Open RP: Aphrodite unpopcorns

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

There is a change in the Popcorn Room. Suddenly, where there was once a kernel of popcorn amongst many other kernals of popcorn, there is a lovely red-blonde woman wearing nothing but some butter and salt. She looks down at herself, and wrinkles her nose.

"Ew! How did that happen?!"

There is a flash of light, and then she's got blonde curly hair, is wearing what's essentially pink lingerie, and smells faintly of a floral perfume. She smiles.

"Much better. Now...what's this?" Aphrodite looks around curiously, and examines the other popcorn kernels and plaques, along with her own plaque. "Hogwarts? Hufflepuff? Huh?" The names sounded vaguely familiar, but that was about it. She pouted at the annoyance of being somewhere she didn't expect, and that it seemed she should know but didn't, then shrugged and she hit on a brilliant plan. She could just find the nearest person and get them to tell her what was going on! With this plan in mind, Aphrodite steps out of the Popcorn Room into one of the Hogwarts corridors.

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[ostianespionage.livejournal.com]

*Matthew walks by the popcorn room and peers in the door. He immediately recognizes the personality attached to the person inside, if not the person herself.* Oh, bugger.

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

"Bugger? Oh, that's so not my thing," Aphrodite says. "Try Zeus if that's what you're into." She smiles, and gives a little wave. "But hi! Who are you?"

[ostianespionage.livejournal.com]

*I have really got to learn not to use that sort of curse out loud. Especially given the people here; one of them might take me up on it.*

It was a figure of speech, actually. At any rate, I'm Matthew. *He switches to talking-to-authority-figures mode, since she apparently knows Zeus.* Formerly in service to House Ostia.

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

"Hi Matthew," Aphrodite bats her eyelashes. "I'm Aphrodite. Hey, do you like, know where this place is? And why I was, like, popcorn or something?"

[ostianespionage.livejournal.com]

Why, you're at Hogwarts, m'lady. I'm not sure of why you were popcorn, but from what some have said, I surmise that you must have been a student before, and were forced to leave for one reason or another. And have now returned, apparently.

*If she keeps talking like that, I'm going to revert from my faithful-subordinate voice to my stuck-with-a-loudmouthed-priestess voice.*

[primediscordian.livejournal.com]

Oh. $#!+.

Eris froze in the hallway, fake smile plastered on her face.

.. maybe she could just... runaway?

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

Aphrodite looked at Eris with a bemused look. She recognised the person, but not this face...or outfit...and since when did Discord just freeze like that when Aphrodite was around?

"...Discord? Um...Eris? Uh...you're looking well? Didn't Xena kill you?"

[primediscordian.livejournal.com]

".... Aphrodite." The voice was just dripping with sarcastic sweetness. "You're looking terribly well. Slumming?"

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

Aphrodite gives a cautious swirl. "Like it? And no, I'm not. I just, like, was popcorn for something. Weird, huh?"

She gives Eris a once-over. "I gotta say, though, you are looking so much better than last time I saw you. That black leather and big hair...ew! What were you thinking?!"

[primediscordian.livejournal.com]

"... it was the eighties, 'Dite. Everyone was doing it." She snorts and preens a little. "I like the blonde much better anyway. Not that that should reflect on you. So did you go and get a lobotomy, or...?"

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Ah, the popcorn room. Safe. Quiet. Someplace Lily could go and emo think. As she rounded the corner, though, Lily was confronted by the sight of a woman, blonde and pink and smiling. Huh. Not recognizing her, Lily decided to be friendly. (Besides, Aphrodite was blocking the doorway.) "Hello," she smiled gamely. "I'm Lily. Er...visiting or arriving?" Lily nodded towards the room, eyebrows tipped up.

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

Aphrodite smiles even more cheerfully at actually being greeted by someone, rather than the reactions of 'oh bugger' and freezing.

"Hi!" You can practically see the love hearts and flower petals surrounding the word. "I'm Aphrodite! And, uh, arriving, I guess."

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

One very slow blink and Lily just...stared. Aphrodite. Fucking Aphrodite. Goddess of love. Right.

Someone out there had a very, very sick sense of humour.

Bursting out laughing, shaking her head, Lily held up her hands and backed away before she turned around and began to walk back to Ravenclaw. See? This is why she drank.

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

Aphrodite just blinked. This was a new reaction. Normally people were happy to see her...or sometimes irritated, such as with Hercules and Xena...but laughing and walking away? Was there something wro...oh. Right.

"Lily!" Aphrodite blinks out, then back in next to Lily. "Love problems, huh?" She sighs. "It kinda, like, happens when I can't do my job. And...uh...seems I've kinda been like, popcorn or something."

Aphrodite was feeling put out at that, and also feeling a little bad, which was new for her. It must have been that brief stint as a mortal.

"But maybe now I'm back, I can try to fix it!"

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

Mel doesn't know why, but she seems to be checking the Popcorn room a lot lately. She is surprised to find someone not covered in butter--for once--and wearing something looking akin to... well, tasteful rude magazines.

'Hey, have you got any idea where you are?' the angel asks Aphrodite kindly.

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

"Not really!" Aphrodite replies cheerfully. "Someplace called Hogwarts. And Hufflepuff. It's not Greece or Rome, and it's not Olympus. That's about it."

She cocks her head to one side as she considers this other girl. She had a definate feel of divinity about her, but she wasn't a goddess.

"So what are you?" Tact? Aphrodite? Well...sometimes. This was not one of those times.

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

'Are you... well, I'm an angel.'

Greece, Rome, Olympus...

'Are you a, a goddess or something?'

Mel's surprise may show; she's just a bit off her guard at the moment.

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

"An angel, huh? Like Michael? Except you seem a lot nicer than Michael, since he tried to kill me and all."

Stupid Archangel Michael. Who needs archangels, after all?

"And yes, I'm a goddess. I'm Aphrodite." She smiles.

[damien-thorn.livejournal.com]

This woman sure was, well... pink. And attractive in her own right. She reminded Damien of Sugar, in a way.

"Aren't you cold?" was all Damien could think to ask her.

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

Aphrodite blinked. "Why would I be cold?"

[damien-thorn.livejournal.com]

"Because you're hardly wearing any clothes," he replied, nodding at her lingerie-type attire. "It tends to get a bit drafty in a castle in January." He shrugged. "I can give you my jacket, if you'd like."

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

Aphrodite was still somewhat puzzled. "But this is what I normally wear...." She doesn't really need the jacket, but this is such a nice man, it would be rude to refuse the offer of a jacket. "Well, okay, if you like. But wouldn't you be, um, cold?"

Then the light goes on. He mustn't realise that she's not a mortal. Only mortals feel cold. "I, like, don't actually feel the cold," she explains. "It comes with the whole goddess thing."

[agentsgent.livejournal.com]

... oh good lord. His eyes actually flickered slightly wide as he approached. "Madam, are you quite all right?"

[ditzy-aphrodite.livejournal.com]

Aphrodite smiled. "Well, I'm still trying to work out quite where I, like, am. People Start telling me, but it never gets past the name 'Hogwarts.'" She sighs, then brightens up and smiles again. "Otherwise, I'm fine! Are you alright?" It was, she remembers, considered polite by mortals to ask that, especially if they'd asked you first.

[agentsgent.livejournal.com]

"Ah, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, madam. Located in Scotland, the finest wizarding school in the world." He nodded, slightly. "I will be quite fine, madam. You must have been recently unpopcorned." Why else would someone get caught out in that outfit. "Shall I summon a house elf to get you a robe, madam?"