Rockin' Around The Charlie Brown Christmas Tree [OPEN]

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

Characters: Anyone and everyone!
Content: Get your Christmas Party on!
Location: The Weapons Deck
Time of day: Evening of Christmas Day, after people have gotten presents
Warnings: None...for now...


[Since the Weapons Deck is totally empty, Mike and the Bots have taken it upon themselves to transform it for a rockin’ good Christmas Party! The Charlie Brown Tree has been safely set aside too; all decorated up. There’s a table with punch, food and way too many desserts for any group of people to handle, a bunch of Christmas decorations thanks to Rarity and her decorating crew, and even Christmas music that’s only slightly annoying!

Characters are free to come in and grab food, mingle, play games, exchange gifts or stories...whatever they want! Obviously, treat this thread as party-style.


There’s one more special note...there’s a couple bowls of punch sitting next to a big pan of Green Bean Casserole of Tranquility. Unfortunately, Crow accidentally mixed in some leftover Waters of Forgetfulness to make the punch. That water, combined with the spicy punch flavoring, has created an unusual concoction. If your characters drink some of this punch, they won’t notice anything wrong...at least yet!]

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[thirteenth_brat]

All Roxas really knew about parties was that they were supposed to be fun and that said fun somehow came from either hanging around talking, dancing, stuffing your face or somehow making a fool of yourself. Games may or may not have been mentioned when he was told of it. In any case, he was curious. In any case, there was food and for some stupid reason, he hadn't eaten yet that day. Naturally, this meant his first stop upon arrival was the table with the food.

He gave the punch a wary look, if only because he'd heard far too many stories from other members of the Organization about some humiliating thing or another that had happened to their Others at parties where something odd was done with the punch. Roxas decided he'd wait and let someone else try it first. If it was okay, then he would have some. Other wise, there probably safer options.

[eyeofwildtiger.livejournal.com]

Kotetsu was doing his best to get into the spirit. He was upset that he had no contact with his family. Not that he always made it home to see them for the holidays, but at least they had only a phone call away. He missed Bunny, too, especially after the events that had been kicked off around this time last year.

But he wasn't going to let anyone see that. A party sounded like a good distraction, so he made his way down to the weapons deck and try to have some fun. After loitering at the food tables for a while, he noticed the young man by the punch bowls and wandered over.

"Someone already get to the punch? Kind of early for that, isn't it?"

[thirteenth_brat]

"Frankly, the punch scares me," Roxas replied, "Though that might have something to do with some stories I've heard about people doing odd things to the punch at parties." He left out the fact that he would have some if someone else tried it and it seemed safe. In the meantime, he was looking into other options for drinks, in between loading up a plate with food.

[eyeofwildtiger.livejournal.com]

"Ah, it's a pretty common thing at parties. Kinda strange with so many kids around, though." Kotetsu examined the punch bowl, rubbing his chin. He poured himself a cup, sniffed it, and took a sip.

"Seems safe to me."

[thirteenth_brat]

Roxas shrugged. He was more interested in food than drink at the moment anyway. That and maybe meeting a few people he knew in person when he hadn't really been able to speak with them before. So far he'd only seen Namine in person. He wasn't sure he actually wanted to talk to Riku, but he wouldn't go out of his way to avoid him either. He'd kind of gotten the impression that his presence troubled Riku and he doubted actively avoiding him would help.

Mostly, Roxas wanted to talk to Sora. In person. Chatting with him on the network twice didn't count. There was also Xion to consider. His memories of his time with the Organization were a bit spotty and he was starting to wonder if it was because anything pertaining to Xion had been removed somehow. He got the impression they'd been friends when he knew her, but that was about it.

Sighing, he tried to remind himself that this was a party and supposedly parties were fun. If that was true, he wasn't going to enjoy it with such heavy stuff on his mind.

[eyeofwildtiger.livejournal.com]

Hearing that sigh, Kotetsu gave Roxas a well-meaning pat on the shoulder.

"It's good. You should try some." He motioned to the other tables. "Everything else is really good, too. You're missing out just standing here."

If he wasn't going to mope about, he certainly wasn't going to let a kid do so, either. Especially on Christmas.

[skysmirror.livejournal.com]

Xion had managed to make her way over to the food table--she was a bit hungry. Though she steered clear of the punch for the same reasons Roxas had, the food looked good so she decided to try a few things.

Noticing Roxas, she smiled faintly. "Hi, Roxas."

[thirteenth_brat]

He didn't notice her at first since he was a wee bit preoccupied with his food, but he did hear his name and turned around to see who had addressed him.

At least he had the decency to finish what he was chewing on before speaking, not that it made the first words out of his mouth any less lame... "Oh, uh, hi."

[skysmirror.livejournal.com]

Xion unsuccessfully tried to stifle a smile. "How have you been?"

She hoped he was settling in okay.

[ooc: short tag is short, but this is what she's got at the moment.]

[thirteenth_brat]

"I've been okay, I guess." Which was mostly true. Weirdness of his situation aside, he was fine.

Xion needn't have worried. While the situation took some adapting, he was doing said adapting well enough.

[skysmirror.livejournal.com]

"Good." Xion hadn't been worried so much as concerned--just hoping her friend was doing okay. She'd wanted to go find him, but had thought things might be a bit awkward.

Which they seem to have become now. Without a further conversation topic, she lapsed into silence.

[thirteenth_brat]

Awkward seems to be par for the course for Roxas lately. And at the moment, he preferred silence over some of the thing he otherwise wanted to talk about. It was heavy stuff and just didn't seem right to bring up when they were supposed to be having fun.

Unfortunately, awkward silence tended to make Roxas fidgety and he found himself scrounging for something to talk about that didn't have the potential to be a downer.

"So, uh... are you having fun?" Lame, but it was a question he'd been asking and answering a lot already, so what was one more?

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

It seemed like there was always a party going on around here. Not that Terra was complaining necessarily, it was just he had never been one for parties much and yet here he found himself attending one every few weeks. He walked in, eyes immediately scanning for Aqua's presence but he didn't see her at all. Terra tried not to show his disappointment that she wasn't here but reassuring himself that she would probably show up a little later. Girls always took longer to get ready anyway, right?

He sighed and headed for the food table. Surely, Pinkie Pie would have made some extra special treats for a party on this holiday. Terra's mind wandered away from delicious cookies and slices of cake, however, when he saw who else had decided to check out the food table. He had to remind himself that it was Roxas, not Ven, who stood before him and the resemblance was even more uncanny now that Terra was seeing him face to face and not just through Cambot.

He debated not saying hello at first but decided that was rude and came over anyway, "Hey, Roxas. Merry Christmas."

[thirteenth_brat]

Roxas wasn't quite sure if he'd expected to see Terra at this party or not, although now that he was here, Roxas was reminded that he felt kind of bad about having gotten the guy's hopes up about his friend. Still, what was done was done. The most Roxas could do to rectify it was be nice.

Though now that he saw Terra in person, something about him seemed oddly familiar. At the moment, though, Roxas couldn't place it and he wasn't going to rack wrack his brain trying.

"Oh, hey. Merry Christmas."

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

It was ironic that Terra wished Aqua were here to help diffuse what was quickly becoming an awkward situation. At least that was how Terra saw it, seeing as he he felt awkward just standing there not quite knowing what to say to Roxas. He hesitated, his eyes drifting to the table filled with food, "Enjoying yourself so far?"

[thirteenth_brat]

"Yeah, so far." Except for all the awkward, anyway, but Roxas kept that to himself. It wasn't likely it needed to be stated. Of course, that left him with nothing else to say and so there was awkward silence.

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

"That's good," Terra replied. He reached over and started fixing himself a cup of punch, using the ladle to pour it from the bowl into the glass. He didn't want this to remain awkward, but Terra wasn't sure what he could say to Roxas to make this moment let so.

Terra took a drink, "I was hoping we could try to get on a better foot. I know I wasn't exactly the best at introducing you to this place."

[whenflamesbegin.livejournal.com]

Lea enjoyed the gift he received from his friend Isa. He couldn’t stop playing with it. For whatever reason he got a joy out of shooting random things with his plushy nerf bullets. As Lea snuck around the corner her spotted Roxas. He gave a mischevious grin and pulled out his nerf gun and shot a soft bullet at the back of his head. Watching it bounce off his friend, he gave a laugh, “Yo! Roxas, check it out!”

Twirling the nerf gun in his hand, Lea smirked as he let rest on his shoulder, “Pretty sweet gift huh?”

[thirteenth_brat]

It was safe to say that Lea was rather that Roxas wasn't eating to drinking anything when the soft projectile struck. Otherwise, he would have been more annoyed than he was.

As it was, he turned around, looking for the source of the assault. And of course, there was Lea, with the offending toy and a smirk.

"You got to be kidding me." Unfortunately, Roxas didn't have anything to throw back save for the soft dart that had just bounced off his head. However, that didn't seem like the best idea. Confiscating the ammunition, on the other hand, made far more sense. And with that thought, and a smirk of his own, Roxas pocketed the dart. If Lea didn't want to lose any more darts, it would certainly have been a wise choice not to shoot any more of them at Roxas.

[beforetheflame]

Lea grinned as he approached Roxas, “Having yourself a good time so far? I took advantage of the snack tray they had out.” He then gave a pout when he pocketed the ammo, “Hey… You ain’t gonna give me that back, are ya?” Lea asked as he poked Roxas with his nerf gun.

[verygassy.livejournal.com]

"Roxaaaaas~"

Dressed in the dress she got for Christmas (http://i44.tinypic.com/vhb9zn.png), Minako's Roxas radar immediately picked him out. Within seconds, she was next to him, her winningest smile planted on her face.

"Hi!!"

[thirteenth_brat]

"Um, hi." If he were being totally honest, and he planned to when he spoke to someone about this, he would say that sing-song when Minako said his name scared him. He hid it well, though. It did occur to him that maybe she was just very out going and upbeat and that seemed a good explanation for her behavior. He was not aware just yet that she had developed an instant crush on him through his first appearance on the network. It was probably better for his sanity at the moment...

Still, he didn't want to be rude, so he tried to make some small talk, "Are you having fun so far?"

[verygassy.livejournal.com]

"I sure am!" She nodded happily. He was talking to her! "I hope you are too? Christmas parties almost always are! It's the perfect time of the year to have one!"

And the perfect time for a winter romance~ she thought dreamily.

[thirteenth_brat]

"Yeeah, I guess I'm having fun." Roxas was rather thankful he wasn't drinking anything when she commented on Christmas time being the perfect time of year for a Christmas party, other wise he might have ended up choking said drink. It sounded like the kind of redundant thing Sora might say if he wasn't thinking, which was a little too often.

In either case, her behavior did strike him as a little odd. Then again, for all he knew, it was normal for girl on her world. So he didn't comment on it.

[verygassy.livejournal.com]

Aah! A man of few words! So honest! What a guy...

"Yeah...hey!" She smiled. "Want to get something to drink? I'm kind of thirsty...or I could get it for you!"