"How do I look?" Darna asked.
"Delicious," I replied with a smile. We were putting the final touches on our group cosplay.
Alex, Stacey and I wore the costumes she bought us as wedding presents. They were hero level quality.
One thing about cosplayers is often their costumes are of better quality than what you see on screen in a movie or on TV. Except for the costumes which are being used repeatedly for close-up shots of main characters, a lot of the outfits you see in movies and on TV are hastily put together and not very well constructed because they only appear on screen for a few seconds at a time and usually from a distance.
Mass produced costumes in movies (like stormtroopers) are notorious for being of poor quality except for the ones featured up close. Cosplayers often wear their costumes over and over, and they build them with a level of care and commitment which exceeds at lot of movie sets.
Our polycule was going our semi-regular Super Friends group. I was Wonder Woman. Alex (Superman), Stacey (Power Girl; I know, not one of the Super Friends, don't @me), Jenny and Kelsey (the Wonder Twins) were all there. Angelito and Darna were unveiling their Hawkman and Hawkgirl costumes, and they were having a hell of a time putting their wings on.
At first, I had thought to commission some actual feathered wings from my friend who had a vendor booth and sold wings, but the scale of what they needed was outside of what she was willing to make, and if she did make them, they would cost a fortune in labour alone.
Alex and Angelito built frames out of PVC, padded them with craft foam and built harnesses out of nylon strapping. Then they cut strips out of thin foam for the feathers. The rest of the costumes were mostly EVA and pleather and we made them in our craft room.
We spent Friday afternoon over at the vendor hall to get a first look at anything new. I picked up some glow-in-the-dark dice at the Chessex booth, Alex bought from prints from legendary artist Larry Elmore, and Stacey was looking at some leatherwork for her ren faire costume, a fairy sorceress.
After grabbing a quick bite to eat for dinner, we went back to our rooms to change. The only issue with our Super Friends group cosplay on Friday was we had to skip the Lore Olympus photoshoot on Friday afternoon, but we were dressing up as Hades (Stacey), Persephone (Inanna) and Hecate (me) on Sunday.
We headed from our hotel to the Hyatt, and then took the skybridge to the Marriott. All the while Angelito and Darna apologized to anyone and everyone for brushing them in the face with their wings when ever they turned. Eventually, I fell to the back of the line so no one would get too close to them and get whacked in the head.
Jenny and Kelsey came down from their rooms in the Marriott to have some drinks and take pictures with us.
"What are you drinking?" I asked Angelito with a wink.
"Something strong," he replied nervously. This was the night.
I brought him back a Jack & Coke, which he practically gulped down. I took the prop mace out of his hands and slipped him the ring box. "Go get her."
Darna was posing for a picture with Jenny, Kelsey and Stacey, when Angelito approached. She hadn't seen him.
With a wave to Alex, I got out my phone. He had the others make a half circle around Darna.
The atrium was too loud for me to hear exactly what was said, but Angelito got down on one knee. Darna made a surprised face.
She nodded and started to jump up and down.
People around them started to cheer. Angelito stood up. He put the ring on Darna's finger. They kissed. More cheering. Flashes went off.
Darna waved her ring around at everyone within an arm's length. I got a kiss. Stacey got a kiss. Alex got a kiss.
Tien disappeared for a few minutes and returned with a bottle of champagne and flutes for everyone. I only sipped at mine, but Jenny wasn't shy about finishing it off.
As excited as they were at their engagement, both Angelito and Darna were subject to the remote Bluetooth vibrators which were lodged up their butts. Angelito fought it. Darna just rolled with it (after I told her that was the way to go).
I smiled wistfully as I watched Alex and Stacey posing for pictures with stranger. They were definitely in their element.
He was tall, muscular and handsome.
She is round in all the right places, thick with three C's and simply gorgeous.
And they were both mine.
"You're doing it again," Jenny nudged me with a friendly hip-check. I blushed. "I just want to dive in between her tits."
"You'd drown," I joked. Of course, Jenny wasn't small in the chest herself, but I was unapologetic about the way I stared at my beautiful bride.
"If Kelsey gets a couple more drinks in her, she's going to take her shot."
I snorted. "Stacey will go for it."
"I figured, your wife seems to have a thing for skinny-bitch white girls," my best friend laughed.
"So do you," I stuck my tongue out at her.
"Don't tease me with a good time," Jenny grinned and reached out to give me a swat across the backside.
I was about to say something flippant, when Alex tugged at my arm. Darna stood next to him.
"Can we ask a favour?" she batted her eyes at me.
"Of course," I said.
"It's actually a favour from you and Stacey," Darna looked at me nervously for the first time since... well, since I kissed her two years before by the Ultrasabers booth. "We would like to borrow Alex for a little while tonight. Angelito and I have been talking about this for a while, and as an engagement gift for me, I would like... um, I would for Alex and Angelito to double up on me... and I... um, I want to watch them have sex."
My eyebrow shot up. Angelito and Inanna had been lovers for a while. Since our first long weekend away over a year ago. But to my knowledge Angelito and Alex had never been together. They were bros.
"He's... his family is very conservative," Darna squirmed. This was not news. "And he doesn't think of himself as gay, or even bi. But we've been talking for a while, and he's done a lot with Inanna but he's never let Alex... he's never let Alex have sex with him. But I think he knows that he's had sex with Inanna, and he's made love to her... but she's never done him. Angelito has always been the giver. But I think he's ready to let Alex... he wants Alex to make love to him."
"Of course," I said. "And on behalf of Stacey: yes. You have our blessing."
"We... um, would like something else from you, too," she continued. "We'd like you to walk in on us. This is part of Angelito's fantasy. He feels very safe with me. But he's still a little... nervous... about what you'd think if you saw him having sex with Alex... so I think a way for him to come out is for you to just find them... er, us... having sex."
"Has he said this to you?" I asked. "Is this something he wants? I am not going to embarrass or humiliate him out of the blue. He's never been timid with me, but I don't think he would enjoy that."
"I have talked to him about it," Darna nodded. "I think if he and Alex slipped away and had sex, in his mind, that would make him a homosexual."
"There's nothing wrong with being a homosexual," I interrupted. "Or bi. Or pan. Or everything in between."
"I know," Darna sighed in frustration. "But we're fighting a lot of familial indoctrination in him. In the mental gymnastics in his mind, if he gets...
taken
... then even if he likes it, somehow it's not him. It's being done to him. But once it comes out... once
he
comes out, then it will be okay for him to admit to himself that even if he's not attracted to men in general, he's okay having sex with Alex. At least when it's just our group. I don't know that he wants anyone else to know, even in the polycule. But he trusts you and Alex and Stacey. And it would be okay if Inanna made love to him."
"So what do we need to do?" I asked. Whatever Angelito needs to tell himself to break his conditioning about sexual taboos.
"Darna and I are going to take Angelito up to their room," Alex said. "We're going to make out and start a threesome, which we've done before. But instead of Inanna, it's going to be me. If he makes a move on me, that's the signal that it's okay for him. When we start having sex, Darna will text you to come up. We want you to walk in and 'catch' us."
"And you're sure he'll be okay with this?"
"He can always safe-word out," Darna nodded. "The only thing which I don't want is for you say something which embarrasses or puts him on the spot."
