One Hell Of A Butler (Open)

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Nao would be lying if he said he didn't like dressing up. It was simply that he rarely had the money to do so. This past year, however, he'd been lucky in his business and had gotten a lot of work, specifically in the past few months since school started. Add to that, there were still a number of girls out there who were somehow very willing to fulfill a simple request of his. Or rather, when he told them he wanted to dress up, they suddenly got excited for no reason and took care of his costume all on their own. The aftermath had been full of an endless number of photos, with him posing in way he didn't really understand. Nao just did what they told him to, for the most part. They said that his silence and occasional small smile made him seem even more mysterious and like the character they'd dressed him up as.

Nao hadn't ever seen the show they got his costume from, but he'd seen pictures here and there. From that, he would have to say....he still didn't understand what the fuss was about.

Even so, Naozumi was here, dressed up like some sort of butler named Sebastian(a little cliché, wasn't it?), and he had no idea what it was he was supposed to be doing. The auditorium was crowded. He was uncomfortable with the closeness of it all. Every so often, he'd get pulled aside by a collection of girls who just had get a picture of him. So, he'd pose, they'd snap the shot, and then they'd be on their way.

He wished he'd come with someone. Maybe with Ray. Or with Matt. Or with someone else, but truth be told, there weren't a whole lot of people he wanted to go out to an event like this. So, Nao simply stacked a plate full of crackers, meat, and cheese, some cookies, little brownies, and a whole collection of candy, and found a table to sit down at in the corner somewhere. He munched on his loot as he watched the throng of merriment pass before him.

[Maisie Pryce]

Maisie was ready to have a grand ol' time dancing and enjoying herself at the Halloween party. She had mulled over her costume for....5 minutes this past week after finding a pair of white pants and yellow shoes in her closet. She decided to revisit her early childhood of cartoon re-runs and realized she only needed three pieces after she realized that her new purple jacket actually suited her purposes rather well. To that end she had skidded into the Halloween Dance announced that she was the “terror that flapped in the night” and skipped off to find punch to drink. After punch was found and drunk there had been dancing of course…of a sort, but it wasn’t like she was particularly gifted in that area, but at least she was way more graceful than SOME of the people dancing.

When she found herself tiring out she had gone for more punch and found herself next to someone she assumed was a boy wearing a suit. He looked very well dressed but she couldn’t exactly figure out who he was supposed to be, though she supposed that there were some who didn’t know who she was supposed to be either, it’s not like she could have fashioned a duck bill on such short notice! “Yo! So like, you’re a spy…ish thing?” she asked curiously. “I am the terror that flaps in the night!” she introduced herself with a dramatic-ish tipping of her hat. “Actually, I’m supposed to be a duck that fights crime, but anyway…are you like James Bond? Does he count as a super hero? I suppose he might…” she wondered out loud, trailing off as her inner monologue took over and tried to envision what Bond’s kryptonite might be and determined that it was probably Q.

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Nao came, but was now really wishing that he’d come with a friend to share the time with. He wasn’t sure if Ray was going to show up and hadn’t the nerve to ask. The girls who’d dressed him up had run off somewhere, and he was almost certain that they’d gotten bored and were off to find more interesting things/people to squeal and fangirl over.

Girls were weird.

Speaking of girls, there was one speaking to him out of nowhere. See? That’s why girls were weird. Nao didn’t understand how they could so easily speak to other people they’d never met so….excitedly. He took more bites of his snacks, though found that his plate was quickly becoming empty. He’d have to go back for more at this rate.

Nao shook his head. “I’m not sure exactly. Some friends of mine picked the costume and dressed me. I’m supposed to be a butler from Hell named Sebastian.” Nao apparently had never read/seen the manga/anime Black Butler. “I don’t know if he’s classified as a super hero…or a super villain.” It was very strange, having to hear about the character second hand. It also seemed that the girls who chose it didn’t care about following the theme of the party exactly. The character was a super something, at least. Nao examined the girl’s costume. “A duck that fights crime? Is that a made up hero?” Apparently, he’d also never seen the old cartoon from which her costume was inspired.