Semi-Open Mingle ~ Wedding time

[rustyhonesty]

🧙 WHO: Jean, Mikasa & guests & an appearance from King Arthur (and Merlin)
⚔️️ WHAT: Jean and Mikasa get married
🕒 WHEN: Saturday, July 30th
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot + Atys (Lord Zidane's castle)
⚠️ WARNINGS: none I can think of

Before the wedding

King Arthur is around to meet with people at the wedding and talk with anyone who would want to do that. (OOC: However, to thread with Arthur you have to reply to someone else inside the log before that. This is to ensure Arthur doesn't take the spotlight out of the wedding.). Merlin is also around but won't have a thread to interact with (but you can assume he said hi).



The ceremony

A sacred circle has been made. Jean and Mikasa gathered the needed materials for the circle a week before the ceremony. There are items that represent all of the different magic types in a symbolic way. One of the items was gifted by a family member, one by a close friend. All of them are mostly simple items that somehow represent the different magics, like a herbal leaves for Healing magic or a potion for Alchemy.

King Arthur begins the ceremony by blessing the circle and anyone who is close to either Jean or Mikasa will be invited to gather around the circle. Jean, Mikasa and Arthur take their positions in the circle and the guests around the circle are asked to hold each others' hands.

Arthur then ties both of Jean and Mikasa's wrists together with a red ribbon dyed with ground crystals and quickly prick them with the tip of a spindle through the ribbon. The blood on the ribbon is said to tie their souls together, so that even if they are separated, they will always be able to find one another again even across the universes, life, and death. Guests at this point start to sing an acapella version of the couple's chosen wedding song, which is A Thousand Years (which was given to everyone with the wedding invitation when they were sent, even if not everyone invited was around the circle necessarily).

During the song, Arthur performs a wedding-specific spell that calls the ribbon off of their wrists and folds it into a rose, which is then alchemized so the crystals solidify and create the couple's wedding rose. Jean and Mikasa exchange rings at this point (given to them by Mukuro, who is Jean's bestman) and kiss, and with that the ceremony is complete.


Wedding Reception/Afterparty

After the wedding ceremony is concluded, Merlin does some magic and sends Arthur home and the wedding guests to the wedding reception. He doesn't do something like often because the ritual of transfer takes a lot out of him, but weddings are special occasions and full of love energy (Love is the strongest force of all, that's one thing he agrees with Morganna. Merlin will also be at the party in a disguise.

The party is more open to anyone who knows Jean or Mikasa or knows someone who knows either of them. It's held at Lord Zidane's Castle in his lands, Atys, near the Ruins of Celliwig.

There are beautiful flowers around the party from Moondrop. Various kinds of dishes are on buffet tables and, of course, desserts and the Cherry Blossom-themed wedding cake are both on their own table.

Both Jean and Mikasa's dogs (Snow & Hazel) are at the party with cute pink ribbons tied to the collars and they accept all sorts of attention as well. Their cat (Sakura is lounging in a special pet corner with a cat tree and other entertainment for any animals (pets or familiars) to use. There are also cakes and other types of food meant for animal companions so they don't get left out of celebrations.

The rose that came with the ceremony is on its own table and anyone who touches it will be able to physically feel a sensation of love Jean and Mikasa have for one another.

Comments

[unhappy]

Alive? [ She sounds uncertain. ] It wasn't a normal whale like you would consider a living animal alive, it was a monster. And really gross.

[mayoninofukucho]

How in the world did that end up happening? Were you working for some villain with monster minions, or what? Or are you from some crapsack world and were researching the local fauna?

[Under what other cirumstances could someone even end up in such a situation?! No housing shortage would make someone take such desperate measures, right?]

[unhappy]

All of that except the research part. ...I switched sides after. [ just to clarify before he gets her in trouble ]

[mayoninofukucho]

[Sometimes his guesses just hit the bullseye way too hard. He looks thoroughly unimpressed, but who's he to judge, really?]

I guess for you this place is a real upgrade... unless the guys you joined had better living conditions already.

[He sure hopes they did!!]

[unhappy]

The last thing I remember is crossing a magical pathway as part of the team leading the people of Atlas to another continent because the city was getting destroyed, then coming out in a sandstorm full of monsters with only a fraction of our fighters.

[ Out of the frying pan, into the fire.]

Big improvement.

[mayoninofukucho]

No joke.

[Damn, some people's backstories..!!]

If given the option, do you want to stay here when this is all over?

[He knows that Jean and Mikasa absolutely don't want to return to their devastating world, but there are always people who simply can't turn their backs on what they may feel is their destiny. He can't gauge Emerald well enough to say what kind she is.]

[unhappy]

Yeah.

[ She hesitates, then adds: ]

If there's a way back I'll go, though. I'll drag our whole group here as refugees. I have a lot to make up for, but I'm not walking to my death on principle alone.

[ If she's just going back to die with no way out with Oscar and Ren and the remaining population of Atlas.. what's the point? But if there's a way back here, going back could save everyone.. it doesn't solve the problem, but it's a big step toward making up for things. ]

[mayoninofukucho]

I understand that our newlyweds would do the same if given the chance. Maybe you guys can team up somehow.

[There are too many crapsack worlds out there... honestly, he's really glad that this, for once, won't be his problem. Sure, he'll bitch about his Edo and its rude citizens, but he'll take that over risking his neck trying to stage cross-universe evacuations! But then who knows, maybe it'll be as simple as travelling back, gathering everyone up, and opening a portal back to Avalon that they can all file through.]

[unhappy]

[She thinks about it for a couple of seconds, then shakes her head. ]

Everyone has their own crap, no one should be held responsible for everyone else's just because they know them. Their world sucks, I'm not making them responsible for mine too.

[ One person already died just to get her out of that bad situation. She's trying to make up her actions, not get more people killed for her. ]

[mayoninofukucho]

[Part of him wants to counter that there's strength in numbers, and that the common cause of wanting to save their friends and allies already unites them across worlds, and that Jean and Mikasa surely don't just consider Emerald "someone they know", but it'd be hypocritical, really. How many times has he tried to tackle some dangerous undertaking alone in order to protect his friends back home? So he just exhales, acknowledging Emerald's point with a half-nod.]

That's fair. It's just... well, you know what Jean is like.

[He can only speak of him because he doesn't actually know Mikasa, but that boy has a good heart. Really, knowing that people like him will stay on Avalon makes his the thought of his own eventual farewell easier to bear.]

I hope the fae will provide you with a straightforward way of getting more people over here. It can't be that hard, given how many times it happened in the past.

[Though mostly in small numbers, it seems... the future rescuers may be forced to hand-pick those they want to save.]