OPEN : August Catch-all

[forworldpeas]

🧙 WHO: Anya Forger, Agent the Pigeon and YOU
⚔️️ WHAT: Quests and general happenings
🕒 WHEN: Throughout August
🗺️ WHERE: Anywhere and everywhere
⚠️ WARNINGS: A very small chance of fire


A is for Alchemy
[Anya had been so sure that she knew what she was doing. It was science, how hard could it be? It was mixing things together, going "eureka" and being celebrated for genius. See? Easy.

She had checked for proper ventilation: Outside, check!
She had checked for proper safety wear: White coat and small black gloves courtesy of Uncle Min, check!

What she hadn't counted on was that she didn't entirely understand what was written on the labels and that pouring things randomly into other things was never a good idea.

One vial glows even in the daylight, gently vibrating. One is black and smoking, laying on its side. And the one she's holding as she turns to look at you tips over, spilling a small spark. That is now a tiny fire.]

AH! [She looks to you, panicking just a little.]

B is for Bad, Go To School
[You're probably minding your own business.

But this child clearly has another plan and whether you like it or not she's dropping out of a tree with branches reaching through the school fence, right on top of you.

A teacher is chasing her, out of breath because she's fast but also because she's supposed to be in school!

Without missing a beat, Anya grabs onto your shirt.]

Ah, Dad! [or Mom, or sister or brother, she's very adaptable] You're here!

Q is for QUEST
[Anya looks up at the house. She had heard there was cake but to her this just looks like a normal house and she can't help but doubt.

That is until she reaches out with a determined look on her face, going up on the tips of her toes to grab the door handle.... and breaks it right off. There is joy, wonder sparkling in her eyes as she holds it out for you to eat first.]

Look!

W is for WILDCARD
Choose your own adventure, or hit me up on plurk or via PM and let's plot!

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B for School Sucks!

[over_the_sea]

[Maybe a bit young for 'dad', more likely 'brother', though that contrast from pink to turquoise hair might be an immediate give away for them not matching up. However that's never stopped Floyd before for carrying through with a scheme!

There's a moment of pause to take in what was going on, looking down to Anya, then to the rapidly approaching teacher. Then,] There you are~! [A wide smile appearing on his face.] Ya took soooo looonnngg! [Oh, this seems fun, let's see where this all goes.

Hopefully not Floyd being accused of stealing a child though. Let's avoid that.]


[OOC: Floyd likes to give people nicknames and never uses their real names, all based around sea/ocean/water animals. Considering her little hair decorations, that she smol girl, and the thread I picked, would Limpet be ok for her with you?]

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[OOC: Limpet sounds adorable and I am perfectly okay with it!]

[Anya knows about adoptive siblings and has already decided that's what they are even as she grabs onto him and refuses to let go.]

Sorry! Anya got.... [think fast!] ....lost! Anya was lost!

[The teacher does not look amused, hands on their hips as they look from Anya to Floyd: Anya, it's nap time right now and you should be napping!]

Anya is going with big brother! [This teacher is not being paid enough for this and with one hand on their forehead now they look beseechingly at Floyd. Please be a beacon of sense!

That is not your brother, Anya! You can't just go up to a stranger because you don't want to nap. And you two don't even look alike.]

Adopted!

[over_the_sea]

Your sense of direction is so bad. [Floyd so easily able to fall in line with whatever Anya makes up, reacting in the moment was his specialty after all, and he's not worried at all about things being a bit weird or extreme within a story.

The teacher may be a bit of an issue though,] Wow, that's so rude. Are you saying it's not possible to be family unless you're blood related? That's real bad of you to be teaching kids. What if the others start picking on poor little Limpet here and start teasing her because of you? [Yup, nickname already acquired, Floyd is all for this sudden plan now.

Instead he holds out a hand for Anya to take,] Come on, we got that appointment ya gotta go to. [Hopefully Anya can go with the flow of this all as easily as Floyd can. Make it look real, kid.]

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[Anya nods, deciding not to argue about whether or not she was bad at directions since they were supposed to be a united front. That was what family was!

And right now being a united front meant being very mean to her teacher who really is just trying to do their job.

She guesses she must be "Limpet" and doesn't raise a fuss about it, nodding like "Ah yes, 'tis I, Anya "Limpet" Forger."

The teacher finally sighs... especially when Anya reaches out to take Floyd's hand like this is all totally normal.]

Mm! To candy store first! [Which would probably have outed them both but Anya has run off during nap time more often than the teacher can count at this point. And she always manages to make it back in one piece with her pigeon familiar in tow. So the teacher relents yet again.

Be back tomorrow, okay?]

Mm!

[over_the_sea]

[Come on kid, you need to learn not to show your hand until after your target is out of range. Seriously, that's just basic common sense.]

She will~. [Just to make sure this isn't too weird. Floyd likes to get into trouble, but this is not trouble he wants linked to his name.] Come on. [The latter towards Anya, Floyd wanting to wait until they were out of sight and hearing range before digging into more that was happening. He can take a guess at it all; a kid wanting to get out of school, but the fact she was willing to just grab anyone wandering by, that was a different level than he expected from most kids.

Waiting until they were a bit further away, Floyd spoke up.] So, what ya going to pay me for helping you out? [Come on Anya, you couldn't expect his help for free, right?]

A is for Alchemy

[whosaysdajare]

[ Pfft! Reading labels is like reading the instructions for IKEA furniture. This little girlie makes for a good scientist in her get up, Sasara's thinking, it's probably just about mixing food coloring together or some such thing. Saying "eureka!" is really what it's all about— ]

E-eh!? [ Don't look at him, get an adult– ah, wait!

It's a helter-skelter reaction for Sasara to take his (nice!) jacket off and slap it down on the flame. And it's something that doesn't even work before he remembers his Siphoning oughta do something about it. Whatever alchem-ical power created that test-tube spark, he manages to absorb it. Sasara looks a bit frazzled after that sudden excitement. ] Geez...

[forworldpeas]

[Anya is still holding the test tube that she set the fire with as an adult comes by and helps her put it out, sacrificing his jacket (which she doesn't realize is nice, her parents ruin their clothes all the time!!) and seemingly doing something magic.

School had taught her a tiny bit about types of magic but she's definitely not good enough to recognize them yet. But it's still cool!]

How did you do that?

[She looks amazed. And that test tube is sending out another spark, whoops.]

such a late reply, sorry!! 😣 😣 😣

[whosaysdajare]

[ Wiping his brow in a sorta exaggerated gesture, as if putting the fire out really caused him any sweat, that's when Sasara bounces back to his usual demeanor. Well, her amazement's worth his sacrifice—he's just a sucker for an entertained audience! ]

Ah-hah! Pretty magical, [ ✨ ] right!? O-oh—

[ Let him have that vial. He crouches down to Anya's level and, after taking the test tube, covers the sparking opening with his thumb. Ain't no way that's dangerous. ]

Ahem! You're a real Marie Curie, ain't 'cha, learned anything about Siphon magic yet?

ahhh no I'm sorry!

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[The dramatic brow wiping definitely works on her and she looks suitably impressed though she does make a small "ah" as her vial is taken from her.

It hadn't looked that dangerous to her?]

What a "maricurie"? [SOME KIND OF HERO MAYBE

She can only hope so, tilting her head at the mention of Siphon magic. Or as she calls it "sip on magic". Brightening up she nods, eager to show that she has in fact learned this in school (and that this may be one of the few subjects she cares about).]

Learned! Is that yours? "Sip on magic"?

Alchemy

[groundzeroes]

Whoa, there.

[Hello Anya! It's your good pal Rich Grandpa, on the scene!!! His voice is as mild as ever, but the foot that comes down to stomp the tiny fire out of existence is VERY quick. Just like putting out a cigarette. (Okay, not really: it included a dark magic curse to snuff out the oxygen, just in case. Details unimportant.)]

Playing with fire, at your age? How advanced.

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[As soon as she's recovered from her shock at nearly setting a fire she's looking up at him, mildly indignant that her scientific integrity was being questioned.]

Not playing!

[Except she totally was. It had started off as Serious Science and still kind of was but who can make glowy things by accident and not want to do more of that?]

Anya is doing science. [She even lifts up the sparking vial to show him. Meanwhile the glowing vial is starting to roll off on its own.]

[groundzeroes]

Science, huh? [Rei stops the glowing vial with his other foot, trapping it like a soccer ball. (He would use his hands, but it's probably safer not to...)]

You know what they say about that, right? "The only difference between science and playing is writing it down." Did your little kit come with a notepad?

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[The vial taps against his foot with a gentle plink then stops moving. For now. But it's definitely still vibrating against the ground.]

Mm! Did!

[She does hold out a notepad.

Except her scribbles are illegible even to her and most of the blank pages have been used for drawing. One of the drawings definitely has a fancy hat and dark glasses and a child's best rendition of a cool coat. The figure is even carrying money.

Featured also are a harpy and what she's gathered is a "food pyramid" where the bottom-most level is mayonnaise and rice.]

Q is for Quest

[kiss_it_better]

It's cake.

[He says it and it isn't condescending.] Ah, but I guess without a doorknob we'll have to open the door another way.

[Perhaps they can break it down?]

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Kick it in!

[She says, not at all worried about what kind of message this sends to everyone about how she was raised.]

[kiss_it_better]

[...but then he'd have cake on his shoes.]

If it's turned into cake, it might be tricky to kick it down.

[Since it felt liked he'd only kick into or through it.]

[forworldpeas]

[Anya looks disappointed before she looks at what might be a sugar glass window and trots forward to pick a rock up off the street and then run back.]

Here!

[Sure, dramatically kicking the door in would be cool but she'll take a broken window too.]

Q is for Cake House (the q is silent and invisible)

[mamowavin]

Oh! [ Mamori's just as surprised! Guess the listing wasn't kidding about even the door being cake. ] Thank you, Anya-chan.

[ Were she older and therefore smarter, she might've questioned how edible cake that used to be a door handle could be... but as is, she just peels off her gloves before taking a portion of the offered cake. ] Do you want to try it with me? [ it DOES look very tasty... ]

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[As far as Anya is concerned, there's no way this couldn't taste good. It's cake!

With a vigorous nod, Anya takes a bite of her own portion of the cake. It's chocolate with some kind of strawberry filling and her face lights up as she chews and swallows before talking again.]

Anya wants to learn this magic!

[mamowavin]

Me too! Maybe we can ask them to teach us? [ who needs money when you can have CAKE

But okay, before they just stand here and eat the entire door handle... ] Let's see what else we can find- [ ... which turns to be that it wasn't just the door handle that was cake. She tries to push open the door, only to find her hand going... well, not cleanly, given that it's a chocolate and strawberry cake, but through the what appeared to be a wooden door completely.

Ah. ]

[forworldpeas]

Yeah! [By the time Anya is done with this spell, the whole school will be cake. So maybe don't teach her this!!]

Ah-... [A pause then Anya also sticks her hand into the door in solidarity, making two hand prints in it.]

It's also cake! [But then that raises the question of how they're going to get in at all to search... Anya sticks her other hand into the door too to see how deep it's going to go, fingers wiggling out through the other side and probably getting cake and strawberry up to her wrists.]

Mamori! Empty on the other side! [So clearly there's space past this door. Just have to... eat through it? Anya doesn't seem sure, looking to Mamori for an answer.]

B bc I thought it would be funny.

[inevitablerest]

[An ashen-skinned Greek god over six and a half feet in height with cold amber eyes is perhaps not anyone's first choice for a rescuer, but he does catch Anya very gently when she drops out of the tree and almost lands on top of him. He doesn't put her down, not right away, but then she's got a fistful of his shirt and she's calling him--

-- that--

Hmph.

It doesn't take him a moment to put two and two together, and he easily holds the little girl up in the crook of one arm as the teacher comes running up. Thanatos is... not really the kind of person who most would try to pick any kind of argument with. Not with that stern expression.]

Is there a problem?

ahh sorry for the delay!

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[This is definitely the highest Anya has ever been off the ground while still being carried by a person that wasn't jumping off something else. She's looking around with shining eyes at her new vantage point as the teacher comes up, craning their neck up to look at the escapee and her accomplice.

The teacher knows exactly who Anya's guardians are and neither of them are an ashen-skinned god. Despite the stern expression, the teacher fixes first him then Anya with a level stare.

Anya... is this your father...?

Because they haven't heard about her biological father arriving... Anya looks up at Thanatos, willing him to coordinate with her!!]

D-Dad! Anya missed you!

no problem!!

[inevitablerest]

[This is a... very new scenario. Not only because he's never actually been this close to a human child who was still alive, but also because Thanatos has no children of his own and likely never will due to the demands of his work as a god of death. Still, he doesn't move to put the girl down and meets the level stare of the teacher with his own unflinching gaze.]

I'll be taking Anya for the rest of the day.

[Lucky girl, it looks like he's deciding to coordinate with her after all. A year ago she might have found a completely different reaction, but time spent in Avalon has pushed growth in some areas even for the ancient Chthonic god.]

I trust you'll have no issues with her being with a parent.

[This is levelled at the teacher. He chooses his words carefully and doesn't sound like he's planning to argue about it.]

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[Anya is very lucky and she tries her best not to seem too relieved over the fact that she's getting away with it once again. (This is a repeat thing for her, at this point the teacher has decided that as long as Anya gets back at some point it's fine. Probably fine.]

Real parent! [She says, just in case the teacher has any doubts.

And probably causing the teacher to doubt. But again, at this point, Anya escaping somewhere is a regular occurrence and the teacher sighs.

I... see.... Real parent, huh. She's currently Lord Li's charge.

Is what the teacher says, craning their neck to keep eye contact with Thanatos. Anya has someone who would find her and protect her if need be is the implication here. As well as to give him an address to deliver her to when she's gotten her candy and needs to eat actual dinner.]