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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!
castoredux: (shinji_026)

[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] castoredux 2022-07-10 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Why have a secret party for somebody?" After he'd asked the question, he wasn't even sure he wanted an answer. At first glance, Aerith had seemed like a person who never had a bad day, who operated daily at a 10 when he needed people to either idle at a 3 or leave him the hell alone. Now, though, in person, her eyes told him a different story, one of deception but not ill-intent.

"Sounds like a lively place." Like the strip mall in Iwatodai, always moving in some way. "Uh...yeah, just started my second semester of senior year, high school."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-14 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds like he'd appreciate the effort, at least." He'd met the guy once, and he'd seemed like an okay guy, if talkative enough for the both of them. "But sure, I'll keep your secret." He could appreciate what Aerith was trying to do, even though it'd never occur to him to do something similar. Shinjiro was just as protective and supportive of others, just in a different way, and when someone was so similar to you, it was hard not to like them at least a bit.

"Yeah? That a compliment?"
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-15 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
He scoffed at the offer, his delivery of his response completely deadpan.

"I'll take the secret." And while the delivery was deadpan, the corner of his mouth twitched up in a manner that suggested he might be teasing, too.

"Thanks, I guess?"
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-20 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
He breathed a sigh and shook his head. "You sure you're not the one in high school?" He asked with an arched brow. "If I wanted a date, I'd ask."

And that wasn't a lie. The problem was getting it through his head he deserved a date with Mitsuru.

"Fine, whatever. Thanks."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-26 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
That got a smirk from the younger man. Yeah, it was rude, but if she could dish it, she could take it, right?

"have I what? Spit it out." She clearly had an idea, and he was pretty sure he knew what it was, but he wanted her to say it.

"Heh. Good."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-30 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
"It ain't that simple." But he wasn't awkward about it. "We're...we ain't the same."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-08-03 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
He breathed a sigh, rubbing the back of his neck self-consciously. It was one of the few things he found uncomfortable to discuss, and he didn't like admitting it.

"I'm an orphan. I never knew my folks, where I came from. She's...Mitsuru Kirijo. She's, shit, now she's the head of the Kirijo Group and so far out of my league I can even see the station."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-08-06 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Shit, I don't know. She's..." It was hard to describe Mitsuru. It wasn't that he didn't know, or have this vision of her in his mind. He thought of her often enough to be distracting, especially lately, when he'd gotten over himself and had relieved some of his guilt over what had happened with Ken and his mother.

"She's graceful and articulate. She makes shit like running a company look easy. She's refined and beautiful, and I'm..." he trailed off, shaking his head. Me, is what he didn't say.
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-08-14 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Tch, I ain't nice." He was, just blunt and intolerant of most idle banter. He never saw the point in wasting time like that.

"And I made rice balls, not dinner. Who says I can cook?"

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