Crossover Bar AU: Holiday edition
Desmond and the other Assassins are throwing a holiday party in the Bar!! Holiday because not everyone celebrates the same holiday or any holiday at all but could use some fun anyway.
The entire Bar is built like a speakeasy with a second floor, so there’s an open dance floor and a stage, ofc there’s space for a DJ, but for any singers/musicians the main stage is all theirs. They set up string lights, ornaments, table displays, and a big ass tree in the corner. For the sake of sensitive guests there’s a dark, quiet corner upstairs for them to not get overwhelmed or to take a break in.
People bring snacks and candy from their respective worlds, Desmond made non-alcoholic drinks and alcoholic drinks, the Spider Band is playing tonight, Wild (Botw/Totk Link) is cooking, somebody suggested secret Santa and things got out of hand, but it’s hilarious.
Whoever gave Altair that fake finger, I commend you.
Drinks in hand, party in full swing, ofc Desmond brought the bar to a snowy area to let everyone play in the snow if they wanted. Even the Reader and the Apprentice came, they brought Cards Against Humanity (Multifandom edition).
As a Christmas gift to all of you: you can add any holiday party scenario with any fandom characters, ugly sweater competitions, a drunk round of truth or dare, gingerbread house building challenges, anything and everything goes.
Have fun, and happy holidays (New Years addition coming soon)
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It’s that time of the year again. . .
Sleeplessness is a long-standing habit of Jamil’s.
As a child, many nights were spent in restless vigil. When the sky was at its darkest, long past midnight and just before the break of dawn, he would sneak out to the rooftop, away from prying eyes. As long the rest of the world lost itself to slumber, he was free to behave as he liked.
Just by gazing up, Jamil was met with a living remnant of the past: the very same view that once guided travellers in their journey across the desert and through their voyages over unknown seas. Sometimes, he would lie flat on his back, mapping every corner of the starry sky until sunrise.
But, on occasion, he would run. He ran and kept running despite having no destination in mind. Shrouded by the veil of night, he would vault over gables, slide across canopies, and climb onto parapets until his legs gave out.
The moon looming above was the sole spectator of his nocturnal escapades. There was warmth to be found in its distant but ever-present glow. By basking in it, Jamil had made out, hidden amongst the infinite web of constellations, a sliver of hope.
When he reflects on those days now, he realises just how foolish it all was. He'd only foregone some much needed rest in exchange of delaying the inevitable. A diamond sky? Don’t make me laugh. Stars, in all their brilliance, could do nothing to help him.
Yet, the habit remains. Whenever he’s feeling restless, he takes off and flies over Scarabia’s desert landscape, cursing his lot until daybreak or until his magical reserves all but run dry.
And the crescent moon —that dreadful moon— like a grotesque, jagged grin, became not his confidant, but his adjudicator.
Time marches forward, waiting for no one, and tomorrow would arrive whether he wanted it to or not. Morning come, any proof of his outburst would disappear without a trace. Another day would start anew; Jamil, always quick to adapt, would go about his daily tasks and his classmates none the wiser.
Or so it usually goes.
Tonight, the pocket dimension of the dormitory feels too stifling. He leaves Scarabia at a quarter before midnight, broom in hand. Slithering past the hall of mirrors and to the nearest courtyard, he takes flight.
Jamil surges through campus, flying by the colosseum and nearby woods, by the island’s cliffs and ridges, by the crashing waves on the beach, and back to the start. If he could, he would go as far as his broom would take him, to the ends of the world if need be, until the chains that bound him were well and truly torn.
Reinventing himself anew somewhere no one would ever find him, shedding his current obligations like an old skin…
Truth be told, he’s contemplated the idea many times.
…If only.
Perching himself over one of the main building’s tallest turrets, he watches the waning moon reflected upon the ocean waves.
As per usual, these moments of peace last only a handful of seconds before they’re interrupted; while he’s taking every detail of the scenery in, Jamil catches, against all odds, sight of a sudden movement out of the corner of his eye. He turns to examine his surroundings, but the figure has long since gone.
A bird? A bat? A moth? No, no, that’s not it. He knows exactly what it was. Someone is watching him, even now.
But two can play that game, he believes.
Sliding down the turret and jumping onto a gable, he tosses his broom towards a nearby balcony. Then, after finding his footing over the slates, Jamil takes a deep breath; with all the strength his legs can muster, he races towards the edge, and jumps.
With wind harsh against his cheeks and the frenzied beating of his heart, he plummets towards the ground at almost terminal speeds and—
At the last second, something sweeps under his feet, stopping his fall.
—Just in time.
« Took you long enough. » Despite his still-frantic heartbeat, Jamil says so without batting an eye. Beneath him, the familiar silken fabric of the magic carpet rustles in protest as if to scold him. « You didn’t think me stupid enough to jump without a backup plan, do you? You were spying on me there— who do you think I am? »
In the distance, a bell tolls at the stroke of midnight. On cue, the carpet speeds up of its own volition, soaring and twirling in an impromptu airborne dance. Perhaps brought upon by the thrill of this wholly senseless endeavour, Jamil does something he’d never allow anyone else to see, and earnestly laughs.
It is a bright, clear laugh, very much unlike himself. One day, surely, he’ll stand proudly on his own feet. Like his countrymen, he’ll venture forward into the sea’s horizon, and no one will be there to hold him back. He’ll be able to laugh like this whenever he pleases when that time comes.
After getting this far, the freedom he’s yearned for ever since he was a child is something he’ll seize with his own hands— even if it costs him his life.
But, having already endured all these years, that dream of his can stand to wait a little longer.
Splaying his back over the carpet, he allows it to carry him wherever it wishes.
« Happy birthday, » he tells himself, gazing up.
And Jamil decides that, just for now, he wants to revel in the remaining starlight while he can.
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