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- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
- almost human: dorian,
- devilman crybaby: ryo asuka,
- dragon age: dorian pavus,
- halo: forward unto dawn: chyler silva,
- httyd: hiccup haddock iii,
- legend of zelda (botw): zelda,
- logan: laura,
- magnificent seven: billy rocks,
- marvel (616): bucky barnes,
- marvel (616): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): bucky barnes,
- marvel (mcu): gamora,
- marvel (mcu): loki,
- marvel (mcu): peter quill,
- marvel (mcu): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): tony stark,
- once upon a time: victor frankenstein,
- original: aeacinos ixocia,
- original: shigeru miyata,
- rivers of london: peter grant,
- star trek (aos): james kirk,
- star wars: cassian andor,
- star wars: finn,
- star wars: jyn erso,
- star wars: poe dameron,
- the black tapes: alex reagan,
- vikings: gyda ragnarsdottir,
- ✖ angel sanctuary: alexiel,
- ✖ dc comics (preboot): cassandra cain,
- ✖ dc comics (preboot): stephanie brown,
- ✖ dc comics (preboot): tim drake,
- ✖ dc comics (rebirth): damian wayne,
- ✖ dc comics (rebirth): jason todd,
- ✖ dctv (flash): cisco ramon,
- ✖ ffxv: ignis scientia,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist (03): edward elric,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist (manga): riza hawk,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist (manga): roy musta,
- ✖ gundam 00: tieria erde,
- ✖ kuroshitsuji: ciel phantomhive,
- ✖ kuroshitsuji: undertaker,
- ✖ kuroshitsuji: vincent phantomhive,
- ✖ marvel (mcu): stephen strange,
- ✖ marvel (tv): jessica jones,
- ✖ marvel (ultimates): tony stark,
- ✖ mutant x: brennan mulwray,
- ✖ mutant x: shalimar fox,
- ✖ my hero academia: toshinori yagi,
- ✖ original: christian fischer,
- ✖ original: freya vaughn,
- ✖ original: orion luis,
- ✖ osomatsu-san: ichimatsu matsuno,
- ✖ persona 3: makoto yuuki,
- ✖ persona 5: makoto niijima,
- ✖ shadowhunter chronicles: alec lightwoo,
- ✖ star wars: kylo ren,
- ✖ the finder: willa monday,
- ✖ vikings: ivar ragnarsson,
- ✖ yuri on ice: otabek altin
monthly mingle: FLOWER FESTIVAL
what: monthly mingle: flower festival
when: The month of April.
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

In the days leading up to April 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: The Flower Festival. Celebrating springtime, beauty, joy, and togetherness, the festival heavily features floral themes and dancing. The advertising mentions that on April 9th, a paid holiday, there will be a Blossom Picnic, as well as lists of various public dances at clubs or other open venues, the River Spirit Procession, and Flower Exchange.

The Flower Festival's main event is the Blossom Picnic on April 9th, but it also features traditions of sharing food and drink, and dancing that span over the course of the whole two weeks. There are a large variety of events going on throughout the city, from dancing lessons in any wide variety of traditional dances, to old-fashioned sock hops, to adult raves complete with mild party drugs. Feel free to use the prompts below or create your own event at any point during the festival, and if your character creates an event and hosts it in a top-level, you can submit that thread for extra bonus points.
i. blossom picnic
The main event that kicks off the second week of the Flower Festival is the Blossom Picnic on April 9th. A relaxed and low-key event, it draws several thousand people every year to the spacious Riverview Central Park, where there is a generous lawn lined with various blossoming trees, and families, found families, lovers, and groups of friends are encouraged to lay out a picnic blanket and share food. There will be live bands playing (but not loudly enough to distract from conversation and peacefully watching the petals flutter in the wind), a variety of demonstrations of traditional cultural dances from many different realities and planets, and a ton of ice cream vendors. This is an excellent festival not only for celebrating togetherness with the people who are already important, but for mingling and making new friends.
Characters may either pack their own lunches or they can purchase pre-packed Blossom Festival lunches. Stores and street markets are carrying a wide variety of specialty food that is only available at this time of year - predominantly pastries, an assortment of types of candies, and ice cream treats all in various floral flavors, as well as a sort of ambrosia salad based around a sweet rose-flavored cream and a native fruit that is bright green and tastes like a combination of peach and citrus.
ii. dancing lessons and dances
Starting on April 2nd, there will be dancing lessons offered almost everywhere you look! From partner dances to group dances to line dances; sexy and sensual or innocent and childlike - almost any type of dance you can imagine is represented, from any reality or planet that has people in Riverview Quarantine.
Additionally, the Riverview Central Community Center has multiple rooms blocked off so anyone who knows a dance from home can teach it to others in their community - sharing is caring, after all. Characters are welcome to block off one of these rooms and offer lessons in any dance they happen to know from home (and these sorts of thread starters would be eligible for the mingle AC Point bonus)!
As for the Flower Festival dances, they're pretty straightforward - in almost every club, community center, or other public space, there will be dancing at almost all hours of the day or night, formal and informal. Musicians bring out their instruments and play in the street for demonstrations of cultural dances and music at the same time as clubs are offering VIP cover charges for exclusive dances, and you can find anything in between.
Grab a partner, a group of friends, or just cruise and mingle the various dancing events.
Characters may also notice that most of the street markets and clothing shops are offering clothing that features floral patterns, flowers as accessories, and that show a lot of skin - for men, women, and anyone in between!
iii. flower exchange
During this year, there's been an influx of people from a dying reality consisting mostly of living plant people, and they've really taken the Flower Festival as a great opportunity to introduce one of their most honored traditions to the people of their new adopted world. The tradition involves sharing various types of flowers with strangers, with each type of flower having a different meaning and effect on both the giver and receiver - the bond of the exchange can spark emotion as well as physical responses that function in a unique way that affects almost everyone that participates, whether animal, plant, or even android.
Any characters exchanging the flowers with other characters, whether friends or strangers, will experience emotional/psychological effects, physical effects, or both once the exchange is complete. Effects can last for as short or long a time as the players involved want, and are as follows:
● Baby Blue Eyes - Trust/Healing the Inner Child
Emotional Effect: Either an inexplicable trust in the person the flower was exchanged with, or a generalized paranoia.
Physical Effect: De-aging. Characters can become a younger version of themselves, physically, mentally, or both. Whether or not their normal selves are of age, de-aged characters may not participate in adult prompts unless they're de-aged to something above 18.
● Chamomile - Peace & Harmony/Animal Support
Emotional Effect: A desire to make peace with one's enemies, or an inexplicable urge to push away loved ones.
Physical Effect: Both participants in the exchange will wake up the next morning with an animal companion that represents their soul/personality. Whether the companion can speak is up to player discretion.
NOTE: Animal companions from this event can be kept for a total of 300 Points. If you wish to keep them, just submit a request under your name on the Activity Bonus Rewards Page. For new players ONLY (players apping/reapping their first character in April) who wish to keep the animal companion but do not yet have points, feel free to submit and I will credit 300 points to be submitted once you have them.
● Rose - Friendship/Beauty
Emotional Effect: Openness and a desire to make new friends, or excessive competitiveness.
Physical Effect: A temporary glamor that makes both participants in the exchange appear as the most beautiful possible version of themselves, and improves their charisma.
● Crepe Myrtle: - Inspiration/Enduring Partnerships
Emotional Effect: New and creative ideas to solve life issues, or finding oneself averse to change.
Physical Effect: As soon as the exchange is complete, the two characters involved will be bound by an invisible tether that keeps them within three feet of each other. The tether won't affect anyone but the characters involved (no, you can't clothesline your enemies with it).
● Valerian: - Relaxation/Heart-Opening
Emotional Effect: A near-complete erasure of anxiety and stress, or a dramatic inexplicable increase in it.
Physical Effect: Forced honesty. Both affected characters become incapable of lying. Whether they're compelled to blurt the truth or if they can keep their mouths shut or talk around the truth is up to player discretion.
[Flower meanings used in this prompt come from this site.]
iv. river spirit procession
The River Spirit Procession is a yearly tradition in the Quarantine where a (usually small) contingent of people walk along the edges of the river carrying candles and dressed as river spirits, and offer sweets and blossoms or petals by tossing them into the river. The offerings are intended to appease the river spirits and guarantee safety from flooding, storms, and to ensure a good growing season. With the flooding that's still affecting the river, the turn out this year is much greater than usual, with a large number of residents entering the processions that happen throughout the month, usually on weekends.
During the processions, residents dress as river spirits, which is a relatively broad description and can be taken in a wide variety of ways and leaves a lot up to interpretation. They enter the procession at the place where the river enters the walls and follow the banks of it carrying candles, and often whispering or quietly speaking their gratitude for the river's plenty and their wishes for the year to come. Many residents also bring baskets of young blossoms or petals from flowers, and small sweets such as candy or tiny pastries and throw them into the river to appease the spirits. They carry along the river for as long as they wish to.
ACTION PROMPT: This year, with the flooding, the monsters, and the heavy turnout, the river spirit procession is a little more dangerous an undertaking than usual. After the first procession on April 1st resulted in several residents being swept away in the rising flood waters, and several others being attacked by a loose crocodile, the trouble becomes painfully evident. The Perimeter Guard will be sending out extra detachments and calling in reserve members to help keep the processions safe, and any extra hands to protect those who choose to participate will be more than welcome.
v. roommates or wildcard
Feel free to use this prompt to meet new roommates, for the purpose of getting to know each other, or hit up the mod-posted prompt to create a Communal Housing floor mingle. Or, if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during the Flower Festival, feel free to write it up!




Credit: image i: unknown, found on pinterest; image ii: Steven Kent Lomtong; iii: Ryan Talbot; iv: Toru Nishimura
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When Bucky rounds the corner and comes face to face with this college aged kid, he really wishes he could pretend he didn't know who it was and walk away. But having seen him as a young boy in those memory glasses, and having seen him as a grown man, it's pretty easy to tell this is Stark.
Magnificent. Fucking brilliant. Like he hadn't been enough trouble when he'd just forgotten his memories of being Iron Man that time. He really wants to walk away, but somehow he can't quite manage it.]
Really?
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Which means that rather than worry, Bucky just gets to feel the full force of teenage disdain.]
Got a problem?
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[He moves forwards directly into Stark's personal space, and he's always been a lot bigger than the other man even when he's not a teenager.]
But you wouldn't get it if I explained it to you, Stark.
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Look, if you've got an issue with my dad, take it up with him.
[There's something almost practiced about the phrase, as if he's said it a lot.]
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I've no issue with your Dad.
[Other than killing the man.]
I'm not here for him, I'm here to protect you. Think of me like a bodyguard.
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[That's new. And to think he'd finally managed to get rid of the nanny when he finally got to college.
Tony straightens a little more, on slightly surer ground or at least doing a decent job of pretending he is.]
Prove it.
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[He can't conjure up something out of thin air to protect Stark from, and he's not exactly from any licensed agency.]
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I'm not just going anywhere with you.
[He does at least have some sense. And he's always been a target.]
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[He would, ideally, like to get Stark off the streets again and holed away somewhere safe until he becomes himself again. But he'll settle for tailing him around for a while if he must.]
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You got a name or should I just be calling you 'bodyguard'?
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Sure, and I might tell you if you ask me less like a brat.
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Whatever you say, bodyguard. Come on, then.
[And he turns right around to go, assuming the guy will follow.]
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And where exactly are you planning to go?
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[Honestly, he just kind of wants to get away from this whole flower thing. There's something weird about it that he can't quite put his finger on and it's bothering him.
Also, it's just kind of boring. What's the big deal with flowers anyway?]
There's got to be something cool around here somewhere, right? I wouldn't have come otherwise.
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[Stupid magic, stupid other world, stupid younger Stark.]
How old are you, anyway?
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Seventeen. Why?
[And then he stops completely to give Bucky a hard look that looks almost incongruous on his younger, more open face.]
What do you mean I didn't choose?
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[Which is a big not, no illegal drinking for Mr. Minor.
He conspicuously doesn't respond to the other point, it's probably best not to get super into things when it's likely this is as temporary as last time.]
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Let me? I've been going to bars for years, you think you're going to stop me?
[Well. He is kind of big. Tony is banking on the fact that he's been paid to keep him in one piece.]
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[Simple, and utterly self assured.]
It'd be easier on us both if you didn't make me, though.
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He still hunches in a little with a scowl. Tony does not like being told what to do, not least by someone who's name he doesn't even know.]
Fine, whatever. Where can I go, then?
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[He's the least fun bodyguard ever, but he doesn't care. His self assigned job is to make sure Stark gets through this in one piece, not to let him tear up the town.]
Or you could be smart and let me take you home.
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I'm not a kid, I'm graduating college.
[Which has no effect on his actual age, but that's not the point.
And Tony's stopping to stare at him anyway.]
Home? Like, back to New York?
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[That's technically true, even if he's implying that it's Howard that leased it.]
And you're seventeen, that makes you a kid.
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Why do we have to go back, is it that dangerous?
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[Not really, not inside the walls, but he prefers to be overly cautious than not cautious enough. He's silent for a moment before he has a brainwave.]
Actually, I know somewhere you might appreciate.
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