Homecoming 2021, Community Center, Saturday Evening

[bigdamnprincipal]

Considering the theme of the dance, it might have been a surprise to walk into the community center and find it looking relatively classy, but a ball was a ball, even if it was a ball for "monsters." There were candleabras and dark gauzey fabrics everywhere, trying to put off an "elegant evening in a castle" vibe. Even the glitter was understated!

There were extra masquerade masks in case anyone needed one, or wanted to switch things up during the night, and bags of candy for anyone who wanted to stop by, even if it was just to sneak a peek. Or get candy in general, there's no judgement here.

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Arrive and Mingle

[bigdamnprincipal]

Show off how well you cleaned up!

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[white_oleander]

Astrid was not feeling very monstrous this October, and, besides, the worst monster she could think of pretty much looked like her. So she kept it simple for homecoming, simply going with a black dress and a matching mask, leaning more into the ball part than the monster part, her one consession to the latter being a horned headpiece.

Maybe a bit of a low-effort attempt, but considering what could potentially happen at a Halloween homecoming at Fandom...low effort might work to her benefit.

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[alwaysonguard]

Dwight showed up with his new costume all ready to go. He had thought about just reusing the mask from the party a few weeks ago and work up something based on that.... but decided against it.

Instead he was walking into the Community Center wearing a Huntsman costume, complete with appropriately matching mask.

He thought it had turned out pretty good, if he did say so himself. Maybe it was more monster hunter than monster but he felt it still worked!

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[onlyajones]

Jo’s dress was very expensive looking, long, white and frilly and she also had a white mask. She didn’t really have a monster theme in mind, she supposed a ghost would fit if anyone asked.

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[stykera]

Stark was not wearing a costume. Stark had learned his lesson last year. Maybe next Halloween, if nothing happened this year, he'd be willing to try costumes again. For tonight he'd gone with a slight variation on last week's outfit. A variation in that he'd pulled out the leather pants, for someone's benefit, to go with the new black jacket.

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[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle was not looking particularly monstrous this evening but if pressed she might confess to having read some vampire novels recently and her dress was a nod to a totally made up one of them.

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[canlendanear]

Alara hadn’t gone with a monster theme because she didn’t really understand Earth based monsters enough to pick one even being here a year so she just went with a dark purple dress similar to the icon and a purple mask.

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[flourish_or_perish]

Faye had toyed with the idea of doing something vampiric or, like, teasing her hair up into some kind of Bride of Frankenstein thing, given the prompt.

But in the end, it was easy to stick to a familiar theme. Fairies weren't really monsters, but she thought her sparkly, vaguely evil fairy thing probably wouldn't get her kicked out or anything. And it was low-key enough that she was already planning to pull her wings off if it looked like this were getting weird. She had heard stories, okay, and while she wasn't all that worried about losing any precious accessories, she certainly didn't want to end up running around singing. (Or, worse yet, an actual fairy, for a second time.)

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[x_discospider_x]

Troy had very clearly spent a lot of time working on his costume. Really! Just ignore the fact that it was the exact same as his sexy dracula costume, only instead of the toilet seat cover and toilet paper roll cuffs, he had just wrapped himself up in tangled headphone wires as the Headphone Wire Monster in the basement at Groovy Tunes.

He did up the ante a little bit with his mask, which started as an attempt to just cover it wires and cords, but then he thought okay, but what if it GLOWED!

And, sure, he stuck to the shirtless thing, but he was wearing his dress pants, so that made it fancy enough for a ball, right?

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[kawaii_complex]

Sakaki absolutely hated monsters and scary stuff, and so the whole idea of a 'favorite monster' as a theme was so beyond her ken that she almost didn't know what to do for this homecoming dance. Maybe she should focus on just the costume aspect, and stick to a nice cute cat like she'd found in her superhero class? But she would probably look so silly, trying to pass herself off as cute as a kitten!

So she went with just a kitten mask, pairing it with a nice simple white dress and tried not to be too awkward, especially since they didn't really have dances like this at her old school!

She also could not express how pleased she was that the decorations weren't scary!

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[lovethatjourney]

On one hand, Alexis would have liked to show off an expensive dress for homecoming.

On the other hand, it was an excuse to wear classy/trampy Halloween chic at a school-sanctioned event and look cute. The mask classed it up, see.

Were devils a monster? Probably if you were religious.

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[flamesburned]

This was twice in two weeks that Liz had been to a major social gathering, which was rather surprising to her. She still had her camera with her to take photos, it had been so long since she had been to a school dance and it felt rather weird being back for one.

Liz hadn’t really been sure what to wear so she picked out one of her older style long, lace black dresses and figured it could go with a historical theme. She also had a black mask on as well.

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[not_a_goddamn_princess]

Ya know, sometimes you threw your own party and you wanted to be classy, and sometimes you wanted to show up to another party dressed in something that would make people wonder about your underwear. Margo contained multitudes!

She even had the perfect mask. The eyepatch behind it was glittery as fuck.

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[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon was here dressed in shirt and slacks that fit and were ironed, and the shirt, after his discussion with Eliot yesterday, was actually in a pale shade of green.

Eliot had also helped with some "guyliner" to help bring out his eyes. The rest, Jon had managed himself - his new haircut was neat and styled, and he had added temporary colour to hide the grey. He had on just enough makeup to look a bit less pallid and soften some of the worm scars, and enough under-eye concealer to look like he'd slept.

He was, in short, disguised as a functional early-30s human being.

He was probably unrecognisable.

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[sexy_giraffe]

Tahani was being extremely original, okay by being a sexy devil, but in black, not in red.

Truly groundbreaking!

And speaking of breaking, the heels on this outfit were probably going to kill her.

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[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

What Tisarwat wouldn't give for this to be an entirely different kind of homecoming; as it was, this felt like the exact opposite, since she'd never really had a chance to leave this backwater planet in the first place, had she? But it was still a party, and it was still going to be a lot of fun, so there was always that.

And there would be no dressing up in costumes because she'd rather like to avoid drinking anyone's blood again this time. She kept it relatively simple this time around, putting most of her attention into the jacket and sort of matching her gloves to her mask, rather than her hair, and, really, she felt quite good about the look.

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[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker was here! Beaker was here! He was dressed at Frankenstein's monster because his boss, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, had understood the assignment.

Photobooth

[bigdamnprincipal]

There were some pretty interesting options to make sure you remember your night!

Food and Drink

[bigdamnprincipal]

Nothing is spiked yet, probably! Make sure you get some of the extra candy!

Dancing

[bigdamnprincipal]

It's not all spooky music, some of it is songs you might have actually heard!

Shadowy Corners

[bigdamnprincipal]

Do your lurking thing, it's all good.

Chaperones

[bigdamnprincipal]

Hurray for responsible adults!

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[notagoose]

Goose was a teacher so he figured he should at help chaperone the event.

He didn’t do costumes or fancy dress and only owned variations of his Galaxy Ranger uniform so he was at the dance in his standard Galaxy Rangers uniform, at least he’d changed out of his casual black outfit for a change and he also had a shirt on as well.

Aaaaand then the candy kicked in...

[bigdamnprincipal]

Did you have some of the candy that was being handed out at the door? Or on the food table? Welp here's hoping you don't mind being an actual monster for a bit...

Re: Aaaaand then the candy kicked in...

[meepmeepmeep]

Was it entirely predictable that Beaker was now lurching around as an actual, if three foot tall, made of felt Frankenstein's monster?

Yes. It was funny anyway, right?

OOC

[bigdamnprincipal]

I'm clinging to the pumpkins for as long as I can y'all. I can feel the Christmas vibes approaching!