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Chloe Frazer ([personal profile] desperate_times_right) wrote in [community profile] singillatim2024-10-14 09:42 pm

Hot Potato (party log)

Who: Chloe Frazer & any and all party people!!
What: Harvest Celebrations/Halloween Party/Ruby’s Birthday/Rat Marriage/Big Communal Cooking Party so Chloe doesn't burn down her house
When: October 12
Where: At Chloe’s house on Greene Street

Content Warnings: Food descriptions, probably.
Other Notes: Feel free to make this a mingle and reply to other characters!

Chloe had wondered whether to go through with the harvest party once Lalo had disappeared, but as they say, the show must go on. There's still a lot worth celebrating, and people need something hopeful after the mess last month. Luckily her house had made it through everything all right.

The poster had said to wear a costume, so she's hoping to see a lot of those, and she’d recruited some people to help her put together the menu exactly to Lalo’s specifications, so unfortunately no one is safe from British Potatoes. There are even candles for the birthday cake.

Chloe herself is dressed as a sexy lumberjack, with one of Lalo’s old flannels tied in a knot under her breasts and denim cutoffs made from the jeans Kostya had gotten blood on (shh). She's got a fire roaring, because otherwise she’d freeze.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2024-11-26 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Randvi nods.]

A bit less so among the nobility, as we are expected to produce children, but I had relationships with women myself before I married. We are not as captivated by the nighttime activities of others as the Christians, I think.
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[personal profile] notarat 2024-12-07 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Wait.

She is a lesbian? Or.. that thing they call people who say they are attracted to both.. That concept is still a little difficult for Billy to fully wrap his head around, but he's getting better at it, if not just because of Chloe.

Still, looks very surprised by her casual admittance of it. This place keeps throwing surprises at him like that. ]


The less contact you have with those, the better. [ Nevermind the fact that Billy technically is Christian, but like.. in name only.. More just being forced to attend sermons on the ship and all that.. So he feels like he can speak this way all the same. ] There is at least one Christian here who gets worked up about the very idea of people of the same gender touching each other, I'm certain. You might want to be careful around him.

[ Can't hurt to help someone with the same inclinations as him by giving her that warning, he figures. Especially if Randvi was polite enough to show up with a gift. ]
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2024-12-07 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the two of you living here so openly.

[Even if one of you is the odious Cornelius Hickey.]

I live in England, and my people are allied with a Saxon who loves another man. They cannot do much more than call themselves brothers in public, for their safety.
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[personal profile] notarat 2024-12-16 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It would not have been very different for me back home. [ Even though Randvi clearly comes from a different time, with the way she's talking and all. But then again, Billy does not imagine they were much more progressive in the past than they are in Victorian times, so that's not too much of a surprise. ]

But several people have told me that things are different in the current times we have found ourselves in. Even if the opinion still may not be.. universal.

[ Go choke on a bagel, Rorschach and Irving!! ]

It has been a long time since we were last attacked over it here, though. [ Billy is kind of saying it like being attacked over it is a normal thing, but..

He figures Randvi will get it, given what she's telling about what things are like where she comes from. Getting attacked over it is pretty common in those societies, so it happening here, even if it's just once, is also not too weird. ]
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2024-12-20 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that's been my experience as well.

[This is said a bit dryly. Multiple people have been trying to help her find a girlfriend because they've clocked her little crush on Sveta. Be happy that's not happening to you, Billy!!!]

Someone here attacked you? One of your fellows?
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[personal profile] notarat 2024-12-26 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Who knows, Randvi, if people liked him a little better they might have found him a better husband already at this point..

Though the question gets Billy to look around for a second. He knows Rorschach isn't here - because surely that man doesn't enjoy parties, let alone wanting to be caught one that involves his and Hickey's nuptials - but he can't help it. It's like some sort of paranoia. The kind of paranoia that's only born through someone sneaking into your house at 2 am with violent urges. ]


Rorschach. [ He says - figuring Randvi must know him. Who doesn't know that huge weirdo. ] That man broke into our home at night.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2024-12-30 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Rorschach? [Randvi knows him from the library, as well as the preparations for La’an’s funeral. It's shocking to hear that.] Over that? With everything happening here?

[She makes a little disgusted face. Saxons.]

Was anyone hurt?
Edited (Typo) 2024-12-30 04:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] notarat 2025-01-01 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's actually kind of rare to tell this story and to see the other person react in this way. It's not the first time, no, but-- It's rare enough that Billy does feel some satisfaction from seeing someone else understand that what happened that night was truly insane. ]

Only that man himself. He was attacking Cornelius, and I-- [ Hm.

Billy at least knows better than to make 'I set him on fire' an active thing here, that's not going to put him in the best light. Not to mention that it's not like it's a lie if he twists it just a little, like-- ]


My powers were still new back then. I did not have control over them. So when I panicked as I saw Cornelius getting attacked, Rorschach's hand suddenly caught on fire. He ran outside to put it out in the snow and then ran away after further insulting us.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2025-01-04 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Don’t worry, Randvi has the same power and there are lots of people she would set someone on fire for attacking.]

Good. I suppose after a demonstration like that he's not returned.
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[personal profile] notarat 2025-01-05 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head. ]

Thankfully.

[ Because if there's anything Billy doesn't want to deal with, it's a round two with Rorschach!! He won't stand for himself if he sets the other on fire over it!! ]

Unless he has encountered Cornelius privately since then. [ He frowns a little bit. ] It is a small town, after all.

[ As evidenced by how often Billy has had unfortunate run-ins with Irving, even though he was trying to avoid the man. ]
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2025-01-08 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
I think you would know.

[A good two thirds of the gossip around here is just hating that man. Randvi does it too on occasion.]

I'm pleased that things seem to be going well for you so far at this party, at any rate.
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[personal profile] notarat 2025-01-12 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
That is solely thanks to Miss Frazer. [ Okay, maybe there are some other factors at play here, but-- Billy doesn't mind giving a friend credit where credit is due. No matter how critical he can be in other situations. ]

I am sure she is ready to bodily throw someone out of the party if it ended up being at all necessary.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2025-01-21 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a pleasant surprise. Randvi’s opinion of that woman isn't all that high, despite the greenhouse and her attendance tonight.]

Good. It's good to have such a friend in a place like this.