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voidtreckernet2020-06-18 10:23 pm
mtsilver_conquor) wrote in voidtreckernet2020-06-18 10:23 pm
Voice; Fiddlesticks 24, early-ish morning. (slightly backdated)
Colour me curious, but what are winter festivals or holidays like on your world? Back home, today would be Shiwasu 10, or Tōji -longest night and the start of winter. It's also my birthday, but that's not the important thing; it's not a big number anyway. I don't know what Alola does for Tōji, so I'll tell you what my hometown did.
[The longer she talks, the more homesick she sounds. It likely doesn't help that today's her birthday, but well. Small detail's Eva's willing to overlook.] Masara had the rural traditions of feasting, food making, drinking, games dancing, battles. You know, the normal for a coastal town.
No snowball fights though; we'd have to go to the mountains for that and we never went in the lead up to Tōji because that was bad luck. But, we did have something better: Fire jumping under the stars to bring good luck. You'd start at dusk with it low, little more than a small coal pit so even kids could jump it with supervision, and work up to a boosted jump over a half-drum of flames, though they'd only let the adults do that one.
The day I turned twenty I did so many times mum had to drag me away from it by the ear, but - worth it. So worth it...
[She trails off before ending the transmission.]
[The longer she talks, the more homesick she sounds. It likely doesn't help that today's her birthday, but well. Small detail's Eva's willing to overlook.] Masara had the rural traditions of feasting, food making, drinking, games dancing, battles. You know, the normal for a coastal town.
No snowball fights though; we'd have to go to the mountains for that and we never went in the lead up to Tōji because that was bad luck. But, we did have something better: Fire jumping under the stars to bring good luck. You'd start at dusk with it low, little more than a small coal pit so even kids could jump it with supervision, and work up to a boosted jump over a half-drum of flames, though they'd only let the adults do that one.
The day I turned twenty I did so many times mum had to drag me away from it by the ear, but - worth it. So worth it...
[She trails off before ending the transmission.]
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Then you'd have loved my hometown. Coastal with the best fish and seafood in Kantō.
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[One way to find out, she gave him the opening to ask more.]
"What kind of fish?"
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All kinds. Bass, taki'eh, angelfish, whiting, gummi, unagi and squidling. Sometimes we'd fish out fugu, tosakinto, rantān and koiking', to name a few more. If we got really likely, we'd end up with a kujira, but that was rare.
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"And some of that was in your bag when you arrived? Like a sampler platter? Magically preserved. And we could share it?" [Like now.]
Late :(
Nah, you're not late at all! :D
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[She's so miffed. So, so, miffed.] ...Nautilus?
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"Last world I was on before the train. Nita remembers it too so does that kid Gar, though most of the others who were there and are here now don't seem to. But That place had these Reality Storms all the time. Like one time it gave us all wings and gave everyone who could use them bows with these magical arrows that made people act silly. Well one Storm we all thought that we were in this weird world with these things called Pokemon and we were all trainers. People kept trying to catch me," [he added with a bit of an annoyed huff.] "After the storm a lot of people still had their Pokemon. Well some of them anyway. I just figured the City made them all up."
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[That sounds both very interesting and slightly alarming that one's biology could be changed like that, and Eva's thankful nothing like that's happened, yet, on the train.]
No; they're native to my world, though I'm guessing there weren't any trainers around then to correct the assumption?
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[She can easily imagine it, of course, but she'd rather hear what he has to say on the topic.]
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[PRINCESS. 'NONA (who is not here, thank the Four.)]
Though, it can seem that way with psychic-types at times.
[She's not even getting into the lone exception that is Fluffy. Nope.]
Task Force?
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[That is not a word in her - or her world's- vocabulary, full stop.
Mostly because they're all one race, and have always had more important things to worry about anyway.]
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[Finally he did however.]
"It is a thing where one group hates another group just because of the colour of their skin or length of their teeth or ears or any excuse really to point to a group and call them different."
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[Said so very deadpan, because Arkeans don’t have the concept of humans belonging to different races. But make no mistake: we would call 'Othering' out as racism.]
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Region-wise, yes. Besides, we've bigger problems and a global population of less than a billion, and one wrong move could see that reduced to yet another bottleneck.
[Is she explaining this well? Probably not.]
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I'm sorry your humans had that happen to them. It isn't right.
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Is that your way of asking for a feed?
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