voidtreckerexpress | Day 19 - Time for a Wedding

Day 19 - Time for a Wedding

Who: Lan WangJi, Wei WuXian and anyone else who wants to attend!
Where: Garden carriage and then gym car
When: Day 19 of Egret
What: Wedding! Wedding reception and lots of food.
Warnings: Pretty much up in the air. But there will likely a lot of PDA's from the wedding couple during the reception... because that's how they roll

Finally, it was Day 19, the day that WangJi and WuXian had chosen for their wedding.

Ceremony
Inside the garden, everything had been decorated in red and gold, traditional colors for a wedding in China. There were flowers and a low table set up.

As the ceremony begins, Lan WangJi and Wei WuXian enter with Lan Sizhui and Wen Qing as their attendants. The wedding clothes for WangJi and WuXian are also red, with designs of forest animals in the designs sewn in, including frogs and rabbits. All of this was courtesy of their friendly neighborhood spider. WuXian was also wearing a red veil over his hair and face. Even WangJi’s ever-present forehead ribbon was red today instead of white.

As the pair approached the table, WuXian on one side and WangJi on the other, they alternated bowing to each other three times before kneeling. With the help of their attendants, they each drank a cup of tea, which they used their long sleeves as though hiding that they were doing so behind them. Once they had put the cups down, WangJi reached up, pushing the veil back so that he could see WuXian’s face before removing the forehead ribbon he’d been wearing. Taking WuXian’s hand, he used to make kind of a loose knot between their two wrists, a Gusu Lan symbol that WuXian was his fated partner. Then as they carefully stood, WangJi leaned in to kiss WuXian before they both bowed to their attendants, thanks for assisting them and being there for them.

Reception
Following the wedding ceremony itself, the party then moved to the gym car, where the reception and feast were being held. Like the decorations for the wedding, it was also a lot of red and gold. To those who didn’t know beforehand, it would likely be obvious that red and gold here very important.

Lots of food cooked by wonderful volunteers from the train. Of course, there had to be dessert, which was the cake baked by the couple’s son, Lan Sizhui.

As the wedding couple, they were rather happily seated together of course. WangJi had since replaced the forehead ribbon on his head, but there was a high likelihood that sometime during the party WuXian was going to end up wearing it around his wrist.

[ooc: Mingle post! Feel free to make your own top levels and tag around and have fun. Also, in the picture, ignore the hat for WangJi’s robes. He’s not wearing a hat]

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Ten people does seem like a huge difference from how the train is now. They must have at least ten times that amount of people by now.. And although Inigo does look like he's trying to take that thought in for a moment, he either doesn't seem to share the worry going through Yuki's mind or doesn't show it, since he still acts pretty casual when he pipes up.

"That much is true. Although it feels like more people arrive than leave, it still feels completely random as to which people disappear." After all, Yuki was among the people who disappeared before, only to return.. He thinks about bringing up that fact, since he's sure Nita would find it interesting, but he also doesn't want to make some sort of zoo exhibit out of poor Yuki either. So he keeps it to himself. "Although I personally don't mind the idea of staying here longer too terribly."

"Five whole months. Or just five months, depending how you look at it."

Not that any of them can know what the real number is, time being distorted in the void and all.

"In a way, I'm used to it too. Nature of the Work and all."

Plus Nautilus, but she could go home from there.

"Never know who you'll meet or for how long..."

He heard Inigo mention the he wouldn't mind being here longer and he agreed on some level. But wasn't it like living in a bubble and escaping reality? Obviously he didn't have all of the answers as he didn't have all of the information.

Nita's words finally caught up to Yuki as he;d been lost in thought, going over the same circular logic he'd been doing since he arrived. So he looked at the wizard curiously. "I'm sorry..you said..nature of the work?"

Usually Inigo would be much more nervous about the last part of what Nita mentions. With his mile-long abandonment complex the idea of suddenly losing people is just about the worst thing that could happen to him. Thankfully he does have a way of seeing people again, even if it's not on the train, so the smile on his face remains very genuine with no real worries underneath.

Yuki's question does make him think though. He knows Nita has been in multiple places before, and that she can use magic.. though he's not too sure whether this part is something he's heard of already.

"I'm a wizard," Nita starts to explain, and she's grateful for all the practice acting in an astahfrith manner she's gotten in Nautilus. If she'd come here straight from Earth, before she'd gotten so much experience with cultures where it was safe to be 'out in the open' who knew what she would have made of this place!

"And I get to travel all sorts of places while on errantry - not just around Earth, but into the wider solar system, even to other galaxies and dimensions! It takes a lot of energy to teleport to those places, let alone walk. So while we meet lots of people, and can keep in touch with other wizards through the Manual, that's not a guarantee I'll see them face-to-face a lot, or even at all after we first meet."

Gray eyes look at Nita in some disbelief. Wizards..well this place was filled with odd people..at least odd in his estimation. But then he did remind himself he was being overly judgmental and he was in absolutely no position since Inigo had seen a side that he never should've in a perfect world. Not that one of those existed.

The amount of information he was getting was staggering and he shook his head. "I'm sorry, I don't mean to pry..but..how..does one even become a wizard?" Is this a gift like being 'cursed' was or did one study or go to a certain place to learn?

It sure helps that Inigo already knew some things about Nita. And.. well, let's face it, his own world is ridiculous enough compared to some of the more normal ones out there that nothing she says really strikes him as anything surprising. He just thinks it's cool! Nita the traveling wizard!

"I assume it's by learning magic, right?"

Granted, Inigo is thinking in terms of his own world. He could have been a mage himself if he'd ever bothered to open a book about magic, after all.

"Yes and no," Nita says, answering Inigo's question first.

"All wizards in the neck of the multiverse I'm from are offered their wizardry by the Powers That Be - they stumble on the Oath in books, or have it appear in their own head, and if they choose to take it they end up on Ordeal, solving some problem of the universe's. You usually get some time to get used to the Speech and the power that comes with it, though, and there's no such thing as knowing too much when it comes to facing down the Lone Power," she adds, though that's more of an opinion than a fact and she knows it.

"So you stumble on a book?" Yuki asked politely. An ordeal sounded like one and what was this lone power? "And you get a speech?" This wizarding stuff was confusing. He didn't want to sound dumb because he wasn't. But wizards weren't a thing back home.

Unless being zodiac cursed counted.

Hey, if it helps, all of this sounds pretty new to Inigo too. And he's from a world with magic all over the place and people changing into dragons on the regular.

"I'm not sure how I'd feel if I suddenly found something like that in a book.." (You'd actually have to open a book once in a while to begin with, Inigo.) But while he can sense and understands Yuki's confusion, there's something else about what Nita says that bothers him instead - which, of course, involves the safety of a friend. "What's that Lone Power you have to face down all about though?"

"Or something like that, yeah. /And the Speech is the language the Powers used to make the worlds,/" Nita continued, switching into the Speech itself for demonstrative purposes.

/It seemed like a prank to me at first, too. I didn't read the Oath aloud straight off; I read up on the warnings and prerequisites first./

Inigo's question came next. /The Lone Power, inventor of Entropy and perpetrator of a hell of a lot of suffering among the worlds./

The sort of person you'd expect to rule the void, really.

Yuki wasn't terribly sure what to make of the Speech. And was..Nita speaking with some sort of advice from somewhere? This reminded him somewhat of Miss Hanajima. Those two would probably get along fantastically.

Maybe too much.

So he backed up a step, not sure why this was a thing that was happening. And then when it was all over, he blinked. The sort of person to rule a void?

Edited 2020-04-26 05:17 (UTC)

"You have to face that sort of thing down?"

Listen, the Speech thing? It's kind of weird - or more like special - but Inigo has seen enough strange things. It's not enough to make him back up a step like Yuki, though he's making sure to keep an eye on his boyfriend in case he needs some comfort. (Maybe Inigo is a little overly considerate of his feelings, but still..)

But the thought of Nita dealing with something like that takes up more of his attention. Because oh boy, he doesn't like the sound of that.

"By yourself?"

Nita nodded. "It doesn't always get physical," she said, switching back to 'English' for Yuki's sake if nothing else.

"I wasn't alone on Ordeal, either; I had Kit, and Fred, and even though the world was at stake it wasn't as if I didn't have help, but... it was a lot. And the world never stays saved, though the Lone Power doesn't always use the same tactic twice."

Putting out the sun had only occurred the once in her neighborhood, damnit! And if she had anything to say about it, things would stay that way.

"So you have to go back and keep saving the world?" Yuki's confused at this, but he's trying. If you fight the negative powers and win and they just keep coming back..is the point to just keep saving it to give people a fighting chance that live there?

Gray eyes looked at Inigo and then back to Nita as if he could understand simply by looking at them. Life wasn't a video game but he figured once you saved it, all was well.

Apparently that wasn't the case.

It's as if Inigo can feel Yuki's gaze on him, since his gaze shifts to the other boy to look right back at him. Despite not knowing what Yuki is thinking, Inigo agrees. You're supposed to have a happy ending once you defeat the bad guys. Just fighting forever sounds pretty miserable.

He doesn't like that thought at all, so to distract his mind from it, he quickly gives Yuki a totally out of context kiss on the cheek before giving him a quick, half-cheery half-cheeky grin.

It gives him the strength to smile at Nita too, rather than give her a worried look.

"Well.. I know you're strong, Nita. You can handle it. But I do wish a different fate for you, one where you wouldn't have to struggle as much."

Nita manages a smile - more because of Yuki and Inigo's continued cuteness than because of what Inigo says, but a smile all the same.

"Yeah," she answers first. "But it's not the same people every time; every wizard is a solution to some problem of the universe's, so it's a lot more of a shared task - a community, really - than it sounds."

She does make a wry face, though. "Oh, don't I know it! Kind of hard not to think like that, after a while. But Life's still worth fighting for, all the same."

Life, and love.

Yuki pulled back from the kiss on the cheek and looked at Inigo like he'd lost his mind. They were supposed to be listening to Nita and her story which was bad enough with eternal fighting and having to do it all over again. But his gray eyes refocused on the wizard and wondered why she was smiling.

"Well..since you..put it that way..it does make sense." the silver haired man said in his usual soft voice. There was someone by his side here in this great tangle of a new life that he wanted to protect and would do so over and over.

Inigo just smiles in the face of the look he's getting from Yuki, like it doesn't phase him in the slightest. He's still way too over the moon with the other to get shy from small gestures like that - and as he looks over and realises it makes Nita smile, it makes him feel like a job well done. (Even if Yuki might kick his butt later for all he knows.)

"Well.." He still thinks Nita's situation doesn't sound great. But she's positive about it. And if there's anything Inigo understands, it's trying to be relentlessly positive in the face of the absolute worst things. So he just smiles too. "If that thing ever turns up here on the train, just let us know and we'll go kick its ass together with you."

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Day 19 - Time for a Wedding

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Stupid italic break. >.< That last line wasn't said aloud.

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