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Prince Hans ([personal profile] trettende) wrote2016-12-06 03:45 pm
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Call me Out for Prince Hans of the... eventually-thawed heart? (post-Curtains)
Feel free to do AU stuff with me, I am here for all of it.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-08 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Technically, with the way Hans and the Balladeer travel, time doesn't mean a lot. You can easily exit one world in summer and walk into the dead of winter in the next. That kind of thing was one big reason they decided to find a home base of sorts sooner rather than later - interdimensional jet lag can be killer.

The Balladeer deliberately keeps the setting vague, trying to avoid getting caught up in anyone else's story. In the end, the house ends up being a little liminal. They don't exactly have neighbors, just lost travelers who occasionally find themselves walking up through the forest in the back, or wandering along the otherwise empty road. He worries it's too weird for Hans, the lack of normal living...but they can reach a small town just by walking down the hill, and the people there get to recognize them fairly quickly, even if they're a little weirded out by the two men who always stroll into town out of nowhere. It's not too bad, he guesses, and freedom's still new enough to both of them that they spend more time out of the house than in.

But winter's come now, both to the house and the little town. It's December. And that means it's Christmas.

The Balladeer's never experienced a Christmas himself, but the holiday's so thick with story that it's impossible to be ignorant of it. He's excited! And once the displays come up, he's quick to take Hans down into town for some shopping. They need a tree. They need lights. Proper ones, too, not just something he magicked up.]


We could get two. [He's looking up at one of the larger pines, which probably wouldn't fit in their house.] One for inside and one for out. Not like anything much happens in the front yard anyway.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-08 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer slowly folds his arms. He's not picky about how they get the tree back; a simple timeskip would do the trick. They'll want to get out of sight of the townspeople, though, if they want to keep coming here to shop.

He does want to do the decorating by hand, though. And maybe he's not as prepared for that as he thought?]
I'm not sure we have a ladder.

...we should probably get a ladder. Maybe we can just worry about the small one first, and think about doing the outside once that's settled? We've got the whole month.

[Longer, if they feel like. Who's gonna be around to judge how long they leave their tree up?]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-08 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Could throw some lights on the ones in the back, too! [They're all deciduous and leafless by now, but it'd probably still look neat. Just in a different way. It kinda is a shame they don't have neighbors as such.]

Okay, smaller trees... [He gives the big tree one last look, then turns to head down to the other end of the little tree farm. It's not a huge selection; they wouldn't need one in a place this size. But if they decide to go hogwild on the trees, he'll just take them shopping farther abroad.] I guess any of these look fine. I don't know if I know enough about this to tell. What room did you want to put it in, the living room?
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-09 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Guess we could've asked Seymour. I always thought he was more interested in flowers than trees, but if he's studying to be a botanist he'd have to know it all.

[Well, too late now. And anyway, all that matters is their own taste, right?]

It'd look nice in the foyer, yeah. People could see it from the street at night. [You know, the radically lost people that wander through every once in a blue moon!] You're supposed to put presents under them too, right? Are we doing that?

[He suspects that might be a thing you do for kids? But it would also look nice, and they'll have presents anyway.]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-09 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer, leaning down to compare the space beneath the trees, doesn't notice. There's only the two of them, but for all that he's created out of thin air, it's mostly just been practical things to get them settled. They haven't ever exchanged presents. He should be able to come up with some ideas, right?

He straightens and pats a good-sized tree with a decent amount of present space.]


Let's just take this one, then. It looks like it'll last a while!
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-10 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer looks around, trying to see what other customers are doing. There's none in the immediate vicinity.]

Guess so. We didn't bring a saw.

[Granted, he could have it down anyway, but that would look weird to the normal people around. It would've been obvious if they were carrying tools in here.]

If we can just carry it out of sight, I'll snap us back home. Around the corner or something.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-11 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe a chainsaw.

[He shrugs. It's easy enough to get someone's attention, at least - the place isn't so big that customers can easily get lost in it. And yep, here comes the chainsaw. The Balladeer pays, with the money he tends to have out of nowhere, and declines the offer to help lash it to the top of their car.]

Okay, great! You take the back, I'll get the front?

[Easier for him to get them home if he leads. The tree's manageable, but pretty heavy. It would be awfully difficult to carry all the way home, if they were actually going far. He wonders, sometimes, where exactly the locals of this town think they live.]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-11 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer's not as strong as Hans, but he is at least wearing gloves. He's still a musician, he can't walk around letting his hands get all torn up. Besides, it's cold. The top of the tree's less heavy anyway, and he gets it hoisted up onto his shoulder.]

Yeah, feels good. C'mon. [He makes for the end of the lot, where there's a little copse of wild trees and bushes they can duck around behind. Once he gauges they're sufficiently covered, they step through the trees again and out into their front yard. The front door's already standing open, so they don't have to worry about getting back in with the tree.] Oh, tree stand...I'll just make one, I don't want to go back for that.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-11 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, but we're getting the lights for real. We're gonna want them next year.

["The Balladeer snaps his fingers and everything is instantly decorated" doesn't seem like much of a holiday tradition to him? He's never had traditions that didn't revolve around murder before, he's a little hungry for them.]

Here, just get the bottom in there and I'll push my end up.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-12 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeppppp... [He gives it a shove, and the tree rocks up into place. The Balladeer grabs at the trunk to keep it from tipping too far over, but the tree stand does its job and it steadies out pretty quickly. The Balladeer laughs a little, delighted. They have a Christmas tree!]

Great! It looks fantastic. We're gonna need to string the lights around...I don't know how long the strings are, maybe two or three for this? And then the back and the front...

[He's already moving back through the house as he's talking, to peer out at their backyard. It's not particularly landscaped, and the wild plants are already starting to creep up from the woods into what's supposed to be their lawn. Honestly, he doesn't mind enough to do anything about that.]

Maybe we could just get bigger ones for out there. Like lanterns? It'd be good if anyone gets lost in the Woods this winter, it's starting to get too cold for wandering long. [He somehow pronounces the capital W. The Woods as a trope are pretty eternal, and very easy to lose your way in, only to end up in mysterious otherworldly places. Something to watch out for.]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-12 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, the ones who don't get scooped up by horror stories or traditional fantasy might end up here. He thinks they're probably on the lighter edge of the fairy tale genre; there is a Disney character involved, former villain or not. Maybe they can be the mysterious mentor figures in a pinch, sing a song and give a bit of vital advice and send the hero off without ever appearing in the narrative again. It couldn't end up any worse than the trolls.

He may have already done the early-story vengeful curse-layer bit as well. But that usually requires you to go to the curse-ees, and also he might not have technically told Hans that he turned the majority of his family into sea monsters? Billy promised not to tell him first, so.]


Yeah! We could just string them along the treeline, no need to totally decorate any one of them. And we'll need normal ornaments for this one in here...let's head back and look at what they have?
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-13 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Look he's not a hundred percent proud of it. He's not the kind of person that generally doles out life-altering curses.]

I don't know, the round ones? That's the kind they always have in show trees. [He turns to start heading back out the front, towards the rip in time-space that leads back to the store.] Do you think you could find your way out of here without me?
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2016-12-13 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
To the store, or anywhere. And back again, I guess - I don't want you to be stuck in here if I'm doing something, or if you just want to go somewhere by yourself.

[He takes Hans's hand, leading him back through the scene transition into the outskirts of the town.]

We've all had enough of being stuck in places, I guess.

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