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middaeg2019-08-14 04:22 pm
starseedling) wrote in middaeg2019-08-14 04:22 pm
STEVEN'S MANDATORY BIRTHDAY PARTY (OPEN)
Who: Open to abductees and also hopefully an intervention.
When: Aguril 15th, night of the full moon.
Where: Around the Haven, and in Steven's house.
What: The combination of intense homesickness, his 15th birthday, and also Full Moon faerie mania, has resulted in Steven trying to use illusions to kidnap and trap people in his house that remind him of his family and friends from back home. Theoretically this is for a "birthday party" but it's entirely possible Steven will lose the plot as the night goes on. Threads can either be your character ending up stuck in his house somehow or Steven making an attempt to whisk them away and failing.
Warnings: Probably some fucked up illusion shit. Someone stop him.
With the distraction of the Speed Dating event over, and his initial attempts at experiencing the wild mostly successful, Steven finds himself experiencing a gnawing emptiness towards the middle of the month. He doesn't know how exactly the times line up, but it's close enough to feel true - the 15th is his birthday, or close enough to count. He's fifteen years old, and he's still not home.
He's never had a birthday without his Dad, or without the other Gems. The idea that he's having one here, so far away, without any of them is painful. Part of him wants to try to put together a gathering, to do something to celebrate, but the rest of him feels like doing so will just make the absence of the others more obvious. In the days leading up to it, he resigns himself to maybe doing something small, and to otherwise let it pass by uneventfully.
Unfortunately, on the morning of the Full Moon, those reservations gradually start to peel away in favour of the wild energy of the Sisters. He molts in the afternoon, as has become typical, and upon opening fresh eyes to the evening moons, his fae side starts to take over. He will have a birthday party, and it'll be like his family was never gone! How did he not think of it before?
Steven is going to try to - and possibly succeed in - abducting various people with illusion magic. He could probably end up with anyone, but he'll be specifically focusing on those that fit these archetypes:
1) Anyone with strong dad energy.
2) Mysterious, reserved, self-confident, and will kick your ass.
3) Mother-hen, fastidious, protective, graceful.
4) Scrappy, playful, punk-ass, chaotic, sibling type.
5) People around his age that are big nerds.
We can approach this one of two major ways: either we can thread Steven attempting to kidnap your character, or we can start with them realizing they've already been bamboozled by any kind of appropriate illusions into entering his house, and now can't seem to figure out how to exit. If he's going to try to kidnap them you can have your character be anywhere in the Haven, and if you want to start out in the house, just summarize the initial trickery and have them realize they seem to be in one of the fairly nice houses in the Haven but can't find the door or any exits.
Unless they can see through illusions, in which case Steven's antics probably won't work on them from square one. Feel free to get on his case about it!
He's going to be at this all night, but his roommates and other people may be sabotaging him, so your character may arrive and escape at random times throughout the evening. Other people may or may not be around at the same time. We can play it loose!
When: Aguril 15th, night of the full moon.
Where: Around the Haven, and in Steven's house.
What: The combination of intense homesickness, his 15th birthday, and also Full Moon faerie mania, has resulted in Steven trying to use illusions to kidnap and trap people in his house that remind him of his family and friends from back home. Theoretically this is for a "birthday party" but it's entirely possible Steven will lose the plot as the night goes on. Threads can either be your character ending up stuck in his house somehow or Steven making an attempt to whisk them away and failing.
Warnings: Probably some fucked up illusion shit. Someone stop him.
With the distraction of the Speed Dating event over, and his initial attempts at experiencing the wild mostly successful, Steven finds himself experiencing a gnawing emptiness towards the middle of the month. He doesn't know how exactly the times line up, but it's close enough to feel true - the 15th is his birthday, or close enough to count. He's fifteen years old, and he's still not home.
He's never had a birthday without his Dad, or without the other Gems. The idea that he's having one here, so far away, without any of them is painful. Part of him wants to try to put together a gathering, to do something to celebrate, but the rest of him feels like doing so will just make the absence of the others more obvious. In the days leading up to it, he resigns himself to maybe doing something small, and to otherwise let it pass by uneventfully.
Unfortunately, on the morning of the Full Moon, those reservations gradually start to peel away in favour of the wild energy of the Sisters. He molts in the afternoon, as has become typical, and upon opening fresh eyes to the evening moons, his fae side starts to take over. He will have a birthday party, and it'll be like his family was never gone! How did he not think of it before?
Steven is going to try to - and possibly succeed in - abducting various people with illusion magic. He could probably end up with anyone, but he'll be specifically focusing on those that fit these archetypes:
1) Anyone with strong dad energy.
2) Mysterious, reserved, self-confident, and will kick your ass.
3) Mother-hen, fastidious, protective, graceful.
4) Scrappy, playful, punk-ass, chaotic, sibling type.
5) People around his age that are big nerds.
We can approach this one of two major ways: either we can thread Steven attempting to kidnap your character, or we can start with them realizing they've already been bamboozled by any kind of appropriate illusions into entering his house, and now can't seem to figure out how to exit. If he's going to try to kidnap them you can have your character be anywhere in the Haven, and if you want to start out in the house, just summarize the initial trickery and have them realize they seem to be in one of the fairly nice houses in the Haven but can't find the door or any exits.
Unless they can see through illusions, in which case Steven's antics probably won't work on them from square one. Feel free to get on his case about it!
He's going to be at this all night, but his roommates and other people may be sabotaging him, so your character may arrive and escape at random times throughout the evening. Other people may or may not be around at the same time. We can play it loose!
meanwhile, at another birthday party
―spurred by her gentle tipsiness from several drinks composed of mint, sugar, and bourbon, Adeline eventually kicks her feet out of the pool and finds her way over to the refreshment table for what is probably her third portion of cake. She's at the fringe of the crowd now, and not incredibly alert― giving Steven a fine opening.
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He's out and about again, looking for more guests to fill the hole in his heart. He spires Connor's birthday party, and pettily, something snaps inside of him. Tears push into his eyes, and he finds himself angrily blinking them away. Someone else is having a party - on his birthday! And they all look so happy about it!
Why can't he feel happy so easily? It isn't fair.
He flutters in close, spying from over the fence - and he sees her. It's the curly hair and her dress that strikes him first. It's not a lot to go off of, but he's obsessively looking for patterns here, and something about her is immediately appealing.
A few glowing butterflies appear to her, gently fluttering towards the table - one of them coming to rest on the mack of her hand. Steven watches, looking for a reaction.
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"―hello?"
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"Follow me," the imaginary butterfly will say, in what is essentially just Steven's voice but smaller. He didn't have enough time to think of something cooler on the fly, okay? He's working on it.
The butterflies lift from her hand, fluttering out of Connor's yard and towards the open streets.
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"Hello?" Adeline calls again, hoisting her skirts up in one elbow to lift a hand to her brow, to more focusedly peer into the dim poolings of streetlamp that lead down the road. "―who..."
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The butterflies speak all at once, luminous wings continuing down the street at a walking face. Steven is not really someone who is inclined towards deception, but thankfully Adeline is making it easy for him. Natural curiosity and limited fear goes a long way.
Of course, saying 'you want to show someone something' is perhaps the most suspicious thing you can say... but he's hopefully got a few more cards up his sleeves, now that she's away from other people.
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With her bare feet sounding gentle footsteps against the cobblestones, the young woman draws in more closely― and attempts to catch one in cupped palms, though she misses― and misses again, giggling softly despite herself.
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She'll manage to catch one of the butterflies in between her hands - and once she opens them to look, it will have transformed into several more of them. The group of them, all in different colours, fly from her grasp - revealing what looks like some kind of flower filled courtyard.
The butterflies pass through the courtyard gate, leading inwards, and dew drops glisten on the petals as she passes.
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