Mistletoe Mingle!

[passingthrough]

Who: Those who are about to be kissed! OTA
Broadcast: Not likely
Action: On any ship in the fleet including the Iskaulit
When: Now until December 26

Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight.
Lead me out on the moonlit floor.

(Adventures in Mistletoe info post. Remember to mark your top levels with any boundaries you want to set! Enjoy!)

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loki | ota

[dothelokimotion]

[ i. platonic ]

[ mistletoe. loki had a fondness for mistletoe. with the plant, he had crafted an excellent story about how he had murdered a fictional brother with a plant. and a generation of gullible mortals bought it. so loki makes a few mistle-toe arrows and walks around whistling, putting everyone on deliberate edge. and when he's approached, loki simply raises an eyebrow, innocent. ]

What?

[ he may have missed the one above his head though. ]

[ ii. romantic ]

[ loki has picked up a book in a corner at the iskaulit library. so caught up in it, he wanders the hallways, not even glancing up until —

he fatefully bangs into someone, the dreaded mistletoe on top. shame loki isn't looking. ]

Excuse me.

i

[abracafcku]

[This is where the legends of Loki in his world and Loki in other worlds get a little blurry. Does Taako know the significance of the mistletoe and Loki? He has a vague feeling like he should, but he was never very good at studying up about the hundreds of gods that ran around and got worshiped. Technically, he'd been an adherent of Oghma at one point in his life, but that was honestly just so he could get a free meal one time and he'd skipped out almost immediately after that.

So seeing Loki skulk about with mistletoe arrows, looking like he's enjoying how some people eye him with more than a little suspicion only puts a smile on Taako's face. He's never been so glad to have been put on the First Breath as when he sees his captain fucking with people for the hell of it. The smile spreads until Taako notices the thing hanging over the god's head and that by chance, Taako's been caught up in its orbit.

Weeeeell, dunk.]

Might want to do a Perception check, my man.

[And Taako points up because it should be obvious once Loki sees it.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ hm? loki looks up before frowning. ]

Well, that's annoying. Mistletoe is supposed to like me best.

[abracafcku]

Teeechnically, it does, since it found you out all the other people here.

[Even if it apparently hates Taako since it's sucked him into the radius of whatever spell has cursed these things.]

Maybe if you weren't so beloved by the weirdo plant you might've avoided this.

[dothelokimotion]

That is a possible take.

[ loki flicks his fingers at it, hoping to send it away in his usual dimensional pocket but no dice. he sighs. ]

It is no fun if I can't use them wholly to my advantage.

[abracafcku]

Oh trust me, I know. I've been enjoying watching you stalk around and put the absolute fear of, well, you into people.

[But he also knows better than to try and get away at this point, so? He just lounges back into thin air - which is when he hits that stupid force field wall that's always around these things once they activate. It was hilarious watching people smash their faces into it for awhile, but now he's in here and that's not as amusing.]

They've got some powerful mojo protecting them. I tried setting one on fire and it did absolutely ziiiilch.

[And to demonstrate? Taako flips his Umbra Staff around and launches a fireball at the sprig of greenery, a ball of flame shooting from the tip of the umbrella. It hits the mistletoe and just...vanishes as if it were an illusion.]

See?

i

[the_tailor]

[Lance has been half amused, half annoyed at these mistletoe shenanigans so far. While he's all for some love being spread throughout the fleet, it's being awfully annoying to be randomly stuck and waiting like Snow White for the kiss to be freed.

He's seen mistletoe on doorways, but this is the first time he's seen them on a bow. Lance just blinks at Loki when he sees him, baffled.]

...did you seriously weaponize mistletoe?

[dothelokimotion]

Why not?

[ loki smiles, beatific, as he holds the bow up. ]

It's what I'm known for.

[the_tailor]

[Blink blink.]

I've read myths and stuff about you, but I definitely don't remember mistletoe arrows.

[dothelokimotion]

Do you not?

I suppose it's not one of my more boasted stories. I used mistletoe to kill someone. Hypothetically, of course.

[the_tailor]

Hypothetically? So...you didn't?

[Please say you didn't. It's bad enough that mistletoe is parasitic, Lance doesn't want to think of it killing people!]

ii?

[universal_charm]

_{[ Kirk was equally guilty of not looking where he was going, except he wasn't nose deep in a book, but rather his comm, trying to work out ideas for wedding gifts. Why was it so hard? He grunted when Loki knocked against his shoulder, but otherwise didn't seem to bothered, mumbling an apology himself and - ]}

GUH!

_{[ He winced as he smacked into something... solid. And not a person kind of solid, more like wall kind of solid. He looked up and frowned, trying to move forward and then glancing up... ]}

Oh come on!

[dothelokimotion]

Hm?

[ loki barely looks up from his book. ]

What happened?

[universal_charm]

_{[ Kirk sighed and started looking up towards the ceiling. ]}

Mistletoe. That's what's happened.

[dothelokimotion]

[ ah. loki looks up, his expression flickering slightly. ]

Haven't they collected enough . . . kisses already?

[universal_charm]

Clearly not. That, or they forgot to clean up.

_{[ His tone suggested how unlikely he thought that was, glowering up at the offending piece of foliage. The first few times were somewhat amusing, then they were annoying, and now... okay now they were annoying, but there was frustration laced in. His lips were going to get bruised at this rate. ]}

Maybe they're really just that bored.

[winscenario]

[ The library has been a fairly popular destination for Jim, so far. It's the easiest way for him to get his hands on books, especially books he's never seen or heard of before.

Of course, he's just as much to blame when he turns a hallway without looking first... and without looking up. There was no door there, so he didn't even think about double-checking. Not that he minds either way, no harm in some innocent kissing to break out of a force field. He's been through this before, after all. ]

I... [ When he looks up at Loki, he gets a glimpse of the little plant hanging above them, and sighs quietly. ] ... should be the one apologizing.

[dothelokimotion]

[ most people would struggle to tell the difference between the two kirks, but for loki, their approach to him is so remarkably apart that he knows instantly. he's not sure what to make of that, as he closes his book silently. ]

What for?

[winscenario]

[ There's precious little to tell them apart, but he's glad that he doesn't have to clarify that with Loki. He does seem to have to explain something else though, so he gestures up to the plant above their heads. ]

For that.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki finally looks up, his expression clearing like a sunny day, a wisp of good humour. ]

Ah. I suppose I cannot avoid all agents of chaos.

[winscenario]

[ Jim lets out a soft chuckle at that, grinning in amusement. ]

Funny to hear you of all people say that. [ Loki himself is often the agent of chaos. ]

i. sup, Loki.

[postocular]

[ What do you mean the story about the murder of a brother with a plant wasn't real???? How could you do that, Loki? Carl doesn't miss Loki wandering the Iskaulit with his arrows, and doesn't comment on it at first. Gods of mischief gotta mischief and all that. When he passes him again, though? He nods up to the doorway. ]

So are these yours or theirs?

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki twirls a mistletoe arrow in his fingers with a grin. ]

Does it matter?

[postocular]

No, I guess there really isn't a difference, is there?

...So. What does yours do?

[dothelokimotion]

[ a huff. ]

Nothing. It's merely there to induce people it's the same as the Atroma's.