will you marry me?

[small_magics]

When the party has been going on for a few hours but no one has left yet, everyone is called into the main room. (The dragons will have a sufficient view if they prefer to perch at the outer doors.)

Angela has worked out a ceremony that will satisfy the involved parties, a reworking of standard Samarian traditions with some revised wording and adjustments for the fact that the groom inhabits two bodies. This ceremony, unlike the elven one, doesn't involve any jewelry.

And then Sarion and her beloved are married. Again.

Comments

[pythbox]

[Hey you,] says Celo. [Got a minute?]

[subtly_artistic]

[Sure, what's up?]

[pythbox]

[People have been giving me various amounts of shit about not wearing clothes and it's kind of getting to me and I want to do something about it but I'm not coming up with any good ideas,] he says.

[subtly_artistic]

[...Well, I don't really have any good ideas either, but you could come hug me and I could - be accustomed to the fact that you go around naked?]

[pythbox]

[Are you around anybody who's not?]

[subtly_artistic]

[Nah. This little room doesn't have a door but I'm in it by myself.]

[pythbox]

Celo appears and hugs her.

"I love you," he sighs.

[subtly_artistic]

She hugs him back. "I'm sorry people have been freaking out about you. I mean, I did it too, but at least I understood what 'I'm a nymph' meant."

[pythbox]

"Yeah. And it's just 'well why can't you wear clothes' over and over again, and I get really fucking tired of explaining."

[subtly_artistic]

Aether pets his hair. "The Bells all know, I explained - I guess they didn't propagate it to their people too thoroughly."

[pythbox]

"Guess not," he agrees with a sigh. "Fuck. I don't know, would changing my censoring help?"

[subtly_artistic]

"Maybe? You're sort of very - technically censored, right now."

[pythbox]

He snorts. "Yeah. I could just be a silhouette with a nametag until people decide they want to see more of me. But then it'd probably be 'Why do you look like somebody painted over you?' 'Because I'm naked' and back to the same old conversation."

[subtly_artistic]

Pet, pet. "I guess people who don't have nymphs pretty much just - react like you're a naked human."

[pythbox]

"Yep." Snuggle.

[subtly_artistic]

"You've probably thought of all the standard cartoonish not-technically-clothes solutions like wearing a barrel and rejected them, I imagine."

[pythbox]

"Yeah. If it's wearing something, it counts. Illusions like Jellybean's censor bars are okay. Illusions of clothes would be - kind of borderline? Better than actual clothes but I still wouldn't be happy."

[subtly_artistic]

"Also if someone hugged you while you had on illusion clothes they might be unpleasantly surprised."

[pythbox]

He snorts. "Yeah. Maybe I should try enchanting something. Might be more flexible. So people get something closer to their individual comfort levels than black box or no black box."

[subtly_artistic]

"- Can you tell if people un-black-box you? As it's currently set up?"

(Aether, for her part, sees no particular reason to have her nymph boyfriend censored.)

[pythbox]

"Yeah, why?"

[subtly_artistic]

"People are reacting to you like you're a human. Telling a nymph you want to see him naked means almost less than nothing. Telling a human that you want to see him naked is something else again. I don't think the censor bar is gonna be a good long-term solution."

[pythbox]

"...If somebody doesn't want me to know they're looking at me naked, I think I can live with them not," he says. "And I don't see a better long-term solution anywhere. Than illusory censorship in general, I mean, I still want to find a better way to do it than what I've got now."

[subtly_artistic]

Scritch scritch. "Okay. I was figuring between the sign that's apparently up on Joker-occupied orgy chambers and what were apparently unwarranted assumptions that you wouldn't mind if people were sneaking peeks without wanting to advertise it."

[pythbox]

"Well - I wouldn't mind exactly? But if I'm talking to them I'd rather know." Snuggle. "This whole thing is so weird."