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[hippocarnival]

Who: Yuya and you!
When: S2:D28-32
Where: Carnival Grounds
What: Yuya wakes up with a couple new changes, and general carnival shenanigans
Warnings: Proooobably none?

[Balance Beams]

[Yuya woke on the 28th with no trace of Creation in him—just a little reminder on his face, of tiny stars around his cheeks and  eyes that shine in the light gold of his soul color (and his other fae mark looks lighter as well.

He has a new appendage.

He’s not exactly happy about it—a thin, lizard-like tail in iridescent orange scales that’s about as along as he is tall. His tail isn’t big, so it doesn’t shift his center of gravity too much. Still, it’s just enough that Yuya notices it when trying to practice for the upcoming performances. He’s left slightly off center, and that’s not going to do in front of an audience.

So he’s taken to long hours in the big top, using the only inches high balance beams with very thin widths to try and orient himself with his new tail. Sometimes it flails wildly or Yuya teeters one direction or the other with his face pinched in concentration. He makes it to the other side easily, but it’s not as smooth and refined as he’d like it to be. If you’re walking by, try not to get smacked in the face, the legs, the anything.]

[Magic "Practice"]

[Alternatively, now that he no longer has his Guardian abilities, Yuya’s back to fairly typical magic practice. He’s got his staff out by the training area, using the glowing crystal at the end to draw various patterns on the ground.

Smiley faces, that is.

This is absolutely practice. It’s rune drawing practice or. Something.

They don’t last more than a couple minutes, but there is a constantly moving pattern of smiley faces (smiley suns, smiley flowers) going across the open field.]

[Wildcard]

[Hit me]

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magic practice

[kingsroads]

[ In his time at Wismuth and hitting up a remarkable amount of children's arcade places, Strange has amassed a few shitty prizes. There was one decent one but for the most part, it's pixy sticks, tiny little army men, and bouncy balls in his coat pockets. Today he's got a bouncy ball that he's been fiddling with for the past few minutes.

He pauses for a moment as he spots Yuya practicing his magic. Or, in Strange's mind, he spots Yuya having fun with his magic. Really, what magical application did smiley faces have? And Strange instantly knows of a way to make this actual practice. ]

Shields at the ready!

[ And then, without any more warning, he chucks that small little bouncy ball at Yuya's head. ]

Balance Beams

[everybodypanic]

[Jinx was there as well, at the Big Top and practicing her upcoming performance. Diving and rolling through some hoops might not seem like much, but it will seem more impressive when the hoops are on fire come the big day. She really, really wants them to be on fire. But she'll save that for later.

Practice is easy enough and she takes a break after a while.

Heading off, she feels a certain something smacking the side of her head.]

Ow! Hey what the hell was-

[Tail. And Yuya.

But mostly tail.]

Did you... always have that?

balance beam

[whattaprick]

"You're overthinking it."

Lambert, unsurprisingly, has chosen the prime asshole moment to pipe up from somewhere behind and off to the side, right when Yuya's particularly struggling with his balance. The witcher's grinning, his own tail lazily waving back and forth, as he watches Yuya. Who knows how long he's been standing there, anyway?

BALANCE BEAMS...DAY 31

[betheman]

[To say that it's 'good to be back' would be...putting it quite lightly, really. Gongenzaka of course found out fairly quickly into his own morning routine that he didn't come out of it as unchanged as he thought, but compared to spending three days dehydrated and then growing a bush, being 'alarmingly flexible' is...Fine. He's fine with that, it's really nothing to worry about after everything else.

But speaking of new changes, it is with mild surprise that he comes upon the tent to greet Yuuya only to spot him fairly close to the ground-and so, the once more enormous 'taur comes trotting in, eyes wide as they take the tail in.] Hmmnnh...you appear to be growing more used to this, fortunately, [he observes, complimenting his friend at least.] Exactly, how long have you been practicing, however?

[There are probably other things they could or should talk about (such as the fact that Gongenzaka is here at all, and that the plan for an Egg is even now more than ever likely to end up necessary), but really, it'd be nice to go back to something more 'normal' for at least the first five seconds of a conversation.]

[espigeon]

One afternoon while Yuya is practicing, Julien wanders into the big tent, gives him a nod, and without a word flutters up towards the high wire, his wings kicking up a short-lived wind. He rises to try and land on it and grasp with his feet, but he's huge and heavy and the wire is pretty fine, so very rapidly he overbalances and pitches over, still hanging on to the cable with his feet.

The end result is a giant pigeon hanging upside down from a line that's now slanted on either side, though even a sudden four hundred plus pound weight isn't enough to break it or unmoor a side from wherever it's attached. Julien bobs a little bit in the air and then is still, his wings folded.

"Ow," he says, his voice amused and pitched to carry all that way down. "Maybe I didn't think this through. Landing on small things is always so much harder than I expect. Hello, Yuya! Oh that's a cool tail, is it new?"