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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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Well, no. The religion this comes from believes in only one God. Each candle on the branches represents one of the eight days that the oil was able to last.
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[It's rueful, but then Eva pauses. Noticeably pauses.] Just one god? That's... Is that... normal, in your world?
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[To say the least, but she has enough tact not to say bizarre or weird, even if she's thinking it.]
Back home, it's very much the minority. Sure, people can have a main god, but they generally follow or worship at least three. It's just how things are.
What's your god's name?
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Uh...well, we try to avoid using His true name unless we really need to, out of respect. Mostly we just refer to him as 'God'.
[ It might be hard to hear the capital G, but there it is. ]
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[Unfathomoablly Bizare to her mind, and there's a noticeable pause as she struggles to think of what to say.]
...That takes um. Dedication.
[Lame, Eva, Lame.]
No problem!
Want to wrap?
Works for me!