[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

[truehumili_tea]

[Iroh had seen many of the marks as of late, and it seemed they were just as symbolic and important as the one that they had witnessed tonight. Iroh though had no such bonds or connections, not in this world, not yet. He was still fairly new and feeling his way for things.]

Very astute, and rather poetic. It is an inspiring thing to see that such harmony was able to return.

[A firebender and a member from the royal family of the Earth Kingdom. In Iroh's time they would have been the bitterest of enemies.]

[searingwing]

[Diluc continues to braid his hair but Iroh’s words catch his attention.] Return. Are you from the same place as Mako and Wu?

[He hasn’t talked about history with man. But he knows Wu is like him, from a family with a long standing legacy.]

[truehumili_tea]

It would seem so, at least it is the same world and even kingdom. Though they are from a time that has yet to come to for me, one from after I have joined the spirits.

[In the next cycle of the avatar, and a time when his nephew would be as wise and advanced in years as he was now. At least so he had gathered from their conversations.]

[searingwing]

[Diluc blinks. He takes a ribbon from his pocket and uses it to tie the end of his braid.]

There can be that large of a time gap? I had thought weeks, months, a few years…but that is.

[His brow furrows with concern. He hadn’t expected that knowledge.] Do you have a guess of how many years it is?

[truehumili_tea]

Hmm.

[Iroh seemed to stroke his beard for a moment, looking up slightly as he recalled the conversations they'd had.]

Zuko was still very much a young man at the end of the hundred-years war. But for them, he has already retired as Firelord and it is his daughter who now is in charge of the Fire Nation, and Zuko is older than I am. So close to seventy years I suppose, or closer to a century.

[searingwing]

[He takes a battered journal out of coat and a small pen. He leafs through the pages.]

In the realm some of us came from, Mako included…People had been there for countless years. Long before we even arrived. I don’t have all the details but, with your account. That’s…right in line with that. Probably can expect any frame of a gap to be possible.

[He writes down the notes and puts them away.]

[truehumili_tea]

How interesting. To have the opportunity to potentially meet one's ancestors and speak with them directly. Or to have the opportunity to see the impact that you have truly left behind after your time. It offers quite a lot of questions and possibilities.

[Iroh had already seen many advancements beyond the technology and means of his time.]

[searingwing]

That it does. But, my concerns about the breath of time available to whatever is pulling us in. It could be the gods but, the one to cause it last time...it was a complicated situation.

[Diluc crosses his arms over his chest.] Then again we haven't exactly located those who were supposed to wake. ...except Mother Mercy. Who according to their legends is as foul as ever with her idea of 'what is best'.

[His lip curls slightly. There's obvious disapproval in his eyes. There's no love lost between Mother Mercy and Diluc.]