MINGLE LOG: WEEK ONE

[asgardmods]

Who: Everyone!
What: The MINGLE LOG for Week One of the Asgard Eventide Reunion!
When: March 1-7
Where: Anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please.

[ OOC NOTES: Whether you're making a return to the city or this is your first time setting foot into Asgard, the gods and Natives alike sure are happy to see you. This is a catch-all mingle log for Week One! Please check HERE for a run-down on what's cookin' this week. You can feel free to make your own headers, create your own events, or post your own logs elsewhere as you please. Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the time/location of your character in the title of your comment.

As a note: we were super fortunate to have a few of our old NPC handlers volunteer to pick up their old Gods for the reunion! We currently have Hel, Heimdall, Baldr, Thor, Freyr, Mimir, Honir, Asgard!Loki, and also Frigg available for threading. If you'd like to request an appearance from one of these kids, please say so in the title of your comment. Some of us may make our own top-level as well, so be on the lookout for that! A million thanks to our NPC team for being so fantastic, we love and appreciate you so much.

Don't forget to check out the IC Inbox Mingle and the Network Post Mingle in the network comm! Let us know if you have any questions! ]

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[samantha_grey]

"The hell away from the crowds. What do you say we go find somewhere to eat and try to relax some," Samantha said, taking the hand that was laced with her own and starting to pull. She wasn't in a hurry, now that they were walking together, but she definitely wanted away from some of the crowds that were forming.

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka followed with a wide grin on her face. It didn't matter where they were going, only that they were going together.

[samantha_grey]

As they walked, she snickered to herself and glanced over at Asuka. "You know... asking 'so what have you been up to lately' just sounds profoundly stupid right about now. Doesn't it?" Honestly, what were they going to say? Worse, it might have been a literal second since she arrived back home before she got here.

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka laughed as well, all she had been doing since leaving this place was fight, fight, and fight some more. So asking "what she had been up to" would elicit a very short response.

"I think you already know the answer to that question anyway."

[samantha_grey]

"I do, and I think you'd tell me if the news got any worse than it already was in your world as is, so I don't think I need to pump you for details like that, not yet anyway." She sighed and shook her head. "And not a lot has changed for me either. Just people in tights flying around, making asses out of themselves. Same old same old."

Her smirk took on a wry note. "So, there anything you always wanted to try while you were stuck here but couldn't because of the war?"

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka thought long and hard, what she remembered of Asgard was close to nil. Making it difficult to figure out what she wanted to do with her beloved partner. "Why don't we get something to eat? Since I got home I've been eating nothing but military rations." She stuck out her tongue as she spoke.

[samantha_grey]

"That sounds like an excellent idea," Samantha said, turning down one of the streets and looking for signs of a restaurant, or one of the booths of food, whichever was more convenient. It wasn't like she had a lot of cash this time around, after all.

Thankfully, the latter was up ahead, one of the many booths with the refreshments of the locals lined out. "Bet they're going to put us up in the houses again. I remember seeing one of them intact."

[splendid_solitude]

Looking at the many booth, Asuka quietly contemplated what would soon fill her belly. At the mention of the houses, however, she cringed.

"Really, those dumps again..." she thought for a moment. "I guess that means we'll be roomies again, huh?

[samantha_grey]

"The only real dump was my apartment, but it was secure. That was what I was concerned about in those days." Which was to say, she was less concerned now, something of a statement right then. As they walked up to the booths, she stared to put meat onto one of the plates, almost exclusively, adding whatever spice she could find.

"But... if you want to, yes. We can share a room. I'd like that."

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka heaped lighter fare upon her plate as they went. Though she was used to the finer things in life, fourteen years of fighting had made her taste in food more practical and frugal then extravagant.

"I'd like that, it will be nice to be together in a time of peace." she said as she took a seat and gazed over her meal with the same murderous intent she displayed on the battlefield.

[samantha_grey]

Samantha was slow to eat. She'd been better fed than Asuka in the last few years, and besides she still could barely taste most of this anyway. Grinning over at her, she munched and swallowed what looked like sausage.

"It would. It would almost be like we were a couple, in a way, wouldn't it?" No, she wasn't really talking about dating. She was seeing if that implication flustered Asuka at all, after all they'd done.

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka looked up from her greenery and stared at Samantha and cocked her head to the side in in confusion for a moment before speaking: "Huh what are you talking about? I distinctly remember calling you me my girlfriend ages ago. Did something change?"

[samantha_grey]

She snickered and brushed her hand down against the back of Asuka's hand, fingers nudging one of her ring fingers as she teased. "I wasn't talking about girlfriends, silly. Not that we didn't live together just fine as that before."

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka blushed lightly, intimacy was another thing she had sacrificed on the to be an Eva pilot. So even a small gesture such as this broad a deep red hue to her pale face.

"I knew that!" She said in a tsundre manner. "I was just testing you."

[samantha_grey]

"Mmm, I see. Testing me, were you?" She said, winking as she leaned in to brush her lips close before taking another long bite and glancing away. She swallowed and coughed once into her hand, looking nervous. "Sorry, though. Something like that isn't something I should tease about. I ... well..."

A sigh. "It's just that, believe it or not, I was here for a long time after you left. Trying to find ways to remember everyone here, remember you. It's... been a lot longer for me than it has for you."

[splendid_solitude]

"Really?"

Asuka enjoyed the small favor, but her mind was in a different place. She couldn't even imagine wandering around a place like this and trying to remember the people you knew and loved. It simply didn't compute in her brain for some reason.

"Well, I'm here now. And that is what matters, right?"

[samantha_grey]

"Yeah, really... I'm long lived, you know. I was here almost a century or more." After all, counting those six hundred and fifty years, it had been nearly a millenium since the war apparently.

"Yeah, you're here right now, and that's what matters," she said off-handedly, considering for a minute before swallowing another bite. "In fact, that's really what matters. I have you here, now. And I intend to keep you as much and as long as I can. You're mine, after all."

Gods, that sounded creepy.

[splendid_solitude]

"I can't even imagine that long of a period of time." she mused in between bites of dinner. "It must have been hell on your mind to go through all that alone."

Asuka's view of romance was far from healthy and mostly involved her looking for someone who could, for lack of a better way of putting it, "save her." Samantha has saved her numerous times, both physically and emotionally. So she would do pretty much anything to stand at the demon girl's side.

"You're the only person besides my mother that I've ever said "I love you" to, so you better know that I'll be with you as long as I can."

[samantha_grey]

"Well, I wasn't always alone," she said distantly, laughing. "People would come and go for a while. Apparently I was one of the last. Eventually, we all left and stopped coming back. It's been centuries since then." She shrugged.

"I... didn't want to forget. There were so many things that I didn't want to forget. Your face... the feel of your hair between my fingers." And ... then she blinked and looked down at her plate, nodding, her eyes closed. She fidgeted, struggling. She'd waited a long time to see Asuka again, given up on fin-rot entirely.

"I know... which is why I want to ask something. You've only said that to her, and to me... Fuck, I'm not good at this. I'm really not good at this." They both sucked at relationships. They really did.

[splendid_solitude]

Part of Asuka wondered what else there was left to say between the two of them. After all they had been through, all they had experienced together, what could possibly be left that needed to be said, let alone something that overwhelmed someone as strong as Samantha.

So after a deep breath and another bite, she summoned the courage to speak. "Ask away, I promise I'll answer anything you want to know."

[samantha_grey]

Samantha fidgeted and looked down at her plate. It felt almost unreasonably silly to suggest the thing that she was about to. They could be sent away tomorrow, without a shred of warning. This could be over in an instant, but at the same time it was like Asuka said. She didn't use that word often.

She chewed, swallowed and breathed in and out, trying to summon up what she wanted to say. She'd planned to say it softly, quietly enough that it didn't make a scene. But, when it came out, it was in a rush and far louder than intended. "Do you want to elope!"

...well, fuck. She'd just said that hadn't she?

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka stared blankly at Samantha for a moment before launching into a look of utter surprise.

"You mean you want to run away with me and get married?!" she yelled.

[samantha_grey]

Welp, now they were both shouting. That was going to draw a crowd, alright. Two travelers reunited, and one of them's asking to elope? There were definitely natives watching, cooing and murmuring in shock, approval and all manner of things. So this is how they'd brought color back, right?

Yeah, that was really helping Samantha's embarrassment at having blurted that out right now.

She tried clearing her throat again, tried fumbling and clenched her eyes shut. This was not how you were supposed to ask this question. She'd seen just enough movies to know it. Wasn't one of them supposed to be on one knee? Shouldn't she have a ring? Damnit!

"Yes!" she blurted out. "I don't know if I'm going to get the chance to say these things again, and ... and... this isn't just about us dating or t..the sex anymore!" Yeah, a lot of things were getting said way too loud.

[splendid_solitude]

Marriage was something Asuka really had never concidered even in her youth. She saw her life as an endless battlefield at this point, and her only role in it as a pilot and solider. The idea of settling down with someone, making a home, and just enjoying life was an alien thought that had never crossed her mind

...but this was Samantha we're talking about, the girl she loved more then pretty much anything besides her Eva.

So Asuka calmed herself, took several deep breaths (nearly hyperventilating in the process), and calmed herself enough to speak.

"Can I think about it...?" She said meekly.

[samantha_grey]

Now, that was a phrase nobody usually wanted to hear when they asked someone to marry them. At the same time, even when Asuka didn't leap forward and say yes, Samantha wasn't heart-broken. She knew Asuka well enough to know that taking an emotional step like that was... well at least as big a thing for her as it was for the girl who fed on people through sex normally. They weren't normal people. Normal people got to just say yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

She was hyperventilating a little too before she opened her eyes and reached out for Asuka's hand. "Yes... of course you can," she whispered, finally managing to calm down a little. "Just so long as I can try and find a dwarf tomorrow to tell a story to, see if they still take that as payment." Because rings weren't really a pagan thing, but they were an 'everybody else' thing.