pixieledmemes | Test Drive Meme #2

TDM #2 - March/April 2025

🦋 Introduction

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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.

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A pained expression flickers over her face.

"Trust me, my idea of paradise isn't a dance floor." And there's really no way Steve Rogers is ending up anywhere else. "Kidnapped by fairies is a far more likely answer."

Hi, Steve.

Steve believes she's earned her rest in paradise too but he's not going to argue that with her right now.

"I guess that's a no on asking you for a dance." But he does reach out and hug her tightly because her death has weighed on him. He needs this and he hopes she'll indulge him for a second.

He lets her go because he knows she's not the most outwardly affectionate person. "It's good to see you, Nat."

Natasha hugs him back. She breathes in the fact that he is alive before she lets him go and smiles up at him.

"I wouldn't say dancing with you is paradise, but it doesn't have to be for me to say yes. If you asked me."

She hadn't thought she'd ever see him, or hell, anything again. She searches his face and smiles at him. "It's good to see you too, Steve."

There's a part of Steve that's still waiting for one girl to ask her to dance. There's another part of Steve that really thinks he should dance with her before he loses the chance because it's a damn miracle they're together again in the first place.

"I'd probably step on your toes anyway." He's too graceful for that but it's fun to make the joke.

"We can find a quiet place to talk." He suggests tilting his head away from the dance floor.

Natasha doesn't really expect that Steve will want to dance with her, although she would have said yes if he did.

"We can do that." She tucks a strand of two-toned hair behind her ear and glances around. "Alcove, eight o'clock?"

She hasn't been here long enough to explore any place besides the party grounds.

The alcove is more private than the dance floor. Steve nods in agreement and heads that direction. Along the way he grabs two drinks. Now they'll look like two friends catching up over a drink and not two superheroes plotting.

He hopes.

Steve offers her one of the drinks. "So. We're stuck, huh?"

Which is not a fun thing to say but it's the truth of their situation.

She takes the drink, but doesn't sip it. After the whole 'eat our food and stay here forever' speech, she's a bit turned off of the refreshments, even if it is too late.

Still, she blinks at Steve's statement. "We've been here like fifteen minutes. It seems a bit early to say."

It is too late. Everyone here was tricked before they knew the rules. Steve doesn't like playing a game where he doesn't know the rules.

He raises an eyebrow at her. "The Lawspeaker practically said it. We cannot leave this realm. We've been selected."

Steve pauses a moment. "You're going to tell me that I can't take what they say at face value and they could be lying about there being no way out."

She tilts her head slightly, regarding him over the rim of her glass. "Even if people believe what they're saying, they can still be mistaken."

Lying or not, it doesn't matter. She's heard the fairy stories; time very well may have passed... but that doesn't matter either. It's not as though they haven't found their way around time before. She's certainly not just going to take someone's word that there's no way back for those of them who have someplace to go back to.

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