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Aoi Asahina ([personal profile] amphibian) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2015-02-01 02:56 pm

lap eight // day 271 (open) // IT'S PARTY TIME

Who: EVERYBODY
Open: Open
When: 271
Where: In the empty space around the monument!
What:

PARTY MINGLE GO
Format: DO AS YOU PLEASE AND FOLLOW YOUR HEART
Warnings: If anything comes up, put it in the subject lines!


[As everyone wakes up bright and early this morning, it isn't going to be hard to miss what's changed in the empty space around the monument Just in case, though, signs with indicating arrows line the campground where the Bastion's newest guests are staying, reading, in Ura, "This way to the party!"—wait, party?

Oh yes. Anyone Aoi had managed to grab the day before ought to be prepared for this. A great big banner stretched on two poles over the monument reads "Welcome to the Bastion!", written in Ura again; there's a little variation between the handwriting, since Zanya wrote some and Zahi wrote others.

Every last piece of the area that can have something hanging from it does: Zuko's lanterns hang off all the nearby trees, and her streamers, mostly red and sometimes gold, line absolutely everything, including but not limited to all the chairs and tables Ryu got together and helped arrange. Other things you're apt to find everywhere: flowers. Between the Psiioniic, the Disciple, Ghaleon, and Crona, there are more flowers than anyone could ever figure out what to do with. Aoi's best has been done, though: garlands are hung up around furniture, tied around tree trunks, woven through branches, strung between the branches of adjacent trees, wrapped 'round the monument, and so on and so on. A lot of care has been put into making sure they look good instead of just being thrown every which-way.

A few mismatched vases sitting on the tables have some flowers sticking out of them, too—perhaps exactly enough in each to make a flower crown, hmm? There are no party hats, so some improvising will have to be done.

There's all manner of tasty treats placed on all the tables, of course: a platter of picked donuts is to be expected, given Aoi's hand in all this (and thanks to Naegi, there are plenty to go around and they're arranged almost elaborately), but Rin, Zia, and Mirielle have provided all manner of homemade goodies that aren't just Aoi's favorite desserts. Bon's made a cake that Aoi has proudly placed in the center of one round table and surrounded with the rest of the desserts.

Instead of food, one table has a chalkboard propped up on it instead, with a box of colorful chalk beside it. Aoi's already written a small message in the corner—Thank you, everyone! with a smiley face beside it—and doodled a couple of flowers around the edges. The board's five feet long and there's plenty of chalk to go around, so there's certainly room for collaborating on something!

Not far from all the food sits the enormous stack of Legos Aoi purchased at Ibuki's suggestion. Legos. Please keep your shoes on, for the love of god. Some of them have already been arranged to form half the outside of a floor and a chunk of wall up to Aoi's chest so everyone has an idea of what's supposed to be done with things, but there are more than enough to start new projects. On the other side of the monument, closer to the collection of shop buildings than the gazebo, the soccer nets Otoha and Takamura built out of Skyway scraps have been set up (flowers have been woven in and out of the netting, of course). Aoi's brought out not one, but two of the soccer balls given to her during the festival, just in case of a soccer ball malfunction or if the game gets big enough that everyone decides rules are for losers and the only way to play soccer is with multiple things to kick. In the absence of paint, Aoi has decided to use more streamers as field markers.

At the gazebo not far off (naturally, it's covered in streamers and flowers as well), there's a set of speakers and an amplifier ready for use—Ibuki's, of course, and the little note Aoi's written that reads "For Ibuki-chan!" (with the wrong characters for her name, but points for effort) confirms it. Her equipment from Colin has all been set up, too: the spotlights on the top and bottom of the gazebo will shine in all sorts of colors when Ibuki turns them on, and there are some additional bits and pieces to the sound system to help make everything that much noisier. Aside from hanging decor, the space in front of the gazebo has been left empty so that there's enough room to dance!

To the side of the gazebo and just behind it is the unreasonably long rope Shing somehow managed to scrounge up. Like absolutely everything else, it has a chain of flowers wrapped around it. A streamer's been tied around the very center of it in a bow, and hopefully that makes its intended purpose as a tool of tug-of-war obvious enough.

If Aoi has anything to say about it, this is going to be the best goddamn welcome party ever.

Enjoy the festivities!
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kuma_killer: (don't give a fuck/unimpressed)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't really encouraged.
daughterofursa: (if it comes to it)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes there's not much difference.

I bet there were plenty of girls who wanted to fight and no one told them they could.
kuma_killer: (whistling)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm, it's possible.
daughterofursa: (unimpressed)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I bet some of them could've beaten you at your boxing sport, too.
daughterofursa: (confident)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
You really think you're that good that no one could beat you?
kuma_killer: (smile - arms folded)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
No one ever did. And I fought on the world stage where only the best of the best are allowed to compete.
daughterofursa: (all right)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You just haven't met your match. It's arrogant to think that means you don't have one.
kuma_killer: (casual smile)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Or maybe I am everyone else's match. The idea that there's always someone better is crap, otherwise there's no such thing as the best.
daughterofursa: (when you think about it)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe there isn't. Everyone has their weaknesses.
kuma_killer: (don't give a fuck/unimpressed)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
A fighter having a weakness doesn't mean you can beat them. It just means they're not perfect.
daughterofursa: (headscratch)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I've lost enough fights to know all it really takes sometimes is one mistake. Overconfidence doesn't help either.
kuma_killer: (explaining)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's your lack of confidence that's the problem then. I go into a fight expecting to win. That doesn't mean I don't give my best.

Sometimes, it's the one who wants it more that comes out on top.
daughterofursa: (serious face)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't tell me I didn't want it badly enough. I've always given it my all.
kuma_killer: (calm look)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you just weren't strong enough. That's the world fighters live in. You win or you lose. There's no middle ground. No consolation prize.
daughterofursa: (I know)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that. But I also know I'm stronger for what I've been through. It's harder to keep going when you're not the one who's winning all the time.
kuma_killer: (normal smile)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good. Having the resolve to get back up after losing is an admirable trait to have.
daughterofursa: (headscratch)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's not sure many people have actually acknowledged that.]

...thanks.
kuma_killer: (smile - sly/cocky)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, no problem.

[Darnit, that conversation distracted him from his real reason for being there. Time to get things back on track!]

So, you been seeing anyone here?
daughterofursa: (dubious)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[She is 100% not following. There are people all over, of course she sees them?]

What?
kuma_killer: (surprised)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you seeing anyone? Do you have a boyfriend?
daughterofursa: (ping)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
A-

No. No, I don't have a boyfriend. [She sounds confused that this isn't somehow obvious.]
kuma_killer: (smile - eyes shut/cocky)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
How would you like to go out sometime then?

[Surely he can't get more clear than that, can he?]
daughterofursa: (oh!)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2015-02-03 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh.

Well uh.

How does she respond to this, the only other time she was asked her uncle was there and no words were required on her part.

Ummmm.]


S-sorry, I don't.. um... I don't see you that way.
kuma_killer: (smile - sly/cocky)

[personal profile] kuma_killer 2015-02-03 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well maybe not now, but we can go out a few times and you can get to know me better.

[Maybe that resilience to keep trying isn't such a great trait for Takamura right now.]

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