[Closed] At least there's adults at this party

[missingache]

Who: All KH characters + their shinki (if applicable), Urashima, Nohr clan, Aymeric, Sheryl, and Jakob
What: A huge meetup because people need to see faces that go with names
Where: Artemis' and Baldr's temples respectively
When: May 21st - 22nd (Basically show up whenever and leave whenever)
Warnings: N/A


[Those invited will have most likely gotten a text or other way of communication to let them know there was something going on at this time and date. There is no set time per say, so it's an open invitation to show up even before sunrise if you feel crazy enough to deal with the wildlife in Artemis' place.

The party can be spent between the two places that are somehow linked by a trail. Either side will have amenities/foods/entertainment suitable for a meetup (though if you want tea/coffee, stick to the side that isn't Baldr's place).

There will be a sign on Artemis' side that warns of getting near the bear or deer since they are skittish around too many people, so one side of Artemis' temple will be sealed off to visitors unless you ask very nicely to see the deer. There will also be a sign that reads "NO SWIMMING IN THE LAKE". At least there's a nice fire in the fire pit on the patio, and those who stay the night at this temple will... see a bunch of glow in the dark stars on the ceiling.

Baldr's side... pretty much do whatever you want within godly legal limits? If you want to swim, go to that side. If you want to sleep under the stars, go to that side. If you want to be around wildlife that can't possibly gore you to death or maul you (unless it's your unlucky day and the bear decides to hang at the beach), go to that side.]


[ooc: treat this like a mingle! have at it!]

Comments

[missingache]

[He helped out three shinki's, but one asked for it because Axel wanted to be closer to Roxas.

That did not end well.]

Really?

[Kairi should be glad that Sora is Roxas' partner since he'll return the hug.] Thanks.

[pure_radiantics]

[There we go. Hugs help soothe the mood for her, especially since he returns the hug.]

If anything, I think I'm super lucky. You let me go out on my own my first day... and I really helped people I think! It felt so good to meet other shinki, too. I asked a lot of people what they think it means to be a good shinki, so now I have some ideas.

[missingache]

Huh? Why wouldn't I? It'd been mean if I didn't. Raichi and Senri got to go out on their first day with me.

[Well, Senri had to be tracked down...]

[pure_radiantics]

[Kairi shrugs.]

Sure, it'd be mean, but apparently some gods are like that. So I'm just glad that you're not.

['Mean' is hardly the word for what happened to Sousuke, but she also assumes that there's a gradient of personalities and maybe lesser versions of what he suffered could be considered 'mean.']

How do you decide which shinki you take out with you on prayers?

[It's something Bishamon got her thinking about - that and 'exemplar'.]

[missingache]

I look at the prayers and decide that way. Raichi... is a little too difficult to use on ayakashi destroying prayers. [He touches his cheek, still remembering the pain after bat met face.] And Senri is really quiet so I'd be afraid of losing him... so I take the kind of prayers where we don't have to worry about fighting, but those seem to be taken really quick by other gods.

[pure_radiantics]

I guess that makes sense. Although I'm glad the prayers of the people are being answered...

[She hasn't spoken to Raichi yet so any difficulty is lost on her, but Senri she remembers being told before was really quiet. Maybe he's a young boy like Goten, except opposite in personality.]

Still, Raichi was your first shinki, right?

[He seems to always mention him first, anyway.]

So he's your exemplar?

[missingache]

The requests are harder.

[Roxas has just learned recently how babies are made and Artemis happens to be a goddess who presides over children, women, and childbirth. He shudders.

He blinks as he nods.]

Exem-what?

[pure_radiantics]

[She might normally wonder if she'd said the word wrong, but it came from Bishamonten and she's recently learned that she's kind of a big deal from Yukine so...]

--Plar? Exemplar?

['An exemplar serves as our guide. They are our most trusted shinki or the one who's been with us the longest. ... Most times, they're a god's only shinki as is the case with many newcomers.' That's what Lady Bishamon told her.]

Your first shinki, I heard.

[missingache]

[Roxas pulls his phone out to see the definition before snorting.]

Raichi is far from an exemplar. Senri too.

[pure_radiantics]

... Oh.

[She's not sure she fully understands how Bishamon and Roxas could have such different views on something she'd thought was just kind of... required of gods. But she's also not a god.]

Okay.

[Because what else can she say? Neither of them are his 'most trusted' meaning he just doesn't trust them? But they covered that already... so all of the confusion as she just stares at her lap trying to figure it out.]

[missingache]

It's kinda hard to do something like that anyways. I trust my shinki in different ways so it wouldn't be fair, right? Can I make all three of you exemplars in your own things?

[Does that make sense? Because Raichi would be exemplar of power, Senri of.... kindness? And Kairi... Kairi would be exemplar of just being Kairi.]

[pure_radiantics]

[She smiles. That's a nice idea. But...]

Well, I don't know - it's not my call, after all. Thank you for thinking of us like that.

[After all, she'd more or less resigned herself to being third tier, so he'd basically proven himself right already.]

[missingache]

[That seems to have helped? She's smiling at least.]

Why wouldn't I? You're all important to me.

[pure_radiantics]

[She shrugs.]

Just a hunch, I guess. I'm not used to being depended upon, even if I like how it feels now.

[For which she has no real good justification other than that's the feeling she's getting.]

[missingache]

I'm not used to it either... I've got a lot of followers now and it's kind of hard to be depended on that much... But it's worth it. I like being able to help.

[At least he can help people here.]

[pure_radiantics]

[Kairi holds out her hand to get a low-five from Roxas if he'll do it.]

Go us. I feel the same way.

[She thinks she's really lucky to have a god like him. This should be easy to adjust to, memories or no.]

[missingache]

[Kairi definitely gets a low-five.]

You know, you should be glad you don't have to listen to some of the requests my followers send me.

[pure_radiantics]

[She feels good about that, but his comment leaves her curious more than anything.]

... They can't be all bad, can they? Just weird?

[missingache]

Some of them... A lot of them are pregnancy and childbirth requests....

[He literally learned how babies were made a few weeks after coming here.]

[pure_radiantics]

O-oh... I see...

[It does seem like the kind of very private thing you shouldn't share with other people, but of course prayers are private to the people making them.]

That does sound difficult.

[For anyone. A prayer for a good harvest seems easy enough for someone to manage, because of dealing with plants or other simpler things. Pregnancy and childbirth are... complicated, to say the least. She can imagine even a young woman in Roxas's position wouldn't find it easy a subject matter to tackle.]

[missingache]

I mean, I worked on a farm, so I know how the birth thing happened... but not the getting pregnant part... [Okay he looks a bit panicked.] U-Until after coming here...

[It was awful to learn.

Embarrassing.

And so gross.]

[pure_radiantics]

[She nods sympathetically. Because she does know already. One of the things she didn't forget, apparently.]

So... If you have to keep taking prayers about something you're not comfortable with...

[She shrugs then, a little helpless for ideas except this.]

Is there anything I can do? It doesn't sound like you want to talk about the... details.

[missingache]

It's not that I'm uncomfortable... I just don't wanna talk about it out loud. All I can do is bless them and hope it helps.

[Isn't that how Artemis would handle it? She was a virgin goddess, soooooo....]

It's a gods job to answer prayers and requests. I don't think I can give you any of those requests. You can help with prayers.

[pure_radiantics]

[Well at least she offered. If she can't help, she can't. So she nods.]

Alright. I'll help you with all the prayers I can.

[She tilts her head a bit, deciding this may not be a good time to bring up what Yukine said, since they ran off on this tangent and all. Some other time then.]

We don't have to talk about it, but if you ever need to anyway... I don't mind.

[missingache]

Thanks... I'll let you know when I get some prayers we can do together.

[Yeah, further heavy discussion might need to be pushed for later. He's got requests stuck in his head now... and should probably go check on some of those soon.]