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Romeo ([personal profile] myblueskies) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2019-03-28 09:29 pm

Book Party [ota]

Who: Romeo, Elfnein and literally everyone in the heavens. Even if you weren't personally invited every invite came with a +ALL YOUR FRIENDS and there's also a sign. Strangers are just friends these two haven't met yet.
When: 29th April. Afternoon onwards
Where: Temple Smol (Gegute's library)
What: Just the cutest book party the heavens has ever known! Bring your best book!



Arrival

You might have received an invitation, or perhaps you are just passing Gegute’s library but there is an brightly painted sign outside.

Book Party today!

Everyone welcome! Bring your best book or dress up!

Lots of tasty food!


The doors of the temple are open and once you arrive in the lobby there are more bright arrows pointing the way into the library. If you are still stuck mister Goat is at the help desk, he’ll direct any one who needs it!

Activities

The layout of the library hasn’t really changed at all, except a few tables being moved to accommodate activities and all the comfy reading cushions have been brought to a central location. All the shelves are decorated with colourful paper chains and streamers.

Romeo had really enjoyed Yuna’s birthday party with the activities to do so he had copied the idea for Elfnein’s book party! On one table there is material for making bookmarks. You might want to recut the card strips, they are a little wonky. There is ribbon and glitter and colouring pens and glue.

On another there is a cardboard box puppet theatre, painted in a riot of colours with colourful strips of material as curtains. There is some felt and other material, as well as scissors, glue and wool to make puppets with. A sign reads in childish Hirigana. Show your best book!

Food

The invitations had promised lots of tasty food and there sure was a lot! A whole table filled with tasty treats, Romeo had been very very busy! There was a whole tray of chopped fruit, another of vegetables like carrots and cucumber.

There was bread and cheese and two bowls of pasta with different sauces. Another bowl of noddles with meat and vegetables. There was a huge bowl of rice too with a tray of grilled fish and a bowl of broccoli and asparagus.

An entire part of the table was taken up by apples and things with apples in them, apple turnovers and even an attempt at an apple pie, it was a bit smushed but probably tasted fine.

There was a tray of very misshapen cookies with messy icing and another of even messier cupcakes with far too much buttercream. There were also churos and a chocolate Gateaux, these seemed to have been bought rather than made, Romeo hadn’t even known where to start it making them!

There was an attempt at making books and other shapes out of rice and vegetables packed in the two bento boxes Ebisu’s temple had given him for Christmas, but they were a bit crumbly, misshapen or just plain strange. In the centre of Romeo’s bento attempts was his magical bento box, every time it was opened there were different fancy bento creations, if the children’s attempts left a lot to be desired.

Have fun!
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2019-08-19 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
At least with Chikusa, as long as he doesn't think or sense there's any danger, he's game for being moved around in just about any which way. Romeo, needless to say, is not someone he finds to be particularly dangerous. Honestly, if he were more of a danger, Chikusa would almost feel weirdly.... reassured.

There are really too many children here who don't know how to do a murder and he doesn't like that.

So all he does is blink as Romeo grabs his hand. "But aren't I already a spirit?"

This may or may not be a joke. It's hard to tell with Chikusa sometimes, and his terrible, terrible sense of humor.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2019-08-20 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
If he says so. Chikusa silently allows it to happen, watching as his hand is raised into the air. He at least has the grace, or perhaps the curiosity, to wait a few moments before he shifts in place.

"...I don't know what I'm supposed to be experiencing right now."
kokuyoyo: (Can't believe I ate straight coffee)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2019-08-22 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Chikusa can't remember the last time he ever felt truly 'happy', but he knows that he would recognize if his overall.... everything changed in any sort of meaningful emotional way. Right now... Right now he still feels the same as he did only a minute ago: faintly confused and otherwise quiet.

A good person would hesitate because they don't want to hurt a child's feelings, but Chikusa just does it as he tries to figure out what to say at all. "...No. I'm not sure if I'd recognize that... but I know I haven't really changed."
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2019-08-23 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Oh. With that out of the way, Chikusa waits a second before slowly pulling his hand back. It doesn't seem like it's going to do any good staying up in the air right now, after all. Best to just... go back to fiddling with his food and working his way through his plate.

"It's not like I remember a lot anyway..." All of his memories from his life as a living teenager all have to do with Ken. That makes up more than it might for some people, of course. Him and Ken have been by each other's sides constantly, ever since they were little kids forced to stay in the Estraneo's labs. Yet even Chikusa knows that he can't have spent every waking moment with his partner and boyfriend.... who knows. Maybe there's a happy memory somewhere in there.

But he has a feeling there isn't. Not really. Not anything he can remember really strongly.