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Father Time ([personal profile] timefather) wrote in [community profile] mythmaking2013-12-08 03:00 pm

Once upon a time...

[ For the residents of Märchenstraße, and all the land surrounding it, the eighth of December was a day to look forward to. Looking at it from an outside perspective, strangers and travelers could easily assume it to be a holiday. At the very least, a day for a festival, if a modest one. A day that shopkeeps spent all morning preparing for, that all manner of creatures spent days traveling to the city to witness. They'd heard the talk that passed around, the rumors from those still left. But would it work? No one knew for sure, no matter how confident the stories seemed to be. But hope was very quickly becoming all they had left.

They had decorated the whole town. Streamers, banners, wreathes and garland made of autumn flowers, plus whatever the Fairy Godmother had cooked up. Oh, she was just giddy. No skepticism could be spoken around her, not if you wanted to escape the wrath of her wand! Rumor had it that she had caught wind of a few piglets squealing about the likelihood that their magic would fail, and that they were subsequently transformed into the band of musicians who could be found performing in the park.

Well, at least the music was festive.

Of course, the decorations weren't for the newcomers alone. Autumn was coming to a close in just a few weeks, and Old Man Winter would take the reigns like he did every year, and their weather would turn cold and harsh. The chill was already there, cool and biting when the wind picked up speed. Lady Autumn was much preferred to the citizens of the city with her gentle nature, even if she failed to show up, finishing her work in the orchards instead. That was what they liked about her.

It was mid-morning when Father Time was found outside of his tower, checking one of the numerous pocket watches he kept on his person. "Unnecessary, but comfortable," he called them, and closed the watch again. It was twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and where empty space had been just seconds before, now they were. Sitting on benches, lying in flower patches, scattered about the city and outside of the gates in peaceful slumber. They would awaken to the bells of the clock tower. Some, to many friendly and relieved faces all around them, some to grateful ones carrying gifts of food and clothing and magic, and some to fearful, cautious faces. Regardless of how the town treated them, they would awaken to a celebration of their arrival, and choices to be made, and the books. Each and every one. ]
subdueme: (end it now)

[personal profile] subdueme 2013-12-10 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[See. He dealt with fangirls on a daily basis. Not his own. He worked as something of a security or barrier between the human girls and the vampires they wanted to impress. He has a lot of experience scaring off the so called 'hens'.]

Normally you have to at least yell at them. They don't listen otherwise.
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[personal profile] petitgamin 2013-12-10 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[This person is ... big. Really big. In his shock at seeing such a big person, Gavroche can't help floating up a big more]

May be small, but I'll grow. 'Sides, little people c'n do more than big people.
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[personal profile] petitgamin 2013-12-10 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[And Gavroche just looks blank] I aen't from no story, I'm from Paris. [Oh wait, then he remembers what he said to the nice girl who gave him the flower] I mean ... I'm Peter.
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[personal profile] tuaslavenir 2013-12-10 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You, too. [ Enjolras has very little energy to spend on impatience - he's spent most of the remainder on Grantaire - and so he lets the name pass without protest. Of course, he's also just a mite distracted by the fact that Gavroche is ... hovering. ] What on earth - how have you done that? [ Perhaps he's just going mad. That explains the most. ]
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[personal profile] petitgamin 2013-12-10 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gavroche looks down at his floating. Oh yeah, that. He doesn't really think about it much anymore. It just ... happens. If he were older, or more educated, he would probably muse upon the way in which he has adapted to being able to fly - though he is not good at it yet - but he is none of these things, but instead a little pup. Thus he shrugs his shoulders]

Just c'n. Some lady said I'm Peter Pan now.
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[personal profile] tuaslavenir 2013-12-10 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
They fell for France. [ His response is quick and flat enough that it might seem unconsidered, but it's simply automatic - he knows it well enough that he hardly has to think. ] As they knew they might - as was proper.

[ He looks at Grantaire, shoving all thoughts of the damn book resolutely form his mind. ] It's a death no one could regret. It changes nothing. I mourn them, but it changes nothing.
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[personal profile] peckish4action 2013-12-10 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
With so many people at once? Probably not so much, with chance.

[ Dick tilts his head, then does ask. ]

Would you be willing to tell me what that story is? I mean, you obviously know the story that's supposed to be mine.
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[personal profile] peckish4action 2013-12-10 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And so Wally could see, very clearly, the surprise, then anger on Dick's face. ]

What?

Not cool. Really, really not cool, dude! I...

A guy back there said that Father Time could answer questions. Maybe we should go try that one.
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[personal profile] cancercarcino 2013-12-10 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well I hope so. They're annoying enough as it is.

[But he makes sure they remain folded against his back. That's a good idea, keeping them folded until he figures out how to use them properly.]
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[personal profile] cancercarcino 2013-12-10 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
How about we not try flying the minute I wake up with new appendages, huh? How about I master the incredibly difficult task of walking first?
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[personal profile] cancercarcino 2013-12-10 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't?

[He frowns a bit at that.]

What, was your lusus that damaged in the think sponge that it forgot to name you?
cancercarcino: (What the fuck does that even mean?!)

[personal profile] cancercarcino 2013-12-10 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, then tell me why the fuck everyone keeps thinking that I'm some... some thing from a wiggler tale! And why the hell did I wake up with these??

[He jabs a thumb at his wings.]
cancercarcino: (I'm busy goddamnit leave me alone!)

[personal profile] cancercarcino 2013-12-10 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll stop when you go and fuck off to stare at some other unfortunate nookwhiff around here!
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[personal profile] imitational 2013-12-10 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
My what? Where did you learn to talk?

[ "Think sponge" he can at least figure out, but what the hell is a lusus? ]
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[personal profile] topgun_textiles 2013-12-10 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes I gotta yell, sure. But the way I look does plenty to drive 'em away, especially when I wanted people outta my face.

I figured I got better about it, but... shit, I don't even know those people. How do they know to run off before I open my mouth?

[Now that it sunk in, he looked saddened, sticking his hands in his pockets.]

This doesn't even look like anywhere in Japan... s'like Europe or somethin'.
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[personal profile] unaccepted 2013-12-10 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
What purpose would you have to come here? How, in the first place?
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[personal profile] unaccepted 2013-12-10 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm following. And what of your growth?
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[personal profile] unaccepted 2013-12-10 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Grantaire belatedly goes along with him, hurrying to catch up. His eyes dart around their surroundings and his frown only deepens. ]

Trade, is it. I've only--[ He only now looks down at his belongings. Dominoes that he stuffed into his pocket, the strange book in one hand, and a bottle of wine in the other. ] Would they take this book, then? I've no time to read at the moment, much less of Pylades.
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[personal profile] topgun_textiles 2013-12-10 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[He climbed right up and leaned to get a better look at the spines.]

Hey yeah, they're right here... uhh, there's Villeneuve, there's de Beaumont, and two that look like scripts for opera or somethin'. I'm gonna grab 'em all.

[One, two, three, four, the books were stacked neat before he tucked them under an arm and slowly made his way back down. At the corner of his eye, the fire in the hearth was starting up, crackling and growing as the maid neatly dusted off her apron and called up if there was anything else she could provide. Tea? Lady Beauty had expressed feeling a chill...]

Uh, sure.

["Right away, Your Highness." And off she goes, not noticing the brief look of horror Kanji sent to her retreating back.]

H-hey, don't call me--

[But she was gone when his shoes touched the carpet. He sighed, and held the books out for Naoto.]

I take two, you take two?
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[personal profile] petitgamin 2013-12-10 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Aen't exactly growing. More ... sort of started to fly.
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[personal profile] unaccepted 2013-12-10 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Grantaire opens his mouth to argue further, but nothing comes out. One might say there is anger in his expression, yet still nothing compared to the distress and loss present. His friends kept him happy, and they were good, and they did not deserve such a fate. He does not understand how Enjolras sees nothing but France, but it would be unwise to storm off.

He cannot lose Enjolras. ]


You are right, that it has changed nothing. [ If he continues, they will only both become angry and that is not what they need. ] We cannot stand here forever.
unaccepted: (life is a theatre set in which)

[personal profile] unaccepted 2013-12-10 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You've no wings. [ As if Gavroche cannot tell. ]
Edited 2013-12-10 22:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] pishirogane 2013-12-10 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not surprised. It's a popular tale...

[Still, Beaumont sounds familiar as do the existing opera scripts, but Villeneuve? She held the ladder as he came down. With the fire going, she decided maybe she can remove her jacket now.]

[Hearing Kanji stutter, she sighed and released the ladder to undo her jacket.]


You'll have to get used to the title, Kanji-kun. We both have to.

[Jacket off, she draped it over her arm and accepted the books. She nodded.]

Sure. Let's sit down and decide. [She headed to the closest couch with a table.]
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[personal profile] petitgamin 2013-12-10 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gavroche blinks] I know. C'n still fly.
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[personal profile] topgun_textiles 2013-12-10 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
So you're an 'iced tea in the Winter' kinda dude, right?

...So if it ain't New Year's, what are you guys celebrating?

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