2057/Birthday Wonder Waffles

Birthday Wonder Waffles
Date of Scene:	11 June 2020
Location:	Main Room - Titan's Tower
Synopsis:	Birthday Wonder Waffles are had. A New Tradition Founded. Donna broke out the good stuff. Shh.
Cast of Characters:	Kate Bishop, Cassie Sandsmark, Donna Troy, Wally West

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Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate is in the common room, presumably not alone. Though she is upside down feet hanging off the back of the comfy chair as she looks at Donna and Cassie upside down. Sort of .. like a sprawly defiant cat. "We definitely need to celebrate Cassie's birthday... but ... only one of us can go to the coolest clubs or bars unless the Bouncer gets wonder struck."

She considers "I got it..." and starts typing at on her T-Comm and not explaining at all to Cassie and Donna what the hell she has got.

<<Wally. Emergency. We need you to go to The Dolly Llama in Los Angeles. The Waffle joint on Ventura. It's Cassie's Birthday. Get .. a lot of everything.. Ice cReam.. Waffles with crazy toppings. The works. Remember BB lives here. Obi-Flash you are our only hope.>> hits send then drops her t-comm on her stomach as she peers out at Donna and Cassie still not having explained.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
"Ugh, it's so lame. The -worst- thing about coming back is getting treated like a kid again. Themyscira doesn't have our silly 'half an adult, first you can drive, then you can buy porn and fight, THEN LATER you can have a drink'- thing. You're a child, and then you're a warrior. That's it! I get wine when I'm there!" Granted, Donna and Diana probably make sure she doesn't get TOO MUCH of it, but it's the principle, darnit, and Cassie looks sour about it. "We should just go. I'm sure we could get in somewhere. Bouncers are pretty easy when you're-" Side glance. OK, maybe she shouldn't finish THAT thought in front of her big sister.

She is sprawling on the couch in normal potato fashion, compared to upside-down Kate, treating her position as totally normal. She only shows a head-tilt of curiousity when she pulls out her communicator.

"Well whatever," she finally declares with a sense of resignation. "I am cool just making a girls night out of it. We can eat a crapton of ice cream and watch some Netflix." The dessert is the official Amazon weakness, the Kryptonite of Man's World. "What do we have in the fridge?"

Donna Troy has posed:
    Donna raises an eyebrow at Cassie's unfinished sentence, but any pretence at sternness doesn't last long before she's grinning. "Actually you're kinda lucky there Cass. I mean you're not quite an adult by Themysciran standards, but close enough. And nobody met you before you were that. Half the time people have trouble forgetting I'm not still six."

    "I think it was Gar's birthday when we discovered that Donut Destruction place," Donna says. "There was some talk it would be a new birthday tradition at the start of the... what did they call it? Donut Genocide Challenge or something? At the end it was decided that we would never, ever, do it again. Or talk about it again. Though I like talking about it. It's like one of those hard battles where you end up battered and bruised and saying 'let us never talk about this again.' Once the bruises have healed those are the /best/ ones to talk about. "

    "Maybe we could get a /small/ cake," Donna adds, grinning at Cassie.

    Donna watches Kate's texting without comment, then gets up and goes to the kitchen area. "Maybe Caitlin's baked us some goodies and left them," she muses, browsing through the cupboards and then following Cassie's suggestion and checking the fridge. "Back on Themyscira, we don't celebrate birthdays. I guess when almost everyone has had in excess of three thousand of them, the novelty wears off. Which kind of worked out for me, seeing as I don't know what day my birthday is. Well, Caitlin has left us plenty of her snacky-shakes, but they're not exactly a celebration. We need something less healthy."

Wally West has posed:
Wally was at his apartment, eating popcorn while watching Brooklyn 99, laughing off many a joke before just repeating the process. Then his communicator went off and he listened.

<<Wally here. Dolly Llama? I'm on it. Don't blink, I'll be back in a Flash.>>

Deactivating his communicator, Wally Super Speeds into his red and white costume before he's Literally speeding across country. Though there is a minor wait for when Wally is just impatiently waiting for the food, but in all, about maybe 25 minutes later, a silver streak is zooming through Titans Tower with everything requested, his mask down since his identity is known.

"Hey gang! Sorry I'm late. There was just THE LONGEST LINE and I had to wait my turn."

He looks at Cassie then. "Happy Birthday!" he outstretches his arms with enthusiasm to show off all the bagged food.

Kate Bishop has posed:
Kate watces Donna rummage through the kitchen and shoots Cassie a sly smirk, sort of Vorpalish really, then she goes back to watching Donna. "Just a >small< cake... I mean... Beast Boy does live here too Troia..." she points out helpfully with a hint of mock dismay in her tone. She honestly lets Donna burn minutes away in the kitchen searching.

"Also the lack of birthday celebrations is the first thing you have said about Themyscira that makes me want to visit a bit less... it totally doesn't overcome the massive need I have in my soul to visit mind you. But it chips the paint a little bit. Mmm this metaphor is totally getting away from me."

At the mention of Snacky-Shakes ... the youngest Titan in the room just groans. "No snacky shakes... definitely need something more celebratory."

She glances at her t-comm. "Anyhow I said I got it... maybe break out something fizzy and drink worthy and meet me at the table everyone?"

Did Kate learn magic?

She twists then tumbles off the chair before rolling up to her feet and heads over to the table. She looks the table over... gestures a few times like she is limbering up. Really milks it a bit.

Raven would probably smite her out of sheer spite with the bad magic impersonation she does there.

But then ... Wally!

"Tada!.. Wonder Waffles for a Wonder Birthday... this is officially a new Themyscira Birthday tradition" she gestures at Wally and the table. Hard to say if she means unload it all, or if she means set the bags down so she can help. Could be taken either way.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
As regards the Themysciran birthday tradition, Cassie has but a single, smarty-pants remark to make on the subject: "Besides, where would you ever find that many candles?" This is a fair point. Or a silly point, but also definitely true. However, Kate's concern for the lack of parties earns a quick rebuttal. "Oh, don't worry. They have a TON of holidays. Like, all kinds of sacred festivals and things to honor the different gods. Some of them are pretty wild. This one time I saw them gathering all these animal skins... but then Mala kicked me out and told me I had to stay in my room and study that night!"

In the case of Diana's Day, the tyranny of 'not until you're older' reigns just as ironfistedly as in Man's World. "Plus there's always tournaments, trials, and all kinds of other stuff. Cliff diving, harpy egg stealing, you know." Normal stuff.

While they wait and talk about the totally normal party schedule of the Amazons, Cassie flicks around on the TV a bit as they do some time-killing. The shake idea meets an immediate: "Yeah, veto." Kate's magic bit, on the other hand, actually causes a bit of annoyance at first: "C'mon, you're blocking the TV-" But then, POOF. Wally!

"Woah! Score! Wow, what is all this stuff?" It doesn't immediately occur to her that he basically could have gone anywhere to grab the food. Actually, very little seems to be occuring in her mind, logic-wise, as her eyes are huge at the sight of the bags, and subsequently at their contents as she pushes to the edge of the couch to start unloading stuff onto the coffee table. "This a /wonderful/ idea, thank you both. C'mon Donna, forget the shakes, there's speedster delivery!"

Donna Troy has posed:
    "It's not like they hate birthdays or something, Kate," Donna says. "Like Cassie says, there are plenty of festivals and celebrations, it's just birthdays aren't a thing. It's not like I was spending my birthdays sulking in my bedroom because of I didn't have a party. It wouldn't have occurred to me." Donna closes the fridge door again, carrying over an armful of bottles of assorted drinks, which she sets down on the table, as requested.

    "Besides, if I'd tried doing that, Philippus would have dragged me out and made me do my training. I can hear her now. 'When you feel sad is the perfect occasion for training, Troia. It takes your mind off things.' On the other hand there would be 'You seem in a good mood today Troia, the perfect occasion for training.' I never did find out what occasion wasn't perfect for training."

    Donna watches Kate's 'nothing up my sleeves' act with skeptical amusement, but then she had observed Kate playing with her T-Com. She may have been expecting a rabbit hole to appear, but instead there's..."

    "Wally! Hey, you came to join the party." She gives Wally a big grin, then gestures towards Cassie. "It's Cassie's birthday. Come say hi, and happy birthday. She's the world's newest Amazon, and the newest Titan too. Kind of Diana's protege..." she flashes Cassie a wink and a smile. "And kinda my bratty kid sister too."

    "Hey, I just had a thought..." Donna's off in a blur. Yes, she's no speed-force user, so you actually see the blur unlike with Wally, but she's back in a matter of seconds. Easy enough, she was only going to her room and back. She returns bearing a ceramic bottle. "Themysciran retsina wine. It's a celebration after all. " She glances at Kate and then at Cassie, then puts a finger to her lips. "Shh. Nobody tell Diana. And Kate, if you want some of this, no driving home after."

Wally West has posed:
Wally gives a smile to Kate as he gives her a friendly wave, but he sets out the table as instructed within a few seconds, making it look like a five star buffet in the meantime. "Hmmmm....I feel like the setting is off." Over-critical Wally is over-critical. Here's hoping Kate meant for Wally to do all the work wher ethe food was concerned, or he'll have to be dogding arrows! He does shift his attention to Cassie though and suddenly, his run was totally worth it.

Even if it was mainly a solid workout for Wally to just run on down to California real quick to get Cassie some good birthday food. But! the crazy-waffle toppings remain their in all of their heavenly glory just begging to be consumed! "So, does the Wal-man have the best birthday talent or what?" Granted, Kate told him to get the stuff, but he gets credit for not asking questions, right?

To Donna, he gives the biggest smile. "Donna! So good you see ya again. Hope you didn't miss me too much." he winks at her only somewhat flirtatiously before he looks over at Cassie. "Wait, you two are related?" he looks between the Raven-haired Wonder and the Blonde Wonder respectively before he's running a finger through his red hair to cartoonishly scratch his temple in a timely display of confusion.

Best not to ask questions.

His smile grows when he sees the wine. "EEEEYYYYY." he fingerguns at Donna like he's the Fonz or something. "Guess I shouldn't run home today if we're celebrating a birthday, huh? Ah well, shoulda seen that one coming."

Kate Bishop has posed:
Wally totally gets credit and hey Kate doesn't even have to help set it up since Wally can do that in seconds, literally. She just grins. "Thanks Wally." is chirped and she looks it all over and then nods.

To Cassie well Kate grins "I have excellent plans, remember this and do not doubt my powers." she snags a plate and then starts to make a ridiculous waffle, it is a party right. "So this is all from Dolly Llama, an awesome waffle dessert shop in Los Angeles... Wally is a champion for running over there and getting all this with little warning or context." another grin shot to Wally.

When Troia comes back out and with a bottle now... and explains... well Kate first makes a lip zipping motion, holding a plastic spork which makes it more comical, then puts her hand over her heart. "Not a word to Diana... also if Raven didn't snag you I would.. I have no idea what Retsina wine is from Themyscira but I aim to find out." she puts some crunchberry on a waffle.

"Also my room is down the hall from yours.. I think I can manage to not geta DUI." it is said with a laugh. "Well.. at least I hope.. if that is like Dionysus wine we may be in trouble."

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
Naturally the 'bratty kid sister' bit earns an eye-roll so severe that Cassie's at risk of admiring the inside of her skull. Still, she lets it pass without further remark, perhaps because there IS that touch of sisterly affection to it, too. Of course, that way of referring to one another also leaves Wally confused, as one might expect given the start contrast in their appearance, and she explains: "All of the Amazons treat each other as sisters. It's kinda like joining a Sorority." Painfully reductive, perhaps, but not a bad way to sum it up. "Except that pledge week involves a whole lot more sword fighting."

"Anyway, yes, you are absolutely the best at birthdays. Well, both of you!" Because Kate definitely deserves credit, and so the declaration of her impressive powers is met with a sort of Wayne's World-esque 'we're not worthy' bow of worship. "I will not question your powers, mighty birthday Wizard!"

She's quite focused on the dessert waffles because those are really two amazing words to put into the same sentence, assembling herself a monstrosity of various toppings that nearly eclipse the fluffy waffle base below, when Donna makes her quick exit and return. "Ok, now it is DEFINITELY a party." She grins big. "I'm no snitch! And I already told my mom I'd say here tonight, so it's noooooooo problem." A hand is outstretched and she makes 'gimme gimme' fingers in Donna's direction.

Donna Troy has posed:
    "Dionysus would probably be disappointed, it's not much stronger than typical wines you get here," Donna says. "It's quite a different flavor than the retsinas from Greece though. They add the resin to the must. We still use the traditional method, sealing the amphora with resin. The flavor is much less harsh. We use a sweetish grape too, it balances the flavor better."

    She puts the bottle in the freezer, and fetches some glasses. "It'll take a few minutes to chill," she explains, before going over to the table to explore the waffle extravaganza. After a few moments consideration she helps herself to a waffle with some kind of monstrously blue ice-cream all over it.

    "Basically there are no children on Themyscira, Wally." She takes a bite of ice cream, and gives Kate an approving nod. "Diana was sort of the exception, and that was nine hundred years ago. I'm adopted. And yes, I know, I look like her. Just a coincidence. Cassie was born here, met Diana a couple of years ago, and got inducted into the sisterhood. But..." she sends a smile Cassie's way. "Cassie's kind of more... well. When the next youngest person on the island is nine centures old, I have to admit having Diana bring Cassie over was pretty awesome for me. I mean having spent a third of my life here... well Cassie was the only other person on the island I could talk to who's idea of modern pop culture isn't Hesiod and Homer".

Wally West has posed:
Wally fingerguns at Kate and for the moment, he's....standing still!

Granted, after he eats all of the waffles that Cassie decides not to consume, well....he might be bouncing all over the place until the sugar crash makes him pass out on the couch or something. Wally does look at Cassie then, tilting his head as he just kind of...still looks confused. Mind, he doesn't have a PhD in Greek mythology, only that Amazons are universally female. "So...you're not all related, but you call each other sisters...and you're all immortal?" Wally mainly just asks for clarification before he looks at Donna.

"No kids? Then...uh.." he scratches his head again. "Time for an awkward question: how are there still amazons if there's no kids to you know, continue the Amazonian legacy?" Then again, Wally's a guy, so he wouldn't understand it. Plus he's a guy who likes SCIENCE rather than mysticism, but hey.

Kate Bishop has posed:
"Sororiety with sword fighting definitely sounds a lot more my speed than the Ivy League and Sororiety my father expects me to go to when I graduate." Kate meanders over to turn and sort of hop to sit on a counter near the waffle table. Somewhere along the way she snagged a fizzy drink too.

"Proper birthday party. We thawed Troia's frosty drinking age heart with delicious waffles." totally teasing.

She tilts her head though as she listens to the explanation of the Island and well she knew the Amazonians were old... but this has two very interesting new facts. The fact that both of them seem to be adopted. Faaaascinating. Kate is just staring for a moment and files that away.

Then she takes a bite of her waffle. "Huh I had no idea at all. Also The Oddysey is good reading.. also has made for good movie fodder." she grins.

"I think it is the immortal part Wally... something something.. magic.. something something.. blessed by the GODsss... you know. Normal stuff."... ... .. sooo much sass.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
Once she has her waffle-abomination and is left waiting on the wine, Cassie pulls her feet up to sit back crosslegged on the couch with the plate balanced in her lap. This -probably- won't result in a huge mess. She eats at mortal speed, so, unlike with Wally, one can see it happen! "Yeah, the culture there, well, it's really like stepping into a time capsule or something," she agrees with Donna. "My mom's an archeologist so I grew up around a lot of digs and ruins and stuff, and seeing the -live- version was amazing. But it can get a little... well, let's just say I appreciate the Tower's big screen TV."

Wally's questions cause some more side-glances to Donna, as there's parts that are no doubt better for her to explain. She sticks with some of the easier stuff, like her being a bit of an exception to the rule. "Like Donna said, I grew up perfectly normal," she points out. "My mom ended up working with Diana at a museum on some project, and she took me to meet her since she knew I was a big fan. But I'm pretty sure that was one of those, uh, 'Gods set things in motion' kinda situations. I got mixed up with some stuff trying to help Diana out, and then got yanked up to Olympus..."

Here there is a slight pause as she's not sure how to handle the more delicate parts of her own backstory, especially as Wally's 'Where do Amazons come from?' question hits a little close to home. "Because... well, I'd never known my dad, my mom always said it was someone she met while she was working, and... *cough*turnsoutitwasZeus*cough." Her face is a bit red.

Donna Troy has posed:
    Donna leans against the counter, concentrating on her waffle. Particularly on the ice-cream part of her waffle. "But Kate, the waffle has a lot of very frosty ice-cream on it," she objects. "How can you melt my frosty heart with ice-cream?"

    "Immortality kind of is the key to it, yeah. There have been a few deaths over the centuries, but basically? We continue our own legacy. Besides, think about it. You have a few thousand immortals on an island for a few thousand years, what do you think would happen to the population density if everyone was having immortal kids all the time?"

    Cassie's revelation gets no comment from Donna. That's Cassie's story to tell. Besides, everyone knows about Zeus'... enthusiasm. She takes another bite of waffle and returns to the freezer to fetch the wine. It could probably do with a bit longer to chill, but it seems like a good moment. She yanks the stopper out, pours four glasses of a golden yellow wine and hands the glasses around.

    Donna raises her glass and smiles at Cassie. "Happy birthday, sis."

Wally West has posed:
Wally looks at Kate at her offer of words. "I mean, Probably? But if you live forever and were blessed by something powerful enough to be called a deity...you would think the people group would be more...you know, numerous. If there are no kids where the Amazons come from....ah, it hurts my brain to think about it."

Wally was smart, but even he wasn't gonna pull the pin on that mental grenade. Thankfully, Donna and Cassie don't have to spend the time to truly explain it to him, instead allowing the focus of the event to return to the origin of it all: Cassandra Sandsmark.

"Happy Birthday, Cass!" Wally says when he receives the beautiful-looking wine glass -- which he smells and gives a light sip taste test -- and surprisingly he doesn't immediatley fall drunk. 'Wow, this stuff is REALLY good." To Cassie, he smirks. "I'm pretty sure being a superhero pretty much implies at least one of your parents is strange." he chuckles.

Kate Bishop has posed:
"Damn." is all Kate manages at Cassie's reveal. I mean yes, Zues is known for her.. proliclivities but damn. She just shakes her head with a smile not embarrassed the damn slipped out there. "Well that is one way to find out you have a mythic origin I suppose." she files this away with the earlier adopted bit of lore. So much data.

She also files away a couple of bites of waffle now.

She brightens up when Troia goes to get the booze out of the freezer and pours four glasses, making a grabby hand for it and then bringing it up to smell it closing her eyes and just experiencing it for a moment. "My dad would kill for some of this I imagine." which well Kate doesn't know how accurate that is.

Instead she just makes the comment and then raises her glass towards Cassie "Happy Wonder Birthday." then once Cassie looks ready she also drinks.

Cassie Sandsmark has posed:
With the constant moral reinforcement of Donna's presence, not to mention the fact that she brings wine, Cassie is able to push past the brief embarassment after a moment. But really, it's mostly the wine. She takes the glass from Donna, raises it in return, and then takes a perhaps slightly too-large gulp. "Mmm. Yeah, I guess you're right Wally, I don't know a lot of superhero types that come from stable nuclear family 2.4 kids and a dog-type situations. Not that I know too many, but." She definitely knows a few orphans and a clone. So that counts, as the weirdness meter goes.

"Anyway, yeah, so I guess I'm kind of a 'bonus' Amazon. They adopted me in because it was better than having me running around annoying Diana with zero training and a chip on my shoulder. And it's been really nice. I couldn't ask for a better second family, or new big sister." Donna gets a suitably aw shucks-worthy smile.

"And I guess, around here, now I've got a -third- one. Thanks for doing this, guys, it means a lot. Now, in proper Amazon fashion... we have wine, and now we must have contests of skill!" She hops up and heads for the cabinet in front of the TV and digs out a pair of controllers. "Who's got me first?!" It's probably Wally.