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PROMPOSAL

HELP MACKENZIE BULLY HER BOYFRIEND

Ulysses' morning starts with several Azurcrest freshmen lined up in front of his cabin. All of them are giggling, which can't mean anything good. It turns out they all have the same question for him: Will he go to prom with them?

This sets the tone for the rest of Ulysses' day.

HOW THIS WORKS

Mackenzie has cajoled, bribed and coerced most of the freshmen and any amenable upperclassmen into asking Ulysses to prom for her. He's inundating by hasty promposals and direct requests until curfew.

Mackenzie will ask anyone and everyone to help her make Ulysses' day as inconvenient and embarrassing as possible. She'll give reluctant participants $10 upon completing the favor. Thanks, darling(s). ❤

When Ulysses returns to his cabin at the end of the day, Mackenzie is waiting on his porch to offer him a bouquet of hydrangeas and ask him to prom herself. Only the most desirable prom date is good enough for her.

» ASK ULYSSES TO PROM: Everyone please take this opportunity to bully Ulysses in the name of love.

» MACKENZIE & ULYSSES: Time to sweep the boy off his feet.

» OTHER SCENES: Any other scenes you might want to do can go here.

» OOC - Questions/discussion!

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Riley has promised to drag herself out of bed in time for her morning classes at least twice a week, for the sake of Reece's mental stability if not for her GPA. This morning, bleary-eyed and stumbling vaguely in the direction of Herbology, she hears her instruction to something something bully Ulysses something something.

Got it. No problem. Riley Mae is on the case. No need for a single extra word of direction here.

This is why, when she sees him, Riley doesn't ask Ulysses to prom. She gives him a wonderful gift instead: a bag of glitter, delivered by basically dumping it over his head. She's paid attention in Charms exactly one day in her life and she uses it to levitate glitter around. Appreciate that she's applying her education, Ulysses, and stop acting like this just blinded you.

Oh my god, Riley, what in the actual hell did you just do? Jesus, it's everywhere. This is worse than the time he agreed to let Cameron comb sparkles through his hair, and he'd been picking glitter-nits for the better part of a week. He'll never get this off of him. Or out of his eyes.

Wilde picks a lull in Transfiguration to turn around in his seat and look Ulysses squarely, tenderly in the face.

He holds out his hand, where a baseball-sized rose unfurls, then whispers: "Prom?"

... He does crack up a second later and turn right back around, but for a moment it's very serious.

Hey, so it turns out Ulysses was lying when he said he never lost points in Transfiguration, because when the intensely, implausibly serious moment finally breaks, so does Ulysses' composure. He tries to keep his snickers low, but he has to wipe the tears from his eyes with his shirt more than once, and frankly, it's a distraction.

Christ, Wilde, you're the worst of any of them, you know that?

If ever Ulysses or Kenzie needed proof that Iliya secretly loved them, they should take note of how he made the effort today to drag himself out of bed early, so he can set up in the cafeteria before Ulysses walks in. Iliya looks half-asleep, his hair still messy, but his hands move with confidence as he plays the opening notes of the most stereotypically romantic cello piece in existence, Saint-Saëns' Le cygne.

He only plays it long enough to get Ulysses to approach him, at which point he pulls his bow off the strings and says flatly, "Go to prom with me?"

(Iliya absolutely didn't need to be bribed to agree to this, but he takes the ten dragots as friendship tax.)

Edited 2018-05-15 21:04 (UTC)

Every now and then, Casper brings Nell to the Lodge because her earnest curiosity and neediness gets the better of him and because she fits neatly into the pocket of his blazer. No muss, no fuss. Today, though, he's brought his familiar along for a different (and far more embarrassing) reason. But once it's become clear that Iliya, Cameron, and even Wilde have all gone along with Kenzie's request...he really has no choice.

Once class ends, he makes a point of pulling the small snake from his pocket and beginning a conversation with her, trusting that this will be enough to hold Ulysses' attention for a moment. Even now, he doesn't speak Parseltongue in front of the other boy that often. After a few exchanges about something completely unrelated, he turns his eyes to the other boy and asks, completely deadpan, "Oh. Quayle. Nell wants to know if you'll take her to prom?"

Jaime thinks he's a tough guy, but as most people know he is absolutely not, and it didn't take much harassment from Kenzie to get him to agree to do this. Even though it's incredibly embarrassing on multiple levels to him. After lunch he spots Ulysses and jogs towards him, calling out to get his attention before tossing a Quaffle to him. On it there's a piece of paper magically affixed, on which is written 'Go to prom with Ke me?' He looks like he maybe wants to die, and definitely doesn't want that Quaffle back, thanks.

Mackenzie is dedicated to theatrics, so she doesn't mind waiting for an hour to get the moment just right. She's sitting in one of the wooden porch chairs with a book, wearing a blue dress with heels that made getting out here to Ebonhide treacherous. It's been a lazy afternoon, but then she hears the sound of someone running up the path. She looks up to see her informant, an overeager Azurcrest girl who copied Riley by also throwing glitter at Ulysses earlier in the day.

Ulysses is about five minutes away.

Kenzie gets to her feet, straightens out her dress, double checks her makeup, and fixes her posture. When Ulysses is finally within eyesight, she's standing serenely with a bouquet of powder blue flowers that are only a shade or two lighter than her dress.

Ulysses has no idea what's waiting up the road, but with the way things've been going lately, he reckons it's probably something ridiculous. Another group of freshmen, maybe, or someone with more glitter. He runs his fingers though his hair as he thinks this, and a small shower of sparkles tumble out onto the dirt path, marking his trail like Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs. It's been a long day.

Not that he's got any right to complain; Mackenzie knows full well that he doesn't hate the attention, not even a little, although at this point, even he's run out of creative ways to tease his friends in retaliation for the fake promposals. Hell, he thinks, call him boring but at this point, the next person to ask is just gonna get a flat 'yes.'

Oh. Oh, speaking of — there's Kenzie just there. She looks... well, it's funny because Ulysses can probably count the number of times he's seen her mussed up on one hand but somehow, right now, she looks... even nicer than usual. More perfect than perfect and for a second, as he sees her up the trail, he flushes a bit — suddenly, acutely aware of the fact that he, conversely, looks like he was raised in a ~~barn~~ craft supply box.

But then he stops. Waves, as though there's any chance she might miss him. "Well, hi!" He calls brightly, still a few feet away but heading closer. "What brings you to this neck of the woods?" Last chance to bail, Prince.

xoxox

Omg. Kenzie is a delightful menace and Uly is lucky to have her. 💜

She's a monster and Ulysses has terrible taste in women.

ASK ULYSSES TO PROM

Riley Mae is a Walking Glitter STD

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Riley Mae is a Walking Glitter STD

Wilde makes this as uncomfortable as possible

Wilde makes this as uncomfortable as possible

Iliya regrets ever meeting Kenzie and Ulysses

After Transfiguration

Jaime is easy to bully

MACKENZIE & ULYSSES

MACKENZIE & ULYSSES (& whoever's walking with him idk)

MACKENZIE & ULYSSES (& whoever's walking with him idk)

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