temptationaccomplished: (adoringly fond)
Aziraphale ([personal profile] temptationaccomplished) wrote in [community profile] diatu2019-11-18 09:06 pm

you're the first one when things turn out bad

Who: EVERYONE, you're all invited. Or invited to happen upon this, if you missed the invite, and spot it happening in the Great Hall.
What: Aziraphale wants to show off his best friend, so he's invited you all to a tea party.
Where: The Great Hall
When: Tuesday after classes
Warnings: Tyzias is a menace, there's no reason to think anything at ALL about The Arrangement, and if the invite was any indication, the ineffables probably cannot be contained



Due to circumstances which will not be discussed (but, namely, that Pallidus cannot be in indirect sunlight), and using weather as an excuse, Aziraphale's planned tea party out on the lawn has been moved indoors.

He's gone all out. There is plenty of tea (with optional sugar and cream), biscuits (by which we mean crisp cookies), some small cakes that are rather adorably decorated, a fruit pie or two, and treats provided by Sunset Shimmer. (And possibly booze, if Tyzias did decide to bring some). Casual though the gathering is, he's set a proper table to hold their food, with a table cloth, a few candles, some nice napkins. This is not slipshod work. This is the work of someone aesthetically living in a past century who feels like he has waited a good millennia for this moment and is going to do this right.

And what This is, is introduce his demon best friend to polite company. As Crowley put it.
It's true, though. Except where Tyzias is concerned, anyway.

In the center of the table is a small, homey potted plant. Nothing particularly extravagant. Leafy and green and moderately well-cared for, recently purchased, and even more recently labeled with a tag that says "For: Crowley." The "for" was added secondary, after it occurred to Aziraphale that it looked a bit like he'd named the plant Crowley. Which he had not.



Aziraphale, aka Mr. Fell, is playing the anxious, bustling, gracious host as best he can, while being utterly preoccupied with his friend: a tall, gangly ginger who he introduces to everyone as "Crowley." Any assumptions one might make about the two apparently middle-aged, man-shaped beings is entirely one's own assumptions. But if Aziraphale is glowing with joy and affection, and eager to tell stories about the two of them, that's just how it is.

When things settle down and everyone has been served tea and introduced, he might try to show off some silly card-tricks: absolutely typical sleight-of-hand like humans perform, and not performed especially well. He's doing this mainly to annoy Crowley and seems to delight in that, even if he is a little genuinely embarrassed at how rusty his skills have gotten.



Come, join in, mingle. Hang out with your fellow classmates and enjoy some treats. We're coming up on the end of a year and, like a harvest festival, it's time to make new friends, rekindle old bonds, share in some good food, and party before the winter.
tiredcharmer: (Grimace)

[personal profile] tiredcharmer 2019-11-20 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Tyzias nods sagely, but try as she might to play it cool... she's enjoying the buffoonery. A little bit. Not a lot, but enough for Fell to come across as endearing rather than a complete waste of her time for once.

"Now if only we could surgically remove the stick from his ass so he wouldn't be such a pain to deal with all the time." Snorting, Tyzias pours herself a cup of... ranch... and swigs it straight.
sauntereddown: (scoping you out)

[personal profile] sauntereddown 2019-11-26 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh no, stick stays where it is. No fun tempting him into things if he'd do them without me." Crowley rests his chin on one hand as he watches Aziraphale hopelessly mug his way through a bit with some ugly handkerchiefs. It's a very similar pose to when he's (denying that he is) watching the angel eat.

"He can-" Nhh. Crowley catches himself. "We are literally here to learn magic, real magic, and he-" He turns his head just slightly to catch Tyzias taking a shot of dressing. He blinks slowly. "Feels like you should chase that with something if you're getting creative. Tobasco, maybe?"
tiredcharmer: (?)

[personal profile] tiredcharmer 2019-11-26 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Tyzias quietly observes Crowley as he rambles. Even though there's clearly no small amount of romantic tension between Fell and his beau, she's finding difficult to classify its nature even under the nonsenical human system of attraction. In troll terms, Tyzias would describe it as 'some sickeningly sweet amalgamation of moirallegiance with oddly pitch overtones and matespritship in an unholy state of quantum instability.' Or something like that.

Already ahead of Crowley, Tyzias takes a swig from her bottle of Sriracha. "Eh, I get it. As much as I like to be a hardass about studying and work and shit, you've gotta do something frivolous with your time otherwise you'll go shithive maggots. It actually helps if whatever stupid hobby you have is a parody of whatever you're 'supposed' to be doing, in my experience. Stops you from taking it too seriously."