hellzone: (GRIN ♪ time for spoopy bullshit)
Yoshiko Tsushima (it's YOHANE!!!) ([personal profile] hellzone) wrote in [community profile] nysalogs2018-10-04 07:48 pm

i saw lon cheney walking with the queen

Who: open to all!
What: The Aqours Spooky Get Yohane Magical Powers Halloween Extravaganza...which is a super extra way of saying a Halloween party. It's a Halloween party, y'all.
When: early October
Where: a local restaurant in Olympia
Warning(s): none!

The Halloween party is in the back room of a local, family style restaurant. What used to be a banquet hall is decorated with fake cobwebs, crepe paper, and garlands of pumpkins, ghosts, and cats. A lot of the decorations are hand-made, courtesy of Yoshiko and You. There's an open space in the middle for dancing and mingling, some food tables along one side of the room, and some games and entertainment on the other side. There's a table with various hats, animal ears, and crowns for people who didn't bring a costume. Most of them are made out of cardboard. There's a very beat-up boombox in the corner, obviously borrowed from somebody, playing the El Nysa version of hokey Halloween songs like "The Monster Mash" and "Flying Purple People Eater."

The food is fairly standard Halloween fair. There's a large bowl full of candy, as well as some pumpkin flavored breads and muffins. There's a large punch bowl of something that's green, but is really your bog-standard lime sherbet/lemon-lime soda combination. The oddest thing on the table is some jet black takoyaki, labeled "Tears of a Fallen Angel." The label does not tell you that these things are spicy as hell and flavored solely with Tabasco. There's enough space on the table to fit more food, should your character decide to contribute something that isn't 'way too much sugar' or 'something that will melt your tongue off.'

The Halloween games are simple enough. There's a 'pin the tail on the donkey' though you're pinning a broomstick to a witch. There's a large tub for bobbing for apples. There's also a table dedicated to touch and feel mystery boxes: you reach in blindly to touch what's inside. The labels say things like 'eyeballs' (they're really peeled grapes), 'worms' (they're really cold, cooked spaghetti), and 'hearts' (it's a peeled tomato). The party's going past the closing time of the restaurant, so enjoy some slightly spooky nonsense!

( ooc: feel free to make a starter and tag around! Even if your character didn't reply to Yoshiko's post, it's possible that they heard about the party from somewhere else or just came in from the street: Yoshiko isn't turning away anybody. )
mollymocked: (⚔ for the world we're gonna make)

[personal profile] mollymocked 2018-10-27 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Molly can only nod in a kind of pained way. He's been walking a very thin line between encouraging Yoshiko and not enabling her, and it is extremely difficult. She has the makings of a circus kid, but none of the parts that make her tough.

But the longer Ren goes on, the further Yoshiko gets from his mind even though she's likely quite literally ten feet away right now. Molly's interested in the next high or excitement and the promise of something like that delights him.

But... that more restrained sign of Ren baffles him. He can't get his head around it.]


Tell me something... What's the point of that? You've said that before, and I don't know if I fully understand it. Who are you trying to impress?
thedarkbond: (darkveil)

[personal profile] thedarkbond 2018-10-28 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Ren cocks his head at the question, his expression blankly confused at the notion he's trying to impress anybody. It's genuine - there's a variety of reasons for it, but that's not one of them.] Impress...? I never really had to work to impress anybody in my world, so it's never been that...

[He taps his chin thoughtfully, as if deciding how to explain. There's part of it that he's definitely keeping to himself for now; as much as he likes Molly, Ren's extremely cagey about giving specifics on what he's done in the past. So he can't exactly say that he restrains himself because he knows exactly the kind of person he can be if he lets the wrong side of him out too far, and it's not the kind of person that's any fun for anybody involved.

As such, he decides on one of his other reasons to explain it, one he thinks might help Molly understand better.]
If people think you're harmless, it makes things a lot easier...people treat people they think are a threat or just suspicious a lot differently than they do someone who seems like they're not completely there or too kind to take advantage of them, right? And to make that work, I have to be pretty careful about who knows what I'm really like. Does that make more sense?
mollymocked: (⚔ and the sun can't stop us now)

[personal profile] mollymocked 2018-10-28 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually... It really does. [It's not how Molly, himself, does things, but he also looks like he's a threat. No matter what he does, he has to wear that on his face, so he uses it to pick out the assholes in the room. Maybe if he had the option, he'd try to be underestimated too.]

I've never had the luxury of being able to control what image I present to people no matter what I do, so I tend to just say fuck it and wear who I really am right out there, and people can see that or they can't. [He gestures to himself grandly.] This is all for me, because generally, people aren't looking past the horns.
thedarkbond: (darkpride)

[personal profile] thedarkbond 2018-10-29 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Ren brightens briefly at the fact that he got Molly to understand it better, but it fades off a little at Molly's description of his own situation. He'd known from their first conversation that Molly obviously had some issues in his own world about people seeing him a certain way, but the idea that it's most people...

Ren lets out a huff, almost offended except that it's not on his own behalf so much as Molly's.]
That's pretty presumptuous of them...I think your horns are eye-catching, but that's because they're cool and beautiful...

[It's somewhat distracted in tone, but genuine enough, and Ren's fingers reach out to trace across the surface of one horn before his hand drops into a one-armed shrug.] I think you're fun and nice, so if people want to be rude about how good you look, that's their loss.

[Ren "literal human avatar of a group embodying the 'some things can only be done in darkness' philosophy" Suzugamori is perhaps not the most ideal person to be getting opinions on your demonic appearance from, but hey, it means he's extremely used to judging by content of character and not appearance when it comes to the dark and demonic-looking.]
mollymocked: to the beat i drum (⚔ and i'm marchin' on)

[personal profile] mollymocked 2018-10-29 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
They remind people of the Hells, and what scares them, and that makes them stupid and ignorant. [He isn't even irked by it- if anything, he's amused at how small-minded people can be, because while it can get very ugly very fast if people want to cast blame on a person, for the most part it's just subtle racism. And he'll do with that what he feels like, because they deserve it.]

But thank you. The ones who think like you do are precisely the kind of people I actually want to be around, and it saves me so much time in skipping pretense. [His grin goes very smug.] It's useful in its own way, too. I can cut right to the heart of a person with one look.
thedarkbond: (night sky eagle)

[personal profile] thedarkbond 2018-10-30 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
If that sort of thing scares them, then they must be pretty boring anyway... [Ren, for his part, tends to be particularly fond of anything that looks like it was spawned from the depths of any kind of hell. Molly does have a bit of a point about being able to tell the kind of person someone is so quickly, though, and he curls a hand against his mouth in amusement.]

Oh, I guess that's one advantage...the strangest thing that I can't hide is something not a lot of people pay attention to anyway... [With his other hand, he holds his pinky up to the top of one of his cheekbones and pulls down his eyelid slightly, just enough to accentuate his slit, cat-like pupil. Even with a lot of the people from his world looking abnormal compared to humans from others, Ren's eyes were odd even in his own world.] But if I act weirdly enough to people, they show their true colours a bit more too. People don't like it when you don't act predictably...

[Ren knows it very well, because he had no friends pretty much until he was a teenager because of it. Now he uses it to his advantage, but he won't say it didn't colour his behaviour now more than a little.]
mollymocked: (⚔ so trade that typical)

[personal profile] mollymocked 2018-10-30 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
They really don't. It's a damn shame. [He tsks lightly, almost pitying. Really, he does pity people who can't or won't step outside the box and be a little more outgoing and daring and willing to take risks. Life's too short for that shit.

He picks up another cupcake and hands it over to Ren, lightly tapping his half eaten one against it in a little toast.]
Here's to being weird folks.
Edited 2018-10-30 23:24 (UTC)
thedarkbond: (koilbau)

[personal profile] thedarkbond 2018-10-31 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ren's mouth tweaks into a smile that's trying very hard not to look too amused at that gesture, but failing. It's kind of cute, honestly, and he takes the cupcake and holds it up in a makeshift toast as well.]

I'll toast to that~ [And then he takes a bite of the cupcake...managing to get at least half of the icing content of that one bite all over his upper lip. Considering he definitely has more cupcake experience than Molly, there is a considerably greater than zero chance that it's intentional.]
mollymocked: (⚔ and i can cut you free)

[personal profile] mollymocked 2018-10-31 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Molly can take a cue like a boss. Without missing a beat, he reaches up and rakes the pad of one finger across Ren's lip, careful not to scratch with his pointed fingernails and licks the frosting off in kind. And then gives him a little pat on the face.]

I'm starting to see why the cupcakes are so popular. [He gives a little wink and delightedly flounces off to try something new.]
thedarkbond: (Default)

[personal profile] thedarkbond 2018-11-01 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ren tilts his head up a little to make it easier for Molly, possibly poking his tongue out a bit against the finger. Honestly, he'd be entirely okay with being scratched, but he takes the pat on the face with good grace, leaning into it in a somewhat catlike manner.

As Molly heads off, Ren waves a hand airily.]
Make sure you try all the sweets while you have the chance~