Party Time

[loveandduty]

Who: Everyone who wants to attend.
What: It's a party for all, but the pairing up part is for singles only.
When: Day 19 of Fiddlesticks
Where: Gym Carriage
Warnings: Who knows atm just Minako being Minako will add more as things happen.

[Minako figured she did the best she could for the party. Though she also wondered if perhaps she might not have that many people come. Sure she wanted to put singles together, but at the same time, she simply wanted people to have fun.

In the dressing carriage, people will find costumes and masks that were more gothic in nature. There was food and hopefully some forms of sweet treats for those looking for it as well as a variety of drink, mostly non-alcoholic.]

OOC: Examples of the type of outfits and such can be found here: costumes and
masks]

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[sos_pilot]

Della, having met Young Alice, was curious about meeting Older Alice, and wondering how time didn't just up and explode with them having come into contact with one another. So when she glances at this girl with an outfit similar to Young Alice, she thinks she's got a match. First she pops the rest of her food in her mouth, wiping her mouth on her sleeve before looking back over and...

... Buh?

Where did she go?

Confused, Della lifted up her mask and walked around, trying to figure it out. "I thought the phrase was seeing double, not seeing... nothing?"

[irrationally]

Oh geez. To be fair, this wasn't entirely Alice's plan. It happened rather accidentally, but she did figure it might be a good way to escape from this social situation for a little bit. Surely no one would notice her if she wasn't much bigger than a mouse.

But now she's seeing the downside. If she's no bigger than a mouse and not very noticable, there's a very high probability that someone at the party might just step on her with how many people are present.

So Della may hear a very, very tiny voice coming from all the way down near her feet, barely audible over the music: "Watch where you're going!"

If she looks down, she'll see the older Alice - still looking the same as a moment ago, still wearing her dress and all. Just.. very tiny.

[sos_pilot]

It did take Della a few tries to locate where the voice was coming from, but eventually she did look down...

blink rapidly a few times...

And then casually wave. "Oh, hey there." As if this was completely normal

She bent down, choosing to stay on her prosthetic leg in case she was going to be there for a while. "Need help moving to a safer spot?"

[irrationally]

It's honestly kind of a relief that this - now gigantic to her - duck person isn't freaking out at her being this small. The last thing she wants at this party she already feels so awkward at is to have to deal with things somehow getting even more awkward. So Alice just lets out the tiniest sigh before speaking up again.

"That would be appreciated, I suppose." Better to accept help from a stranger than to get trampled.. Especially since she doesn't have her hiccups under control because of these nerves the way she usually does.

[sos_pilot]

She's seen weirder, and lived through weirder. Itty bitty people are barely a blip on the radar anymore.

"All right, hop on." She held out her hand, laying it flat so Alice could climb on. "How about I put you on the snack table? Plenty of grub to go around."

Della... was willing to eat anything, so all the burnt/raw food didn't seem worth mentioning.

[irrationally]

"Please." Despite being so tiny, Alice somehow seems to manage to sound very exasperated all the same.. "I'm not desperate enough to actually eat any of that stuff."

And that's saying something, considering the food back home in London - let alone in the asylum - wasn't exactly high cuisine. But at least it wasn't charcoal either, okay.

But despite her complaint about the food, Alice does get up on Della's hand after a moment. Trusting a stranger like this is kind of unnerving, so she summons her - now very, very tiny - knife in one hand. Just in case. Not like it'd do more than prick at this size, but it just makes her feel more secure to hold it.

[sos_pilot]

"Alley-oop." Della slowly began to stand up, not wanting Alice to fall off. But she notices the additional weapon all of a sudden, and raises an eyebrow. "Unless you're planning on giving me a haircut, I promise you don't need to feel threatened. Here, how about this?"

She moved her hand to her shoulder. "Wanna have a seat, and you tell me where you want to go?"

[irrationally]

She sighs. The weapon doesn't disappear from her hand, although it also doesn't look like she's about to make a move with it - her stance isn't exactly combat-ready.

Especially as she hops onto Della's shoulder and sits down there. With her being this tiny, she almost looks more like the most petulant little child, despite already being at the end of her teens.

"Do you really think people feel less threatened when they're told not to be?" .. Well, okay, some people might. But not paranoid Alice over here. "And I don't have anywhere I want to go. I just don't want to be dealing with people right now."

[sos_pilot]

Della almost shrugged, but managed to stop herself - it'd suck to put her on her shoulder only to immediately knock her off.

"Theeeeen... why are you at a party? They're kinda famous for having a lot of people around." Not judging, just honestly curious.

[irrationally]

It's a very legitimate callout. Honestly, Alice has been asking herself half of the time what she's even doing here. But while she doesn't feel comfortable with revealing the true extent of the reason, she figures she can at least give away a tiny bit of it. The safest to admit bit of it.

"I came here with company."

[sos_pilot]

In that case...!

"Want me to help find them?" She offered, gesturing at the crowd. "Are they all... your size too?"

[irrationally]

"I'm not usually this size."

But explaining that she shrunk out of nerves and social awkwardness is awful. Terrible. She's not going anywhere near that topic.

"So no, he is regular people sized. But I--" She starts, stops, lets out a sigh. This whole situation is so frustrating. Why do social situations have to be so hard? It was much easier when it was just her and her imaginary land. "I'd rather not have him see me like this."

[sos_pilot]

Hm, another strike. Third time's the charm?

"In that case... want me to get you out of here? I can put you in your cabin, or where you wanna chill." Della could always return to the party later, it was no biggie. This person needed help, so she would help, plain and simple.

[irrationally]

Alice opens her (now tiny) mouth, and for a moment it looks like she's about to shoot down that idea too. But then she slowly seems to realise something and her shoulders sag in something between defeat and acceptance.

"Perhaps just take me right outside of the carriage for a moment. I might be able to grow myself back to my regular size." And outside of the party is a better place to attempt that than in here, where she's very likely to be trambled once she's on the ground if she doesn't pay close attention to everyone's feet.

[sos_pilot]

"All right, here we go." She walked slowly and carefully, doing her best not to knock off her new friend.

"Name's Della Duck. I just arrived here a little while ago. You looked a little familiar, that's I headed on over."

[irrationally]

"I did?"

Alice sounds rather surprised at that. Of course "looked familiar" means that she's thinking more of everything back home than a resemblance she may have to a certain other someone here, which means that Alice is quickly going through her memory to see if she has a memory of any talking ducks in Wonderland..

.. well, she's pretty sure certainly not any that looked anything like Della. So that leaves the question wide open.

"Why?"

[sos_pilot]

"It was the outfit." She explained as they talked. "Reminded me of that nice kid, Alice Liddel, I think? She mentioned meeting the older version of her, so I thought you might be that."

Must not shrug! Must not shrug!

[irrationally]

Please, don't launch her straight off your shoulders through the air..

"Ah.. Yes, that would be me." At least that explanation makes sense. It's probably the only one that'd make sense in a place like this. "We're very different from one another though, so I'm hoping you weren't expecting to meet another nice kid."

[sos_pilot]

"Hey, if we were all the exact same when we got older, there wouldn't be any point in being older at all!" Della continued to smile kindly, not put-off by the warning.

"Besides, I'd like to get to know you for you."

[irrationally]

Alice won't really disagree with that point.

Although she does think her own case is rather unique. After all, she's really hoping that somehow the younger Alice can turn into a better older Alice. One that isn't incredibly broken and much ruder than she ought to be. It's a sentiment she keeps to herself though, in favour of:

"You wouldn't be the first person here to say that." Her tone is almost slightly exasperated, despite the topic.. "Why are the people here so oddly friendly?"

[sos_pilot]

"I can't speak for them," Della said, gesturing back but then poking herself in the chest. "But I just like to make friends. I was alone for a long time, so I guess I'm trying to make up for it."

[irrationally]

This is the part where Alice would say she can't get that, since she actually likes being alone. But that's just an act and she knows it. She's growing exceptionally fond of the company of a few specific people here, after all, even though she has such a hard time admitting it.

So clearly it's time to keep focusing on Della rather than her own feelings.

"Even if it's on a train hurdling through quite literally nowhere?"

[sos_pilot]

"Especially if it's on a train hurdling through quite literally nowhere!" Della grinned, the very prospect super exiting for her. "I do this kinda stuff all the time back home with the family, so it's nice to spread my wings and see new faces!"

[irrationally]

"With the family?"

Alice tries to imagine her family doing something like this. It's.. hard, for sure, and not just because they've been dead for so long. They were just always so domestic that she can't imagine them all going on a wild adventure like this together.

".. I do suppose you'd get used more easily to something like this if you were doing it already back home."

[sos_pilot]

"That's right! My whole family is made of up adventurers and explorers. We travel the globe to solve mysteries and rewrite history!"

Ducktales, woo-oo.