Valentine's Day }{ Open post

[asap]

WHO || Characters in the log [open or closed]
WHAT || VALENTINE'S DAY
WHERE || ALL AROUND THE CASTLE
WHEN || 2/14
HOW || DO WHAT YOU WANT

It's Valentine's Day! All around people are happily snuggling up with their loved one or drowning their feelings in booze and/or ice cream. Give out cards or chocolate or commiserate with other single people! Whoo Valentine's Day!

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ella & andrew | closed

[sorceresslite]

[ ella swans into andrew's room without knocking because why would she with an actual bucket of candy and stupid valentine's day treats because she has a problem and that problem is called sugar. since andrew is going on a wild hot date with his wildly hot date later, they've bumped their traditional holiday festivities to brunch. ella hasn't checked to see if he's awake yet though, she just barges in. ] Happy Valentine's Day, loser. Where's my stupid stuffed bear?

[badexample]

[There's a part of Andrew that actually feels stupid amounts of guilty that he's going on an actual date on Valentine's Day rather than stuffing his face with candy and watching youtube videos and campy sci fi movies with Ella. They've goofed off together for the last few V-Days and it's been something of a tradition.

There's also a part of Andrew that doesn't know how to wake up before noon, so when Ella barrels in, he is definitely still snoring. He wakes up with a start when she speaks, his hair a floppy, curly mess and one eye still shut.]

I'll captain the waffles..!

[He has the weirdest dreams.]

vi & felicity | closed

[graveflowers]

[ apparently all it takes to get vi out of bed and looking presentable (with make up!) is the promise of a skype date with felicity. she's still pale as hell and she doesn't look well but she looks like she put effort into looking hella fly. (disguise 17, girl cleans up nice don't y'know.) anyway, she's still perched on her bed, laying on her stomach because as much as she loves felicity, she sure doesn't love her enough to sit at a desk or something.

whoops.

anyway, ring ring ring. DOES SKYPE EVEN RING? it fucking does now. and vi looks excited, yay! ]

[allmydreams]

[Felicity does not look as good as Vi - she opted for comfortable instead of fancy (disguise 9), but when she sees Vi, she lets out a low whistle.]

Wow. If I had known I was dealing with Miss Fabulous over here, I would have broken out the old war paint myself.

[She's in her room at the castle, with her hair pulled back, and what looks like possibly pajamas. But she doesn't look exhausted or worn out, so that's a bonus.]

sylar & lila | closed (also not actually in the castle)

[watchmaker]

[on this special day lila gets a text from her favorite dumbass:]

funny story: i really wanted nando's, so i came all the way to england to get some.

[bittersweeter]

Funnier story, I can be there in half hour.

[ because she's already flinging her clothes around in the closet to find something to wear and shaking her hair out of the twist she'd had it in, chucking the pen used in place of an elastic across the room. thanks for the negative notice, dickhead. where is her underwear... oh fuck it. ]

Faye & Andie - totally crashable

[reallywicked]

[Faye has been... weirdly quiet. Fighting with Lila sux. And when she woke up and found a stupid gift from the blonde, it just put her in a sour mood. She hasn't opened the gift. She actually dumped the box in the trash, but eventually took it back out and put it on her dresser... and then promptly left her room.

She's currently slouched low on the couch in one of the common rooms, flipping channels on the tv and hoping to find something violent enough to quell her feelings. After a little while, she grabs her phone and texts someone else that for some reason seems to enjoy her company sometimes... Andie.]

What are you doing?

[asap]

[Andie's will save of 3 means she does not have the patience necessary for a texting conversation. After a few minutes of searching, she finds Faye and throws herself on the couch next to her.]

Nothin'.

[She tilts her head, catching sight of the movie.]

That seems... kinda not with the spirit of the holiday, huh.

Faye & Lila | closed

[reallywicked]

The day after the sugar-sick, red and pink glitter vomit holiday comes a close, Faye is really not in the mood to go anywhere. She's still in pajamas, playing games on her phone and pretending like she isn't spending every other second glancing at the gift from Lila on her dresser. She hasn't opened it, doesn't know if she plans to. Hell, she doesn't want to admit that she is even thinking about it.

So she just crushes some candy. She crushes the hell out of it. Except eventually she runs out of lives and flops uselessly back in bed, somewhere between pissed off and apathetic. Her eyes land on the gift again and she glares at it, wondering if she could catch it on fire without getting out of bed.

[bittersweeter]

[ let her go -- passenger ]

Lila wanders home late in the afternoon, very unwilling to drag herself out of the soft fluffy bed and Sylar's arms, but she needed to. Okay, it's more like dinner when she finally drives back to the castle, but she gets there eventually, stalking the halls with her heels in one hand and her purse in the other. It'd be a walk of shame if Lila was any way ashamed.

She doesn't stop at her room, padding barefoot to Faye's room instead. She doesn't knock or announce herself, she just walks in, dropping her heels next to the door and closing it behind her. She's not afraid of Faye, even though the girl's firepower is intimidating, because Faye is her best friend. They won't hurt each other like that.

Except Lila did.

She glances over at her friend, whatever they were now, eyes lingering on her neck, the only necklace in sight the one she always wears. "You didn't open it, did you?"

Andrew & Bo | closed

[badexample]

Andrew is in a suit. Or at least a suit jacket. And he has bouquet of red roses, because he can't be super creative all the time, okay?? But he hasn't forgotten that he's supposed to have fun and be creative and try not to stress when he plans a date with her. She was clear enough about that before. So he gets everything set up and tells her to meet him outside in the evening so they can head into London for dinner. He got them reservations at a great Japaneses place with a techie flare.

When she gets outside, she'll find him leaning against their chariot for the evening with the flowers in hand. He pulled a few strings to make that happen, but it's just one of those little things that he remembers from their first night out.

[succubestie]

Well, if she was smiling as she headed outside, it grows to reach from ear to ear at the sight of my car.

"Oh my god, you didn't!"

She laughs, shaking her head. Impressive, Andrew. Impressive.

Thoster & Andie | closed ish but he is singing outside so...

[bluffcheck]

[It's late. It's very late. He should have just kept drinking until he passed out and been done with it. But unfortunately, he doesn't. Instead, he takes his bottle of rum and wanders out into the cold of the castle grounds. He's humming as he walks, but it starts to turn into actual words, a little melody, a catchy chorus.]

My heart will never know another,
for it's promised to a lady fair.
Too fast to catch, too good for a scoundrel,
with fire blazing in her hair

I, I, I knew her once,
and once was all my lips could stand
Oh, I, I, I have lost
the prettiest lass in all the land

[It's not the best that he can do, but it's certainly not suffering much for his intoxication (perform: song 17)]

[asap]

[Andie listens far longer than she should. She so badly wants to be over him, but... it's Valentine's Day. She's lonely. And having a guy sing a song about how beautiful and amazing she is would be heart-fluttery on any normal day. On Valentine's Day... it's hard to not run out there and kiss him. Still, she resists (will save nat 20). He's Catwoman and she's Batman and no matter how sexy Catwoman is, Batman's gotta think about the whole being a hero thing and not get with someone who lies and cheats and would happily kill a guy when he doesn't have to and not think about how awesome a singer Catwoman is.

Or whatever.

Finally, she opens the window.]

Thought you weren't gonna do that anymore.

The Duchess and the Doppelganger;

[isisagent]

Son of a bitch... [Archer rustles through the kitchen.] You've got to be fucking kidding me.
WOODHOUSE!... [He face-palms angrily.] I mean... Damnit... Why is there no decent food in this godforsaken shithole?

Fuck... I'm tired of shitty Chicago grease-food, but I can't go out anywhere halfway decent alone, I'd look pathetic... right buddy? [He muses to Merlin, who chatters in response.] Huh... That's... actually not a terrible idea you little bundle of adorable terror. [He pats Merlin on the head, and sets off across the Suite.]

Hey, Elena! You, uh... Wanna go grab some dinner? Maybe get some drinks? [He asked, totally oblivious as to the fact that it's Valentine's Day.]

[notaroundme]

[Shortly after hearing the call of her name, Elena pokes her head into the kitchen, looking slightly confused.

She's not sure how she feels about this at all. Conflicted would be a good description.]

Um, sure? [She's not...doing anything else. <.<] Where do you want to go?

val'drin & francesca | closed... hopefully

[socialgraces]

[ francesca's been single for a long, long time and she's not about to waste her first chance in fifty-some years to actually spend valentine's day with someone special, so here she is, early friday morning, quietly making her way through the castle. she does her very best to avoid any and all other occupants for... various reasons, but does make a pit stop in one of the bathrooms to check herself out (she looks amazing btw with a disguise check of 45). she didn't bring a gift, but she does have reservations for some swanky hotel in downtown london for just the two of them for the whole weekend, which is better anyway.

when she reaches his door, she gives it two light taps, keeping an eye over her shoulder just to make sure no one creeps up on her. ]

[valdrin]

[ the door opens after just a moment, and val'drin looks stunned, even if he already looks excessively fine himself (he rolled a 19 today, plus a billion). his eyes cut up and down her as his eyebrows lift to his hairline. ]

... I might have sworn I woke up this morning, but it seems I'm still dreaming.

Phineas walks in cirlces around Lis'sa's office...

[thesleeper]

[Phineas screws up the courage necessary to go forward, after several minutes of pacing around in the hallway. He's decided to call on Naberius' powers for the day, but like most days he rolled terribly on his binding check(Natural 1 - Hoorah!), so he suffers the sign and influence of Naberius - making him have Christian Bale super-gravelly batman voice, among other things.]

[After some time, he stomps forward and knocks on the door; with a large red rose in one hand, and a curious little trinket in the other. It's a fist-sized polished stone, with some strange symbols and runes carve along it's surface.]

Anybody home?

[lissatrinall]

[ as usual, lis'sa doesn't ever deign to open the door herself for anyone, so she simply says, loud enough to be heard: ] Come in.

Miles & Jaina ; Closed

[cuivre]

[Maybe it was a bit of a cop out, but rather than put her on the spot, Miles slides a note under her door the day before. It's short and to the point, and gives her the option of ignoring it.

Meet me at the front doors at 5pm tomorrow evening. Dress casual and be ready to have some good, clean fun.

Miles

If she decides to show, he's leaning against this car in jeans and a cotton button down shirt.]

[flyingsolo]

[ jaina takes the casual memo to heart, and is wearing her customary jeans and leather jacket combo when she comes down the stairs. her eyes widen a bit when she sees the car and she smiles slightly ]

Is that yours or a rental? Either way, good taste.

emma swan • ota

[uncurse]

[ emma swan's doing what she does best: spending time alone.

she doesn't really do valentine's day. she's not big on gorging herself on chocolate (unless it's poured into coffee), and even the thought of romance has left her cold for the past decade. there have been flashes in the pan that she briefly believed might become something, but all they did was reinforce what she already knew: alone was better.

so, instead of dwelling, or gorging, or making a mad dash to desperately get herself a date, or making a holiday out of her own bitterness, emma curls up in one of the living rooms of the castle with a bottle of sweet white wine and watches movies - drama, not romantic anything - from the couch. fuck romance tbh. the only thing she wishes she had when it comes to love is her family. ]

[bluffcheck]

[Thoster has been humming all day. While he doesn't know much about the holiday, it's hard not to catch things on television and around the city, so he's caught on. Romance and bards are sort of a match made in heaven... except when the bard has a cracked heart. Still, he has a song to get out and he plans to do it at some point in the day. He just has to write it first.

But as he wanders aimlessly, he happens upon a certain woman that always seems to make him forget his troubles.]

Emma! [See? He's already smiling. Even if their last conversation ended a little strangely, he is always pleased to see her.] You look quite comfortable. Mind if I join you for a spell?

for vi;

[luthir]

[ hopefully it was a nightmare free night for vi... but even if it wasn't, when she wakes up, she'll be hit by an amazing scent, that comes from the fact that the entire bedroom is filled with flowers. like everywhere. like jfc that is an insane person's quantity of flowers. ]

[graveflowers]

[ nooo, she doesn't want to wake up, don't make her. except the scent does, in fact, get her to poke her head out of the blankets. and then sit up because holy shit that is a lot of flowers, did she fall asleep in a greenhouse, what is going on. so many flowers. leaning over she plucks one from the nightstand to bury her nose in, breathing deeply. ]

What is... I'm confused. [ look, she barely knows what month it is, let alone what day. /denser than a bag of bricks. ]

For Faye

[opprobrium]

[ He didn't get the big deal with it all, seeing all the pink and hearts around when he went to go buy more cigarettes just threw him off more. he thought of calling Bo to find out what was what but he didn't. Instead he went to the room he knew to be Faye's and knocked. He hadn't seen her in a bit and she was a rather fun one.]

[reallywicked]

[After spending most of the day with Andie, watching movies and eating ice cream, Faye goes back to her room just to have some peace and quiet. She's not thinking about the fight with her friend Lila (except she totally is). She's just playing in her phone, lounging in bed. At the sound of the knock, she glances up, confused.]

Yeah? [She calls out, because she is lazy as fuck and not getting up right now.]

belle & gold ♔ closed

[untethered]

[ spending more time in the dragon's fire library or sulking in his room hasn't gone unnoticed by belle, so here she is, knocking on his door this evening in backdated land.

so much coincidence, the date. really. she has books in her hands, ok. this is business. ]

[undealt]

[Gold deeply considers ignoring the knocking, but curiosity gets the better of him, and boy is he glad it did. He's honestly surprised to see Belle.] Belle.

[He blinks and then notes the books, because clearly it is all business. No ulterior motives at all. What day is it even? He doesn't own a calendar.

However, Belle's appearance does give him pause. Who dresses up for research parties?? CLEARLY SHE DOES. His wisdom check sucked.] Did you find something?

[About Amara. About curing Veilnesia. About life, the universe, and everything. GOOD NEWS WOULD BE NICE.]