kaisou | food glorious food [open]

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food glorious food [open]

WHO: August, his aunts, and Literally Everyone
WHERE: August's very small house
WHEN: Early February
WHAT: His aunts are in town, that means food, which means his aunts told August to invite people over, which means he is inviting folks from the Zodiac app
WARNINGS: August swears? Like a lot?

aunts are here. if you can see this you're invited to food. feel free to bring your own dishes, Marianne'll love that

actually if you're veg or gluten-free you might wanna bring something, Marriane never met a meat she didn't like and this kitchen ain't GF-friendly by virtue of me loving bread

August's place looks about like you'd expect a college kid's rental to look: small, not the newest, and hilariously crowded. It does have two bedrooms, but only technically. The second bedroom is tiny, and is also where August technically sleeps.

What? Did you think he wasn't going to turn the master bedroom into his craft room? Please.

When you arrive, you'll be greeted by one of three things:

-Julian cawing happily and landing on your head (if he knows you personally)

-Marianne (small, a bit rowdy, always eager to embarrass August or Cat) calling out to August in French, August replying in French, and then Catherine (taller, calmer, and always ready to bemoan why both her wife and nephew-son are wimps) sighing and turning to you with a "hi, you must be friends of August!"

-the above, but with loud and colorful swearing from the kitchen instead of Marianne and August bickering. Listen long enough and you'll probably learn to swear in another three languages!

If you brought food, Cat'll take it and set it on August's tiny table or the card table they brought because they know their son. If you didn't, Cat will point out the stuff already laid out--and there is a lot. On top of the typical relish tray and other snack-y foods, there's already three types of salad, two kinds of soup, a pot of chili, a crockpot full of very fancy cheese dip, another crockpot full of hot cider, a third that seems to be full of some kind of bean dish, and whatever else Marianne is making.

If asked why they brought so much food for what was likely going to be just August, August will say "they're empty-nesters" before dodging whatever Cat is throwing at him for that pun while Marianne cackles in the background.

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I mean, maybe, but I'm from here. Not Kaisou, but this is my home...world? Homeworld. I don't know why it'd be fucking with it now, of all times.

[Anyway.]

So, have you ever had a tarot reading before?

Huh. So, if you're from here, have you seen people like me before now? Like...people from not here?

[He shakes his head, a smirk playing on his lips.]

Nope. No one's ever really told the fortune of the guy who can literally see the future. People see it as kinda...moot.

I know Zelos was here before you were, but I don't know him really well.

[He's just paying for August's charity clothes.

Anyway.]

Okay so tarot cards are usually less specific than visions and more "hey these things are affecting you slash are going to affect you! heads up!" They're a lifestyle coach, not a tornado siren. So, with this reading, I'll draw a card for past, present, and future, tell you what they represent, and you will probably get called the fuck out because the cards do that. Make sense?

Right- I'll ask him how long he's been stuck here. Hopefully, it's not been...a worrying long amount of time.

[Because he's still got a lot of hopes pinned on getting the hell out of here with a niece under each arm.

He nods, a tried smile tugging at his lips.]

That sounds a lot easier than what I've got, I'm a little jealous. [It's fine, he doesn't hate the gift he's been burned with since he was five, it's fine. He gestures for August to carry on.] Okay, lay it on me.

[August just won't tell Bruno tarot reading is more skill than gift, especially since lately it's just. Yeah.

Anyway, first card: . . .

Hermit. Reversed.

August looks at the card and then looks at Bruno.]

I think the universe is trying to tell you something, man.

[Wise move, honestly. He looks at the card and his shoulders sag. This is fucking rude. ]

Ugh, this again? Okay, universe, I get it. I got out of the walls, what more do you want?

[Maybe actually engage with people instead of treating them like they're things to be feared, Bruno. Maybe that.]

Probably to actually talk to people and not just Mirabel? That's usually what this means.

I talk to people! I- I talk to Dolores!

[Ask who Dolores is, August. Go on. You will die of not surprise. ]

And-and!!! I'm talking to you right now. So that's like...three entire people.

Is Dolores related to you?

[He can already tell he knows the answer to this.]

Okay, so that's a big assumption to make and-

[Does he have a point here? No. If he did, it's gone, sailing away on the breeze. There it goes. ]

...Okay, so she's another one of my sobrinas, but STILL! She's still a person! That I talk to!

Uh-huh.

[August should start keeping track of how many Madrigals show up. Anyway.]

It's not saying suddenly become a social butterfly or an extrovert, it's just saying that now may be a good time to start trying. With people not your teenage nieces.

[Honestly, setting up a tracing system for them all would probably be wise at this point. ]

Oh don't worry, neither of those things is ever gonna happen.

[He snorts lightly, even before he went into the walls, he wasn't exactly super social. He always left that to his sisters.]

Dolores is in her twenties soooo. [That's not the point he's trying to make Bruno, you both know it.] Anyway- I'm trying. I'm not...good at the people. I'm out of practice. Don't really know where to...start.

[August will not comment on the totally pointless correction. His point stands.]

I can't help there, back home I had like, two and a half friends I-R-L and then Jun online before I moved here so...

[Yeah.]

Anyway, next card.

[Fool, upright.

Huh, Mirabel got that card too. May be connected, may be random.]

So, Fool tends to represent new beginnings and that sorta thing, so hey! Good news, things are lookin' good for you even if they also probably look absolutely fuckin' terrifying.

I-R-L? Is that... a group or...something?

[DO THEY HAVE WEAPONS? It sounds like they have weapons.

Weird. Just this weird family being weird. It's probably nothing. Bruno manages a little smile.]

Oh! Well, that's- that's good! I like that. New beginnings, less so here, but that's what was happening back home too so...yay?

Uh, it's a text acronym, short for "in real life".

[It's one of the few he uses in real life since...it's a good one, honestly.]

And yes, yay. [. . .] Mirabel mentioned something like that--everything okay?

So...like everything is?

[Why is the future like this August? He shifts, uneasy.]

It's...complicated. Things are better now, but they...definitely weren't for a long time.

...remind me to get Jun to explain the internet later.

[Not sorry Jun.]

I see. Well, like I said: good news is things are gonna keep getting better for a while. Now, hopefully you don't get the same fucking card as everyone else...

[August flips the last card and promptly swears. Loudly.]

Ten of fucking Cups, fucking reversed, this goddamn motherfucking--

August!

Sorry!

Duly noted- will do.

[Jun is going to teach him all the things which will make everyone around him have a much more difficult life!

He watches with soft amusement- because this, at least, is something he's used to. Cruddy predictions no one likes are his bread and butter at this point. He sits back, brows raising.]

Not what you wanted, huh? Is this...what everyone's getting?

Yeah. This fucking card means relationship trouble and I'm sorry, but you especially are not having relationship trouble any time soon.

[You're a cool guy but also.]

Mirabel is probably not having relationship trouble. I sure as hell am not. So why the fuck.

Oh. Yeah...no. [He laughs a soft little hah-hah sound.] That's definitely not...something I do. Not the uh- romance kinda way anyway?

[He considers.]

And no, I don't think Mirabel has that sort of trouble, either.

[God, he HOPES not. He's still trying to nagivate parenting a teenager without adding romance to the mix. ]

Hmmm, so if everyone is getting it, even if they're not in a place to...worry about that. It's...odd. Especially if the rest of your cards are working okay.

[You are too anxious to ever be in a romantic relationship Bruno, and he's sorry but he had to say it.]

My aunts got totally normal readings, so it's gotta be something about...Kaisou, maybe?

[He'd very much rather not ever. His sisters did all the marrying and extending the Madrigal line, okay.]

Oh. Hmmm. Maybe? I mean- I definitely didn't understand the electric rat thing my vision showed? Though what that has to do with romance I don't think I could guess.

If anyone's idea of romance is electric rats, I do not wanna know. They can go be weird somewhere else.

[Just saying.]

This is just--it's frustrating. I can usually figure out what the fuck the cards are hinting at but this? Fuck no.

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cw: lots of swearing???

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