Midnight Manor, Thursday Afternoon & Early Evening [10/17]

[gospel_of_oblivion]

Things seemed to have...settled. A bit. So, Illyana was going to do the time-honored Westchester way of dispelling any remaining tension, from what she had witnessed in her short time at the mansion.

Food.

It was around noon when she got started; first up was popping-off to get her supplies, and then it was time to take over the kitchen, just around when the third period class would have been finishing up.

Next up was the vegan dough and filling, so that she didn't have to worry about getting the cookware and appliances contaminant-free. After that was the prep for the meat-eaters of the house. Everything into the fridge, prep the dining room with the condiments and plates and such, a short break to watch a Korean game-show, and back into the kitchen to start the pots boiling.

As the first batch came out of the pots and onto the table, Illyana grabbed a wooden spoon and banged it against another (unfilled) pot.

"PELMENI!" she bellowed, smacking the pot with the spoon again a few more times for good measure. "Get 'em while they're hot!"

Talking about Feelings was for other people and Professionals. Eating your feelings? That was for everyone.

[OOC: Minor OCD incoming. OPEN! If you think Yana would have texted you to come over and eat, she did.]

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Re: Thursday Evening: PELMENI

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"Eh, they are optimists to the extreme, and superheroes, and I would like you to try to picture me as a superhero in spandex," Illyana said dryly, making a face. "It was harder for them, they lost a sweet child, and got, well, a deeply angry teenager."

"--but I am very interested in these Otherside rules," she continued. "All the rules, And not just because I love collecting different magical practices and theories, or because I enjoy picking apart magical contracts."

Re: Thursday Evening: PELMENI

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"I don't think I can get you a copy of the Detente to look over," Arden said. "That's the legal document that kinda runs our society. It's mostly agreements about territory and breeding and stuff like that. And lays out certain crimes and their punishments. Like, uh, telling humans about the Otherside is a death penalty, for both the Othersider and the human, unless the Othersider can prove the human is either no threat or possibly even useful. So, like, vampires' blood pets and solidaires."

A pause.

"Being an elemental is a death penalty, too."

Re: Thursday Evening: PELMENI

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"I am not, nor have I ever been, human, if that matters," Illyana mused. "Even before my soul's alteration, I had been born a mutant. Despite my parentage, genetically, I am an entirely different species."

"And anyone who thinks they get to enact a death penalty for existing is going to have a very very bad visit to this island, and especially to this house."

She would absolutely tell Midnight to eat them, regardless of the opinions of anyone else. She was Midnight's Magical Parole Officer, sure, but sometimes things had to happen for Great Justice.

Re: Thursday Evening: PELMENI

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"We don't have mutants in my world," Arden said, almost apologetically. Like she was trying to make excuses for a racist grandfather or something. "But, yeah, um. Duke, Grimm, and Callista have been hiding me for most of my life. So that no one would know I was anything but human. To keep me safe."