Backstage stuff for the Halloween Party
At The Halloween Party
"I think it's a bit lame to come to a costume party dressed up as your friend," Luz said. "I mean, it's Halloween! It's time to get really wild and dress up in something really cool." She tapped her own floofy, nigh-conical princess dress as demonstration.
"If you had to go as one of the other Sailor Senshi, Saturn has the same kind of hair as you," Satsuki said, flicking her hand through her
own long, black, straight hair. "Much better to coordinate like that." Her own Fate/Go outfit obviously required double-sided tape to keep her from bouncing out of it and it was an open question of tape had actually been
used.
"I'm not going as Sailor Venus," Rei said, glancing down at her white and yellow outfit. "I'm going as a supernaturally skilled warrior who has died and come back to life twice. Very fitting for Halloween.
"Who's called Sailor Venus," Satsuki said flatly.
"Well, yes," Rei said with a shrug. "She refused to leave my apartment until I agreed and she restitched one of her own costumes for me."
"While I," Asuka said, intruding on their conversation and patting her own chest, running her hand down along the red and black corset and swishing her red cape back and forth around her ankles, "am appearing as the fearless leader and you can tell Ruby's the leader because she's the red one."
"Red ones are always the best, most important character in the show," Rei said in full agreement, getting a shout of agreement from Kyouko who was bent over a caramel apple, trying to get as many chocolate bits, sprinkles and anything else in arm's reach to stick to it as possible. "It's something more people could benefit from understanding."
"What are we understanding?" Shampoo asked as she slipped on by.
"Something else, but it must feel nice to be able to be perfectly understood now, huh?" Luz asked.
"
Yes," Shampoo said with a firm nod as she knocked back her glass. "No more 'so-so unlucky, ancient Amazon code say you must do this and that'. I still have the accent."
"Which sounds cute on you, by the way," Amity said, linking a metal-clad arm around her princess's waist.
"Thank you, but I understood how Japanese
and English grammar work a long time ago," Shampoo said with a frown. "I hope that people start understanding that now when they see me not speaking like that."
"Your new debut should be next week? Week after that?" Rei asked as she nibbled on her tray of sugary snacks.
"Can't say quite yet. You know how it is," Shampoo said with a roll of her eyes. "But I hope it will get people to see me in a whole new light."
"Hear you in a whole new… echo, surely," Satsuki said, raising one of her nearly-rectangular eyebrows.
Further conversation on that topic was interrupted as the first proper event of the evening finally started. It wasn't scheduled but Bonesaw and Chibi-Usa both protesting loudly over being told to play together as fellow kids was certainly the sort of thing that would spark stories to be recounted in future Halloween parties.
And wasn't making memories exactly what this sort of thing was about?
