4. Party Rock Anthem

[buymedumplings]

Characters: Party People
Content: Bolin hosts a block party in Twilight Town. Food, fun, and partying! Whoo!
Location (including world): Twilight Town, The Sandlot
Time of Day: Late afternoon and into the night
Warnings: Excessive partying?
Notes: Feel free to start your own sub-threads, thread-jack, and just have fun. Open free for all is the style for threading.


Bolin, with the help of Spirits, Moogles, and various other people had finally finished setting up the party. There were tables laden with different kinds of food of course and decorations everywhere. They'd made sure to clear a space for dancing and Perry the Platypus had volunteered to DJ with some equipment borrowed from the moogles for the night. Bolin wished there could be more people so they could have games and stuff like a proper street festival...but for what he had he felt it was pretty good.

Now they just needed people to show up for the fun.

Comments

[shadearchivist]

"What was it like, growing up there?" He hadn't really asked North about that...though considering North's distress about his sister it hadn't seemed a good idea.

[whoseesbynight]

"It was sort of violent," Nepeta answers after a moment of consideration. "Not efurryone went out and hunted like I did, but that doesn't mean it was less violent. And then there's the hemospectrum, which is a stupid idea anyway. Blood color shouldn't mean anything."

Unfortunately, it did, but that didn't mean she had to like the idea.

[shadearchivist]

"You had a kind of caste system?" That was interesting. Based on blood color, which underscored the physical differences between them.

[whoseesbynight]

"I guess you could call it that," Nepeta answered. "It wasn't something any of us efur called it, but that doesn't mean it wasn't one."

It wasn't really something that could be gotten out of either. Not when a simple glimpse of an adult troll's eyes was enough to tell where they stood, or barring that, the color they tended to wear that wasn't black.

[shadearchivist]

"That sort of thing usually only works well for the people at the top." That was a general enough statement. He didn't want to make her uncomfortable, but it sounded like an intriguing place to live.

[whoseesbynight]

"Well, it's not so bad where I am. Olive is about in the middle of efurrything. But it's not good either, and it's worse if you're lower then I am."

She doesn't bring up what it's like to be off the hemospectrum entirely, mostly because there isn't any reason to. It's bad enough being a low-blood, and to not even count by most standards is far, far worse. Bad enough that she can't really blame Karkat for hiding it.

[shadearchivist]

"All humans have bright red blood...though of course we found other ways to differentiate groups." Unfortunate as it was. Humans found ways to make differences that didn't mean anything into laws of society.

[whoseesbynight]

"I don't think I need to hear about them." The hemospectrum was bad enough as it was, and so she was perfectly fine leaving thing at what Ienzo had said. Besides, while it was sort of interesting it was someone else's culture and she wasn't particularly interested in that sort of thing.

[shadearchivist]

"I suppose it would be rather depressing," Ienzo agreed.

[whoseesbynight]

"Meowre than a little," Nepeta agrees. "I'm not really surpurrised to hear that you have something like them too, though."

[shadearchivist]

"People seem to have an infinite capacity to be terrible to each other," Ienzo agreed. "Though there's goodness out there as well."

[whoseesbynight]

"I suppawse there's maybe a little goodness out there. But maybe not a lot of it."

Of course, most of this might be due to the nature of the world she comes from but, that doesn't make the point any less true. Just a little more understandable, perhaps.

[shadearchivist]

"I can't disagree with that," Ienzo said. He'd certainly had more experience with the bad, though the good seemed to finally be waking up and figuring out that it needed to be proactive.

[whoseesbynight]

The same couldn't be said of Alternia. Even before it had been destroyed, the tyranny of Her Imperial Condescension had been absolutely everywhere. Enough so that it had simply been part of life.

"I don't think a lot of people would," she answered with a shrug.

[shadearchivist]

"In any case, I don't wish to keep you," Ienzo said. "I'm sure we'll meet again sometime." And perhaps discuss this again.

[whoseesbynight]

"We purrobably will. There aren't that many places around here after all."

Sure, there wasn't just the one world to deal with, but a couple was nothing compared to the many and varied worlds of Sgrub. But for now, she was more than content to let the conversation end. There were other people to talk to after all!