Welcome to the Family (Mikael)

[Elizabeta Anne Beilschmidt]

Gabe whistled cheerfully as they approached the house. It was an old place, built back when the Wall was constructed. It had also housed Eliza's family since they got stuck behind the wall. Her elder brother, his wife Wilhemina (or Willie) and their son lived up on the top floor while Eliza's parents, Eliza, Vash and the youngest brother Nico were on the bottom. The middle floor was the communal living area. Before Eliza's grandparents had passed away, they lived in the rooms on that floor.

"Welcome to Berlin, Mikey boy," Gabe mumbled to the younger boy as they walked into the house.

"Mutti! Vatti! Roddi! Nico! Vash! Get down here und help with the bags!" Eliza called up the stairs.

Lithe blonde Nico appeared down the stairs first, bouncing over to take Mikael's bags and staring at him curiously. Vash showed up next, hugging Eliza and kissing her forehead before walking around her to shake Gabe and Mikael's hands. Then her parents. Christoph eyed Mikael suspiciously while Adeliza smiled warmly and moved to greet both of the boys. Roderich and Willie were the last to appear; the baby must have been asleep.

Willie patted Eliza's shoulder reassuringly as she joined her standing there and watched Roderich walk over to greet Gabe. Eliza's eldest brother pointedly ignored Mikael.

[Mikael Adrien Liven]

Mikael didn't know what to say. It was a really big family, he had a lot of brothers and sisters but there were a lot more here. He didn't know what to say. He felt like he was doing something wrong with the way one of the people was looking at him. A little boy took his bags but he could've taken them, the boy didn't have to. He looked around at all the people, they were all taller than him. The short boy, always. He gulped, boy did he feel intimidated. He nodded at Gabe, that was about the only one here he knew, everyone else was someone he'd never seen before.

"Hi, it's nice to meet you. I'm Mikael." he smiled. He really didn't know what to say, or do, really. He was of course a people pleaser naturally, he just couldn't do it with out knowing who they were first.

[Elizabeta Anne Beilschmidt]

Eliza's family stared at Mikael for a moment before Adeliza and Nico exchanged a glance. When Nico looked back at Mikael, he smiled sunnily.

"Hallo! Mein name es Nico!" he chirped.

"I'm Vash!" Vash called from where he was standing with Eliza.

"Mein name is Willie; it's nice to meet you," Willie grinned.

"I'm Adeliza und zhis bear here is Eliza's vater, Christoph," Adeliza added on, pointing to Eliza's dad with a smile. "You can call me Ms. Ada."

Everyone looked at Roderich, who just continued to glower at Mikael out of the corner of his eye. Eliza rolled her eyes and weaved through her family to stand next to Mikael and hold his hand, raising an eyebrow at her eldest sibling.

"Don't look at me like that, Liza," Roderich growled. "....'m Roderich."

[Mikael Adrien Liven]

Mikael could feel the intimidation from Eliza's father and Roderich, they were scary. He was this short little irish boy who usually hid in the back of the class or he hid somewhere where no one could really hear him play. He liked people listening to his music he just never wanted people to know it was him who was playing. The boy in the background.

He whispered to Eliza, "I don't know what to say, and I feel like I'm the underdog here.." he smiled trying to keep his head. These people made him feel like he was the one who should be running with his tail between his legs, which he would've done gladly if his feet were working.

[Elizabeta Anne Beilschmidt]

"Don't let them scare you," she whispered back. "Vati won't really hurt you."

Roderich made a scoffing noise that earned him a glare from Eliza. When he glared back, she got really annoyed.

"Could Roddi and I get a little time alone?" she requested.

"Ja, ja," Adeliza sighed. "Come on, Mikael; I'll get you settled in zhe guest room."

Eliza's family trickled back up the stairs carrying the luggage. Gabe was the last to head up, grabbing Mikael by the arm and dragging him along. He shook his head at Mikael over his shoulder.

"You don't want to be around when they start arguing," he advised.