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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!
fucking owned
"Hey - let go!" he yelps, trying to tug away. Unfortunately, he doesn't have any of that super-strength from home, and can only muster the resistance of a fairly fit child.
a betrayal most foul
He never encountered the Man with the Thistledown Hair personally (or more, he was never aware of him in the room, unable to see him), sure enough, but he did have to clean up bits and pieces of the mess he had made. If one faerie could ruin so many lives, what will a bunch in Aefenglom do?
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"NO!" Steven yells and, with the help of some lift from his wings, straight-up tries to kick Childermass in the gut. Looking back, this will certainly be a low point in what is already not his proudest moment.
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"I said..." He wheezes, beginning to straighten back up already, "Take down your illusions!"
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Once he's free he buzzes backwards, determined to maintain a distance between them, because wow how dare you.
"You can't tell me what to do!" he insists, really quite offended by this whole thing.
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After dashing from room to room a few times, Steven shouts back at him again, increasingly frustrated:
"If you keep trying to hurt me, then I'm gunna hurt you back!" At least he's giving a warning first.
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"This would be over if you let me leave," he points out. He's angry but he doesn't shout back, rather just being very terse in his words.
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"It's just one night," Steven says, crossing his arms. Not that he even particularly wants to party with Childermass, now. He's mostly maintaining his position out of spite. "What does it hurt to stay? I'm trying to make it nice for you!"
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"It may not cause harm but that doesn't make it right to do, either," he settles on telling him that instead of initiating another round of senseless chasing through the house. "Why do you even want me here? Surely I'm of no interest."
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Obviously, Childermass was a bad choice, that way. Like hell if Steven isn't going to double down on this, though.
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"You can use that ridiculous watch to tell an entire city of people like you that and you would have had more than a few offer to celebrate with you."
Admittedly, birthdays are also for rich people, but he isn't going to call Steven a spoiled brat on top of all of this.
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He gives Childermass the once over, then looks away dismissively.
"You obviously aren't like I thought you'd be."
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"Being led into a trap does not typically bring out those traits in people," Childermass says flatly, obviously unimpressed by such an assumption. "But seeing as you no longer care to have me around, you may as well drop the illusions and let me leave."