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and_surviveIt wasn't a birthday party, for all that she'd turned seventeen a few days ago. Or, at least, crossed the date that marked that; there was always that confusion about time, here, and not just how it meant she was either seventeen or wouldn't be born for another three years. It was, as a lot of things about Darrow were, slightly out of joint.
That wasn't why, though. She just hadn't thought of it such. It was a party to mark the creeping end of summer vacation, the fact that although the season itself was still going strong, school would have its claws in them soon enough and then it would be gone, the last of the hot days fading while they were stuck inside.
She thought it made for a good venue for the cause. Konoha-Uchi didn't entirely feel like hers; it was a home, but one that she'd moved into and been left behind in, as with so much in her life, and she didn't have a sense of ownership, just a simpler one of residence. Which seemed a little fitting, frankly, for inviting her friends and their friends and frankly anyone else in an expanding circle of youth to come on by and live it up before commitments got their hooks in all of them again. She'd loaded the pickup with food and drinks and ice and was still relying a little on people bringing a thing or two themselves, but she'd done alright, she thought, considering she still wasn't technically old enough to be getting some of what was absolutely vital to any good party, but she'd managed, with some help.
Aside from the bedrooms, which she'd closed off -- Korra's because she'd never been quite sure what to do with that one, now, her own because Kyle could make all the social media posts about soul-searching quests to be open and honest with his love that he liked, he wasn't going to be open and honest with his love in her bedroom if he showed up -- she'd opened all the living spaces up to the outside, allowing breezes and people both to sweep through as they would, between the indoors and the shaded spaces of the porches. Even the lake, if anyone got hot or drunk or just plain whimsical enough to throw themselves in.
On a day like this one it didn't seem like the bar for that would be very high. The water was clear and quiet and calm, much like the surrounds usually were. Sometimes, that quiet seclusion was a goal in and of itself.
Today, it was mostly a good setting in which to get raucous.
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That wasn't why, though. She just hadn't thought of it such. It was a party to mark the creeping end of summer vacation, the fact that although the season itself was still going strong, school would have its claws in them soon enough and then it would be gone, the last of the hot days fading while they were stuck inside.
She thought it made for a good venue for the cause. Konoha-Uchi didn't entirely feel like hers; it was a home, but one that she'd moved into and been left behind in, as with so much in her life, and she didn't have a sense of ownership, just a simpler one of residence. Which seemed a little fitting, frankly, for inviting her friends and their friends and frankly anyone else in an expanding circle of youth to come on by and live it up before commitments got their hooks in all of them again. She'd loaded the pickup with food and drinks and ice and was still relying a little on people bringing a thing or two themselves, but she'd done alright, she thought, considering she still wasn't technically old enough to be getting some of what was absolutely vital to any good party, but she'd managed, with some help.
Aside from the bedrooms, which she'd closed off -- Korra's because she'd never been quite sure what to do with that one, now, her own because Kyle could make all the social media posts about soul-searching quests to be open and honest with his love that he liked, he wasn't going to be open and honest with his love in her bedroom if he showed up -- she'd opened all the living spaces up to the outside, allowing breezes and people both to sweep through as they would, between the indoors and the shaded spaces of the porches. Even the lake, if anyone got hot or drunk or just plain whimsical enough to throw themselves in.
On a day like this one it didn't seem like the bar for that would be very high. The water was clear and quiet and calm, much like the surrounds usually were. Sometimes, that quiet seclusion was a goal in and of itself.
Today, it was mostly a good setting in which to get raucous.
[gathering post for gathering in. gather. party.]
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Date: 2016-08-19 08:34 pm (UTC)Billy didn't mean to blurt it out like some sort of socially awkward weirdo but he kinda was a socially awkward weirdo and her hair did look pretty cool. He was probably lucky he didn't blurt out how the dress looked on her or something. She did look super cool though.
"Sorry, I just- you have a really cool... fashion. Look. Thing."
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Date: 2016-08-20 06:41 pm (UTC)"Oh, hey, thank you." She beams, preening a little. Killjoys are all about colour and noise and Dee can't help but be pleased when she's complimented. She flashes him a bright smile. "Killjoys, man. We know how to work with what we've got."
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Date: 2016-08-22 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-22 08:52 pm (UTC)"We are," she says, proudly. "Live in the Zones, outside of BLI's reach. Only go into Batt City when we have to?" She shrugs. "Living like that is no kind of life, anyway." She sticks out her hand. "Sunshine Detonator. You can call me Dee."
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Date: 2016-08-26 04:24 am (UTC)"Uh, I'm Billy Batson. But you can call me Billy," he said, shaking her hand. "And I... live in an apartment with my pets and go to school when I'm supposed to. Usually. But it's an okay life?"
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Date: 2016-08-26 02:10 pm (UTC)"Billy," echoes Dee, shaking his hand warmly. "Oh, the Zones was back before. Home, I guess. I live in an apartment here, too. With my dad? And sometimes his boyfriend? No pets though. Not yet, anyway." She smiles. Life here is more than okay, for her anyway, but it depends where you started off.
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Date: 2016-08-30 04:41 am (UTC)"Oh good, I thought maybe you were one of those crazy Darrow natives and were going to say all that stuff you mentioned but I'd never heard of had always been in Darrow," Billy said, really glad that she was just from somewhere else. Sometimes it was really frustrating talking to the natives. "Do you want to get pets? Because pets are pretty awesome."
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Date: 2016-08-30 06:27 pm (UTC)"I've got a cat," says Girl, deciding against explaining the whole nuclear tracking device situation to a guy she'd only just met. "His name's Cat. He came with me, outta the Zones. Poison's finally getting used to him."
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Date: 2016-09-04 10:00 pm (UTC)Billy thought for a girl named Sunshine Detonator she could have picked a more exciting name for her cat than Cat but he hadn't even given Freddy a name for almost a year so he couldn't really talk. Plus if it came from a place called "the Zones" it could probably be named whatever it wanted.
"So besides your cat and having maybe the most awesome name ever, what else do you like to do?"
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Date: 2016-09-05 04:58 pm (UTC)"I play in my dad's band. Hang out with my boyfriend. I draw a little. I'm thinking about going to school but I've got no idea for what because...kinda never went before." She shrugs. "Clothes shopping is awesome? I'm incredibly into clothes nobody's ever worn before."
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Date: 2016-09-14 04:24 pm (UTC)