It's a Birthday Bash

[funnygirl]

Who: Anyone and everyone!
What: Beast's surprise birthday party.
When: January 17, noon.
Where: House 17
Summary: Belle is throwing Beast a surprise birthday party and the whole village is invited.
Rating: PG?

Belle wakes up early in the morning with a rush of excitement. Today is the day she's been preparing for all week. All she can do now is send Beast off for the morning and hope that the volunteers who agreed to help would be able to show up after all.

Quickly, she makes up a list of chores for Beast to do around the village that would be sure to keep him busy until the party is set up. Once he's out the door she begins taking out the decorations she's collected and sets them out where they can be seen. After that, she consults Helios' cookbook and makes preparations to start making the cake.

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The Fireworks

[complicatedliar]

[This is Loki's first attempt at a project such as this, though he found the process of making the fireworks and adding in a bit of magic very interesting. Fun, even. He'll have to keep playing with the methods.

For the most part, the fireworks are fairly ordinary aerial shells, his initial exploration of the simply chemistry and physics of it. There are a variety of types of aerial "flowers" and a wide range of colors. Toward the end of the display, things get a bit more whimsical and strange. One firework produces a form that looks rather like an anemone, tentacles waving. Another looks like a tame supernova.

The last of the fireworks is one he's quite proud of; it makes a green and gold dragon that circles the sky overhead three times before flying apart into a series of colorful, miniature explosions.]

[tailasoldastime]

[A secret fan of fireworks since he first saw them here in Luceti, Beast's nerves are easily clouded over by the sheer visible joy he has over these colourful shiny things appearing at his party. His party! Anyone sitting near him will be able to see the joy clearly marked on his face as he gazes grinningly at the spectacle.]

[complicatedliar]

[Well, thanks to Rogue, Loki knows who Beast is and isn't the least bit surprised at how he looks. (Though it's not as if he gets hung up on such things anyway, all things considered.)

He watches his own display with a discerning eye, general pleased with it for a first effort, but already noting where he might make improvements if he does this again, and sorting out more ideas for different sorts of fireworks.

It's good to see that the others seem to be enjoying it, he supposes, though that isn't really what motivated him. But it's always nice to be appreciated, right? So when all is said and done he offers Beast a polite, almost regal nod, and a fairly pleased smile.]

[tailasoldastime]

[Enraptured by the display, he doesn't catch the gesture at first. But then right after the nod is finished, he suddenly notices and turns his head towards Loki. He is the one who made the display here? He can already hear Cogsworth's words. "That there calls for some gratitude!" So he gives a toothy grin back.]

[complicatedliar]

[Another nod of acknowledgment for that and a smile, though he doesn't speak until the fireworks are done with.

Really, he's not in the mood to talk, but with Thor here now he needs all the potential allies he can get in the hopes that he'll be able to keep some of them once the blond horror starts working them over with his hail fellow well met act.]

A happy birthday, I hope.

[tailasoldastime]

Thank you! [The enthusiasm is clear in his voice. But then his face changes to a look of question.] Do... do we kn-know...?

[complicatedliar]

No, I don't believe we've had the pleasure. I am acquainted with Belle.

[He does a small, graceful bow.]

Loki of Asgard.

[eightlazylegs]

[Oooh. These are definitely the best fireworks ever. Hermes watches in glee, unconsciously changing his skin to match the brightest of the sky's current colors. The dragon in particular is spectacular. The only fireworks he's seen are the New Year and Fourth of July bursts that peep over the top of the apartment buildings twice a year, and those were never as spectacular as this.]

[complicatedliar]

[And in turn, Loki watches the little octopus with curiosity. That's certainly a new one on him.]