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volitaunt) wrote in riverviewlogs2018-11-15 08:05 pm
Let's all congratulate us with another cup of tea
who: Finn Nolastname, Poe Dameron, AND YOU
what: A FINNDAY CELEBRATION. One year in quarantine and one year since Finn got his name
when: Backdated to November 11th
where: Finn and Poe's apartment
warnings: None!
[ Poe didn't keep this party a secret. Not from Finn, and certainly not from anyone in quarantine. He posted to the network about it more than once, sent invitations to every friend Finn has ever mentioned, and has been preparing noisily for it for almost two weeks.
He might have gone a little overboard.
There's catering, some of it exotic and some of it more on the bland side and all of it painfully healthy. Even the desserts are healthy--fruit salads and delicate little pastries with unprocessed sugar and dark chocolate, sweetness cut with savory or bitter so none of it is overwhelming. The dessert feature is a "cake" constructed entirely of fruit from around Riverview, held together by magic and served in slices. The magic only holds until you stick a fork in the slice, but by then you should have it on a plate anyway, right?
Beyond the catering, Poe got permission from Jyn to borrow her bottomless shrimp dispenser, so there's that. The Mystery Flavor is kumquat chutney dipped and you'd better believe that Poe has eaten half his weight in kumquat chutney shrimp by the time the party actually rolls around. There's also one broccoli pizza positioned carefully in the place of honor at the center of the buffet table. Poe couldn't help himself.
Beyond the food, there are games set up all around the apartment. Card games, board games, a couple takes on carnival games--even a board pinned up against one wall with balloons fixed to it, along with a set of darts set up a short distance away. It's fairly obvious what that one is for. Each balloon has a little folded-up paper inside with a code for a gift card at various places around town--and a sign that says "Don't be an asshole, leave some for other people (Jyn)."
When Poe isn't up in everyone's business making sure people are having fun, or hovering near Finn making sure he's having fun, he's still easy enough to spot--he's in the corner, sprawled on a chair with BB-8 resting against his ankles.
Yeah, he might have gone overboard, but as far as he's concerned Finn deserves the best. ]
what: A FINNDAY CELEBRATION. One year in quarantine and one year since Finn got his name
when: Backdated to November 11th
where: Finn and Poe's apartment
warnings: None!
[ Poe didn't keep this party a secret. Not from Finn, and certainly not from anyone in quarantine. He posted to the network about it more than once, sent invitations to every friend Finn has ever mentioned, and has been preparing noisily for it for almost two weeks.
He might have gone a little overboard.
There's catering, some of it exotic and some of it more on the bland side and all of it painfully healthy. Even the desserts are healthy--fruit salads and delicate little pastries with unprocessed sugar and dark chocolate, sweetness cut with savory or bitter so none of it is overwhelming. The dessert feature is a "cake" constructed entirely of fruit from around Riverview, held together by magic and served in slices. The magic only holds until you stick a fork in the slice, but by then you should have it on a plate anyway, right?
Beyond the catering, Poe got permission from Jyn to borrow her bottomless shrimp dispenser, so there's that. The Mystery Flavor is kumquat chutney dipped and you'd better believe that Poe has eaten half his weight in kumquat chutney shrimp by the time the party actually rolls around. There's also one broccoli pizza positioned carefully in the place of honor at the center of the buffet table. Poe couldn't help himself.
Beyond the food, there are games set up all around the apartment. Card games, board games, a couple takes on carnival games--even a board pinned up against one wall with balloons fixed to it, along with a set of darts set up a short distance away. It's fairly obvious what that one is for. Each balloon has a little folded-up paper inside with a code for a gift card at various places around town--and a sign that says "Don't be an asshole, leave some for other people (Jyn)."
When Poe isn't up in everyone's business making sure people are having fun, or hovering near Finn making sure he's having fun, he's still easy enough to spot--he's in the corner, sprawled on a chair with BB-8 resting against his ankles.
Yeah, he might have gone overboard, but as far as he's concerned Finn deserves the best. ]
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It's the perfect trifecta. Finn loves 1) being Finn, 2) all of his people, and 3) getting to do something fun that doesn't seem like it can go horribly, horribly wrong.
There are a lot of soft and complicated emotions to go around for the occasion itself, sure, but he's taking great strides to really channel being glad to be here right now, which makes up the bulk of those emotions anyway.
He'll be making the rounds about as long as the party's going! His personal mission is to talk to everybody who shows up at some point, and he will achieve that goal. If he's not approaching for the conversation, catch him anywhere. Gently trying to shoo Raddus away from the shrimp dispenser (failing). Trying his hand at games, because the competitive streak don't stop. Snacking around a little. He eats some of the broccoli pizza, probably exclusively at a point where he can spitefully stare at Poe while he does it. The joke and the broccoli will only make him grow more powerful. Fool. This is not how he leads into giving Poe his thank-you gift, it's just Finn in his natural habitat looking dumb.
Or pretty much find him wherever else! He is definitely very much around and ready to appreciate........ the power of friendship. ]
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He loses the chess match. Shocker.
It doesn't take much to find Finn afterward. It's not as though their apartment is huge or the number of people here is so overwhelming that he can't find his best friend among the guests.
He sort of tacklehugs Finn from behind, one arm slung around Finn's shoulder and the other one a fist noogying Finn's ribs because I can't think of a better way to describe it. ]
Happy Finnday, buddy.
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And it's been quiet out there lately, or as quiet as it ever gets. Finn dares to believe this is going to be a nice, uneventful... event. About a year ago, he was staring at Cisco and Eddie's table centerpiece like it was set to activate a First Order homing beacon and bring a cruiser to town any second. It's weird to think about it now. Those first few weeks of dread and tension, all three of them living piled on top of each other.
He hasn't seen Rey yet. He'll have to doublecheck before trying to send her a message.
Finn accepts his tacklehug with the usual mixture of indignation and good grace, because he's been half-expecting it all day. He lives with Poe; he knows better than to not expect it. The happy Finnday-ing all but drags a snort out of him. The good natured kind of snort. ]
Yeah, happy Finnday to you, too. [ Just have to accept this good quality occasion and roll with it. Every Finnday is at least 10% Poeday anyway, based on very scientific research. It's part of why he's got that gift he's gonna remember he got Poe in about ten seconds. ] How'd your chess game turn out?
[ He sounds suspiciously like a person who knows exactly how the chess game turned out. Hmmm. ]
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[ Poe doesn't sound particularly bothered. It's Cassian. No one can beat Cassian at chess except maybe Jyn and that's just because Cassian gets easily distracted by Jyn. No, they don't exactly moon at each other, but there are definitely some stars involved.
BB-8 comes rolling up with streamers stuck to his dome and Poe sighs happily. ]
So, you like it? It's good?
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Kind of unfortunate when most of Finn's remaining friends are very competitive soldier types. But Cassian is very smart and talented. A winning streak is to be expected.
He looks at Poe in a broadly offended sort of way. He looks at Poe like Poe just asked what colors make green in the most patronizing way possible. Which is something. Poe is frankly really bad at sounding patronizing. It's not so much because of the question or the touch of uncertainty he can pick out threaded into it, because Poe cares about doing things for people that they'll like, because he's a good person like that.
It's more because Finn hasn't considered that someone else might possibly not like it until this moment, and he's offended by even the possibility. He is already scanning the room for suspects. ]
Of course it's good. Best party I've ever had. [ That's a joke. Like it's true, but it's a joke. ] Everyone likes it.
[ And if they don't, too bad? They like it now. He's ready to argue them into it. Later. ]
You got a minute?
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BB-8 rolls in an aimlessly cheerful circle around them, presumably just to make the streamers on his head trail through the air. ]
For you, always. What's up?
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Finn pauses for a second, just to doublecheck that BB-8's circling really is more cheerful than "get these things off of me." He doesn't know enough droid to translate that anyway, but since BB-8 is pretty much a superhero, it feels safe to assume the point would get across.
Being able to take a moment is nice. Being able to ask for one and know he'll probably get it. It's also very useful to come up with a vague enough answer. ]
Oh, I just-- have to show you something. [ He tries to sound chill. ] No big deal.
[ Not... technically untrue... but very obviously not the whole actual truth. There's the exact type of nervous false assurance undercurrent in there that almost always gives him away. Because in this household we respect that Finn is bad at lying except to himself.
His immediate follow-up measure to try to counteract further questioning is to catch Poe by the wrist and start towing him towards what is technically Finn's room. The Finn room. It's not a big apartment. He thinks he can just get them on in there in good time.
"Why doesn't Finn just say he got Poe a present instead of this unnecessary buffering?" Because it's Finnday and he can do whatever he wants?? But also because it's a personal gift that he'd rather not turn into a spectacle in front of all their friends, realistically. So. ]
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[ Poe knows very well that Something Is Up. Finn isn't exactly subtle. But he willingly lets himself be towed along in his friend's wake, amused and weirdly... touched. Finn's Finn-ness is so endearing. So genuine. Maybe Poe just feels it more today, when they're celebrating Finn becoming Finn, throwing the First Order off his shoulders and learning how to be himself.
One they're in his room, Poe swings the door mostly shut. It seems like the right thing to do somehow. ]
So what's up?
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Things are easier with Poe like that. Easy to fall into step most days. They've worked for that. There's a fine line between trusting that it's there and not wanting to take it for granted, and Finn likes to straddle that line like a consummate professional. ]
I got you something.
[ With the buildup comes no real ceremony in the presentation. Finn hits his closet, pulls a gift down from the shelf that's been very neatly wrapped in plain orange paper, and expectantly holds it in Poe's general direction. The narration will not confirm exactly how many times he rewrapped it until he achieved the level of neatness he decided that it had to meet. That's just standard Finn fare.
He is, dare he say, pretty pleased to have a gift that's actually good enough for the occasion, unless he's gone horribly wrong and misread everything Poe has ever told him about loving his mom, ever. But it's too late for that train of thought to throw a wrench in the works at this point, really.
(Not pictured: all their friends making it a heist mission to carefully deflate balloons and steal gift codes while they're gone.) ]
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[ Poe is clearly as surprised as he is affected. He wasn't expecting anything. This is Finn's day, not his. Still, he takes it gently and starts to unwrap it, popping the tape up and peeling the wrapping paper back as carefully as he can. Normally he'd just tear straight on through, but something in him wants to show Finn that this matters to him, regardless of what's inside. ]
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Reason number one being in reality that he just wanted to do it. But it added up the longer he had to think. It's been a year, so that means Poe had a birthday in there somewhere. He put a lot of work into this party, and he wanted to, and he thought it was worth doing in the first place, and that's one of those... very soft and hard to articulate sorts of things.
Finn could probably try to make a list of good reasons, but it seems like one of those things that would just keep getting longer. He's easy like that.
Poe will find one (1) framed photographic rendering of himself and Shara Bey in front of her old A-wing, from about a month back. It took a little doing to root around to some of the points where they'd been looking at each other instead of one or both looking in his direction, and then a little more finagling to land on something that he thought fit, but Finn thinks the end result was worth it. Weird magic being the norm turned out to be good for exactly one thing when all is said and done.
He thinks if parents look at their kids even halfway to the benchmark Poe's mother set, Kylo Ren really doesn't have an excuse for being awful and a murderer. That's a whole other thing, though.
Right now it's good to know Poe would have even appreciated getting framed macaroni art today, probably. ]
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This is....
[ He doesn't say what it is, but actions speak louder than words and all that. He yanks Finn into a full-bodied, clinging hug. ]
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Family stuff. It's always pretty personal.
Finn, of course, takes no issue with hugging back, albeit not with the same bursting-out-of-him power. Every once in a while, even he feels like he's maybe done right by someone important, and it's a good energy to have. ]
I'll take that as a "good."
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Yeah, yeah they totally are.
He gives a brief, watery laugh. ]
It's perfect, buddy. It's perfect.
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[ because it looks appetizing af and jyn is gonna take a slice but it's certainly not enough for a party. like wow, poe, that's just shit planning. ]
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[ Is it possible to shrug smugly???? Yes, obviously, because Finn is doing it.
This is the story of Poe's joke backfiring spectacularly, because at least 2 of Finn's short, british-accent, self-reliant survivor friends who could beat him up have indicated distinct interest in enjoying the broccoli pizza. Finn is vindicated.
It's a Finnday miracle. ]
1/2
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Poe's a moron.
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Or would Poe just be even more pleased with himself... doesn't matter, it's worth it. And so it's that comment exactly that gets a snort of laughter out of Finn. ]
I don't know if he'd agree with you or just tell you you have bad taste in pizza. Big talk from someone who broke our first egg roller by shoving cookie dough in it.
[ No Poe never gets to live it down. It's equivalent exchange. ]