open ♔ winter castle socialization (jan thru march )

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, Andres, etc!
WHEN || Any time in January/Feb/March
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of these few months. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.   

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:

Cheryl @ the desk
Felicity @ the desk
Des @ London/firing range
Andres election results @ Andres
Faith L. @ Bars/museum
Thea @ training / castle grounds/ various
Vi @ her room
Malina @ London/TV room
Alex & Eric | closed
Lila @ Library /kitchen/firing range/magic library
Mark @ Andres
Thea & Felicity | closed
Kali @ training room / kitchen / TV Room
Hasmed & Neal | closed
Dante @ training room & old man bar
Grammy Reactions @ TV room
Alice & Will | closed
Neal @ Various
Andres porn party @ TV room
Bo + Gatewood family | closed
Gus @ NYC
Felicity & Thoster | closed
Lila & Astrid | closed
Malia @ Various
Zoe @ Training room / kitchen
Regina & Snow | closed
Hook & Emma | closed
Willow & Buffy | closed
Rose & Dean | closed
Myri & Mark / Myri & Buffy | closed
Abigail & Stiles | closed
Rose @ training room / TV room / the bar
Myri @ kitchen / courtyard / dragon's light wing
Helen @ library
Stiles @ halls
Elena @ training room / bar / front desk
Shawn @ various
Des, Helen, Ashley | closed
Vi & Nyna | closed

Comments

myri | ota

[witchwoman]

[There's no getting used to this, no day when it gets easier to know that her husband has no idea if she's real or a lie that he made up for himself. But Myri does her best to put on a brave face and get through each day. She makes a choice to go through the motions, to move around the castle, to see people.

She fixes food for herself and walks the courtyard. She works in the Dragon's Light wing when she's feeling up to it. She visits friends and takes books from the library to make sure she keeps up with her reading.

She does all the things she would do if Finnick were still around, but she just does them without him at her side or without him to come home to. She manages to do it all with a smile on her face, even if it doesn't quite reach her eyes. She's coping, however she can.]

[bredinthebone]

[Malina isn't really the bookworm type, but she can be found in the library when she's bored or curious enough. She's always been one to take a more practical approach when it comes to magic, rather than simply reading about it and trying to learn that way - do, don't theorize - but here she's actually delving into a subject you can't really study practically.

Time to learn all the things about the Veil she never thought it important to learn before.

She's got a stack of books and for once the library is actually fairly busy. She glances around at the different tables for a moment, before she notices that Myri's is fairly empty, at least for the moment. She makes her way closer, before placing her books down on the far table.]

Sorry - but do you mind if I sit with you? Promise I won't be too much of a distraction.

[witchwoman]

[Glancing up from her book, Myri looks a little surprised by the request. She's not put off by it at all. She's just been lost in her own little world, trying to distract herself as best she can.]

Oh- yes, of course. Please have a seat.

[bredinthebone]

Thank you.

[She sighs as she slides into her seat, picking up one of the books and starting to page through to find the table of contents.]

Crowded in here today.

[witchwoman]

[Myri nods a bit, glancing around.]

It seems so.

[bredinthebone]

I guess everyone's got stuff to look into.

[It's been a busy few months and it looks like it's only going to keep getting busier, which definitely isn't a bad thing.]

[witchwoman]

What is it you're studying?

[bredinthebone]

Just reading up on the Veil, mostly. We've caught some surprises lately with things that have come through, and I'm just trying to see if there's any precedence.

[witchwoman]

Surprises? Nothing too dangerous, I hope.

[trebond]

[ Since coming back from the Grammys, Myri has changed.

Perhaps Alanna's not the one to make that claim, given that she hadn't even been able to recognize that the woman wasn't herself—or that she was splitting time with Spike. Yet she can't help but notice the change in attitude.

When Myri comes in for one of her scattered trips to the Dragon's Light wing, Alanna approaches her with a smile. ] It's lucky. [ She nods to Myri. ] This mission of yours, it used to have you out of the castle all the time. You've been back a lot lately, though. Settled. Must make things easier for the, um. [ She points towards Myri's stomach. ] Appointments.

[witchwoman]

[She can't help but blink and look slightly confused by Alanna's comments. She hasn't considered herself 'lucky' in quite some time. But she knows what the woman means, and once the initial reaction passes, she manages a small smile and nods.]

I think Wynn will make sure to keep me home for some time now. [She hasn't talked to him about her future mission status. Even after the baby is born, it won't be the same. She does her best not to think about it, else she'll start worrying about future missions already.]

It does make that part much easier.

[trebond]

Surely, he won't force you.

[ She scoffs at the very notion. But then, realizing Myri's going to be a mother duh, she softens and acknowledges, ] But I can understand why you might want to.

[ More accurately: she can understand why someone else might want to, but she'd never be able to stand it. Sitting around while everyone else goes about adventuring. ]

Do you know if you're having a boy or girl?

[witchwoman]

[Honestly Myri has mixed feelings on the whole thing. But she has some time to sort out just what her options are. Hopefully. The idea of never joining her friends on missions again doesn't sit well with her. But leaving her child behind to do so? With one parent already damaged in the field?]

A girl. [She says with a small smile, choosing to leave the other topic alone.] Only a few months now until I'll meet her.

[trebond]

So soon already.

[ Alanna tucks hair behind her ears, smiling. ]

What do you reckon she'll be like?

[witchwoman]

I keep wondering that. She'll grow up here with so many people to learn from, I'm not sure if I could ever hope to know.

I just hope that she'll know from the very start just how loved she is.

[trebond]

With so many here to fuss over her, I can't imagine how she couldn't know. [ Alanna nods. ] Do you hope she'll be a Knight herself?

[witchwoman]

I want her to be whatever she wants. If that ends up being a Knight? I'll be right up front for her squiring. But I'll do my best to make sure no one pressures her to do it.

[graveflowers]

[ the drain of winter has not been kind to vi. finnick's bouts of insanity aside, winter has always been a struggle for her. luthir was the bright light to tide her over, but he's gone now and he took her tether with him. she doesn't talk about how hard it is because she doesn't want to worry people, but when she had luthir at least she could handle it. now she just burrows under the covers and hope the bed swallows her whole, venturing out into the world only when she has to.

like when she has to go to the cleric's wing to be watched drinking two quarts of water within two hours due to dehydration. she will leave the room for her baby. at least they've left her alone to drink her water and build a tongue depressor trebuchet, so that's nice. she's deep in thought sipping from a straw and gently gluing pieces together when she looks up to see myri. ] Hey Myr.

[witchwoman]

[Myri worries, but that's not new. Worrying about Vi and her well being during the winter months is somehow easier than worrying about Finnick and something that she has no control over when it might end. So when she hears that Vi is in the cleric's wing, she makes a point to come stop by.]

What are you building there?

[graveflowers]

It is a trébuchet. [ unsure whether myri knows what that is or not, she elaborates. ] A catapult. You press down this part and when you let go a ball or rock or whatever you put in the bucket, it flies away. Sorta like a slingshot.

[witchwoman]

[She's seen something like this, probably. Growing up in a fantasy world with kings and all that.]

Planning on flinging things around the wing later?

[She manages a small smile, even if it doesn't reach her eyes.]

[graveflowers]

[ ♪ small bump -- ed sheeran ]

Maybe. Cotton ball cannon balls. [ as she sits up a little, her fingers drum against her belly and the corners of her mouth twitch. ] Nothing else to do while I'm growing a tiny person.

[ which isn't quite true. vi actually has put a ton of stuff on her plate; gathering the furnishings for the baby and assembling them all in the middle of the night when she wakes up from more nightmares, moving all the things she wants to keep from luthir's room to her room so wynn can finally offer that room to someone else, a tremendous amount of research into luthir's heritage so that she can teach his daughter what he should be teaching her, studying elvish so she can be more fluent when she talks to lucia in her father's tongue, writing everything she can possibly remember about luthir in the baby book so she will know who he is as she grows up even if vi forgets some of the details, folding so many tiny clothes -- teeny socks and little dresses, miniature sized bathing suits, what feels like hundreds of diapers... she's meticulous, slightly obsessed, but what else does she have to live for, really?

this kid is her life.

she didn't choose to do it all by herself, but what choice does she have? luthir is gone and she has to play the hand she's been dealt. it sucks, but she's certainly not going to make it seem like it's hard on her, even if that means she may come off callous or flippant sometimes. ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri hasn't been as in tune with her family as of late. Everything with Finnick pulled her away from looking at everyone else and forced her to focus on her husband, her child, and herself. Twinges of Vi's emotions slip through every now and then, but the witchwoman simply doesn't have the energy to expend to pry further, to look after them all.

Not that anyone made that her job, but she felt like it was. Or she did. Lately, she doesn't know what to do with herself.]

I overheard them talking. It seems like everything is normal and healthy with the baby.

[She wonders if she should be taking more of a role in Vi's pregnancy. But in truth, the help she could offer is so primitive compared to others here. And she's never dealt with elf blood. It's likely best that she leave that to the experts.]

[graveflowers]

[ she shrugs, reaching out to sip her water. ]

Yeah, she's fine. Takes after her Daddy so she'll be tough as nails. [ probably. well, she hopes she takes after luthir, he was awesome and majestic and incredible.

she gets what's going on with myri but she doesn't want to articulate it because, well, finnick isn't dead. it's not the same and she doesn't want to make it the same when there is still some chance that finnick will come back to myri. which is why she stays silent, she's still processing her own grief, something she doesn't want to postpone or control lest she slow it's progression and gets stuck in a trap of avoiding her feelings. ]

I just keep forgetting the whole hydration thing is a thing I need to do 'cause she's stealing all my nutrients like a teeny little klepto.

[witchwoman]

[Myri has never and would never compare her situation to Vi's. It's not grief that she's feeling, but a completely different sort of pain. Not more, not less painful- simply different. It's hard for her to even explain what she feels, which is why she mostly just...doesn't talk about it unless someone asks her about it. The fact that Vi doesn't really ask doesn't surprise Myri, not does she feel neglected by her sister for it. They're simply both going through troubling times and dealing with it as best they can.]

At least it's theft for a good cause. [She says with a small smile.]