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Aerith Gainsborough ([personal profile] cetrary) wrote in [community profile] aterat2022-06-25 01:47 am

It's a Watts party! (Just don't tell him)

Who; Aerith + YOU
What; Potluck party
Where; Gray building's downstairs common room
When; Sunday June 26th; after 4pm
Warnings; None


Aerith co-opted the common room of the gray building starting on Saturday when she began the process of decoration. The most important part of any decoration (especially for Watts) was the flowers and Aerith had put together a few center pieces for tables. Each flower that she'd chosen had symbolized friendship in some way and they were set up in the center of small tables that had been brought inside. Of course she wasn't the one that moved those tables, she had a trust bodyguard for things like that, but she did the decorating!

And the cooking! The main attraction was a pretzel bar in the center of the room. Please, thank Cloud for bringing it in and Jacob for making the pretzel rack at Aerith's request. The soft pretzels were premade and there were plenty for everyone who may come through to have several (if not more). In addition to that there were also several dipping sauces to choose from including cheese, caramel, cinnamon sugar, honey mustard, and a spicy ginger sauce with chili flakes (eat at your own risk).

A table next to it had Materia Xiaolongbao. Yellow is crab flavor, black is soybean, blue is pork, green is cilantro, and red is spicy shrimp. Next to those are tiny moogle sweet bean buns. They fit in the palm of your hand but some of the moogles look...a lot better than others. She did her best!

There was another table with a few drinks set up for people to grab including a materia bomb cocktail with a bit of alcohol and different flavored materia ice (peach, strawberry, and blueberry) and bright green bubble tea with pop bubbles in the bottom. The green tea is flavored like something very different than one might expect it to be, it's a bit bit bitter and yet also a bit sharp, almost biting. It's meant to be the flavor of wind, whatever that's supposed to be. The pop bubbles are extremely sour and explode in the mouth with the sourness. The drink is also somehow fizzy, don't ask how.

A third table was empty save for the friendship bouquet at it's center. There was a little handwritten note on the table saying:

Leave your dishes here! Complete with a heart.


Aerith herself can be found wandering around and paying close attention to the drink table, making sure to run back to the kitchen quickly to grab more drinks if they run low.

OOC: Feel free to use this log as an open thing for anyone to mingle and get to know each other. Characters are welcome even if they didn't bring a dish themselves, but the more dishes the better! Anyone is welcome to come even if they didn't know she was throwing this party, it'd be pretty obvious that there was something going on in the Gray Building and she'll be leaving the door open with a small table that has a friendship flower bouquet on it. Please have some fun!
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-06-26 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Shinjiro enjoyed the idea of sharing food from his world, and was actually looking forward to experiencing dishes from other worlds, too. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity (the irony of that sentiment wasn't lost on him) and he'd really taken a while to think of just what he wanted to bring to share, and also when he wanted to share it. He never knew how to react to compliments, and he'd never really shared his food with anyone which left him uncertain whether it was actually any good. Koromaru loved it, and that little dog was a staunch critic, but Aigis wasn't around to translate what he actually thought of it most of the time.

Here, he might actually have to face criticism, and that meant he was uncertain. He hated being uncertain, so he kept his covered dish covered as he watched the door to the Gray building from the shadow of a nearby pillar, waiting until the coast was clear to head inside. The interior was decorated a lot more than he thought it'd be, but the table for the submissions was easy enough to find. He did his best to appear inconspicuous as he made his idling way over, set down his tray of stuffed onigiri with a little card, written in English, describing they were rice balls stuffed with barbeque pork, toward the edge of the table and made his best escape attempt before anyone could connect him to the dish.

The problem was, he was tall, lanky, dressed all in dark colors, and really stuck out in the festive surroundings.
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[personal profile] faithfulsupport 2022-06-26 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ignis wasn't sure who would show up here, but he was delighted with the different foods. Of course he was going to try them and make something like it at home. Now he had two people he could inflict his recipehs on and would do so. And food to them would be good so it all worked out rather well.

But now he came upon the stuffed rice balls and cocked his head to the side. He himself made these but they were more like triangles and not balls. "Stuffed? Well that's rather a novel idea."

Helping himself to one or two, he turned and saw Shinji in the corner and Ignis nodded in acknowledgement. "Well hello there."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-06-28 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
He'd moved away from the table of course, but not too far. He wanted to hear what other people had to say, and wanted to see when new foods were added as well, but he hadn't expected anyone to approach him, or that it would be his boss, either. For instance, at the declaration, he shrugged. Stuffing rice balls might have been a novel concept to Ignis, but it was pretty normal back home.

At least in Japan it was. He wasn't too familiar with a lot of foreign food but he was learning. When Ignis turned in his direction, he looked away, pulling his beanie down and crossing his arms. He's totally cool and not interested in input at all. Nope. Not him.

"Uh. Hey."
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[personal profile] faithfulsupport 2022-06-30 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
For his part Ignis wasn't trying to make this awkward because he didn't want to be seen as a pest. But saying hello was polite and proper and that was the angle he was going for. Not speaking to him to at least exchange a greeting would've been quite rude.

His green eyes noted the odd reaction which he was more than familiar with since Noct tried to do similar things to other people if he had no wish to talk. So Ignis wasn't about to stick around, however he was curious.

"Which one of the dishes did you bring?" And there was only one or two other questions he planned to ask and then he'd leave the lad alone.
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-01 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
He could try to deny he'd brought anything, but Shinjiro wasn't stupid. He knew he wasn't a small boy, nearly six feet and he wasn't finished growing, and he was painfully conspicuous in the gathering. He breathed a sigh, rubbing the back of his neck before motioning toward the table.

"Onigiri. They're uh...stuffed rice balls."
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[personal profile] faithfulsupport 2022-07-01 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
"So those were yours." Ignis replied with a smile. "They're delightful, I had no idea you could cook."

This of course gave his scholarly mind so many questions but he wasn't here to pester the kid and the lad looked like he'd much rather be a part of the woodwork than talk to him at the moment.

And he wasn't going to bring up work at a party. So the advisor thought to give him an out. "Well I do rather hope to see them brought to some other occasion."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-05 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh...thanks." He was unused to praise, but that was more due to leaving before it could be uttered than because of any real lack of merit. He'd never had his cooking praised before, but he'd never really shared it with anyone, either. It was a secret love, really, and he wasn't even sure why he hid it.

"The onigiri's nothing. If you want, I'll cook up somethin' else next time." Was he interested in what people might say about other food? Possibly.
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[personal profile] faithfulsupport 2022-07-07 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
"You're quite welcome." Ignis replied pleasantly. He wouldn't have complimented the onigiri if he didn't mean it. But he was surprised to hear that the other offered to bring something else 'next time' whenever that was.

"I bet if you make them before another party, they'd be a huge hit." And of course he meant work but he didn't want to call it that with this being a party and all.
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-10 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll, uh, keep that in mind." He was really trying to just take a compliment, but it was hard not to tell someone to screw off and stop praising him.

"And, uh, I can help out, I guess...you know, at the lodge, with, uh...more than dishes, if you want."

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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-06-28 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"No." Which was a lie and not even a good one. Still, food was the one thing Shinjiro Aragaki was uncertain of when it came to himself, and this actually marked the first time he'd chosen to openly share with anyone things he'd made. Koromaro didn't count in that respect. He crossed his arms, though and did his best to shake off the uncertainty he was feeling.

"Yeah. And the filling, too." Pride wasn't something Shinjiro had in abundance, at least not in anything he did beyond breaking things really well and being intimidating. He took pride in the accomplishments of others, in making sure they were taken care of and did the best they could. Pride in his own actions was foreign and he didn't even know how to begin.
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-01 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Had he been trying to escape he would have, at least in his own mind. He hadn't actually wanted to escape, though, he recognized that. He was curious about the foods from other worlds, it was true, but he was just as interested in seeing if anyone liked the food he'd made from his own. It was a newborn interest, uncertain and unsure, and he'd never had any idea how to take praise.

It felt somehow undeserved for him, something meant for others. He frowned at her enthusiasm, uncertain, though there was something earnest about her he couldn't deny. He didn't know what the 'Wall Market' was, but he recognized a compliment when he heard one.

"They ain't anything special, just some rice balls."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-05 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"They're nothin' special." The most complicated part had been the pork, but it hadn't taken all that long, either, and he didn't really see what all the fuss was about when there were much more impressive dishes on the table. "You just...wanted stuff common where we're from, right? So, onigiri are sold at a lot of food carts, people eat 'em for snacks between means, or on lunch breaks, 'cause they're easy to eat with no utensils and they don't leave a lot of mess."

He paused, then, as though so many words at one time were tiring. He didn't usually explain things, but she was so earnest and genuinely interested. "In Japan, that's where I'm from."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-06 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you say so." Was that a sarcastic joke? Maybe, at least partially. "I thought this was a welcome back party, though. Ain't that for your friend?" He'd never really had parties thrown for him, so he wasn't really sure whose party it was supposed to be.

"It's an island country on Earth. Anybody ever mention that place?" Yeah, the idea of having to point out you were from Earth was never going to get old for Shinjiro. It was just too weird, and this was coming from a guy who regularly visited a different world every night. "We've got a lot of students in my town, so grab and go meals are pretty common. Stuff like this, takoyaki, sushi." He was opening up to her for sure. Evidently if it came to the food scene, Shinjiro was pretty knowledgeable. "We do big meals in Japan, but it's usually a family thing and you take your time with that shit. Most of us, uh students I mean, ain't got that kinda time."

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[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-01 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh he did stick out. And Lauri-Ell, intrigued to learn more of human cultures and foods... Well, she had to find out just what this delightful food was. In fact, Lauri-Ell was doing that with a lot of other foods here. So she had asked people if they knew who had set down this bundle of grain and meat. And it took some doing, but soon she was walking up to the young man.

"Excuse me, you are the one who made the stuffed 'on-i-gerry?"

Japanese was not a language she was used to.
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-06 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
He looked up at the speaker, and then further when he realized how much she towered over him. He wasn't used to looking up to anyone. This was new.

He'd also never held a conversation with a massive blue woman before. It was enough to distract him from his uncertainty regarding his food. He'd thank her later.

"I...uh...yeah. I am."
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[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-06 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes! She has found the correct human. Lauri-Ell smiles at that.

"It is very good. What are the grains in this? The meat? How do you make it? It is so amazingly hand held. I could carry this to work."

Yes, she was very excited.
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-06 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Rice...and pork. How I made it is a long story." And it hadn't been a short cooking time, either. "That's the point, bein' portable."
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[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-09 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, but is it a story you would tell?" she asks, looking excited. "I do not cook much, I have never cooked actually. But things like this would be perfect for eating at the forge!"

And she wanted to have good lunches.
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-10 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
"I ain't a cookbook, there's steps." He breathed a sigh. "You gotta know how to make rice, first. Can you do that?"
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[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-11 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
What? Oh no, she looks rather ashamed to be asked that.

"No, I do not. Is it hard?"
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-14 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
He did not have the time or the patience for teaching someone how to cook.

"Yeah, it can be. Might want to get a rice cooker instead, then there's types of rice."

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