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

[oathshackledbird]

If I understand how things worked right, it was not so much my age that they cared about, but my strength. This is when I was my strongest and so this is the age they wanted me to be at. That way I could use all of my skills to their fullest should the need arise.

[sunflowerfairy]

[And that opened up one final question for Yotsuba.]

That makes sense! I understand! So a newer guvernment used magic to make you younger so that you could help them!

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid laughs. The power of the World itself could hardly be called 'new,' but...]

Something like that. Only in my case, it wasn't the government so much as it was the World itself. That is where the magic came from originally and others then used it to call people like me to help them.

[sunflowerfairy]

[...This just further confused Yotsuba.]

So..people used the magic in the world..to call you? But where did they call you from?

[oathshackledbird]

Yes, that would be correct. After all, when you think of the world around you, it seems alive doesn't it? All the plants and animals...they create their own kind of energy--their own kind of magic--and some people are able to use that.

[Diarmuid pauses here. How does he explain the Throne of Heroes to her when honestly no one really knows exactly what it is and how it does what it does?]

As from where, that is harder to explain. I think for now I will just say that there is a place where people like me rest when we aren't needed. That is the place we are called from and where we return to once our work is done.

[sunflowerfairy]

[As Yotsuba tried to process this information, the smile fell from her face.]

It does..but how can people use it? And Yotsuba understands a little..you live in a place with other strong knights and help out people when you're called!

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid's expression saddens a little. This is an answer he legitimately can't give her.]

Unfortunately, little one, I don't know. I was never blessed with the power of magic. My father had it and several people around me had it, but I never did. All I could do was watch and watching really doesn't explain how things work very well.

However, yes that is pretty much right for where I live.

[Or sleep, or exist or whatever they do on the Throne whenever they aren't needed.]

[sunflowerfairy]

[Yotsuba noticed that sad expression, but she smiled nonetheless and did her best to cheer Diarmuid up.]

That's okay! Yotsuba doesn't have magic either, but we're still good people! Don't worry about it!

[oathshackledbird]

[Her excitement does brighten his expression.]

You are right, of course. One can't be good at everything, after all. I am a fighter. Helping people and keeping them safe is what I do. I will leave the magic to others.

[sunflowerfairy]

[While that was a good thing to do, in Yotsuba's point of view, Diarmuid had forgotten one very important thing.]

Yup! Because you're a good person..but you're not just a fighter! You helped my leg, remember?

[oathshackledbird]

Yes, but I was certainly not the best person to heal your leg. I wish I could have done more.

[He reaches out and gently tweaks her nose.]

But, you are right. I know some basic ways to heal. It just isn't my specialty.

[sunflowerfairy]

[Yotsuba wasn't quite used to having her nose tweaked, but she smiled at it anyway before replying, a bit puzzled about one word.]

But you did a lot! My leg felt better, and the song was great! What's a spe..specialty though?

[oathshackledbird]

Do you know people who are really good at doing specific things? So good that is what their work is or what they spend a lot of their free time doing? Those things are their specialties. They are things that person is really good at.

For example, one of my specialties is that I can fight well with two weapons at once. Most people can only handle one.

[sunflowerfairy]

Oh! I understand! Yotsuba's specialty is swimming! I was much better than Daddy or Jumbo!

[oathshackledbird]

That is exactly right. Swimming is an excellent specialty. Do you have any other specialties you can think of?

[sunflowerfairy]

I'm good at drawing!

[This sadly, was not the case. Yotsuba thought she was a great artist when, sadly, she was anything but. The people around her just told her she was in order to not make her cry or upset.]

[oathshackledbird]

[Since Diarmuid can't draw at all, he won't mind one bit if she's not really that good.]

Drawing is an excellent skill to have. Perhaps you will draw for me someday? Do you have something you enjoy drawing in particular?

[sunflowerfairy]

[Which will just make Yotsuba happy.]

Yotsuba can draw for you! I'll draw a picture of you!

[Good luck, Yotsuba.]

Back home, I drew Daddy and Fuka..and Jumbo! And birdies!

[oathshackledbird]

That sounds like a lot of fun. I would very much like you to try and draw me!

[He pauses to look around the room.]

I wonder if there is any paper around. I usually carry a piece or two, but I used them earlier...

[sunflowerfairy]

I will then! And that's okay! Yotsuba has a ske..sketchbook and some crayons! I'll draw you a picture later!

[oathshackledbird]

Wonderful! I will look forward to seeing your masterpiece soon!'

[He smiles, bouncing her lightly in his arms.]

So, what would you like to do now? Do you want to try one of the games, perhaps? You will have to teach me, though. None of these games are like the ones I remember from my childhood.

[sunflowerfairy]

[At the bouncing, Yotsuba laughed a little, and at the mention of games, her smile grew.]

Yotsuba would like to play! What are the games?!

[oathshackledbird]

I don't know what they are called, but they are over here.

[He carries her over to where the games are set up.]

There are a couple here, but I don't know what any of them are. There is fruit in these buckets. And there is a drawing over there with things to stick on it maybe? And then there is this.

[Diarmuid puts one of his hands on the top of the paper mache 'Jason' head.]

It looks a little familiar, doesn't it?

[sunflowerfairy]

[At the games, Yotsuba looked puzzled. Happy, but very confused.]

I don't know what they are either..and it doesn't look familiar.

[No matter how many times she looked at that head, she couldn't identify the face. After all, she had never seen the Administrators before.]

[oathshackledbird]

Ah! Have you not met them? Well then all the better. The person who it resembles is a bad man. One it is best you stay far away from.

[Diarmuid thumps the pinata hard on the head and then moves over toward the other games.]

What do you think you do with this one?

[He motions toward the Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Piggie Game.]

I am guessing that you are suppose to put the tail on there, but that seems far too easy to be the real method of playing the game.