tampered | Ongoing, Open (ish)

When; Sunday, December the 12th, evening.
Rating; PG
Characters; MKR cast, family and guests.
Summary; The Victrola has become a luxurious ballroom for celebrating Fuu's 15th birthday party.
Log; All their efforts had lead them to this. Against all odds, despite the horrible moments curses and dangers unfailingly put them through, Umi knew it was important to remember dates as important as this one. The occasion was nothing she was allowing The City to ruin: Fuu's 15th birthday was something to remember, all the more because it would be the first birthday her best friend and sister would spend away from home.

Thankfully not from her family, the Water Knight thought as she took a look around her and pondered the arrangements. The Victrola had been transformed into a gorgeous, gold-tinted ballroom for celebrating the Wind Knight's birthday. Umi herself had been specific about the details.

So she went through a quick revision of the surroundings. Took in the beautifully set tables with their polished silverware and floral centerpieces straight from the Koneko: each arranged so that every guest knew where they would sit. Some of the guests danced in pairs. Others stood around holding glasses of champagne as a soft music played in the background. The numerous presents had been arranged on a table near the buffet. And the highlight of such was of course the giant birthday cake Umi herself had baked -- her ultimate masterpiece, made to match the decorations too.

Smiling, she moved through the crowd to greet the newcomers.

[ ooc : Alright guys, Fuu's swanky party is GO. You know what to do! Start new threads wherever you like: at the tables, dancing threads, just chillin' around threads, arrival threads, what have you. Time them whenever you like: start, end of mid-party. Threadjack at will, too. Just remember: your character should be in evening clothes. 8Db

ALSO, feel free to tag with either prose or action, whatever suits your fancy the most! ]

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"Marshmallows would be the squishy little treats that are as soft as velvet in your mouth, am I right~?" See, Eagle? See? She's not entirely clueless when it comes to candy! She may even know more than she lets on! "I cannot imagine anything that would not become better if those are included~."

Eagle is pretty sure there are one of two things that marshmallows… wouldn’t go well with. Though maybe if they were melted that would even work on turkey! There is a curious experiment for later…

“They are. I have even seen them come in shapes and colors for the holidays. In fact there is a recipe for a kind of holiday treat where you take the multicolored marshmallows and melting chocolate… combine them into a log and cut them to form a ‘stained glass cookie’. They look pretty from the little image of them that was included.”

Tatra for one wouldn't object to tasting your pretzel meets chocolate fondue suggestion, Eagle. This woman and eccentricities go well together. Marshmallowed turkey might do too.

"Dear me. My mouth is watering. I cannot encourage you more to share these delightful recipes with dear Umi~! She may well see fit to prepare this for us... Ah."

And Tatra holds her tongue, seemingly having been carried away into her glee. Her expression deliberately shows a little wistfulness. "I forget she no longer lives with us."

Chocolate covered pretzels are in no way eccentric! They totally exist, and they taste better than the yogurt covered pretzel… which also exist.

“Maybe once a little matter is settled between us,” there would of course be no recipe sharing until after Umi was defeated. No sense in giving her anymore of an edge than she already had.

Aww… missing Umi, were you?

“Maybe she will come back to live there some time,” Or maybe not… that poor house was becoming awfully crowded. Maybe she wanted more space or just the chance to live with those two… interesting people…

"You are not about to duel each other with swords, are you now~? We would be most sad to be deprived of our baker due to injury! Especially after her treats for us have become scarcer~." This here? Typical Tatra humor for him: it's incisive and contains subtleties that may well carry a sharp edge to them. Is this reproach for one party, the other? Eagle may never be able to know and Tatra is not clarifying.

At his next words she sighs dramatically. "Who knows what paths a young woman's heart will choose to travel... Or whose stomachs may end up benefiting from such..."

Spoken with a purposefully clear dose of envy for the owners of the benefiting stomachs.

Wow, it was difficult to forget that conflict… even for a moment.

“Nothing like that,” not this time at least, “Just a friendly little competition. Umi should only be injured if her cooking abilities haven’t improved any…”

She sighs, he chuckles, “That is true enough. Hearts are very fickle things.”

"Goodness, her injuries depend on her cooking skills~?" Tatra gasps and stares at Eagle with a degree of alarm that's impossible to tell whether it's authentic or not. "I am not completely sure if this bodes well for the dear girl! Her last cooking experience made public by the Network was rather... flammable."

Hard to forget, that episode. It lead to the most amusing conversation with Aya.

“Hopefully she will have a fire extinguisher nearby…”

Umi’s magic still didn’t look reliable enough to be able to handle a situation like that. And hopefully she was more skilled with knifes… and didn’t forget her hand mitts before she went to grab something out of the oven…

…

Maybe she needed a cooking chaperon…

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