eachdraidh | seelie; video; why this

[Oh, look, it's Dorian Gray! Everyone remembers Dorian Gray, right? Sweet kid, a little naive, recently got scolded at the royal audience? Well, today you wouldn't believe it, not from how very self-possessed he looks, how pleased, how utterly brazen.

One might think that someone who just got publicly called out and punished might feel more need to keep their head down and be discrete, but apparently not. Every actor needs an audience, and this actor, at least, seems to be particularly committed to enjoy the show he's putting on. Feline in recline, he speaks as one who savours language, gesturing in smooth, languid movements. He is the 1890s Aesthete come to life, in all its hedonistic glory, and he is here to share.]

How dreary we all are getting. It's the fin de siècle all over again, but with far less Oscar. Or Yeats, for that matter. [Suitably, mockingly dramatic:] "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

[And here's a scoff.] I'm not feeling it. We are meant to be the court of tradition, of love, of welcoming the apocalypse. And yet I haven't seen even one orgy in my time at Caer Glaem. Frankly, I'm unimpressed.

[The headshake turns back into that canary-eating smile, and he purrs out his proposal for fixing this shameful problem.]

So tonight, at the sun's setting, I'll be holding a, ah, ritual in the Magi's Workroom. Wine from Mandragora Estates—top of the line, for those tragically ignorant of the most up-and-coming vinery in the Drabwurld—and various other substances. Children not invited.

It's a protection ritual, for the record. It would be so very unsuitable to be decadently useless in our embrace of the End. Try to bring yourself as magically charged as you can.

[ooc: THERE WILL BE NO LOG FOR THIS I am not going to put up an actual orgy log dear god. But this a thing Dorian will really be doing, any character can come as long as they're over the age of consent. Wine, drugs, and sex, all night. Technically, it really is an actual magical ritual.]

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Ah, yes. It sounds like it. I meant a literal dance when I was thinking about what Raine did.

[Of course, Raine was older and had obviously also actually had sex with someone, given her inability to approach the unicorn back home but that went over Colette's head too.]

I guess that's just not really something I've really thought about though.

[At least, not where she herself is concerned. It's just never come up, never been something she's needed to think about between her supposed fate and her younger age.]

But I'm--I'm sure you'll have fun?

[That's very cute and supportive! He smiles with some kindness here.]

Literal dances would be enjoyable too, but perhaps not as effective in this case. Generally, orgies aren't the best place to start thinking about it. Although I have known a few. [hedonist life.]

I'm not sure I'm that good with dancing. At least, not with others. I'm a little...clumsy.

[Which makes her a little sheepish, but it is the truth, after all. She's got something of a record for it with tripping into buildings and leaving Colette shaped holes and accidentally setting off traps or tripping into people to steal their things.]

Dancing is a marvellous way to improve grace, generally speaking.

[And yet some klutz stats just cannot be lowered.]

Maybe? If I could find someone that didn't mind practicing. Or I could try it myself first, I guess would be safer. I wonder if that would help any at all. I'm sure if it did, everyone would be surprised!

[Because. It is kind of her Thing. Chances are with years of practice it still wouldn't stop her tripping up.]

Make a call out. It's generally better to get an instructor.

[The point is that effort counts??? or not...]

I guess it couldn't hurt to at least ask. So long as they don't mind me accidentally probably stepping on their feet?

[Because. That is inevitable. If she has a dance partner.]

[oh no she's adorable]

Perhaps best to warn about that while you're looking around.

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I probably should. I did try to tell Hiro and Muscovy at Samhain but it just looked like so much fun! I think I'd like to learn. What about you, do you like dancing?

[Yes, there's a reason her friends always say that 'the topic of conversation always goes out the window when talking to Colette'. Obviously.]

[Off the topic goes, and he carried with it—]

Certainly. I've, um, danced every dance I can think of, now that I reflect on it. Never one to pass up a new experience, me.

Every dance? Wow. You must dance a lot then! Would....would you be able to teach me?

[He did kind of give her this idea in the first place. And if he knows what he's getting into already, well. That works out at least?]

[Oh. Oh no. Oh definitely not.] I'm not the teaching sort, I assure you. It isn't my thing.

Oh. Oh, that's okay! I'm sure if I asked I could find someone else to help teach me! I just figured if you knew so much about dancing, it was worth asking at least.