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

/a mid-level boss?

[i_am_not_cute]

Really? That sounds scary!

/probably even a final boss

[talontrot]

Tell me about it. Though they never last too long! I turn around and blast 'em!

/oh shit I am totally underleveled for you then, ROFL

[i_am_not_cute]

With one of your Grenade Eggs, right?

... /we will just have to level you up then 8D

[talontrot]

Yep! [Kazooie is just... not going to mention she can drop Grenade Eggs out of her rear. Both because that is totally awkward and because it's a good secret attack to have in times of distress...]

What about you? Any cool fights you've ever had to do?

/ffffff level-grinding. o_o;;

[i_am_not_cute]

Cool fights...? [Hmm.] Well, me, Blue Rose, and Fire Emblem had to fight an army of robots that were gonna destroy the support pillars or Sternbild.

/tends to overlevel in games > >;

[talontrot]

...

Robots? [Kazooie definitely looks a bit unsettled.] I hope you kicked their tin cans clear across the city!

/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.

/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.]

[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.]

[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.