lostcarnival | Shichi Go San Time-!

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Shichi Go San Time-!

Who: Anyone coming to the Shichi-Go-San Ginko was talking about!
When: Afternoon of Day 93
Where: Somewhere in Shabondamashii
What: Shichi-Go-San! It's like a birthday without the birthday. And without birthday things.
Warnings: NAH

Shabondamashi is first and foremost a bath-house, and a Tourist City. Buildings are stocked with souvenirs, novelty cafes, and restaurants. There are stands to take photos, there are places to play games and for the more adult patrons play with other things. And with any such a place, sometimes people like to jump the gun and get hitched.

Tanyuu and Ginko needed some kind of shrine to host their equivalent of an Un-Birthday, and a shrine is what they found. Built with familiar traditional structure, a Tori Gate stands between two other rows of shops and gives way to a small man-made clearing that's been decorated with planted trees and bamboo, completing the scene with a small building for guests and patrons and various smaller structures like lanterns, statues, bells...

It's very much as if someone took a Japanese Shinto Shrine and crunched it down into something more compact for the sake of filming or partying. There's certainly space- even shotgun weddings get crowded, and this is far from that- but it's still a bit smaller than some will be used to.

To be fair, everything back outside the tori is festivals and baths again though, so there's hardly any need for it all.

Notably, there is a rather friendly and alien looking priest- not Shinto exactly, but similar enough considering they're in the multiverse- greeting anyone who comes in. Mostly he's there to tell people not to break anything, and about certain nifty rites and rituals they could partake in for good luck. Most are similar to something from standard Earths, but some of them are a bit more off the ball. Hey, might as well try them though right? He seems to be happy about it all however; hosting a small 'festival' is a nice change from getting drunk people married! (Also, he got a nice tip for agreeing to do the protection charm for the sake of completion. Will it work? Nah, but it's the thought that counts.)

The scene is set. There's little 'shichi-go-san' cakes on an outdoor table, and some hot tea to enjoy with it. There's also a little decorated bag that Rin in particular is vehemently keeping anyone from taking if needed. All that's left now is...

The surprise.

Once the surprise is over with, everyone can do the important part of a small festival- eat sweet cakes, watch a little ceremony, and most of all take pictures of everyone dressed up fancy.

.... (You. Did dress fancy for this, right?)

[[OOC - While it's primarily a personal log, this can also be treated as a mingle for those who want to do things as part of 'setting up the festival', or 'waiting for Reira to arrive'. I'll be making a comment for Reira that people can directly reply to with that in mind, but people can still tag the log directly for the same deal.]]

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Yuya did not dress fancy for this, having caught onto what was being set up kind of late. So he's still in summer yukata, but he doesn't act like he's terribly out of place during the ceremony. He takes plenty of pictures with his smartphone under the assumption Reiji would like to see them--this is the last year she can participate in it after all, and he's probably the only member of her family who cares.

When the ceremony starts winding down, Yuya comes over to put a hand on her shoulder to gently grab her attention. "Hey. How are you feeling, Reira?"

Honestly, even though everything got explained to her and done step by step, Reira still looks a bit like someone who walked through a door and forgot what they were about to do.

She rather slowly turns her head to look up to, and blink at Yuuya. "...I still don't know why they made a party..." she whispers, over all seeming quite stunned by the matter. "...Is it because I didn't pick a birthday yet? They said it's because I'm seven..."

That's not quite it kiddo.

"It's... just a holiday in Japan. I guess since you live there now, Ginko and Tanyuu thought you should get to experience it before your too old for it."

Or, at least, an approximation of too old. They're really only guessing that she's seven after all. Anyway, it seems better to give her the simplest explanation of 'tradition' instead of going through the whole purpose behind it. "I did the same thing when I was five."

"There's a holiday for being seven?" She's still not quite following. Either way.

"...Why did you do it when you were five?"

"Shichigosan happens when you're three, five, and if you're a girl you celebrate when you're seven too." He holds up his fingers in emphasis. "Uh... don't ask me why girls do it more than boys."

Because he doesn't know, and is feeling like he was cheated a candy bag now. "It's basically the same every time. A priest prays for you to stay safe and healthy, and you get candy, and your family take a lot of pictures of you."

Wat

Reira blinks, and then frowns. "...We get to go three times but you only get to go once..?" It's her assumption anyway, since Yuuya didn't say that boys and girls alike get to go at the age of three. Ah well. "Um. I guess staying safe is important right now. It's definitely a pretty dress..."

Looking pretty in a picture is Also Nice,

It's implied with the order, so Yuya just looks confused when she asks why he goes once. "No, we go twice..."

Which isn't really important, he supposes. He draws his hand back. "You can keep wearing it if you want."

It's really not Yuuya. You said you went when you were five, but then after that said three, five, seven-

Why not say you get to go at three too! That's what makes sense. Reira furrows her brows. "....you said you went when you were five though..."

They're going to keep missing each other on this though. "Um. I guess it's mine now, but I don't think I'll wear it for a long time. I keep losing my shoe."

There's a blank stare-off between them, because Yuya doesn't quite put together that Reira's failing to follow implications that's usually picked up from that sort of sentence organization, because he definitely doesn't pay enough attention in any of his classes to be able to identify and explain that kind of nuance.

"Huh?" He blinks once, shaking out of his stupor. "Oh... well, you could just take off your shoes if you keep losing them. Or wear the same ones you were wearing before?"

It's what happens when you jump from Russian to Japanese to Magical Translation, without actually taking the classes properly.

Though she is, at least, working on classwork stuff again. Reira looks down at her little geta, and then shakes her head. "Mnh! It's supposed to match!"

"You could just go without shoes, too," he gently teases. Although he sure won't stop her if she really does decide to go without shoes. As far as he's concerned, they're in vacation to less loose and nobody really needs to be proper.

"Are you getting tired?"

"That's even less matching." Honestly you're just being deliberately bad at this now!

For all that she has to learn to properly be a kid, there are a few things she's figuring out. Like the trick question that 'are you tired' tends to be. Reira rapidly shakes her head no- "Umn! I'm not!"

She's not going to bed early you can't make her,

That is indeed a trick question when coming from adults, looking for ways to remove kids from the equation so they can break out the alcohol en mass. Yuya doesn't have such reasons to shuffle Reira out of the party, though.

"Okay. Do you want to go look around the city? I saw a lot of games you can play for prizes, so it's not all shopping."

"Eh?" Well, that certainly has her attention. "...Like the carnival's games?" she asks, blinking. What with everything turning to 'war mode', it's been a bit tricky to continue the path of learning how to properly 'have fun' after all.

So games are a good chance for that right?

"Yeah, they're a lot like those. And there's crafting booths if you want to make something. Sometimes you get a prize if yours is the best, like a competition?"

It looked like they were operating similarly to what Yuya is used to, anyway.

"...Crafting booths..?" It...looks like showing may be better than telling, right now. Adjusting her grip on her candy bag and making sure her little medal (which was probably provided by one of the two who planned this whole event) won't fall, she moves a few steps closer. "...They're all in the same place?"

Definitely a show don't tell situation.

"Some of them might be? It's a pretty big place." Densely packed, too, so Yuya figures they're probably as scattered as every other kind of game and stall found around Shabon.

Yuya offers her his hand. "You wanna go see?"

"Mnh, really big," Reira agrees. But hey. When in 'Shabon'...

She awkwardly takes his hand, tilting her head a bit until she can see that she's holding his properly. Then, with a nod, she answers. "...Okay!"

Yuya smiles, looking over his shoulder to wave anyone else still lingering goodbye before he leads Reira off and out of the shrine. He doesn't remember off the top of his head where the crafts are, but... he'll find them.

"Are you recovering okay?" He glances sideways to her. "Lilith captured you, didn't she? But I couldn't find a prism with you..."

"Eh?" Recovery wasn't even a spot in her mind, honestly. "Um, I'm ok. I was just a little sleepy I guess...Papyrus got me out," she adds. "So he brought me to where Doctor Herbert was..."

"That's good. No one seems really sick or hurt from being in those things anymore, but..." But not knowing the nature of them, he wants to make sure. Especially since he failed to actually find and help her.

"I'm glad he found you." God, Yuya hopes getting these miracles is going to be worth it.

"Yeah. He said it made a bunch of 'weird' mes, so he had a lot of trouble trying to break it. They kept getting in the way." So she's fine enough to talk about it casually at least.

As it is. "Mnh. I guess I got hands like this because of that though..."

It's probably because of being a bat actually. In fact that's Definitely the reason.

"Yeah, there were copies defending all the prisms." Yuya worries over his lip briefly, very aware of the sudden increase in her hand's size. "Hopefully that's just like any other change we get here."

Which is the same thing he's been wondering for the hole in Gongenzaka's chest, too. Maybe it's fae-like, because the mirror had something to do with it...? He hopes.

"Doctor Herbert said there wasn't anything wrong with them, so probably. ...They're just big and weird," she notes. "They already had feathers and stuff before. They just got bigger."

He hopes so. Yuya's gaze drifts back to the city, eyeing the signs until he sees the right one. "Oh--there it is!"

He points ahead, leaving Reira to the deeper stand with very colorful patterns and bubbly text. Inside are tables arranged in a square, where a few other kids around Reira's age seem to be cutting shapes out of thick squares. A couple parents have stayed behind, chatting amongst themselves, while others presumably have left the crafting stand to act as an impromptu babysitter while they explore the town.

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Me, Awkwardly and OOCly: "i actually made the same misinterpretation..."

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