Out with the old....

[sundead]

Who: Everyone
What: New Year's.
When: Dec. 31st, New Year's Eve, to Jan 1st, New Year's Day.
Where: Everywhere
Summary: It's New Year's, and the people of Luceti have a lot to reflect upon, and to look forward to. And on a more meta level, new journal names.
Rating: We'll see...

New Year's brings images of crowds, and songs, and fireworks; staying up til midnight and watching balls or bells being rung. But Luceti is a different time and place. Whether you're partying with friends or watching the sunrise, what are you doing today?

Comments

[daisy023]

[But eventually, everyone adapts. And Spartans, even those that were never meant to settle in, can also do it. Whenever if it's a testament to what she was as a soldier, or as a girl that missed her old life, Daisy never truly understood over her year in Luceti.

She picks the pizzas from the oven. Hers is larger - very much so. While the meals are just out of the oven when they are set on the table, Daisy makes a few soft waves of her hand -- sending waves of wind to cool them down. Daisy only stops upon realizing what she may have thought of as bizarre twelve months ago.]

/is usually an underleveled wretch, lmao

[i_am_not_cute]

Yep! Me and Blue Rose and Fire Emblem definitely sent them to the scrap heap! [That was one of her fonder memories of the past few years. It had felt good.] They were a little tough at first, but we took them down in the end.

[subsultive]

Me too.

[semper_cogitans]

[It's not too bizarre - though Robert takes a moment to figure out what she's actually doing, because he just hasn't learned to identify magic at a glance yet.]

... It is... fascinating, when... m-magic becomes so... mundane to us...

[daisy023]

[Once she recovers from the sudden thought, she resumes sending spectral waves of strong air to the pizzas.]

Alternate laws of reality. Some people weren't even used to seeing only humans.

[Once Daisy believes they may have cooled down enough, she takes a huge portion of her pizza.]

[semper_cogitans]

[Meanwhile, Robert studies his pizza, waiting it to be an almost exactly even temperature, before he begins to primly cut it into an almost perfect eighth.

And then he uses a knife and fork, to actually cut that slice...]

... Indeed. I can... only imagine how that must have f-felt...

[daisy023]

[Having never eaten pizza before, Daisy does not see anything strange in Robert's use of utensils with the food.

For her part, the size of the pizza was enough as a small meal. But she eats calmly, and in silence, as she watches the fireworks outside.]

[talontrot]

Huh. Well, if I ever go up, I'll letcha know for sure!

[Assuming she can even find Falkner...]

/ffff

[talontrot]

Sounds cool - personally, I love watching 'em go boom! Blowing them clear across the sky is the greatest.

[Kazooie sighs a moment though, shifting a bit. Her wings rustle as she looks down at the table.]

... Don't really like robots much. 'Cause they're weird and don't act like regular things. [Also because they totally kicked her ass once but she's not mentioning that.]

[flockingjustice]

I look forward to hearing about it.

[semper_cogitans]

[To be fair, the mun has seen people eat pizza that way even now.

A few minutes pass this way, with them both ruminating on their food and enjoying the sight of the coloured lights dancing across the utensils...

Finally, though, Robert breaks the silence.]

... Thank you, for... for coming with me, here.

[i_am_not_cute]

[Mrrr. Pao-Lin can definitely share Kazooie's reservations on robots and mechanical things like that.]

Yeah...you know, someone actually tried to replace us Heroes with androids once. [Rotwang. That bastard.]

[daisy023]

[From her big plate, she smiles to him.]

No, Robert. Thank you.

[talontrot]

... What?! Why the heck would they wanna do that?! You're way cooler than some dumb android! [Or so Kazooie thinks, which is high praise coming from her.]

[i_am_not_cute]

There was a guy who hated NEXTs like us, and thought we should all be killed because we were "freaks of nature". So he was working with someone else to get all the Heroes off the show. [She's glossing over some details, but that's pretty much the gist of it.]

[talontrot]

... Freaks of nature, huh? [That's kind of scary. Why would Pao-Lin be a freak?] You don't look like one to me! Freaks have to be all weird and ugly and stuff, don't they?

... I mean, sure, you're a human-type, but most of 'em seem to look like you.

[Politically correct, Kazooie is not.]

[i_am_not_cute]

[She shrugs.]

Sometimes the freakishness is on the inside. [She makes a face.] Though if you ask me, Rotwang looked [and acted] kind of freaky himself, so I don't think he had any room to talk. [This is astonishingly vitriolic for someone like Pao-Lin to say, but she feels more than justified in this case.]

[talontrot]

["Sometimes the freakishness is on the inside..." That's something that Kazooie actually has to think about for a moment.]

Huh. Well, either way, he sure sounds dumb! And you don't look or act like a freak anyway. You're a hero!

[i_am_not_cute]

[At this, Pao-Lin relaxes.]

Yeah. I am. And no one's going to take that away from me.

[talontrot]

[No one except the Malnosso.]

That's the spirit! If you just remember you're a hero, then nobody'll ever stop you.