Family Meeting for the gang / Semi-Closed

[fierybluebird]

Characters: Marco, Grell Sutcliff, Thatch, Namur, Espio, and Tobias Hayes
Location: ~Around the Garden~
Rating: Hopefully PG-13. Let's keep violence/sex to a minimum okay?
Open/Closed/Finished: Semi-Closed (if another character wants to grab Marco for something it's available!)
Summary: Tattoo adjustments, family meeting, Marco stepping up as Captain



Sometime after the whole mission with Grell & Thatch, but before Namur also leaves on missions, Marco finally addresses the family cohesion "situation." Okay, so it's not exactly a situation anymore, but he's still concerned and there are things he needs to address with each and every member of the family, and with all of them together. And if there are going to be anymore miniature explosions, he'd rather they were now when he can handle them, then later at a very very bad time.

He hunts down everyone individually to make it clear that this meeting is not optional and if he has to pick them up and carry them there, he will. He also has needles and ink with him... so that might be a bit creepy. He gave himself plenty of time before all this though, since the meeting will be at dinnertime (which he has prepared) and throughout the whole day he goes around hunting everyone down.

Luckily, Namur is probably the easiest -- ironically? -- since Namur already was on the same page as Marco about it, and why Toby would normally be the easiest, Marco had a tendency to fall into a giddy Papabird mode that just wanted to play around with his favorite son whenever he was with the kid. As such, Toby is saved for last, since Marco can just ask him to come.

[ooc: there will be a big family thread everyone can go in any order on, because there are too many to go organized, and then separate threads for everyone.]

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FAMILY THREAD GO NUTS

[fierybluebird]

"So, now that you're all here," Marco said before the food, which, someone could have told him was a bad idea, but fuck you guys, he does what he wants, "I have something important to say."

He doesn't use words though. Just sets up a small mirror and starts calmly tattooing his chest. Yeah. The man is a little nuts, huh?

[thatched]

"Shit."

Thatch covered his mouth with one hand and watched Marco work. He couldn't have given them some kind of warning? Damn him. Of course there had been. He should have known it was coming...and hell...hadn't they talked about it? But to just spring it on them? This sudden change...especially when he'd just gotten used to things.

He wanted to bolt, but remained where he was, propping his elbow on his other hand and pressing his knuckles to his mouth, trying to look unconcerned by the goings on even if he wanted to bolt as he watched what that idiot was doing.

[redcinemareel]

Grell could be certain that it wasn't sanitary to tattoo oneself while food was present. Perhaps Marco did not receive that lesson on cleanliness? Either way, she's pretty much what the Hell over what he was doing.

"Ah, darling? Shouldn't we eat first?"

She looked over to Thatch, wondering what was going on underneath that hair of his. Did he understand what was going on?

[fierybluebird]

"No," Marco replied without even looking up, "I'm getting this done first." He was resolved, and once Marco decided on something, nothing could stop him.

The crescent moon 'stache slowly evolved on each side, Marco smoothly adding to the ends as if he was calmly stitching a pillow, not his skin. His tongue was out in concentration though, literally nothing would break his focus.

Namur

[fierybluebird]

"Nam-chan! NAM-CHAN!!!" Marco loudly knocked on the bull shark fishman's door. "COME ON ALREADY!" Someone in the hall was going to kick his ass at this rate for the noise.

[om_nom_namur]

"Shit, y' make a lot a noise!" Namur yelled through the door from the other side of the dorm. Zelos could be pissed if he wanted, Namur still wasn't wearing pants and was quickly trying to rectify the situation while moving toward the door. Once he got himself properly situated, he keyed the code and the door slid open with a quiet hiss. "What y' squawkin' 'bout, anyway?"

[fierybluebird]

A one-armed sliding glomp and Marco actually somehow managed to noogie the sharkman's head despite how much taller Namur was. "I love you," he informed his brother cheerfully. Y u p.

Aren't you glad you get to follow this idiot for years to come?

[om_nom_namur]

"Seriously, bro," Namur scrunched up one side of his face in reaction to the noogie, but his arm slips around to support Marco's legs. His brothers might do annoying things, but he won't let them fall if he can help it. "Y' made a bigass ruckus jus' for that? Send a damn text or somethin', shit."

Espio

[fierybluebird]

Marco wasn't sure where to hunt down the chameleon. USUALLY he was a freaking magician at it. Wherever Espio was, Marco could pretty much appear behind him like a ninja. A ninja phoenix pirate. But he'd been thrown off his game a little since the arrival of his other brothers. Maybe he'd been following "brother haki" instead of Espio specifically? No that surely couldn't be it. All right, ninja mode go!

[espio]

To be fair, Espio hadn't been hiding in his usual places as of late. No hanging out on the roof, or in a secluded corner of the library - not lately.

Where and why had he been hiding?

Well, to be fair, he hadn't been hiding until somewhere in the last forty-eight hours. As for the why? Because maybe if he made himself harder to find, his best friend might ninja-locate him like normal and pay attention to him for five minutes. It was getting a little lonely while Marco had so many people suddenly to look out for - it was as though he didn't have time for Espio anymore, and as much as Espio had plenty of stuff to be happy about... that kind of hurt, man.

Today, he'd decided to hide out in the Training Centre's secret area before his classes, to do a bit of writing and enjoy his lunch. He was in human form, the potion due to wear off about ten minutes before classes, but on this occasion he'd left his hair untied and tucked the blonde streak into a baseball cap he'd found, making himself a little less recognisable even to those who knew his human form.

[fierybluebird]

Kukuku.

As if such a feeble disguise could work on Mr. ninja phoenix pirate! "Gotcha, yoi!" he pounced, not really caring if he just randomly pounced some random stranger saying that. Okay, so once you knew the secrets behind his magic tricks they were far less impressive, but wasn't the case for all magic?

[espio]

Normally, Espio would have complained about being pounced on, or said something to the effect of 'geez, can't you leave me alone when I want to be alone?!' or some other cranky comment. Today, however, he just grumbled, and made to jab Marco in the stomach with his elbow.

"You took your time. I was starting to think me trying to be alone didn't matter to you anymore."

Thatch

[fierybluebird]

Finding Thatch was as easy as finding apples in apple pie. Yeah, it was just that easy. So really was it any wonder that Marco had been so surprised his brothers had been in the same world all along and he hadn't found them before?

In any case, Marco tackled his hair-obsessed brother out in the Garden quad between classes from behind in a giant glomping hug as Thatch was checking out ladies.

Seriously. Easy as pie.

[thatched]

He was not checking out ladies, you damn ninja pineapple. He was merely observing them. Still he grunted as Marco tackled him, turning his attention to the brother at his back.

"Why, hello, pretty bird." He patted Marco's hand and made little kissing noises. "Step up?"

[fierybluebird]

"If you insist, eh." Marco drawled in phoenix before shimmering as he switched forms and perched on Thatch's arm. "Having fun?"

[thatched]

"I suppose. Another day another beri." Or gil or whatever. No matter what Marco said, he was becoming tamed. They all were. He smiled though and scratched under Marco's chin and over his neck.

"And you? What's going on in that chirpy little head of yours?"

Grell

[fierybluebird]

"Kitten," Marco kissed her cheek, and held up a finger, "Before I get distracted. Family meeting tonight for dinner. It's important, yoi."

[redcinemareel]

"...who's cooking?" Because she knew that Marco was decent, as was Espio. Thatch was particularly wonderful at it. Toby and Namur were gray spaces. "What's this meeting for?"

[fierybluebird]

A grumpy arm fold. Oi, why does that matter? His cooking is awesome, thank you very much.

"Me. And also me." Yup. Not that it explains a lot.

[redcinemareel]

"This meeting is about you?" Grell tilted her head to the side, amusement on her face. "Darling~, if I had known you wanted that much attention..." She kissed his cheek with a light giggle. "No need to get so ruffled! How much time do we have?"

Toby

[fierybluebird]

"TOBY!" Marco called and ran to scoop up his kid before Toby could head off for dinner in the cafeteria.

[corruptedsouls]

"Ah!"

Tobias had actually been pretty hungry, which is the whole reason he and Pikachu were headed that way. He had not been expecting a sudden scoop up, but once it registered who, exactly, had grabbed him, the brief moment of tense fear dissolved into complete relaxation, Tobias giggling a little.

"Hi, Dad!"

[fierybluebird]

Marco handed Toby some cinnamon apple slices for both him and Pikachu and put Toby carefully on his shoulders to carry through the halls. "How was your day?"

[corruptedsouls]

Tobias perked up at that, popping one in his mouth as Pikachu took one of her own, nibbling happily.

"It was okay. I'm getting used to classes again! How was yours, Dad?"

IF I FORGOT SOMETHING AND/OR Open for other/more

[fierybluebird]

[And in between all of that emotional family drama, Marco spends his downtime whistling with birds. Isn't that what anyone would do?]

[He's not too hard to find if you're looking, or even if you're just curiously looking around.]