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

[etudes]

[ she'll take a tiny sammich since sailor moon taught me that sandwiches are convenient since you can eat them while you read!! gosh, those informative magical girl series. don't mind her as she nibbles on it. ]

I.. like the more quiet kind of fireworks. The ones that make pretty figures in the sky, but aren't too loud.

[starfishlovesyou]

[magical girl series taught me little girls get all the fun. where's my damn magical boy series.]

Doesn't the noise add to their appeal though? The sort which whistle in the sky and then go off with a bang add to the excitement of the explosion!

[etudes]

[ you become the first magical boy out there, Henry. I believe in you. ]

If they're too loud, then.. [ holding up the book almost to her face, thinking a little.. ] they're a little scary. They sound like bullies like that.

[starfishlovesyou]

[well if Jelle believes in me then anything is possible.]

Fireworks sound like bullies? Not possible... [...] Fuuko has never seen a bully explode and look pretty in the sky like that!

[etudes]

Well.. [ considering this information, hmm. ] If you would tie a bully to one of the bigger pieces of firework, they would fly up in the sky and explode and look pretty like that..

[ KOTOMI WHAT ARE THESE MORBID THOUGHTS. ]

1/3

[starfishlovesyou]

[WHAT THAT IS AWFUL.]

2/3

[starfishlovesyou]

[...But yeah, that could work. Tie a bully to a firework, get a bully firework.]

3/3~

[starfishlovesyou]

[Welp.]

How very horrible.

[etudes]

[ blink blink, sorry Fuuko, she's a bit slower.. ]

What is so very horrible..?

[starfishlovesyou]

Fuuko finds the idea of someone... Exploding... To be more than a little nauseating. Even if they are a bully it would probably still be as bad.

[etudes]

... That's right.. It would be better if people wouldn't explode. It would be sad even for bullies, probably..

[ ... yes, probably. ]

Maybe we shouldn't have bully fireworks, but just normal ones, so everyone can be happy.

[starfishlovesyou]

More than probably, definitely! Fuuko imagines it would be better if no one explodes, even if the bullies poke your nose and try to ambush you when you're thinking about starfish.

[Nod. Yup, it's best if everyone stays fine and unexploded.]

Should the bullies be happy too, watching the fireworks with everyone else?

[etudes]

[ having bully conversations with Nagisa and now Fuuko.. ]

As long as they leave everyone else alone, it should be fine. But.. for bullies to be happy, they need to be bullying someone..

[starfishlovesyou]

[just call childline or something already kotomi, yeesh...]

Maybe as they're watching the fireworks they're bullying someone at the same time so they're twice as happy.

[how awful]

[etudes]

[ don't make fun of her trauma okay it's a Serious Thing!! ]

... B-but.. it's bad when bullies bully people. It's a v-very sad and scary thing to be bullied..

[starfishlovesyou]

[not making fun of it, no no no. you know what's fun this time of year? trans-atlantic flights.]

Yes, it's very horrible when bullies bully people. But Kotomi-san! As far as Fuuko is aware there are no bullies here in Luceti. Just a bunch of weird people, but not bullies!

[at least there aren't any weird bullies. that would be all sorts of terrible.]

[etudes]

[ oh, yes, just as fun as cars, aren't they? ]

There were some people who I thought were bullies, but.. they turned out to not be bullies after all. [ hint: she accused like, seven people or so of being bullies falsely, oops. ] ... What is the difference between weird people and bullies?

[starfishlovesyou]

[pretty sure dying after giving birth is more fun-- wait]

There some people Fuuko thought were weird guys. Only one of them wasn't really and he's still a little weird. [damned weird guys always being weird. and trolling her.] Weird people are people whose existence is weird! Or they act weird, or do weird things... Like jumping on benches and then kissing Fuuko's hand! Bullies might be meaner than weird guys? [You're the bully expert Kotomi, what do you think?]

[etudes]

[ how about lying next to your little kid in the snow and dying... ]

I don't know if it's possible for anyone's existence to be weird.. [ further research on this topic is required and this is filled away as a mental note for later. ] ... Did anyone try to kiss your hand, Fuuko-chan?

That's true though, I think bullies would be meaner. But maybe the line between them is very, very thin..

[starfishlovesyou]

[along with said little kid who was already sick anyway. how sad. bring back the bully fireworks.]

Fuuko has seen someone whose existence is weird, Okazaki-san! Though he did rank just about the sea slugs, so he wasn't that weird. [but enough of these rankings and such] Yes! A very weird guy kissed Fuuko when Fuuko was trying to get signatures for Nagisa-san's get well soon card. It was very strange!

Maybe a bully is just a very mean weird guy then? How horrible.

[etudes]

[ bring back kicking combo counts.. god, clannad is the most violent series I play from!! ]

Okazaki-- ah.. you mean Tomoya-kun? I don't think Tomoya-kun's existence is particularly weird, that would mean mine would be pretty weird too.. [ pondering this, thank god she's not asking how Fuuko's ranking system works. ]

What kind of guy was it..? Maybe we should avoid him if he's that weird and kissing people.

[starfishlovesyou]

[bring back dictionaries to the face. clannad is very violent gosh!! much much much too violent.]

How does Okazaki-san's slightly weird existence make your existence weird too? Are you both somehow related and Fuuko wasn't aware of this?! [Or does Tomoya just spread weirdness like a disease...]

He had blonde hair and he jumped on things you normally aren't meant to jump on, you should always avoid him if you can!! Fuuko thinks his name is... Masaomi! Or something!

[etudes]

[ yeah, it's totally not like my other series in Luceti at all in which young magical girls are violently getting their heads bitten off or planets are blown up or people are turned into burger meat. pshaw, that violent Clannad. ]

Tomoya-kun and I already knew each other when we were little kids, so.. for us to meet back then and again in high school, that must be like destiny of weird people. [ still kotomi logic all up in here. ]

Masaomi, the random-things-jumper.. [ headtilt. ] Maybe there's a wanted poster for him in the village.

[starfishlovesyou]

[ :V
oh yeah, clannad is still the most violent out of all of those. i mean, wow, that combo tomoyo pulled off? deadly. they even mosaic'd sunohara's face it was that bad.]

So you're both childhood friends. Okazaki-san might not have been as weird as he was and then wasn't when he grew up, so you might not be weird at all! [and then there was fuuko logic.]

...If there isn't then we should make one!

[etudes]

That's right. We're.. childhood friends. [ staring at all this fuuko logic though.. ] ... So you're saying that Tomoya-kun is weird, and I'm not..?

[ AND OH, THIS IS A PLAN. ]

Can you draw well enough for it, Fuuko-chan?