[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

[notimeforfailure]

Thanks, Wu.

[She gives a faint smile, embarrassed as usual by any sort of praise.]

It's not even that so much. It's the pressure we place on ourselves because we think that's what's expected. Sort of a self-inflicted suffering. A cage we construct for ourselves.

But Mako has you now. So -- keep pushing him, alright? He needs it.

And if we're going around fixing people, you have hopefully realized by now that you deserve nice things.

[royalfling]

[ He laughs a little at that, eyes flicking away ]

Oh, Lysithea, I don't think anyone's ever accused me of not realizing that before! I've been called spoiled more times than I can count.

But, yes. I'll push him. I'll keep pushing him. Mako is such an amazing person, he just needs a little nudge every once in a while.

[ And so does Lysithea, he thinks, to take a different path than the one she was so set on for years, that cage of her own making ]

Maybe he'll find his bakery, I don't know!

[notimeforfailure]

He's already working at my bakery; he can't find another.

[Lysithea's false indignation is gives way to a cheerful smile.]

And you know what I mean, Wu. But I think we should find one for him if he doesn't.

Let's buy him a crochet kit.

[royalfling]

A... what?

[ He blinks at her ]

I'm not going to make Mako find a passion! His passion was being a detective-- detecting!

[notimeforfailure]

We'll just give him different things to try! After that, I'll sign him up for a tap dance class.

[Lysithea smiles, a bit mischievously.]

...We did talk about that, though. He said he couldn't think of a way to feasibly use that skill.

[royalfling]

[ Wu can't help but laugh at that. The idea of Mako tap dancing sure is something ]

I don't know about that! He says it, but there has to be something that needs... detective-ing.

We just need to help figure out what that is! People lose stuff all the time, or, or kill each other, or cheat on each other.

[notimeforfailure]

I suggested he be a consulting detective, but he thought the idea was silly.

[Lysithea sniffs]

Maybe we'll force him to do it. I'll find a spare office and you paint a sign.

[royalfling]

Yes-- yes! Or, no. We have to make him think it's his idea. We can, we can give him a case! Oh, Lysithea, let's give him a case!

[ Wu, buddy, you forget that Mako can now hear all of your thoughts, and can certainly hear this plan right now.

You can't just make up cases, Mako says in his mind, and Wu yelps, whirling around, looking for him. ]

Oh, boy. He heard that.