[ open: maid cafe fundraiser ]

[at_heart]

WHO: Yuri, Saya, Kantera, Venti, Lumine, and YOU!
WHAT: A fundraiser for office space for Yuri's up-and-coming guild, Brave Vesperia Ellipsa.
WHEN: Late April.
WHERE: Blossomcrown, a karaoke bar rented out for the occasion.
WARNINGS: Cheesecakey fun. Potentially alcohol consumption. All maids offering black menu services will be linking to an additional top-level off comm ♥

ask about bve/the fundraiser | ic menu | request a maid | byotoplevels!

[ When you head to the location of Yuri's GPS ping from yesterday's network post, you'll find a rented-out little karaoke bar with MAID FOR YOU written on a handmade banner that is temporarily covering the bar's normal name, decorated in pink and black on the inside, with a lot of cute little two-chair tables taking up most of the floor space. There are rooms in the back that would normally be for singing karaoke in private, and singing with a maid is indeed one of the things you can do with those rooms today!

The real draw, though, is all of the very cute folks dressed as maids and/or butlers today, who will — for a small fee — wait on you personally. ♥

Take a menu, select a maid, and place your orders... or just ask Yuri what all the commotion's about, he'll be happy to explain! ]


((ooc: Maid cafe fundraiser! Don't worry too much about the coins your character is spending here, nothing is too expensive (though the black menu items are at a premium), we're all just here for the CR.

PLEASE NOTE: Yuri does feel personally responsible for the safety and comfort of all the Official Maids who are trying to help him raise funds here, so he will be actively trying to curb anyone bullying their friends into signing up, and he really doesn't want anyone working for him to be wearing or doing anything that makes them uncomfortable. Adult characters who only want to wear pink ribbons? Characters who want a full coverage maid outfit, or who want to be butlers instead? Excellent exercising of your boundaries, Yuri loves that for you.

You can, however, definitely pay for the "dress up as maid or butler" menu item and use that to bully your friends to your hearts' content. 😉))

Comments

[sangreine]

[ What's the problem, is it that she's demanding or the threat of salmonella? Because only one of those is actually relevant here. ]

I mean, if you insist!

[kingside]

[Both the demanding and wanting the sweetest one, really. Does she not think he's doing quality control already?]

Any preference for toppings?

[sangreine]

[ She hasn't thought about his quality control, to be perfectly honest. She's the opposite of a perfectionist except about fighting skills. ]

Chocolate? And whatever else you have handy.

[kingside]

Strawberries, perhaps?

[He has both. He can probably improvise something appropriately decadent.]

[sangreine]

That sounds delicious! [ She'd have said that about anything, honestly. But it's genuine! ]

[kingside]

[Better, and he offers her a slight smile.]

Very well. Please, have a seat.

[sangreine]

[ Why would that be better, it's so much more trouble than just giving her bowl scrapings ]

[ She picks a seat and sits. ]

So the bakery's up and running? Or is this pre-opening advertisement?

[kingside]

[Because bowl scrapings are unhygienic?? And he'd rather you have the real thing?? Because standards???] [He shrugs.]

"Building hype," let's say.

[No, no this is not a phrase he uses naturally, and no, no he does not care. Also, yes, various things are going into a new mixing bowl now, watch this space.]

There's also the arts festival, of course. I'll be running a food stall there.

[sangreine]

[ She'd have washed the bowl afterwards, she's not a barbarian. ]

I'll stop by and try to refrain from buying out your entire stock. Even if performing does make my hungry. [ What doesn't, really. ]

[kingside]

[are you sure] [His eyebrows lift.]

I'll be making crepes, so you'll need to wait, unfortunately.

[sangreine]

[ yes she's sure that washing a bowl is within her abilities, what kind of interrogation is this anyway?!?! ]

If you'd rather I didn't, you can just say that.

[kingside]

[... Well.]

Then I'd rather you didn't, but even if you were intent upon it, you'd have to wait.

[sangreine]

[ well, indeed. ]

The thing about eating your entire stock was a joke. I eat a lot but only when it's not a burden. And I can wait a bit for crepes. If I truly can't be patient then I'll order before I play and be back afterwards.

[kingside]

[Fully aware that it was a joke, but also UHHHHHHHHH let's put this diplomatically:]

Something tells me it would be a mistake to underestimate you.

[And moving on.]

Of course, you're always welcome to stop by at the end of the day as well. The best bakeries pride themselves on providing fresh stock every day, and I'd hate for any excess to go to waste.

[sangreine]

[ Saya chuckles quietly ]

I assure you I'm fully housebroken. [ She's joking again, because comparisons between her and a beast are... apt. Sometimes she appreciates them and sometimes not, so diplomacy is a good call. ]

If the end of the day is the best time, I'll do that. I'm more than happy to buy any of the last ones off your hands, for the sake of proper bakery standards.

[kingside]

[That... sure is a leap, and he blinks.]

Reduced price if not outright free.

[Which isn't what he'd been reacting to initially, but how to address that? Even Suzaku isn't quite this—]

You seem in possession of all your faculties. Is that... that is to say, I wouldn't expect uncivilized behavior from you.

[Unless someone really pissed her off? Maybe.]

[sangreine]

I'm not taking your food for free. You still put work into it. [ Sure they're essentially going to be wasted, but he still has to do the cooking and preparation. ] I consider it supporting a business that I'd like to thrive.

[ As far as her faculties... ] I try my best to be civilized. Human standards sometimes don't fit so well, is all.

[kingside]

[Well, put like that.]

Still a reduced cost. I'll otherwise donate it to... well, assuming they have something like that here.

[Food pantries, charities? Or whatever Ayato has in the works, perhaps, but anyway.]

The glorious thing about human standards is that they're often anything but.

[sangreine]

Deal. [ As long as it's not feeling like she's taking advantage, she'll live with compromise. ]

Right. The only thing I've noticed in common about humans across cultures and centuries is that you're afraid of things that are different. As large groups, I mean. Individual humans have a very high capacity for compassion.

Not that my species is overall better, I'll grant you.

NIX THE BIT ABOUT AYATO IN PREVIOUS TAG because time paradox, otherwise sure yeah charities

[kingside]

[She's not wrong, and he sighs.]

I invite you to tell me more about that, but of course it's your choice.

[The pancake batter has been put together, at any rate, which means he'll now be whipping together egg whites etc. for the meringue. Pancakes will happen, they just take time because this is Art and he is An Artist.]

[sangreine]

[ Not her favorite topic, but Lelouch offered to help her with her research, so she supposes she owes him that much. And it might help with her project. ]

What would you like to know? I'll answer whatever I can. I don't have all my memories, but I'll do my best.

[kingside]

[When she'd been the one to bring it up to begin with? But okay, sure.]

"Not that my species is overall better," you said. Hysterical in large groups, level-headed as individuals, or...?

[sangreine]

[ She said that more because she didn't want to make it sound like she looks down on humans, but that's a fair assessment. ]

Less afraid, more that certain factions of us looked down on humans, thought they should all be turned. And they tried to do exactly that. Not something I could let stand, so we fought a war over the matter.

[kingside]

[... Uh huh. Mulling that one over for a moment.]

I assume you mean turned into vampires as well. Wouldn't that have been counterproductive? That is, I assume you feed primarily off of human blood, but it seems I'm missing something here.

canon infodump incoming sorry

[sangreine]

Chiropteran is the name of my species. I use the word vampire as a shortcut for getting the point across without getting too into the weeds, but we're pretty different. I only bring it up now because it matters as far as assumptions. Ones that would be reasonable for a true vampire aren't true for me.

Humans are not my ideal food source, they're what I use because I don't have much choice, it only works so well. I'm designed to drink from humans that have been turned with my blood. We call them Chevaliers.

-- I have only made two. One I made by accident, because the human that owned me at the time hadn't told me of my past, and having amnesia I had no way to know. All I had been told is that my blood healed people, so when someone I loved was in a fatal accident I fed it to him. The only other one I ever made was also to save my foster brother's life, and I had to be begged to do it even so. They both died, and I vowed never to make another one. It involves a degree of mind control and makes them devoted to me, which I couldn't be more disgusted by. Who would want to be loved because of some blood bond?