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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.]
oh, like i have room to comment
[Certainly more than she would have thought, as a princess well-protected from the realities of her people.
Well. She'd learned, at least a bit.]
Ah. We have beings a little like that, I think. Great ones who guard the people, though they sometimes prefer not to be seen.
[A pause, then she answers a question Eva had asked earlier.]
The food depends on the area. The north tens to prefer small wheat cakes in celebration. The south... rice dumplings. Both regions have a taste for preserved peppers, when they can find them.
It's ok. Do we want to head for a wrap for points?
[A short hum before]: I can't really comment on ours much more. I don't worship them, but if they're like the rest, I think we humans like to think the guard us regardless of what reality is.
-See you say that and now I want rice dumplings and the peppers.
Sure
[A small smile.]
Let's be honest: we are all desperate to get away from meals based on the train's current fixation.
Wrap?
Say, do you want to meet me in the kitchen and show me how to make some rice dumplings?
yes