<Nocturnal Harmonia>

[Bloodedge]

In the earliest moments of departure, Iris gave Hop... comfort? Could it be called comfort? True enough, he could flip the car a thousand times and only kill the youngest three members of the group ─ those who'd yet to awaken. Did that need saying, though? Iris truly only confirmed that he'd have most people remaining to know how badly he'd ruined everyone's lives with a turn. With that being the case... "... Thanks," he replied with an eye roll. Luckily for Hop, his nerves didn't get the best of him to anyone's detriment. The limo was long and unwieldly, but they were mostly parked and safe after a short ETA extension. "Alright... alright, I've got it. We're here everyone!" he announced to all in the back.

With everything settled, Donnie was the first to get out. "Bet bet! Good shit, bruh. Welcome to Philly forreal, y'all," he said while leading the way. Whenever Leon crawled out of the car, he looked around like the absolute tourist he was. "King Flippin' Don's second home. Nik, we're here! This is where that girl was from!" he said, clearly having no idea that they were here to meet the very 'girl' he spoke of. Donnie didn't wait around. He was already moving toward the shop entrance. Of the males present, Auric was quite slow to exit the vehicle. He'd basically reverted to childhood, leaning over the chair and pointing out a window. "Look there! That's the one I was talking about, Sister. These buildings have such... variety."

[Apollymi]

Did Iris actually succeed in setting her brother's heart at ease? Maybe or maybe not? Just the same she obviously trusted him enough to ride as his passenger and sat buckled in and giving small bits of input and advice and warning of upcoming turns so surely, their relationship didn't suffer regardless of the very sarcastic 'thanks' he sent her way. Still after they were in park and the proper announcement had been made, Iris unbuckled, stretched and reached over to pat Hop's head. "That'll do Hop~" she offered him nicely enough. While Donnie was welcoming everyone to Philly, wandering towards the shop entrance, everyone else was filing out of the limo with stretches and the like. Ronnie paused for a cat like one, but with a hood up and around her face to keep from outing herself potentially.

Meanwhile, Nikki and Leon were chatting a bit about the excitement surrounding coming to a place King Don frequented. "Who you tellin' mate. I been excited for a bit now. Even designed the new fits for the Prince and Princess based on what I seen so far. Love it!~" Nikki commented. Strangely enough the kids weren't the only ones appreciating the external atmosphere. The buildings were all different but they also gave a unique kind of liveliness to the space that would otherwise be quite boring. All the while Melty too, had fallen into more childish habits, "Right! Look at the shape on that one? Do they all serve different purposes?" Melty couldn't help but wonder and both of them were buzzing with amusement. Meanwhile, whenever Donnie made it inside, he'd find a girl, brown skinned, bright brown eyes and even brown hair down her back, walking around in a pair of short shorts, tights and a halter top. Body extra thick and seemingly amused as she set up a wash sink and some other stuff. That little bell chime letting her know he was finally here. "Dee!~" she seemed properly excited, but she was mindful to keep herself to not immediately jumping the man, wrapping her legs around his waist and devouring his face for the sake of 'not acting up'. Still, a lot of upgrades had come to this place since the last time Donnie had been here and it was at least partly due to the upgrade of the shop owner's own life.

[Bloodedge]

Once they entered the salon, Donnie didn't have to wait around for Kim's appearance. She was right there, looking every bit the menace she always did in clothes that screamed 'at-home hangout' rather than running a beauty shop. Still, Donnie had come prepared with some commentary for the others ─ a bit of joking to start everything on a light note. "Damn, my bad y'all. This place empty as hell; I shoulda brought y'all somewhere else," he said with a grin. When greeted by the owner herself, Donnie looked around as though searching for the 'Dee' she called out to. "Who?"

That question was left in the open air for only a couple of moments. When he looked to Kim again, he did so with mocking smugness. "Watch out~ ain't no Dee here besides deez nuts, feel me? That's Sir Donovan to you♥~" he stated. "I'ma let it slide this time, but show some love wit' the shits~" While that exchange was taking place, the other males of the group were floored in different tiers. Leon simply couldn't stop staring. Hop glanced, averted his gaze, glanced again, then turned his head. Auric, however... was quick to mumble among the others. "Good lord! I've never seen a fatter pair of tits in my life! Is there going to be much more of this happening in America?" the prince wondered. Between Kim's chest, Nikki's backside, Ronnie's overall build, and... yes, even the body of that annoying girl, his mind hadn't stopped racing once since he and Melty hid themselves on that plane.

[Apollymi]

Donnie and his group entered with Donnie going about his usual jokes. In this case the young woman all brown looked him up and down and a different sort of grin broke out over her face. "A nigga don't got the haircut to be walking in here complaining to me about a got damn thang~" she said with just as much playful energy. In truth, without the standing protocol for 'VIP Clientele' which made it perfectly reasonable for her to close the shop up for special visits, it'd be impossible for someone like Donnie to get a normal experience. Still there would come a playful 'Who' which had Kim's hands on her hips and her brows raised, and her lips pursed she rolled her eyes, like it was her full intention to let them roll right out of her head. "Sir?! You?!" she paused after that looking at the group that was with him. Obviously there was quite the story to be told about a trip to the UK. "Oh so a nigga go and get himself knighted and think he get to come home actin' all big and bad. Alright, I see you, Sir Dee~" she said just as playfully. And then she was stepping in giving him a good look over. "So is this how we doing it now? Chest all out, body looking hot, in a fit that giving a girl the shivers!♥~"

As Kim took note of the fit Nikki chimed in, "I know right? I can't see him with a proper shirt on anymore. Somethin' about that look does something to me~" Nikki added. It would be in that moment that Kim's eyes actually traveled the full entourage in a more legitimate way. A girl thick, with purple bunny ears, that was Blue Lotus. A hoodie coming down for another head of purple hair and golden eyes… and a face that any person with eyes could recognize, that was Veronica Corbyn. A couple of pale faces among them, but also just as recognizable, the royal children of the UK. "Hol' up! The hell you bringin' up in my shop!?~" she offered sounding just as excited. Meanwhile, Melty heard her brother and though she didn't usually comment even she saw this young woman's proportions as absolutely outrageous, "And here I thought growing up beside Mother and Aunt Hilda could give a girl a complex," she muttered easily.

[Bloodedge]

According to Kim, Donnie didn't have the haircut to be speaking the way he did. He strongly disagreed. "Ion even need it, baby! You seen the fit?!" he asked as if aghast, only to have Kim keeping him under high levels of scrutiny for that exact purpose. Of course, there was also an understanding of his knighting. "Hell yeah, got it goin' on! Sir Donovan came out here to bless Philly wit' his knightly presence. Get you a good look~" he urged, turning on his heel and keeping his arms outstretched.

In a matter of moments, Kim eventually came around to understanding what the group before her was truly composed of. An icon of the fashion world, perhaps the greatest model this world knew in this generation, and the children of England's royal family were all present. Kim asked what he was bringing into her shop. Interestingly enough, Donnie came prepared to give that answer. "The baddest entourage since the Round Table ─ fuck are you talkin' about?! But fuck all that; what's goin' on wit' you? You packin' somethin' new since last time," he acknowledged while looking straight down at the woman's chest, just as the other men in the group had done. Speaking of others in the group, Auric heard the commentary from Melty. "It's not worth much of a complex, if you ask me. I don't think it should be biologically possible to achieve something like that. Imagine the back pain."

[Apollymi]

According to Donnie he didn't need the haircut, and Kim was directed to look at his new fit. This also came with commentary from Nikki which brought her eyes over just a bit. "This one you? Might be your best work~" Kim added which had Nikki beaming proudly. "Right? I don't think I'll make anything better~" Nikki claimed with excitement. Of course beyond that bit of dazzling material on Donnie's body there was his entire new crew. "No cap, I think the only ones missing are the Animuspheres and Meru!~" she said laughing it off. "Nice to meet ya'll I'm Kim. I run this spot, and him sometimes~" she said about Donnie in the playful way she usually acted.

Beyond that the issue of her physical changes had her playfully tapping Donnie's chest. "Right? Been a couple a months and all. But since you've been gone, a girl had a little Awakening or whatever. Which was weird as hell, I thought I was gonna tighten up or something, but all I got out the deal was an extra cup, yes a whole extra cup, and some flexibility or something~" she said bouncing that chest of hers with outright upset vigor. "But a baddie A-rank and all… got myself in a couple of those Gates. Paid my mortgage off on this spot, my mom's place, bought her a new car and upgraded the building… for the new clientele~ A lil somethin' light~" she said those words playfully. All while Melty and her brother had the best of sibling conversations. She'd commented on initially having a complex, but in his infinite wisdom pointed out the potential back problems. "You're right, Brother. And surprisingly good at this~" Melty mentioned a smile on her face. And she wasn't the only one paying attention. Iris was nearby enough to hear that exchange and find it good. She'd also heard that thing about Kim's recent awakening and only a couple of months difference in time, meaning that Kim had been capable of bedding Donnie even as a 'normal' human. Well, as normal as one could be when they'd only gained a cup size from awakening.

[Bloodedge]

"Shit, give it time. We can still make some room in the plane. Oh, I got a plane now and shit. Sum light~" Donnie boasted further after mention of the Animuspheres and Meru. He turned back while Kim was introducing herself to the others, thinking it was only right that he do his part as well. "Don't listen to none of that. Kim here be runnin' the Sugah spot. You want your hair lookin' right? You come right here to Philly. Shit, this place need the business~" he joked before moving on. It was high time he made the others truly known to the stylist, apart from the ones she surely recognized.

"Over here, we got all the people I know you know. Nikki Corbyn, Veronica Corbyn, makin' and wearin' the best and bein' the best to do it. We got they cousins in age order: my man Lee right here with the crazy pack, downest nigga I met since I been out," he said as Leon's chest inflated. "Pleasure~" said Leon. "Lil' bro Hop the gangsta got us from the plane to the spot real smooth, good shit~" Donnie shifted his finger to point at the younger Postwick male. "Ello." With that, Donnie aimed his finger at Iris. "We got Riri, big hair, big brain, prolly already planned your next six moves. We got Princess Melly, the boss wit' the sauce waitin' to take over the whole shit over in Britain, and we got her bro Prince Ricky over here ─ the big homie in knightliness, big chivalry happenin' over there." Following Donnie's final introduction, Auric stopped himself mid-sentence and crossed a hand over his chest. "A pleasure as well," he said. With that, he was whispering to Melty again to complete whatever he'd been saying before. "I'd wager it's at least two kilos each. What say you?" Ah, but on that same matter of managing weight, Kim had already mentioned her awakening as an A-rank Hunter. Donnie was giving her another once-over, appearing contemplative. "Lemme guess. You a Tanker, ain't you?"

[Apollymi]

A meetup would be leading to Kim finding out that Donnie currently owned a plane, mostly after she pointed out that the only people missing were Animuspheres. "Plane, huh? Lil' homie done came up big, huh?~" Kim said seeming to appreciate it. A man with a private plane was a whole different kind of man, she remembered who he was, and how he was when they first met, it was quite the moving story. Whatever the case, she got a ringing endorsement from Donnie as part of her introduction, "Right I need that, bet bet. See what happens next time you stop through~" the lass said with her nose turned up in the air.

And then came a group of introductions. Several recognized, she almost scoffed at an introduction of the Corbyn sisters but held it in for the sake of getting through the rest. Apparently the others in this group were cousins who definitely looked like they could pass for siblings. And the royals. She looked to Iris, the girl with the big hair and bigger brains and saw a look in her eyes that was definitely studying and sizing people up. Iris waved and smiled with a childlike innocence that didn’t quite match her eyes. "Why's my hair so big?" was all Iris asked. A curtsey came from Melty as well. "Highnesses~" she said to them as well. "Really nice to meet all ya'll. Make yourselves at home, the space is closed to the public today so no pressure~ Lil' Bit, you want an answer I gotta touch the hair~" Kim replied only to have Iris saunter over while Kim absently began touching strands of hair, rubbing fingertips against her scalp and begin examining strands. At the same time, Nikki was holding out a sketch book to the Prince and Princess with two drawings. One male, black leather jacket, white t-shirt and a pair of dark jeans which were drawn with the Prince's current look in mind. The other, a white turtleneck, a short jacket, plaid mini-skirt, a dark pair of tights and some cute shoes for the Princess. "Maybe 3… it looks almost impractical," Melty whispered as well, not that it was a problem. And while hair was being examined by Kim the knowledge of her figure was being taken in and Donnie had but one conclusion that the woman who owned the shop had awakened as a tanker. "Yeah, I got a freaky reflect damage thing going on. Stuff hits me and gets bounced back twice as hard or something like that~ How'd ya' know?" was Kim's question. "Lil' Bit, this hair is good, you got the fluff because you aren't getting enough moisture for the porosity. You need something soft and light, and a little bit of heat and you'll rock it real smooth~ Feel me? Gimme some time to hook up Dee~ And I'll mix up a good set for you too~" she offered Iris who nodded and smiled polite and beaming. "Also wifi password, I'm a brain so I feel like I know I just want confirmation that it's actually BrownSugahBaby," Iris stated. "That's freaky. She's freaky~" Kim said gesturing to Donnie like he'd brought home some sort of crazy animal.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah, you know how it is. Make a couple moves, level up the garage to a hangar... type shit~" Donnie continued. He wasn't worried at all about Kim's little threat; he knew exactly what would actually happen next time he visited. "Same as always, right?" he asked. Donnie was already grabbing either end of his coat to pull it off, knowing he had no intention of getting any products on his new gear. At the same time, Iris was surely executing some other plan she'd come up with in the past few minutes. "Watch out for... you know what? Never mind," he decided. No amount of warning would truly help the situation, and Donnie surely couldn't figure out what the plan was anyway.

What he could figure out, however, was the topic of discussion between young royals. Donnie's ears were strong enough that he'd heard the entirety of their conversation, but had no space or reason to comment before. When Melty commented on the impractical status of Kim's rack, however, he stepped a bit closer to speak. "I'm not good wit' conversions, but them bitches was at least 7 pounds last year. Prolly 8-to-10 now," he said nonchalantly. By the time Donnie finished speaking, the warning he'd refrained from reached Kim at last. In response, Kim called the girl freaky... twice, basically. "Don't even start, 'cause you don't even know. But damn, that's a throwback. Su-uugaa-a-a-a-aah♪~" Donnie sang in a moment of recollection. "I don't think I performed that one since... damn, when was it last? I don't even know."

[Apollymi]

Donnie could help but rub in his come up, but he was among family and friends and Kim wasn't the type to hold it against him regardless. "So I see. Don't let it go to your head, if it get any bigger I won't be handling your hair anymore~" she said in that same gently teasing manner. "Yep yep, I upgraded all the chairs, they got hella upgrades now. And there's a hanger and a hook for your gear as always~" Kim pointed out not willing to let the man risk any of his new clothes, even though she wasn't a messy stylist by any means. Beyond that point and while he settled, Kim was feeling around Iris's head and hair, giving the quick consultation that would no doubt be leading to a hair styling for the girl as well. "I'm not planning anything currently. Just observing," Iris pointed out. In all honesty, Iris had been much better about people in this group as a whole than she was normally, not that anyone outside of her immediate family would notice. All the while Donnie was slipping over to join the kids in their conversation about Kim's overly large chest, and they would be getting a personal experience measurement. He might not have been so good with the conversions but Melty was, "4 or 5 kilos? Good heavens… an upper body isn't meant to support that much weight," Melty concluded a hand crossed over her own chest. Nikki would be popping up with them holding her sketch book out for the Royals with two images for their approval while weighing in. "It's not so bad in her case. The bottom works as a counter balance and that's thick the whole way through too~" she mused. "Look at these though, I think they'll work for you both~" she offered the kids. Melty's eyes shifted to a type of clothing she'd never worn, but she'd call it the posh equivalent to the types of things her teacher wore. "It's stunning," she posited.

Soon enough Iris was finding out that her hair type wasn't being nourished by the products of her choosing and was being offered her own styling. Only to be called freaky. "I know… I'll keep the scarier ones to myself. I always do~" Iris claimed. Still, Donnie decided to try out that song, with a couple of notes and a single word which made the core of Kim's body twitch, "Hol' up now, don't go starting nothin'. You know that song does things to me," Kim asserted. As for Donnie he was trying to figure out when he last sang it, and both Kim and Nikki said together, "Last February." The two young women looked at each other and smiled. "I knew BlueLotus had great taste~ Don't just go letting him act up, when he singing them dancing club songs~" Kim asserted as she put out the rest of the bottles by the sink. "I got ya, luv. You mind if I set up a coupla mannequins. I gotta dress the kids~" Nikki asserted. "Naw girl, do you. That goes for all of you. Have snacks, watch Netflix, Hulu, whatev~" Kim asserted easily opening up her shop as a base of operations for the weary travelers. "Oh, I gotta get some pictures later too, Ty's gonna be mad jelly~"

[Bloodedge]

"Maaan shut that shit up," Donnie snapped, though it seemed there was no true aggression applied. The claim that Kim would stop doing his hair if his head got any bigger was, as he'd put it, some bullshit. "You'll be the first one blowin' my line up talkin' 'bout I need to get my ends touched-up," he continued. With that, Donnie was hanging his coat and grabbing his belt... realizing after a moment that he didn't have to do anything with the latter, and giving up on the motion as such. 'Oh shit. Shoulda left them niggas somewhere else,' he thought before addressing the royals. Once they were told of the old weight Kim was carrying around on her chest, Melty claimed a torso shouldn't have to support so much. Nikki came through with an opinion of her own related to Kim's overall figure. Auric had commentary of his own to offer that topic. "Quite right," was all he said. Auric was a total horndog, indeed, but it seemed he had much less to say now that Nikki was in the discussion. He was a horny teen of a prince, but far from some uncivilized mongrel. Things changed, however, when he viewed a design Nikki presumably meant to dress him in. "Is that for me, truly? I'll say, it's quite the marvel, isn't it? What is that ─ a leather jacket? I might be every bit the ruffian I imagined, yet... there's still a regality to it. Are we to just... have these garments? I've the funds to pay, but we'll have to return to the palace first."

While Auric wondered if Nikoleta Corbyn's ensembles were just free fair or on some kind of IOU, Donnie was trying to figure out when the last time he sang 'Brown Sugar' live was. Of course, he was also delivering Kim a cheeky, challenging cut of the eyes, as though saying he fully intended to push her buttons in the near future. Both she and Nikki stated that his last performance of the song in question was... last February. "Oh yeah! Back in Cali, won't it? I was gettin' the house together and had a whole Sugah room designed for the spot. Damn that was a bitchin' house!" he rambled, seeming quite upset at the thought. Either way, Donnie was taking steps toward Kim, ready for the process to begin. "You know what? I'ma find a spot around here somewhere. Brown joint, call it the Sugah house! You tryna pull up?"

[Apollymi]

Donnie and Kim obviously had a very comfortable relationship. It was made obvious by how they spoke to each other and how easily they talked trash and let things go. "Considering the number and type of people you rolled in with… you can't make me~" Kim snapped back her tongue sticking out as she completely disregarded the man in question. "Besides all that end trimming is about length retention. I'm not about to let anyone else ruin my pet project~" she confirmed the emptiness of her threat and her professional advice in a single moment. Still everything went on, as Donnie and Kim began to move towards him getting his hair done, Nikki took a moment or two to chat everyone up, and Auric silently passed another test, one that didn't look like it was being administered while Iris watched him. Moreover he also had an interesting response to his clothing, he liked the look of it. "Of course it's for you… the original design is always meant for the one who inspires it~" Nikki explained. The lad seemed so touched genuinely and even offered to pay for it. Nikki's eyes widened, she'd not intended to force that kind of issue at all, she didn't plan to now either, but it was such a stark contrast from what she was used to that she actually had to take a minute. "You know what, don't worry about that. I wouldn't feel right charging you for something you inspired regardless. Instead just do me a solid and model it for me, so I can add it to my men's line later~" she offered him that much. "It's definitely leather, a bit less intense than that one, but I still think it'll suit you best~" Nikki confirmed.

"And you Melly? How ya' feeling about it?" she asked the girl who stared at the image… "I really like it. It looks like sophisticated student but still… elegant. It's posh," she clarified. "Alright so I got both of you then. Maybe a few extras to come, if I think of them… my brain's a bit all over the place when it comes to designs." Nikki admitted while she took those sketches and stood near the mannequins beginning her work. "Yeah, that was the last time I went out of state for anything other than Hair Week in Atlanta. But niggah, you buggin'," Kim mentioned casually. "That spot is one you put up 7 months ago. You got cars there and everything. Even hooked me up with a set of keys. Me and Ty go there when Ma is trippin' about smoke in the house," she pointed out. That old spot was indeed a good one though. It was a shame she only got to visit it the once, still whenever Donnie settled, she'd settle in at the sink straddling his lap chest resting against his face as she detangled his hair with her fingers and popped open a pre-wash detangling oil specifically formulated for him.

[Bloodedge]

While Kim was rambling about her 'pet project' atop his head, Donnie used his fingers and mouth to produce a pantomime of her yammering, all to further poke fun at the woman. Once he was totally topless though, Donnie happily placed himself in the washing chair to await the coming routine. All the while, Auric remained totally ignorant to the 'tests' he was apparently passing ─ offering his attention fully to an entire redesign of his general look. Nikki confirmed the outfit he saw was for him, and denied any monetary compensation for it. "Nonsense!" Auric barked. He was the one and only Prince of England ─ not some pauper who'd come into enough money to purchase a fancy wardrobe. Though his eyes were still visibly sparkling over the idea of being the premier model for one of Nikki's popular clothing lines, the indignance of a prince remained true. "I am Auric S. Melromarc! Inheritance or not, it would be a disservice to the Crown if I offered no remuneration for fine work like this! As I can neither title you, nor grant you a peerage of your own, the best I could do normally would be to invite you into my own peerage... though I imagine that would be several conflicts of interest. You must not let this go unpaid! Sister, speak sense to this woman!" he insisted. Auric was apparently well beyond pleased with the gesture. He'd never worn anything but royal garbs before. He'd have actually invited Nikki into his peerage, if he didn't think that was all but reserved for Sir Donovan. . .

Speaking of Donovan, he was presently settling into... exactly the thing that nearly had him taking off his pants moments before. Kim settled into his lap, those colossal jugs consuming his vision entirely even while restrained by her top. "Damn!" he blurted out. As they got started, his hands were almost instinctively settling on the stylist's hips... while she made the claim that he already owned a Philadelphia abode. Donnie seemed stunned. He already had a house here, and both Kim and 'Ty' as she was called, made use of it? "Oh shit, for real? I thought that was a fresh idea. Shit, you coulda just moved in if that's how it is. How Ty and Moms been doin' anyway? I ain't seen either of them in hellas." All the while, they were being watched by the Postwick brothers strangely. Both of them were confused, albeit for different reasons. It would be Leon who spoke for anyone to hear and, hopefully, provide context. "Does it always go like that?" he wondered. Hop, who didn't have any of the context from Donnie's music, would be following with a question of his own ─ one meant for the pair directly. "Are you two brother and sister?"