[open] Wuko Wedding

[arclightning]

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

Comments

[searingwing]

Childe. [He raises his eyebrows at that. He had no idea he knew an instrument. Scorpia is no surprise. But the title of the musical sounds a little confusing.] I’m familiar with both Childe and Scorpia. How often does she come to sing?

…and what is Rocky Horror picture show? I’ve never heard of it.

[royalfling]

Oh, every couple weeks! I can text you next time she comes by. Childe just started. Really killer voice on that guy! Would never have guessed.

Well, sadly you missed it. We put it on last month! It was really a wild ride. No one was in the body they had when they were cast! Not even me, I was all bulky. [ He moves his arms out to pretend to have big muscles ] It's this really wild musical about this scientist who makes his perfect guy and then it all falls down around his ears.

[searingwing]

[He blinks again. Kaeya cackling in the back of his head isn’t helping.] I can’t help but ask, is it a romance musical or?

[But he feels compelled to add.] I would have missed it regardless because I wasn’t myself either. This place saw fit to remind me of how I used to be.

[Young, happy, and really naive.]

[royalfling]

Sort of? It's partly a romance! But, oh, spoilers, they don't end up together. They end up... I'm not really sure! The ending is really confusing. The whole thing is really confusing, but it's a ton of fun!

[ Wu leans on a hand, smiling at him sunnily ] Is that a bad thing? Did you used to be someone really terrible or something?

[searingwing]

[He takes a second to really consider it. Was it a bad thing?] Not bad.

[He sips his water as he lets that settle in. Not bad.] He was a young, naive knight but not terrible. He just didn’t know anyone and was trusting a feeling left over from myself.

[royalfling]

Oh, that's a hard place to be in. Did you find your friends, that this you knows? I hope they helped.

[searingwing]

Yes. He fought off those Unsnakely along aside friends. He knew everyone I know now but in a vague sense of trust this one and so on.

[Then he looks away but the tips of his ears go a bit red. Don’t mind this little moment of embarrassment.] My husband was a shock for him. When we were growing up we were both the same height and build. That changed when I left. He got taller than me. Dressed flashier.

[He looks back at Wu.] If you haven’t met him yet, his name is Kaeya Alberich.

[royalfling]

[ Wu is beyond delighted that another man has a husband. Even now having one himself, it's still so novel ] I haven't! I'll have to meet him.

Oh, so you were friends when you were younger? That's so romantic! Did you like him back then? How did you take knowing that you're together now? [ Spill! The! Tea! ]

[searingwing]

[He blinks, but this has the feel of a conversation while he tends bar. It’s familiar and comfortable. He settles but his mind whirls.

Had their circumstances been like that? He sips his water and he says with a trace of shyness and embarrassment as he looks at his drink.] I did like him back then. I forgot about it after…everything happened.

But I realized we were together and he was all I wanted when I couldn’t think of the future without him in it. [He coughs and lifts his head with a flush on his face.]

And when I made plans I was automatically thinking of talking to him about them.

[royalfling]

[ Wu sighs dreamily ] You knew it, you knew you were supposed to be together! That's so great, and he loves you too? Boy, I love it when that works out.

[ The marks on both of their faces are proof enough of that, at least. ]

It's really something, isn't it? Having that someone to make those plans with. I don't know what I'd do without Mako. I'm glad that the mes that I became, the ones I shedded into, they knew him. You know, at one point, we were both girls, and we were together in some other version of Trench? It's like we're meant to be!

[searingwing]

I didn't know we were supposed to be together...but I wanted it. [He can admit that now when he's with Kaeya. Not even a year ago he wouldn't have been able to say that. But he thinks about what Wu said, visibly thinking it over and adds,]

I can see it with you two. You match each other very well. [He glances to the side, coughing into a closed fist as his face turns a little red.] But I don't know what I'd do without Kaeya either. I got a glimpse of a world without him. I don't want it.

[royalfling]

I know what that's like. [ Wu pats Diluc's shoulder with a far-off smile. He does think, in some way, that he and Mako were meant to be. It just took a long, winding path to get there ]

And you won't have to! Right? Now, now you're in each other's heads! You don't have to be without him, not ever. He's right here. [ The hand moves from Diluc's shoulder to his cheek, where the mark is, and he gives him a little pat. ]

[searingwing]

[There is a brightness about Wu that reminds him of the wind flowing where it wants to go. It cracks the chains and coat of ashes that his soul has lived in. He looks at him and his eyes are a little brighter.

It helps he was recently that young bright eyed knight and the echoes of it are fresher.] it made sense to tie us together like that. We were already reading each other’s mind as it was.

Even when we were not getting along, we knew each other as well as breathing. I just didn’t want to admit it then.