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

[menial]

[Approaching 11:00 here...

'Yes, that would appear to be Yotsuba still careening between food and some motion which I can only assume to be dancing.'

He has a rather whimsical look on his face as he watches her gallivanting about.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Is that Kyon?! Yes, yes that is Kyon. Come, let us dance the night away~ Yotsuba will run over and quickly move to grab his hands. YOU HAVE NO CHOICE IN THIS KYON, they're dancing, it's happening. Move those feet, get into the groove and all that. Unless Kyon totally isn't into dancing in which case Yotsuba is plenty happy just dancing around him.

Oh. Yotsuba might have a sandwich hanging out of her mouth whilst she tries to dance at the same time. Multi-tasking! Why eat standing still when you can eat whilst dancing?!]

[menial]

['Aha. It seems that she is performing some kind of ancient ancestral spirit ritual while whirling about me in a haze of green hair.']

...Nice night, Yotsuba-chan.

['Or Typhoon Yotsuba, perhaps.']

[rollypolyclover]

Mmf, niffce night!

[Talking with a sandwich shoved into your mouth is proving harder than first envisioned. Just going to gobble that up quickly.]

Nice night! Finishing move!

[Quickly, strike a pose!]

Ba-bam!!

[menial]

['Did those words even make sense? What's going on?']

Good job, Yotsuba-chan. You sure finished it off.

[rollypolyclover]

That was the dance of the... Uh... Night time fireworks!

[Look at those expert naming skills at work.]

Now it's time for the dance of... The day time fireworks!

[menial]

My, my. Did it already pass midnight and I missed it?

['...Seriously, I wouldn't want to be responsible for her education.']

[rollypolyclover]

[Looking at the sky. Huh, still dark.]

...This is now the dance of the day time-but-not-really-whoops-it's-night-time fireworks.

[Yup. And accompany that awkward name Yotsuba starts dancing equally awkwardly, almost as though all her joints are stiff.]

[menial]

[He watches this spectacle for a long moment.]

Think maybe you've had enough dancing for one night, Yotsuba-chan?

[rollypolyclover]

No way! Yotsuba can still-- [Suddenly she cuts herself off with a great big yawn.]

...Yotsuba isn't tired and can keep dancing! Dance the night away!!

[menial]

Does Yotsuba yawn for reasons unconnected with her tiredness now?

Anyway, what do you have against the night?

[rollypolyclover]

Sleep is boring, too much stuff to do!! Yotsuba wants to play, but then daddy tucks me in and says it's time to go to bed, but that's not good! Never tired!!

[deny everything deny everything what is being tired no sleep nooo]

Night is cool, because there are fireworks at night! But sleep is just boring so no sleep! No!!

[menial]

...You know, Yotsuba-chan, one of the biggest adventures of my life happened when I was asleep. It could happen to you, too.

[rollypolyclover]

...It did? Did you... Uh, sleep walk? That's it, right? Sleep walk.

[menial]

No, it was much more exciting than that. I was taken to an alternate world that was in the process of being born...

Well, it's really probably a story best suited for bedtime. But you said it isn't bedtime, so I guess I can't say.

[rollypolyclover]

[Oooh, that's mean. Mentioning a story like that and then not bothering to tell her it. Of course she gives up in an instant. Stories are fun after all.]

...Yotsuba should be in bed by now. Does that count? You can tell it now, go on. Go on!

[menial]

Well, I think it only counts if you're actually in bed.

[rollypolyclover]

[Looking around for a second.]

There are no beds here... Yotsuba really wants to hear the story though.

[What is she meant to do now?!]

[menial]

Perhaps you should go to bed?

[rollypolyclover]

But, but!

[...Oh this isn't fair. At all.]

There's a party. And stuff. And bedtime is-- But the story! The story...

[menial]

...True, but it's good for kids to go to bed on time ['before the party gets out of control...'], uh, cause their brains are growing and so on.

[rollypolyclover]

So if Yotsuba wants a bigger brain it's better to go to bed?

[That'd be cool. A bigger brain means she'd be smarter, right?]

Will it keep growing and keep growing until it starts coming out of my nose?

[menial]

.......

Is that what you want it to do, Yotsuba?

[rollypolyclover]

...No.

[For some reason she had to think about that for a second.]

[menial]

['....Did she really pause to think about that?']

Well, then, don't sleep that much. Though that would take some years of concentrated sleeping to achieve, I imagine.