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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-03-24 12:14 pm

The Crowning of Mindy McReady

Who| Everyone who's anyone.
What| The Crowning.
Where| A warehouse on the edge of town.
When| Starting from early evening till late into the night.
Warnings/Notes| Be sure to check the linked thread for plot purposes, even if you don't tag into it.

The party is brightly colored.

The theme, subtly, is super heroes. Boldly paints city scapes are splattered across the walls, and hallways are made to look like dingy, potentially crime ridden alleys. From the upper walkways of the warehouse, party goers can get hooked into harnesses and swing out over the dance floor. Above them, tributes and VIPS can find themselves on a clear plastic dance floor levitated above everything, looking like they're hanging in air.

Masks are passed out in plenty, and capes are easy to find, while brightly colored drinks themed around super powers are plentiful. None of them actually work, but many of the Capitol people are happy to pretend, mocking super strength or invisibility with each new beverage.

Under the dance floor a catacomb of tunnels and rooms full of obstacles is splashed with black light receptive colors. Party goers are given vests and laser guns, marked green for villains and red for heros, and set loose to hunt each other in the laser tags playground. The screens in the dance floor keep a running tally of which side is winning, displaying the players on the screens around the room, along with clips from the arenas.

About half way through the night, everyone is gathered to the main stage for a special announcement.
privilegecheck: (i did n9t need t9 ever see that)

[personal profile] privilegecheck 2014-03-30 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
"What? No we are not," Kankri protests, digging in his heels and trying to pull his wrist from Karkat's grasp. "I am not sacrificing one of the more respectable outfits I have been put in at these ridiculous- things, and our clothes wouldn't fit each other well anyway!""
sleeplessinalternia: (69 Lift me up)

[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2014-04-07 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh come on," Karkat says, "you're hardly taller than me." He grabs Kankri's other arm. "You're going to take your fucking clothes off for me," he growls, "and you're going to do it now!"
Edited 2014-04-07 02:22 (UTC)
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[personal profile] privilegecheck 2014-04-09 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, now Kankri is definitely trying to tug away and going very, very red. "I- what? No, I am not! I am not ever going to strip for you, and I will thank you to take your hands from my person immediately! Have you no respect for anyone else's body or personal space? Stop touching me!"
sleeplessinalternia: (48 When they say)

[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2014-04-21 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
It's about at this point that Karkat's noticed everyone's who's crowded around the two of them. He lets go of Kankri abruptly. "Shit," he says. "Shit."
privilegecheck: (N9 9NE T9UCHES MY 6UTT)

[personal profile] privilegecheck 2014-04-21 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Kankri crosses his arms over his chest, his posture going small and curled and tense. He's so incredibly embarrassed. "Why do you have to be so unreasonable all the time? I hardly enjoy being made a spectacle of, you know! Particularly not in, in- that sort of context! Can't you have the shred of decency necessary to stop acting like this every time you see me? You have Cuthbert for that!"
sleeplessinalternia: (07 Children wake up)

[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2014-04-30 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Shut up," Karkat snarls. "I am not acting like anything! I despise you in a way that has nothing to do with romance! You're the one that can't control himself!"
privilegecheck: (THESE TRIGGERS NEED TAGGING)

[personal profile] privilegecheck 2014-05-01 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"What more do you want from me?!" Kankri half-shrieks. "I am not Damara Megido, I cannot turn back time and prevent what happened from ever occurring! I have apologized to you, I have apologized to your kismesis, I have been supportive of your relationship with him, I have made my intention to stay out of your romantic business entirely clear! And as much as I wish we didn't have the obligatory connection of the same mutation that we do, there is nothing I can do to change that either, so I can hardly excise myself entirely from every space you happen to exist in while keeping my own space intact! I may only see every possible failure I could comprehend in a troll of my situation in you, but I have at least done my best to remain civil in every moment since then! And yet you insist, you INSIST on goading me, on prodding at me, at sabotaging my every effort to carry on like rational people who simply dislike each other intensely, and then you tell me that I'm the one with no capability to control myself? That I am the one to blame for all of your problems in pitch, that everything that could possibly go wrong is my fault due to something that happened perigees ago! Well, I will not have it! You have made it entirely clear that anything I say and feel is only something you'll disregard and trample on, so I refuse to allow you to then turn around and carry on as if I am responsible for your behavior! Is it so much to ask that you take a little personal responsibility?!"

By now there's a small crowd gathered around and watching them. Kankri is so caught up in his righteous fury that he can't bring himself to care.
sleeplessinalternia: (05 My heart's colder)

[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2014-05-01 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Karkat's ears feel hot. "Shut up," he hisses, dragging his frond down his face in embarrassment. Why the fuck does Kankri have to do this shit to him?

"Just-- go fuck yourself, Kankri."

He adds, under his breath, "You probably need it."
privilegecheck: (u wanna g9 m9therfucker)

[personal profile] privilegecheck 2014-05-05 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
That brings a flush to Kankri's cheeks, but he just narrows his eyes. Karkat's the one backing down this time and Kankri intends to push that, if only to let loose some of the utter frustration he feels.

"No clever retort to that?" he sneers. "You know I'm right, so you retreat into base insult in hopes of getting a rise so you can feel like you have 'scored' something on me. How very like you, Karkat. Rude and callous and low as ever. You always have to take the low road, don't you? You just have to live out every awful thing they say of warmbloods, and who cares about anything else! Or do you just want to rile me up again, in hopes that maybe you can feel wanted? Well, allow me to spell it out for you. You have taken an ill-advised surge of hormones as some declaration of deep intent, as if I am pursuing you, but the fact is that you simply aren't worth my time, and I am sick and tired of you behaving as though you are beyond reproach simply because you play the loyal barkbeast! I am tired of your harassment, as if you were trying to get me to come after you. Well, it hasn't worked and it won't. The only effect it's had is to make sure that you thoroughly disgust me."

He grabs Karkat by the front of his shirt, but doesn't lean in, just stares at him with intense loathing and hisses, "So if you can't be bothered to comport yourself respectably in polite society, then get out of my air, you miserable, mewling grub."

He shoves Karkat back again and stomps away.
sleeplessinalternia: (05 My heart's colder)

[personal profile] sleeplessinalternia 2014-05-18 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Karkat wants to scream at Kankri, but he's all too fucking aware of how many people are taking their communication devices out of their pockets, of how very likely it is that footage of this stupid altercation is already on the Capitol internet, so instead he just bares his fangs at the crowd and snarls, "What are you assholes looking at?"