births ♔ welcome to the fallout

[layonhands]

♬ Dare You To Move - Switchfoot

WHO || Myri, Vi, THEIR BABIES, Risa, Solace, Various visitors and famiree and wellwishers
WHAT ||THE BABIES ARE COMING
WHERE ||Dragon's Light Wing, the Castle
WHEN ||June 15th (Vi) and June 28th (Myri)
HOW || Actionspam

[ Vi's baby comes first, the labor pangs beginning around 9pm on the 14th, while she's alone, watching TV.

Myri's wake her up in the middle of the night, at 4am, on June 28th.  ]

Comments

[graveflowers]

Yeah, sure, go for it.

[sakurasmile]

[she holds her hands up and casts a dancing lights spell just above the baby's head.] Glowbugs for a glowbug.

[graveflowers]

[ lucia can't focus very far, but she can see the sparkle of the lights and she seems so fucking entranced by this magic, because even if she was used to it, which she should be, she lacks object permanence so THIS IS ALL SO NEW AND FASCINATING. ]

[sakurasmile]

That's the only magic I can do, and this is about all it's good for, yeah? [Kyomi laughs, maneuvering the lights around.]

[graveflowers]

[ she's like kick kick but i want it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

meanwhile vi is laughing at her dumbo baby. ] It's not bad magic, definitely found the target audience. Soon you'll be the baby whisperer and you can have your own show on TLC. Or whatever the UK version of TLC is.

[sakurasmile]

Or I'll just go back to California and soothe American babies with my sultry foreign accent. [she shakes her head.] Always need a back-up plan if this knight thing doesn't work out for me.

[graveflowers]

Mmm California. Sand and palm trees and heat. [ she flops back onto the grass, completely diverting the point. ] I need a desert in the backyard.

[sakurasmile]

Well, that would be lovely, but you'd have to convince London to suffer a drought first.

[graveflowers]

I could make that happen. [ the little flowers sprout again, this time surrounding kyomi in tiny orange and white blossoms. ] I can do the opposite of that too, I just don't... like it. Deserts have flowers!

[sakurasmile]

[Oooh they match her hair. Don't mind if she do. She begins gathering some up to braid together in a flower crown on a whim.] I wouldn't wanna do the opposite of that if I had that sort of gift either. Who'd want to kill flowers?

[graveflowers]

I mean, me. I'm such a sucker for bouquets of flowers.

[ and no one gets them for her because she can grow them herself that is such crap always and forever. ]

[sakurasmile]

Well, that's a load of shit. [She covers her mouth and looks down at Lucia apologetically.] Pardon me, a thasgaidh. But I can cook my own dinner- that doesn't mean I won't go out and eat, yeah?

[YOU DESERVE ALL THE FLOWERS IF YOU WANT THEM. X(]

[graveflowers]

[ she waves a dismissive hand. ] I swear in front of her all the time. Vulgarity is not the worst thing she's going to pick up from me. And I convinced someone that cussing is good for a child's vocab or something, so I feel like I should practice the shit I'm preaching.

[ yet she won't swear in front of shayla. that's different. she can ruin her own babies, she can ruin other babies. ]

But yeah, that's what I think, but flowers are different. No one even buys flowers anymore.

[sakurasmile]

Well, so long as it's educational. [Kyomi Kato, expert at giving no fucks about anything when she doesn't feel compelled to.]

They think it's a romantic gesture that went out with askin' dates to the cotillion. [eyeroll.] My mum had a garden, and my papa always brought her fresh flowers every Friday, so maybe I'm just old-fashioned about these things.

[graveflowers]

What the fuck's a cotillion?

[sakurasmile]

It's this bloody American thing where rich bitch teenagers get dressed up and learn proper manners and dance. [she rolls her eyes.] I visited a friend in Georgia during debutante season once. It's seared into my brain.

[graveflowers]

Ew. I'm suddenly really glad I don't remember my childhood.

[sakurasmile]

You think you might have been a society girl in another life, then? [she grins cheekily. hey, she wouldn't be surprised. vi is v pretty.]

[graveflowers]

Me and ballgowns don't really go, honestly. If it could be the dress I wore to the Grammy's all the time though, that would be cool. I didn't even feel fat.

[ it was a magic mood boosting dress. ]

[sakurasmile]

You went to the Grammy's? [THAT'S A THING THAT HAPPENS HERE??]

[graveflowers]

Bitch, I touched Queen Bey. Finnick Odair is legit my BFF.

[sakurasmile]

[kyomi is so impressed rn. as a reporter, even a shitty tabloid one, that's livin' the dream.]

If all that is the sort of thing that happens all the time, love, then I definitely made the right career change.

[graveflowers]

Being best friends with Finnick Odair doesn't happen all the time, that's specific to me only. Just me. But, I dunno, Rafael Giovanni hangs around here sometimes, you can be friends with him.

[ BUT FINNICK IS HER BESTIE. NO SHARING EVER. NO. ]

[sakurasmile]

I'm content just making friends with you, flower child. [she plucks one of the flowers from the ground and gently puts it behind Vi's ear like it ain't no thing.] You know where the real fun is.

[graveflowers]

[ vi grins reflexively. ] That's true. I'm amazing.