april catchall [ota + closed starters]

[laruetheday]

Who: Clarisse + you
What: It's aaaa generic birthday mingle! + some closed starters
When: April, particularly around the 15th
Where: Earworm

Content Warnings: Drinking and potentially those Special Mushrooms that are available at Earworm



[ What do you do when you're turning twenty one in a month of perpetual darkness, but your blood type isn't making you hallucinate or want to punch yourself in the face until you fall into a coma for one of the first times since you arrived in Trench?

If you're Clarisse, you park yourself at Earworm and pretty much just stay there.

For the first half of April—particularly on the fifteenth and the days close to it—Clarisse can be found hanging out at the club—either inside already, or lingering near the entrance. If you're already on her (very short) list of friends she's probably texted you an actual invite; but the fact that she's somehow survived another year seems to have her in a good mood, and even if she doesn't know you too well, she'll give a nod when she recognizes you. (Or, potentially, even if she doesn't recognize you.) ]

Drink?

[ ... And, listen, if she's already drunk, she might offer you a mushroom, too. Because why not. ]

Comments

[killtime]

[ She can sympathize — not with the whole college bit, but with the exhaustion certainly. Maybe they're not drunk enough for this conversation. Andy waves the bartender over and orders another round of drinks for both of them. Her treat. ]

You're too young to be so tired. [ Wryly: ] Barely two decades. Better find something worth living for or it'll never get easier.

[laruetheday]

[ Clarisse grins. She's not gonna say thank you for the drink, but it's obvious that she appreciates it. Like a little birthday gift of wastedness. Fucking cheers. ]

Yeah, don't worry, it's all good now. [ Spoken in the way only someone who deliberately shoves their trauma as deep as humanly possible can. ] I have a hot girlfriend and my own house, so I'm pretty much living the dream. [ Aside from all the horrific shit that happens here, but WHATEVER. ]

[killtime]

[ She might be less thankful for tomorrow's hangover, but that's a problem for later — if demigods can even get those. ]

Amazing what a hot girlfriend and a house can fix. [ Her wryness remains, but it's amicable enough. Truthfully, Andy can relate. ] Though more credit's probably due to the former than the later.

[laruetheday]

The house isn't that great. My apartment back in Deerington was better. Plus, our house is in the middle of nowhere.

[ When they'd moved in that had been a definite plus for Clarisse, but nowadays it's mostly just annoying. ]

But, yeah, she's pretty amazing.