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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!
heartofalion: (Wait what?)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-06-30 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
"For a friend?" Leon asked, incredulous. So he immediately handed his makeshift sea salt ice cream over to her. And then he heard that they were all stuck together. So her words only put one person in mind..

They were all stuck here together, and didn't like eyes on him.

"So, you mean Cloud is here, right?"

Well apparently he had arrived just right in time then, right?
heartofalion: (..what?)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-01 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Sea salt ice cream..as good as they can make it here I guess." This statement was accompanied with a shrug. "Nothing like Scrooge makes it."

But then she smacked him upside the head verbally. "Ya.." But then he stopped. "You don't know who I am?" His brain was scrambling and trying to process. "You don't remember Radiant Garden or Sora?"

How was this possible?
heartofalion: (I'll do my duty)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-02 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Ya.." Leon answered, pulling his head back a little bit. She was always buying the kids (Especially Yuffie) ice cream when she was there.

He sighed and lowered his head a little. Leon definitely heard the sympathy in her tone, he knew it with the..other? Aerith back home. He knew she meant what she was saying here. So he just tried to smile and let it go.

"Nevermind, don't worry about it. Forget I mentioned it, but keep the ice cream."

Because the 'other' Aerith would've loved a box of it.
heartofalion: (Not sure about that)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-02 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It was really creepy but in a good way that she rushed at him and did the same thing as the other Aerith would do to show sincerity. This whole thing was just uncanny.

But he just shook his head at her words and gestured with a hand up over his shoulder behind his head. "Seems I heard this before, so don't worry about it, it's not your fault."

Getting this news from her that he'd heard outside hurt him, but he was determined not to show it. Reality was the way it was and no matter how he felt about it, it couldn't be changed. And right now he had to decide what to do from here.
heartofalion: (Reflective)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-03 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
He shook his head. "Heard something about it outside, but didn't put any stock into it until now." It was painful to look at her and listen because Leon kept thinking she'd 'snap out of it' and tell him she was just kidding.

But no such words were forthcoming and he looked at her a little confusedly. "I know another version of you." And to him the words sounded frozen, as if eh couldn't believe that he was even saying such a thing.

It wasn't worth mentioning how she'd been at his back as his healer the day Sora came into Radiant Garden one day. That was when the Heartless had really gathered in numbers.
heartofalion: (My name is Leon)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-07 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Not your fault." Leon replied with a shake of the head. Really it wasn't this Aerith's fault if she wasn't the one he knew. But it was really odd to think of there being doubles in the worlds. Maybe there was another Leon in one of the other worlds they hadn't uncovered yet.

Scary thought.

Her words made him squint as he tried to think if there were any differences. "The one I know loved sea salt ice cream." He had no idea where to go with this conversation but he appreciated her trying anyway.
heartofalion: (Waiting to hear this one)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-11 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
There was almost a fraction of a smile as Leon listened to Aerith say what she did. That was so her that it really was funny. But it was moreover a sad thing for him so the smile didn't come through.

He shook his head. "She and I used to go walking around town eating the stuff." Leon couldn't mention that he would carry her grocery bags home for her too because sometimes she had a habit of buying more stuff than she could safely carry herself.
heartofalion: (..what?)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-13 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Her suggestion sounded just like the Aerith he knew. Yet he still gave a surprised look. "Are you sure you'd really wanna do that? I mean, you don't really know who I am."

And even as he said that he could feel knives stabbing his heart. But he wouldn't show it, nor would Leon ever tell her.
heartofalion: (Amused)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-18 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yup, just like the Aerith he knew, fast to make friends or something along those lines. But he'd trusted her enough to take her to Traverse Town and help him find the keyblade wielder task that had been set upon him by the king.

Leon had already risked her ire as he had back home asking if she'd be okay by herself. Sweet Aerith had turned downright scary and he had reluctantly left her side, only to hurry back as quick as he could.

"You say we." he pointed out. Yet, Leon couldn't help but smile at an old familiarity in an odd place. So he just nodded and gave into her as he always did. "I'd like that."
heartofalion: (Just keep talking)

[personal profile] heartofalion 2022-07-21 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
This was weird and Leon really was feeling it. Why she was like this he had no idea and at least that much hadn't changed in the Aerith spirit or whatever it could be called.

Still, he was at a loss for words and he didn't want to be a pest. "I'll get going then, so you can enjoy the party. I'll see you around."