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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!
hippocarnival: (✮ 049 ✮)

Kidnappery

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-14 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Steven has a prime, gullible target when Yuya's ready to leave the apartment to magic classes. He doesn't spend much time there given he has no money and nothing but himself and maybe this independent living isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Anyway, he can't tell illusions from the real thing, lead him astray.
lonewanderer: (Default)

the lone wanderer "lex" | fallout 3 | chimera | ota

[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-08-14 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The commotion draws Lex out of her room, for the part of the night that she's in it. Under the full moon, her chimera features are stronger than ever; most of her hair is now a mix of red fox-fur with eagle's feathers along the bottom and her arms. Fox ears and a tail accompany the eagle's talons on her hands, and eagle's wings have sprouted from near her shoulders. Her teeth are sharp, showing as she breathes, open-mouthed, and scents the hallway.

Something is... off. Something, but she isn't sure what. It's enough to have her tell Dogmeat to stay and for Lex to slip out of her room, walking a few steps down the hall before she spots you.

"What's going on?"
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-14 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuya follows like the sucker he is, in part because he's not paying a whole lot of attention. It's only as he drifts closer to Steven's house that he starts to slow down, realizing...

"Did I go the right way?" It looks like the right way, doesn't it?
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-14 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuya turns slowly, stopping when he faces Steven's door as his influence plays on his mind.

Through the door, he sees a very different interior than should be there. He sees his room, exactly as he'd left it the morning he tumbled through his bathroom mirror. He sees home.

The longing over takes him immediately, and the ache of being taken too quickly from a place he'd just returned clouds his judgement. He runs to it immediately.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-14 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuya bounds through a doorway with a rush of excitement that quickly goes cold when it suddenly fades from view, leaving him in some other building entirely. He blinks slowly, his shoulders sinking as his joy and relief turn despondent.

Steven flutters in, but Yuya can only managed to greet him halfheartedly. "Hey."

Actually, what is he doing here?
hippocarnival: (✮ 144 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-15 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"... Uh." Yuya definitely doesn't know what he's doing here. "You're welcome? I, uh, thought this was somewhere else. Not your home."

That sentence sounds like it's his home, anyway? He'd apologize for barging on on accident, but Steven doesn't seem to mind it.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-15 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
No... but he can't really just say that to Steven's face.

So he doesn't acknowledge it at all. "Guests? You're planning something?"

He glances around, like it'll give him another indication of just what exactly he walked into.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-15 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh!" Yuya's brows raise. He rubs the back of his neck. "I didn't know. I wasn't really coming here on purpose, but... I can stay for a while if you want."

He knows how long Steven's been here, after all. He believes that it must be lonely to have to be spending his birthday alone. The warnings he received about the full moon are, unfortunately for him, an afterthought.

Also, he's just gullible.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-15 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yuya offers a tentative smile. It's not a problem to skip classes for something like this, right? He doesn't feel like he's making much progress anyway.

"I don't know if the kind of music I listen to exists here... but it's your birthday, right? Why don't you show me what your favorite things are?"
bleedinghare: curious (curious2)

meanwhile, at another birthday party

[personal profile] bleedinghare 2019-08-15 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Steven isn't the only Monster with their birthday on the full moon; in fact, he's bound to find the little hub of magic and mingling with how it practically glows with the pulse of its partygoers, like a lit streetlamp (or a birthday candle.) One of Geardgas's most recent arrivals sits at the heart of the glimmering little party, with her skirts rolled up and her stockings pulled off― cozied up to the poolside edge to dip her feet in, to chat with the birthday-Merrow and the others who have decided to have a swim.

―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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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-15 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh--that must be something to do with magic, but it reminds him of the effects he likes using with his duel disk. Holograms are just technical illusions, right?

He smiles a little more, letting out a laugh despite himself at Steven's enthusiasm. "I've had all those things!"

He glances around again as the music starts up, even if it's meaningless to find the source. "Is that his music? And your magic?"
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kid...nap?

[personal profile] horkbajir 2019-08-15 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Toby doesn't really 'get' birthdays and birthday parties, but she was present for America's, and Steven had seemed melancholy about his as it approached. So she thought about it, decided that a good pinecone was not an appropriate gift, and in lieu of sorting through the vast and complex array of goods sold in the markets she's spent the better part of a week carving a short three-legged stool, staining the seat darker and engraving it with an oak leaf that shows paler wood through the stain.

It's meant she's been away for the buildup to the full moon, unfortunately, but she comes back into the city carrying it. It's wrapped in white cloth with just a few pine needles caught in the folds, because she'd accidentally tear paper with her claws.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-15 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Full moons, full moons... that's right, he'd been warned about the full moons. As a witch, he doesn't feel any different--maybe it's because he just got here? He mostly heard about what can happen with monsters, but Steven doesn't seem feral.

Yuya waves his hand. "Uh--I don't think I can be that much. But we can get to know each other and have fun our own way!"

It just seems a little presumptuous to believe he could fill those shoes when they hardly know each other. But if he's honest with himself, they're both lonely.

"You said you invited other people, right? If you haven't set up yet, let's start with that."

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