Buck Moon - Backdated to July 5th

[serpentinthegarden]

First one to make a comment about my new 'rack' will be labeled unoriginal.

[Crowley tilted his head at the screen, feeling the odd weight of the new set of antlers resting on his head. ]

What is this Midsummer Night's Dream? Should I strike a pose?

[Whether he should or not he did! And with an appropriately 'garden' type backdrop and sank into a soliloquy.]



I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.

[He snorted a laugh before holding up his hand upon which two different rings were battling it out for a place on his finger. An inexpensive black ring with a single white diamond sat beside a more expensive looking black ring encircled by white diamonds.]

Bizarre and damned annoying monster transformations aside I actually have one of those odd married persons questions. You have the wedding ring and the engagement ring... do you wear both? Pick one? I feel like I should set the first one aside, in a jewelry box or something, but it's kinda special. Not that the other one isn't! But the wedding ring hasn't been magically blessed like the smaller one. Opinions, go.

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[connie_maheswaran]

I think you'd start with the wedding ring when you're engaged, since that let's everyone know how bombastic your Fiance decided to go with their affection on a mutually agreeable ring. After you get married, typically you then wear the band now, the engagement ring now set aside for the purpose of showing you are in a committed relationship. hence the bands.

It does seem a little arbitrary though, depending on who you talk to.

[creepyoldguy]

Nice soliloquy, but, try it again with a Bullwinkle voice.

Also, I would go with a joke about you monstery types being ‘horny’.

[spectacularlyhighking]

Sharing such a horny picture? Scandalous.

[He's nothing if not original. He arches an eyebrow at him.]

I never had the luxury of an engagement so I'm afraid I have no answer for you.

[serpentinthegarden]

Bullwinkle isn't very Shakespearean.

[ The rest drew a coy smile from the demon as he looked towards something just off screen. ]

Fortunately there is a easy cure for that.

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Crowley barked a laugh so hard he nearly fumbled his mirror. ]

I should have seen that coming, really! Must be a thing, married life... it's making me miss the obvious already.

Not even a guess at the rest?

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Crowley fiddled with the pair of rings on his finger, this was made easy as they were sitting side-by-side. ]

Mm, and what if one of them is magical? there any rules about magical engagement rings?

[connie_maheswaran]

I'm not sure that's something in my world, but I can definitely look it up!

How magical are we talking about?

[serpentinthegarden]

Mmm, mildly magical. It helps during 'monster time'... tends to make things easier to deal with.

[ Antlers being an obvious exception. ]

[spectacularlyhighking]

[He smirks, amused at the display. Good to know he's still got it. But when Crowley presses him he shrugs, idly waving a hand. Fine. Make him be the smart one.]

Depends on what traditions you want to follow, if any. Some say to put the engagement ring on top of the wedding ring. Some say to wear the engagement ring on the same finger of your other hand. Some say to only wear one.

Me? I say do whatever the fuck you want. Who the hell cares?

[creepyoldguy]

It’s a challenge.

[Eye roll.]

Don’t gore anyone.

...off camera. I could use a laugh.

[connie_maheswaran]

Oh, I heard of that.

Where would you get a ring like that though? Someone magically created something to suppress the transformation? Why wouldn't all monsters want that item?

[serpentinthegarden]

It was a gift from a...

[ Momentarily his mind blanked. Friend? That term wasn't nearly dear enough. Sweetheart... was too sweet. Husband. That was a good one but some how still seemed too squishy. ]

From my angel.

[ That's right. HIS angel. That fit the best. ]

It works using his own Princely powers so its not like he could make very many of them. He would pass out when they all activated at once. It's hard enough on him just with me some times.

[serpentinthegarden]

The only thing I've gored is a few door frames and a sofa... Mostly these antlers have been good for nothing but a pigeon roost.

[serpentinthegarden]

I'm not familiar with any of the traditions. I never really bothered to look into it... not with humans inventing cars and movie theaters. Which were much more interesting than interpersonal relationships or wedding traditions!

Anyway I didn't think I would follow the rules, just learn what they were so I could break them.

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[blessedarethebookmakers]

[his feathers are fluffed all to pieces when he sees Crowley. There is no reason for this. Absolutely not. Whyever would there be a reason? Since the full moon seemed to not entirely effect Crowley this time around, Aziraphale had taken some time to get things...finalized.]

I wonder, darling, if you could meet me in the Tiki Oasis? I know it's a bit erm.. late in the day... [he looked at him and then away and then puzzled his fingers together] But I wanted it to be absolutely perfect.

Unless you're busy, of course.

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[serpentinthegarden]

[ Oh, hey honey. Crowley smiled dreamily as his Shakespearean skills were turned to Aziraphale and his white feathers which fluffed for no reason what so ever. ]

What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?

I'm not busy, just mucking around with Shakespeare and the mirrors. What did you have in mind? Late night folic in the tikis?

[spectacularlyhighking]

That makes sense. Why would you need to? Being a demon and all that.

[He wasn't certain if they'd ever officially met, but he'd gone to his wedding because it seemed like the place to be.]

Congratulations, by the way.

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Crowley couldn't place the face but then he had been thoroughly distracted with the planning phase of things. He had seem so many people the faces had begun to blur together!

His head tilted and he smirked a, 'thanks.' ]

Tah. It's a strange new existence being married. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different.

I even feel like being silly.

[ Hinted the Shakespeare. ]

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[blessedarethebookmakers]

Oh.... Oh I -- [it was a good thing you hadn't called him honey or he would have been completely undone. The Shakespeare was bad enough]

Oh it's just...just a little something... [he catches himself looking at the antlers again and such thoughts go through his mind that he has to look away again]

Just... just come and you'll see.

[spectacularlyhighking]

[Eliot nodded. This was actually making him miss Fen... and he wasn't even sure if they were even still married. He never understood Fillorian practices and, well, there wasn't a Fillory anymore so did they matter? Ugh.]

I've been there. Though my marriage was a little, uh, forced... I did feel somehow different afterwards. It's strange how just a few words and a ring can have that effect on you.

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[serpentinthegarden]

[ His brow arched at the suspicious phrasing, 'Just come,' Really angel! ]

On my way.

[ Crowley arrived about ten minutes later, the time needed to leisurely stroll from Main Street to the Tiki Oasis. Though it occurred to him after he arrived that he wasn't sure where to go after that, so he wandered around through the bazaar looking for clues. ]

[serpentinthegarden]

Thought you said you were never engaged?

[ A sudden thought and he was nodding sagely. ]

A shotgun affair. You got some one into trouble?

[spectacularlyhighking]

[He laughed]

No, nothing like that.

[He paused. It felt like so long ago that this had happened. Of course, it had been years so he supposed it was a long time... so strange.]

To make a very long and confusing story short: We needed a god-killing knife from a knife maker and he would only give it to us if someone who could become High King of the land would marry his daughter. There was a blade that would only cut a High King and I was the lucky one it chose. I was married that night to a girl I'd just met... it was the first truly selfless thing I'd ever done in my life.

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[blessedarethebookmakers]

[really what? He has no idea what that devilishly arched brow may be implying. Not that he could dare look.

After a moment a pearlescent bubble containing a single white feather will come find him, brushing him on the cheek as tenderly as a lover. Then it will lead him and his impressive rack to place known strangely as the Tower of Adventure, but inside there are suites instead of daring traps or risky escapes.

The bubble will pop in front of one near the top floor and the feather will become a silver key that drops into his hand.

On opening the door he'll find a sitting room at first, with a fire going in the grate, dressed in blacks and reds and smooth jazz playing softly in the air.

The bedroom door is open letting out a stream of warm light. Do you dare go in?]

[serpentinthegarden]

[ The Tower of Adventure was given another one of those scandalous eyebrows but he crab walked his way through the doorway and followed that tempting feather right on up to where it deposited him. His new rack was momentarily forgotten, leaving him briefly wedged in the doorway, but he managed to wriggle his way free.

With the silver key in hand the door behind him was pushed closed... and latched. With the warm light drawing him to the next room some how he figured they wouldn't want to be disturbed. ]

Aziraphale? You left your glow on.

[ Crowley slipped up to the bedroom door and peeked inside like it was absolutely a forbidden act. ]