thenearshore | 005 | Sakura In The Night

Who: Everyone!
What: Cherry blossom viewing
When: Nighttime March 26, 2016
Where: A park with sakura trees
Summary: Heaven is throwing a small party to view the sakura and let everyone relax.

After the absolute disaster that happened with handing out chocolates, the Heavens are tripping over themselves to make up for their inability to properly handle the situation. They are eager to make amends and assure everyone that they are hardworking individuals who want nothing more than to make everyone's stay here enjoyable or at least pleasant. To that end, they have invited all of the gods and shinki to a lovely flower viewing, since the sakura are in season.

And by 'invited', they mean 'mandatory', of course. You will accept their apology, whether you like it or not.

It's not all bad, though. The Heavens have provided various kimonos that can be worn, if you haven't brought your own, but you're not required to wear a kimono. They would, however, really like it if you did wear them. It's very traditionally Japanese, after all.

The party is taking place at night so that you can all hide your merrymaking from the Near Shore residents and also because the night sky is beautiful against the cherry blossoms. So try to at least enjoy yourselves while you're here.

Banquet

Every kind of food imaginable is available for your eating pleasure. On top of that, there are dozens of different kinds of desserts ready to be devoured as well. For the older crowd, booze has been provided and is being served by white-clad shinki bearing the golden chrysanthemum of Amaterasu. They are, however, refusing to serve alcohol to anyone who looks too young to drink, sorry guys.

Cherry Blossoms

The blossoms are absolutely gorgeous this year, and they are at the peak of their blooming right now. Nearly every single bud has bloomed and the pink petals are floating by everywhere you go. There is an ethereal light emanating from each of the trees, lighting up the area with a soft, pink light, yet it doesn't seem to be drowning out the brightness of the stars at all. It really is the most beautiful cherry blossom viewing anyone could ever hope for.

"Secret" Corner

Somehow, the Heavens have managed to make one small corner of the grotto into a completely secluded area. There is no marking or signs to indicate what this corner should be used for, but anyone entering it will suddenly realize that this is a place for lovers to meet privately. Only those that you enter the corner with will be able to notice your presence, and you will be unable to notice anyone else's presence as well. Enjoy yourselves, young ones!

Counselling

Off to the side, there is a tiny table set up with a small, nicely written sign that reads "Gentle Counselling". On the other side of the table is a sweetly smiling shinki who is willing to listen to your problems and answer any questions you might have. She is also here to help out any gods that are having a hard time dealing with knowing about how their shinki died and any shinki that is having trouble coming to terms with the fact that they are dead. Counselling will also gladly be offered to anyone who is still pissed off or upset in any way about what happened after White Day.

In Summary:

Enjoy the cherry blossoms
Eat lots of good food
Promise it's not poisoned
Spend time with people you like
Meet the newbies
Have fun~

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So there is more of us, huh. [ He never had good estimate how many Far Shorers are around. The angry replies to Amaterasu post on the BBS seemed to be only indication, and even then he couldn't be sure everyone commented ]

That's a better place to be introduced to this mess.

[He nods.]

It's definitely much quieter than what we were asked to do.

Better for them.

[ He looks at the sky partially obstructed by the tree branches, and lots of pink flowers ]

I never expected that cherry blossoms could be this relaxing. [ he muses ]

They're a big thing in Japan.

I'm glad you like them.

Weird. I guess I was from place similar to this. [ he sits up ] I had few thousand yen in my wallet upon arrival.

But none of the city names sounds familiar.

Not even a little bit?

I guess nothing would sound familiar when you're missing all your memories though...

That's a good point.

But while memories are gone, skills and knowledge isn't. I know how to make ramen or marinate an egg. Most of the food names sounds familiar too.

Huh...

Maybe you were from Japan?

Possibly. One that has cyborgs at least. [ He hasn't noticed any around ]

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I don't think we had any at home, but maybe somebody had turning metal as one of their quirks?

How is that a quirk? [ yes, not familiar with that at all ]

Oh... uh. At home just about everybody had a power, like moving small objects with their minds, or breathing fire, stuff like that is pretty normal.

Eventually powers just became quirks, they're essentially the same thing. It's just a hard to call them something else when I'm so used to quirk.

So sort of superpower, espers and mediums, like that? [ now it gets interesting ]

Yeah, kind of like that!

I don't think I've ever met a medium, before but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a couple.

So we're not in "your" Japan, right now.

Right.

There aren't any government funded heroes as far as I can tell, so that's another tell that this isn't my Japan.

It gets really weird when you start thinking about it. [ parallel worlds, similar enough to recognize them, yet so different at the fundamentals ]

Yeah... I guess there are a lot of different Japans.

Watch out. Migraine incoming.

It's probably better to stop thinking about it.

[Unless somehow this is past Japan? Maybe?]

There is still a lot of different food to taste, if you need distraction.

Maybe for a little while.

Do you want to come with me?

I could use a drink. [ So... yes ]

[Then he'll get up and walk back to the banquet.]

It gets confusing.

[ and he joins ]

Don't worry, they won't let you drink adult stuff.

[ missing the point, Genos ]

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