♯ graduation ♫

[idolpro]

Who: Sunset, Sol, and invited guests
Where: The park
When: Day 129, morning (forward-dated)

[ For those who were invited - and maybe those who were not - you find banners circling around one particular grove of trees like a fairy's circle, opening up at one end to an archway of flowers. Through the entrance you can see the banners reading "CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES" and "HAPPY TRAVELS" in gold font atop red and blue banner cloth.

For those who are unaware, or those who don't go through the entrance, they'll find themselves unable to pass through the trees on either end - they'll find themselves pacing in the same place if they try to proceed, and nothing will go through. In fact, you can't even see past the trees without going through the entrance first - it's like a pocket dimension, or entering another world. How . . . strange. . .

Well - step through the entrance and you'll find music beginning to play, although there's no particular source. It seems to be the ambiance - well-fitting too, given the festivities going on!

(Stepping back out of the entrance completely stops the music, and you can't even see what's going on beyond the entrance until you step back in. Hhhhhuh.)

Anyway. On the rows of picnic cloth-covered foldable tables are an unusual mix of food and drink: bread dishes, meat skewers, roasted fish, stew, and ale . . . along with soda, fried chicken, takoyaki, various street fair food, and -. . . . conbini bento? The spread is all mixed together, like whoever set it up just has no idea how they were supposed to be organizing this. There are no chairs to sit on, however; every seat is a rooted tree stump, completely immovable.

A dazzling gold carpet rolls from the entrance to the very back, where a makeshift stage has been created. There are two large speakers that stand off center on either side of the stage, but neither of them are making the music happen . . . At the center, two mic stands with sparkling confetti boas wrapping around them: one is Taisho madder and the other is pep!pep! navy.

Oh and - there are just a few barrels near the trees, strewn about. What are they there for? Atmosphere??? You can't interact with them at all - it's like that awkward thing where the graphics weren't finely tuned enough so even trying to touch them just results in the attempting appendage hovering in place. That's weird.

Well.

Putting that all aside, it's a party! ]

Comments

[malignstar]

Sol...

[ Okay, that is a lot of feelings at once and Sunshine probably looks absolutely overcome, eyes wide and mouth slightly parted. Naturally, the best way to deal with this is just an immediate hug ]

[bluerosestyle]

[returns the hug!!]

[malignstar]

[ Pats him on back ]

Take, take care of yourself, okay?

[bluerosestyle]

I'll try. It's part of the reason why I wanted to leave in the first place, so...

[malignstar]

What do you mean?

[bluerosestyle]

. . .

I'd been thinking about this for some time. I think I started around a month ago... We edited our profiles, and Yasuragi left, and... I realized that this place was changing me in ways I couldn't avoid, and that I didn't like what I was becoming.

I almost broke up with Sunset because of that, you know? It seems cruel now, but at the time, I thought it was the only good thing I could still do for her.

[malignstar]

What do you mean what you were becoming?

1/2

[bluerosestyle]

. . .

2/3 actually

[bluerosestyle]

[soft sigh]

[bluerosestyle]

I'm leaving, so... no use burdening you with something from the past.

Sorry I brought it up.

[malignstar]

It won't be a burden. Maybe it will help to get it off your chest before you have a blast in real Japan.

[bluerosestyle]

[shakes his head]

I don't need to get it off my chest... In the end, wanting to leave was for the best, regardless of my reasons for it.

[malignstar]

Yeah. I guess the important thing is you'll feel a lot better away from here.

[bluerosestyle]

I'm mostly glad that Sunset's leaving too. She's had a hard time, especially lately.

[malignstar]

[ Squeezes his shoulder ]

Yeah...

But you'll have each other to work your way through that on the outside. And hopefully less distractions.

[bluerosestyle]

Hopefully, yeah.

[malignstar]

Keep me up to date, if you can.

[bluerosestyle]

I'll try. B seems to be sure that we'll be able to stay in touch.

[malignstar]

I guess they'd know best since they probably talk to E.

[bluerosestyle]

[nods]

That's what he said. He's sent gifts as well.

[malignstar]

That doesn't sound so bad.

[bluerosestyle]

. . .

I don't know if I'll be able to do that, though. Even if everything works out, I'm not even sure where we'll live, or how hard it might be to get a job...

[malignstar]

Aww, don't worry about that right now. You'll make it work. If you can survive this place, you survive anywhere. Though you will have to suffer through less fancy clothes.

[bluerosestyle]

What do you mean?

[malignstar]

Taisho does have a snappy dress code.