to let people know how I'm feeling as much as I can. But words are... really hard sometimes, huh?[ He bumps his head to hers, anyway. ]
But don't say you are not good at many things. Anyone can say that. But I know you are good at many things, too. So kind, and so being around you makes me very happy. That's truly the best gift a person can have, you know. To bring happiness to the world is the one thing I want more than anything, so I'm a bit envious it seems to just exude from you like that.
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DIANOSIS WT THE TISM???? Too bad her people dont know what the hell that is or maybe theyd be more accepting of Caoimhe too.Caoimhe leans into his hug, she hugged so many members of the Grove by this point - but it didn't feel like this. Like hugging Maeve, with how affectionate her blue haired friend was - oh they both have blue hair! Caoimhe thinks looking at locks of Mizuki's hair that fall into her view so closely now. ]... Do you think so..? [ Envious? Caoimhe doesn't think the other should be envious of anything, Mizuki was strong and kind - reliable in so many ways. ]
Yes.... Oh.... Mizuki you are really kind... I want everyone to know happiness too... I think everyone is deserving of at least that much... [ It takes a moment, and her nerves that were so rattled before had finally began to come down. ] ...After all that I feel really sleepy... Is that weird..?
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No, not weird at all. That was kind of an emotional rollercoaster, ehehe~! I'm sure Mister Elsword won't mind if we take a little nap before we cook anything. We have a bit of time, and I can get through it real fast if you would like to rest. And, just to be totally clear now that I know what you were talking about, I'm absolutely okay with sleep cuddles, so if you'd feel more comfortable with napping with me, I'd be delighted!
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[ You just hear her say this so loudly and clutch him TIGHTLY!! LIKE SHES NOT LETTING HIM GO!!!! ]
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Anyway, Elsword should rest before the party, so excuse as they're just going to set the bag by the kitchen and seek out Nerd Loser #3. ]
Mister Elsword~! We're gonna be cooking, but we're a little tired. We still have plenty of time for a nap, right??
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Huh? Yeah, that's fine. [Does not realise he's being invited here, also don't mister him he's 18—]
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Ah... Are you alright Elsword, you aren't tired too are you..?
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Great!!! We’ll be well rested before everyone gets here, then~!
[ Whatever he was doing isn’t important. He’s being dragged by an excited jellyfish to where his room is for rest. What better way to spend your preparation time? ]
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I'm not that tired. [But he doesn't sleep well anyway, so maybe he does need the nap.] But I don't mind lying down, either.
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[ Caoimhe will!! Swoop up to make the BED COMFY!! She just pats it all like. Go ahead lay down Ill tuck you into bed. ]
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I wish I had known sooner. If all you needed were some cuddles I would've done this way, way sooner. [ Having Elsword here is just insurance that Caoimhe would always have a buddy, really. Mizuki can't always be it, especially when he likes to sleep underwater most of the time...
Onto the bed he'll go, though, happily. Mizuki can squish himself to make as much room as they need. We take our Mizuki's moldable. ]
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I've never slept with someone either. [Thanks no one asked— but he'll take his spot on the bed... he supposes he'll be in the middle? That makes sense, right...] If you're having problems sleeping, I'm used to camping out and sharing space with others, so I can help. I think having someone there is nice.
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