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The Gamemakers ([personal profile] gamemakers) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2013-06-16 11:41 pm

The Crowning of Albert Wesker

Who| Everyone in the Capitol.
What| The Crowning Ceremony
Where| The Victor's Complex
When| Day of the Crowning
Warnings/Notes| None yet.

The theme of the ceremony is clearly black and red. A crimson carpet stretches out across the room. The long table for feasting seems to be made of a single slab of dark obsidian, something that couldn't possibly be found in this size naturally. The chairs are wrought iron with red cushions, and embers burn under personal barbecues at each seat. Red wine, red juice, slabs of red meat to be cooked (or eaten raw) - the details are all perfected. Even some of the Avoxes have received black tattoos for the occasion, the number '11' permanently marking under their eyes like grotesque twin tears.

For a crowning, the ceremony is rather intimate. Only a handful of guests have been invited: the usual Capitol VIPs, the Mentors of each District, and a few of the stars of the last few Games. Karis Needleteeth, Aunamee, Dr. Alastor Grey, Alpha, Lindsey McDonald and Hyperion Crius each have a seat at the table. A few Peacekeepers sit off to the side, sipping wine. A few of the Mentors are conspicuously missing.

And Wesker's throne sits at the head of the table; it's made of the head of the dragon that destroyed so much of Disneyland and slaughtered so many Tributes. The head has been dried, the tongue replaced with a plush velvet seat and back the color of blood. The eyes have been replaced with glass that stares at each side of the room. The fangs, however, remain intact.

Downstairs, the rest of the Tributes and their Escorts and Stylists can partake in a more Disney-themed affair. Everything is still sleek, and tends to veer more towards Maleficent and Jafar then Cinderella and Ariel, but the punch bowl is Mickey Mouse-shaped. There's a dance floor, and a string quartet, and all sorts of lavish foods on tables with red cloth. It's a night for mingling, at least.

[OOC Note: Part one of this is going up tonight in the first two subthreads. Part two will be edited into the last two subthreads tomorrow evening; you'll see why. Go forth and mingle! Tributes from downstairs can go say hello to the Victor, although they won't get long before the Peacekeepers escort them back down.]
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[personal profile] xanthous 2013-06-18 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
The Psiioniic doesn't mean to step on his cape. He actually, truly doesn't mean to do it. He's not paying attention to where he's stepping, but suddenly his foot goes sliding out from under him and there's a loud ripping sound.

Oops.

He's about to apologize before he notices the nubby horns, and he bristles as he straightens up. His ankle throbs in protest, but he ignores it. And if it gets worse, he'll just blame it on the Signless. Really, it's all his fault.
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[personal profile] 69problems 2013-06-18 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Funny. He's about to apologize before he notices the double horns, the red and blue eyes, the lethally sharp shoulders. Didn't they just have this conversation? The one about how every time they get within ten feet of each other, things go terribly, terribly wrong?

He knows he shouldn't. But.

"You should watch where you're stepping."
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[personal profile] xanthous 2013-06-18 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
They might have, but that doesn't mean they're ever going to learn from their conversations. If they did, they wouldn't be themselves.

He crosses his arms, scowling at him. He knows he can't make a scene - his escort spent quite a while yelling at him over fighting outside of the arena, and he really, really does not want to get nagged at again. Nagging is something he's had just enough of, and besides. He can wait to take him out later, in the Arena.

Even though he doesn't actually. Want the Signless to die.

"Maybe you thhouldn't be drethed like a complete tool, and it wouldn't be thuch a problem!"
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[personal profile] 69problems 2013-06-18 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
"You know very well it's not like I have a choice in how I'm dressed," he says indignantly. And anyway, he privately thinks, his outfit is far superior to the monstrosity that the Psiioniic is wearing. As if he needs that corset when if he were any skinnier there wouldn't even be room for his spine.

"Maybe you should just dance with me, then, if you're so good with your feet that this couldn't possibly be your fault." He realizes what he's saying as he says it and nearly fumbles, but manages to catch himself and keep powering on, tilting his chin up defiantly like it's a challenge and not something he totally just found himself blurting out and is probably as incredulous about as the Psiioniic is about to be.
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[personal profile] xanthous 2013-06-18 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
Wait.

What?

It takes a moment for him to process what the Signless is asking. He blinks a few times, tilting his head as he tries to sort out what, exactly, the other troll is asking from him. After a moment of careful scrutiny he nods, holding a hand out.

"I can do that."

And he can certainly make the Signless regret asking.
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[personal profile] 69problems 2013-06-22 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
The Signless was expecting to be laughed at. To be denied. Maybe Karkat's right, he thinks wonderingly. Maybe he does hate me more romantically than I thought.

He takes the Psiioniic's hand and leads him out onto the dance floor. He's never danced before tonight (goofing off with the Disciple hardly counts), but he's found that it's not terribly difficult, especially not to the slow, soft music the string quartet is playing. He places his other hand on the Psiioniic's hip.
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[personal profile] xanthous 2013-06-24 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe he does, but it's not anything he's clued in on himself. He remains blissfully oblivious to the workings of his heart, always and forever.

His nose wrinkles at the hand on his hip, but before he can say anything he spies one of the peacekeepers in the corner and he sighs, squeezing the Signless's hand. If his claws prick, it's completely unintentional. And now...And now he doesn't know what to do, blinking at the Signless and not knowing how to move or if he even should, yet.