SCHOOL FESTIVAL

[afterlifer]

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: School Festival / Arriving in the Afterlife!
WHEN: 9/30/2012. Morning through evening.
WHERE: All around! Mostly at the school, since it is a school festival!
WARNINGS: Potential violence, but since everyone's already dead it's not like it matters, BUT FOR THE MOST PART HUNKY DORY PG! So PG+V? That works.
SUMMARY: A school festival! Details here!

No matter where it is you woke up, if it's near buildings the sounds of merriment are all around. The shouts of people rooting for the winner of a game, students trying to pull in attention for their booths, adults laughing as they trip over themselves during a sport or someone screaming at the haunted house...

It's then that you realize you're at some kind of festival, everyone's invited, and no one seems to be bothering with money.

Then the realization that you're not even in your clothes. What the hell is this outfit? A school uniform? A janitor? A store clerk? Waitress?

No, no, the bigger question is deinitely "What the hell is going on and where am I?" With nothing but forest and mountains visible in the distance, it's kind of--

POP POP!

..Are those fireworks?

If your character isn't at one of the events and are elsewhere in the town/forest/school/dorms/exploring the buildings/wherever, feel free to just comment with their own thread at the bottom.

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[tenminutes]

[ Thanks for illustrating Yuri's assumption about a lot of guys the minute she meets them. All after the panty shots, even if just secretly. ]

You want to play baseball right? You can barely see what's going on from here, you know.

[tsunball]

[ That's the worst possible question she could've asked him, because.. well, he doesn't know the answer to that himself, does he want to play baseball? Sure, he wants to, he's missed it since he was stuck in that school, but admitting that.. no way, he can't just do that! ]

.. W-.. why are you thinking that?! [ strangely specific denial. ] I was just looking, that's all! There's nothing weird about that, right?! [ getting totally worked up too.. ]

[tenminutes]

[ What. The hell. Is this guy getting all flustered about baseball? Yuri looks back to the field, then shrugs it off. ]

There's nothing weird about it unless you're going to stand here staring at it like a shy schoolgirl waiting for her senpai to notice her. Come on, you can play on my team.

[tsunball]

Shit, I'm not--

[ He's trying to defend himself here, but his tsun is starting to go into overdrive. Okay, Leon, try thinking of a way that makes it sound like you don't actually want to play but she forced your hand.. ]

... Only if you stop calling me a fucking schoolgirl!

[tenminutes]

Prove you're not on the baseball field and I will!

[ IT'S A CHALLENGE >D ]

[tsunball]

... Shit, I'll show you alright! [ CAN'T BACK DOWN FROM A CHALLENGE, RIGHT. ] Right now, if I have to!

[tenminutes]

Well wait until we've got the rest of a team so you can show me during a game. What's your name?

[tsunball]

.. You can't just fire me up like that and then make me wait! [ GEEZ, YURI. But fine, Leon will wait a little bit more, he's.. lazy either way.. ]

And it's Leon, Leon Kuwata. Haven't you heard of me before? I'm a big star, y'know!

[ .. slightly exaggerated, when it comes to baseball, but.. ]

[tenminutes]

Not even once! I'm Yuri Nakamura. Yuri is fine though, unless you want to go with a nickname in which case it's Yurippe, just because I don't want to find out what kind of dumber nickname someone could come up with.

1 / 2

[tsunball]

[ .... not even once.

not even once..

not even once..

It's like it's echoing through his head and if this were an anime, everything would fade to black with just him in the spotlight or something. Instead, he just ends up looking almost pathetically dejected for a moment before he tries to shake it off. ]

[tsunball]

I'll go with Yurippe then! [ calling a girl by their first name would be.. weird.. especially if they're not dating..

but okay, leon, just smile now - make up for that just now!! aw, yeah, she must think you're so cool now. ]

[tenminutes]

[ LMAO HIM LOOKS SO DEJECTED. She almost wants to tell him that she's been dead for a bit and he's probably young enough and possibly from a different time period. Almost. ]

Can I call you Leon? [ She senses an easy target for teasing if he got so dejected about her not knowing him. Asking all politely to call him by his first name now.. LET'S SEE HOW EASY... ]

[tsunball]

[ He's the easiest target, honestly. And she's being polite and-- well, Yuri is pretty cute, has a good body and all too, so.. he just crushes on anything female, okay. ]

.. Well, if you want to.. [ ... leon, say it in a less dorky tone, at least, now you're just being desperate. ] .. then just go right ahead! That's what all my fans call me!

[ what fans, leon. ]

[tenminutes]

I'm not a fan. Maybe I should come up with a nickname or something...

[ Not a fan, definitely not a fan. ]

[tsunball]

W-.. what, no, not a nickname! [ although that's more since he's too afraid it'd be embarassing, although.. maybe he should give it a chance? ]

Unless it's a cool one!

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri takes a few moments to consider a good nickname, then.. ]

How about just "Leo"?

[tsunball]

.. You're just going to leave off the 'n'? [ well, in western spelling, obviously.. ] How's that supposed to be a nickname?

[tenminutes]

[ She doesn't know how it's spelled, she's assuming it's in kana so she can literally just take of the character for "n" and leave "ri" and "o" okay!! Whose Japanese name is actually pronounced like a western name and is actually spelled with kanji anyway? That's stupid. ]

Well it's shorter, right?

[tsunball]

[ TOTALLY SPELLED WITH KANJI OKAY. I don't know if you've realised yet, but Leon is practically Dangan Ronpa's Battler (hence why Yuri feels so attracted to him right now, right). But either way, he's thinking of western spelling since that happened to come up right before he died.. ]

But Leo sounds weird! Isn't that just a different western name?

[tenminutes]

[ AHAHA ATTRACTED RIGHT so attracted get out and stop making me have to force down big smiles at work as I try not to laugh. ]

Isn't Leon a western name to begin with?

[tsunball]

[ WOW, WOW, WHAT DOES HE LACK. A CAPE?! HE CAN GET AN IDIOTIC CAPE, OKAY. ]

It is! [ bright grin. ] Doesn't that make it super cool? It's not written in the western way though, just with kanji, but that doesn't matter!

[tenminutes]

What kanji would you write that with!?

[tsunball]

It's with-- here, let me just show you! [ there's a convenient patch of sand nearby, so he's just going to bend down and write it in the sand-- '桑田怜恩'. ]

Look, that says Kuwata Leon, right?

[tenminutes]

The first character in Leon is "pity."

[ She just looks at him because loool DON'T SHOW OFF IF THAT'S THE KANJI FOR YOUR NAME.. ]

[tsunball]

The second is better, that cancels it out! Either way, it just says 'this dude is a cool guy', doesn't it?! [ he's just desperately trying to save himself.. ]