The stars twinkle

[monster_san]

WHO: Anyone who wants to show up!
WHERE: Heropa neighborhood
WHEN: August 24, afternoon to midnight
WHAT: Tanabata!
WARNINGS: None!



[It's a couple of weeks late for Tanabata in 2019, but that doesn't stop Fuu. With some help from friends, neighbors, and new acquaintances, she's decorated the light poles, trees, and fences around the Heropa neighborhood with colorful paper streamers, origami, and lanterns. And of course, there is the traditional bamboo wish tree. A nearby card table holds paper tokens, sharpies, and bits of ribbon to tie to the shoots.

There is plenty of food and drink, some of it Japanese festival food like dango, grilled chicken and vegetables on skewers, okonomiyaki pancakes, fried soba, and cotton candy, but some American fare as well--burgers, for instance, thanks to Tina, and whatever the guests bring themselves. (If you want alcohol, you're on your own.) And, as promised, Fuu has managed to rig up a bamboo shoot chute with somen noodles flowing down it.

There are outdoor games too, like archery (with toy arrows, puncture wounds are NOT a Tanabata tradition), badmiton, etcetera.

At night, you may want to search out Vega and Altair--Orihime and Hikoboshi, on opposite sides of the Milky Way.]

Fae

[They are around, and while Fuu has planned for that as best she can by offering them sweet treats and giving them little tasks--well, they don't have the greatest attention span in the world, and as soon as a new amusement occurs to them, that's what they'll do. Whether it's unraveling paper streamers, or stealing tokens from the wish tree, or changing the color of your food, they're doing their bit to make Tanabata just that much more interesting.]

[ooc: If you want to handwave your character having helped Fuu set up, feel free!]

Comments

jaime reyes | a belated ota

[khajidont]

[ This is a bittersweet time of year for Jaime. The last time he'd celebrated this... it had been the last good day he had spent with the friends he held nearest to his heart, the last time that he'd truly opened himself up to the whole world instead of a precious few who know his heart - and even with them, he keeps himself closed off more than he did before. But his walls have broken down little by little, and when he comes, it's not only with the bitterness of what's been lost in his heart. It's the recognition that he's here with new people too, people who are still important to him - like Fuu, who had somehow wound her way in a full circle, here then, and here now.

He has a small tower of bento boxes he'd made with him, extra so that he can give them away to other guests (though he's made a couple special), but otherwise spends his time wandering around, greeting others with a warm smile, happy for simple conversation, and happy to stand in silence as well.

At the wish tree, he pins up one wish: ]

I wish to remember this.

[dragony]

[ Ruka wouldn't need powers at this point to know there's something different about Jaime today. The way he carries himself, the look on his face when he catches a moment to himself, it's — well, perhaps different isn't the right word. It's a little clearer, maybe. Something that's been there a long time sitting closer to the surface.

It's nothing she wants to drag out to burn in the sunlight, and she doesn't want to take all his time, so for most of the little festival, Ruka lets him take it at his own pace.

(Besides, there's fairies that need company and entertainment and to be roped into games they can't win without them getting mad about it, and who else is really equipped for that? Nobody, that's who.)

As ever, though, they inevitably swing back into orbit, and it's the easiest thing in the world to take up the space beside him. ]

Hey.

[ The romantic thing would probably be to take his hand without saying anything, but his are kind of already occupied ]