deercountry | [open] Wuko Wedding

Who: Mako, Wu, and you!
What: GETTING MARRIED
When: February 20th
Where: The beach, through the city, at the Raccoon Room in Cellar Door.

Content Warnings: An inordinate amount of fluff, potentially event happenings.

The Wedding

It's not a normal wedding. There's no officiant, they're not standing up in front of a bunch of people to declare their love: this is a Trench wedding, based on Mako and Wu's shared traditions, inventing some new ones.

The ceremony itself is a procession, from the beach to the Raccoon Room. It starts with just the two of them, at a flower arch on the beach, their hands clasped together, each in a gold suit with red and green accents on the collar and as piping down the front. They walk together along a flower strewn path, talking quietly with one another, sharing small, nervous smiles.

If you are close to the couple, you recieved a red envelope, delivered either by raccoon or small dragon, a few days before the wedding, inviting you to the ceremony. The small crowd gathers outside the Raccoon Room, where the threshold is decked out in red roses. The couple stands in the doorway, saying their vows, and pressing a blood-and-ash covered hand to the other's cheek.

While the ceremony is private, the reception isn't. Invites have gone out to basically the entire city, via Wu's post, so it's a pretty public event. Maybe you're coming because you saw that post. Maybe you're coming because you're involved somehow, maybe you just see a flower-and-light-filled party and decide to drop in. Everyone is welcome. After all, this is Trench, and everyone could be dead tomorrow, so why not celebrate something good while you have the chance? Come in, dance to music from different worlds, eat cake and noodles and dumplings, celebrate a little moment of happiness while you can. The party's going all night, and the couple making their solemn, slightly-bloody vows to each other are only the excuse for it.

The Party

Naturally, since this is Mako and Wu's wedding, it's at the Raccoon Room, decked out even more grandly than it was for its opening. Roses adorn every surface and drop from the ceiling in strings, perfuming the air. Scattered between them are red-and-gold lanterns, casting a dim, inviting light onto velvet hangings. Lining the walls are tables full of food and drinks. Everyone can't fit into this little venue, so Wu has also set up a draping tent outside, full of burning braziers of coal to keep the chill away. The doors are wide open to let the music from inside out: it's just the party, continued! Renfri can be found behind the bar, dishing up custom drinks.

The Music

Chicken Choice Judy, or Ryan Akagi and Min-Gi Park, make their Trench debut on the stage of the Raccoon Room, playing an eclectic mix of original music, 80s hits, current pop, and classical piano music. They begin with a slowed-down version of Lil Nas X's Montero, ease into an upbeat version of That's What I Want, and things take off from there. Maybe give them requests? They might play some of your favorite dance songs! This is a party for everyone, after all. A big space in front of the stage has been cleared for dancing, and the music will be going all night.

The Couple

After the more private ceremony (with only close friends and loved ones, for Mako's peace of mind) Mako and Wu are as available as any couple at their wedding, which is to say, not terribly. With new dark handprints from the ceremony on their faces—really, more on their necks, because Wu wouldn't stand for a giant handprint ruining his look—they can be found chatting with friends, huddled together whispering, or dancing together. They'll try to mingle as much as they can, but they're in pretty high demand tonight!

((ooc: Make top-levels to your hearts' content, mingle, have a good time! This is a Trench party and it's open to everyone! Wuko image credit)) © tessisamess

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Honestly Ruby could not be happier for her two friends. Seeing them grow not only as individuals but together had been one of the most hard warming things in both Deerington and Trench- Trenchington.

So she's not only been around for the ceremony but the party too. But the most surprising thing of this entire day is to see Mako enjoying himself so openly. She blinks in surprise when he offers her a hand and she immediately takes it.]

If you are anything like Ange you're going to be hibernating for like a week after tonight.

I'm a lot like Ange, and I'm definitely going to be hibernating.

[ Mako agrees with that easily, because, yeah: sorry Trench, this is the most you're going to be seeing of him for a good long while, for a multitude of reasons but primarily spending time with Wu and also recovering from a party. He's got a little alcohol in him—Fire, naturally—and it's loosening his limbs, making him a better dancer. He's actually doing an okay job leading Ruby into a spin. ]

Thanks for coming, Ruby. It means a lot.

I figured as much. If it makes you feel like it she's probably going to be out of it for awhile after this.

[Ruby takes to the spin pretty naturally. She's been lucky to have Usagi and Wu teach her more about dancing. It was something she absolutely hated when she was in school. It was kind of a miracle she could even stand in heels now.]

Of course. You both are like family. I wouldn't miss this for the world.

I'm so happy for both of you. This is just huge.

Wu did invite half the city.

[ That might not be the kind of huge Ruby meant, but it's certainly how Mako takes it, laughing and affectionate. That's the thing: as long as Wu is happy (and he really, really is) Mako doesn't mind. He deserves all of this, laughter and love and people coming to celebrate him for something more than just his kingship. This is what Mako wants for him, in the end. ]

He might not be king anymore, but he still wants to party like one.

Okay. Yeah. He absolutely did!

[She's not a hundred percent sure if he got what she was saying or is just being silly about it. But she's not about to try and correct him here because he's definitely not wrong either. She grins brightly seeing him laugh like that. She's just really happy for the both of them.]

Yeah... Well. He might not be an actual king anymore. But I think you make him feel like the kind of king he's always wanted to be. You know. Loved and appreciated by the person following him.

[ Ruby. Mako rolls his eyes, biting down on his grin, and moves to sling an arm around her shoulders. ]

That... is the sappiest thing I've ever heard you say. You attack Ange with goopy stuff like that?

[She went there!

And she let's him sling that arm over her shoulder but she'll give him a playful little elbow while she's at it.]

It is but it's true!

I do! And she takes it way worse than you are right now-

She gets so huffy and hard done by- Like I was taking her to the dentist or something.

[ Record scratch. Hold on hold on. ]

What... is so bad about the dentist?

Dude!

What isn't bad about the dentist! They strap you down to a chair and pull that interrogation light on you! Stick drills and stuff in your mouth and scrap your teeth until you finally break down crying and tell them you haven't been brushing three times a day or flossing.

And they just look at you so dispassionately like they knew the whole time and they didn't care that they spent the last like half an hour breaking you just to hear it out loud.

...It's the worst. The literal worst.

It's like a weekend with Ozpin.

[ Okay.

Okay, the thing is, Mako and Bolin have not exactly had access to quality dental work. Mako's lucky the teeth he got knocked out of his head were baby teeth, and that there were replacements waiting to grow in. They're not misaligned or anything, but he and Bolin probably don't have the healthiest teeth in the world. Malnutrition will do that to you.

But as far as he knew the dentist was just another kind of doctor, something else not from his world. ]

Drills? Ruby, I don't... think you had a normal dentist. Aren't they just there to clean your teeth?

[ Someone might not actually know what a dentist is. ]

[Ruby blinks and shrugs slightly. Maybe she did have a weird dentist. Everyone said things about Remnant were weird, like landing strategies, Grimm, dust, swords that are also guns. Maybe the dental system was just as messed up as the rest of it.]

I mean- Maybe! But I can't say that for sure. Where I'm from they use the drills to clean your teeth. And all this weird like pokey and proddy things too. It's like literally torture.

Cleaning your teeth should not be that awful.

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The Couple

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CW: Dental work.

cw: child neglect

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