open ♔ valentine's day

[romanticidal]

♬ Careless Whisper - George Michael

WHO || Anyone and their special someone [Closed]
WHAT || Various Valentine's Day activities
WHERE ||Anywhere
WHEN || Feb 14th, 2016
HOW || Actionspam or Prose

[ It's Valentine's Day! ( aka Singles Awareness Day )  Assume that all missions that are posted already are going out after this. ♥ ]

Comments

[graveflowers]

Birthdays are weird for me. Where I'm from, the lifespan wasn't incredibly long, I was already pushing the far reaches of it when I was 26 so every year was a huge accomplishment. Plus, we're huge party kids so any excuse, really.

[ ducking her head back she gets it wet before sweeping it up into an astoundingly messy bun. ]

[forcevisions]

[ that better targets something she can empathize with, but rey doesn't say so. instead, she nods, turning her full attention towards vi. ]

What made it so hard to survive your world?

[graveflowers]

Mostly me. Have you heard of aasimars yet?

[recruited]

[ Steve lets his legs stretch out off the blanket as he leans to the side against one of his hands. ] A guy. With superspeed. He wouldn't happen to have really blonde hair would he?

[mydesigns]

[squints, momentarily distracted] Link would be Lincoln Lincoln-Graham.

[icouldbe_bess]

When Aaron was confirmed he chose Aaron as his confirmation name, so he was Aaron Aaron Lincoln. It's not unheard of in my family.

[mydesigns]

Really? Seems a little unfortunate to me.

[icouldbe_bess]

Well, Jesus was his first choice, but they said no.

[forcevisions]

[ only the name, really, so she shakes her head. ]

[allaboutme]

You know him?

[graveflowers]

Basically, they're people descended from gods. Most of 'em are pretty distant, many generations back; great, great, great, great, great, great-grandparents, that kind of thing.

Where I'm from we're called demigods, but it's pretty much the same thing. And the monsters there could smell the divinity in our blood and just... [ she shrugs. ] Hunted us down. We were born to protect mortals from the parts of the world they couldn't see, but it made us twice as vulnerable.

[recruited]

[ He takes a deep breath and nods. ]

Pietro. He was part of my team back home. Him and his sister. Wanda. She's here too.

[ It's all kind of--hard to talk about sometimes. Especially with what happened to Pietro. ]

[likedillinger]

Oh, I get it. This is bribery. [ they are on the dresser, so they are easy enough to find over there ]

[forcevisions]

[ her nose crinkles a bit at the drop of 'gods'—only because rey's never been religious, and she's always considered it silly teedo superstition. then again, many would say the same of the force, and she knows it to be real. ]

These monsters, were they sent after you by some kind of master, or were they hoping to eat you to survive? [ Apropos of nothing but curiosity, really. ]

[graveflowers]

Depends on the situation, honestly. Gods can't drift into each other's realms, but the creatures they make can -- including their mortal children. A lot of the times it was because they were trying to stop us, but some things, I think, just really liked the taste of demigod.

[forcevisions]

[ she makes a face like eugh that's bad news, then qualifies it, ] A hired hand can be reasoned with, but not a hungry strill. [ and her expression then offers sympathy like yep that means it was awful. on the bright side, she now seems to have her feet flat on the bottom of the pool, drawing away from the edge without much noticing. ]

[graveflowers]

[ omg finnick is a genius. dragon's fish is real, son. ]

That also depends on the monster. Some of 'em are just dumb as a box of rocks, reasoning with them is impossible just because they don't even know why it's reasonable. What's... a strill?

[littledhampir]

[Snatching those keys... which she still expects him to grab from her.]

More like I figure if I just keep asking, one day you'll actually say yes. Odds have gotta be with me eventually.

[forcevisions]

Vicious, six-legged monsters trained to hunt by the Mandalorians. The smell terrible; you should be glad you've never met one. Bounty hunters loved them for their senses, brought plenty through the planet I grew up on looking for people hiding away. [ they never found any, of course. no one, not even those fleeing pursuit, marooned themselves willingly on jakku. ]

[graveflowers]

That sounds horrible. Oh, the first time I met the knights? I was looking for directions to some place and this guy just turned into this huge red sala- salami... no, slade- slaadi! Slaadi. It was huge and disgusting and smelled like bodily fluids.

[ she looks down, smiling fondly. ] I pancaked it with a train.

[forcevisions]

He turned into one? [ with no small degree of horror, rey balks. ] That sounds terrible.

[graveflowers]

It was disgusting. Apparently they, like, incubate inside people and then just explode out of them and the person they were in is just gone and then they go on rampages to implant their spores or whatever into other people. It's so gross.

[forcevisions]

[ when u miss the rathtars, you know it's bad. rey is just ... disgusted into silence by this and doesn't want to even think about what else is out there. maybe missing jakku like 5%. ]

[graveflowers]

Yup, exactly. But my friend Jess went after one with a bat, bless her soul.

[likedillinger]

Keep the dream alive. [ yeah he's just gonna

hold out his hand ]