who will be coming?

[small_magics]

Aianon has made a plant in the open airless space above the surface of Thilanushinyel. It is a very, very large plant - some dragons will be attending the party, after all, even if Ansharil in particular is going to be assorted small things and stay on Sarion's person the bulk of the time.

The locals will be Sarion, her beloveds, their other beloved, the five conjured dragons (and their Bondmates, where applicable: Virgivere and Lissa), and Liselen - Magania has, as usual, declined, and so far no Bell party has featured Bell parents.

Amariah is bringing her boyfriend and spontaneous daughter and two of the spontaneous daughter's friends, as well as an Alethian instance of the Rupert template.

Shell Bell is bringing Pearl and Screwdriver.

Golden is bringing her usual large contingent, as usual not including her husband but including her daughter and daughter's grown fosterling (the other remaining at home) and his wolf, both mothers-in-law and one father-in-law, adopted siblings, staff members including the Joker and Nathan, and the children of the aforementioned.

Glass is bringing both wives, all three daughters, Kanim, and her cat. She invited Icarin and Valeria, but their parents are not willing to let them gallivant into other worlds unsupervised and had a scheduling conflict.

Stella's bringing a smattering of people including Alice, Anna, Sandy, Libby, Bridget, her college roommate Janine, and Lazarus.

Tab is bringing Aelise (but not Kers) and Luhan.

Etty is bringing only Nona.

Aether, likewise, brings no one but Celo.

Pattern comes with Ripper, Slipstick, Queenie, and Ghosty.

Aegis is accompanied by her four-bodied boyfriend, Merryweather, Whitlock, and Howlett.

Aurora comes with Brilliance, Lexi with her Device Persica, Agent Honey with her Device Adularia, and Beth.

Rose brings her husband and three children and her former apprentice, Luc.

Angela brings her husband, her four children, several of her friends, and some of those friends' children and grandchildren with and without wings. Keziah also brings a friend.

Juliet shows up with Soph, Minus, Red, Giles, James, Virginia, Minnie, Ike, and Val.

Cam brings Jellybean and Tilly and stops there.

And from unBelled worlds hail additional Sherlocks and Tonies, Darcy, Matilda, Pepper, and Eights.

Comments

[lexicality]

"I don't know! Maybe. Maybe not."

[newtimov]

"Oh. And there are people who don't like them?"

[wildlymagical]

He laughs. "Well, I can't speak for anyone else, anyway."

[snowandsparks]

"Back when we had slavery they were the ones who were slaves. The Jansai in particular don't get along with them too well."

[newtimov]

"...I see," says Ike.

[lexicality]

"It's a lot of people, though. It's not weird that alts of my sister would have, you know, boyfriends or girlfriends or husbands or wives, just that so many people want to pick them up at parties is strange."

[snowandsparks]

"Also they look different. Isabella's husband doesn't because the Edori adopted him, but mostly they're kind of distinctive. Darker, by and large."

[wildlymagical]

"Well... I don't think I would be so interested if I hadn't already," he makes an extremely vague and abstract gesture, "with Sarion. I might be interested in the other Jokers too, if there weren't so many of them."

[newtimov]

"Is, um, Angela's husband a template of some kind...?"

[lexicality]

Lexi giggles helplessly. "There are so many of them, how would you even pick one."

[snowandsparks]

"...I don't know? Maybe? His name is Micaiah."

[newtimov]

"That might be vaguely familiar. Or not."

[wildlymagical]

"Maybe I will tell my Bonded I want one and they can choose which."

[snowandsparks]

"He's -" Lucas can't gesture, as he's holding Ike. "Tall, a little taller than me, and he's got curly brown hair about to his shoulders? And they have four kids, all angel daughters."

[lexicality]

"Maybe! That'd be one way to do it. I don't want a Joker personally. I flirted with a Tony at one party, though, have you met any of those?"

[temporal_affairs]

"Hi!" calls Nathan. "We think you might be their alt!"

[newtimov]

"I think that people Bells have kids with are mostly templated... I guess it doesn't matter that much. But I'm curious."

[snowandsparks]

"I could ask my grandmother, she might know."

[wildlymagical]

"I don't think I have."

[pythbox]

"Ooh," says the dragon. She lands on the edge of the platform. "Hi! I'm Arianna. Who're you?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Anna," says Anna.

"Eights," says Eights.

[lexicality]

"They're fun! The one I flirted with danced with me and then we played video games. Glass is married to one, and Shell Bell has one and I think they have a thing but she's mostly with her Sherlock - Sherlocks go with Tonies, mostly - and Juliet has one but they're not together."

[temporal_affairs]

"Well, that sounds like a suspiciously alty name, Arianna."

[newtimov]

"That sounds like a sensible solution!"

[snowandsparks]

Lucas nods, and tilts his head, and says, "She says she vaguely remembers that they were called something to do with jokes for some reason."