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.

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[good_ideas]

[Maybe. But if he wasn't so confident about his parkour skills, there wouldn't be anything to worry about!]

Not that long, then. Where are you from?

[theshowsover]

[He gives his head a shake.]

Tiny town south of Tokyo. In Yamanashi.

[She probably hasn't heard of it mostly because it's never given a name in canon and the mun is bullshitting everything.]

[good_ideas]

Yamanashi, huh. You guys are famous for growing peaches and grapes, right?

[That's the extent of her knowledge of Yamanashi.]

[theshowsover]

[He grins a little.]

Yeah. We're all taught how to from birth.

[He has never helped with farming a grape or a peach in his life, but he's just teasing.]

[good_ideas]

[Shiho grins right back.]

What, the same way all people from Tokyo are taught from birth to navigate Shibuya Crossing?

[theshowsover]

That's a necessary life skill.

[The first time he did it, it was pretty intimidating... although that might have had something to do with the demon that popped up out of nowhere and laughed at him.]

[good_ideas]

Right? How would you get anywhere if you don't go through Shibuya Crossing? [Though she doesn't go through it that often. There was all that flying and teleportation they could do instead, after all.]

[theshowsover]

I go through it every morning on the way to school.

[And in the afternoon on the way back, obviously.]

[good_ideas]

Seems like it would be a really busy commute each morning. Our school was in the suburbs, so it was a lot quieter.

[theshowsover]

I manage. [A shrug. He literally has no choice about it, so that's just how it is.]

Maybe the suburbs would have been quieter... but I guess it was a nice change.

[good_ideas]

"I guess"?

....did you have a childhood friend you didn't want to leave or something?

[theshowsover]

More like... I didn't have a choice. So I made do.

[On the plus side, he made a lot of great friends.]

[good_ideas]

...That must have been hard. [Whatever it is that happened. He seems like he doesn’t want to talk about it much so she decides not to push. Embarrassing memories were all well and good (they were?!) but she isn’t aiming to make him unhappy.]

Did you make some friends, at least?

[theshowsover]

I did. Some of the best.

[His lips quirk up at the corner as he thinks about them. He really misses the ones that aren't here, but at the same time, he's glad they're home safe.]

What about you? Do you like your school?

[good_ideas]

That's good. [She's glad he has friends and that it's made him smile even a little bit.]

The high school I went to was affiliated to my middle school so I knew most of the people there already. But it was fun. I mean, finally getting to be a high school girl is nice.

[Especially when she never thought back when she was a child that she'd ever get to go to school like a normal person could.]

Though our student council president is actually an old man masquerading as a high school student, so that part is kind of difficult for some of us back home.

[theshowsover]

...An old man?

[That sounds a little dangerous, and thanks to Akira's experiences, he's suspicious of adults invading schools for their own desires.]

And the school just... allows that?

[good_ideas]

He has diplomatic immunity. And he looks and acts like a giant baby anyway, so most people can't see a difference.

[If anything, he's probably invading the school because he's worried both for Kaoru, Shiho and Aoi as well as for his own kids.

She's still going to drag his name through the mud though.]

[theshowsover]

...That's weird.

[Not aware of his potentially honest intentions, all Akira can think is that it sounds kind of creepy.]

Diplomatic immunity for what?

[good_ideas]

He's weird. [So, so weird. Besides, Shiho is certain that Hyoubu Kyousuke never has honest intentions.]

But he's associated with the Roviet embassy so we can't do anything about him besides calling him names while he isn't there.

[theshowsover]

[There's a lot to sort through here, but he jumps on the one that stands out the most.]

Roviet? What's that?

[good_ideas]

It's a country. Big, cold? [And its known as something else in a world where the artist didn't decide to change all the names of the countries because a disclaimer wasn't enough.]

[theshowsover]

[There are a lot of big, cold countries!]

Never heard of it. Maybe it doesn't exist where I'm from...

[good_ideas]

[That's all she knows about Roviet though... also they speak Russian.]

Hm. Maybe? But you guys have Japan and everything.

[theshowsover]

[Well if he knew they spoke Russian...]

Weird. I guess we're from different versions of Earth.

[Which is wild to think about.]

[good_ideas]

[Back home everyone knows not to call it by the real name. Who knows if someone is going to come and give the artist a hard time for being historically inaccurate and having Russian espers?]

I guess so. That seems to be the case with a lot of us here.