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lifeaftr2019-02-15 06:08 pm
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Entry tags:
- coco: héctor rivera,
- critical role: beauregard,
- critical role: mollymauk tealeaf,
- critical role: yasha nydoorin,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- hollow knight: the knight,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- mass effect: commander shepard,
- mass effect: legion,
- original: mira delacroix,
- osomatsu-san: ichimatsu matsuno,
- pokemon sun & moon: guzma,
- tales of vesperia: alexei dinoia,
- the adventure zone: kravitz,
- the league: jules dagger samari,
- undertale: asgore dreemurr,
- voltron: keith kogane,
- voltron: takashi shirogane,
- ✖ hollow knight: troupe master grimm,
- ✖ okami: amaterasu,
- ✖ original: eska,
- ✖ persona 5: ann takamaki,
- ✖ persona 5: yusuke kitagawa,
- ✖ pokemon sun & moon: lillie,
- ✖ rwby: pyrrha nikos,
- ✖ tales of vesperia: yeager,
- ✖ undertale: frisk,
- ✖ voltron: lance
Light up the Night - [BACKDATED to 2/5]
Who: Ammy + Anyone interested
What: Fireworks show for the Lunar New Year!
When: Evening of 2/5/19
Where: Monkey Compound
Warnings: None so far, tag as needed!
[It's about noon when a message is posted to the Message Rock, as well as over the Stones of Farspeech - an elegant writing in kanji with a translation below. The voice is foreign, not often heard and possibly lost from most peoples' memories, but it sounds...excited? There's definitely a chime-like laughter hidden in the depths of it.]
All interested in a beautiful sight, please show up at dusk at the Hana--eh...the Monkey Compound. Drinks - for the elders among you - and some snacks will be provided, but I encourage you all to pack a box lunch.
Those unable to attend...I'll try to make sure you see it. Thank you.
[How very enigmatic indeed.
Still, those that do show up as the sky begins to change into a purple-blue color, dotted with small, glittering stars, will see that the Monkey Compound has been done up a bit. There's a line of small, flowering cherry blossom trees creating a lovely arch by the entrance, and little paper tags have been hung from a few of the branches, holding pictures of a tiny boar, or piglet, and a prayer written on the opposite side in kanji.
Inside has a very, very pleasant air to it. Much different than what this place used to be. It's laid with fresh, clean, springy grass and flowers, and a bountiful garden off to one side, which looks a little barren...probably because most of the foods have been harvested and laid out neatly on a bushels of palm fronds. Fresh vegetables and fruits from Ammy's garden, ripe for the taking and eating, if you're more the rustic type. There's also fire-roasted fish, skewered on a stick and cooking nicely by a crackling bonfire. Eat, enjoy, converse with neighbors and friends alike! Drinks have indeed been provided for the adults, a large barrel of sake with a ladle to pour it into one of twelve dishes. And yes, a bowl of water has been added to the side to rinse them off.
The centerpiece is a very basic shrine put up with a folding wall, once white in color but painted over with a beautiful portrait of a boar rolling a round firework, and a tiny, ceramic figure on a boar topping a little rock pile. Below the statue is an offering of sake, a single sakura mochi, a grilled fish, and some flowers. That is where the wolf will be when you first spot her.
For...a moment, at least. Because once the sky grows truly dark, and the embers from the bonfire has crept to soft, orange glow, a whistle will wheeze its way through the sky as a streak of light soars up, and up...before it explodes in a puff of white sparks. Nothing exciting, more a call to attention.
A minute passes, then another, and the're movement by the far end of the compound as the wolf readies everything she needs. A few final touches--...there! All ready for the show to begin.
And what a show it is.
The fireworks are beautiful and vibrant, coloring the skies in a vast array of rainbow hues, dancing like they're actually alive. True artistry, and a blessing from the God of Explosions, Bakugami (and the local rabbit god, who provided a number to help make this work). An explosive force meant to open the gate for a blissful new year - full of color, full of life, and bountiful in all things that bring happiness and joy to those with good in their hearts.
Happy Lunar New Year. ♥]
What: Fireworks show for the Lunar New Year!
When: Evening of 2/5/19
Where: Monkey Compound
Warnings: None so far, tag as needed!
[It's about noon when a message is posted to the Message Rock, as well as over the Stones of Farspeech - an elegant writing in kanji with a translation below. The voice is foreign, not often heard and possibly lost from most peoples' memories, but it sounds...excited? There's definitely a chime-like laughter hidden in the depths of it.]
All interested in a beautiful sight, please show up at dusk at the Hana--eh...the Monkey Compound. Drinks - for the elders among you - and some snacks will be provided, but I encourage you all to pack a box lunch.
Those unable to attend...I'll try to make sure you see it. Thank you.
[How very enigmatic indeed.
Still, those that do show up as the sky begins to change into a purple-blue color, dotted with small, glittering stars, will see that the Monkey Compound has been done up a bit. There's a line of small, flowering cherry blossom trees creating a lovely arch by the entrance, and little paper tags have been hung from a few of the branches, holding pictures of a tiny boar, or piglet, and a prayer written on the opposite side in kanji.
Inside has a very, very pleasant air to it. Much different than what this place used to be. It's laid with fresh, clean, springy grass and flowers, and a bountiful garden off to one side, which looks a little barren...probably because most of the foods have been harvested and laid out neatly on a bushels of palm fronds. Fresh vegetables and fruits from Ammy's garden, ripe for the taking and eating, if you're more the rustic type. There's also fire-roasted fish, skewered on a stick and cooking nicely by a crackling bonfire. Eat, enjoy, converse with neighbors and friends alike! Drinks have indeed been provided for the adults, a large barrel of sake with a ladle to pour it into one of twelve dishes. And yes, a bowl of water has been added to the side to rinse them off.
The centerpiece is a very basic shrine put up with a folding wall, once white in color but painted over with a beautiful portrait of a boar rolling a round firework, and a tiny, ceramic figure on a boar topping a little rock pile. Below the statue is an offering of sake, a single sakura mochi, a grilled fish, and some flowers. That is where the wolf will be when you first spot her.
For...a moment, at least. Because once the sky grows truly dark, and the embers from the bonfire has crept to soft, orange glow, a whistle will wheeze its way through the sky as a streak of light soars up, and up...before it explodes in a puff of white sparks. Nothing exciting, more a call to attention.
A minute passes, then another, and the're movement by the far end of the compound as the wolf readies everything she needs. A few final touches--...there! All ready for the show to begin.
And what a show it is.
The fireworks are beautiful and vibrant, coloring the skies in a vast array of rainbow hues, dancing like they're actually alive. True artistry, and a blessing from the God of Explosions, Bakugami (and the local rabbit god, who provided a number to help make this work). An explosive force meant to open the gate for a blissful new year - full of color, full of life, and bountiful in all things that bring happiness and joy to those with good in their hearts.
Happy Lunar New Year. ♥]
cherry blossom trees
Have you celebrated this before?
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Nope. I've never heard of something like this. And I wouldn't be able to tell you if this kind of thing was celebrated back on Remnant.
[Her expression softens a bit.] I'm sure Nari would know, or Mira. I should ask her.
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[ He smiles. ]
It's Lunar New Year. It's been a while since I celebrated, but... it's nice to see that someone does.
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That's a wonderful name. And it reminds me a bit of Mistral. [ah] That's the continent where I'm from. There are lovely cherry blossoms there.
[She forgets at times that people might not know where she's originally from, and it gets to be a coin flip sometimes to remember who does.]
Where are you from, Shiro? [She hmms quietly.] Earth, I'll presume?
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Earth, and a galaxy that's just one of many. [ He smiles, and he reaches up to brush his fingers along one of the blossoms. ] But even when I was a pilot for the Garrison, I didn't think there were so many other galaxies out there.
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[For something that sounds a bit like troublemaking, she sure is smiling fondly at the memory.]
no subject
[ He doesn't sound put off, just curious. ]
Well, now you can't just leave me hanging.
no subject
It all started when I woke up on a prison ship in space, with no memory of how I got there. As it turns out, I, and a large group of other people, were taken from our worlds to be part of a intergalactic TV show called Airlocked.
[She gives a wave of her hands.] Of course, we were already kind of being forced into it, but then the ship was invaded by a pirate named Blaze Dudely, who took over the ship and forced us into a "killing game" while he tried to root out the alien he was really after.
[She's recounted it so many times, it seems more like a simple memory now then the emotional hell she'd lived through for several months.]
...The long story short is, myself and the other survivors managed to escape eventually, from Blaze and the company that was keeping us prisoner. And, so they couldn't just come back and take us, we decided to be space pirates for a couple months.
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Oh. Well. Isn't that unpleasantly familiar. Shiro has to take a moment to breathe. He reaches up to one of the blossoms, rubbing it between his fingers. Pyrrha's story hits close to home, and while it was so long ago, the memories still linger and sting. Sometimes, more than other times.
Breathe in, out. Shiro comes back to himself, to the conversation. He's taken it all in, but. Whoof.
Even her becoming a space pirate... he'd become a paladin, to fight against those who'd caused so much pain. Not just to him--of course not--but so many others, human and alien alike. He looks to Pyrrha, and he can't help but be impressed by her fortitude. ]
I'm guessing you weren't the kind of pirates who went after innocents, yeah? [ he says, with a hint of a smile. ] It sounds like you went through a serious ordeal. But you kept going in spite of it all. That says a lot about you.