[open/mingle] in which cats reign

[espansivo]

WHO: pretty much anyone, leo, and like twelve cats
WHERE: park
WHEN: 20th-22nd
WHAT: a three day cat concert..! it's just a log about cats (for cats by cats)
WARNINGS: n/a

i.
[the cats are always out and about to greet people before it's time to begin, cute colorful ribbons tied around their neck or tail (depending on which was easiest, frankly), and they... are not actually shy of human contact despite being strays one might's seen around the city.

they will beg for food though. give them food. they will literally mob people if they see them with food, meowing and pleading and getting underfoot. stealing things from picnics and the like as well.]

ii.
[the actual concert performances are conducted by leo and

honestly they sounds like a bunch of cats singing sound.

there is a certain cadence to it that's actually songlike, the cats are actually singing to what leo is playing on his keyboard and they're sitting very nicely on the steps he's got for them too, but their attention spans aren't good enough for performances and, without fail, at some point of time they start to just... wander off... sitting in people's laps or rolling on the ground without a care.

the conductor doesn't seem to mind and just gestures for people to take their places, which can be your character or some npc, and yes he will bean cat treats at whoever is singing as "rewards". complain if you want or try and catch them, laugh at your friends or encourage them to go up and try!!]

iii.
[otherwise, there's apparently plenty to do..! leo has makeshift profiles of all the cats next to their resting spots (the big sign drawing anyone to it says star hall despite there not being a hall in the middle of the park and they're apparently all up for adoption... with papers to show their vaccinations and the like.

there's toys! there's treats! there's a space dubbed the "sleeping corner" where you can curl up with the cats and doze in the afternoon sun! it's a paradise!

play with the cats and enjoy the company of them, they're all named after different flowers and are all kinds of colors and personalities! it's really just a log about cats in the end.]

Comments

[espansivo]

a
[on top of doing all the preparation and the like, making sure all the cats are happy and not too irritated, leo is absolutely partaking in his own activities!!!

mostly sleeping with the cats. a number of them seem to gather around him to sleep too, apparently comfortable with This Human In Particular, and it's gonna be the most angelic you ever see the foulmouthed man.]

b
Hey~. I wanna practice, so give me a song to play~.

[he's also taking requests, apparently, and though there's a small cream colored cat sleeping on his keyboard (not the keys themselves, thankfully) it seems there's no cats to sing along..?]

I know a lot of different ones, but if I don't just let me listen to it once and I'll be able to do it..♪

[in addition to that, though, he will just be practicing by himself without instruction, playing little diddles he'd heard on the ipod sena lent him and not quite getting them to sound right from the look on his face.]

c
[finally, catch him teaching the cats new tricks, like flipping in midair. they don't want to do it all the time, but sometimes they will... for an audience, leo has noticed, so--!]

Come on, come on~! See as these pretty kitties jump and leap through the sky, all for a little treat. ♪ They love an audience, so cheer them on~. Come up and see if they'll listen to you too~♪

wildcard
[u know u know]

a

[strayknight]

[Leo sure was in his element. Looking at Leo asleep with the kitties it makes him wish he had brought Kou as well but this was nice to see. Kneeling down he pokes Leo's face.]

Where did you find all the kitties? Ou-sama the cat king~

[espansivo]

[leo makes a noise of discomfort, curling up tighter with a large grey one at his stomach meowing in complaint, and peeks open an eye. even if he said it'd be okay to call him ou-sama, it's still hard to get used to...]

Around~. We're kin, Rittsu, me and these cats understand each other completely~. Wanna lay with us?

b

[stressweets]

[ tsukasa gently lifts the cream colored cat off of the keyboard anyway, cradling it gently as he sits down, while leo's working on the ones from the ipod. those little diddles sure are— different, but he likes them. ]

Mmm, anything's fine... Are you writing something new, Leonii? [ !!! CAN HE HEAR IT... ]

[espansivo]

[tsuka..!!!! leo brightens up immediately, hands dancing across the keyboard in a more cheerful rendition of what he'd been playing.

and pauses, squinting at the keyboard for a moment and fishing out the ipod to listen to. he's gonna toss this thing at some point but it's his for now.]

Nope~. Apparently, it's a lot of compositions the other me did... Mitzy lent me it. I'm trying to work them, but it feels like there's some sort of... different motion he's making with them, something with his hands. Poetically speakin', Tsuka, they're waltzing~.

[here, have an earbud, you can listen to.]

I really hate to admit it, but he was pretty good at making songs.

a?? c? idk

[floret]

[ at some point (on the 20th, before he has to go out of town to help his roommate Suffer), jamie arrives bearing the contribution of a bag of mid-tier kibble almost as big as he is. it makes a loud noise when he finally sets it down at star hall (partially because he accidentally just kind of drops it)!

it's a moment before he catches his breath and can speak. his initial plan is to make a greeting to leo the first thing he says, but then he catches sight of something and the plan changes. ]

Oh, wow!
Are these vaccination records genuine??

[espansivo]

[hello, buddy..! the cats are immediately meowing at the bag of food. leo's pushing them out of the way with his feet, leaning on the bag instead.]

Yup~. I saved up money to get them done when I could, even if it was just a few at a time. It's easy to keep them up to date once you've got most out of the way. Thought it'd be attractive to the people lookin' for a pet if they didn't have to get the shots out of the way themselves.

[cattack]

i

[Cleo heard about the event, and, well. Of course she had to be there. She wants to help all these cats get adopted! She knows all the strays around the city, after all.

Unfortunately, this means they all know her, too. And they know her habit of carrying treats everywhere she goes. So she ends up sitting down to try to help wrangle the cats, and instead gets mobbed, several cats climbing her like a tree to try to get to her jacket pockets, where she keeps the cat treats.

She may need help.]

iii

[She's also taken it upon herself to help. So, if anyone is interested in adopting the cats, Cleo will be trying to wrangle them over to the prospective owners to try to meet them... Unfortunately, herding cats is hard. Which means it's time to cheat.

Cleo's got a laser pointer out, and is slowly drawing a huge herd of cats over to the adoption signs with it. It's helping!]

i

[adoringpast]

[ yoink, grabbing a calico by the scruff of its neck as he works on picking out those cats clinging onto cleo for dear life ]

Did you have any catnip on you or something? Christ.

[cattack]

[behold, the first time in history anyone has ever been relieved to see sena]

A bit, but it's in a sealed bag... I think they just know me.

iii

[espansivo]

[he thought he saw someone with cat features join the crowd, but wow..! she must really like cats. wait, are they real? are they fake? leo's scooting over to investigate while she's distracted herself, glancing over her person before decided to tug on her tail lightly.]

W~oah, aren't you one of a kind..♪ Nice, nice~.

[cattack]

[Back in October, Cleo went through... well, an extremely traumatic experience. And though she seems mostly okay now, there are a few things that can get the same reactions. After what Malik did to her tail...

She yanks her tail back, and using that momentum, she spins, lifting a leg in a very high roundhouse kick, right at his head. Fortunately, at least, she manages to stop herself- Discipline from martial arts training, and the fact that he doesn't look anything like Malik helps. But still, her foot stops abruptly about an inch from Leo's ear.]

Do not ever do that again.

iii

[quiet_storm]

[The sounds of this strange pageantry caught the attention of an innocent passerby. Seeing the cats that were milling around drew him in despite himself, as Cloud was well aware that he was going to want to take all of them home when he couldn't. When one of the cats started butting its head at Cloud's ankle near the adoption signs he stopped moving, reaching down to pet it. Then he went down on his knees so he could pet two cats at once. When they lose interest in him, as cats are wont to do, Cloud begins to stand up so he can be on his way again.

But then he notices the stampede heading in his direction, led by some sort of cat goddess(!?). Cloud stays where he is, still on one knee, fascinated and a little stunned, a sitting duck just waiting to be swarmed.]

Whoa... how did you...?

[Then he notices the magic red dot and his eyes start reflexively following its path along the ground.]

[cattack]

[Cleo raises an eyebrow as she looks at him, turning off the laser, and the cats immediately fall all over each other.]

Hello. Are you interested in adopting any of them?

ii.

[odasaku]

[ this is the first time that akage goes to the outside world for something that isn't a visit to the vet. it is also the first time that oda tries to take her out with a cat harness because...how difficult can it be to get a cat to go on a walk in the park?

it's really hard.

in the end, he's given up on trying to get akage to walk and simply decided to carry her like some sort of parrot on his shoulder...where she's very comfortable since she feels like she's on top of the world, looking down at all the peasant cats on the ground.

but she's going to lose all that glamour once the treats start getting thrown and hiss at whoever tries to even approach the treats on the ground around oda. she just be like that. ]

[elevelvetor]

[ belle is also fond of sitting on shoulders, even if she is much too big to do that reasonably... (she's 14" at the shoulder. her breed is very big.)

so that's where liz is at, watching akage and oda curiously. she glances at her other two and... carefully stands to go join them; all three of her animals stare at akage, but liz is nice enough to address oda instead of his cat immediately. ]

She's much cuter than I expected.

[ ......address oda about his cat, but not the point here, probably. ]

[elevelvetor]

[ liz loves cats, even if she's allergic to them, so of course she is here. she is only slightly sniffly and has taken her allergy medicine and She Is Here.

regrettably, she does not have a cat to bring. she has two of them!! but they're not hers, they're her roommates. she also brought her dog. after the initial Bark Of New Things, he's pretty chilled out.

so.

meet a little shih tzu named potato, a large Savannah cat named belle, and a black cat that looks a lot smaller than it is next to belle named gold. they're all harnessed, don't worry. ]

ii-a
[ ahh, music... elizabeth looks very at peace, even with her own animals trying to join in once they get the hang of it. and also see that Treats Are Being Thrown for those who participate.

please give them some praise, all three of them are doing their. best. ]


ii-b
[ every so often though, she does give their leashes a little tug and frowns at them when she catches them trying to steal someone else's hard-earned reward. ]

We are not thief cats and dogs, you three. Please behave.

[ .....yeah. ]

ii-a

[adoringpast]

They sure are good at this... Did you train them yourself?

[ he's actually acknowledging them, isn't that grand. he's standing right beside her, paying more attention to the animals than the actual performer himself. ]

i do what i want

[espansivo]

[mostly because leo's generally to busy to interact with liz during his performances -- and he always focuses on them first and foremost -- he catches sight of her and her pals when he's playing with a few of the strays, the feather toy he'd been bobbing whipping in her direction, startling the cats.]

Whoa, it's my dream girl! Hey there~! It's nice to see you in one spot~.

[adoringpast]

i.

[ there sure are a lot of cats here and sena's a little overwhelmed? how the fuck did leo catch all their attention... oh well, he'll ask later since the guy's looking a little busy right now. sena did come prepared with a can of cat food and he's crouching down to put it on the ground and watch the little critters lap it all up.

and the weirdest part? he's smiling. it's genuine and soft too, as he picks up a gray one because he's always impartial with little gray cats, putting it over his shoulder and stroking it like in that icon of his. might not want to point that out, he's really not aware of how he immensely relaxes at the presence of cats of all things. ]

iii.

I don't think that's a comfortable napping place, though.

[ indicating the "sleeping corner" because what the fuck, this doesn't even look like a futon or anything. and it doesn't look clean? ugh, he'll bug leo later about this. ]

i!

[lifespanned]

[ Is she inconspicuously trying to snap a photo of him smiling?? Yes, most definitely. She just cannot resist, not after seeing him so grumpy at literally every other time they've interacted. ]

Aw, wow~ You should smile more often. You really are a natural~

[ She definitely is ruining this cute and serene moment, but it's worth it if she can get physical proof of his smile. And the cat is so cute, too... ]

i

[espansivo]

[whoa, what a nice expression... leo fiddles with his phone, trying to decide if he wants to take a sneak shot of it, and decides that sena'd probably hate him more if he did; instead he comes over and plops down next to the eating cats, waving his phone.]

Mind if I take a picture of you and the cats? I'll put it up on my Stray Cat Strut blog to show the success of this little thing~. People looking happy when they're with these guys could really help out.

[nevermind that he does want it for himself, too.]

iii

[stressweets]

Cats aren't as picky as people, Sena-senpai.

[ .......hi senpai. tsukasa also isn't as picky as people, considering he's gonna go lay with some cats himself. cuties...~~~ ]

Besides, you get cute neko-tans crawling on you when you decide to "nap" here~. Doesn't that make up for everything else? ♪

[amodelidol]

[I.]

[There are cats everywhere! They're all so friendly and nice, Makoto can't stop petting them. He has been thinking about getting a cat lately, though he's worried about not being at home long enough for one. They're all so cute though. He's currently petting an orange and white one that's settled in his lap while feeding a treat to another one. They're all so cute! He's going to be covered in cats in a minute.]

[III.]

[After looking at the performance, Makoto returned to playing with one of the cats that wandered back over to him. Makoto grabbed a bunch of treats for him and a few toys before taking him over to the sleeping corner to play with him again. He smiled as he gave the cat another treat.]

You're a really sweet cat. Would you want to come home with me? [Makoto said softly while he rubbed the cat's ear. Who knows maybe he'll get a cat today? He hopes his apartment will let him have one.]

[Wildcard]

[Hit me!]

iii

[espansivo]

[oho, there's the cutie..♪ makochin. leo'll leave them to bond for a bit, but he'll eventually come over to check up on them.]

Makochin~. Looks like that one's super fond of you. Gonna take her home?