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Test Drive Meme #2 - Overflow

🦋 Expand for Test Drive #2 Prompts
🦋 Introduction
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🦋 The Party
You wake up at a party.
You're not sure how, exactly, you got here. You may have just been walking in the woods or at a meeting for work or doing any other normal activity for you. But you know you weren't supposed to be at this party, you're fairly certain.
Anyone you ask about it will say the party is for you. You and the others also waking up and looking confused. Further questions will lead to the partygoers insisting you have something to eat. You're starving and others are eating the food without repercussion, so you figure there's no harm in a bite. You finish your portion.
It's a garden party at the crack of dawn, with the sun still in its early stages of climbing through the yonder, casting a good mix of pastel hues of blue, pink, and beige on everything. Heralding the first day of spring, the Ruler of the Spring Court has found it fitting to arrange this gathering where guests can feel the blades of grass touching their ankles, as well as the rich soil beneath their feet. Flowers of all kinds surround the party as if they were carefully curated. With spring as the "dawn of seasons," which marks a transition from winter's latency to the resurgence of life everywhere, the Ruler of the Dawn Court has also seen it fit to host aspects of this party during the one time of the year that dawn occurs the whole day. Tall candles and torches grace the outskirts of the garden party, providing warmth and an orange glow everywhere. Not one flame goes out even with the occasional wind, the Duchess always makes sure of this.
There are also freshly picked blossoms and branches with leaves on every table accenting the festive spread of food and drinks. This time, a lot of the food prepared for the Adopted guests are familiar to them with a little bit of a twist. Burgers might come in small packages and in toothpicks, while hotdogs in buns are also diminutive. Cookies look delectable but they have a flowery flavor to them, as if eating freshly picked daisies or daffodils. Fruits that may have been present in an Adopted's home, such as pineapples and watermelons, have seeds in odd places. Picking this selection of food is an attempt to be more welcoming and to appease the lovely guests the fae have invited.
As the party winds down and everyone's eaten, a tall, stately woman stands up and speaks. You feel her voice more than hear it.
I am the Lawspeaker of the Fae, elected by Seelie and Unseelie alike, and you are all, now, subjects of Faerie. You cannot leave this realm once you have eaten our food, and even if you could, there is no saying how much time has passed back where you're from. Your loved ones are likely dead, your problems have likely played out. We require assistance in various matters, and each of you has been chosen for your talent and skill. You will be adopted by one of the Seelie or Unseelie Courts based on your strengths and personality. Your Court will decide what to do with you from there.
As suddenly as she stood, she sits back down.
🦋 Chance at a Dance
A party is not complete without dancing, of course, and while during the last gathering held for the Adopted, different fae danced to music exclusively for them around a glowing tree, this time they are insisting their guests to join in.
This is a party for you, after all.
If the prodding of the different fae hosts won't convince you, perhaps the music will. They play easily recognizable tunes that their wonderful guests must have heard before. These melodies have certain unique effects to their mortal attendees, which are as follows:
- Upbeat Music: You will believe that you and your dance partner have been friends forever and have known each other a long time.
- Romantic Music: You will become amorous and flirtatious towards your dance partner.
- Slow Music: You will develop some tension with your dance partner. It may be negative or sexual; completely up to you.
- Quiet Music: You will assume your dance partner is a threat and try to fight them.
🦋 Flower Power
At the Spring King's behest, every Adopted should wear a flower corsage or boutonnière to the gathering. After all, this is to celebrate the coming of spring and what better way to do that than to honor everything in bloom.
The thing is, though, the King of Spring, while amorous and friendly, also has a penchant for playing with mortals' memories, if not also affect their desires and despairs.
So, mischievous as he is, he made sure to enchant the different flowers present in every corsage and boutonnière for the party with the effects below:
- Rose: You will recall a horrific trauma
- Carnation: You will see a vision of your future, whether it's good or bad
- Orchid: You will remember a time you lost someone
- Chrysanthemum: You will believe someone among the Adopted is your soulmate
- Dahlia: You will believe you betrayed someone important to you, whether you actually did or not
It is perhaps a good thing that no one but the Adopted are allowed to see these visions and memories, but everyone who wears a corsage or boutonnière will be able to see each other's memories and visions when in close enough physical proximity to the vision-haver, for better or for worse.
🦋 GEIS
You feel a vibration in your pocket sometime after the Lawspeaker addresses everyone. When you search for the source, you will pull out your Leaf, the device the Fae use to stay in touch with each other. Anyone who's used a smart phone will easily recognize how it works.
Greetings, Adopted. This is your Lawspeaker.
Tell us all of a time you gave someone a gift. Perhaps a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates. Was it appreciated or not? A reward might await the most meaningful gift given.
~maybe in a hundred years~
"I don't. I just want to understand why.. he picked you over me." And there it is, the whole basis for her anger. No matter how she looks at it, it looks like Stolas abandoned her to run off with his lover to escape them. She's been replaying the last several months in her mind for days trying to figure out what she did wrong. Her frown softens as she shifts awkwardly, taken aback by his offer to reveal more about himself.
Asking about his mother seems irrelevant, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what fate befell her. The other imp reminds her of that creepy ass clown from Loo Loo Land, but that isn't what she focuses on. The thing that stands out most is the heart on the back of the envelope and the way he made his exit. Finally, she murmurs:
"You were giving him a love letter."
yeah it does seem like it'd take them that long to get to a proposal
"He's definitely more than a fucking fling. But I can't tell you exactly what we are before the two of us have hashed it out." And they didn't have a chance to do that before he was whisked off to fairyland. "As for why he chose me... kiddo, I was about to die. If it were you with your head on a chopping block, he'd have been there just as fast. Maybe faster." She probably wants something deeper, but when it comes down to it... that's the reason. He has no doubt Stolas would have picked him over Stella, but him over Octavia? Never, and Blitzø would never ask him to.
"And... yeah." He gives a sad, slightly twisted smile. "Fizz was my best friend, had been since we were small. I'd been crushing pretty hard for a while. Thought it'd be, I don't know, romantic or something, if I told him on his birthday. But I chickened out and well. You saw how that turned out."
He tries not to wonder how things would have gone if he'd actually gone through with it. It hurts too much to even contemplate.
actual wedding takes 200 years because hitmen
"Even when you aren't dying, he chooses you. And I'm not a child." Try again, Blitzø. Stolas has been choosing him for months, the threat of him dying only made him realize what was most important to him and it wasn't her. "Just once.." Octavia trails off, not understanding why she's bothering with this. He isn't an unbiased ear and he's one of the last people she wants to talk to right now, but at least he isn't her father.
"Just once, I want someone to look at and choose me. Is that so wrong? Instead of walking into a home where there's no love left. Do you even know what that feels like? To come in second place to everything? Did he even think about the fact that I could be watching that screen? He'd rather let me watch him die than tell me anything!" Stella chose petty revenge and spite; he chose love and an escape. At least her mother never outright lied to her, she was always candid about her feelings. Whereas Stolas gave her all the love a daughter could ask for only to take hers for granted. Did he even realize how miserable she was, or was he too busy making himself look nice for his boyfriend?
They were never happy together, whether the imp came into his life or not something was going to give. Him showing up when he did just served to expedite the process. Her pleasure at seeing him in pain isn't gone but it does waiver a bit, just long enough for her to let out a sigh. "Just because you're pouring your heart out to me doesn't mean I'm going to like you. We aren't friends and we never will be."
Blitzø's just gonna have to grab Stolas and run off to elope
Because he does. Because she's Stolas' daughter and despite how she's feeling right now, he knows how much Stolas loves her. Because she's got a feisty spark in her that screams trouble. And because he understands how she's feeling a lot better than she thinks.
"Look, I love the guy, but your father...." he sighs. "He's not always big on thinking things through, is he? He can be such a fucking idiot for someone so smart."