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open || ring in the new year
WHO: YOU!
WHERE: Koyama Shrine and Tojimi Temple. I literally just made those up. Please assume they're one of the largest in the city.
WHEN: December 31st through the end of January, as well as one special coming-of-age event on January 14th!
WHAT: Celebrate the new year with everyone!
WARNINGS: None I can think of, let me know if this needs to be changed! BACKTAGGING IS ENCOURAGED.
I. THE COUNTDOWN AND NEW YEAR'S FESTIVAL
Main event: December 31st to January 1st;
Stalls: December 31st to the end of January
[Everywhere you look, people are in brightly colored kimonos, milling around the shrine and waiting for midnight. Don't worry about stumbling in the dark! Everything is lit by lanterns, and will continue to be even in the daytime, thanks to this month's odd lack of sunlight.
At any rate, there's plenty to do to kill time before the big event.
look around the stalls. There is cheap traditional festival food available, of course, like yakisoba, Japanese-style fried chicken, takoyaki and gyoza, grilled meat and seafood on sticks, okonomiyaki, cups of hot soup-- and that's just for dinner. There's also chocolate bananas, crepes, taiyaki, dango, and cotton candy. Hopefully you can taste all of it. And while Japan allows for drinking in public, America doesn't, so you better be drinking in designated areas and have a wristband on, OR ELSE.
for those who ate before coming, there's plenty of shopping to be done as well. Kimonos to rent, along with accessories, and various knick-knacks like festival masks, noise makers, and special Japanese crafts and fabrics.
or maybe you want to participate in some festival games. Try and catch some goldfish, do the ring toss, or pop one of the balloons on the backboard. The most dangerous game of all, of course, is the gatcha...pay money to pull a certain amount of paper slips from the box, and hope that one of them has a number for that thing on the shelf you really want. Don't worry, you'll always get a prize no matter what paper you pull! How nice that prize is, though, is up to the gatcha gods.
play the lottery wheel! And you thought it was the end of chance games. N o p e. For a small donation of two dollars (it all goes towards the upkeep of the shrine, promise!), you can try for a chance at the big prize: a giant kagami mochi to take home! Consolation prizes include omamori, or good luck charms, and tissue packs. Because you always can use tissues!
Once it gets closer to midnight, people will...start leaving the shrine. Imagine that! But no, it's because everyone is heading to the temple a five minute walk down the street, gathering near the building that houses the giant sacred bell. Get a smooch in if you want when the new year arrives, but after, it's time to line up to ring the bell. Take the chance to wish for good fortune in the new year, and hope that the bad karma of the last goes away! It's supposed to ring 108 times for symbolism, but don't worry, no matter how long the line is, they'll let everyone ring it once. Just get ready to wait for a while.
Done with that? Then it's back to the shrine with you! Now you can get back to your eating and shopping and games, but the staff have prepared everything else you need to do to finish off your first shrine visit of the year.
get in line to cleanse your hands at the water basin. There are no directions at this place, and other shrine goers seem to be walking right past it even after entering, so it's probably okay to skip it...? But if you watch other seasoned shrine goers carefully, you might figure out that you need to: scoop up water in a ladle with your right hand and pour water over your left hand, then do the reverse with the same ladleful of water, with the ladle with your left hand and pouring over your right. Some people also seem to be using the ladle to rinse out their mouths? But others aren't, so it's up to your character if they want to try.
get in line to pray at the main shrine. Once you approach the donation box, follow the directions on a helpful card on the side: toss a coin into the donation box, swing the long rope to ring the bell, bow twice, clap twice, pray to the gods, and then bow once before stepping to the side.
get in line to pull a fortune. For a small donation of one dollar, the shrine maiden will give you an aluminum container with one tiny hole in it. Shake it up, let one stick slide out, and then she'll give you a slip of paper that corresponds to the number on the stick. What omikuji did your character get? RNG to find out! 1 is best luck, 2 is great luck, 3 is good luck, 4 is average luck, 5 is half luck, 6 is small luck, 7 is bad luck, and 8 is w o r s t luck. It'll also have little blurbs and advice for various areas of your life, like business, school, love, family, and so on. If you have a bad fortune, tie it to the rack so that the bad luck doesn't leave the shrine with you!
get in line to have your shrine book stamped. Three dollars means one of the shrine calligraphers will write in your book and give you something like this. What purpose does this serve? ...none, really, unless you like collecting them as proof of how many shrines you've been. If you don't have a shrine book, you can buy one for ten dollars! It has an elegant, stylized image of a Recollé peach tree on the front.
get in line-- no, no line this time, but if you're looking for a quiet place to sit? The huge lantern lit garden in the back is a nice place to quietly ruminate about what you did in 2017, and what you hope to achieve in 2018.
If you can't make it on New Year's Day, that's no problem! The shrine is open the whole year round, so coming at a later date in January for hatsumode is okay. But you might come back a second time anyways, because...]
II. COMING OF AGE DAY
January 14th; Tojimi Temple
[The Sunday closest to January 15th is Coming of Age Day in Japan, where young adults at the age of 20 (or those who will become 20 relatively soon before the next Coming of Age Day) are formally acknowledged as legal adults. There's a lot of pomp and ceremony for those actual young adults that only family goes to, but you'll be able to see the spectacle that imitates a certain competition in Kyoto, where all the lady adults, in their extravagant kimonos, shoot arrows on the archery range in the back to see how far they can progress in the contest. It's more ritual than anything else, though actual experienced archers of all genders have their own competition. Maybe some of the horseback archers will make an appearance on the track too.
And where does that leave you? Well, aside from watching the contests, you can head to the other other archery range and shoot arrows too, of course! You don't have to be in a kimono to do it, though, if you don't want to be.]
III. WILDCARD
[Feel free to use this log for any other New Year shenanigans. Though remember, anyone exhibiting bad behavior will be ICly kicked out of the shrine and temple. If you have any questions, you can always find me at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
raynestorm!]
WHERE: Koyama Shrine and Tojimi Temple. I literally just made those up. Please assume they're one of the largest in the city.
WHEN: December 31st through the end of January, as well as one special coming-of-age event on January 14th!
WHAT: Celebrate the new year with everyone!
WARNINGS: None I can think of, let me know if this needs to be changed! BACKTAGGING IS ENCOURAGED.
Akemashite omedetou! Happy New Year! If you're looking to celebrate in a traditional way, look no further than visiting Koyama Shrine and Tojimi Temple, one of Recollé's biggest and most popular religious sites. There's a variety of things to do throughout the first week of January, so why don't you come and visit? Pay your respects to the gods and pray for a good year.
I. THE COUNTDOWN AND NEW YEAR'S FESTIVAL
Main event: December 31st to January 1st;
Stalls: December 31st to the end of January
[Everywhere you look, people are in brightly colored kimonos, milling around the shrine and waiting for midnight. Don't worry about stumbling in the dark! Everything is lit by lanterns, and will continue to be even in the daytime, thanks to this month's odd lack of sunlight.
At any rate, there's plenty to do to kill time before the big event.
Once it gets closer to midnight, people will...start leaving the shrine. Imagine that! But no, it's because everyone is heading to the temple a five minute walk down the street, gathering near the building that houses the giant sacred bell. Get a smooch in if you want when the new year arrives, but after, it's time to line up to ring the bell. Take the chance to wish for good fortune in the new year, and hope that the bad karma of the last goes away! It's supposed to ring 108 times for symbolism, but don't worry, no matter how long the line is, they'll let everyone ring it once. Just get ready to wait for a while.
Done with that? Then it's back to the shrine with you! Now you can get back to your eating and shopping and games, but the staff have prepared everything else you need to do to finish off your first shrine visit of the year.
If you can't make it on New Year's Day, that's no problem! The shrine is open the whole year round, so coming at a later date in January for hatsumode is okay. But you might come back a second time anyways, because...]
II. COMING OF AGE DAY
January 14th; Tojimi Temple
[The Sunday closest to January 15th is Coming of Age Day in Japan, where young adults at the age of 20 (or those who will become 20 relatively soon before the next Coming of Age Day) are formally acknowledged as legal adults. There's a lot of pomp and ceremony for those actual young adults that only family goes to, but you'll be able to see the spectacle that imitates a certain competition in Kyoto, where all the lady adults, in their extravagant kimonos, shoot arrows on the archery range in the back to see how far they can progress in the contest. It's more ritual than anything else, though actual experienced archers of all genders have their own competition. Maybe some of the horseback archers will make an appearance on the track too.
And where does that leave you? Well, aside from watching the contests, you can head to the other other archery range and shoot arrows too, of course! You don't have to be in a kimono to do it, though, if you don't want to be.]
III. WILDCARD
[Feel free to use this log for any other New Year shenanigans. Though remember, anyone exhibiting bad behavior will be ICly kicked out of the shrine and temple. If you have any questions, you can always find me at
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[ Between going to a stranger's house and sitting with their cat until the new year arrives, and going to the shrine and waiting in lines for hours to ring a bell, the cat had won out. But Minato goes to the shrine the next two days, hoping the crowd would have thinned out after the new year's eve hype, and gets to the shrine near dawn for extra precaution.
If there wasn't a line before, there might be one forming behind Minato at the donation box at the main shrine now, because when he does his two bows and two claps, he's left standing there with his head dipped in prayer that lasts more than a couple of minutes. Five minutes, or ten, and he finally straightens up and bows one last time, muttering something about ] ...will come back and tell you the rest later... [ under his breath as he steps off to the side. ]
i.ii 1/1
[ Minato is here with thirty dollars in hand and also holding up the line at the lottery wheel, because he's here to... gather an entire bag full of charms and tissues, apparently, because honestly these are a lot more useful than the giant mochi that's eventually awarded to him for his patronage.
He could probably use this as a pillow, but, no. Whoever's nearest to him, here— ]
Trade you for two dollars.
i.iii 1/1
[ Normally, he doesn't put a lot of stock into pulling fortunes, but he likes listening to the sticks rattle inside the container as he shakes it, tips it to the side, and—
HMM.
heads right to the rack to find some space. ]
ii. 1/14
[ What was he even doing a year ago when he was 20...? Sitting in a dorm room, probably, in the safety of that self-contained building where he didn't have to leave for meals or work unless it was an exam day. He wouldn't have envisioned himself like this a year later, standing on the archery range and pulling back the bowstring to his bow— it glows with harsh white light, and he squints past it to see the target at the other end, systematically emptying his quiver one by one of arrows that hit right on target- if you count the target as being the entire target board; the bullseye is another story.
...The bow only has a 90% hit rate. He doesn't need to be that accurate. ]
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[ ann grumbles to herself, maybe a little too loudly, but she has her arms crossed and looks disgruntled. this guy's got a lot of stuff already...is he really trying to win that mochi? wait, they're just giving it to him?
okay. it should fine, right. the boy turns around and ann's assuming he's leaving, but then he asks for more money?
what. ]
Uh...if you don't mind me asking, what are you trying to win, exactly?
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minato would use it as a pillow
so would ann ngl
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i.iii | i literally...used rng...
He wants to lean over and see the fortune the other's pulled, but with him zooming off, he has to hurry up and get his own or be swept off without the opportunity. He's...not encouraged by the result.]
I don't think they should make you pay to tell you your life will be horrible. "Worst luck"... What are you doing?
rng please...........
also: why am I awake
why is anybody awake
real
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Looking at your chances, you might need more than just two dollars.
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[Because he said he would, Shiori is at shrine super early in the morning. The poor kid hasn't slept, which is his own fault, so he's standing around in line and yawning. This entire thing was a mistake. Is the bell he's wanting to ring worth it? It supposedly is... but there's a problem.]
What am I supposed to pray for...
I-b
[Time to draw a fortune! Which is a little rough since Shiori about spills all the sticks. Thankfully one of the shrine maidens catches this, but feel free to laugh at his little mistake of being too rough.
Or maybe you drew a fortune as well! He looks confused about his as he reads the advice.
RNG gave this boy a 2]Does everyone get the same advice?
I-c 1/2
[Seeing as Shiori had to cut his first visit of the year short, he'll come back the next day to see the lanterns in the garden. Instead of enjoying it like most people would, Shiori is sitting in a corner, taking... notes? And drawings? At least he's quiet and not disturbing anyone...]
Arisawai Fam
[Minako didn't have to try hard to get Shiori into a more traditional getup. Or to even convince him to go. He'd agreed to go with Minato anyways, so at one point or another he'll be around his cousins. Or maybe Sora is there, too. At least selfies will be involved as Shiori chronicles spending time with family.]
Wildcard!!
[Got a different idea? Want to plan?
I-a
... Especially easy since he's sitting on a low roof, above the heads of the crowd. As usual, no one notices him except for the occasional Retrospec apper, so he loiters unharassed. All the better to overhear snippets of conversations and people talking to themselves. He speaks up as Shion inches his way past. ]
If you're praying to a god, then make it a wish they can actually grant. Boosts your chances a little.
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[ hi, shiori! ann is here, lined up and ready to pray, too. ]
Good luck, good grades... Anything!
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Energy drink? He did bring that hip flask, however questionable/illegal it looks. ]
Usually... something you're having trouble with. That you can't solve by yourself, so you ask for divine intervention.
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Shio, where do you want to go next? You can lead the way.
[She's just going to grab the back of his haori jacket so she can follow him without getting lost.]
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[ luckily for everyone here, although majima has lately taken to not wearing a shirt and showing off his sweet (and sweetly incriminating) tattoos, kiryu insisted that they dress up nice for new year so they've both put on kimono just for the occasion, and while their faces will more or less always out them as Scary Tough Guys, at least it's better than walking around with his I'm Definitely A Yakuza ink showing. Majima and Kiryu came to the festival together, of course, but they inevitably also end up doing their own things, too. there's so much to do all in one evening! and they can't stay all night because someone works in the entertainment business and probably has to ring in the year at work. ]
food;
[ in the meantime, though, there is just so much good food. majima's a capable young man with a good metabolism so absolutely he's going to eat as much as humanly possible and then maybe some. ]
Ahh, but how do you choose? Ya can't just eat one thing.
[ mmmm maybe one more thing of takoyaki right that won't hurt ]
games;
[ sure majima has one eye but he can definitely play some games!! depth perception? no problem! he's absolutely trying the ring toss in spite of the handicap here. balloon popping? no problem. he's concentrating hard!! gotta win something for the boyfriend after all. he has to take this very seriously. ]
lantern garden;
[ with just a little time left before work, majima heads out to the lantern garden. he doesn't really want to think about the last year (stopping to think makes things harder, that's something he's trying to do less of these days) but it is very pretty and a great place to run into people. if he sees someone he knows, he'll definitely great them! or, i guess, even if you just happen to catch his eye. it's a festive time after all. ]
Hey. Happy New Year.
games
[ ... yeah, nothing, he got garbage. this is the worst. naegi was about to give it up with games until he got dragged to a booth to do a ring toss and was practically harassed by the stand owner to use up his last dollars to do it. being the pushover that he is, he eventually just handed whatever change he had left and half-heartedly tried it out. to his surprise though, it somehow got hooked and he won the grand prize. luck sure works in its weird ways and now here he is, somehow trying to carry a giant bear plush around while he's just 160cm of shortness. he can't really see where he's going with this thing in his arms so when he bumps into majima while he's concentrating on the balloon popping, it's a complete accident ]
Oh, I'm sorry--
[ he can't see shit ]
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food;
The patch itself makes her uneasy in a way the snowflakes, the leaves, and the others never really did. It feels too much like something from a memory or a dream, and matches what she knew was there. Maybe that's why she had to change her hair instead.]
You're going to enter the New Year way bigger than you've left it if you keep going! [But she's double-fisting takoyaki, so.]
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listen nui is an alien cloth monster who loves murder but ... ayn rand...
she literally told majima giving to charity is bad!!! what a gal
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lantern garden;
Her gaze fixed on one of the lanterns, tracing its flickering, she doesn't hear him approach until he's right next to her, and his sudden present surprises her. When he greets her, she glances up, expression blank for a moment as she tries to place him, wondering if he's supposed to be at all familiar to her.
Ah. Yes. Rose's boss. But before that... They knew each other once before, didn't they? Unsure if he recognizes her or is just being friendly, she keeps her response neutral.]
Oh. Thank you. Happy New Year, more or less.
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games
And of course what's better than spending time with your boyfriend than spending time with your boyfriend while you compete over ring toss. Some would say Kiryu's at an advantage because Majima only has one eye but THAT'S TOTALLY NOT THE CASE... probably. ]
Your turn, Majima.
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takoyaki.............
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[ Kiryu's sporting a wristband and sipping on some beer while he enjoys a fried squid on a stick. I mean, what could be better than a whole squid on a stick? He's dressed up in a kimono with dragons on it because of course he is, and he's having a fun time with Majima between trying all the food and enjoying all the festival goings-on in the new year.
Kiryu won't be sticking around for the night stuff, but basically anything else is totally fair game for him! ]
ii. Prizes and more!
[ Kiryu can't resist a chance to win a prize. He's playing the lottery wheel to try his luck at winning a giant mochi, but for now it kind of looks like all he's gotten has been... tissues. ]
Dammit, not again...
iii. Try your luck
[ Don't ask how many times Kiryu had to pull to get good luck, because right now he's tying one of his bad ones to the rack to make sure his bad luck doesn't follow him. (No joke, I rolled 8 twice in a row before getting a 1.) That's totally how it works, right? ]
So, what'd you get?
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Half-luck. Some good, some bad. That sounds about right for my life right now so...
[He lets out a small laugh]
I have a feeling I'll get a worse one if I pull again. Best to stop while I'm ahead, right?
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[ sena's out here in his kimono, hitting up the stores for a little bit of shopping. he's slowly outgrowing his own little connection at home, so even though he's the eponymous model boy and all, he's going to turn you, holding two pieces of fabric out. ]
Quick, choose - this or this?
lottery
[ because hey, why not get fucked by the 1% rate in games like these as well? sena didn't even get anything of use either - just a bunch of good luck charms that he'd rather live without. he's also going to thrust a bunch of these towards you, an indignant look in his face. ]
Here. I think you need it more than me.
fortune
[ he's rang the bell at the shrine, so now he's here to get his fortune told despite not believing in stuff like this in the first place. and he may as well not have bothered in the first place because he's making a face at the fortune he'd pulled. bad luck? fucking really? ]
...What the hell.
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[ hit me up with other prompts if these don't suit your fancy! whether it's offering unhealthy street food to him or catching him ruminate his year at the lantern garden. ]
shopping;
there is no such thing as 'quickly' when you're a distinguished, older man
37whose eye for fashion is extremely awful; this is why he wears all black. no matter the occasion. ]Hm. Is it for anything in particular?
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lantern garden, gotta in those pretty models under pretty lights
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you know neechan's gacha luck would be insane probably
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wildcard because of course she would
mina please...........
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[ Just like every year, Tsukasa heads to the shrine with his parents and his grandmother early on New Year's Day—they split up not long after, but it's possible to catch him chatting happily with them for a bit before that happens. He's dressed normally though, aside from this thing. It's knit and it was from Sena!!! He has to wear it.
...It is very warm and he is sort of embarrassed but it's fine. It is.
First stop is, naturally, the donation box; he does as he's supposed to, and those praying with him can hear him mumbling about wanting courage for the coming year and the continued good health of his family. Because he's a good son. He tends to take a while with his prayers though, so if he's there too long... Go on, give him a nudge.
Afterwards, he'll be shopping! He was paid very handsomely for his minor inconvenience, so he actually has quite a lot of money to burn... ♪ Primarily this is knick-knacks and masks, but he can be found buying some specific omamori as well—fortune charms, those for warding off bad luck and for getting good luck. They're for his friends, and he can't be sure he's gonna win these ones? So. ]
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[ There's still stuff he wants to do, so naturally he's coming back after his initial visit, sans his family—it's game time. The lottery is his first mark, though he isn't going to spend all his money trying to win. Just... a decent amount. He wants the mochi, it would be a veeeeery cute gift... ♪ (He gets a lot of tissues and omamori, whoops.)
When he's given up on that, he can be found getting a fortune. He seems excited by the one he gets, bowing to the shrine maiden and holding it up when he turns around. Ah, getting great luck...!!! It's definitely a good sign, definitely a really good sign! Oh, he's never been happier, he's definitely going to have a good year~! ]
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[ He's not in the lantern garden to ruminate, not really.
No, he has a sketchbook and a number of different kinds of watercolors. Sometimes he's painting fast and loose, capturing the essence of the gardens instead of worrying about every detail? The watercolors he's using are more suited to that. Afterwards, some of these get a better touch up, and he can be found painting much more carefully. Even if there are people and animals around, they're not featured in his paintings; he's no good at them, and he's sort of just here for the area. Is it hard to paint by lantern-light? Sure, but it's worth the atmosphere.
Regardless of which style you catch him in, he's obviously very focused—but he's smiling. Watercolor is a hobby he genuinely enjoys, and his grandmother loves the shrine... so if she can't stay out in the cold long enough to enjoy areas like this herself, he'll bring them to her. ]
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Hey, we don't have all day, you know. If you're praying for that long then just go home and continue it there.
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it's fine this is fine
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Tatsuo vaguely remembers coming to the shrine with his mom for festivals when he was little. The bright lights and the games and the delicious smelling food are all a muddled memory at this point though. The only thing he remembers clearly is the feel of his mom's hand around his own as they walk through the shrine grounds and the low sound of the bell being run.
Naturally, one of the first places Tatsuo heads is the food stalls, where he loads up on pretty much everything that has meat in it. And at one point a strawberry banana crepe.
In between eating his way through all the delicious food for sale, Tatsuo also hits up the games, and by the end of the night has a little bag with two goldfish hanging from his wrist.
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Noticing the crowd starting to thing, Tatsuo looks at his phone and realizes how close to midnight it is. He joins the throngs of people heading to the temple down the street, and as the new year arrives, gets in line to ring the bell. While he waits in line, he fires of text messages to his friends, wishing them a Happy New Year.
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Tatsuo might go back to the shrine for more food after ringing the bell at midnight, but he saves his first visit to the shrine for later in the morning. He slides into line behind a woman old enough to be his grandmother, counting on her knowing how things are done properly since he doesn't really remember it clearly. Luckily, she doesn't steer him wrong, and he makes it through cleansing his hands and praying at the shrine without making any cultural faux pas.
Though, his mental prayer went a bit like this: "Dear gods, sorry I haven't done this since I was a kid. Don't know if you have any influence over this whole Retrospec thing, but we'll take all the help we can get. Seriously."
Afterwards, he stops by the tables of omamori and selects an avoiding evil one to protect his apartment and a traffic safety one for his motorcycle. Covering as many bases as possible can't hurt, right? And then it's off to the line for pulling fortunes.
"Half-luck. That sounds about right."
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Right when he raises his head again, he catches Tatsuo's eye with some surprise. He nods lightly, can't say anything in the moment, but he'll wait for him once outside. Togusa has a very different kind of composure here, so much calmer than anywhere else. It paints a completely different look in his eye, when he sweeps a nostalgic gaze around at the shrine's decorations.
"Happy New Year, Tatsuo."
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[Sakura had been waiting for this! Checking out the stalls for the food and goods, trying some traditional dishes, taking the chance to pick up some nice fabrics, and wearing one of her kimono in pink and red as she explores.
She tries to catch a goldfish, or popping the balloons. Just for fun. Though she doesn't try the gatcha game. Though it might be debatable if she actually manages to make it too late before getting tired. Whether she actually makes it to midnight to join everyone else at the shrine itself.
She might come back later on in the month though, to enjoy seeing the lanterns. Or get her fortune. Which is apparently 'best luck'. Somehow, amid all this with everything the app tries to pull on them.]
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I'm just thinking. You can go first.
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[Some things are better than others, but for the most part Goro seems intent on trying a little bit of everything to see what he can taste; it works here and there, but not often enough to his liking. And he stays away from takoyaki. There's nothing... wrong with it, he liked it once upon a time, but something's stuck with him after a certain memory.
Anyway. It seems like he's gotten plenty, if not too much food surrounding him? He looks decidedly determined over discouraged, though... he'll certainly catch the eye of anyone staring and smile.]
Would you like to partake with me? I've gathered a number of things that have retained -- rather, regained their taste, and they're all good. I'd suggest you not take such luxury for granted.
[because lord knows we did it before]
ii. prayer
[... Look, he remembers he knows like, a single god, and that's just barely remembering at this point. The vague notion of "oh, right, I talked to one once I think", and that Elizabeth is firm friendship-area with one as well.
That doesn't mean he won't partake in prayers, as he's done ever since his first shrine visit, a little ways off from his family and taking longer than they had. Goro has a lot to pray for. Not everything will come true, a few things land within his area of granting it for himself, but it's nice to think, to know, that there's many out there listening, particularly on special days said to be at the ear of them.
He really is taking a while though, and if one were to peek around him they'd see a paper in hand, folded over at least three times with a list of neatly done Japanese marking the surface. A... lot of prayers, okay.]
iii. wildcard
[catch him in the gardens and also, actually, at the archery portion of the coming of age day, failing miserably at hitting targets. just because he's got Robin Hood doesn't mean he's an archer???]
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[They didn't necessarily arrive together; they'd made plans to at least meet up, since Goro's spending part of the time with his family as he usually does during this time of the year, but they are now together and it's exciting. He's honestly not sure what he'd like to do now that he has Akira in hand, but wandering is nice...]
Do you want to play some of the games..? Ah, no, maybe we should do fortunes. Perhaps not, actually, it'd be disheartening if one of us got bad luck and the other something nice.
[Ooooh. Oooooooooh, Goro has felt nervous a few times in the past (last?) year and this is certainly there.]
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It's nice, warm, delicious—hm. ]
I thought you weren't superstitious. [ Snrrk. ] Let's get our fortune first. How much do you want to bet I'll get bad luck?
[ A great start to a new year. Here!! He offers one takoyaki, expectantly holding it out to Goro. ]
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It still would feel wrong not to do a shrine visit for New Year's though. So he ends up in the line to go and pray for now. He might buy a bit of food or trinkets for Jirou on the way back.]
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Waah--!
[Please catch her so she doesn't ruin her pretty kimono...]
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[ despite having a very obvious japanese name and being of japanese descent, naegi hardly even knows some of this stuff. he moved to america when he was pretty young and his parents haven't prepared him a lot of this stuff so he doesn't really know what to choose. heck, he hardly knows what they are (he only vaguely knows the name because of ~anime~) so maybe he should just ask... ]
Which one do you like?
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[ naegi has only really seen this while watching his japanese animus so he does go and pick up the card with the directions, reading it. hmm, seems simple enough but... ]
What kind of coin do we throw in? Does it matter how much it is?
[ will his wish automatically get declined if he throws in a penny like the poor fool that he is?? ]
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[ ever since naegi found out that he got accepted into hope's peak for the talent of good luck, he has been trying out his luck nearly every chance he gets. he figures that if kirigiri seems to be getting back her shsl detective skills back, he should be getting some of his good luck skills too, right? right! so what's a better way to try it out with all these festival games? he's got a bit of spare change to use so here he goes! ]
[ a. the gatcha. what's a better game to test his luck with an actual game completely based on chance? he forks over the money and reaches into the box and gets... a keychain. oh, well, this is disappointing. hm, well, let's try again! maybe his luck just needs another try? once more, his hand goes into the box and this time, he gets... a bookmark. uh, well, third time's the charm, right? okay! and then he gets stickers... okay, someone should stop him because he's seriously considering if he should drop another couple of dollars just to keep testing his luck (help) ]
[ b. ring toss. okay, naegi has officially given up on trying out the games. he's done. he's down to only a few dollars so he should just give up while he has the chance to leave the festival with some money left. unfortunately, he's a pushover and when he passes the ring toss, the booth owner practically drags him over and pushes him to just give it a try, just once, what could it hurt? and being the pushover that naegi is, he sighs, drops the last few dollars he had, and gets a single ring for it. he doesn't expect much when he tosses it but to his surprise, he lands it and whoa, he wins! he actually wins the grand prize! the owner of the stand shakes his bell and congratulates naegi, handing him his prize: a giant teddy bear. it's as big as him and he can barely see when he holds it but hey, he'll take it. feel free to be there when he wins or when he bumps into you while he's walking with it (it's very likely he will, considering that he can't see where he's walking) ]
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[ now that naegi has won a giant stuffed bear, he's pretty content with how the festival went and is planning on heading home but oh no, he gets called over by one of the shrine attendants. he just can't leave until he tries out the lottery wheel! c'mon, it's a tradition to give it a shot and look, if he won something this great at one of the booths, might as well give it a try at the wheel as well, right? right, so give it a try, young sir! only for two dollars and it'd go straight to the shrine, it's like a donation! ]
[ ... well, these two dollars was going to be his bus fare home but... okay, fine, you only live life once so let's give it a try. let's spin that wheel and... ]
[ bam! the bells go off once more and he wins the grand prize again. a giant kagami mochi is his to keep! feel free to be with him when he wins the prize or be there after he realizes one very terrible thing ]
... wait, how am I going to take this all home?!
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[ do whatever! hmu at
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[ Minato's not here to offer help in carrying one of the large prizes, nah, his hands are in his pockets in that slight back lean of his that he does when he's looking somebody over. A bear and a mochi— it can only spell good things fro Naegi in the coming year. That, or him using up all his luck in the first month of it. ]
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[Minako came here with David and is meeting up with Elizabeth, but the crowds are huge, so she...is definitely lost at the moment. It'll be no small feat to find her party again. She'll be wandering around everywhere as a result, so anyone can find her at any place, but her first pit stop? Is of course a food stall.]
The takoyaki at the other two stands were better than this one's. [She pops the last one into her mouth, and then gets in line for another takoyaki stand. Until she sees the next stall over.] Ooh, maybe I should get melon bread instead?
[A little while later will find her receiving her fortune. She hasn't opened it yet, but!]
Want to open these together? I got the normal one and one of the special kind! Look, isn't the puppy charm it came with really cute?
[And then, once she can't put it off any longer, she gets in line for praying at the shrine. She can be found in line, fidgeting with a heavy coin purse in her hands.]
I wanted to wait until more people left...but I can't put it off anymore, I have to be up early tomorrow. [A pause.] Later today.
JANUARY 20TH
[Special outfit for today! Minako is already 21, so technically she shouldn't be included in this batch of Coming of Age festivities. But she missed it last year, and there might not be another good time to wear her hakama, so...she might have snuck in with the actual 20 year old archers just to be able to do it.
Afterwards she'll be shooting arrows on the range open for the public, cheerfully failing half the time to even hit the target.]
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[Minako will be making frequent trips to the shrine throughout the month, just not in her kimono, so feel free to write me a starter for anytime then!]
January 20thish
But she didn't like letting Minako go alone to things, not now. Not when the sky was pitch black even when her phone said it was 10 in the morning. So she'd trotted after her friend without question, hovering a bit closer to her shoulder than usual. Lucy was the one on flashlight duty this time, at least until they got there.]
That one's pretty, Minako.
[At least Lucy thought so. She hadn't seen many kimonos in detail before. And she also wasn't wearing one, even though there was a place that rented them for days like this nearby the temple.]
.......sam i made a mistake it's supposed to be january 14th
whoops. All fine, though!
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c: new year's eve SEVERAL DAYS LATE...
YOU'RE FINE ♥
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Closed to Eleanor.
In the lot of the shrine, she hopped out of the Mystery Wagon and shut the door, waiting for her partner-in crime.]
Okay. You ready?
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[Well. She wasn't going to ruin it! And honestly, Yukiko's enthusiasm for something was usually enough to make it fun, so she finally nodded, closing her door as well.]
Yeah, lead the way.
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[Had it been entirely up to him, Lalli would not be back at the shrine so soon after the New Year's celebration, especially since he's already had enough socialization to fill his year, but he told Minato that he would get to see a coming of age ceremony. Never mind that he's not Japanese and doesn't understand the point of it at all. He's here and ready to...get free shit???
He looks lost. But if someone unfamiliar approaches him, he leads off with a,] I'm allowed to be here, I'm twenty.
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[idk he's not really hanging around here much, but he's there a while on the 1st and on the 14th and if he's by himself he looks like he wants to die, so just do whatever. This is the worst toplevel I've ever written.]
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Really? Well then, happy early or belated birthday! [She lowers her voice to a whisper.] Don't tell anyone, but I'm already twenty-one.
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