singillatim | Hot Potato (party log)

Who: Chloe Frazer & any and all party people!!
What: Harvest Celebrations/Halloween Party/Ruby’s Birthday/Rat Marriage/Big Communal Cooking Party so Chloe doesn't burn down her house
When: October 12
Where: At Chloe’s house on Greene Street

Content Warnings: Food descriptions, probably.
Other Notes: Feel free to make this a mingle and reply to other characters!

Chloe had wondered whether to go through with the harvest party once Lalo had disappeared, but as they say, the show must go on. There's still a lot worth celebrating, and people need something hopeful after the mess last month. Luckily her house had made it through everything all right.

The poster had said to wear a costume, so she's hoping to see a lot of those, and she’d recruited some people to help her put together the menu exactly to Lalo’s specifications, so unfortunately no one is safe from British Potatoes. There are even candles for the birthday cake.

Chloe herself is dressed as a sexy lumberjack, with one of Lalo’s old flannels tied in a knot under her breasts and denim cutoffs made from the jeans Kostya had gotten blood on (shh). She's got a fire roaring, because otherwise she’d freeze.

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Oh no, someone wants to talk to him instead of just at him. Someone he doesn't really know, even. Levi shrinks back against the wall, as if that'd somehow let him escape.

"M-my life story? ...You really don't want to."

Sorry, Levi, there was no escaping Connor when he was like this. He cornered people the same way he did animals when he was out hunting in the woods.

“Nonsense!” Connor told him. “Hit me with it. I promise I won’t judge.”

He fixes Connor with the flatest stare possible. "I was sent to war at 13."

While there was very little that could surprise Connor, he at least had enough tact to not put his foot in his mouth and say anything positive about such an experience. He immediately switched from overenthusiastic to sympathetic. "Oh man. That fucking sucks." He gave Levi a once-over, trying to estimate his age. "And you're only like.....what? Eighteen? Nineteen?"

Somehow, that made it seem worse, the fact that Levi wasn't that far removed from the age where he'd been sent into something no young teen should have been.

The fact that Connor doesn't peg Levi as significantly younger than he is makes Levi instantly like him, at least a little. "19. And it really did."

"I got lucky. The big war all the Fables were involved with was done a long time before I would have been able to get involved. Otherwise I might have been in the exact same position." Connor had always wondered if his parents would have wanted him to get involved or not but never worked up the courage to ask. After all, they were protective of him, but Bigby was a wolf first and foremost. Wolves protected their territory from all threats and Connor still had that instinct within him too.

"Were you, uh, still fighting when you got sent here?"

"Fables?" He doesn't think he's heard that before. But it wasn't like he went around asking what race or whatever people were.

"No...it ended about a week before I ended up here." He'd left a little earlier but details.

“Yeah, you know, like fairy tales? My dad’s one of the most famous as the Big Bad Wolf. He’s here in town. Bigby?” Neither of them had really broadcast their familial connection and it was made easier by the fact Connor didn’t resemble his father at all.

"Oh." Huh. "Yeah, I know him. I knew he turned into a huge wolf, but I didn't know he was from stories..." Bigby didn't seem like the big bad wolf had, maybe things were different in other worlds.

"So does that mean you used to be able to turn into a huge wolf too?"

"I guess you must be from a completely different world. The fairy tales he's in are famous on Earth." But Connor had already been well-acquainted with the concept of other worlds long before he'd ended up in Milton, so it wasn't that big of a surprise.

"That and more. My siblings and I inherited our shapeshifter powers from his side of the family but our two main 'default' forms have always been human and wolf. I was really happy to get that ability back here, let me tell you." Being stuck in a single form had been akin to wearing a sweater that was too tight which he could never remove.

"Oh, no, my Earth is really different, but we had those stores too. He just...doesn't seem to fit them. Well, we had some stories with a big bad wolf, I guess I don't know if they're the same or not."

"...does that mean you could turn into other things before?"

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