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- chikusa kakimoto | katekyo hitman reborn,
- d2 | alive,
- ebisu | noragami,
- event log,
- garry | ib,
- ginia | original character,
- hibiki shikyoin | pripara,
- joscelin fitzthomas | oc,
- ken joshima | katekyo hitman reborn!,
- minako aino | sailor moon,
- obi | akagami no shirayukihime,
- romeo | romeo's blue skies,
- suzaku kururugi | code geass,
- takashi shirogane | voltron,
- wei shen | guardian,
- wendy | kuroshitsuji,
- ω agrias oaks | final fantasy tactics,
- ω emizel | disgaea 4,
- ω hat kid | a hat in time,
- ω nephenee | fire emblem radiant dawn,
- ω ovelia atkascha |final fantasy tactics,
- ω petra ral | attack on titan,
- ω rasu | countdown 7 days,
- ω ross | senyuu.,
- ω sha gojyo | saiyuki,
- ω son goku | saiyuki,
- ω yunlan zhao | guardian
34 - Love is in the Air
Who: Everyone!
What: An enterprising pair of shinki is trying to spread love throughout the Far Shore with exciting blind dates.
When: February 14
Where: Hot romantic spots throughout Tokyo
Summary: Blind dates on Valentine's Day? Sounds like fun (or possibly a disaster, but everyone needs some good disaster stories.) That's not all that's going on, though. Ayakashi are looking to chow down on the negative emotions that a romantic holiday can generate, and those who aren't busy with their own dates might be sucked into helping out followers who need help to make the day go well.
The Dates
Blind Date Matchups
Ayakashi Menace
Praying for Love
In Summary:
What: An enterprising pair of shinki is trying to spread love throughout the Far Shore with exciting blind dates.
When: February 14
Where: Hot romantic spots throughout Tokyo
Summary: Blind dates on Valentine's Day? Sounds like fun (or possibly a disaster, but everyone needs some good disaster stories.) That's not all that's going on, though. Ayakashi are looking to chow down on the negative emotions that a romantic holiday can generate, and those who aren't busy with their own dates might be sucked into helping out followers who need help to make the day go well.
The Dates
- Those who have signed up -- or whose friends and colleagues have signed them up -- for dates will get cards with specified times and meeting places inside for the big event. The cards don't list their dates' names, but instead have a matching symbol to allow everyone to find their proper partner. If anyone tries to stand up their date, they can expect a small and angry owl to harass them until they give in.
- Date One: The Romantic Brunch.
Couples will find themselves with reservations (and pre-paid coupons for the prix fixe menu) at a swanky French restaurant with a wide balcony overlooking the lake in a central Tokyo park. They can dine on dainty pastries, sweet milk coffees, bowls of grapes and hothouse strawberries, and a selection of fancy chocolates and petit-fours-- plus, some of the trees in the park are blooming in holiday-appropriate red and white! - Date Two: The Aquarium.
Couples scheduled for this date have tickets to a rooftop aquarium in Ikebukuro: brightly colored fish, animals including penguins, seals and pelicans, a small petting zoo and plenty of shadowy, secluded nooks to cuddle in make for a fun lunchtime date. The tickets even include admission to the one o'clock penguin and seal show! - Date Three: The Amusement Park.
This date sends couples to spend the evening enjoying themselves at a seaside amusement park. Ride the roller coasters! Take selfies with the costumed attendants! Share an overpriced ice cream cone while you watch the fireworks after sunset, then wind up the night with a ride on the colorfully lit Ferris wheel with a romantic view of the Tokyo skyline.
Ayakashi Menace
- There's more than just romantic couples out to enjoy themselves today. Romantic holidays can be tough for those whose love lives aren't so rosy, and as always, those negative feelings draw in ayakashi who are ready to ruin everybody's day.
All across the city, besides the usual ayakashi, characters might encounter the following:
Flocks of dove ayakashi whose mournful call induces self-doubt, suspicion and paranoia in everyone who hears it. Are your friends really your friends? Is your lover betraying you? Shouldn't you hurry up and stab them in the back before they can do it to you? These ayakashi are small and agile, difficult to catch but easy to destroy once they're caught... if you can overcome the urge to turn on your allies first.
Long-fingered shadow ayakashi, large and powerful, and capable of sneaking around by blending into genuine shadows. These ayakashi draw those who are alone into their clutches, filling them with resentment and despair. Anyone battling them needs to watch out for the humans they might already have influenced, who may become unpredictable and violent as the ayakashi influencing them grows more desperate.
Cute teddy bear ayakashi, that influence anyone they cling to into greedy obsession: they need attention, affection and gifts, and they can never have enough. When attacked, the teddy bears turn out to fight a little more like a grizzly bear than a stuffed toy, so gods and shinki beware!
Praying for Love
- Those who aren't busy with their own dates might find themselves busy taking care of other people's instead. On a day like this one, everyone's praying that things turn out perfectly! Prayers gods might hear include:
"He's just got to ask me out! I made him the biggest box of chocolates... please, let senpai notice me!"
"Does she really like me? Please, give me a sign."
"I got concert tickets for our date, but it's supposed to rain. Please let me find a way to make this work out anyway!"
"The restaurant I wanted to take him to isn't taking any more reservations for tonight. What can I do? I can't cook!"
Wild Card -- players are free to make up their own romance-adjacent prayers for their characters to fulfill.
In Summary:
- Enjoy your dates
- Fight some ayakashi
- Make sure to answer prayers for a good Valentine's Day
- Have fun~
A
But...that would be incredibly rude, the part of her that was Radegast for a time reminds her, and her shinki also reminded her that she needed to get out more.
She was going to have to talk to Minako about this, at some point...
Knowing Chinatsu's a girl, but not who this person is beyond their name, just that it's a brunch date, she wears a cute casual dress and scarf, her leather bag slung over her shoulder, just in case. No need to insult someone by not looking nice, after all. Sadly, no hat, as one of her shinki - and she knew who, she was certain - had hid anything that might cover her face. Who was the goddess in that temple, again?
Nevertheless, she comes in to the restuarant, brushing off the snow, and looks around to anyone that looks more like they're from the Far Shore than the Near. It doesn't take long to spot one of those, sitting by himself, and...oh, horsefeathers. He's cute. She can't help but stare for a moment, before he notices, and her cheeks heat up. Darn it, she'd been staring. But him flashing the invitation seems to give her the impression he might be her date...
Suddenly, she's feeling really timid. Deep breath, a smile as she walks over...]
M-maybe? A-are ya...[A moment to try to say the name...how she thinks is correct?] Zhao Yunlan? [She's close enough on how she says it, but it's clear she doesn't know that language well, and she's also got a rather thick country accent that makes it sound different. It's a warm voice, though, and sweet.] I-if so, then yeah. A-Ah'm Nephenee...
[Why did her first date have to be cute, that makes it so much harder to not stutter!]
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Good to meet you, Nephenee. So did you sign up for this on your own, or did someone recruit you?
[He does his best to make his grin engaging as he lets her hand go, and picks the rose up from the table to offer it. Yellow for friendship. After all, they're just now meeting, and that's a nice, safe, achievable wish for the both of them.]
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A-Ah got recruited...pretty sure it was one o'my shinki.
[Anemone is a little more like Calill than Nephenee could have anticipated...if a bit more pushy.
She's just about to ask him the same as she reaches for her pack, when he gives her the rose, which makes her cheeks go even more pink. She can't help smiling, both because pretty flower, and because the color isn't the standard red she'd expect. She doesn't know if he did that on purpose, but she appreciates the meaning if it was.]
O-oh, thank you...It's real pretty. Ya sure know how to pick flowers.
[She should know!]
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I volunteered-- I'm brand new here and looking to meet new friends, you see.
[In other words: he knows what he was doing with the flower, and he nods back in acknowledgement of her thank-you.]
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[Shock of shocks.]
But yeah, Ah'm Athena 'round here. But it's been quiet right now, so Ah can make time. Not much agriculture stuff, an' not much rabble rousin'. Too cold, Ah reckon.
[She doesn't have many followers...something she, admittedly, hasn't been super bothered by, but knows she wants to help more people, too...it's complicated.]
Are ya a god too?
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[He busies himself with unfolding the linen napkin that's twisted into a cute little lily flower in his wine glass, tucking it next to his plate.]
I'm a shinki myself. With Bakugou -- Mars? You might've seen him around the network.
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[If memory serves, Mars is the Roman version, for lack of a better term, of Ares, from her own pantheon...she suspects the Heavens might be doing their normal crud of keeping some of the existing relationships in play.]
Ah'll have to fix that. An'...well, Ah do, sometimes. Especially for math stuff...
[There's a slight twitch of her lips into something akin to a grimace.]
Too bad Ah ain't great at math...never went to school, so me an' my shinkis been lookin' up a buncha stuff 'bout that. Whoever heard o'stickin' letters in math?
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[Wisdom and knowledge, as far as Zhao is concerned, aren't at all the same thing. But then, maybe he's just trying to feel better about not being all that scholarly himself.
(Curious, sure. But not scholarly.)]
That's a shame, though. You know what there ought to be? A help wanted page for prayers. There's got to be some gods kicking around who love algebra, right?
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She seems to perk up at his suggestion.]
Ya know, that ain't a bad idea. Be a way to help each other out. Ya could offer some sorta payment or somethin' too, or offer favours in exchange. Like helpin' them with one back?
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Well, Ah think Ah could answer agriculture an' farmin' stuff easy. An' even if there don't seem to be a lot o'call for it right now, Ah'm good with defendin' an' fightin'. 'Specially with polearm. Been farmin' my whole life, an' a soldier for over six years now.
[It's said without any boast to it. It's just facts.]
Ah'm a Sentinel, after all.
[Ok, that has her sitting a little straighter in pride and smiling. The capital letter is practically vocalized somehow.]
Could probably help with cookin' too, long as it ain't too fancy, or other...handywork stuff.
[She almost said "country", but whatever would he think of her then? Though she doesn't seem to realize her accent's a little stronger now, like she's been trying to lessen it and got distracted.
At some point she'll remember the thing she brought for her date, but this is a very interesting conversation!]
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[Maybe not among the newcomers. He can't think of any he's run into so far, but it raises an interesting question. How much do new gods tend to match the descriptions of whoever they're here representing? Agriculture might not go with Athena, but isn't she a god of war, too?]
Sounds like you'd do better with hunting down ayakashi than you would with helping somebody study.
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[She...won't mention the one she immediately thought of. That'd be awkward.
And if she could hear him thinking, she'd be correcting that. Athena has a ton of things she's over...that has benefits and detriments.]
Yep, pretty good at beatin' 'em up. Probably would be better...at least Ah've started gettin' some prayers for Protection, though. Ah can handle that. Ah go down to the Near Shore once or twice a week as is, keep watch over folks. Adults can't really seem us easy, o'course, but kids an' critters...
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Oh nice-- [Forget the menu for now, he's stealing a cherry pastry first and continuing between bites.
(Sorry about his table manners, Nephenee.)]
You know, I wonder if it wouldn't be easier just to do what you do, and see if that gets people praying for the stuff you can do. In the long run.
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He isn't the only one to eyeball the pastries as they come by, and she's right after him in nabbing one. Mm, apple!
Look, she's hungry. Well, she's always hungry, but she didn't have breakfast when she woke up hours ago!
Even as she nibbles one and listens, she's thinking about what he's saying.]
That's a good thought...never thought 'bout it like that. If it's more obvious that certain things are happenin' more than others...Rather do that than stuff with cold logic, anyway.
[There's a twinge of unhappiness on her face for a moment at that. She wasn't a big fan of cold logic...for reasons. Even over a year later, that event...]
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... Pastry for your thoughts, Nephenee? You look like something's bugging you.