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

Fuu Hououji | OTA

[monster_san]

[Fuu is flitting about in her green yukata, doing her best to make sure people are having fun--she might be making more or adjusting the decorations, folding some oragami, or even writing a wish to hang on the tall bamboo shoot. She's also quite willing for a friendly archery match, if you'd like!

Of course... there are also the fairies. Which she has tried to account for, she's tried giving them little jobs or bribes that will amuse them, but every so often she's running over with a paper fan, shooing them away as they mess around with her decorations or steal bits of cotton candy.

She doesn't swear, of course. But there's an unusually scary look behind those blank lenses in her glasses....]

bow | ota

[squadgoal]

[ bow always loves a good party, which is why he is there, trying a little of everything. like. everything. his tray is packed, and he is happily chewing on some dango, before shaking his stick at someone. ]

Wan' some? I can get more, don't worry.

[ he also does a few shots at the archery range, but not for very long. there's no real fun when you've more or less mastered the form and he's never been one to show off that much. still, he chuckles, getting in some hard shots, looking at whoever is nearby and struggling. ]

I can give you a few pointers.

[ later on, bow finds himself near the wish tree, glancing over some of the things people have written, expression. finally, he does one of his own, writing WORLD PEACE in bold letters.

then he pauses, thinking it over.

and adds an addendum AND ADVENTURE. ]

Andrew Carter {{ Hogan's Heroes

[stlg13bomber]

[Carter has brought the 'soft drinks' - two large bottles of soda pop in a plastic bag, which he leaves on the food table. At first he hovers on the sidelines, afraid to make a fool of himself. He'd done his research on what he wasn't allowed to call Japanese people but given his track record in stepping on his own toes with normal American and European people, he didn't entirely trust his odds.

Carter spends the early stages of the party as an uncharacteristic wallflower, hands in his pockets. He's dressed in jeans and a t-shirt with cartoon animals on it, baseball cap tugged over his face. He sidles about looking at the streamers and tasting the surprisingly good foods. Slowly, as conversations with other partygoers don't end in disaster (or end in and then recover from disaster), he starts to get more relaxed.

Carter even tries out the archery, though he's very rusty and not used to working with a toy bow instead of the real thing.

Eventually he works up the courage to add his own contributions to the wish tree.]

I wish for a pet to live at my house here.

I wish for 622 to feel better.

[The third wish takes more thought, and he winds up chewing on his lip as he bends over the table, cap of the sharpie tapping his chin.]

I wish I could understand the future without getting a headache.

Tina Belcher | OTA

[continuousgroaning]

[Tina's there early to set up a burger stand; there's a hand-lettered sign listing her specials:]

All burgers available with vegetarian and vegan patties!
When You Wish Upon A Starfruit (topped w/starfruit)
And The Wind Cries Cherry (topped w/cherry tomato relish)
Pig & Rich (topped w/fried ham and bacon)

[She even feeds the faeries, hoping that will stop them causing mischief. Tina stays away from the archery, not trusting her own prowess or lack thereof even with toy arrows, but will participate in some of the other outdoor games, and takes time to write her wishes, as well.]

"I want to be reunited with my family."
"I want to find a boyfriend."
"I don't want this world to go to war."

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.