Day 19 - Time for a Wedding

[achickenformylove]

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]

Comments

[areasontohope]

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?

[flatteries]

"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?"

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

[unfavorableinstigation]

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.

[areasontohope]

"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.

[flatteries]

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."

[unfavorableinstigation]

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.

[areasontohope]

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.

[flatteries]

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."