Ziggy Stardust Nexus Album Release Party

[ziggyplayedguitar]

Why not in the Nexus had started all of this and now skekSa's bar had glitter and space themed drinks for the night, karaoke and a band playing for the release of a new album. Ziggy had decided this was the best course since so much of his family and friends couldn't go into his world to be there for his own party in his own world.

Of course, as with any good party this one was open to any who had stumbled into it and there were those directly invited as well. And flashy posters too. He was going through the ends of a sound check with the band when the bar opened.

There was a merch table, with the usual swag and new album to buy on CD and Vinyl, where they would be signing autographs and doing the whole meet and greet thing. Why not have fans in more than one universe? It had been a trip explaining this all to Mick. Weird and Gilly before dragging them through the portal. Ziggy still imagined there was going to be some crazy moments later in the night. They didn't even know he was an alien, or half alien anywway. All of this was going to blow their minds for sure.

After the show they had plans to spend the night just hanging out with drinking, karaoke, a DJ, and the usual bar fare. Ziggy had left Sa to the food and drink though he had put in a few requests for food his own species could eat.

Ziggy fussed with everything before heading backstage to drink and get dressed. About an hour after the bar opened they came out on stage and played through the whole album front to back plus a few from the previous.

[OOC: Feel free to mingle, karaoke, DJ, dancing, drinking, etc. Will post the band meet and greet below at the swag table as a top level. Any questions feel free to DM me here or on Discord.]

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[somekindofspaceuncle]

This young clone guy is grinning ear to ear. When Ziggy had told him about all this, he wasn't quite sure what to expect.

He doesn't have wings anymore, that'd be tacky here, wouldn't it? But he's shining a little, right now. Glowing. Literally.

He won't exhaust himself, he's too happy and into all this, things that are happening. So he'll survive all the glowing, no problem!

"My starlight Fiancée is the best," he whispers.

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru wasn’t literally glowing. Or maybe he was. He sure felt like he was.

That was, hands down, the most intense and amazing thing he had ever experienced in his life. It was like... no, he didn’t really even have anything to compare it to.

His heart was racing. His entire body felt like it was on pins and needles, but in a good way. Colors were more vivid, sounds carried more weight, everything felt deeper, more beautiful and a thousand times more interconnected.

He was drunk off something he couldn’t even explain - and no, it wasn’t angel booze.

“The best?! That... that doesn’t even come close!! WOW!!!” He exclaimed as he wrapped an arm around Hiroki. It was meant to be a hug, but he was swaying enough that he was probably also leaning on him.

[somekindofspaceuncle]

"Is-is this the first time you've felt my Princess? You should lie down, you poor thing."

[itmeanstruth]

“I THOUGHT I’d felt him.” Minoru pointed to his head, wide-eyed, grinning and laughing. “I had NO IDEA!!”

He didn’t feel like a poor thing. Quite the opposite, in fact!

“Oh my WOW!! Is this... words, what are words again? You? Every day? THIS?!”

[somekindofspaceuncle]

Hiroki nods. There's, literally, right now, a visible white-teal light shimmering around him, like a silhouette. It's warm to touch.

"...yes?"

[itmeanstruth]

Just when you thought Minoru’s eyes couldn’t get any wider, they did.

“...woaaaaah.”

Minoru was oblivious to the glow. But he did seem to relish in the warmth as he hung onto Hiroki. Hopefully the spray colors he used on his hair weren’t smearing all over Hiroki’s face.

[somekindofspaceuncle]

That's fine, he can always wash it off later.

Hiroki hugs Minoru tightly.

"Hey, you don't have avian bones, do ya? I think I can touch your normally, right? You're fully human like me, aren't you? Just making sure."

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru felt like he could melt into Hiroki. And the earth. The whole earth. And he wasn’t even on earth right now. That was how AMAZING that concert was.

“No bird bones. All human...” He managed to mumble inside that hug.

Release that hug, though, and he just might fall over!

[somekindofspaceuncle]

Well, IGF-Atlas is the guardian of the Sky of an Earth, and Hiroki is a small part of IGF-Atlas, so maybe you are on Earth right now, Minoru.

Well, not really. This place is in Nexus.

"I like humans," Hiroki mutters. "And Antheans, and Alteans, and half-Galrans, and Olkari, and Bi-bos...and many other species.... how 'bout you?"

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru smiled contentedly, “I like everybody.”

Granted, he probably didn’t need the music to answer that way, but it amplified it for sure.

[somekindofspaceuncle]

Hiroki frowns. Brow furrows. Somehow, this concert's been so overwhelming, the young clone's barely thinking straight, if ever, but he knows one thing...

"Don't. You shouldn't like Haggar and Zarkon and Sendak," he says.

"You can like everybody else. People- all other people are good. Even if they're bad. Sometimes."

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru stumbled back, warning completely unheeded as it went in one ear and out his nose.

“Wow... Even my FEELINGS have feelings!”

[ziggyplayedguitar]

It was a few minutes after the concert portion had ended before Ziggy came out to find his partner. He had cleaned up a little and was feeling incredibly happy.

"There you are." He comes right up to Hiroki and kisses him happily. "I'm glad you could see me play if if you can't come with me like I wanted."

[somekindofspaceuncle]

Hiroki kisses back with utmost passion, then takes Ziggy's hand, with his still so new flesh right hand, and intertwines their fingers happily.

"So you've made your piece of your Reality come to me. You spoil me, Princess Ziggy. I don't deserve you."

"Well, at least you deserve me. Your choice, after all. I'm so spoilt now."

Hah. Truly is.

"Hey, you know, that other piece, Stay, it was... I don't know. I'm not sure what I even wanted to say, right now, but definitely something, Zigg..."

Hiroki shakes his head.

"Nevermind. I love you. You know? So, so much..."
"And I'm not sure what I wanted to say. Maybe later."

"And. And when you sang that song about your life, you know, Ziggy Stardust, I, I just wanted to run on onto the stage and hug you, I stopped myself somehow, but next time you have a concert, I'll just. Run there and hug you, because you... you.. you... Ziggy..."

There are tears in Hiroki's eyes now.

"How can fate be so cruel to you when you're so good...?"

[ziggyplayedguitar]

"Of course I found a way." Ziggy laughs while tucking Hiroki's long hair behind his ear.

"I know, the music still gets to you because you know more of what it means." Ziggy leans in and smiles. "Do you remember me singing parts of it to you when you kept talking about leaving me?"


The lyrics had changed a little since then but the meaning hadn't. Ziggy laughs against his shoulder. "In my world no one would think you running onto the stage to kiss me was strange. People do that all the time."

"I'm learning to accept the cruelty and focus on what good I can do." Ziggy lays his head on Hiroki's shoulder and wraps his arms around his waist. "When I went back to get the band, I brought something back for you."

1/2

[somekindofspaceuncle]

"You're great."
He laughs a little.

"Do I remember? Ziggy, something I haven't told you... well. I'm a human, so I only have human senses. I don't see the world like you do. But what I do experience, every single tick, every quintant, in detail, I never forget. Anything."

His smile falls, as he says,
"That's for convenience, maybe? You know whose. Created this way."

Then, determined, he says, "But that's mine now and I'll take it."

"So, yes. I remember. I can't forget if I wanted."
"But even if I could. I'd remember."

He grips Ziggy's shoulders. Says, solemnly
"And now I'll be your other half, if you can deal with having such a worse half, forever. No matter how or where or when. Okay?"

Hiroki's serious.

2/2

[somekindofspaceuncle]

Brought him... oh... Ziggy didn't have to...

Hiroki now blushes like a schoolgirl.

"If it's too expensive or too beautiful for me I'll tell on you to our father," he jokes, through the blush.

He really hopes it's not too expensive. People might then think that Hiroki's some kind of gold-digger...

Eh. Who cares. He knows he's not. He'd take his future... wife? He would take his future wife if none of them had any possessions in any world just the same, too. Wouldn't've noticed a single difference. Ziggy is Ziggy, things aren't important.

Feelings are. Decisions are. Thpughts are. Important. But symbols can mean stuff about feelings, too.

So. He's happy Ziggy thought of that, as Ziggy had said. And is glad and curious to see. Now. Especially after the concert buzz. But even without, he would.

[ziggyplayedguitar]

"You have a photographic memory?" Ziggy asks if only to clarify.

"We are not halves." Ziggy tells Hiroki with equal seriousness. "We are wholes made better by each other."

Ziggy laughs at the playful threat. "It won't help you. Dad helped me get it made."

Ziggy had thought a lot about it since he got the ring. About what would be a good symbol. He held out his hand with a double ringed necklace and then explains.

"The big ring is made from granite from Japan and the blue diamond is supposed to represent hope. The small ring is made from the rock near where my mother was born on Anthea and the stone is one from Anthea that was used in jewlery." The stone from Anthea has much the same clarity of a diamond but it is fiery red-orange. "Antheans don't have traditions like this but if they did I think this would have a lot of meaning to them."

yes there are Entities deep within him, always were, but Ziggy'd have to look even deeper into

[somekindofspaceuncle]

[Hiroki's spirit than ever before to see them. XD Hiroki only gets barest gut feeling about such stuff, sometimes, when more in tune with himself. And thinks maybe he's imagining and overreacting. And they're not hurting him or anything, by the way, so he doesn't really know for sure. but yeah. there are. A bit like in Lotor. But much deeper inside. Getting these particular ones deep inside him out would probably destroy Hiroki, anyway. /ooc]




"Yeah, I have a photographic memory. I haven't realised at first. I mean, I felt... but I didn't notice?"

He shrugs.

"Same as with many things in my life."

"Ziggy... lately, I've been feeling... there might be some Dark Entities within me. No, I'm serious. Somewhere deep inside my spirit where I haven't looked into, yet, even."

"Maybe I'm wrong. It's just a feeling I have. I'm probably wrong. And paranoid. If there are any, why'd they sit there quietly and do nothing, ever? But if there really are. If I learnt, maybe I'd be able to spy on Honerva?"

"Although. Maybe it's best not to try."

"So. Just warning you. In case any of them tries to do anything. I'm surely simply just paranoid. But I worry. Sometimes. I think that's why I still wasn't sure I'm worthy of you. I had a feeling. Nevermind."

2/2 ok now it's ready

[somekindofspaceuncle]

"Anyway, you're right, Ziggy. You and I are... are both whole persons. And I'm just-- so glad, glad I can be with you and it's not hurting you nor putting you in danger, now. I... I'm happy."

He's startled a bit himself.

Saying he's happy. Outloud. That's rare for him. But it's true right now despite everything and because of everything.

And then, the necklace. Hiroki gingerly takes it while listening to Ziggy's explanation.

That's amazing.

He's not sure what to say, so he just, after listening to Ziggy's explanation, puts the necklace on.

He adores everything that's gone into it. Ziggy... can surely feel that.

"You've given it a lot thought," he finally says, still not knowing what to say, especially after the emotional whirlwind of emotions that was this wonderful concert. "You always do. I cherish you so much... I'm glad-"

He trails off. He's so happy, he's not sure he can find words to express it.

Apparently one can be slightly anxious and utterly completely happy at the same time. It's true. He caresses Ziggy's cheek now, because it's something he's thought of doing, but rarely has really done, before.

"I'm glad you love me," he finally says. "the way you do. It's... awesome, Ziggy! Thank you."

He's glowing.

And yes, that's the gist of what he's feeling. Whew, he's managed to finally say it. Thanks to Ziggy's songs, too. But it's all doubly true.

"I'll try and make sure I never hurt you the way I once did. That's why I'm telling you about things, even things I'm not yet sure of. I'll make sure I never hurt you - if I can. That's my promise to you, Ziggy. I know it's not much, but that's what I can manage, for now. I'll get better."

[ziggyplayedguitar]

Ziggy goes from calm to panicked at the mention of the darkness but he forces it down. "Maybe you could ask the lion?"

Whn Hiroki leaves the subject Ziggy does too. After all this is party and not the time for anything that heavy. "I'm happy too. I've always liked your smile."


Ziggy is ecstatic to see the way the necklace is accepted. "I know what the lion I wear means to you. I wanted something that was just as important to me."

Ziggy leans into the touch and covers the hand with his own. His other hand coming over the pendant hanging near Hiroki's heart.

"You never hurt me because I know you didn't want to die." That's the truth from the half alien's perspective. "You're enough. You've always been enough as the person you are. You don't need anything else except maybe some time with your favorite singer in private at home."

Ziggy's suddenly flirting because he can't help himself.

1/2

[somekindofspaceuncle]

"Princess, you're smart. I will. Definitely! You're right. I will ask tomorrow and then tell you."

The anxiety goes away instantly. Sometimes the clone can be such a child.

2/2

[somekindofspaceuncle]

"It's wonderful," Shiro's clone says, in awe.
"You're... you're such a whirlwind of truth and feeling and care. Did you know? I still barely know."

He's tearing up a little. He's touched. Moved. Also, tears of happening.

Hiroki's now glowing even brighter. It's a good thing right now. Ziggy can probably feel that Hiroki's healing himself, deep inside.

Then...

Hiroki gives Ziggy bedroom eyes.

"Yes. I might need to spend next month glued to my future's wife side. But my future wife... he would have to be as madly in love as I am. Would have to, for a varga or five, forget there's anything but love. Ziggy---"

Ahem.

He winks.

"I'll take her, my future wife, to bed right now. If she or he is fine with that. Right. Now."

[ziggyplayedguitar]

Ziggy smiles and shrugs. "People have told me that being in my presence is like being in a hurricane."

He was never quite sure if they meant emotions or his behavior, probably both. Ziggy grins at all the glowing now that he knows what it means.

"I like when you get glued to me." Ziggy wraps his arms around Hiroki and pulls him close. "I should stay at my party a little longer before I run off to have a private celebration with my paladin." Ziggy leans closer and whispers. "You're not sleeping tonight."

[somekindofspaceuncle]

"It is."

"No, my Ziggy, neither of us is sleeping tonight. Or the night after this. Or after. Or - wait, when are you going on a tour?"

And Hiroki'd probably sprout wings or something, but he doesn't, as deep inside he'd be just too embarassed, unconsciously, to do so, with all the crowd around. So he doesn't.

But he embraces Ziggy and kisses him wherever. Really wherever. His cheeks, his neck, his hands, whatever.

Suddenly, he stops. He seems - and feels - momentarily most unsettled.

"Ziggy, did you hear that? What was it? Hmm. Must've been my imagination."

Hiroki shakes his head.

"Or, I know. Probably just ringing in my ears. After a concert, that's only natural!"

He smiles again and gets right back to kissing Ziggy.