✽❀ GARDENTASTA ❀ ✽

[gayformaster]

Who: Everyone and anyone! Yes, everyone is invited!
What: The ❀ GARDENTASTA ❀! Aka, a giant costume party for everyone!
When: August 12th! Yes, this is being posted in advance.
Where: The gardens attached to the labs in the bottom of the ship!
Warnings: If any threads go above PG-13, please warn about this in the subject line! The basic party

Comments

Austria | Open | Providing background romaaance music

[whichwayissouth]

[Where's the dance floor? He came all the way here with his violin because of his conversations with Japan on the outreach of music, and then he can't find where everybody is.

Oh. There's a wishing well. It's not like he wanted to make a wish, he's too old to believe in such things anymore. But there's something to it, some sort of fragrance, perhaps, that reminded him of---other times. He was in love once and he's still in love, what do you know. It's wistful. He misses his ex-wife.

So, while Elton John may not be playing piano in the bushes, you'll have a lineface musician playing violin in the corner. Specifically speaking, Dvorak's Song of the Moon, Debussy's Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Gluck's Dance of the Blessed Spirits (minus the piano part) and Tchaikovsky's None But The Lonely Heart (sans the orchestra).

Bug him, catcalls, throw tomatoes, etc if you want. Otherwise, he'll be there. Playing his music and feeling so, so very angsty about his lack of Hungary.]

[ineuphony]

That's beautiful...

[hello, she just happened to be around.]

[whichwayissouth]

[Possibly because the flowers are doing their thing, Austria looks considerably less expressionless when he lowered his violin. In fact, he might even be smiling a little.]

Thank you. It's a fine night for good music, isn't it?

[ineuphony]

[she nods as she gazes up at the night sky.]

I'll say. And this whole place is just breathtaking.

[whichwayissouth]

Yes, it is. I find it hard to believe that we're supposed to be in a scientific facility, with all these flowers and lakes. Did you come here to make a wish?

[ineuphony]

O-Oh, yeah... [she shows him the penny in her hand then looks rather sheepishly. -- Pretty stupid, huh?

[whichwayissouth]

No, not at all. It's quite ordinary. [For humans, anyway.]

I'm here because I took the wrong turn in the road. That's quite a bit more foolish, don't you think?

[ineuphony]

[she shakes her head.]

If you hadn't, you wouldn't have found this beautiful spot.

[whichwayissouth]

That's true. Even getting lost can have its perks, I suppose.

[ineuphony]

My name is Maka.

[whichwayissouth]

Pleased to make your acquaintance, Miss Maka. My name is Austria, although you may call me Roderich, if you find it to be odd.

[ineuphony]

I don't find it odd at all. It's nice to meet you, Austria.

[whichwayissouth]

I suppose you do not hail from the same planet as I, then. Most people from there would've found it startling, to say the least.

It's....heartening that you recognize the violin, even so.

[ineuphony]

[she approaches closer to him, her hands behind her back, standing with him now.]

Guess when you've come from a world where you have to deal with Witches, Ghosts, Goblins, and then been on Thor for almost two years, you've seen and heard it all. Nothing much surprises you.

[a small laugh.]

-- Well, it's a beautiful violin! I'm not really talented when it comes to instruments, but I've always admired people who are.

[whichwayissouth]

[He raises an eyebrow at little at the mention of witches, ghosts and goblins, but continues to smile.]

Is that so? I have only very recently arrived---everything is still very much new to me. And very strange.

Talent is seldom the most important thing when it comes to music, I believe. The heart to appreciate it is, and you do have that, do you not? [And here he lifts the bow of his violin a little.] Do you have something you wish to hear? I'll play whatever you request.

[ineuphony]

I guess I do. I think music is nice, but sometimes I can't understand it. -- Requests? That's okay. Just play whatever you feel. That's good enough for me.