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

[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.