Even when the starry sky dissolves at dawn

[brightlyshines]

WHO: Literally anyone and everyone
WHERE: The Town
WHEN: May 3rd, evening
WHAT: The town's regained both some aspects of evening and a starry night sky. Stargazing is clearly in order.
WARNINGS: All that good pure cute, probably.

The town is just a little bit different today. Color has returned to some objects, even phenomenon, and it has left others. Slowly but surely, things are changing.

In some cases, very big things are changing.

Maybe someone looks out a window, maybe they're out late in the evening. At around 6pm, the sky takes on it's normal hue, just for a moment. And later, as darkness falls....

The stars blink into existence, one by one.

Comments

[theshowsover]

Mm, yeah. We're usually expected to be respectful toward adults...

[And Akira certainly is, though usually so they don't have a reason to complain about him even more.]

[good_ideas]

Well they need to be challenged sometimes, right? It helps keep them young. [With like... increased blood flow from anger...?]

[theshowsover]

[Sure, let's go with that.]

My friend thinks the same thing when it comes to her dad. [Poor Sojiro.]

[good_ideas]

I don’t think my dad could take too much more challenging. He just lets me do what I want in the end anyway? [So there’s not much challenging to do in the first place. He’s nothing but a fond, doting dad.]

[theshowsover]

Your dad sounds nice.

[And... permissive?]

[good_ideas]

He tries. [Which is true in many ways. He’ll never be the ideal dad or anything like that, but he tries and Shiho thinks that’s enough.]

Though he also scares people sometimes without meaning to. [Maybe it’s the whole being a police chief thing.]

[theshowsover]

...How?

[That sounds worrying when you put it like that, Shiho...]

[good_ideas]

With his face? He’s the chief of police so he kind of has a scary-looking aura. Or maybe he was made chief because of it?

[theshowsover]

I guess chiefs of police can be intimidating.

[Or... he was made chief because he was intimidating, or something.]

[good_ideas]

They can. But if he ever shows up here and scares you or something, just let me know.

[Because the hierarchy in the Sannomiya family is Shiho, Mom, then at the very bottom there's Dad.]

[theshowsover]

My hero.

[Admittedly, he really doesn't want to run afoul of any police chiefs, but...]

I'm guessing you're the scariest in your family.

[good_ideas]

Hm, well what are friends for, right? [Don’t run afoul of police chiefs, Akira, stay in the light.]

I’d prefer you use the term “strongest”.

[theshowsover]

Right. Sorry.

[Strongest is good too!]

You just seem like the type that runs things.

[good_ideas]

[Being strongest sounds way more flattering than scariest, after all.]

Sometimes. I don’t want to have to actually do anything so being in charge works just as well, don’t you think?

[theshowsover]

[So is it just... laziness?]

Mm. Sounds like you have a good set-up.

[good_ideas]

[Also bullies make her mad which is why she wants to be the biggest bully there is. She’ll be a bully that bullies other bullies.


That and she likes being called “boss”.]

Right? It’s perfect: do really little, get some credit and a cut of the profits~

[theshowsover]

[Akira can approve of a bully that bullies other bullies. At least, as long as they really are bullies; maybe it will help them improve their behavior.]

That sounds pretty ruthless. But I'm kind of impressed.

[good_ideas]

[As a psychometer, she’s uniquely qualified to figure out who is a bully and who isn’t. That and she used to be one, so her guesses are usually accurate.]

It’s not ruthless because I’m actually still doing something, you know? But thank you, I guess?

[theshowsover]

[Very little, by her own admission.]

Sorry. [He's not trying to offend her, anyway! He looks back up at the stars.]

Do you want to go home? [Tangentially related.]

[good_ideas]

[Very little is still something!]

Home as in my home, or the place I’m living while I’m here?

[theshowsover]

Your home.

[Although it is getting pretty late...]

[good_ideas]

Of course. [Because terrorists are kind of trying to pit espers against Normals right now and it’s just a mess of cloned child soldiers and politics.]

But not without Kaoru-chan. What about you?

[theshowsover]

[His world is also a mess of politics, and possibly the apocalypse.]

Yes. But not without Yusuke and Akechi.

[As long as they're here, he'd rather stay here. The others will be alright on their own.]

[good_ideas]

[It’s nice that he has someone he wouldn’t leave behind and she smiles a little bit at that.]

Then I guess when we go back, this place’ll be immediately short five people then.

[theshowsover]

Yeah. It will.

[He feels like it's probably the same for most people who came here with someone from home. People like Estelle and Joshua or Noctis and Ignis wouldn't leave the other behind.]

Well, so far we have no idea how to leave. [So that's a ways off in the future.]