#mpxinvidia

cont. from an sns thread with the same name with @mpxinvidia

Ezra picked up their tote of the floor and went to the front to pay for the books they had picked. Ten pretty hefty ones, sure to keep the literature student entertained for the next couple of weeks.

As they stepped out of the store, ballparking the amount of books scattered around their home, their phone pinged.

Say less, be there in twenty

Remembering the mess that was the poet's entire appartment - books and notebooks scattered everywhere to start - Ezra's eyes widened. They thought the other would come around maybe tomorrow. Or a week from now. The Egyptian demigod quickly assesed the situation mentally, and came to the conclusion they could make their home presentable for guests if they hurried.

Cool, see ya then!

The young student made a quick stop at the grocery store for some snacks and cat food, then rushed home. Instead of just kicking their shoes off and leaving them where they landed, they put the pair of sneakers away on the shoe rack. And picked up one of the many stray books laying around. Eleven.

They made their way to the kitchen, opened a cabinet - twelve, thirteen, fourteen - and put some of the groceries away. Then they turned to the fridge - fifteen?! - to put away the drinks.

Risha greeted her owner with a soft meow, to which Ezra responded with a soft pat on her head. "Yea, yea, food's coming," they chuckled. First filling up the food bowl, then cleaning the cat's litter box.

Since company was coming over soon, the enby demigod left their bedroom for what it was and focused on the living room. Tidying it up generally. Picking up books, both read and unread, and putting them where they should go. The ones they had started - three, making eighteen - they left on the coffee table. The rest went back on the many shelves - twenty, making thirty-eight. Craming those books into the tiniest of empty spaces on their shelves, Ezra realized they probably needed more of them. They looked around trying to figure out where to create more space. But their apartment wasn't infinite...

That was gonna be a problem for future Ezra.

A starter to kick off The Thing™ and to have some fun between enemies with @mpxinvidia

Without the constant pain and grueling small talk workers feel obligated to start with him every time they check up on him, Maxim might’ve considered his stay as one of the most relaxing times in a long while. Unfortunately, it isn’t a good kind of relaxation where he has enough time and mobility to freely choose his activities. This feels much closer to a slow and most boring spiral to insanity he could think of, and the prospect of using his powers for entertainment again sounds like sweet relief. But he can’t.

Well—he could—but he isn’t particularly in a rush to anger any more demigods that might seek vengeance on him. The least he should do is wait until his wounds are fully healed. 

So instead he rotates between staring out of his window for any kind of amusement, watching mindless TV shows and opening random apps on his phone just to close them again. It’s awfully boring seeing as how he can’t even use the time to sketch; an activity that could’ve preoccupied him for hours at a time and make his stay somewhat bearable. 

But today is different. 

Today will be bearable.

With a scoff, he locks his phone and tosses it onto the empty space on the mattress. Truth be told, he didn’t exactly mean to wreak havoc on the local social media platform but it sure distracted him from the monotony of his day for a while. 

He holds down on the button on the remote to bring the upper half of the bed into an upright position to sit just in time for the door to open. But unlike all other times when he is met with doctors or nurses who come in to do whatever the fuck, this is one of the few times he’s actually glad to have a visitor.

The grin that rises to his lips is wider than it usually tends to be in the sinner’s presence, and Maxim simply chalks it up to the exciting prospect of a distraction. His preferred chaotic distraction, no less.

“Never thought I’d be happy to see your dumb face.” Despite their past, there is no pretense of animosity in his voice. After all, Invidia might frustrate or vex or even infuriate him but he’s never boring; a secret he does not care to share with his co-worker. 

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It's been a long time since Hephaestus saw his friend. He used to see Invidia a lot, but then that just dropped off as Hephaestus found himself busy with managing the store and the unexpected amount of work that came with that. While he'd given his employees the time off to hang out with friends and family once the holiday rush died out, he'd decided to take his own suggestion and catch up with Invidia.

Let's goooooooo. Gala post for the sweetest @mpxinvidia

Scheming. That's what could best describe Noel ever since the announcement was made. Planning, excessive amounts of planning on his part but everything had to be perfect!

He spent every waking minute calling, texting, looking for the things he needed, asked some friends for favors while dragging others (Kaya) into helping him as much as they could. He'd seen the perfect place, he'd been wanting to take Invidia there for a while anyway so the summer gala had come around at just the right time.

Everything was ready and he checked his phone one last time as he walked with the man he liked along the park, their linked hands swinging slightly with each step they took. There was a fluttering in his stomach and rather than feeling nervous, what he was looking forward was the look in his lover's eyes at his surprise.

"I can't give you any more hints, amor." Noel grinned, pulling on Invidia's hand to draw him closer. There was the subtle teasing that they always did, some kisses given and stolen in between and gentle caresses along the way. He'd asked the younger man to join him, tempting him with a treat he'd gotten just for the two of them. "You'll see."

He gave one last squeeze to Invidia's hand before subtly nodding to the small stained glass flowers near their path -- one was blue and one was red. a spider lily and a forget-me-not scattered before two more appeared, catching the sunlight as the sun was beginning to set. They shone like a different kind of stars in the grass, a starry trail leading up to the one gazebo he was able to find that was now covered nearly to the brim with flowers; hydrangeas, lavender and hibiscus bringing the structure to life under the pink and amber colored sky.

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Her last performance for the day went rather smoothly, especially considering it had been barely a couple of days since she'd be back working at Honeypot. After a month of leaving the island, Yeji was immensely thankful for being accepted back as a violinist in such a fantastic place. But there was no time to dwell on her gratitude, as Yeji needed to be on time for her very first shift alone, at her new job.

Going through the basics and being introduced to her desk by the owner before, Yeji still felt nervous but ultimately excited to start this little new adventure. The establishment was Babylon, the island's brothel. Surely some could think the change of jobs from seamstress to receptionist was abrupt, but after her time away from the island, Yeji wanted to achieve certain goals and the role made sense to her.

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Khonshu was finally getting around to exploring all the districts of Mount Phoenix, and the red light was the last one. He didn’t mean to single it out to be last, but one of them had to be. He had heard whispers of Babylon around his work, and wanted to check out the place but more innocently than what normally lurked around. He had finished a shift at Sakura just earlier but wasn’t tired yet, so he thought it was about time.  Dressed in street clothing he wandered up to the steps, looking at the door. 

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despite the abundance of people, the heat and the occasional rainshower, he is a summer child, basking in the warmth of the sun whenever it is granted to him and enjoying the way it caresses his body whenever he deigns to go outside. there is a certain brand of reassurance in sunlight, if you ask him, and he’s always happy to enjoy it. except it’s always better when there’s someone around, and it’s no different now with invidia lying on the grass beside him and his head propped up on his friend’s stomach.

they were lucky enough to find an empty, peaceful spot in the park - or he was, at least - and decided to just go straight for lying in the grass and doing whatever. in his case whatever was just enjoying the presence of his friend, comfortable and warm in the soft sun, listening to the working intestines beneath his ear. whenever he opens his eyes he can look at his friend’s face and just take it in little by little, stare as long as he wants without being blamed or looked at strangely for it, and isn’t that just an absolute delight?

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They're in a heap on the living room floor of Eros and Ama's home, the soft click of keys nearby as their godly friend stays on his stream. Invidia had been an active participant when the games had begun but when it verged on twelve straight hours of streaming the little world where they were a ghost bug, the sinner had dropped into a light snooze. That light snooze deepened into a nap when Blair had abandoned Eros as well and curled up with the sleeping escort, their legs in a gentle tangle for a while. 

At least until the alarm on Invidia's phone sounds off, a digital rendition of an opera piece snapping him awake again. "Oh! Oh no! Oh no no no no no no!" Sleepily he tries to move and finds that Blair's foot is on his face with the rest of her laying diagonally across his body. "Uh...Blair...Blair please."

Blair liked being over at Eros and Amaterasu’s place, and was there so often that even Muffin had his own puppy bed to sleep in. Originally planning on joining the God’s stream for a short while, she too found herself dozed off with Invidia - the only difference being that she was a much heavier sleeper.