HOTS CLUB I MEAN HOST CLUB

[stay_classy_cat]

Who: "Seth" and Voile and YOU
What: HOST CLUB
Where: AE13, on the bottom floor of the student dorms.
When: future-dated a bit to Thursday, 5/16
Warnings: Sexy Nurses and Contests
Warnings redux: dude tag yourself in

Ring ring...

Hello, it's me again~

How's business, pussycat?

Going very well, thank you for asking. That snafu with the production plant under the church put a bit of a bottleneck on the market, but it's not like that's a bad thing. I've already made plenty from it, so no fur off my back. All the chaos in the city is very entertaining.

Ha ha ha, all the better since everyone's pointing fingers at the school now anyway.

I hope you're just as happy on your end.

It is, isn't it.

Yes, how are they going?

That's still a problem? Ugh. What haven't you tried yet?

What if... what about that thing I found under the school?

Yes, that substance it was leaking. I've never seen anything like it before, let alone from a trophy. You still have the samples, don't you?

Yeah.

Oh good.

That sounds promising already~

Tell you what, since you've been working so hard on this, why not give me the prototypes and let me test them out? I have a few targets in mind.

It's Thursday; Graduation/Prom is still a few weeks off but finals are swiftly approaching the students of Smash Academy. Seth has been a busy bee, if not with unscrupulous activities preparing for said finals, then he has been dutifully making Host Club beautiful. More accurately, him and Voile have worked especially hard on this one to help raise money for those suffering from the drug riots and related violence.

Much like any other Host Club session, AE13 has been transformed into something bright, cheery, and very spring-like. Spring has definitely sprung all over the tables and flowery decor here. Food seems to especially be in surplus this session, with tables lining the borders of the room in a sort of buffet style. It's not just cookies, pastries, fruits, or snacks, but there is an entire table dedicated to those with a sweet tooth. (Most are actually not drugged but if you want to have shenanigans, then by all means go for it.) There are still some items exclusive to a menu that necessitate the need for a host/server. Alternatively, you could tell your host to go get stuff at the buffet for you, that is just as practical.

There's surely something here for everyone... and if not, he'll make it happen. As in, he'll make the servers make it happen.


To get this Host Club kicked off, Seth stands, in all his grandiose attire, and clinks a glass with his fork. "If I could have everyone's attention for a moment, please?" Once he has it, he clears his throat.

"First of all, I'd like to welcome you all to this Host Club. Voile and I worked especially hard on it, so thank you for coming. You should know you're not only supporting our efforts but all generous donations and proceedings will go directly to victims afflicted by these recent strings of cruel violence."

"Did you know it was National Nurse's Week last week? I thought it would only be appropriate then to have this Host Club's theme be that of healing--Healing and appreciation for those who work hard to help others, who don't get enough appreciation for their efforts."

"Like poor Rhys! I swear he'd work himself ragged if he gave himself the chance. He needs our love and support, and, if I may direct your attention to our beautiful, charming hostess Voile," Seth waves his hand in the air and points at her, where a well-choreographed spotlight follows up onto the mini-stage erected in the room. "--really, everyone look, she is absolutely stunning in that dress, give her a big round of applause--She will tell you exactly how you can offer a healing hand."

HOST CLUB:
▷ If you want your character to BE SERVED, just sit them down at any table and start making orders.
▷ If you want your character to SERVE, as in you want to put your character in an embarrassing outfit and serve the people sitting at the tables, go right ahead. There are no OOC sign-ups. This session's Host Club's outfit theme is SEXY NURSE. Take your pick of outfit from conservative and modern to increasingly provocative. If you're a server and can't think of any willing/legit reasons why on earth they would be here in a sexy nurse outfit you can assume Seth more or less forced/tricked/convinced/blackmailed your poor unfortunate character into the act.
▷ ONCE YOU PICK server OR served, your character must to stick with it until this Host Club meeting is done, that is the only rule. No escaping, no sneaking out. Seth will CATCH YOU and make you CLEAN DISHES with a TOOTHBRUSH.

HOST CLUB CONTEST:
▶ If you remember how last year's Student/Faculty Auctions went and how the Pokemon Contests work, this may feel familiar. Your character needs to pay a measly $5 entry fee (which will be a charitable donation to help those involved in drug riot incidents) and then they can enter in any of the contest categories; Coolness, Beauty, Cuteness, Intelligence, and Strength. PERFORM your act of [insert category here] and impress everyone! Get creative, use your Smashing Skills and wow the crowd. If you damage the stage or make a mess, Connor and Flint will probably not be happy with you.
▶ As an audience member, you cast your vote by typing a +1 into your subject title (not unlike the auctions with the dollar amounts). That's it! You can vote as many times as you like, just not for multiple times for the same person in the same category (so no +2's or +3's or +9000's). You can, however, vote for the same person once in each category if they are competing in more than one. You can cast a vote for more than one person per category.
▶ Votes will be tallied up OOCly Thursday or Friday, and we will start a new thread to announce the winner.

Comments

[reservedempath]

She blinked with surprise. To say she and Red were close was not true. Not that she disliked him or anything like that, but there still sat a very clear divide between being his Pokémon and... being the love interest of one of his Pokémon.

And she was sure Marie was around somewhere when Red made mention of the Wartortle.

Voile smiled modestly, "I've really done very little. Seth-" She looked past Red for a moment and motioned to the blond-haired Persian, "-did most of it. He just allowed me to bring in the new contest hall here. He did everything else, though."

Which was true. She might have given an idea, but Seth was the one with the magic hands to make it all come to life.

[reservedempath]

A pause ensued and she eyed Red with some interest. How much did Marie talk about her anyway? And... why? There wasn't a lot to say, honestly. At least, in her opinion. She was a Gardevoir. She liked dressing up in pretty clothes. She liked pretending she was a human. She didn't really like being a Pokémon. She used to be in contests.

That was pretty much Voile in a nutshell if one was going to define her so simply.

Voile nodded, feeling the need to look a little more proud, which also meant standing a little taller. "Yes. I'm used to being on stage as opposed to running everything behind the scenes. It's true that when I initially came here, I took advantage of my humanised form to get more into the background of contests in Lilycove, but I hadn't been able to actually run any on my own."

[reservedempath]

His question garnered silence from her. Mostly because she wasn't sure how to answer that. She so often limited her existence to what she was. She could never go back to Hoenn - or any other region - claim to be a Gardevoir, and live a life in that humanised form. She could only ever do so by claiming to be a human who was in a very convincing costume.

In other words, she felt she could only have a real future by lying about who and what she was. Or by fully becoming a human. So she didn't truly believe she had a future as a Pokémon.

"I... I think it would be nice to continue running contests in the hall at the city." She wondered if that was what he meant, however.

[reservedempath]

She nodded to him, "Yes. I didn't help out too much with those. I thought it was a good idea and not unfitting. Although admittedly these are pretty liberal." And it should have been obvious after that, that Voile being as reserved as she was, probably hadn't been the one to suggest anything so suggestive.

But to be fair, once upon a time, it was her in suggestive wear doing Seth's 'bidding.'

"I'd say it might actually be helping the cause," she admitted with a bit of a more shy and sheepish smile. "I can also gather how it'd be hit and miss with the crowd, though. Guess it really depends on comfort level."

And she imagined Red probably wasn't that keen on it himself.

[reservedempath]

Stay out of the way. She wondered what he meant by that. And idly worried why he seemed so eager to part ways with her. Perhaps she'd done or said something that displeased him. Or she'd done something to displease Marie and Marie had gone to him. She imagined Marie and Red had a very close relationship, just as Red did with all of his Pokémon.

But maybe that was all in her head. After all, not everyone could be as she and Delian were.

"You're not in the way," she protested to him gently. "Why in the world would you think that you are?" And the question left her mouth before she really had the opportunity to stop it. Evidently some form of newly-found confidence had been born within her with the contest hall at her very fingertips.

[reservedempath]

She simply stared at him, almost... feeling minutely horrified, honestly. Marie. Marie. What had he said? For surely he would have had to say something for Red to talk to her so directly. Unless she was missing something. How many other people felt that way? And why?

To say she was confused was understating it.

"You aren't," she reassured him. "You haven't. You never have. I... don't understand." Voile shook her head and she folded her arms over her chest. "Where Marie is concerned... I'm fortunate that he wanted to support me, though I know he's not really happy to be here at all. I... tried to tell him before."

That he can leave. I can handle things myself.

"If you see him, would you mind telling him that it's okay if he goes? Maybe he should go with you whenever you take off. I imagine he'd be much happier." And she wasn't worth Marie's misery.

[reservedempath]

"He came here to be with you."

That echoed a few times in her head. And other things Red said followed in suit easily.

"Let him try... if he didn't want to, he wouldn't have come."

She knew it to be the truth as well, even if she didn't particularly want to admit it. What was there to really acknowledge? Marie was doing his best. He was trying. She didn't feel like she was worth it, but he was doing it anyway. That said something about him. She respected him for it. She felt horrible, but she admired him.

Red's very motion, the way his head inclined, made her heart ache so greatly that she didn't immediately know how to respond. Why... did she feel so sad? Why was she so upset? What was it about the implication that bothered her so much? Because she still questioned and denied her own worth? Because she felt like Red could too easily determine that about her if she continued trying to push Marie away.

"I don't want him to suffer on my account," she admitted very kindly. "I would never want him to do something like that for me."