open ♔ october socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, Andres Isle, etc!
WHEN || October
HOW || Actionspam

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

Also, following the promotion and squiring parties at the beginning of the month, Wynn will be taking any willing Knights back to Andres Isle to further reconstruction efforts there.   There's plenty to be done - and an election to gear up for, to find out who will rule Andres Isle!

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:
Wynn & Section Heads @ Andres/London
Felicity @ the Desk
Damon @ the Desk
Gar and/or Kat @ Andres
Cordelia & Bambi @ Andres
Mark @ Andres castle, village, graveyard
Belle @ London castle
Amara @ London castle, Round Table room
Zero/Wheatley @ the Hoard labs
Cora @ the woods / Andres / London
Buffy @ Andres / London
David @ the Castle training room / Andres
Lydia @ England, the lab
Emma F @ London castle
Alanna @ Andres
Willow @ Andres/London library
Faye @ library
Abigail @ London castle/cleric wing/training room/library
Stiles @ Andres
Myri & Elena | Closed
Rose @ London / Andres
Han @ London/Andres
Carol @ Andres castle/ construction
Kenzi @ London armory / Andres throne room
Spike @ Andres
Killian @ Andres construction / London castle
Avaleen @ Andres
Thea @ castle firing range
Frankie @ Andres
Damon @ the castle
Malina @ London bday celebration / Fire wing / Gardens / TV room
Rocket @ London TV room
Jordan @ Andres
Alainn @ Andres
Glasya & Sam  | Closed
Nathan @ Andres / London training room
Astrid @ London
Alex @ London firing range, airfield
Finnick @ Various
Sylar @ London kitchen/library
Lissa @ Andres medical / London light wing, various
Hayley @ Rebekah | Closed
Glasya & Sam | Closed
Alice @ Andres/ London

Comments

Rose ] ❉ [ London & Andres (ota)

[littledhampir]

[Rose lingers a little while in London after the Squiring Ceremony, taking some time out to expand on her truly motivating 'Do as I say, not as I do' speech to Stefan but after that she's back to floating between the two Castles, going wherever it seems she's needed or, lets be real, wherever a certain pair of (not?!) brothers might be. Her trips back home are somewhat regular at least because it's a lot easier for her to look into things there than it is on an island recently freed from the rule of an evil dictator. Just sayin.]

London

[While in London, she shocks anyone who's ever met her by actually spending some time in the stacks of the library though from the looks of frustration, cussing and key-smashing that occurs, it's safe to say that Rose usually avoids places like this for a reason. If you miss her kicking bookshelves, you might catch her googling herself instead. She'll swear black and blue she has a really good reason for it okay!]

Andres

[Back on Andres though, Rose tries to make up for those time when she's away by working twice as hard on the rebuild front and while she's painfully aware that there are people wandering around who can wave a fricken hand and levitate ten times as many rocks as she can shift in less than half the time it takes her to do, she's a stubborn ass and she knows to play to her strengths. Rose is not somebody you want getting to know the locals if the idea is to make them feel more at ease and not less.

In her downtime she's with Dean or she's training, the latter of which has seen her pick up a little shadow; a girl who can't have been more than Ten who has taken to showing up whenever Rose is sparring or practicing with her stake. While at first the little girl seems content to just watch, the questions start in soon after and before long, you might happen to find Rose teaching the little girl how to throw a punch. #responsibleadult.]

Free For All

[With Rose moving between the two places she's not too hard to either track down or stumble across so feel free to set something up and I'll hit it back.]

[doubletake]

[If it weren't for this, Elena wouldn't be standing in the hallway, blocking part of the path that Rose Hathaway is about to walk down.

Which squires have been assigned to which knights isn't exactly a secret, and after talking with both Salvatore brothers, feeling out the emotions their presences evoked inside her, she'd been curious. It didn't take much digging, of course, and Elena wasn't exactly...overwhelmed with happiness by Wynn's choice.

Not that Wynn could have possibly known, but you know.

Either way, it's going to be impossible for Rose to get by her without brushing shoulders or doing some awkward maneuver to get by, and she's...not moving.

At least her posture and expression aren't malicious. She's not here to fight. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.]

[littledhampir]

[Tension vibrates through her body the moment Rose lays eyes on Elena, the familiarity at seeing her bothering her almost as much as the obvious differences in her appearance. She makes no secret of the fact that she does not want to have this encounter, looking back the way she came from even though she already knows it's a dead end but there is the room she was just in though and she could give a fuck if she's being obvious. She's not about to be forced to interact with Elena just because she's blocking her path so...

See Rose spot? See Rose turn and walk away.]

[doubletake]

[Oh my god, have the most epic eye roll this century. Are we actually serious right now.]

Are we going to do this for the next century? Because that's going to get old real fast. I do still live here, if you hadn't noticed.

[She came in peace. Now she's pissed.]

We might as well just get this over with, because we're talking about this, whether you like it or not. And frankly, on the off chance you and I get thrown on the same mission someday? I'd like to not have to worry about you refusing to even speak to me.

[littledhampir]

[Rose just stares as Elena speaks, barely managing to keep the scowl from her features as she breathes in and out, trying to keep an iron grip on her control but every word out of her mouth threatens to bring her undone and it takes all Rose has just to say the next sentence without exploding.]

Say what you've got to say then. [As if to suggest she has nothing. Bullshit of course. Rose always had plenty to say but she's been waiting for weeks to hear something out of Elena. The whole reason she's avoided it is because she knows she's probably not going to like what she hears.]

[familybusiness]

[Here is Sam Winchester, trying to be the bigger guy and be nice despite their last...tenuous encounter. Only 2/3rd of them have been awful, let's go for 2/4.

As he pulls up a chair next to her, he silently hopes that the decent convo he had with his brother carried over to her after the whole squiring ceremony.]

What are you trying to look up? Maybe I can help?

[Then he spots her...own name in the search bar.]

Are you...looking up yourself?

[Tact. Sam has it. Not today.]

[littledhampir]

[The fact that Rose quite literally jumps in her chair may speak volumes in that moment... either it requires an intense amount of concentration for her to try and use a computer or Sam-not!Sam just kind of creeps her out. In fairness? Eh, a little from column A, a little from column b.

She eyes him cautiously, kind of like she expects him to suddenly sprout horns, tension vibrating through her body, eyes narrowed as his words finally hit her and it takes her a second to completely catch up, Rose too busy trying to decide if he's actually trying to help her or if he's up to something.]

What?! No - [Yes. Cheeks flushing.] It's research! [Without doubt the first time Rose has ever said those words and it's been true.] You're the one who wants us to buy into the whole, parallel universe crap.

[Believe it or not, she actually does believe he's not trying to be a dick. (SM 27). This is just... Rose.]

[familybusiness]

[He's trying not to take it personally, okay? He gets it, though let's be honest he would get it a lot more if Dean would suck it up and talk to him.

But he's got a plan of action that doesn't entirely involve complete patience, and Dean can suck it if he doesn't like it. He said to give him time, not to stop digging on his own.]

Yeah, well, from what I understand this kind of thing is like...really rare, or we wouldn't be having this problem in the first place.

[He's pretty sure googling herself is only going to be something she thinks she can use as ammo against what he knows to be true.]

[littledhampir]

Well if there's even a chance that somebody is going to be sharing my face?! I'd like to have a heads up this time.

[What? Rose? Issues??? Never!]

And as for rare? Try damn near non existent. The only case of what you're saying that I can even find? I can't exactly go back a million years to confirm with anyone who knew the original.

[On the flipside, maybe, if Sam uses his wisdomy skills... he might realize that Rose actually is looking for something, anything that could prove (or disprove) this might be real. It's ya know. Something.]

[likedillinger]

[ rose might not notice at first when dean saunters over, leaning against the side of a building and casually drinking, while he watches her and the little girl working on her right hook. he doesn't say anything, just positions himself where he can enjoy the show, with a fond smirk on his lips. ]

[littledhampir]

[Completely oblivious at first, Rose makes what can only be described as an 'eek' face, as the girl in question shakes out her hand after firing that hook at Rose's open palm.]

Remember what I said about your thumb? [She takes her hand and re-positions her fingers for her.] If you tuck it in like before, you're gonna hurt yourself more than you hurt them.

[Moving back and putting her hands out once more.]

Try again - [This time when the fist connects, Rose is the one who looks surprised, a wry half grin pulling at the corner of her mouth as the girl throws her whole weight behind the punch. It's sloppy but it's got some kick and hey, she's ten.]

There ya go, better? [An emphatic nod from the girl who looks so very pleased with herself right now.]

Where do I aim?

Depends on what you want to do.

[The little girl thinks about that for a moment, mirroring Rose's stance with her hands on her hips.]

Punch them?! [She may in fact be Rose at that age.]

Well... yeah. [At least Rose manages not to laugh or be too sarcastic.] But, why do you want to punch them?

Because he's stupid and he's mean and he's always getting me into trouble!

[likedillinger]

[ dean does a mighty job of keeping his chuckle from being too loud over here. but it's probably enough to catch her attention. ]

[littledhampir]

[She doesn't need her Dhampir hearing to catch that, Rose trying to contain her own amusement as she turns her head towards the source of the laughter, smile widening and a genuine warmth in her eyes as she catches his gaze.]

That's a - [Refocusing on the little girl.] Pretty good reason to want to hit somebody if you ask me. [Most responsible.] But if he's always getting you into trouble... I'm thinking you don't want to leave a mark...

[Rose's new shadow looks utterly disappointed at that, Rose again having to swallow her amusement as she signals for Dean to give her a moment.]

So you should probably go for the gut punch. [What?! She's helping.] Stomach, right here. [Indicating on herself.] That way, you won't leave any bruises and, he'll be too winded to chase you. [Rose so matter of fact that it comes as a shock to nobody that she'd done that more than once in her life.]

Wanna give it a try? [Dean should have picked up on the wicked curve of her lips and seen this one coming a mile away.] Hey Dean!

[The little girl finally notices him and takes a step back. It's probable that Dean is about three times the size of the person she really wants to hit.

Rose drops her voice to a pantomimed whisper.] Trust me, you got this. Just go for the gut and then?

Run?

Exactly. [Back to Dean.] Think you could help us with something? [Rose's grin widening as she drags him into her afternoon corruption of minors, whether he likes it or not.]

[daredtobelieve]

[To say that Helen's feelings weren't hurt when she realized Rose had been promoted and she wasn't invited would be a lie. And to say that she didn't assume her lack of invitation had something to do with Dean? Well, that would be a bigger lie. Whether Rose was angry with her for the bickering she and the elder Winchester seemed to fall into, or whether Dean had some influence on Rose's decision not to extend the invitation, Helen wasn't sure. But she wasn't going to just ignore the young woman.

Helen finds her one evening when she's training alone- or at least without any other knights. The little girl is certainly free to come around, should she choose.]

I hope you don't mind an interruption.

[littledhampir]

[While Rose hadn’t been avoiding Helen, it was also true that she’d hardly gone out of her way to seek Helen out since Dean’s Squiring. Anger however, probably wasn’t the word to describe her feelings. She should be grateful that Dean had a mentor in Helen but for wholly selfish reasons, Rose was anything but.

Helen was, well? Hers. She had become the person Rose felt she could turn to, somebody she could be completely honest with. She didn’t have to be brave or hide what was going on in her head or heart, at least, until now. Of course, nothing really had to change but given the role Dean played in her life and now the role Helen played in Dean’s? Everything just became complicated, at least in the mind of a twenty year old who was dealing with her fair share of complications lately.

Training was one of the rare times of the day when Rose could push everything out of her head, focus on the action of swinging and stabbing, over and over as if trying to force her muscles to remember the feeling. Dean, Sam, Heaven, Hell and everything that came with it? None of that really mattered when she was wielding her stake.

While Rose tends to be very much in the zone when she trains, she manages not to physically jump when Helen’s voice cuts through her concentration, only a moment of disguised uncertainty in her head before a small, twitch of a smile touches her lips and Rose relaxes her fighting stance. (WS 25).]

Nah, it’s cool. [Swiping her hand across the sweat that beaded along her forehead.] I was just… Stabbing imaginary bad guys.

[daredtobelieve]

All the better to be prepared when the real ones show up. [She admires Rose's dedication, and as much as she doesn't want to interrupt that sort of work, she does feel that it's important that she check in with the young woman.]

I just wanted to stop by and see how you were.

[Well, that's not all she wanted. But she wants to ease into the rest.]</small.

[littledhampir]

Yeah it's sort of a... habit? Couldn't really do it much over the last few months so it feels good to get back to it. [With an idle twirl of her stake (Dex 16), Rose slides it back into the loop at her hip before pulling hair that's slightly damp with sweat, back from her face and into a messy bun on top of her head.]

I'm alright? Better, ya know, now things are settling down. [She'd had a little time to stop, to deal, to grieve, at least in her own way.]

[moonheart]

[ on andres, faith eventually tracks rose down while she's busy building shit, standing off to one side popping candy in her mouth, and smirking until she gets her attention. ] Think I can convince you to take a lunch break?

[littledhampir]

[Rose stops in the middle of idk, carrying something big and heavy and shit, pretending to think about that one for less than two seconds before dumping her load.]

Pretty sure you can twist my arm. [The brunette saunters over to join her. Just don't mind the fact that she's covered in assorted buildingy dust - you can tell I know a lot about building shit.] Though you might'a had me at Think.

[moonheart]

Thought so. Come on, there's a great cafe across the river.

[littledhampir]

As long as it serves greasy food and has a whole cabinet for desserts, I'm in. [Falling into step with Faith.] So how's things?

free for all | london edition

[nothingsodivine]

[rose may remember this guy from his dirty look-shooting back on andres. des doesn't normally go near the castle anymore since he left the Andres Reconstruction Squad to their work, but with finnick and myri's wedding approaching, he's found it easier to just be available sometimes.

at the moment he's on the phone in the lobby, having just arrived.] Yeah, I know they're sold out. Don't you know a scalper? [a beat] Oh, shut your face. You don't know my life. Maybe I'm Rafael Giovanni's biggest fan ever. [another pause.] Whatever. Just see what you can do, all right? I really don't wanna have to do anything stupid.

[he cancels the call and looks up, realizing he... probably has an audience here and it's not the best one ever.] ...Hi.

[littledhampir]

[Oh, she remembers you Des, and the dirty look, (Wis 18), It’s why she’s kind of staring now instead of going about her business because while it had bugged her at the time, the whole, Sarandis escaping thing kind of had a way of making you forget a little thing like that. Then there was the Dean thing and the ongoing Sam thing and lets just say there were enough things to keep her from thinking too hard about it.

Until now.

She probably would have just let it slide back into the jumble of her mind if his words hadn’t caught her attention, lines creasing her brow as she catches well, every part of his side of the conversation. (Lis 32 #dhampirproblems.)]

Hi… [Guarded as she takes him in. There were pretty much a thousand ways this conversation could go and instead, Rose falls into the least expected way.] What was that about Rafael? [Confusion twisting her features.]

[nothingsodivine]

[des grimaces and pockets his phone.] He's making me seriously doubt his commitment to our friendship. What kinda jackass goes on tour, doesn't call, doesn't write, and doesn't send me tickets to his show, so I can personally smack his pointy ears round

[littledhampir]

[Lucky for everyone, Rose didn't actually bomb her sense motive or this conversation would have been hysterical.] The ones who are... International superstars and... don't want to be personally smacked on their pointy ears?

[God thanks Des. Now all Rose is thinking about is if Raf really does have pointy ears. These will be her serious thoughts all day.]