Winter Gala

[justaddh2o]

WHO: Everyone
WHERE: Jeopardy
WHEN: Saturday, December 21 from 5:00 p.m. onward into the early morning hours of Sunday, December 22.
WHAT: The Winter Gala Fundraiser for Jeopardy Relief Efforts
WARNINGS: Please include any necessary warnings in your TLs.
NOTES: This post will serve as a catch-all for logs for the entire event (though you’re also welcome to post things elsewhere, of course).

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Well, mostly. In the wake of a near-apocalyptic event, the city of Jeopardy is in need. What started out as an idea to advertise Rikki Chadwick's burgeoning business, after a little more planning and nabbing some ideas from Kenzi's post, she and Rupert have reconfigured and rebranded their idea to focus less on her and more on the relief effort.


Characters will enter the venue after giving a small donation at the door and they will be greeted by a large room lit in blues, soft pinks, and purples. From the ceilings hang snowflakes made of glass. The centerpieces are also made of glass. Come to think of it, nearly all the decorations are made of glass. Except, that is, the mistletoe hanging from several of the rafters and archways. A buffet-style dinner will be served from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at which point, the buffet tables and seating tables will be cleared away to make room for the makeshift stage for the DJ and a gigantic dance floor.

Drinks will be flowing, music will be playing, and people will be bidding on silent auctions to win everything from one of the centerpieces to a date with their favorite imPort and everything in between. So, eat, drink, and be merry until you can't stay awake any longer. Why not? It's all for a good cause, after all.

Comments

[heartstings]

Its difficult to ignore Loki in his armor, especially with that helmet. Kenzi has to wonder how he’s managed to move about the place without breaking something. She thinks about asking just that until she notices him looking up at some mistletoe like he’s never seen it before.

Drink in one hand she looks up at him with a raised brow and one hand on her cocked hip. “Never seen a little mistletoe before?”

[tricksterofasgard]

Loki does not notice her right away, but does turn his head down when she speaks up, answering her raised brow with one of his own.

"I fail to see the appeal of adding them to the otherwise immaculate decor." he admits "The plant itself is hardly appealing."

[heartstings]

A devious little grin forms on her lips at his response. She quickly finishes off her drink and sets the glass aside before motioning for him to come closer. He’s too tall for her to pull what she has planned unless he’s closer to her level.

“I’ll tell you.”. Or, rather, she’ll show him.

[tricksterofasgard]

For a moment he just gives her a confused look. Why would he have to come closer for her to tell him whatever the secret appeal of this piece of decoration may be? Though Loki is anything if not curious and in the end, he obliges. inclining his head just a little bit as he leans further down to her level.

"Well, I'm listening."

[heartstings]

She waits patiently until he’s within range. Her hands move up to take hold of the horns on his helmet and pull him in just a tad closer so she can plant a kiss on his lips. She doesn’t hold the kiss for too long, though it’s not short either, before releasing him. That is if he doesn't try to pull away.

“A holiday tradition of kissing under the mistletoe.” She grins up at him. “Y’know I think I like the smaller headpiece and horns better.”

[tricksterofasgard]

And she sure catches him by surprise with that move. Not many would dare to go for those horns and use them to keep a hold on him. He doesn't exactly resist, though. Instead, he just gives her a bewildered look, blinks twice and straightens back up once released.

So this just happened.

"I was not aware of this tradition." No harm in admitting that much. But his confusion isn't entirely gone "What smaller headpiece?"

[heartstings]

If there's one thing Kenzi is good at its surprising people. The look on his face is well worth any sort of backlash.

"And now you are," her voice is overly cheerful.

"Hmm, lemme see..." She trails off as she brings her hands up in front of her, nearly cupping them as if holding something unseen. She takes in a breath and closes her eyes, shortly after the air shimmers in her hands. For a moment there's a glint of gold and then a pop as a small red wooden brick drops into her hands.

She frowns upon seeing the toy and tosses it aside. "Once more."

She does the same thing as before, face screwing up in concentration. This time the glint of gold expands as if made of liquid until it shapes itself into a headpiece that resembles his helmet.

"This one. Looks less like you're overcompensating for something." She looks so pleased with herself.

[tricksterofasgard]

Loki watches with lingering curiosity, shifting his footing a little as he lightly crosses his arms at the sight of Kenzi's display. Creating something out of thin air - That's not an ability Loki himself possesses. Especially not here.

"Nice little trick." he comments when she tosses the brick aside and tries again.

The next item seems to be what she has been aiming for and it earns her a raised brow from the Asgardian, who also glances up towards his own helmet.

"Overcompensating? I'm not-" The sentence remains unfinished, but he does reach up to pull the massive golden thing from his head and give it a more critical look "This helmet was given to me by--" But again he doesn't finish, instead settles with a grimace. Right. Because that heritage still matters, does it?

Shifting his attention away from the horned monstrosity and back at Kenzi, Loki frowns.

"You think it's that bad?"

[heartstings]

"It comes in handy." The dress and everything else she's wearing? Made using this ability after a few tries. The repairs she's been able to do on the Branch in such a timely manner? All thanks to this creation ability. Since she's been getting the hang of it she quite enjoys it.

She raises her brow, head tilting a bit as she grins at his protest. Though when he says it was a gift she can understand why he'd wear it. "Important then. I get it."

She shrugs. "It's certainly done no favors for your hair."

[tricksterofasgard]

"A relic." he argues against her conclusion regarding the importance of the helmet, making an effort to sound as if it doesn't matter. Because it shouldn't. The past shouldn't matter anymore. The false promises and lies and --

For a short moment Loki looks irritated, distracted by his own train of thought. But then he adjusts the hold he has on his unwieldy piece of armor, resting it in the palm of one hand before pressing his other hand against the golden brow and calling upon his own magic. It's his turn to focus and the helmet begins to glow and shift. He may not be able to create stuff from nothing, but rearranging molecules has been something he has been doing for centuries, even back on Asgard.

Of course reshaping his helmet into a smaller headpiece would result in a decent amount of excess gold, but that can easily be fused into the remaining pieces of his armor.

So yes, that's what he does. And the new piece he comes out with is, indeed, quite similar to Kenzi's creation. Maybe the horns are still a little longer and it sports a rather distinct set of decorations along the edges. But it's close. Once finished, he turns it in his hands to show it to her.

"How about this?"

[heartstings]

There's a small pang of guilt as Kenzi feels like maybe she poked just a little too hard at the wrong thing. She starts to reach out to place a hand on his forearm but stops when he shifts his hold on the helmet.

Her eyes widen as she watches him reshape the helmet into something closer to the piece she'd made. When he's done and shows it to her she raises her own to compare the two.

"Not bad. Still think the horns are overcompensating though." She grins, tone a little playful.

"And, hey, now I can do a more accurate sexy cosplay for Fanport." Not something she'd atctually planned before this moment.

[tricksterofasgard]

He lets out a short huff, then shrugs and puts the new headpiece on to test its fit. It's certainly lighter than his helmet used to be.

"I can't break with all of Asgard's traditions in one evening." He comments, weighing his head from side to side "This one already won't hold up well in battle unless I utilize it as a weapon." Which he is, in fact, considering. It's light, made of Asgardian gold and those horns are indeed sharp.

Feeling satisfied enough, Loki settles with a simple smile, now raising a brow at her again.

"But if you plan to cosplay me, I want to see pictures." He means this.

[heartstings]

"Tch, traditions." That just makes her think of the Fae. He'd probably fit in just fine with them until they don't take him seriously about the god thing.

"Anything can make a decent weapon if you try hard enough." Her gaze drifts back down to the headpiece in her hands and she wonders what she can do with it until the night is over. It clashes with her Sugar Plum Fairy themed outfit. Maybe it won't disappear if she puts it in coat-check with her coat.

When he mentions wanting pictures her head snaps up as she blinks at him. Her surprised expression is quickly replaced with a grin. "Why a picture when I could just show you in person?"

[tricksterofasgard]

"Traditions, indeed." Loki echoes, giving a rather pointed look upwards to where the mistletoe is still hanging, making his message clear enough: Please don't force one foreign tradition upon him while belittling those of his own people. Or at least the people he grew up believing to be his own, but... That's a different can of worms.

He proceeds to shake his head in a bemused way, setting aside her comment on potential weaponry but at the same time not appearing overly offended by her jab at Asgardian traditions.

"I won't object to a personal presentation either. Unlike others, I wish to know what people make of me."

[heartstings]

Kenzi gives a little shrug, looking just the tiniest bit guilty. Tradition or not, she just enjoys messing with people and it was a prime opportunity she couldn't pass up.

"Probably for the best that you don't open up the possibilities of getting photos from me." Because he'll probably get some he doesn't exactly want, not all naughty ones but like random cat memes and crap.

"Just out of curiosity, but how little clothing is too little and potentially offensive to you?" She somehow manages to keep a completely innocent look on her face.

[tricksterofasgard]

"Try me." Loki suggests with a small gesture and half a shrug.

"Though I expect you to be getting in trouble with the local laws sooner than you manage to offend me with a little nudity."

[heartstings]

Try me, he says. Like she isn't going to do just that.

"I wouldn't go parading down the street like Lady Godiva. That'd be silly."

[tricksterofasgard]

Of course he's counting on it.

For now, though, he simply grins "See? A few centuries ago that wouldn't be as much of a problem. Mortals used to be a lot simpler when Asgardians still interacted with them. They loved to do things naked."

He may or may not be exaggerating a little. Asgardians mostly interacted with ancient Vikings after all.

[heartstings]

"Humans still love to do things naked." She grins back at him with a wink.

"But you're not wrong, people can be such prudes. I imagine it was much the same when the Fae was a bit more open with humans. Back when they called themselves gods." Though there were plenty of Fae who didn't care for the rules and still played with humans the way they always had.

[tricksterofasgard]

"They also do things clothed these days." The Asgardian counters with a casually knowing smirk before a look of thoughtfulness crosses his face "Or virtually." Yeah, he's still working on fully figuring that out. But he's getting there.

"But leaving that aside... If they wish to consider certain beings their gods, why deny them?"

[heartstings]

"Mmn, yeah." There's a little brow waggle. If he wants help figuring that one out...

She sighs, of course he'd take their side. "Just because they got special powers. It's ridiculous."

[tricksterofasgard]

"Did they harm anyone?" A simple question. But an important one.

[heartstings]

All sense of playfulness leaves Kenzi.

"The Fae harm humans all the time. We're nothing but pets and cattle to most of them. Light Fae, Dark Fae, doesn't matter they see us as beneath them." Definitely a sore point.

[tricksterofasgard]

Loki falls silent to that, frowning. That's very different from how Asgard handled the matter. For better or for worse. And yet even Loki has never meant to mindlessly keep slaughtering humans once Midgard were his.

"But why?" is what he settles with to ask further.

[heartstings]

"Because they have power? Because for whatever reason we are literally food for them." She shrugs as her gaze returns to the headpiece in her hands, turning it over idly.

There are some Fae she absolutely loves, that she gave her life for, but most of them could rot for all she cared. Why'd she ever try so hard to be one of them?