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It's party time!

THE DANCING MEME
young and sweet, only seventeen

There's so many reasons why people dance. For fun, for tradition, for community, for courting, for taunting your enemies. Maybe you're just friends, maybe you're having a father-daughter (or parent-child) dance, maybe you're dating or almost dating. Gen or shippy, either is fine, as long as you're dancing!

Post your preferences and maybe a starter, then tag around!

PROMPTS
ONE. Spontaneous Dancing
You're doing something else, maybe out somewhere, maybe seemingly alone in your apartment when you just feel the urge. The song you're listening to is really catchy or you just got good news. Does the other person get invited? Join in on their own accord? Just watch? Is it a flash mob? Whatever the reason, you’re dancing now!

TWO. A Celebration
It's a wedding! Or maybe a festival, holiday, school dance, or birthday party. Point is, it's an occasion. There's music and a dance floor and no reason why not to let loose! Be is fast paced to the dj, slow dance with a partner, or traditional dance, it's all part of the celebration.

THREE. A Gala
It's not just any kind of event, it's fancy. There's probably someone pretty rich throwing it, and you better be dressed up nice. Chances are you're just as likely to be here dancing for business just as much pleasure. Maybe you're even here to steal something, or make political connections, or fundraise for charity. But dancing is part of the deal so take your partner's hand and lead them out on the dancefloor!

FOUR. Masquerade
Much like the gala, it's fancy. Or it could be a Halloween party. Either way, everyone is wearing some kind of costume and mask. Who is this mysterious person you're dancing with? A stranger? Friend? Enemy? Frememy? A mystery. Or perhaps not a mystery, but you can pretend!

FIVE. Clubbing
It's a bar or club or hey, maybe a sock hop, and you're here to have fun. Drinks optional, music loud, dance floor crowded. Be it with friends or a date, you're going to dance tonight. Feel the beat of the tambourine.

SIX. Performance
Ballet recital, music video, talent show, traditional ceremony -- you’re not just dancing, you’re dancing for an audience. Everyone’s eyes are on you and your partner, so let’s hope you don’t get stage fright!

SEVEN. Wildcard.

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[Just know he's a stick in the mud and you're gonna have to drag him into the dancing thing.]

Every year, Duo tries to make the trip back to Earth for the New Year. He doesn't always make it, and hell, he's missed a few years once or twice because he'd been too busy between the Sweepers and the junk yard with Hilde and - let's face it. Sometimes, it's hard to face the rest of them. To face keeping his feet on the solid ground among people celebrating - the end of the year, the end of the war, the end of some things and the beginning of others. The beginning of a new life without a war -

Whatever the hell that meant, anyway.

Somehow, they've ended up at some kind of block party. Or a club party that's bled out in to the street and, Duo Maxwell being Duo Maxwell, he's been brought in by the lapels of that by now well-worn leather jacket, laughing the entire way through. Of course, it's easy to laugh when there's a blade and a gun carefully weighed and hidden within that jacket, Preventers status or not, but it's all null and void the moment there's a beer or.. however many he's had in his hand. Taken up in the moment though he may be, as intoxicated as he is pretending to be, Duo knows the challenge at hand as he approaches Wufei, purposefully leaning closer to be heard over the voices and the music.

"C'mon, Wu. You can't just be thinkin' to lean on the wall all night with all this goin' on." That shit-eating grin says that Duo knows that was the plan, if not an inevitable escape, but he can't help prodding the proverbial bear anyways.

"Look, nobody's gonna be lookin' at you if I'm out there too. Try it out!"

That had absolutely been the plan, from the very second he'd found himself facing down the crowd that stood between him and a quiet night of meditation. It seemed like every year the city streets turned into a messy celebration that he wanted no part in, that he frankly didn't deserve to participate in. He'd been one of the many trying to rip it to shreds, not so long ago.

The first year he'd encountered it, he'd tried to bully his way through the crowd and he was still finding glitter in unseemly places from that little experience. After that, he'd started the tradition of finding himself a wall to hug, inching farther down the street in the hopes that no one would set eyes on him and attempt to get him to join the 'festivities'.

It didn't matter that if was in uniform, or how rudely he told people that he was on duty -- never mind that he wasn't. The world collectively stopped giving a shit for a full twelve hours, and it was always, always during his commute home.

So, when Duo manifested out of his nightmares or just the crowd he actually shrank against the wall, baring his teeth like a feral cat. "My plan is to find the other end of this damned riot so I can go home."

There was absolutely no way, short of a major head injury or act of god, that he was getting in the crowd. He just had to keep reminding himself that Duo was not truly the god of death he claimed to be. And if he was begging Nataku for protection, well. Who could blame him?

Duo Maxwell is probably one of the few people who could laugh so jovially in the face of Wufei’s bared teeth. He knows damn well what he was trying to do - that he was trying to slink home, unnoticed. If it hadn’t been for his presence here, Wufei very well may have made it home tonight no worse for wear except maybe a little later than usual. Instead, Duo is here, mirth dancing in his eyes as he cajoles the other pilot.

“C’mon Wufei. If this was a riot I’d be leading it instead of participating.” Hell, if there was anyone who fit the tone of ‘anarchist riot’ in appearance alone it’s the lassiez-faire slouch of the leather jacket on Duo’s shoulders, the well worn boots on his feet. Instead he’s got a fond slant to that smirk, happy to see Wufei even if he hated this kind of thing.

He extends a work roughened hand, beckoning Wufei in once again, hoping to break him down if he asks enough.

“Enjoy it for a minute, huh? Y’do all this work and shit so take a minute.”

It's why we love him

pilot05 - 2022-01-01 05:43 (UTC) - Expand

Bullying and all!!!

braidedwonder - 2022-01-01 05:56 (UTC) - Expand

Chang Wufei | Gundam Wing

challenge accepted, Chang - 1

LOL Wufei is going to regret everything very soon

I would say sorry Wufei but .. it’s Duo.

jane shepard | mass effect

Nico Acosta | OC | OTA

Evie Montgomery | OC | OTA

Amelia Atwater | OC | OTA

Percy De Rolo | Critical Role | ota

Zhao Tianyou | RGG/Yakuza

Jasper | Dragon Quest XI | ota

3, and I am bending canon a little bc I can!!

fuck it Jasper survived act 3

Seteth | Fire Emblem: Three Houses | ota

no subject

no subject

caitlyn kiramman | arcane

Dilandau Albatou | Escaflowne

Elisabeth | Elisabeth das Musical

Mina Murray Harker | Dracula das Musical

Julia | TAU

The Silent | Romeo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour

Jerry | Detroit: Become Human | OTA

Kasuga Ichiban | RGG/Yakuza

Majima Goro | RGG/Yakuza