001 ✽ Be our guest

[giglio_madonna]

Who: Luce, and the many fellow Virgos
What: In which the hired chefs weren't warned about the Tiny God, kitchens are borrowed, and there's an open lunch.
When: Backdated to Oct 4, from morning to noon
Where: Around Virgo HQ, and eventually the FoB penthouse
Warnings: None.

About and Around: Virgo HQ. 9 am

You'd think celebrities would get to sleep in, but nope. Someone is knocking at your penthouse door and whoever gets the honor of opening it will get to see Luce standing there smiling.

"I know this is rather sudden, but would it be alright if I used your penthouse's kitchen?"

Yep, that's sure a question.

Flowers Over Bones Penthouse. Anytime before noon.

For those who are curious just as to what is going on, they're more than welcome to drop by the penthouse where Luce's band is staying. They'll generally find, at the kitchen table, someone clearly recognizable as a hired Virgo chef sitting there with her hand in her hands. She seems a bit... shell shocked. Sitting nearby is FoB's manager, Angel Ramsey, looking like she's given up on all of life's goodness as she does work on a laptop balanced on her knees.

If the timing is right or you wait around long enough, Luce comes bustling back in straight towards the kitchen to check on any number of things that seem to be baking, broiling, cooking, steaming... It's a very full kitchen. (If you've let her borrow yours, undoubtedly you know the scene now.) Feel free to talk to her even while she's so busy.

Flowers Over Bones Penthouse. Lunchtime.

Have you let Luce use your kitchen? Were you at any point even just idly bumped into while she was making her way around HQ? You've now been invited to have lunch with her band.

All the food from the other kitchens has been carted up to the penthouse, the chef having recovered enough to lead that endeavor, and now there is an unprecedented amount of food taking up whatever available space there is. There's soup, pasta, meatballs, salad, and so much bread. The fact that there's so much is probably proof of magic.

Furthering the idea that she's likely powered by witchcraft and the tears of angels, Luce bustles around as she gets her own lunch. "Don't worry, just dig in! Waste not, want not. And Angel, I've seen our schedule for this week..."

Once things have settled down, Luce can be found sitting outside enjoying the beautiful ocean view. She seems to be scribbling words down onto a set of three papers while eating her lunch. The titles seem to be Mare, Vongola, and Arcobaleno. Every now and then, she nibbles on something thoughtfully and just stares down. An artist's work is never done.

Comments

[sponsorigami]

They're messengers. The people they bring down usually have done something to please Ryuujin, like rescuing a baby turtle, so he thanks them by inviting them to the palace.

[giglio_madonna]

Just rescuing baby turtles is enough to get on his good side?

[It makes her laugh, but it's a good one. There's something endearing about a powerful mythical figure taking care about something as small as a baby turtle.]

[sponsorigami]

Even a baby turtle is one of Ryuujin's subjects. Such an act of kindness from a fisherman is to be rewarded.

[ Why not baby turtles? However jellyfish and octopuses got on Ryuujin's bad side once and lost all their bones. ]

[giglio_madonna]

He sounds like a noble person, then.

[Exactly her kind of giant sea dragon.]

Does he know about the difference in how time flows? Or is that never said in the legends?

[sponsorigami]

They do to some extent. There's one story where Ryuujin or his daughter gifts the fisherman a special box as he's about to leave. They tell him to never open it. He goes back to the surface to find everyone else had grown old and say they remember a man with his name, but he disappeared. They don't know it's him.

[ Which drives the fisherman to despair and forget or go against the warning. ]

When the fisherman opens the box, he instantly becomes old because it contained his age or something similar.

[giglio_madonna]

I see... Was it like immortality then, or just taking off the age? I suppose a myth wouldn't get too much into that...

[sponsorigami]

Hmm....

[ Ivan doesn't actually know, but he mulls the question in his head more before speaking. ]

I think it was more freeing the years the fisherman spent under the sea all at once. The box was like a cage for them.

[giglio_madonna]

A cage to hold back all the things you'd avoided, whether you realized it or not... Hmm. That's definitely one way to do things.

[sponsorigami]

Maybe he would have aged normally after if he had kept the box closed.

[ Or maybe he would have become immortal and found a way to return to the palace. The folklore never got that far. ]

[giglio_madonna]

I suppose we can only wonder about it, hm?

I'll have to do a lot more research. This is really interesting.

[sponsorigami]

Let me know if you want my help with that.

[ He has bookmarks already, and the smile on his face shows how excited he is over the idea. ]

[giglio_madonna]

You'll be the first person I go to. After all, you're our resident Japan expert!

[sponsorigami]

[ Giving a small nod, Ivan gets up to retrieve some more tea for Luce. She has some lyrics to work on. ]