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riverviewlogs2017-05-01 07:22 pm
- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
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introductory mingle: MEMORIA
what: Introductory Log and Memoria Commemoration
when: May 1st - May 8th
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines
In the days leading up to May 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Memoria. A more solemn celebration than Sampremi or the Flower Festival, Memoria is a week-long time of remembrance for those lost in the Great War and the epidemic that decimated Riverview Quarantine's population 10 years ago. Memoria traditions include lighting lanterns for the dead, telling stories about lost loved ones or lost homes, eating meals with loved ones, and a special gathering to send floating lanterns down the river in honor of those lost.
While the main city-wide event associated with Memoria is the floating of lanterns down the river on the evening of May 8th, the holiday is generally seen as a time of reflection on and appreciation of things that have been lost - people, homes, cultures, and planets. It is also a celebration of the things that remain. Many locally-owned shops will host displays of culturally-significant food, and will hand out informational flyers sharing the unique customs of their own homeworlds. There is a heavy emphasis on sharing time with family, friends, and lovers, and anyone who is able to will cook meals or treats for loved ones, or at least purchase them something good to eat.
i. hanging lanterns
Throughout the entire week of Memoria, residents will be hanging lanterns around the city. Lanterns are generally placed in greater number in places of passage - streets, bridges, and all alongside the train lines are particularly well-decorated, as are any trees alongside paths, and most homes and businesses have a profusion of lanterns around their doors and windows. This tradition is twofold; some people believe that the lanterns are hung in these places in order to guide the spirits of the dead back to those who still love them, other people believe that the lanterns are to give light for living loved ones to find their doors in times of darkness...many people believe both.
No matter what your character might believe, you can be sure they will find themselves offered a lantern for free from various businesses or friendly citizens passing by, and invited to hang it before the sun sets, or they may be handed a bundle of lanterns and asked to help share them with others.
ii. sharing life
Throughout the city, characters will find groups of people gathering to share hot drinks and talk about their loved ones lost, their homes and planets, or their experiences during the Great War and the epidemic. Anyone who has lost someone, who has fought to survive, who is feeling cut off and homesick, is welcome to sit and share their story. If your character chooses to sit and to share their story, they will find that people will gather to listen, will generally be respectful of the telling, and may share their own similar experiences in return. This is an excellent time to air grief in an environment where most people understand and respect grief, and a good time to deepen the connections to others around you, to understand them better.
There is also a very large focus on cooking or purchasing meals or treats for loved ones during Memoria, with many people taking meals with everyone they care about during the week of the holiday. Some go the extra mile and will hand out baked goods (usually chocolate or cinnamon), packets of candy, or other little treats to acquaintances, especially if they would like to form a closer bond with them. This is a great time for characters to reach out to someone they would like to get to know better with a surprise treat!
iii. floating of the lanterns
On the evening of May 8th, just before sundown, many of the city's residents will head toward the banks of the river, where they will light lanterns in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, in honor of their dead loved ones. The types of lanterns vary wildly, based on personality (either of the person floating it or the person they are honoring), culture, and many other factors. Some lanterns are very simple, others are incredibly complex, but the one common feature they all have is that people write on the shades of them - they write about their feelings for their loved ones, their wishes for their relationships and friendships, a memory from childhood or home, or even just lines of poetry or lyrics from songs that express something they miss, or something that hurts them.
Once those emotions are written on the lanterns, the lanterns are set free, floating down the river in the darkening evening, in a cathartic gesture shared by most residents of the city. Waves of lantern floating will start around 7 pm and continue until the sun rises on the morning of May 9th.
iv. roommates or wildcard
Feel free to use this prompt to set up headers for a communal floor, or threads open to roommates for the purpose of getting to know each other. Or if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during Memoria, feel free to write it up!
Credit: image i: glowconcepts, image ii: by trenchmaker, image iv: cherryorange; image iii: found uncredited on Pinterest - please let the mod know if you find credit!
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[ Jon isn't the biggest fan of puns, but he has a dad. He's heard enough of them to get an idea of what they're like. And this guys clearly enjoyed them. ]
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Those guys out there? They're a lot more like you than they are like me. Pretty tough to explain when I'm runnin' on fumes.
[ He stands, at best, to about chest-height at most with the average adult around here, no amount of craning his neck is going to help him see what's around that's open and still selling food, so he starts walking in the direction of a place he knows might be open.
Sans and his tradition of bringing kids into bars may or may not continue, even here. It, uh. Doesn't even occur to him to see where this kid's parents are. He's just hungry, wants a drink, and doesn't much care what else happens so long as it doesn't really interfere with the first two.
As he shuffles along: ]
People like you, you've got all kinds of stuff inside you. Muscles and fluids and tubes they go through, you follow me?
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[ Jon watches the bar, but doesn't take anything, keeping his hands to himself. He knows what he's allowed to have. Even an adult being there doesn't mean Jon will break the rules his parent set for him. ]
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[ Sans extracts a bony hand to flip it through the air in a neglectful gesture that doesn't really mean much of anything, tucking it back into his hoodie's pocket.
This, he decides, is not a very effective way of explaining this.
Normally, he wouldn't bother, but the kid's natural curiosity almost makes him want to, uh... give it the old college try?
It's weird. ]
How familiar are you with magic, kid?
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[ Jon certainly hasn't had any dealings with magic himself. And Kryptonians have never been fond of magic. It's one of the few weaknesses they have. ]
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That's. That's a start. And it's a better start than most humans, so, uh. Yeah, he'll go with it. He briefly places a cold, skeletal hand against Jon's shoulder, shrugging the other shoulder as he tries to explain. ]
Me and my kind are made of the stuff. The creatures you guys call monsters outside the perimeter fence, they aren't. So we're about as different from each other as you can get.
[ Sans takes a seat on a bar stool, motioning for the bartender's attention.
Wait.
When exactly did they enter this building, anyway? ]
Welp, here we are. You hungry?
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No thank you, sir.
[ He does, however, listen to Sans' explanation. He hasn't faced any of the monsters outside the perimeter, though Jon wants to go on a mission someday. It makes sense that magical creatures wouldn't share a connection with non-magical ones. ]
Are you the only monster in Riverview?
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[ The skeleton turns those strange little lights in his eye sockets over to Jon, as the bartender -- with one sidelong and somewhat disapproving glance at his company -- bustles off.
Is he the only monster in Riverview?
Sans would be lying if he claimed he hadn't already checked that fact thoroughly. And, liar though he may be, he sees no point in doing so now. ]
Yeah, kid. Like I said, one-of-a-kind. And, geez, none of that 'sir', stuff. The name's Sans.
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That must be lonely.
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He's uncapping it when Jon's comment catches up with him. ]
You think so, huh?
[ Tapping the tip of a phalanx against the side of the bottle his hand is holding, he watches the kid with renewed interest. That's a surprising amount of empathy for someone so young. ]
I dunno 'bout that. I don't see too many kids, so. Aren't you?
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Yeah, but that's normal. For me.
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What, nice kid like you? Heh. Would've thought you'd have loads of friends back, uh, wherever you came from.
Earth? Or another one of 'em. [ He goes back to tapping the tip of a phalanx against the bottle held in his other hand. Not an impatient gesture, mind -- he's just giving it a few little infusions of magic, waiting for it to take. Just makes this human food easier to process for a monster like him. ] I can't keep all these worlds straight.
Anyway, why's that normal for ya?
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[ Jon is bright enough, smart enough, kind enough. But he is also a controlled child. He rarely speaks without thinking. Everything he does and says must be filtered through the system his parents has devised for him. Secrets and lies. Krypton and Earth. He doesn't quite belong. ]
My parents and I don't mingle much.
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[ It seems like Sans might say more, but he remains silent. Considering he only speaks up again when the bartender has deposited a plastic basket full of fresh, hot french fries and a burger with cheese, lettuce, and sliced tomato on a toasted bun, it's probably a matter of discretion.
He nudges the basket to the space between them, and then the ketchup bottle follows.
Even if the kid refused his initial offer, those fries smell real damn good. Be kinda rude to snack on them alone. ]
Lemme guess. There ain't too many people like you?
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I don't think there's anyone like me. At least I've never met anyone like that.
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[ What a well-mannered kid. That's the sorta stuff you find in kids given a proper upbringing, or at least, some good guidance. Which isn't to say the kid hasn't had to stumble around in the proverbial dark, finding his way in some other subject, but that's not Sans's problem.
As he isn't using the ketchup, the skeleton reaches over to upend the bottle over his burger, lifting away the top bun. By the time he's done, he's almost drowned it in the stuff.
No wonder his t-shirt has faded condiment stains. The monster is a mess. Taking hold of his burger, he glances aside at Jon: ]
Heh heh, guess what I mean to say is: Least you ain't alone.
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Do you feel alone?
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The next time Jon looks, there's a bite missing from the burger, though Sans didn't seem to open his jaw at all. Ketchup drips all over his phalanges. Gross. ]
Me? Heh, hard to say.
Pretty tough to feel alone with all these people. But I'm guessin' you mean having something familiar, or somebody who gets you, right?
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Yeah, somethin' like that.
[ Not that Jon knew many people like himself. Damian sort of counted. Sort of. ]
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Maybe yeah, maybe no.
[ Not the most direct answer, but... eh. Sans hasn't really sorted out what, if anything, he feels about all this. He flicks a hand at the air, settles those phalanges around his drink -- the half-empty bottle of ketchup, that is. ]
Jury's still out about all'a this. I'm a go-with-the-flow kinda guy.
[ It kind of occurs to him, then, that there's gotta be parents of this kid around somewhere; not everyone had a big brother trying to make sense of things without a responsible adult around. ]
Uh... that means your parents are here too, right?
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Yeah. And my case worker. I'm allowed some "me" time as long as I keep them posted.
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Sans is... well, apparently he's drinking the remainder of the ketchup, but all he's doing is holding the mouth of the bottle to his teeth. On the list of weird things the kid's assuredly seen, this is probably nowhere near the top. ]
Hey, if they're as easygoing as you are, kid, guess I don't have to worry.
[ Lots of people might be upset to see their kid hanging with a skeleton.
That this is also in a bar doesn't actually occur to him, due to spending so much of his free time in one. Whoops. ]
Good t'hear. Don't think the last kid I met even had 'em.
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There are monster kids?
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Sure there are. Usually you can tell a kid right off, they always wear striped shirts.
[ Is that a cultural thing? ]
None in the zone, though. Heh heh, boy, would that complicate things.
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[ This is fascinating and Jon finds himself riveted, resting his fingers around the edge of the stool. Sans has his full attention. ]
What's the zone like? Are kids banned?
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