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hugtopia_logs2020-07-07 11:06 pm
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Entry tags:
- !: lup,
- c: ardyn lucis caelum,
- c: ciel phantomhive,
- c: devon darconin,
- c: goofy,
- c: honerva,
- c: kaito,
- c: kyoko mogami,
- c: lance,
- c: libra,
- c: minato arisato,
- c: nico di angelo,
- c: noctis lucis caelum,
- c: nyx ulric,
- c: prompto argentum,
- c: satoru gojo,
- c: shinji ikari,
- c: taako,
- c: verstael besithia,
- c: vianca
Affurgato Mingle: July edition
♥ Who: Open to all
♥ Where: Affurgato
♥ When: This week
♥ What: An open mingle at the restaurant which is... mysteriously celebratory!
♥ Rating: who knows, probably PG/13ish?
Regulars of Affurgato might notice things have spiced up a little bit in the last several days; the decor is a little brighter, the staff more upbeat, and the food, while tasty as ever, is a little different. The restaurant is advertising a summer menu of slow-cooked BBQ sliders, sweet potato fries with honey butter dip, grilled pineapple and watermelon slices, and warm peach cobbler with ice cream. The prices are slightly more premium than usual, but ooh, doesn't it all smell worth it? Newcomers might even get a discount, if the right elf twin gets their bill. But how do you know which one's the right twin? ...Yeah, good luck with that.
For this week, the menu will include two curious additions as well: a Thanksgiving-esque meal including fresh slabs of turkey and stuffing, flavoured with bacon grease, and a slice of rainbow layer cake. The cats are very attentive, especially to recognizably good tippers, and there's a display sign outside the door with a doodle of a binicorn in flashy sunglasses shouting the words "ONE YEAR MORE, NERDS", which might be weird to those who know that Affurgato opened about six months ago. Ah, well.
Also noteworthy is the fact that an actual, tangible magical bicicorn will be running around for the first 45 minutes of every daily shift that the restaurant is open, trying to scoop people up onto his back and deposit them in front of the shop. You're here now, so you might as well get a meal, right? Don't question it.
Come one, come all! Enjoy some good food and the company of your neighbours, maybe visit the elves and see what's up.
♥ Where: Affurgato
♥ When: This week
♥ What: An open mingle at the restaurant which is... mysteriously celebratory!
♥ Rating: who knows, probably PG/13ish?
Regulars of Affurgato might notice things have spiced up a little bit in the last several days; the decor is a little brighter, the staff more upbeat, and the food, while tasty as ever, is a little different. The restaurant is advertising a summer menu of slow-cooked BBQ sliders, sweet potato fries with honey butter dip, grilled pineapple and watermelon slices, and warm peach cobbler with ice cream. The prices are slightly more premium than usual, but ooh, doesn't it all smell worth it? Newcomers might even get a discount, if the right elf twin gets their bill. But how do you know which one's the right twin? ...Yeah, good luck with that.
For this week, the menu will include two curious additions as well: a Thanksgiving-esque meal including fresh slabs of turkey and stuffing, flavoured with bacon grease, and a slice of rainbow layer cake. The cats are very attentive, especially to recognizably good tippers, and there's a display sign outside the door with a doodle of a binicorn in flashy sunglasses shouting the words "ONE YEAR MORE, NERDS", which might be weird to those who know that Affurgato opened about six months ago. Ah, well.
Also noteworthy is the fact that an actual, tangible magical bicicorn will be running around for the first 45 minutes of every daily shift that the restaurant is open, trying to scoop people up onto his back and deposit them in front of the shop. You're here now, so you might as well get a meal, right? Don't question it.
Come one, come all! Enjoy some good food and the company of your neighbours, maybe visit the elves and see what's up.
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Surprise parties aside, how have you been?
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[The smile slipped off Ardyn's face, eyes downcast and hands fidgeting with one another restlessly.]
...Even if I should think anything far from enough.
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[ So much to make up for, and lacking the means, in worlds and times beyond these, but here was different. Her own smile falters, as strangely bright as she may seem her pain is never far, but she sees him fidget and holds her hand toward him instead. ]
But while you have them here, the time is the present, should you feel the desire to treat them to something once in a while. No need for everything to be a grand gesture, of course. They make you happy, however, don't they?
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[He only hesitated briefly before taking the offered hand, glancing uneasily to the scars on his own before focusing back on Honerva herself.]
I just...worry, I suppose. I know that Noctis looks at me and sometimes sees what I haven't yet become, just as I see echoes of someone else with him in turn. I can't begin to guess what the others truly think to look at me now, so...perhaps I just fear that what I am can not make up for what I will be to them.
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[ She is mindful of his scars but it does not deter her from the gentle way she is holding his hand. ]
I feel that your family must be aware of that. Even if you resemble someone else you came to be... the fact is they still opened their hearts and home to you as you are right now. Yet... you must feel as though you have not earned that trust somehow, to speak as you do.
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[ He lives in their house, and can doubt them still? Still... she understands this as well. This persistent worry or fear that what good remains of the present might slip away, and then what?
But it is painful, too. ]
Do not... take that for granted, Ardyn. You would know for certain if they felt another way. If no matter what you said or did was... not enough, even for the present.
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[He squeezed her hand almost nervously, looking away.]
Someday I may yet awaken here as someone else. Some terrible and wretched thing that cares nothing for my family, the world, or anything in between, that only knows how to cause pain to others to alleviate its own. I don't know what will happen, should that come to pass.
That...frightens me, the idea that this person is liable to just disappear without warning.
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[ A sentiment she's far too familiar with. But this is not about her. She gently squeezes his hand back. ]
If... you spend all your time worried for these possibilities, it will rob you of what you have now. You told me once that you felt lucky for being here as you are, did you not? 'This person' is here right now.
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[ But perhaps she had not made her position so clear before... and it's never really easy, to say. ]
To... fall so far and for so long into a different person that I could not even realize that there was someone that came before, or to recognize any good in the after, unaided. Many of these difficulties of which you have spoken are... quite familiar to me. All of that to say is... that the task of making sense of what the present is... you have that time now for it, however long it may be.
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[There wasn't any judgment, for whatever it might have been worth; even if Ardyn couldn't possibly know every detail of the story, he could at least piece together the most vague shape of it. His other hand came to rest over Honerva's as well, a slightly better attempt at a smile coming to his face.]
For my own part, I do not think there is any returning to myself, should that come to pass. But having been able to stand after falling so far...that truly does sound as though it takes an immeasurably admirable force of will.
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[ And after what had happened to her even recently, she has all the more evidence for this. Her gaze shifts to the other side of the room, where Lup is engaging with patrons, before looking back toward him. ]
... however, you have the opportunity to make bonds now. The fear may not wholly lessen, but as long as you are here surrounded by those who have accepted you, this time is not without meaning.
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[Ardyn shook his head slightly, with an awkward laugh.]
...We’ve both been very fortunate, haven’t we? I know I never dared assume any Lucian would accept me, or even knew if I wanted them to. How strange to have expectations so sharply defied.
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[ But she offers him a smile again as well. ]
We have been. Expectations can be tricky. Setting them too low or too high can be damaging either way. But your views are changing just by being around them as you are, you know. What you learn from them may come to inspire you in time.
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A way to work on perspective is... being aware of what is, and not what is clouded. To not always guess at motives, even if that part comes naturally. So much of it of course... is easier said than done. Having someone to talk to that you trust with it helps.