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Test Drive Meme #2 - Overflow
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🦋 The Party
You wake up at a party.
You're not sure how, exactly, you got here. You may have just been walking in the woods or at a meeting for work or doing any other normal activity for you. But you know you weren't supposed to be at this party, you're fairly certain.
Anyone you ask about it will say the party is for you. You and the others also waking up and looking confused. Further questions will lead to the partygoers insisting you have something to eat. You're starving and others are eating the food without repercussion, so you figure there's no harm in a bite. You finish your portion.
It's a garden party at the crack of dawn, with the sun still in its early stages of climbing through the yonder, casting a good mix of pastel hues of blue, pink, and beige on everything. Heralding the first day of spring, the Ruler of the Spring Court has found it fitting to arrange this gathering where guests can feel the blades of grass touching their ankles, as well as the rich soil beneath their feet. Flowers of all kinds surround the party as if they were carefully curated. With spring as the "dawn of seasons," which marks a transition from winter's latency to the resurgence of life everywhere, the Ruler of the Dawn Court has also seen it fit to host aspects of this party during the one time of the year that dawn occurs the whole day. Tall candles and torches grace the outskirts of the garden party, providing warmth and an orange glow everywhere. Not one flame goes out even with the occasional wind, the Duchess always makes sure of this.
There are also freshly picked blossoms and branches with leaves on every table accenting the festive spread of food and drinks. This time, a lot of the food prepared for the Adopted guests are familiar to them with a little bit of a twist. Burgers might come in small packages and in toothpicks, while hotdogs in buns are also diminutive. Cookies look delectable but they have a flowery flavor to them, as if eating freshly picked daisies or daffodils. Fruits that may have been present in an Adopted's home, such as pineapples and watermelons, have seeds in odd places. Picking this selection of food is an attempt to be more welcoming and to appease the lovely guests the fae have invited.
As the party winds down and everyone's eaten, a tall, stately woman stands up and speaks. You feel her voice more than hear it.
I am the Lawspeaker of the Fae, elected by Seelie and Unseelie alike, and you are all, now, subjects of Faerie. You cannot leave this realm once you have eaten our food, and even if you could, there is no saying how much time has passed back where you're from. Your loved ones are likely dead, your problems have likely played out. We require assistance in various matters, and each of you has been chosen for your talent and skill. You will be adopted by one of the Seelie or Unseelie Courts based on your strengths and personality. Your Court will decide what to do with you from there.
As suddenly as she stood, she sits back down.
🦋 Chance at a Dance
A party is not complete without dancing, of course, and while during the last gathering held for the Adopted, different fae danced to music exclusively for them around a glowing tree, this time they are insisting their guests to join in.
This is a party for you, after all.
If the prodding of the different fae hosts won't convince you, perhaps the music will. They play easily recognizable tunes that their wonderful guests must have heard before. These melodies have certain unique effects to their mortal attendees, which are as follows:
- Upbeat Music: You will believe that you and your dance partner have been friends forever and have known each other a long time.
- Romantic Music: You will become amorous and flirtatious towards your dance partner.
- Slow Music: You will develop some tension with your dance partner. It may be negative or sexual; completely up to you.
- Quiet Music: You will assume your dance partner is a threat and try to fight them.
🦋 Flower Power
At the Spring King's behest, every Adopted should wear a flower corsage or boutonnière to the gathering. After all, this is to celebrate the coming of spring and what better way to do that than to honor everything in bloom.
The thing is, though, the King of Spring, while amorous and friendly, also has a penchant for playing with mortals' memories, if not also affect their desires and despairs.
So, mischievous as he is, he made sure to enchant the different flowers present in every corsage and boutonnière for the party with the effects below:
- Rose: You will recall a horrific trauma
- Carnation: You will see a vision of your future, whether it's good or bad
- Orchid: You will remember a time you lost someone
- Chrysanthemum: You will believe someone among the Adopted is your soulmate
- Dahlia: You will believe you betrayed someone important to you, whether you actually did or not
It is perhaps a good thing that no one but the Adopted are allowed to see these visions and memories, but everyone who wears a corsage or boutonnière will be able to see each other's memories and visions when in close enough physical proximity to the vision-haver, for better or for worse.
🦋 GEIS
You feel a vibration in your pocket sometime after the Lawspeaker addresses everyone. When you search for the source, you will pull out your Leaf, the device the Fae use to stay in touch with each other. Anyone who's used a smart phone will easily recognize how it works.
Greetings, Adopted. This is your Lawspeaker.
Tell us all of a time you gave someone a gift. Perhaps a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates. Was it appreciated or not? A reward might await the most meaningful gift given.
@crosslaced
Of course it's still happening but we're not nobility.
What's an arranged match? Like when providers and donors are paired together for breeding?
The broad strokes? Like a summary? I've loved him since we were kids but he was in love with a girl we went to school with. We spent every single day together until we graduated. We went our separate ways. I didn't even think we were friends but he says we were. I did a lot of things to try to get his attention, even if it meant getting hit. We got entered into the big idol competition where we're paired up with our peers to sing in front of an audience. The person with the lowest score dies. We got paired up in the second to last round and I threw the round and made sure I lost and he went on to the final then we both ended up here.
Then all that kissing stuff but he said he loves me and now here we are. I don't deserve him but I can't let him go either. He's like...all the stars lighting up the night sky. Is that what you're looking for?
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[He’s somehow very normal about this, partly because he’s so fed up with the Relationship Drama that he doesn’t want to bother asking any more questions.]
More importantly, this is awful. Read all of this. He has told you he loves you. You are fumbling it because you’re acting too desperate, too obviously, and most likely too soon. He seems like he likes you, but he doesn’t like what you’re saying. I’d wager he’s scared of how much pressure your words put on him to return that love. To be a good provider or donor, to pay off the debt of your sacrifice, all of those pressures.
Break down into concrete things what “love” means and use that as a substitute for the word. Because from your account he clearly likes you. He just doesn’t want to be “in love” with you, because love can be excruciatingly pressurizing. Take those things away, and if underneath he still likes you enough to spend time with you, what more do you need?
Well, that’s my guess.
[It's a completely cold read, that may or may not include projections of his own feelings of love, so take it with a big grain of salt? Anyway. At least it sounds like they're just disasters in communicating and there's no bad blood in the relationship (at least, from Ivan's account).]
Best gift I’ve given: I’m also a bad gift-giver. But since we’ve arrived here, I sometimes bring lunch from the kitchens to my partner if he’s busy training and our schedules line up.
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I don't know what "love" means. Where I come from we weren't taught anything about that. We were pets. Love was a luxury. He's everything to me. Nothing is more important. Is that love? Have you ever been in love? You think it's possible that he doesn't want to be in love with me? I mean, I get it. I try to tell myself spending time is enough because it's more than I ever thought I'd get and definitely more than I deserve but I get greedy.
Thank you. I'll consider everything you said and figure out what to do about it moving forward and try to be less desperate and needy.
[Try being the key word though he is genuinely grateful for the advice because he's stumbling and fumbling in the dark here.]
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Correction- I forgot that you said there was an idol competition where you sacrificed yourself.
[fuck this guy’s dead too. Well…. um…. suddenly his saltiness seems a little bit unfounded.]
Well, I’m told this place is great for dates?
You’d still need to get over yourselves quick to make the best of it.
If he's upset when you talk to him, and he's also upset when you back off from talking to him, are you sure he’s mad at you and it’s not just his personality?
[He's starting to wonder, does his relationship look this bad from the outside? It's stupidly dramatic, but he'd always assumed most of it came from Damen killing his brother- and his retaliatory multi-week torture against said Prince of Akielos- but then again, he's not great at emotions, himself. Oh dear.]
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I'm trying to make something of it. I've never had anything before. Where we're from, we were pets for aliens. But yeah, we were raised and trained for that competition. The loser of each round gets shot on stage. It's entertaining, I guess.
I am working on a couple date ideas, though. Have you been on a date before?
It's definitely partly his personality but still think it's also me because there was this girl he was in love with for years and he never did any of this to her. [That would involve him actually talking to her but that's beside the point.]
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[It's technically not just about that- but in many ways Auguste’s death is symbolic of all the insults Vere suffered from Akielos during the war, and in the years after it. Laurent thinks it's a safer bet to lead with this here, because he's not sure Ivan will understand the duties of prince to his nation any more than Laurent understands what being “pets for aliens” is like. He doesn't know what an alien is.]
I'll admit I was frustrated earlier that you were free of our problems and had nothing between you but yourselves, but still can’t find success.
Correction: nothing but yourselves and this other girl apparently. And getting shot on stage for entertainment.
Our worlds are thoroughly different and perhaps it was unfair of me to think that you lived an easier life. I don’t know what an alien is. So don’t take my word as truth; I am not an architect of happy endings, understand?
[As much as he tries.]
I’ve been trying out dates. We haven’t been on many, we keep ourselves busy, but I find I don’t need an extravagant itinerary to enjoy the company of someone I like.
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Were you close with your brother?
[Brother is an empty word to Ivan. He has no concept or connection with that word or word one might use for family. He's never had one so he wants to understand the situation better.]
It's unfair for you both to part and not be together if you both love each other. Life is unfair that way. If only you could run away together.
Aliens are another species. They're the ruling species where I'm from. They destroyed Earth and took humans as prisoners. Many of us became pets for them, some used for breeding. There are some that aren't pets but they live in the city slums and life is often worse there. [He would know.]
So I can't say if it was easier than your life. It's all I knew. Death was perhaps the kindest part.
Maybe you're like me then? I don't need extravagant. I'm happy to just sit near him, in his space and watch him draw or make music but I'm starting to think maybe he needs something big and indisputable.
It probably doesn't mean much but, I'm glad you have someone here that you can share that with.
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[Technically, he devoted his life to the distant fantasy of “revenge”, but was that a choice? Or did he simply have nothing else to live for?]
You know, taking prisoners and making “pets” of them is not unheard of even among humans. I'm sorry life had so little to offer you.
[Damn. Now he feels bad.]
I don't know if a big gesture is what he wants, everything you say you do you also say he gets upset at. Is there anyone here that can act as a mentor for dating? You had a lot of responses on your post about the bizarre “kissing scale”, do you have a contact you can ask?
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[It's difficult to wrap his head around when he's never had family before and never felt love for anyone but Till and even then his actions have hurt Till before even if it's not on the same level as this.]
From what it sounds like your life is hard too. It just is what it is. Some people are lucky and some aren't. As bad as things are here, I'm still getting extra time to spend with him when I should be dead so maybe that's where all my luck went.
Maybe. I do know a doctor that taught us about boundaries. He seems to know a lot. Was the scale really that bizarre? I got a lot of data on him from that scale...Plus it got him to kiss me.
nsfw language, sorry he's so rude
I don’t know if I should answer for him.
[Even though it should be easier to talk about this, it’s not easy. So Laurent doesn’t say anything. He also doesn’t comment on Ivan’s assessment of him- he disagrees on principle with any attempts at sympathy, but the other man seems wrapped up enough in his own musings that Laurent’s going to let that slide.
Besides, there are always worse things to critique with this guy.]
The scale itself isn’t the mistake, it’s making a public announcement about it. You’ve invited people into your bedroom to watch you try to get laid and you don’t even succeed. Even if you don’t mind how pathetic that is, your love interest might.
Yes, you should check with that doctor of yours before you do anything.
[Dr. Strange take the wheel.]
never be sorry i love it
[If he's being rude, it goes right over Ivan's head, fortunately or unfortunately for this guy.]
I know NOW that it was maybe not the best idea but I was desperate. The next time, I will take matters into my own hands.
And for the record, I might not have been succeeding then but I have made it past kissing to things there are no scales for.
more nsfw language (this is just a warning for browsers, we are firmly in Dumbass Disaster Land)
There's plenty of politics here. Putting my home's issues aside doesn't make a big difference.
And you can make a scale for anything if you're not a coward. My lover's cocksucking skills are 100/100 in case you didn't know.
[Laurent no one ASKED]
Who is this lover of yours, anyway?
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You're telling me to get it together and use this time but maybe you should too.
[Okay, maybe he spoke too soon because with a rating like that, they'd be stupid to not be taking advantage of the time here. Right?
Still, Ivan might not have asked but boy is he curious.]
100/100? Wow. I'm assuming 100 means mind blowing... [How did Till put it? Oh yeah--] god tier? Can't believe you're giving up a lover with 100/100 cocksucking skills.
Short guy, grey silver hair, teal eyes, loud mouth and fiesty temper. You would know if you've seen him before. He plays his guitar around the common area a lot or draws and is frustratingly attractive.
would ivan continue the convo here? If not, we can wrap after your reply!
[He's not that attractive. Well, Laurent considers saying it, but he decides there's no point. Sometimes people have strange taste and that appears to be an inevitability of the world. Till's not unattractive anyway, just kind of loud and stupid, and Laurent's only asking so he knows who to keep an eye on. In case Ivan's “taking things into his own hands” is as problematic as Laurent's own plays.]
Oh.
I see.
That's good to know.
And yes, you should be so lucky I am magnanimous, or at least you might be if you had any chance or interest in my lover. It doesn't matter what I do. He's not going anywhere.
[Trust him, he has tested that.]
Settle your own affairs before you try giving out advice. I am fine. Go woo your stupid loud dream boy.
happy to wrap here if you want!
[Laurent is fortunate he didn't ask more questions because Ivan could go on about Till all day. He's even more fortunate he didn't give his opinion on Till's looks.]
That almost sounds like a challenge but my stupid loud dream boy is the only one worth anything at all. Good luck with your god tier level cock sucker, I guess and take advantage of the time you have here.