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Steven Universe ([personal profile] starseedling) wrote in [community profile] 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!
wordsinthesoul: (conversational)

Kidnappery

[personal profile] wordsinthesoul 2019-08-18 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
As it gets later in the day, Thancred will be returning, from taking what opportunities he can around the harbour. He's not as focused as he might be- feeling he knows the way well enough by now. He's not expecting any illusions, certainly, and probably won't think twice if nothing stands out.
wordsinthesoul: (out and about)

[personal profile] wordsinthesoul 2019-08-23 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps something feels odd- but it always has around the full moon. It's fine.

It's a distinctive voice- someone familiar, and Thancred draws a startled breath. He hasn't been expecting to hear any of the others, here- particularly not their hardworking receptionist, Tataru. Besides which- how could he have missed her? "Tataru?" He starts forward, looking for the Lalafell, a little bit of surprise and hope on his face. He will knock, before reaching for the door- that's only polite, after all.
wordsinthesoul: (examining)

[personal profile] wordsinthesoul 2019-08-27 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
…ah. Somehow, he feels as though he should have expected that- although part of him still wonders what it was, exactly. Well- if there's no one here, he's going to move on, looking for the source of those other voices. If there's anywhere he can stick his nose through and look, he's going to do that. "Hello?"