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open | heaven help a fool who falls in love
Who: Luna Lovegood & friends! Basically if you're friends with Luna and/or Peter, you're invited! It's a party post!
What: Luna celebrates her twenty-first birthday.
When: February 13th
Where: Luna & Peter's House, Gaze.
Content Warnings: weed/drugs;
What: Luna celebrates her twenty-first birthday.
When: February 13th
Where: Luna & Peter's House, Gaze.
Content Warnings: weed/drugs;
It is considered, within the Wizarding World, that when a witch or wizard reaches the age of seventeen they are considered to be 'of age', and free to perform magic outside of school. A seventeenth birthday is a huge deal, and a great cause for celebration within any wizarding family. Luna Lovegood never got to celebrate her seventeenth birthday. She barely even realised when the day had passed in the long, lonesome days spent in the belly of Malfoy Manor. And while other birthdays have since passed since then, this birthday is important for another reason. She's long since learned the importance of eighteenth birthdays, but there's also something special for Muggles when one reaches the age of twenty one. She might not have been able to celebrate her seventeenth with family and friends like she might have liked, but she can celebrate this one instead.
And what does Luna wish for? A simple tea party with friends.
It's been a team effort with Peter in organising it. Guests are asked that they wear bright colours, or rainbow colours — bringing extra food to share isn't required but appreciated. It's a very chilled out and simple affair. In the dining room, the table is laden with food: cakes and sweets are plentiful, all sorts of tea from Luna's tea cupboard are on offer. Peter's been in charge of the music. There's a selection of his usual moody, stoner music but he's also chosen plenty of music that's a little more Luna in vibe: slow, dreamy shoegazer pop; chill, pleasant acoustic tracks; sweet, cheerful songs for easy listening.
There are even games for guests to play to: the living room has a Wizard's Chess chesstable for those looking for a more violent game of chess, although they may need to ask Luna to reset the board at the end of each game. There is also Exploding Snap, which will cause a bit of excitement. As always, Helga will around the party looking for Pets and Attention. There will also be a raven perched up high, observing the festivities below — Luna's new Familiar, Ariel. And while there isn't any alcohol available, it's highly likely for Peter to hit anyone up with The Weed if they're looking for an even chiller buzz.
Luna will be absolutely running with the dress code in a floaty, rainbow puff dress, paired with metallic tights and silvery blue, sparkly shoes. The dress itself was something once given to her back in Deerington, but she's never worn it since until now — and the party seemed like an excellent time to wear it. She'll be floating about the party with her usual dreamy smile, sometimes with the aforementioned raven perched on her shoulder, partaking in a great deal of puddings and cakes.
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Outfit: she did her best. close examination reveals cute fish and other embroidered details
Gift: sansa thinks this is a day dress
What they're getting up to: enjoying treats, petting helga, drinking tea, chatting and being friendly!!! lady is very much enjoying spending time with helga too!! sansa's omen is morbidly curious about the raven familiar...
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Outfit: The world's loudest shirt. It looks like it was made out of scraps because it was! That's how you get a discount! Over the shirt is an only-slightly-less-obnoxious fringe jacket. It probably started out life a respectable brown, but now it's orange. At least his pants are a normal dark black oh no wait actually they are just a very dark shade of green. Oh no! Oh you allowed a man from the seventies to wear colors and now this is happening!
Gift: A pair of earrings. For double good luck, because everyone could always use some!
What they're getting up to: NOT partaking of the weed because the last time he did that he turned into a monster and made a mess of Peter's room. He did bring his banjo though because that's what you do at a party, you bring instruments. There are also some folks here he hasn't met since he's been cooped up in Prufrock rebuilding a house
and restarting a cult, so pretty much anyone he doesn't know is going to get at least a polite introduction. Anybody Luna and Peter like he figures he'll also like.no subject
Outfit: a pastel hoodie worn over some lounge clothes, and a pair of pale yellow Converse. It's like Peter, but Cute Edition.
Gift: Peter's gifts to Luna will mostly be given tomorrow, which is Valentine's Day, when combining celebrations. He has a separate, private thing planned for then! But he does have something to give her for the party: a very nice Lord of the Rings collection from the bookstore run by Luz and Lexi.... He's heard that it's prime Muggle Fantasy Nerdery, and it sounds like Luna would really enjoy it?? For his artist gf there's also a nice new sketchpad and a bunch of rainbow crayons he thought were very Lunacore, totally thick and sturdy and handy for decorating any surfaces she might desire around the house. He also got her a bike! Peter managed to find one at a shop, painted it yellow, and added a cute basket.... It's no broom, but maybe she can have fun flying around Trench on cute wheels....
Also placed down: a round glass container of extremely dark dirt with silver liquid glitter in it, making it look like some kind of... muddy snowglobe... When moved, it makes a soft tinkling sound, thanks to some bells he's got in there. There's a big silver bow artfully tied around the lid, with some more glitter glued on. It's actually pretty, sparkles and shimmers any time the light catches it, but it's... it's clearly a glass bowl of sparkly dirt. Paimon spent a lot of time on it... Demon crafts
What they're getting up to: Peter'll be an active presence in helping run Luna's birthday celebration (with Darkblood effects prompting him to be Extra Accommodating). He'll be welcoming in guests and wandering around to check and see if anyone needs anything, offering to take your plates and other trash for you, washing dishes right then.... He's also in charge of the music, so he'll be fiddling with that off and on, as well as offering people weed if anyone wants some Extra Chill to go along with the very Chill Luna Party Vibes. He'll also be partaking in the games, even if slightly nervously (Wizard's Chess is a little Scary to him...) and just generally having a good time and making sure everyone else is, too! (Sorry everyone, but he'll also frequently be seen kissing the top of Luna's head or giving her pecks on the cheek, little gestures of affection throughout the day. She deserves all the loving okay, and who could resist kissing on her when she's all adorable in her dress...)
Those who know about Paimon will definitely see Signs of his presence coming out very frequently (little blips of personality & mannerism changes from amicably shy awkwardness to intense staring, eating cake kind of weird, following Luna around very closely.... observing your rainbow-core outfit with unblinking curiosity as he stands super close to you, etc. You may see him grasping a cup of tea but not actually drinking it, just making the motions as though he is, pretending to take sips. That is weird! You might also catch him crouched on a chair in the living room with a notepad in hand, drawing a childlike little portrait of you..... but what he's mostly getting up to is going back for More Cake). Those who don't know about Paimon are free to assume Peter's just. Fruity
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Outfit: A fancy rainbow holographic iridescent suit from his home universe that he received in Deerington and finally has an excuse to wear again. :'3
Gift: He brought along some rainbow-themed treats courtesy of local bakeries, and inspired by the fashion trends in his home universe, he's tinkered and created a device with the appearance of a lil bunny pin that can be worn as such. When activated, it will create the illusion of holographic fairy butterfly wings sprouting from the back of the wearer, complete with shimmery glitter effects trailing behind them. It's possible to cycle through several wing varieties and hues so Luna can mix and match and customise their appearance to complement any outfit (some examples).
What they're getting up to: K would volunteer to help with any behind-the-scenes sort of planning or catering as needed with Peter (if Peter would want the help), and otherwise will be fussing over the birthday girl, mother henning at Peter/Paimon, giving Helga pets, and happily participating in any of the games. He's here for chill fun and probably providing any "adult supervision" that might be needed, but mostly the chill fun; he just wants Luna to have a good birthday. Due to the month's blood effects on Coldbloods, he's more physically affectionate than usual. So Luna and Peter/Paimon will definitely be getting hugs.
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Outfit: oh it's where did you get that cardigan time. aka he asked pal to help him find the most heinously colorful thing possible and this was the result. the slacks are a pale blue, the best he could find, but he also took pal's ridiculous yellow boots so yeah. a lot going on. the dress shirt underneath is green screen green.
Gift: a camera! a kind of old fashioned one, but he's worked on rigging it to the omni so photos can pop up there. there's room for traditional film canisters of course, if they can be found and developed. he's clearly restored it with misc pieces but he's put moon shapes around as an attempt to personalize it a bit, in silvery medal.
What they're getting up to: chess will intrigue him, catch him poking around the pieces, trying to figure them out. in general he's a bit of a wallflower but he'll chat with anyone he knows, catch up, generally actually enjoying the chill atmosphere. why can't more parties be lowkey, he asks
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Outfit: This jacket paired with these leggings. Not quite super rainbow but this is the most color she's ever worn at once and she's doing it for Luna.
Gift: This rainbow painting! It's still a little damp, though, so Luna gets it at the very start of the party and Sharon apologizes that she couldn't wrap it up for her. Luna also receives a few new teas to add to her collection in interesting flavors (almond cookie black tea & a caramel black tea with edible gold glitter) in neat little jars with handwritten labels in Sharon's sharp, crooked handwriting.
What they're getting up to: Sharon absolutely smokes a bowl at some point in the beginning and spends quite a bit of time looking over Luna's tea collection and gushing over it ("Oh! I've never had this before!" or "This is a neat taste combination! Where'd you get it!"). She'll play a few games, dance a little (maybe drag Paimon and Luna to dance with her in a dreamy sort of fashion), and give Helga lots of love because she's extra physically affectionate this month. She'll try to chat up Luna's familiar raven and introduce herself to those she doesn't know well.
Sharon will wind up breaking a few glasses, tripping a bunch, and just being an overall klutz, as well, because she's got a bad case of bad luck this month as well. So. Expect many apologies before she goes to sit down somewhere and just. Not touch anything because whoops.
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Outfit: rainbows and sequins, zero shame
Gift: lol dress
What they're getting up to: Enjoying food and drink, enjoying pot, chatting with everyone and hanging out! Doing stupid dances if there's any dancing!
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Outfit: Luca will be wearing this shirt with a pair of black slacks, because he wasn't able to find bright pants that would match that shirt.
Gift: A potion bottle necklace filled with water from the Salt Lake, so it turns bright pink when it's under the moonlight, but black the rest of the time.
What they're getting up to: He'll be enjoying the food, playing wizard's chess and of course, petting and fussing over Helga. He won't be smoking any weed because even though he's been in the Trench for a while now so he's older than when he first came, he's still only fifteen. Also, he'll be baking and bringing tiny little fish shaped sugar cookies.
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He doesn't plan to make a big deal out of it -- that would be impolite -- but it happens to be his birthday too. Twenty-one is a lot more exciting than thirty-nine, is the thing, and frankly he can't think of any better way to spend his birthday than celebrating someone else's. For a man who hates to be alone, this is basically the ideal gift. What was he going to do otherwise, stay home and watch the roses growing over his door? Wait for Ford to call, like Ford would possibly remember his birthday? This is better.
In particular he's interested in making the acquaintance of all the people whose faces he doesn't recognize. If he doesn't know you, you'll get a friendly wave (several of his fingers are bandaged and all of them are blue at the tips).
"Pleasure to meet you. You'll have to forgive me, I might ask for your name a couple times before it sticks. I'm no good with names."
The people he does recognize... well. How long has it been? Who knows. Could have been a couple weeks, could have been a couple months. They'll get a sheepish smile.
"Good to see you again. Sorry I've been a little hard to get ahold of, I've been, ah. Rebuildin' a whole house."
And of course... he brought the banjo. Not that he thinks Peter and Luna don't have great taste in music: that's the whole thing. They do have great taste in music, and a lot of it is right in his wheelhouse, particularly the stoner jams and acoustic pieces. He spends most of the time a little to the side of all the goings-on, occasionally plunking along with whatever is playing, occasionally just enjoying being in a home that is full of happy people. Wild how good that feels.
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While he's been maintaining some cautious distance from Fiddleford all this time (watching him, making note of things, gathering Information), this seems like an ideal opportunity to more directly establish some connection.
It isn't the first time he'll gift the man something, but this time, it will be face to face. So at some point he quietly steals away up to the attic room, where all of his things are kept. It's a magpie's nest of items but he knows exactly where everything is, and he sorts through collections of animal bones, stones, dirt, art supplies and shiny trash — from a sketchbook, he picks out one of his completed works that was done specifically with Fiddleford in mind.
It's this......
A unicorn, imitated childlike from a fantasy book, but the inspiration for the seemingly random creature has a Purpose. The entity that Paimon believes dwells inside of the man... has manifested a form similar to this, been depicted in similar ways throughout human books. The drawing isn't exactly how Amdusias may appear, but it's Vaguely Close Enough to show the other being that Paimon is aware of him.... That is the Intention, anyway.
When the demon king finds Fiddleford again, he's playing his banjo (of course..... Amdusias always was the true spark of the party, making the music happen....) and he approaches him slowly. He moves with a calmer gait than Peter, long limbs controlled and not awkward, and yet there is a perpetual uncanniness to him all the same. For instance, he doesn't really blink.
Pupils swollen, turning the warm browns of Peter's eyes into something more black and alien, he stares widely down to the man for a long moment before he slowly holds up the drawing in both hands, solemnly presenting it to him.