Community & Relationships #2
What is your character's favorite kind of social event? For anybody you'd like to answer for :)
Elyss loves very intimate gatherings with close friends and family! She wants to be at a birthday party where she knows everybody, or nearly everybody. It's a tricky needle to thread because she does also like dressing up, which is rarely called for in a small private casual occasion; she'd really love being a guest at a small wedding for a beloved friend where she gets to sit at the table with all her other most beloved friends and ignore everybody else 😌
Idri loves a PARTY!! She longs for the afterparties at the circus; she wants lots of people around, current friends and new people she can make friends with, drinking and playing games and getting up to Shenanigans. The kind of social events that may bear legendary stories and epic regrets for those in attendance who can still remember it in the morning
Juniper hasn't had many opportunities for social events, and has most often felt a bit awkward at them. She daydreams about going to a grand ball in a grand gown and dancing, although in practice she'd be really nervous and feel out of place; what she actually needs I think is to be at a pizza party in someone's basement with her half dozen or so closest friends, you know, drinking ciders and laughing on the back porch at someone's housewarming, that sort of thing
Aubree lovesss a family reunion. Halfling family reunions are enormous, with almost festival overtones; there's loads of great food and drink, there's formal and impromptu sports and lawn games, there's your cousins from the Cooper-Oakhearts branch of the family who live way up in Fernrose Glen whom you haven't seen since the last family reunion, there's old folk recounting the family history and drunk uncles recounting embarrassing stories and little kids chasing each other and climbing around under the tables, there's probably a bunch of friends and neighbors who've showed up with a dish to pass because after all they're practically kin. It's always a good time
Melliwyk always really liked going out for drinks in the evening at academic conferences and the like. She loves socializing with like-minded people and getting into heated arguments with nearly like-minded people, and she likes gossip way more than she thinks she does
Felix loves pretty much any kind of social event big enough for him to hang out without feeling like his sustained active participation is load-bearing. He loves being around a lot of people, and he really loves being around people in a lot of different contexts. Weirdly, he has a soft spot for other people's family's weddings, funerals, and family reunions in particular-- he finds highly emotional gatherings of usually intimately connected people like that extremely interesting and very moving, but he doesn't want a bunch of his own distant relatives cornering him to ask him what he's been up to lately. Weddings are by far the nicest, but they're also usually the least common to get invited to, and the riskiest to crash :\a Weddings are nice also because he really likes dancing! He'd make a great plus one
Lightning Round! Benny likes going for drinks with the lads! Casual and homey + nice to feel included. Nyssa likes festivals! Her home culture is enough of a baseline sustained Social Event all the time that she loves when there's something special going on, like a holiday with specific organized events or rituals. Kethri also likes festivals! She loves watching a whole town transform in a unified spirit of celebration, and she loves getting to be part of it!
