Finally, another party

[puppy_lancer]

Characters: ProtoLancer puppy_lancer, Zero Lancer oathshackledbird and anyone interested in attending a birthday party. Details here.
Setting: Meadow
Format: Anything goes
Summary: Lancer throws his brother a party. Everyone can come except for the Archer (meaning they can come crash the party anyways)! Feel free to tag into any of the threads set up or invent your own scenario.
Warnings: None yet!

[It had taken some preparing, but the party was finally set up in a satisfactory way. There was a table for food and drink dragged in from the cafeteria, a wooden bucket filled with water with fruit floating in it, a strange paper mache Jason head pinata stacked on a scarecrow body, and a board with a pig with a Ganon head scribbled on it along with several spiraling paper "tails" attached to thumbtacks. There are no party decorations, but Lancer figures the flowers and sunshine should be decoration enough.]

[Now it's just a matter of waiting for people to show up.]

Comments

Wallflowers

[puppy_lancer]

[Because there's always gonna be people who don't want part in the main festivities.]

[carabina]

[ It doesn't feel right being here still, so Mami's off to the side, watching everyone. It was wonderful seeing everyone celebrate her friend's birthday, she had to admit, and there was even a light smile on her face.

She wanted to talk to Diarmuid, but she has yet to see him. Feel free to give her a poke and start up a conversation with her though! ]

[oathshackledbird]

[It takes him a little while to find her, but when Diarmuid finally spots Mami among the people at the party, he smiles. As he crosses the meadow to where she's standing, he reaches out and picks one of the many flowers, presenting it to her once he stops at her side. He actually would like to hug her and tell her everything will be all right, but in this place that would be nothing but a lie, so instead he just sticks to giving her the flower.]

I am so glad to see you, Mami. How are you feeling today?

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[vermicompost]

[Kariya isn't the happiest of partygoers. He hadn't wanted to come to this party at all, but Lancelot had forced him to attend. He's still angry at Diarmuid and feels awkward about seeing him. The lingering curse, if that's what it is, doesn't make him feel any better, only adding to his nerves. His face feels hot. It would be better if he hadn't come. He isn't in the right frame of mind for festivities, and he doesn't want to ruin others' happiness.

But now that he's here, he might as well stay. He's sure Lancelot would drag him back if he tried to leave, and he's not willing to waste a Command Seal on this.

He stands on the sidelines of the party. Wallflower that he is, he's leaned down to pick some of the actual flowers and holds them up to smell them, breathing in deeply. They distract him slightly from his agitation and distress.]

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[puppy_lancer]

...Hey.

[Lancer leans over Kariya. He can see that Kariya isn't enjoying this as much as Lancer wants him to. He's really at a loss for what to say to Kariya about everything.]

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid notices Kariya's presence at the party almost immediately after the other man arrives, but it takes him quite a while to work up enough nerve to approach him. Even though he had been thinking about having this conversation ever since he'd had that letter exchange with Lancelot, all of his thinking hasn't given him a good idea of what to say.

How does one even begin to apologize for an incident they can't remember?

Finally, though, he makes himself approach Kariya. The man is his friend and--promise to Lancelot aside--he and Kariya had been through so much together in the tower, Diarmuid isn't about to let this latest batch of tricks pull them apart.

He quietly crosses to where the other man is standing and drops to one knee in front of him.]

May we talk?

[The question is tentative and the nervousness Diarmuid is feeling, familiar. They've been in this position before--Kariya hurt and Diarmuid afraid that this time the other man will finally decide he doesn't want to hear what Diarmuid has to say.

But he still has to try. Their friendship means that much to him.]

[bowandblade]

[Gilgamesh forgoes his usual golden entrance as he materializes behind Kariya. He had been told to stay away from the party, but of course he wasn't going to stay away when he had so blatantly been told not to -- especially when it was something so frivolous being taken so seriously by Lancer.

He had noticed Kariya hanging back from the rest of the party and found himself amused by it. The man's starkly different look was especially intriguing, which is why he hovers by the man with a smile.]

You look to be in something of a mood.

[myblueskies]

[Romeo spots him and skips over, face falling when he sees that his spirits are definitely not up.] Are you not enjoying the party sir?

[unhealing]

[Claudia, while not a wallflower under normal circumstances, is not strictly comfortable attending the party of a man she doesn't know personally and whose Master she has killed in her own timeline, as it turns out. Her intent is to remain present just long enough to be polite, and then make a hasty exit. In the meantime, she tries to be unobtrusive and overlooked.]

[When she notices Kariya, she experiences a brief bout of panicked guilt, like child caught doing something forbidden. When she notices Kariya looking sullen, that feeling is soon replaced with one of concern.]

[...Her demeanor is still shy when she approaches, though.]

Kariya...?

[oathshackledbird]

[Is one allowed to be a wallflower at their own party? The answer doesn't probably matter that much because Diarmuid's not technically being a wallflower. He had participated in a few of the games and talked with some people, but is now just standing back and watching everyone else have fun and realizing that while he had been initially worried, his brother's idea had been a good one. A very good one.

And so he stands, drink in hand just watching everyone have fun with a silly grin on his face. He actually seems happy himself for once. The fact that seeing others happy is one of the things that will always make him feel better probably has a lot to do with that.]

[puppy_lancer]

How do you like this, bro?

[Lancer grins at his brother as he walks over, holding a drink.]

[notsogrimreaper]

[Ryoji approaches Diarmuid with a bright grin himself. He's a little worried that Diarmuid isn't really taking part in the festivities, but everyone has a different way of celebrating, he supposes. And Diarmuid really does look genuinely happy.]

Happy birthday!

[fionnuisce]

You seem to be having fun.

Re: Wallflowers

[frilliance]

[Of course Edgeworth is being a wallflower. Did you expect anything else?

With a cup of tea in his hand - thank god he can drink it again - he stands in a quiet spot of the meadow, observing everyone and making sure that nobody causes any trouble. Because someone has to be a joykill do it.]

[oathshackledbird]

[When Diarmuid notices his roommate looking so...well like his normal self--which is to say far too stern--he walks over to him and smiles.]

I should probably warn you. Unless you want my brother doing any number of ridiculous things to try and lighten your mood, you may want to try to smile just a little bit.

Or....will your face crack in half if you do?

[fionnuisce]

[Not far off is a magus in a dark green suit, black hair in a ponytail and sunglasses sitting on his head. He seemed to be enjoying his own cup of tea, and generally keeping to himself.]

[carabina]

[ And standing next to him is a young magical girl, drinking tea as well. ]

It was nice of the host to throw a party for Lancer-san.

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku had came, but stood to the sides feeling awkward and out of place. Even though Cu had told him he could come.

He watched the festivities, glad that so many of Diarmuid's friends had came to help him celebrate.]

[puppy_lancer]

Yo!

[Lancer hovers behind the boy.]

So, enjoying this thing? Had a go at the Jason pinata yet?

[oathshackledbird]

How are you doing, Suzaku?

[Diarmuid had been surprised, but happy to see Suzaku in the crowd. Surprised, because Suzaku had not struck him as the time to come to this kind of thing. Happy, because he had not seen the other man for a while, and he has been worried about how the other man was doing after everything with his curse and then Jason's experiment.

In fact, his simple question has a double meaning attached to it. Along with asking how Suzaku is doing, Diarmuid is also checking to see if the curse has fully passed from his friend.]

[chevalier_mal_fet]

[In his suit, a glass of wine in one gloved hand, Lancelot makes his way through those gathered in the meadow. He exchanges glances or pleasantries with a few known to him, and stops to watch the antics of others engaged in games or animated conversation. His Master is never far from his mind. He has brought the man here against his will and can sense his distress and anger-- but still, he believes it to be for the best. He is doubtful that things between his Master and the Guest of Honor could worsen further in this place, at any rate. He takes care not to crowd Kariya. With their bond in place, he has no need to do so.

After his fashion, Lancelot lingers on the periphery. He sips his wine, enjoys the sunlight and the festival mood. He will wish Diarmuid the tidings of the Day when he may.]

[oathshackledbird]

Thank you.

[If Diarmuid seems a little pale, it's because he is still working through the emotions stirred up by his conversation with Kariya. The cheerful nature of the party is helping to sooth his emotions, but it is still going to take a while for him to completely settle down.]

I don't know if we really got anywhere, but we have at least talked now. That is more than we could say before.

[slightlyoblivious]

[And Yukiko is going to be one of those wallflowers. She's happy to see everyone so happy, of course, but there's still some residual awkwardness about her own behavior a while back. She's over the worst of her bout of lovesickness over Diarmuid; it's now nothing more than thinking he's attractive. (It helps that on that particular front, her true feelings are for someone much closer to her own age, at least as far as appearances are concerned.)

Still, she can't keep herself from smiling, as she watches everyone. Seeing them happy makes her happy.]

[ajealouswind]

[Kain had arrived somewhat later than the others, and somewhat more reluctantly than the others. No small amount of prodding from Cecil had been required. It wasn't that he held any ill will towards Diarmuid. He was simply certain that he was not welcome to such an event. He didn't deserve to attend a party. And didn't have anything to give him, and didn't know what to say and....

Cecil was having absolutely none of that (what little he had been able to verbalize, anyway), and Kain had relented. So there he lurked at the edges of the meadow, pacing a little here, pacing a little there, occasionally sitting himself down on the grass.

He stuck out like the gloomy and awkward thing that he was. But he doesn't seem entirely averse to conversation. He's not glaring or anything.]

[featherdarting]

[This would be Ayaka. Yep. WALLFLOWER /o/]