b u o n e ~ f e s t e

[sharktrash]

Who: Priders! (Basically if you (or your friend, or your dog) has had a positive interaction with anyone from MANTICORE, consider yourself invited, dragged along or sent in someone else's place. And even if you haven't been invited it's totally fine to notice something's going on and show up or  randomly come across this and stay!)
What: Genos and Squalo throw a Solstice dinner party. Italian food for everyone!
When: December 21?ish (forward-dated a bit so it doesn't fall right before irl holidays)
Where: MANTICORE penthouse
Warnings: MANTICORE Squalo, Carnies, language, minors getting drunk, substance abuse, someone might decide to bone, idk.


[ Fuck the creepy shit, MANTICORE are aggressively throwing a Solstice party! Because why not, and who has the patience to wait until New Years? ]

[ There are locations/prompts in toplevels, but feel free to start your own as well. Generic timeline of the night would be: cooking, dinner, socializing with games and booze and possibly other things, and  a movie marathon into the wee hours of the morning for the ones interested.  ]

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DINNER

[sharktrash]

[ THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF AND IT ALL LOOKS/SMELLS/TASTES GREAT. A feast has been set up in the middle of the dining area, and they probably had to borrow another table or two to set it all up. ]

[ Including but not limited to: chicken with mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables, meat rolls, an array of sauces, rice, banana and blackberry pies, a selection of traditional Italiana dishes that amount to the Feast of Seven Fishes, as well as steak and pasta, godly tender flank steak, panettone and of course several kinds of pizza with a variety of sauces rich in tomatoes, garlic and chili. If you brought something over, it can be found on the table too! And booze, obviously. Lots and various kinds. ]

[ Grab a chair and join in! In true Europa spirit, this is also the time for conversations and heart-to-hearts between bites. ]

Superbia Squalo

[sharktrash]

[ Bitches better praise the food. ]

[iitrebel]

[No.]

Holy shit, Squalo, did you cook this shit blindfolded!? I better stick to what Genos made!

[What do you mean no starting shit with the cook?]

[sharktrash]

[ HOE DON'T DO IT ]

Do you want to eat through a straw for the rest of your life?

[ Yeah he's been... talking violence much more easily ever since that night at Naomi's. Including suggesting torturing Gold and Silver to Genos. Something must've changed, but it's not too noticeable just yet. ]

[worthlesspride]

[And here's the other half of CoT's asshole twins]

Well! It looks edible. Too much meat though.

[sharktrash]

[ oh my god ]

Fish isn't meat.

[ tread carefully ]

[stylistic_disloyalty]

[Good Person Luci to the rescue.]

[A healthy plate of food in one hand, Luci leans down from behind Squalo's chair and kisses him on the cheek.]

It's beautiful. Cheers.

[sharktrash]

[ LUCI YOU ARE GODSEND. (The irony.) ]

[ He perks up a bit, his expression visibly brightening, and he'll even give her a small smirk in return. ]

Hey, thanks.

[ He considers telling her that "there's a bunch of assholes eating and dissing everything" but whatever, he can take care of them and she's not his mom. ]

Got a favorite yet?

Garnet

[twoscompany]

[Well, Garnet's come. And she's also brought something for the group to enjoy. Though...weirdly enough, she brought several bottles of...booze. Enough for everyone at the party to have a cordial of it, of not two.

She, meanwhile, is enjoying the food. Om om.]

[sharktrash]

[ Oh hey, it's his break-in bud! And she brought something over, how nice of her. Squalo isn't exactly tactful, though, so he inspects the bottle and the volume information a bit suspiciously, and then; ]

Great! We can use this in place of juice.

[ ...yeah. ]

[twoscompany]

I figured you would like it.

[Yeah, have fun with that, Squalo. Don't give it to the kids]

Tiger Universe

[tigermillionaire]

[Where is the kid's table, seriously.

Tiger feels super out of place, even with some of his bandmates there. Everyone is so old, and he feels like they are just tolerating him being present, because he's obviously not who this is intended for. The food is really great, though! He eats a lot, using that as a way of distracting his own attention from everyone else.

...And, he's going to end up trying to take some of the booze too. Of course, when he does, he almost immediately spits it up out of shock. Oh, it's so bad. It's soooo bad. Oh my god why.]

Aughhh, oh no- !

[wounds]

[Kid... Tiny child...

Yeah, that would probably be his reaction to strong alcohol too if he was that young.]

Want something else?

[tigermillionaire]

[Realizing that his reaction has been noted by someone else, one of the hosts none-the-less, Tiger flares up blushed, obviously humiliated. He tucks his glass closer to his lips and broods over it. That didn't just happen.]

...It's fine...

[No, it's the worst.]

[sharktrash]

[ Okay, so Genos is a proper adult. Meanwhile Squalo... well, at least he looks like he's trying not to laugh, how nice of him. And then he's taking an empty glass, pouring the booze that Garnet brought over into it, and putting it down in front of Tiger. ]

Here, have the kiddie stuff instead.

[ "Kiddie stuff" that still has like 16% alcohol volume, but details. He seems to consider it juice. ]

[tigermillionaire]

[...Oh...

Tiger was mostly ready to just relent to Genos's advice and not bother with the alcohol anymore, but the way that Squalo is handing it to him...now it feels like a challenge. And he already called it "kiddie stuff". It can't be that bad. If can't handle the baby stuff then he's going to look like such a dummy.

Tiger just looks at him, and then tentatively takes the glass. He takes a sip, and then...full body shiver. But he manages to hold it down like bad medicine, even if he looks pretty miserable with his choices.]

Oh.

[HOW IS THIS KIDDIE STUFF, IT'S AWFUL.]

Not here, but

[twoscompany]

[OH MY GOD SQUALO NO

BAD]

[scalpedsociety]

[In most cases, she's fine with minors drinking. (Squalo's family is from Italia, after all.) As long as there were adults present and it was only a glass... but she knows him. Soon a firm, red nail-lacquered hand goes over Squalo's shoulder.]

Squalo, don't you think this is too much for the boy?

[She's being nice... for now.]

[blindfoldcode]

[Kido has her own drink in her hand and she raises an eyebrow at this, trying not to laugh.]

Well, at least you're learning early.

[worthlesspride]

[Child, no]

My thoughts exactly.

Ryuko

[droppedthread]

[Ryuko's plate is mostly meat. She doesn't seem inclined towards or against any kind of meat in particular, she just. Girl likes her meat. And she is chowing the heck down.

She also has some booze, but so does basically everyone, it looks like. Do you dare interrupt her intense focus on her food?]

[worthlesspride]

[Have a raised eyebrow.]

That's an awful lot of meat.

[stylistic_disloyalty]

You know what I think-- [Luci sits down across from Ryuko with her own plate.] I think you should go right back to the kitchen and put something on that plate.

Fetch

[makeitright]

[Fetch is packing away the food and it's either going to be impressive or downright bizarre because she's eating like there will never been anything to put in her stomach again after this.

Which might be true, considering how much freaking food there is. She has a little bit of everything, but the fish is where it's at. She goes to spear the last of a huge side of it and her fork clashes with somebody else. Is it you? She'll fight you.]

[stylistic_disloyalty]

[...orly?]

[Luci looks at Fetch sideways with a smirk.] Hungry today, I see.