starseedling: (fuck the grid)
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!
alienwear: (Yooooou DENSE MOTHERFUCKER)

[personal profile] alienwear 2019-08-22 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Um, because they're important to me?" Peridot growls, making an impatient gesture, as if the answer to Yuya's question should be as simple, widely understood and accepted as 2+2=4. There's definitely some monster bullshit happening here, although given some of their past interactions, Yuya could be forgiven for not being able to tell the difference between a moon-riled Peridot and the regular one.
hippocarnival: (✮ 060 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-23 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yuya holds his hands up and looks sideways. "Nevermind."

Forget the class he was going to, now he just wants to go back to his apartment.
alienwear: (TCH. WHATEVER!)

[personal profile] alienwear 2019-08-31 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Peridot lashes her tail for a moment, Looking for a second like she wants to continue to pick a fight about this, but. No... It's just the influence of the Sisters making her crankier, she knows it is. She tries to take a calming breath, settling back and crossing her arms at her chest.

"Anyway... If I could let you out of here, I would," she snorts. "I'm not exactly keen on having a bunch of strangers trapped in the house on a full-moon night, especially with that terrifying Maria lady making threats on the Watch network."
hippocarnival: (✮ 041 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-31 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I saw that." And it distracts him from his current plight at he remembers it, expression twisting in distaste. "She isn't helping anything. Who just threatens to kill people like that?"

Especially as a foreigner to the place she's playing vigilante in. There's no way there aren't already measures in place to handle monsters and the full moon.
alienwear: (tooshort5)

[personal profile] alienwear 2019-09-03 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
A lot of people, actually. [ She'll just say it point blank! ] At least that's been the case in my experience. Not that that makes it right...