As before...
Relena: DM/Dungeon Master (loves the group, but often wants to TPK them)
Heero: Drow Ranger (Quatre had to make his character for him)
Duo: Tiefling Bard (likes to play up "that bard" to Relena's annoyance)
Trowa: Tiefling Rogue (dresses "like a bard/clown" to confuse enemies)
Quatre: Aasimar Cleric (lone healer of the group and all that prevents a TPK)
Wufei: Dragonborn Monk (extremely particular about his character)
Hilde: Tabaxi Barbarian (used to grapple the others as needed)
Once again...our intrepid Bard sends the entire adventure (and my story itself) off the rails.
How off the rails? Very off the rails.
Despite his attempts at appearing angry (at his dice, Relena's smugly pleased smirk, Quatre's giggling, Heero and Wufei's judgmental looks, Hilde losing her shit laughing at him...really, it was anyone's guess) Duo wasn't actually as irritated as he wanted everyone to think. Sure his plans had yet again backfired in a truly spectacular fashion that could rival any of his past 'incidents' during the war...but, he was honestly impressed by the sheer degree of failure that Relena spun his many, many rolls of 1's into...yet, somehow, his character (and the party miraculously) were all still alive and mostly well. Which might explain why there was more laughing and judgement and far less frustrated yelling, glaring, and grappling to keep the brunette from physical harm than last time.
He could do without Hilde's hyena impersonation though.
And Quatre's muffled giggling into Trowa's shoulder...which might explain why the sometimes-clown wasn't even acknowledging that Duo's epic fail existed.
"Okay..." Duo said after a moment before he glanced back around the table before focusing on Relena. "Fair point. Could-a thought longer on that."
"That is why we tried to plan before we entered the stronghold, Maxwell." Wufei said firmly, arms folded over his chest...though everyone present could see that the Chinese pilot was valiantly fighting to keep from letting his lips quirk into a grin. Duo considered that a win on it's own since getting Wufei or Heero to grin was about as rare as getting to see an eclipse.
"Plans never work with us, 'Fei." Duo started, trying to defend himself...only for Relena to chime in with that smug smirk still on her face and her chin resting in one palm. "Yes, and tell me, exactly how many times has that come back to bite everyone?"
"In game or in real life 'cause none of us can count that high." Duo said with a small shrug of his shoulders and a small grin as if daring anyone to argue with him. Heero opened his mouth as if to argue...then looked around the room, then closed his mouth and gave a dismissive shrug of his own shoulders. "Po does refer to all of us as 'trainwrecks'."
Before anyone could try to refute that statement (and Quatre and Wufei both wanted to) Trowa spoke up. "Catherine says that everyone is a trainwreck, not just us."
Everyone paused a moment to consider that before giving a unanimous nod because: yes...from them to Une, to Noin and He-Who-Is-Not-Named-Just-To-Piss-Him-Off, to whatever nutcase had decided that children and young teenagers needed to be thrown headfirst into military training if not open warfare was a trainwreck whether they lived on Earth or the Colonies.
Just as everyone was about to work on getting their characters healed up, Duo grinned. "We're all trainwrecks...and we're together. Oh Hell...I just pictured everyone's faces if we all got married."
"Technically...we are?" Trowa said, brows creasing in confusion while everyone else's hands stilled as they turned to stare at Duo who just kept going. "Well yeah, we are...but I mean like if we had the whole big ceremony thing. Heero, bet you twenty credits Une'd have a stroke."
"Heart attack." Heero said before shaking Duo's outstretched hand. Relena, however, now looked thoughtful...if not a smidge viciously pleased. "Zechs would blow an artery, no question."
"Everyone else would be driven to drink." Hilde chimed in helpfully because imagining this whole 'potential wedding' was actually kind of fun. Quatre tapped his chin in thought. "My sisters would probably want to help...unless Rashid and the rest of the Maganacs get there first."
Had he initially worried about his sisters and the Maganacs reactions to him being with Trowa and later adding three other males and two females to the same mix? Yes.
Had he been shocked beyond reason when all of them had been accepting and happy and the Maganacs had all started talking about giving the other Gundam pilots, Hilde, and Relena a "shovel talk" to make certain that all of them took good care of the blonde? Yes, he had...though he'd been unbearably happy after he had processed everything.
"Catherine and everyone in the circus would want to be involved." Trowa said as he held Quatre on his lap. "...and all of them would attend the ceremony."
Heero processed this then... "Are we actually planning our group wedding?"
"I have been through one wedding...the planning stage is pure chaos, so the earlier that we start, the better." Wufei said before handing Relena a sheaf of blank note paper while he kept some for himself to write down a general guestlist of: Catherine or she will use us for target practice, the circus that Trowa is from, the circus animals to make Trowa happy, Quatre's sisters, Rashid and the Maganacs, and maybe Mariemaia if she behaves?.
"Outdoors." Relena began to tap her own pen to her lips. "With all of us, and the guests, we would need to have an outdoors wedding."
"And tell whoever officiates it to nix the whole "speak now or forever hold your peace" part." Hilde said after a moment of thought before flicking a hand dismissively. "No reason to give anyone a cue to bust in and start shooting or trying to blow stuff up."
"Hil's got a point." Duo said with a quick nod before blinking in confusion. "Wait...everyone agree on 'non-religious', right? We'll never agree if we try to drag religion into anything."
"No one here is religious except for you and maybe Hilde, Duo." Came Heero's even tone before he looked over at Relena who was smiling as she made notes for the future wedding. Quatre nodded, looking curious before... "We would need suits...unless you have something specific you would wear, Wufei?"
"I will tolerate a suit." Wufei said as he glanced over the guestlist before looking up then shaking his head. "I just pictured all of my family and ancestors reactions and all that I see are 'neutral displeasure' faces...and one uncle laughing himself to a broken rib."
"He would laugh so hard that he would break a rib?" Trowa asked only for Wufei to shake his head. "No. I would break his rib when he started laughing."
"Relena, no offense, but if the guys are in comfy suits, I think we could keep our dresses not so...'princess-y'." Hilde said and Relena gave her a look. "Well obviously you and I would be wearing non-princess dresses, Hilde. I went through that when I was 'Queen Relena'. Those dresses were heavy and uncomfortable and I refuse to wear one to my wedding."
"That dress you wore when you took a shot at Une was nice." Heero said, only to blink when everyone was now looking at him curiously. Heero frowned some. "I saw the security footage."
"I did like that dress. Maybe something like that could work...though I'm thinking that I would like either ivory or a blush-pink." Relena said with a small smile as she reached over to hold one of Heero's hands in hers. Hilde couldn't help the grin splitting her face. "Ivory for me...or maybe a nice lilac if you're going with the blush-pink?"
"Sure, why not? It's our wedding and we should all do what we want to do with it." Relena said like that was obvious, while Trowa looked back at Wufei. "Did you...?"
"Yes, the animals at the circus are on the list, Trowa." Wufei said before turning to Hilde to ask her if there was anyone she wanted to invite or anyone to add to the "throw this person off a balcony if they show up" list. Trowa nodded and rested his head against Quatre's as Quatre took a sheet of paper and proceeded to start trying to write out something resembling a possible budget since the odds were good that Relena and he would be footing the bills.
Duo just grinned eagerly; was he happy to have distracted everyone from his epic fail? Yes, yes he was. "And we can't forget to invite Une so me and Heero can see who wins the bet...and Zechs just so Relena can watch him have a meltdown."
Besides...planning this for whenever it might happen, was kind of fun. "Oh...think Noin will lose it? Or Sally?"
...Where the actual f did this even come from.
What is in this Nyquil?