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."

[wildlymagical]

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

[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."

[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."

[lexicality]

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

[wildlymagical]

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

[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?"

[wildlymagical]

"I don't think I have."

[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."

[wildlymagical]

"Hmm. Doesn't ring any bells."

[lexicality]

"There are a lot of them. Not as many as Bells or Jokers though. Like - sixish, I don't know exactly."

[wildlymagical]

"More than there are of me!"

[lexicality]

"Or me! I hope we eventually find another me. Maybe one who doesn't even have a Bella, since so many Bellas don't have Lexis and that's weird!"

[wildlymagical]

"Maybe we will."

[lexicality]

"Do you like having alts?"

[wildlymagical]

"It's... yes," he says. "It's not what I expected. But I'm not sure I expected anything, really."

[lexicality]

"Bella loves having alts to trade magic with and impress."

[wildlymagical]

He laughs.

[keyed_up]

Someone walks up to them. "Hey do either of you know where I can find oh it's you hi."

[lexicality]

"Oh! It's you! Hi!" repeats Lexi.

[wildlymagical]

...Lycaelon giggles.

[lexicality]

"So yeah, you're you, I'm me, do we actually, like, have things to talk about?"

[keyed_up]

"I didn't... make a list or anything."

[lexicality]

"Yeah. I don't know, what is there to talk about. Bells without sisters are weird? Magic is neat? Tonies are cute?"

[keyed_up]

"I have a Tony!" squirms Soph happily.