:[ VDAY ]: Welcome Back Venus! The Afterparty

[Seiana_ZI]

Venus' Temple had been taken over by snakes or whatever, which sucked, but now it was all better and they were welcoming her back! Awesome.

He couldn't even tell that the place had been overtaken by snakes, honestly, though he wasn't entirely sure what a place overtaken by snakes would look like. Snakey? How was he supposed to know what snakes designed their crap like? It certainly looked nice now, and that was what mattered. Nice, ready for a party, and ready for love. He was sure ready for love. He was ready to show his love to all of these people--

Well. If Ignatius would let him.

There was something about his continued behaviour being "embarrassing" and maybe even "problematic" and perhaps most strongly "uncontrolled," but Mikasi didn't care. Vangelis had gotten a lady's attention before he had. That was insanity! Something was clearly wrong.

Especially since he wasn't entirely certain Vangelis computed how women worked. Or men. Or anything for that matter.

After the events of the Haunted Mansion, Ignatius had been unceremoniously chosen as "it" for the one to follow along with his brother cousin.

He was expecting it, honestly. Vangelis was it last time. He just didn't expect Vangelis to insist on it so hard due to not knowing what to do with himself. Vangelis commented about something about possibly wanting to be left in his little corner of the house forever versus going to another party with other people that he didn't know.

Ignatius was ready for this, though, or as ready as he would be, blowing hair out of his eyes and putting on a chipper smile. "So, Mikasi, wanna get some food? Looks like they got a lot of delicious stuff out. Probably much better than anything I've ever -- hey!"

Mikasi was already sauntering off into the party, leaving Ignatius to groan and chase after him.

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Anyone can come bother them!

 

[Seruta]

Sombra chuckled and nodded. "In due time, my dear. We still have yet to hear anyone speak of anything related to our cause to pique my interest..." he spoke under his breath, not wanting to throw up any red flags just yet.

From under his hood, his eyes scanned the crowds further. So many potentials... So many minds for the taking! There were those of the younger generations here as well. Many more minds to mold... Yeeeesss... but did they have the right stuff?

His attention was diverted again to the soft purr and tug on his sleeve. He turned his gaze towards the dance floor. What? Dancing?! He held back the urge to roll his eyes. He wanted to sit in the corner, brood and study the others in this party to pick out possible suitors to his cause. He inwardly sighed and then nodded. "Fine, kitten... One dance." he started and bowed a bit, offering his hand all gentlemanly like.

Fea Line

 

[Twitchapher the 3rd]

Fraise sat on a chair, kicking her feet as she waited. This had become a yearly thing for them, her and Zoran. Every year they met up and crazy, scary things seemed to happy...Maybe not so much this year? Seems like the crazy, scary snakes were already taken care of, so that was good. Maybe they could just relax this year? It would be nice to see Zoran after all, last year, despite the snakes, had been fun. Not much had happened to her beyond well...Her chest getting bigger for some magical reason...Maybe Zoran wouldn't notice? She hoped he didn't think it was weird...

Antidia

 

[FA Venus]

Venus was, naturally, admiring herself those who were attending the party when Harmonia and some mortal approached her.

"Harmonia!" exclaimed Venus, quite happy to see her. "Oh, how are your wings doing? Such a shame what those nasty snake monsters did to you. No blood of mine should have to suffer such dirty monsters." Hopefully those cages of hers were cleaning them up a bit! They'd look so much better with just a little make-up!

Oh?

"Ohoho!" Venus laughed, covering her mouth quite daintily with her hand, before lowering it. "Well met, Tristen. Welcome to my party of love, and thank you for coming to honor my return!"

That seemed to be about all she had to say on the topic, because her eyes were quickly elsewhere, watching other celebrators with delight.

EvilSilverDragon

Tartara Seabreeze

 

[Tartara Seabreeze]

He understood her hate towards the naga, but he himself could not so easily dismiss them. The adults were strongly at fault, but the children...Honestly to the children they were the invaders. They would no doubt grow up to be even more bitter now at the other races, and it made his heart sad.

As they stepped up to the pink female, he flashed his most winning smile. "An honor to meet you. You're twice as beautiful up close." Though the golden haired female also talked such ill of the naga. Children in cages...it didn't strike him as right. But they had made a mess of her temple, and caused quite the havoc. The poor fae was rather torn on the matter entirely.

The way she laughed however pulled his thoughts from elsewhere to back to their current state. Wait. She didn't think differently about him and Harmonia, did she? His amber eyes flicked to the golden female. If that were the case, he wouldn't complain. It wasn't possible for him to get any better in terms of an interest.

FA Venus

Evilsilverdragon

 

[Seiana_ZI]

As far as Cazir understood, this was where, somehow, Daddy had been turned into a physical woman.

He wasn't anymore, but that was probably why Daddy issued a small warning about him coming. Sure, Daddy wasn't going to stop either Cazir or his sister Zakira from doing it -- they were teenagers, they could certainly handle themselves at this point at least somewhat, and they really wanted to -- but he would remind them that this party might end up a little ... chaotic.

Cazir was fine with that.

Where they lived on the beach, Cazir and his sisters were not exactly isolated, but they did not know a whole lot of people outside out where they lived and those who came to Criofan directly to trade things with him -- his direct associates in his empire, as it were. They definitely did not have a lot of chances to interact with other people their age, and Cazir practically hungered for it.

And he knew for sure he would find other similarly minded people at a large, Isle-invited party for a Love Goddess, right?

Zakira was not really as starved for attention as her older twin brother was, but she wasn't going to pass up the chance to meet more people for anything. Meeting others sounded exciting!

It was even more awesome now that she was a teenager and she stood on two legs like Cazir and Ilazia, and her daddies, and Zaria and Kheliot! Now she could walk around instead of worming around or hovering in the air with her little wings. To her, this was a significant improvement, especially since she now seemed to match her siblings a bit better.

Zakira's tail flicked behind her as she glanced over to Cazir, looking to her brother with bright eyes that were ready to tackle whatever came at them. "So what do you wanna do, Cazi?"

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Anyone can come bother them!

 

[EvilSilverDragon]

Delighted in her mother's company, Harmonia responded warmly, "They are healing well, thank you Mother." The Naga's treatment was mostly justified, though she was not going to question Venus over it. It would be a task, to try and foster harmony on the isle if those snakes ever were freed.

Allow that time for that was no now, she too was pulled from her thoughts by Venus' laugh. Bowing her head a little, she was proud that Venus seemed to like her Champion. He was just as charming to her.

Seeing the change in focus Harmonia spoke up, "Thank you again Mother, for your time and we are thrilled have you back. Let this party be a harmonious celebration!" Harmony was her gift after all, a better one would have to be put together when she was well enough.Taking a step back, she was prepared to leave now and allow the other admirers to approach as there were surely many.

FA Venus

Tartara Seabreeze

 

[Daisicle]

Hjortur smiled almost sheepishly as he was pulled onto the dance floor; he really ought to be the one pulling in most situations. Yes, standing on his leg and moving around did hurt, but sometimes you had to put up with some pain to take part in the things you loved. That had been why he'd fought (or attempted to) some number of days ago for his family.

Yeah... In some convoluted way, he kind of was part of this large family now, wasn't he? If only by extension.

As she started to move, it took him but a few moments to begin dancing himself. Less sexual, more sort of folk-y or giddy, but that was because it was really the only dance he was versed in outside of the extremely formal. At 'formal' an event as this was, formal dancing was outside of the question. "Yes, last year's past." he commented, taking a hop-step to her side before spinning around once as he moved to the other. Even now, his mood was clearly improved. "It is an event I always enjoy attending. You are familiar with it as well I presume, Miss Erylia?" She seemed to speak fondly of it, after all.

Tartara Seabreeze

Erylia

The harpy hadn't much time to look and admire the new decor (strange activity for her to be doing anyways) before all sorts of new pae'il began to wander in. She moved, head always held up high, to allow them to pass through.

At least until a familiar figure caught her eye.

Aha! It was Spitfire, her old flight teacher, one of the few on the island that Sparrow legitimately respected. Smiling lightly, she walked over (maybe with a spring in her step more than her usual stride) and patter her shoulder to get her attention. "'ei! Spitfire! Remembe' me?" Of course she would remember her best pupil!

Wolfs Heart

Spitfire

Wellspring hadn't bothered to look back from where he'd came, even after he heard the tell-tale signs in murmurings and comments from the other party goers of a teenage girl just dropping to the ground and acting strangely. He knew he'd done it. He'd knew it was an accident, but that it didn't matter. After all, were things ever really accidents when it came to one's powers?

No, not really.

Part of him must have wanted her to suffer and feel such pain, such hopelessness, if for a number of brief moments.

He really ought to just go.

Glancing up, he allowed his eyes to trail around the room. There were a surprisingly high number of teenagers now, but that didn't really interest him much. No... His wanderings didn't stop until he came to notice a black figure in the distance, skin sparkling and with a pretty little finned tail.

She... she was like him! Oh great tree spirits there was another like him!

And she was beautiful.

Seiana_ZI

Zakira (and Cazir by association)

 

[shadica]

Noirocher was not to keen on going to the party after the events of last year. While they had managed to avoid being attacked by the Naga that had shown up due to the fact that they had spent most of the evening in a maze. Both events made him a bit weary off coming back,] Firuzeh however had wanted to so and as usual the demon had dragged him along. Although the event had not been all bad, as they had end up with two beautiful kids shortly afterwords.

He was glad that she seemed to agree that a calmer party was a good idea and that mazes where to be avoided. "Anything for you my love." He said with a small smile. Blushing a bit as she kissed him on the cheek. "S so what would you like to do now?" He wasn't sure if she wanted to dance, get drinks or do something else first.


Lazuryt grinned as her brother grumbled at her for dragging him along stating that she sucked. He had asked if he really had to be there so many times that her brain had simply stopped paying attention to those words. The party was even more grand and pink than she had imagined it would be. As she had expected their parents had soon disappeared into the crowd to do couply things leaving the two teens on their own.

"Thanks for coming with me arc, it means a lot." She had been a bit nervous about going to a party by herself and everything was a million time more fun when here brother was there. Looking over the large banquet tables with all the amazing looking good the teen took a moment to decide where she would like to start before she tapped Arc on his shoulder. "That stuff over there looks amazing, want to start over there?" She asked him.

Strawberri Stardust

 

[Seiana_ZI]

Esmée was not actually a typical face at this party.

That being said, she had heard an awful lot about it. Sure, she saw the flyers, but Venus parties were nearly infamous at this point for how much, ah, "fun" they tended to give the goers. She wasn't particularly interested in that aspect for herself.

No, she was more curious as to how it all worked, why the attendees tended to act they way they did, why there always seemed to be a bit of a baby boom in the season following it; her curiosity was piqued, and she had to find the answer. Perhaps it might explain why her sons appeared to keep coming to this party, too. They were drawn to it like flies on--

A sign-in sheet! Excitedly, Esmée declared her intentions on the paper, and then handed off the writing utensil to Luminița, the one who she had convinced to come with her at this party. Well, "convince" was a rather loose term. Esmée suggested Luminița come to assist her in her observations, and the other had talked about something about coming to a party with her new friend. It worked out well-enough.

"Lumi, do you see anything of interest?"

Daisicle

 

[Daisicle]

So this was the ever-infamous party that everypae and their uncle always was referring to? All circumstantial bias considered, it was a lot let... what was the word... infamous that it always seemed to be. Well, always was a pretty generalizing term considering Luminita hadn't even realized it existed prior to a few days ago.

She probably should have heard of it before. Probably, but she could be a bit distracted at times. That was an understatement.

Of course the angel had agreed when her friend decidedly sought her out to help with some science! Observations or something? If nothing else, Luminita was at least trying to understand each and every off-handed theory that seemed to flow from Esmee's mouth, seriously considering each hypotheses and offering her own opinions or points of view. Sure, they weren't based in much more than lessons from years past and her own judgement, but at least she was trying.

That said, this place really was rather pink and frilly. How had they managed to decorate all the way up--

Her thoughts were cut off, her head unknowingly angled in a fairly-peculiar way, as Esmee grabbed her attention (quite literally) and gave her the pen. Oh! A sign-in sheet! How lovely! Naturally, she'd not paid attention to the fact that there were different forms and just followed the motions. To Venus, she expressed her excitement to take part in the festivities and offered to giver her a kitten.

She was quite good at that.

Not as good at finding them homes.

As she set the pen down, she quickly hop-skip-jumped over to Esmee's side and rocked back on her heels once to stop herself. "Something interesting?" She confirmed before nodding once and looking around. "Something interesting..." she mused, a single eyebrow going up as she bent forward to look, hands on her hips. "Aha!" She stood up straight and pointed ahead, towards the food table and clearly at somepae. "Look, he has claws! Also, just as importantly..." A grin and bright nod as she crossed her arms. "I have found the refreshments."

Seiana_ZI

Esmée

Dementia Requiem Asumi

Caine

 

[Seiana_ZI]

"Hmm..."

What did he want to do? That was a good question! Cazir admittedly hadn't thought that fair when it came to coming to this party. Perhaps he should start by.. figuring out what was going on, or finding other people his age. His eyes scanned over what was in front of him, finding a few other teenagers who had arrived already, including some rather eye-catching ones, ehehe--

Was that one staring at them?

Cazir elbowed Zakira in the side. "Zaki, I think he's looking at us."

"What?" Zakira's eyes widened slightly, following his gaze to see another one like her looking back at them. There were more people like her! Did he just grow out of having a taily body too? "Oh!" The sprite raised her arm, waving excitedly back at the one who was looking at them.

Like sister, like sister, apparently.

Daisicle

Wellspring

 

[Daisicle]

Oh sweet maple he'd been spotted! Blinking as their eyes for a moment, he quickly averted his gaze before glancing back with a sheepish grin and a small smile of his own. Raising his left hand, he returned the wave.

Maybe coming here wasn't such a bad idea.

Part of him wanted to walk over and start conversation, but what would happen if they noticed his claw. What if he caught her bright blue irises again?

Not to mention how her date would surely react, considering his initial response and all. That said, Wellspring was certainly thanking all the spirits through the land for this perhaps fleeting passing of like-individuals. If nothing else, it was assuring to know he wasn't alone, to know that some other understood the pains of childhood, of running out of water to breath and the pain of the surface. Of the hopelessness it sometimes brought.

Seiana_ZI

Zakira (and Cazir)... Please don't be a 1!

 

[Seiana_ZI]

"He's cool! I've never seen another exactly like me before," whispered Zakira to her brother, leaning in just a little bit -- breaking their distance in a way Wellspring might further interpret as "dating," though it was really just sibling closeness.

Cazir shrugged his shoulders at Zakira, arms crossed. "If you think that's so cool, you could walk over and say hello."

Instead of just bouncing on her toes and waving at him, anyway.

In a way that mirrored older siblings Zaria and Kheliot almost too well, Zakira grabbed Cazir's hand and pulled him towards the other with wings and a tail like her, deciding that she needed to engage in conversation. Cazir flailed his arms, for a moment, before stumbling afterwards.

The "I didn't mean bring me!" protest got lost in translation, and Zakira found herself standing in front of Wellspring, happily waving again. "Hi! I'm Zakira!"

She wasn't exactly giving him a choice in the let's not approach matter.

Daisicle

Wellspring

 

[Seiana_ZI]

Once her trusty assistant found something of interest, Esmée immediately looked, to evaluate Luminița's choice of "interesting" things.

Ah! A very good choice in interesting things! Indeed, he had claws. She knew those claws well, considering she had raised them -- well, to be technical, she had raised Caine, not his claws, but still. This was a direct thing to observe that she had experience with. Now she could tell if something was altering his behaviour...

"Good choice! That is my progeny, Caine." Progeny was probably an odd choice of word, but Fernand was not exactly here to scold her and make her change her tune. Fernand was at home, watching an experiment to make sure it did not go wrong. Very particular timing was required on that one, and the last thing she wanted was to have to start over with more silver... "I know his behaviour, so I can determine how this location makes him behave differently."

The refreshments were definitely a bonus, but Esmée, who occasionally had trouble with the whole remembering to eat thing, didn't particularly care about those. Rather, she was more interested in getting closer to Caine and the odd bird woman who seemed to accompany him. What was that? She had never seen a thing with such wings and talons before, not in the City at least. This was also fascinating.

Yes, her new friend was a good assistant.

Esmée, in a way that was probably a little unnerving, planted herself near the heroic pair and observed closely.

Then again, Caine was probably at least a little used to this.

Daisicle

Luminița

Dementia Requiem Asumi

Caine

Strawberri Stardust

Aderyn