pixieledmemes | Test Drive Meme #2

TDM #2 - March/April 2025

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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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Teddy's gone and done that happy, gooey expression when he's well and truly pleased about his life, and - Tommy hasn't seen that so often. There's always something happening around or to Teddy that sucks the brightness out of it. Shapeshifter or not, there's a difference to being content that you gotta be a great actor to fake. He kinda wants to believe that Teddy's got no chance of faking this.

He gets a small smile when he finds out Kate cried at both weddings, and it never quite falls off his face. He can't make himself answer the implied question about whether or not their best friends nicely, but... "The matching necklaces got eaten by the dragon. 's funny. I mentioned you to somebody a couple days aago and they asked who you were. I said that and then I was where the hell did that come from."

Didn't take it back, though. That should mean something. That does mean something. Let's not shine a light on it. "OK, is there something I don't know about half-Skrull, half-Kree? Cause last time I checked, you and Billy aren't gonna make that happen outside of a lab, and isn't it going to cause massive political issues if you pick an egg donor that's Skrull or Kree?"

"I'll have to get some new ones made then," he teases. Not that he thinks either of the would wear them. Necklaces were so much worse to try and keep on when shapeshifting. His neck thickness didn't change much, but it did change.

He only smiles wider at Tommy having mentioned him.

"I'm glad to get mentioned as something other than Billy's other half. Not that I have a problem with that status. But it's good for the two of us to not just be referenced only in relation to each other."

As for the other thing, congratulations Tommy, you're getting to learn how a Skrull blushes. WHich is apparently with a darkening shade of green over their face and ears in Teddy's case. Wow, you really had to ask that?

"I, um... I'm not up enough on Skrull biology to answer that fully for you. But I mean, there's always the fact that Billy is, well, Billy."

There had been thoughts in that direction that he doesn't know how to explain and wow it would be awkward.

"Let's just say there isn't really going to need to be a donor, we'll figure it out, and leave it at that."

"For the record, I think you two are that couple." Gross in their obvious and ever present affection. Not necessarily PDA: it's the entire physics and metaphysics of a room changes when they're both in it. "I'm only not helping reinforce it. Who you are always leads."

The rest of it - uh, there's a lot in a little, and most of it is very uncomfortable. "We're going to come back to Billy is Billy, because people don't like it so much when Wanda is Wanda so there are problems there. But you don't know the possibilities of your own body? Teddy."

The look that Tommy gives him. "Do I actually have to explain why you need to know if you should be on Skrull birth control? Becxause so help me, I will."

"I didn't exactly grow up with lessons on Skrull biology in high school!" Teddy protests. "And I've seen Skrull present as anything they want. But there are still very definitive 'he' and 'she'. My mother was absolutely a Princess. My mom was absolutely a handmaiden and a shieldmaiden. I don't know what that means for me. And Skrull don't have children they have hatchlings. Literally have eggs, Tommy!"

So Teddy is really in the dark here because he's been too embarrassed to ask. Which he knows he needs to remedy eventually. And now Tommy's going on about birth control and Teddy's blushing like that is an actual issue.

"It... doesn't come up as often. The need to worry. Oh my god. No. This conversation is ending. I have no intention of talking about my sex life with you. Oh god. Nope. I would seriously rather talk to David or Kate about it, no offense. You're my best friend and all but he's your brother. Wow. Um..."

Yeah, the Emperor, all poised and strong, is now flustered and blushing a deep shade of green.

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