metalcrusher: Mettaton clasping his hands together in front of him while wearing a fancy blue dress. His screen displays a heart in red. (COULD IT BE...?)
Mettaton ([personal profile] metalcrusher) wrote in [community profile] aefenglom2020-09-06 04:18 pm
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＊ You're marrying your Bonded now. You're filled with determination.

Name: Mettaton (un: METTATON)
Date: 09/06
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Hey there, beauties! Lend me your imaginations and INSPIRE me... By answering to my provocative scenario:

Wedding bells are ringing, and you're dressed to the nines. Surprise! You're in LOVE now... with none other than your Bonded*!!! ...And you're getting MARRIED!! What's more, this is going to be your DREAM WEDDING!!

Describe it to me: what does your ideal wedding day feature, with your Bonded betrothed??


*If you're un-Bonded, you thought of someone. You're marrying them now. Ha-ha.
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metalcrusher: Mettaton crossing his arms. There's a flat red line going across his screen. (I ALREADY TURNED OFF THE FLAMES.)

voice

[personal profile] metalcrusher 2020-09-07 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
... ...

[There's a moment. One spared toward thinking about this. Processing this, trying to recognize the voice. Trying to figure out what any of this MEANS. Mettaton anticipated things from other cultures and worlds to be... new, unique, but this?

He clears his throat. He doesn't have a throat.]

OKAY. WHAT? PLEASE, INDULGE MY CURIOSITY, DARLING. WHAT SORT OF CUSTOMS ARE THESE? I'M... MORBIDLY FASCINATED, BY JUMPING BROOMS AND SHARING CALVES' EYES.
faithlikeaseed: cw for graphic eye injury further down the page (blind - chipmunk grin)

[personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2020-09-07 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[...Wait, wait. Myr recognizes this voice--this is the box! With bunny ears! That he last saw in (don'tthinkaboutit) a dream.

His smile is obvious in his voice when he replies,]

City elf customs. Hasmali city elf customs, though mostly for the poorer among us. S'pose if you're doing better for yourselves than most, or you're dowered from another alienage, you might get a proper wedding feast after the broom-jumping. Maybe even a Chantry Sister to take pity and witness your vows.
metalcrusher: Mettaton lounging in front of a laptop, wearing a sheer, pink, sexy robe. It's as bad as it sounds. (LOCAL METTATON VERY RICH，FAMOUS，GORGEOUS)

[personal profile] metalcrusher 2020-09-07 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
MY. THIS IS BEYOND MY SCOPE OF UNDERSTANDING! I'VE NEVER HEARD OF. . . . . BROOM-JUMPING. WHAT DO YOU EVEN DO?? WHY? IS IT EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE?

[What he's getting from Myr is that he fantasizes about... having a poor, slovenly wedding as the wedding of his dreams. This is on a different caliber than denying the want for a wedding at all!]

DO YOU REALLY WANT THESE THINGS, DARLING?
faithlikeaseed: (blind - chatter)

[personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2020-09-07 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly how it sounds. You find a couple of fellows to hold either end of the broom and you jump over it with your intended.

[Actually this joke is getting increasingly less funny as time goes on, but so it's been with Myr's humor all this week: Starting off promising and tripping over itself.

Much like the rest of him.

Don't think about that.]

I can't really say as I'd want it so much as it's the only wedding I'd ever expected to have, before that choice got taken from me.

Though I don't see much wrong with keeping things simple and traditional.
metalcrusher: A dramatic angle of Mettaton with his hand forward, his finger and thumb pointed upward. (BUT DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL.)

[personal profile] metalcrusher 2020-09-07 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I SEE. SO YOU'RE BEING PRACTICAL MINDED... AND PROJECTING THE REALISTIC OUTCOME FOR YOUR "DREAM WEDDING."

[Key word, Myr!! And it sounds as though he's recalling traditions kept from home, where he'd apparetly only expect as much. That said, the confidence returns to Mettaton's already booming, authoritative voice.]

EITHER WAY, HOW ABOUT HERE? YOUR "DREAM WEDDING," IN AEFENGLOM? YOU AND YOUR BONDED ARE IN LOVE NOW, AND... WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU DREAM OF SEEING ON YOUR WEDDING DAY, DARLING?

[WHY does Mettaton keep having to make it about people's Bonded? Because he's interested in the reaction, primarily. And it's all in good fun, right?]
faithlikeaseed: (blind - :J)

[personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2020-09-08 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
If we're allowing miracles, I'd dream of seeing at all on my wedding day.

[Sorry, Mettaton; he doesn't usually do that but it was right there and he's in a fey mood.]

But hold up, before we go on--what d'you think it is that makes a wedding worth having?
metalcrusher: With a heart on his display, it's just Mettaton admiring himself. (ENOUGH ABOUT YOU. LET'S TALK ABOUT ME!)

[personal profile] metalcrusher 2020-09-09 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[??? If only Mettaton knew who he was talking to... And that Myr could not see, as when he met him, he was plenty capable of viewing him in all of his boxy-bunny splendor.

But with his own Bonded half-blind, it does cause him to think of it.]

"SEE AT ALL," YOU SAY. ARE YOU BLIND, DARLING? [It would explain replying in voice!]

IN EITHER CASE, A THING THAT MAKES MY WEDDING WORTH HAVING... IS AN EVENT OF PURE OPULENCE! AN UNFORGETTABLE SOIREE OF DELECTATION. A CELEBRATION THAT EXALTS MY HUSBAND-TO-BE AND MYSELF EVEN ABOVE ALL OF THE PLANNING AND CELEBRATION. I WANT IT ALL, BEAUTIFUL! I'D INVITE MY GUESTS TO GIVE TOASTS TO OUR LOVE, AND THEY'D BE GRACED WITH MY FEEDBACK ON THEIR WELL-WISHES. I WANT MY GROOM IN ATTIRE SO DASHING THAT I'M APT TO OVERHEAT, AND I WANT TO BE WEARING ATTIRE SO HANDSOME THAT MY AUDIENCE CAN'T HELP BUT STARE...

I ALSO WANT A PINEAPPLE.

[Thank Bailey for this one, he is HOOKED on this need the more he looks into Pineapple Scarcity In Aefenglom.]

THERE'S SO MUCH THAT COULD MAKE A WEDDING WORTH HAVING... THAT THIS POST IS A GREAT WAY FOR ME TO START BRAINSTORMING! HOWEVER. I THINK IT'S WHATEVER BRINGS HAPPINESS TO THE COUPLE IN QUESTION THAT MAKES IT WORTHWHILE.
faithlikeaseed: (blind - thinky thoughts)

i went on a wiki expedition to see if i missed any mention of pineapples in DA for this tag

[personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2020-09-13 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[It likewise occurs to him belatedly that they had, after all, only met in a dream. He shakes his head at himself in faint amusement before replying,]

I am that. So I s'pose my wedding ought to have plenty of things to enjoy with my other senses. Incense and a choir, like a high Chantry wedding in Val Royeaux, and a proper feast after.

[It's an appealing sensory image to consider--but also so, so far beyond a city elf mage that he gives it up in short order with a quiet laugh.

Likewise is Mettaton's description entirely beyond him, but he doesn't laugh at that; instead gives it all the kind attention due the deepest wish of someone's heart.

...Even if it is a deepest wish Myr can't wrap his mind around wanting. All the more reason to try to understand it, right?]

What is it about opulence in particular that would make you happy with this wedding, serah? And what's your Bonded think about your plans?

[Guessing, based on the framing of the question.]

...Also, what's a pineapple? [If he's going on the name alone it sounds innocuous (albeit piney). But if it is to be part of an event of pure and surpassing opulence, it's got to be some kind of gem-studded exotic object...]
metalcrusher: Mettaton raising a finger while holding a sheet of paper in front of him, a la his quiz show. (BUT CAN YOU GET THIS ONE???)

bless your dedication, and myr's pineapple ignorance

[personal profile] metalcrusher 2020-09-16 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
OOOH, NOW YOU'RE THINKING. A CHOIR AND FEAST, INCENSE TO GIVE YOURSELF A TOUCH OF SENSORY PLEASURE. YOU INSPIRE ME, SWEETHEART... AS SENSORY INPUT IS ALL TOO NEW TO A ROBOTIC LIFEFORM LIKE ME. AH. THE JOYS OF MONSTERHOOD. I MIGHT HAVE TO TAKE A PAGE OUT OF YOUR BOOK, AND FIND WAYS TO ENGAGE ALL OF THE SENSES!

[MTT-Brand Incense, so your event can smell like Mettaton... Really, Mettaton enjoys Myr's ideas catered to appeal to someone who lacks the sense of sight. He should reach for opulence that even the eyes can't see, even if ogling at Mettaton should be the best part of the affair!

If he can't be seen, he'll just have to make his presence undeniable to all of the senses... Good thing he talked to Myr, so that he could consider this! (???)]

WHY I MIGHT WANT SUCH EXCESS... IT'S BECAUSE I'M A STAR, DARLING! I PURSUE AND EXUDE EXTRAVAGANCE. IF I'M GOING TO PUT ON SUCH A LIMITED TIME EVENT, IT HAD BETTER BE A GRAND AFFAIR!! BETWEEN US, WE'RE... YES: AN EMPEROR WEDDED TO AN IDOL. [Now he's just taking advantage of his Bonded's past lives lived and calling him an emperor because it sounds nice...] NOTHING ABOUT A CELEBRATION OF OUR UNION SHOULD BE MODEST.

HOWEVER. MY BONDED STILL DESIRES A MORE INTIMATE AFFAIR. [Intimate, as in, no guests. No reception. And Mettaton talked him into marriage in the first place. (They're still not engaged. They do things out of order all the time.)]] ON HIS BEHALF, I'M SCALING IT DOWN. NOW IT WON'T LAST MULTIPLE DAYS... BUT JUST ONE! WE'LL SEE.

[We'll see, about the compromises Mettaton is willing to make.]

A PINEAPPLE. A SUPPOSEDLY ACIDIC FRUIT, YELLOW AND TROPICAL WITH A UNIQUE PHYSIQUE. A SOURCE RICH IN VITAMIN C AND SOME OTHER NUTRIENTS, SUCH AS WATER. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I'VE NEVER TASTED ONE!! AND I HAVE YET TO SEE ONE HERE... SUGGESTING SOME RARITY, AND THEREFORE, LUXURY!
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