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🧙 WHO: Stella and uh, everyone!
⚔️️ WHAT: Getting back on my bullshit after my hiatus with a May catchall, featuring monthly quests and TDM prompts! There's some open prompts below ~~but I also have a header I'll be using for closed starters and such through the month~~ I LIED I'M JUST ADDING THEM TO THE BODY OF THE MAIN POST
🕒 WHEN: Through May
🗺️ WHERE: All over Avalon
⚠️ WARNINGS: Nothing off the top of my head, but I'll edit this if something comes up!

Honey Over Vinegar (TDM) – first week of May

[ Trees that grow cute cookies ripe for the pickin' isn't exactly the wildest thing that Stella's seen in Avalon so far, but it is probably the thing that has inspired the most glee in her. Because... come on. Picking cookies from trees. It's straight up like something out of a picture book for kids. She loves it.

She's pretty diligent about picking as many as she can, with the novelty of picking cookies off trees being more than enough to keep her on task. It's taking an absolutely herculean effort to not crunch down some of these cookies, though, and partway into the tournament, her stomach gives a pretty hearty rumble and she whines to herself. ]

[ Stella manages, presumably, not to starve out there and drags herself through the rest of the tournament without too much fuss. The instant she gets the okay to start eating cookies, though? Homf. She hoovers up like three or four of them at top speed. She's starving.

Fortunately, she not quite greedy enough to demolish all those cookies by herself, so she'll be sidling up to people through the rest of the day, brandishing her basket of cookies at them. ]

Holo, Goodbye (Quest) – second week of May

[ The idea of a rainbow-coloured holographic river full of fairies is so comically Stellacore that she probably would've been off like a shot the instant she heard about this regardless. But the details of the quest are what really give her pause. She's made some good friends here in Avalon and having somebody not just from home but another one of the Prism Maidens here has done a lot to keep her on an even keel. But then sometimes she sees stuff like this and thinks... wow, she misses home. She really misses her dad.

So it's that more than anything, really, that gets her down to the riverbed. She's got a bag for collecting cool rocks and her phone ready for taking pictures and videos and she's ready to go all out. If you happen to be hanging around as well, prepare to have Stella suddenly pop up in your vicinity, looking charged up and determined. ]

[ You heard the girl.

When she's not going through rocks to try and find the One Perfect Rock to return to the quest giver and her grandma, she's darting around, taking photos and videos here there and everywhere to try and capture as much of the phenomenon as she can. In fact, she gets so enthused about it that in the midst of trying to get a particularly Cool Shot, she looses her footing on the rocks she's balanced herself on and just sort of pratfalls right into the river with an enormous sploosh. Idol down! ]

Phoenix Roost – all through May

[ If you're a regular at the Phoenix Roost then Stella will very quickly have become a familiar face with how often she turns up to drink fancy coffee, eat baked goods and leech off the wifi. She'll park herself in an out-of-the-way table for the day and tappy-tap away at the secondhand laptop she's picked up but it's not entirely clear what she's working on, given that she tends to keep to herself a bit while she's here.

Usually she seems like she's having a relatively okay time, but right now it seems like whatever little project she's working on has been stalled. She's staring deadeyes at her screen with a furrowed brow and furiously chewing on the straw for her disgustingly sugary drink in a futile attempt to redirect her frustration.

Eventually she grooooaaans and scoots her chair back a bit so she can rub at her eyes. Evidently, staring down whatever she's doing isn't actually solving whatever problem she's having. She looks around the cafe and immediately upon spotting someone In Range, she begins to wave them over. ]

[ She tilts her laptop screen back a bit to give a better view of her work. It's a poster or a flyer or something called the "Avalon Performers Association" that lists some days and times and information and all that good stuff about the little group Stella's been putting together.

It's... serviceable, but the fact that she's gone for a rainbow colour scheme, even one in pastel, is a little much. It definitely has some Graphic Design Is My Passion energy. ]

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[ And that's all the invitation she needs to plop herself down at Lucy's side, basket balanced... kind of precariously on her lap. ]

Then we can trade! I wanna save a couple of each so my roomie can try them, but you can take whichever ones you want.

[ So generous! ... but only because she's already eaten her fill. ]

Not gonna lie though, I kinda just winged it. I was just having way too much fun picking cookies off trees so I just went ham on it and hoped for the best.

I turned into a bird and picked them off, but I had to be careful, or else they crumbled if my grip was too strong.

[She almost thought about using her prehensile blood tendril too, but decided she was too inexperienced to ensure that none of the blood got on the cookies. Thank goodness!]

Speaking of animals, got any of those frosted animal cookies? You know, the pink and white ones with the sprinkles? I've grown fond of those during my time here.

[ Turned into a bird... it's been months and Avalon is still the wildest place imaginable. ]

White and pink with sprinkles... [ She digs around in her Bag O' Sweets and then produces the cookie in question with a flourish. ] Ta-dah! You can take all of 'em if you want.

[ She starts transferring them over to Lucy's basket as she continues chattering away. ]

Turning into a bird's animal magic, right? Was that your first power when you got here, or is it a new thing?

[She was going to say that it's fine and she doesn't need them all, but Stella's already transferring them over. Well--if she said it's okay, then it's okay.]

Thank you. Feel free to take whatever you'd like out of mine. I've already put some aside for me and Nyuu.

[Lucy's basket has a lot of pretty colors mixed in with the chocolate and vanilla type cookies.]

It was my first power, and I've always liked animals, so even though I was pissed about losing my original powers, it was hard to complain about what I got. I came to Avalon with my two dogs, so I've been able to have conversations with them since the beginning.

[Not that she didn't have conversations with them before, it's just that she can actually understand what her dogs are saying now. She pulls out her phone from her pocket to show Stella pictures. The first is of a pit bull with a greying face and faded scars relaxing on the grass. The second shows a Corgi sleeping in her dog bed.]

That's Tobias, and the Corgi is Milly.

[ And Stella, of course, doesn't even hesitate before she dips her hand into the basket and starts pilfering cookies. She's just keeping herself topped up!! She wants to share with Violet later!! She has perfectly altruistic reasons for taking cookies from people when she's allegedly supposed to be giving them away.

She's distracted from sweet treats almost immediately by the promise of puppy pictures, though, and her eyes sparkle with glee the second she sees them. ]

Oh my God, they're so cuuuuute! Lookit his widdle old man face... [ she's really gonna baby talk a dog that's not even here, huh ] And Milly's sooooo fluffy! Man, I'm so jealous!

[One of the things to get Lucy to smile is talking about her fur babies.]

I'm glad you find Tobias cute, too. He may look mean, but he's very sweet, and he balances out Milly's hyperactivity just fine, since he's older and she's younger.

[Thank goodness. Lucy and Nyuu love Milly, but she could be a handful sometimes with all her energy.]

Me and Nyuu adopted them from the world we were in before. We didn't have any pets when we were taken from our world. What about you? Any pets waiting for you back home?

Well yeah, all dogs are cute! That's just how it is!

[ She's not wrong. ]

But nah, I don't. I wish, though! Or uh, maybe not, since I know for a fact I'd be stressing my brains out worrying about them while I was here. So maybe I'll hold on that til I get back home!

[ She titters to herself, but then shakes her head. ]

Then again, my familiar kinda counts, but I don't really see a whole ton of her. Got places to be and stuff to do, I guess!

If my dogs hadn't arrived with me, I'd be worried about them too, even though time would be frozen for them.

[Because then she and Nyuu would be fretting over them getting all stiff (even though they wouldn't feel anything). Look, Lucy's just protective of her dogs, okay?]

I would have brought Tobias and Milly with me today, but I didn't want to risk them eating the sweets, especially the chocolate. It's bad for them.

[Although, she'd be more worried about Milly doing something like that since she's more headstrong than Tobias.]

That's true too. I've also come to see my familiar as a pet, albeit with a higher intelligence. I don't think you've met her yet, have you? Setsuko, come.

[In a flurry of feathers, a winged dog manifests beside Lucy. Setsuko pants happily and barks in greeting at Stella, fluffy tail wagging.]

Edited (accidentally forgot a word) 2021-05-21 07:03 (UTC)

[ There is, unfortunately for all of us, no other word for the noise that comes out of Stella's mouth than a squee. She can't help it, okay. If you're going to summon a cute puppy, you need to give her a little warning! ]

Oh my God, she's so pretty! [ She's pumping her fists in delight, just to get some of the hype out. ] And she's so fluffy! Ohmigod, I love her.

[ Picking cookies and meeting cute dogs... today is the best day. ]

[The surprises don't stop with Setsuko's appearance as the hainu soon opens her mouth and speaks in a human voice.]

Thank you.

[Setsuko preens from all of Stella's hype over her, even gently bumping her head against Stella's hand to show it's okay to pet her.]

Setsuko is what we'd call a hainu in Japan, a winged dog. According to the legends, they're strong as wolves but very loyal when tame.

[Speaking of Japan, Lucy realizes something.]

You know, I don't think me or Nyuu have asked about where you're from. Are you from one of the many versions of Earth?

[That seems to be a common trend. A world where Earth is known and similar, but with different countries and lands.]

[ Give her a moment to recover from the sheer serotonin of A Talking Dog Says It's Okay To Pet Her, but Stella will absolutely be petting Setsuko with the expert hand of a girl who pets every single dog she can get her hands on. ]

Yup! Just regular old Earth. Uh, but I guess that doesn't really help a whole lot with how different everybody's Earths are...

[ She laughs to herself a little and shakes her head. ]

Uh, is it the same for you guys?

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