open post ● we're about to get up and burn this floor

[boomvox]

Who: Everyone.
What: The Grand Re-Opening of the Gravity Falls Station.
Where: Babylon.
When: Veerdi to Sukkardi.
Notes: Party post!!! Go nuts y'all.
Warnings: Probable alcohol (and drug?) use. Flag stuff in subject titles if it needs a warning and I'll edit it up in here.

It's clear from the first moment anyone even gets on the Skyrail tonight that the Stratosphere Entertainment Group's pricey investment is going to pay off - every rail car is crowded with people decked out and excited for the event. To natives of Baedal, the idea of a holiday is days off work, maybe some camping - escape is alien, a little frightening, and completely thrilling. Even when the Gravity Falls station had hosted other venues, it was nothing so ambitious as to capture the imaginations of the city as a whole. And to immigrants to the city who no longer have the luxury of even simple trips out of town - well, it's priceless. A bittersweet but suddenly vital excursion.

Doors open just as the sun begins to set, the light reflecting off the water of the ocean illuminating the great floating platform as if the entire sky was on fire, before slipping into deep purple then black, the ceiling of their experience dotted with brilliant stars. Staff members wrangling the hazards of the first night are anxious but excited, kind and helpful even if they end up frazzled by the overwhelming turnout. There is security, all sporting neon purple shirts with lion logos, but even by their own admission, they're only there to breakup fights - and even they're smiling all night, too.

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[asklepios]

Benevenuta is all smoke and mirrors - always reflecting a different part of herself, now brunette and now blonde, now sharp and now soft, now bold and now retiring. They're all true, but by the same token she can set them all aside again, reinvent herself and be nearly-but-not-quite unrecognizable.

It makes life interesting. As do people like Irene in her life, and she laughs, choosing not to let herself react any other way to something that isn't, she's sure, quite as pointed as it might sound to a secretively guilty conscience. She doesn't have one of those! It's fine. “Not too- 'costumey', you think? I couldn't go past it.”

[thedominatrix]

"Oh, everything's costumey, some people are just more honest about it than others," Irene says blithely, casting another swift look over Benevenuta and going for an unusual interpretation of honest. "I think it's wonderful. You've got the gravity for it; you're amassing quite the reputation as a woman to be taken seriously."

Two reputations, in fact. And speaking of, she's reminded again of the problems associated with Vanessza's growing prominence. Being taken seriously in some contexts can be distinctly inconvenient- it's why Irene plays the femme fatale and not the antagonist.