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Yūya Sakaki ([personal profile] hippocarnival) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-08-16 10:53 am

[Open]

Who: Yuya & everyone
When: Day 146-152
Where: Around the Carnival & Summerlands
What: Recovery, new changes, and continued antics while the carnival has a nice, long break.
Warnings: None, probably?

[Handstands]
[Yuya's in significantly better health than when they first arrived. He can still feel the residual pain and his stamina is rebuilding, but he's much more lively than before. He also realizes he needs to rebuild his strength, so even if he can't perform yet he's at least practicing so that he'll be ready to bounce back into action as soon as he's cleared.

He's taking his exercise outside the tents so the rest of the performers have plenty of room, and instead can be found tending to his errands around the carnival... on his hands. Just walking on his hands, knees bent for better balance as he navigates from the trailers to the cookhouse for lunch.]
Excuse me! Coming through!


[Shadow]
[His shadow has been acting up since he returned. At first he was sure it was just a trick of his mind, but the long it goes on, the more chances he has to see that it is, in fact, just moving on its own sometimes. Okay, that's weird, but he just tries to ignore it. Only it doesn't end there, and by the second week it's taken on a different shape entirely. That's not uncommon, he's been assured, but when he finds it morphed into someone a little broader, taller (older), with hair that spikes up... it's unsettling.

He knows who it looks like. He's standing, shoulders tense as he glares at his own shadow. In the middle of the walkway.]



[Summerlands]

[Yuya's come to accept the Summer people. They're certainly not at domineering, volatile, or frightening as the rest of the Summer Court, and plenty of veterans--not the mention the Ringmaster seem to trust them wholly. So he's navigated deeper into the city, to one of the miracle gardens hidden behind pillars and wisteria.

It's a very small, circular garden, flush and green with scattered flowers. The greatest concentration of them, currently, is around Yuya--who's sitting down with dried fruit to snack on, looking serene.

It's easy to tell what's going on, because as soon as anyone steps in with a positive feeling flowers will start to sprout near them. The better they feel the bigger, brighter, more beautiful the flowers become. They smell wonderful, and something about that scent will bring good memories more easily to the front of their mind--no doubt generating more good feelings and more flowers. It's cyclical.]



[Wildcard]

[???]
kingsroads: (well phooey)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-08-22 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, [ Strange says, without hesitation. ] We've started to pick up new faces. I worry that if I don't tell them, nobody will.

[ Because Yuya's right: it's definitely a touchy subject for most of the carnival right now and he doubts anyone would want to actually talk about it to the new arrivals. ]
kingsroads: (small cheeky little smile)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-08-22 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I did. [ And Strange just seems so happy about the idea of performing again. ]

I've already started planning how best to incorporate this into my act, [ said with a vague gesture at his still-smokey feet. ] Though of course, I'll be happy to take suggestions.
kingsroads: (well why don't we do this?)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-08-22 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I've no idea. There's only one way to find out, of course.

[ So why not find out here and now! Strange stares at his feet for a moment, as they turn solid. He then looks at his right hand, concentrating on it with a frown...and poof, that hand turns to smoke.

Strange is friggen pumped and looks over at Yuya with a grin.
]

Apparently not!
kingsroads: (YAY RASH DECISIONS!!!)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-08-22 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be! At the moment I'm entering via a mirror and leaving via water, but perhaps I could enter via water and leave as smoke. I'm certain I could ask someone to just knock over a bucket of water during the transition between acts--and then I could clean it up myself and use that water in my act!

[ It's obvious that Strange is just going to yammer on about magic and the intricacies of crafting his performance if not stopped. ]