Gifts, some nebulous point in time
"Hey, Ai." Charisse said, holding some of her gifts in her hand. "Here, you can take these."
She presented the combined 3200 Lien from Stormer and Pius. "I-I know you mentioned at one point that your family kinda needed money... and mine doesn't really, so here." She nudged the envelopes forward repeatedly.
Ball Finale
Charisse blushed as Ai wrapped her arms around her. She moved her own arms to Ai's lower back, helping support the shorter girl and pulling her closer.
She looked into her partner's eyes. 4 seconds.
Charisse looked down to her lips. 3 seconds.
She closed her own eyes. 2 seconds.
Her head moved forward, towards Ai's. 1.
A kiss, at the stroke of midnight. She didn't know what it meant in the slightest, but it felt right. It felt appropriate. If she had known others were sharing kisses at that exact moment, she would have felt confused about its significance.
But at the moment, nobody or nothing else mattered. Her world was just her immediate surroundings, with Ai as their center. Her world revolved around the little tiger faunus, and she wouldn't have it any other way.
"Gimme your pants.. and now your other pants"Ballroom Finale
Al kept a neutral expression as he tried to follow Lexi in her dance, no one could see it, but his back started hurting, which he tried to ignore.
"Me neither, honestly I never thought I'd get anywhere this close to a bond with a person." He chuckled. He was actually quite deft at his job. His agility and quick ability to learn did help in dancing.
edited 14th Feb '15 7:23:12 AM by LiorVal
Ball Finale
Mind you, Hope didn't consider herself a very superstitious person, but why not indulging in some allowed, non-controversial debauchery if one can help it?
The main problem of sharing kisses between a trio of people is that in most cases someone's going to get left out. Two of the three also have to share the first kiss, leaving the third person on their own. There were ways of making a three-way kiss, but these were probably best left for private situations.
Hope was alright with being that third person. The order of kisses doesn't matter if they're done equally passionately. After that she kisses the other two, first Sophie, than Yun. She didn't consider herself a good kisser - no matter what Khayla tried to tell her - but to say she didn't enjoy herself with either of her significant others would be a lie.
Kiss Her, You Idiot!
The blond haired man and the raven haired girl began to dance, with only two minutes till midnight.
"Erm...there's a superstition that if two people kiss each other at midnight on this night, that couple will be together forever, bonded by the gods...", he said nervously.
"Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible." - Monty Oum, 1981-2015Ballroom Flashback
Ayers grunted noncommitally and shrugged. "Eh, sure. He don't respect women too much, thought I'd sneak something in there." He turned away and headed back to Jack. "Good luck, y'all."
Ballroom Gifts!
"That's right y'all, rodeo." Ayers leaned forward, excited. "Y'all can come see the finest Grimm wranglers, Grimm Rustlers, Grimm Matadors, hwutever y'all call 'em, folks git paid to piss off Grimm and it is awesome."
Winter Ball Finale
Ayers stared up at the fireworks, then over to Jack. "Hey, bro. Thanks fer bein' here. Fer yer, uh, support." He smiled and held up a fist. "I feel like smashin' cold, metal fists together's the better response here fer us, though. Bump it, pardner."
Ballroom: A little while ago
Yun glanced at Beth, before he fixed his gaze back at Carol and nodded. "I know...she implied that she had a crush on me earlier tonight." he said quietly. "But...it wouldn't be right to start anything so soon. I owe Beth and Lady Francesca too much: Beth gave my my eyesight back, and Francesca helped me grow stronger. The least I can do is let Beth sort out her feelings before she decides."
"Plus, I don't think Lady Francesca or Alice are very happy about her newfound crush on me." He continued, remembering Alice's little outburst earlier. "And even if I didn't owe them, I still wish to live long enough to see the new year."
Palace: Midwinters Eve.
Yun gave both his girlfriends a kiss when the midnight bells rang.
"Since everyone else is dancing, do you want to stay here and talk a while? Or should we head back to our rooms?"
edited 14th Feb '15 10:18:38 AM by svenorzokarkoff
Gift Giving
She watched quietly before turning to Hope and snorted about the fumes,
"You do remember, I sleep one bed over from Noa, and I do her laundry, if I could get drunk from fumes, you'd of seen it by now."
She decided not to butt in before she spoke to Hope again,
"I wonder what he'll say once I tell he could just order more clothes just like that online, since I'm not the only person in Maverick who does that."
edited 14th Feb '15 10:23:54 AM by BloodPlum
Fireworks
The fireworks show, was actually quite long, and not really comparable to any previous one due to one key factor, you are dealing with rockets controlled by a living mind, rather then the normal dumb-fire system.
Rather then just traveling up and exploding, each rocket traced a path, dancing through the sky as its tracers drew, the explosions were pretty, but they were at some points secondary to the path of the rockets.
A notable example being the one going off right now, with two rockets going up, and leaving no trail until about halfway through there flight, where upon they start leaving a red V shaped trail, before arcing back twords each-other and forming a heart.
While you can hear those specific ones go off, there is a brief delay before there is any sort of visible effect, as care had been taking to not make the primary charge in them leave any color, in fact it was the submuntions that were the show piece of this launch, exploding into a shower of tiny snowflakes.
After this the show goes back to its generic dance and explosion routine, but something is different outside, if it was not snowing before, it is lightly snowing now.
Gift Giving
Imuka continued to stare at the present in-front of her, before sighing and tearing the tag off it and throwing it to the floor, she quietly stood up, her ears and tail making her body language even more clear that she was upset. Whoever did this to her was.... not going to hear the end of it, mostly because they would never hear about it in the first place.
She picked up all 3 boxes she had with her, and put one into Silva's arms, continuing twords where she had Inari stashed, it was there that she also now stashed the present she had taken the tag off of, before wandering over to where Pius was sitting, setting the third box near him, and wandering off to be alone.
Gift Giving
When Imuka set the box in front of Pius, the Nobel looked up from where he was conversing with Rufus to give his thanks. But he stopped himself when he read her body language.
Something's wrong, his grey eyes told him.
"Excuse me," he said to Rufus before getting up after her. Activating his Semblance to pick out her Aura from the crowd, Pius refused to let Imuka be alone tonight.
"Hey," he said when he caught up to her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"
edited 14th Feb '15 11:21:10 AM by Insano
Allurand and surrounding world loading, 28%...Ballroom
Remus smiled as he pulled Chelsea into a hug. "Don't worry. I'm here for you."
Midnight Kisses (and Waltz for the Moon)
Remus was taken aback for a mere second as Chelsea kissed him on the stroke of midnight. Well she's certainly being assertive tonight... Was all his brain could muster as he kissed her back, the entire world shut out except for him and Chelsea. Her beauty, her love. Right now, Remus was in Heaven.
edited 14th Feb '15 11:36:36 AM by SolusLupus
Francesca and Beth - Pre Lights
"Of course I'm right, I'm your mother." She teased with a grin as she let Beth go back to what she was doing. "Now, run along and don't get any risky ides, alright?"
Fireworks - Ieria
The black scaled snake was happy. Smiling up at the fireworks without seemingly a care in the world. Her hands were behind her back and she softly leaned against Medus as she watched, her smile looked as if it could not be removed. She opted not to kiss him just yet...she had much better plans in mind as she hummed quietly along.
Fireworks - Francesca
The snake matriarch sighed once more from where she was seated. She could see it all clearly from here, the fireworks, the students. Even the guardsmen in their assorted locations. She shook her head as she looked to Oscar, she couldn't go to him now. She had to be hard, she couldn't afford to be soft these days.
Oscar on the other hand, was looking at her and feeling a pit in his stomach, Francesca had been distant these past few months, driving herself to the point she had been in the past. And it hurt to watch her do this. It wasn't self-destructive but...it was lonesome at times, to know the woman he loved...no, she was still there, he could not think otherwise. Regardless of how she acted, he still loved his darling Francesca. So with a sigh and a heavy heart, he went back to observing the castle grounds, looking for anything suspicious.
"I am nature's weapon. You are unfit to carry on your species, and I shall ensure that you do not do so!" - Charles Darwin, XCOM SniperDepression
Imuka relaxes a bit when hugged, glad that at least some one rembered she existed.
"J-Just feel like my team forgot about me" The fox replies quietly. "I-I spent a long time working on there gifts.... but Miss Hope just wanders off to go get laid by Mister Yun who I am unsure if he really cares about her.... Mister Ayers went chasing after Mister Stormers date to anoy him... and I am not even sure where Lady Belle is.... so I was left alone...."
Lonely Together
"Hey, I'm sure they didn't mean anything by it," Pius replied. "Everyone has lives in and out of their teams. Right now, mine is here with you. I'm sure Belle didn't mean to snub you." The Nobel was overall uncertain about the truth of Imuka's relationship with her partner, but he decided he would figure it out later.
Allurand and surrounding world loading, 28%...Midwinter Midnight Finale: On the balcony with Pius
"It's in a box," He said, looking at Pius, miming a box shape, "With a pink cat's paw on it." He crossed his arms and looked out at the people below, "I told everyone about it." He narrowed his eyes, "At least, I think I did."
Leaning forward, Rufus grabbed the handrails, "Oi!" He shouted down. Rufus had a naturally booming voice, "Oi! You all, you horny tusklettes! There is a box with a pink cat's paw on it-" He pointed at where he had generally set the thing, "-full of condoms! Use them or you'll get diseases and pregnant!"
Leaning back, he crossed his arms and nodded. Looking to Pius, he said, "Okay, I told them."
Lonley Together
"I-In truth it is not Lady Belle vanishing that bothers me most, we had to deal whith Mister Ghaston earlier... she might be sick after that" She said with a slight smile at her attempt at a joke. "I-It is Miss Hope, who is never around us at all any more, and seems to only be concerned with having Mister Yun inside of her after that night of poor decision making a few days ago...."
Gift Giving
"Well, you seem to have a stronger head than Alex. She... just needs a single sip, from what I can remember from the movie night." Hope shrugged a little.
Upon Cyanea mentioning even more warm clothes, the gray-hair couldn't help but chuckle. "Are you trying to kill him?" She jested, grinning. "A pair of socks was already enough to drain him almost completely."
Midwinter Finale
"We can stay around, I guess. I'm in no rush, unless Soph wants to go back." Hope shrugged a little, idly watching people dancing.
Then Rufus roared what he roared and the gray-hair couldn't help but groan at the announcement.
Flashback
"It's fine," he said somewhat harshly. "I just don't think telling them now, while Arcana is still causing chaos, is a good idea."
He sighed. "I can't even trust myself at this point. I can't check the news, hear about the latest suspected Arcana encounter, without thinking that I could have been involved in it. How am I supposed to know the rest of the dorm won't assume the worst?"
Now: Chiharu
"I heard," she said. "Why did you bring it up?"
Just Kiss Already!
"W-well...", Stormer began to say, his face bright red. He began to move in closer as the clock nearly struck midnight. "I've got these feelings in my head every time I see you. Ones I've never felt before..."
"Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible." - Monty Oum, 1981-2015With Imuka
"Hey, he's not a bad guy," Pius defended his other friend. "If it's bothering you so much, you need to talk to her about it. It's your duty as your teammate to look out for her, or to at least have some communication between the two of you."
Friends against friends, and we're in the middle. Great.
"Besides, this is how our kind acts when a relationship begins, Imuka. I don't blame her for latching onto something that makes her happy. Why do you think I carry Dies Irae everywhere?" Looking down at the Faunus in his embrace, the Nobel decided to move on to another subject.
"By the way, what was in that little box you gave me? I haven't opened it yet."
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Allurand and surrounding world loading, 28%...FLASHBACK
Jack nodded. "I see what you mean." He cracked his neck. "I just feel like we need to tell the others." He sighed, "We should probably stop talking about this. Just going to end up with us at each others throats."
BALCONY
Jack looked up. "Who put Rufus in charge of the condoms?" He wondered aloud. He didn't mean to be rude, but...Why?
edited 14th Feb '15 1:48:17 PM by TroyandHawk
Good to be back

Flashback
"Thanks," he said to Ai. "And, um, happy Midwinter to you too..."
Chiharu
"Sure," she said.
Lucas
"Yeah," Lucas said, still a bit red from the kiss.