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November Event/tdm
11/08 - 11/13 Cultural Festival
The school campus opens its doors to the public early Monday morning, with family, friends, neighbors, and strangers arriving to fill up the halls, each visitor having eyes of gold and wallets full of cash. Festival events run from 8AM to 4PM, and pamphlets are handed out by students lining the locker area, which include a schedule and a map of the campus:
✽ The opening event on Monday is an idol performance in the auditorium by the twin star unit GEMINI, consisting of Natsume Sakasaki and Subaru Akehoshi. On Thursday afternoon, the music club will hold a performance in the auditorium, featuring the typical choir with piano accompaniment, a capella performances by smaller groups of members, as well as solos, with requests taken in between performances so members can switch off and take a break.
✽ The student store is open every day up until noon on Saturday, and while the absurdly high prices are still absurdly high, there is a sign up in front of the rock gacha that one of the prizes is an all day pass to any of the school's events for one day of the festival. The odds aren't worth the price, but it's not like the shopkeep reveals the odds.
✽ Class 1-B is hosting a themed cafe in their homeroom.
✽ Class 1-D has turned their homeroom and neighboring classrooms into escape rooms, which runs from Tuesday to Friday.
✽ The robotics/programing club and the gaming club have set up a variety of video games in 2-A, and are hosting a competition between visitors and their AI.
✽ Class 3-D is hosting a kissing booth in their homeroom.
✽ In the home ec cooking room, the cooking club is hosting a cooking contest, with student judges and prizes for the winners.
✽ The sewing club and the art club have put together a photo booth inside the home ec sewing room, featuring all sorts of props and costumes imaginable to try on and pose in front of a number of hand painted backgrounds. Photos are taken by an instant camera for visitors to take home a keepsake. In the art club room, the art club has a gallery set up, with paintings hanging from the walls and sculptures set up in front of them, and a strict no touching policy or one of the members threatens to scoop your eye out with a palette knife and she doesn't look like she's joking. There is a large open canvas, however, for visitors to try their hand at paints or charcoal or pastels on what will become a collaborative art piece done by an entire week's worth of visitors. Occasionally throughout the festival, an art club member will have a space off to the corner for portraits or face painting.
✽ The sewing club has also contributed plush toy prizes for various other class' game stalls throughout the school, where visitors can pay to play for a chance to win small prizes, and are able to trade up several smaller prizes for larger ones.
✽ Out past the courtyard, various sports teams host games throughout the week, including relay races and obstacle courses and tug o' war and """soccer""". Basically it's sports day, because there had been a sports day on the calendar but I never look at the calendar so it was already halfway through the month before I realized.
✽ The fourth floor hallway has been cleaned up and turned into the rest area, with rugs laid out across the ground and comfy chairs scattered around the room and little bags of cat treats for sale to entice the fluffy white cat into hanging out in this space all week. Even without treats, she is content to sit on people's laps and rub against their ankles and let them bury their faces in her stomach. Healing.
✽ In the evening on the final day, after all the visitors leave, a large bonfire is set up in a non-flammable area between the courtyard and pool building and left to burn late into the night for those students who choose to remain on campus until around 8PM, when the festival culminates in a small fireworks show that lights up the sky overhead in reds and golds, while on the ground, sparklers are passed around for a quiet moment appreciating the beauty, and transience, of life.
✽ The opening event on Monday is an idol performance in the auditorium by the twin star unit GEMINI, consisting of Natsume Sakasaki and Subaru Akehoshi. On Thursday afternoon, the music club will hold a performance in the auditorium, featuring the typical choir with piano accompaniment, a capella performances by smaller groups of members, as well as solos, with requests taken in between performances so members can switch off and take a break.
✽ The student store is open every day up until noon on Saturday, and while the absurdly high prices are still absurdly high, there is a sign up in front of the rock gacha that one of the prizes is an all day pass to any of the school's events for one day of the festival. The odds aren't worth the price, but it's not like the shopkeep reveals the odds.
✽ Class 1-B is hosting a themed cafe in their homeroom.
✽ Class 1-D has turned their homeroom and neighboring classrooms into escape rooms, which runs from Tuesday to Friday.
✽ The robotics/programing club and the gaming club have set up a variety of video games in 2-A, and are hosting a competition between visitors and their AI.
✽ Class 3-D is hosting a kissing booth in their homeroom.
✽ In the home ec cooking room, the cooking club is hosting a cooking contest, with student judges and prizes for the winners.
✽ The sewing club and the art club have put together a photo booth inside the home ec sewing room, featuring all sorts of props and costumes imaginable to try on and pose in front of a number of hand painted backgrounds. Photos are taken by an instant camera for visitors to take home a keepsake. In the art club room, the art club has a gallery set up, with paintings hanging from the walls and sculptures set up in front of them, and a strict no touching policy or one of the members threatens to scoop your eye out with a palette knife and she doesn't look like she's joking. There is a large open canvas, however, for visitors to try their hand at paints or charcoal or pastels on what will become a collaborative art piece done by an entire week's worth of visitors. Occasionally throughout the festival, an art club member will have a space off to the corner for portraits or face painting.
✽ The sewing club has also contributed plush toy prizes for various other class' game stalls throughout the school, where visitors can pay to play for a chance to win small prizes, and are able to trade up several smaller prizes for larger ones.
✽ Out past the courtyard, various sports teams host games throughout the week, including relay races and obstacle courses and tug o' war and """soccer""". Basically it's sports day, because there had been a sports day on the calendar but I never look at the calendar so it was already halfway through the month before I realized.
✽ The fourth floor hallway has been cleaned up and turned into the rest area, with rugs laid out across the ground and comfy chairs scattered around the room and little bags of cat treats for sale to entice the fluffy white cat into hanging out in this space all week. Even without treats, she is content to sit on people's laps and rub against their ankles and let them bury their faces in her stomach. Healing.
✽ In the evening on the final day, after all the visitors leave, a large bonfire is set up in a non-flammable area between the courtyard and pool building and left to burn late into the night for those students who choose to remain on campus until around 8PM, when the festival culminates in a small fireworks show that lights up the sky overhead in reds and golds, while on the ground, sparklers are passed around for a quiet moment appreciating the beauty, and transience, of life.
OOC
✽ Throughout the school year, merit points have occasionally been earned through interactions between students involving strong emotion, whether positive or negative. This month, characters may notice that this happens much more frequently, and the amount of merit points earned is also sometimes more than the typical one point. Please report threads of strong emotion below, as this will minorly affect December.
✽ On 11/23, Yogen sees its first snow of the year, a light dusting across campus that does not stick when the sun rises again the next morning, but it will snow on and off until the end of the month.
✽ This event log doubles as a TDM, with new characters experiencing the recurring feeling of drifting in (school life) and out (canon life) of sleep up until they "open their eyes," after which they will have full awareness and come to their senses.
✽ On 11/23, Yogen sees its first snow of the year, a light dusting across campus that does not stick when the sun rises again the next morning, but it will snow on and off until the end of the month.
✽ This event log doubles as a TDM, with new characters experiencing the recurring feeling of drifting in (school life) and out (canon life) of sleep up until they "open their eyes," after which they will have full awareness and come to their senses.
Hinata: don't make it weird Me: it's fine komaeda will
( he doesn't sound disappointed at all, especially with that smile on his face, he's a little too into it to be upset. he can tell by the look on hinata's face that he's flustered, cutely so, he's always been like this, and komaeda has always been smitten regardless. things are different here, and so he's able to match hinata's embarrassment with his own calmness, laughing softly as he leans properly.
do NOT bring chapter 4 hinata into this, he has anxiety. )
...Ahaha! After being in this school so long, it's grown on me. Did you know Amami-kun can do magic?
( he'll add that in, but as for the fortune parts, there's not much to it aside from them being children's games. matching letters to see how compatible people are, or guessing what their dream home might be after a few counts. )
Any of your choice! Do you want to try, Hinata-kun? Hinata-kun? Hinata-kun?
( just so he knows komaeda is talking to him, he pushes a few papers that he's already done with results. )
On the house.
i cried writing it for that very reason
[He looks away, flustered, but with that suitably convincing argument that should do away with any doubts.
That stretches on for a few moments, but eventually he'll manage to meet Komaeda's gaze again.]
...Even Amami, huh? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, considering the kind of stuff Sakasaki can do.
[The peace doesn't last long, because Komaeda's got him flustered all over again. He jerks back a little, frantically waving his arms in front of him.]
Stop! Enough! If you want me to pick somebody that bad, then...!
[He's not thinking much, not with Hinata-kun bouncing around in his ears over and over and making him panic, so there's zero thought involved when he spits out the first person on his mind.]
You! I'm picking you, Komaeda!
STPPPP why did you cry
( caught red-handed, this was supposed to be a little teasing fun, but he didn't expect hinata to be so bold, now komaeda has to think about this moving forward. if hinata has chosen him as his spell, kiss, or fortune, then komaeda has to do it perfectly, because he did come to this booth to help noah. )
Not takebacks, Hinata-kun.
( because now he has to deal with this, and komaeda's crossing his arms as he flips open the book. )
What would you like from me here? There's a variety of things — number fortunes, future fortunes, kisses.
( not love spells, you can't cast what's already on a person. )
because I KNEW what was going to HAPPEN
[But even as Hinata says it, his shoulders are hunching up, and he can't look directly at Komaeda again. He's going to be very familiar with every detail on the wall by the time this is through, it seems like.]
You said... it was possible to check the bond two people have, right? That seems harmless enough.
[His mind lingers on kisses, just a bit, even if he doesn't want it to.
"Do you desire him?
Ugh. God-awful. He's going to punch Josh in the jaw for this. He wishes he could shoo the thoughts away with his hands like flies buzzing around.]
WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!?!?! TELL ME
( he'll pick up a sheet of paper, checking it to see if there's nothing else on it as he proceeds to write their names in the blocky shapes he's so used to. normally he has someone else doing it, but he seems pretty enthusiastic about playing with hinata even though he chose the most normal of the options.
sighs, normal people. )
K O M A E D A⠀⠀N A G I T O
H I N A T A⠀⠀H A J I M E
( he writes their name in the english alphabet while saying the symbols aloud, he's already aware the other can't even read this, and so he turns it right side up for hinata to see. )
What do you think?
I KNEW HE WAS GOING TO MAKE IT WEIRDDDDDDD
[As long as he doesn't acknowledge what "bold" could suggest, he's doing great, he thinks. He's winning, dad.]
...Uh.
[He's winning less, because he sure can't read what that says! The fluster leaves his face because he's just gonna go pale instead.]
It's... fine. I think? I think it probably looks okay.
[It's not the worst thing in the world if Komaeda finds out that Hinata doesn't know what language that is (even though??? Komaeda just read it out????????), but it's still embarrassing.]
YOU MEAN WEIRD AND HARD?
( ... not his cute face gone, is he really struggling that much?
komaeda watches hinata's face, laughing at the sight, but he acts like there's something funny happening behind him. )
Alright, I'll teach you how to play! So you can do it instead.
( because obviously komaeda is going to give hinata an english test to make this hard on him. he says this in english: )
Write the numbers of how many letters match and don't match.
STOP that too... talking to Komaeda is just maniac difficulty
That's... did you...
[It's... that's probably another language, right? Was it French? Spanish? German???]
You just... said something about numbers, right?
NOT TALKING TO HIM RN IS MANIAC DIFFICULTY PLEASE STOPPP
( why is his face going so pale, hinata...? are you alright? hinata?
it's probably his nerves over getting a low score with komaeda which is understandable, and so he smiles wide as he taps at the paper. alright, back in a language that the other will understand: )
Or do you want me to do it?
PLEASE HINATA IS LITERALLY EXPIRING OVER HERE
[Do??? Do what????? What is uii?????????????? Hinata's so lost, how does he deal with this gracefully.
...He has to admit at least part of it. There's no other choice, is there?]
I... don't really know what it is we're doing, to be honest, but... You can do it. I trust you.
PLEASE HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW HIS EXPIRATION DATE
Here...
( sliding the slip of paper over to him, he speaks up once again. )
The number at the bottom shows our compatibility. Friendship, romance, etc.
it's - looks at writing on hand - whatever date he has to do an English test
79%, huh... It's not in the 90s or anything, but that still seems like a good number, right? Although... I guess you'd know better how to measure this sort of thing since you're doing all of this.
[Still... it's higher than 50%, almost at 80%, so that seems like it can't be a bad thing, per se.]
STOP WHY DID ENGLISH MOCK HIM IMMA BE SICK
( perhaps if it was lower, he could have some hope in this little game, but he shrugs his shoulders as he looks up to hinata marveling over the number. )
Our relationship will come crumbling down in a few months or so, is how I read it. So prepare yourself, Hinata-kun!
( he's only kidding... maybe. )
IT DOES EVERY DAY taunting him... why can't u read me Hinata Hajime
Komaeda...
[He wants to push back against it, that's his first instinct. But he also recognizes that Komaeda is Ultimate Luck, even if Hinata has barely seen that talent at work, but it does mean that Komaeda's knowledge of probability and how it affects him is broader than Hinata's.
But it doesn't matter.
Hinata doesn't want that.]
...Get real! You think I'd let something as simple as this ruin things between us? [Something determined slips onto his face.] I won't allow it.
STTOPPPPPPPP i wont let hinata fail his class first we'll do latin
( because komaeda has seen the other frustrated too many times to think not, it just takes a few simple words, and it's over — though in that diary, it seems like he did have a change of heart along the way.
oh. )
...If you mean that, you'll right it in a diary, won't you? Just to keep up with everything that happens here.
( it's a weird change in subject, but probably better than what they were just talking about. )
Latin uses the same letters as English he already failin
But the second part gives him pause, and unbidden, a shiver goes through him. Hinata can't quite tell what emotion this is, but he thinks he might be unnerved.]
...It's weird, you know. I've been thinking of doing that the last couple of months, but I'm never able to bring myself to start. [He laughs, but the nerves are audible.] Don't tell me you're psychic now, too.
no one told him to be illiterate!??!?!
( he can tell he's nervous, and komaeda leans back in his chair as he taps the table to try and get his attention. it's odd how he's been thinking about it, does that mean... those feels still pass over to the now? perhaps he should press it just a little, but not to make it noticeable. )
You should start now! Hm, should we find you a book, and you can write next to me. I'll remind you every day, how about that?
yes he just does it under his own power
But he can't do that. If he can lie to anybody, he definitely can't lie to Komaeda.]
I don't know if I'd call it a great idea or anything, but... [Hinata shrugs; even for something like this, he doesn't like giving himself too much credit.] I just want to have something to hold onto. In case I forget again. I don't want to lose everything all over again...
[He lets his eyes fall shut, thinks of Nene and Ishimaru. He can't do that to them again. He won't.]
...Anyway. You seem pretty excited about this. It seems like it'd be pretty relaxing, but... Aren't you always going to be bored, just sitting next to me?
kibou henata would appreciate what komaedas doing here
( komaeda does need a change of pace, seeing the same thing bores him, and that's why he's always on the move despite his health. he thinks about it, could he get bored next to hinata, and he looks up like he's giving it some thought. after everything they've been through, everything they've lost — komaeda can't even remember everything properly, and he thought that maybe hinata could hold onto those memories for him.
his smile is a bit sullen, expression downcast for a mere moment until he cheers back up, forcing those thoughts behind him. )
If you don't chase me away, and you pick different spots... I won't ever get bored with you.
( even though komaeda hates what he is at the moment, a talentless husk, it's still hard to ignore the fact that he's still the person that he...
...
... )
...Do you get bored of me, Hinata-kun?
Kibou-hen Hinata appreciates everything Komaeda does
And Komaeda.]
...Maybe that's presumptuous. Most people would get bored with that, if there's nothing for them to do.
[But... Komaeda isn't most people, is he? Hinata learns that bit by bit every day.]
Something as simple as that, though... [His voice is soft as both of his hands rest on the table, fingers of one hand still fiddling with the page.] That's easy enough to do. I'd never do anything like chase you away when I always want to spend time with you.
[Above any of this stuff that's embarrassing or confusing, that's what Hinata always wants - what he's wanted since he woke up half-dead in the lodge. Maybe even since he woke up a lifetime ago on a beach.
Komaeda's question makes him frown deeply, though.]
Of course I don't get bored of you, though, what kind of question is that? When we're together... things are usually exciting. And even when they're not, you make me feel... [Hinata trails off, embarrassed. Honestly, saying this is almost worse than when Komaeda was suggesting kissing him. But he's never one to not speak his mind.] ...peaceful. At ease.
STOPP KIBOU HENATA DOESSS HE REALLY IS A KOMAEDA SIMP
If that's the case.
( a case he doesn't want to open knowing he'll find nothing inside, those empty promises, those days where he thought they could live side by side — bygones. if he learns anything else about komaeda, he'll snap, he won't want to see him anymore, and komaeda's tired of that outcome, but all too used to it. )
Do you think they'll come a time where I no longer make you feel that way, are you afraid that I'll hurt you?
( he doesn't allow the concern to linger in his voice, because he does his best to laugh it off after, seem unbothered — he shakes his head, trying not to show anything from those words. he wants them to come off as a test of hinata's resolve, and if he'll be able to stand by those words. is it unfair to do so? probably, but hinata works off his emotions, so whatever he chooses is how dependent on how he feels at the time.
though, it is sometimes nice to see someone fight for you.
...
he leans back, lifting a hand as he waves it. )
Just kidding! I hope you're true to your words, Hinata-kun!
sniper monkey
[His hand moves without a single thought involved, and in one second to the next, his fingers are gently wrapped around Komaeda's wrist.]
Don't just brush it off after saying something like that. If you're joking around... it's not funny, but I still...
[The words should probably be reproachful, but they aren't. Only gentle.]
I trust you, Komaeda. Even if sometimes the things you say now make me worried sometimes... I trust you. You've never given me a reason to think that.
ok but the monkeys in the water
( he has believed one too many times, but doubting hinata has troubled him in the past since he still thinks about him, worries himself over him. if there was a world where he didn't exist then...
he thinks of that world momentarily, the one that he hates — the concept of it makes him sick to his stomach, but he allows the other to hold his arm like a gentle hold onto reality. )
Don't worry about me, Hinata-kun... I want you to take care of yourself, it seems recently, you're starting to forget that.
( and maybe that's why everything happens to him so drastically, why komaeda's always this close to losing him. )
Let me tell you a secret... lean down, I only want you to hear it.
hmm... scuba monkey
[There's a plethora of reasons, really, to worry about Komaeda Nagito. But the incident with the gun, even months later, is never far from his mind.
But Hinata still huffs out a sigh, the action sprinkled with just a dash of tsun and dere, any "reluctance" as he leans down easy to read through. As if he wasn't planning to do precisely what was asked of him the second Komaeda said it.
There are limits, of course, to what Hinata will do - not just if Komaeda asks, but for anyone. But there are only a handful of people in this school that have as tight of a grip on his heart - and the others, at least, Hinata has a great deal more awareness about.]
This feels like it'd just make whatever it is more obvious, but... Go ahead. I'm listening.
lil dumpy
( he smiles as he waits for hinata to come closer, and komaeda thinks of all the little secrets that he knows. some more than others, and he wonders what should he tell the other first? something exciting? something boring to keep him thinking? it has to be good because it's not like they get this chance every day.
his heart feels heavy.
when hinata is close enough, komaeda stands up from his seat, bending his leg so he can prop it up on the chair as he uses his prosthetic hand first, reaching out to cup hinata's cheek. it's brief, but he settles a kiss against the brunette's lips, closing his eyes as he to indulge in the kiss before leaning back. )
You're going to grow up as someone reliable, and many will look up to you.
( he laughs, waiting for the other to probably yell at him, because komaeda's cheeks might be a little red, but he is teasing hinata at the same time so it's not hard to forget that he's even embarrassed at all. )
i'm in the water
not the water