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[natureprincess]

The bamboo leaves rustle,
shaking away in the eaves.
The stars twinkle;
Gold and silver grains of sand.

It's the seventh day of the seventh month… Tanabata!

In various locations throughout the school and outside, bamboo branches have been set up! If your character cares to investigate, they will find that there are pens and colorful sheets of paper nearby with string attached to them. There is a short explanation posted nearby to explain, and encouragement to share their own wishes.

Wishes can be simple, serious, just for fun, whatever! "I wish I had a pony." "I wish I had a girlfriend." "I hope Billy makes it out of the hospital okay." Characters are not required to sign their names, but there is a chance that someone could see them hanging something up...

You can leave their wishes on this post! Feel free to make action threads if you so desire! Just make sure to mark it as such if you're into that kind of thing.

Dream on, SBG.

Comments

[action]

[hasthemunchies.livejournal.com]

[Ilyana is standing awkwardly next to a tree, a small piece of paper and pen in hand. She got the concept, but.. there were so many things to wish for.. namely food, but what kind? This would definitely take a while..]

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Cyrus knows exactly what this is for. At the branch near the teacher dorm, he takes up pen in hand and selects a light blue piece of paper, wondering if Jirachi is watching from above.

I wish for that peaceful world.

[majorcrotchgrab.livejournal.com]

[Raikov reads the explanation, remembering something like this last year... and decides to scribble down something in Cyrillic...

I wish Yevgeny would return.

But to anyone reading it, it shows up as...]

Я желаю Евгений возвращается.

[Selfish and childish but... one can dream, yes?]

[action]

[140-96.livejournal.com]

Mei Ling hadn't seen one of these for a while. She remembered how there was a similar festival in Chinese culture... but it was more about girls trying to find a husband. Laughing, she looked at the pen in her hand and feeling a sudden urge of nostalgia, scribbled as best as she could.

奋不顾身

It took moments of pausing between strokes to figure out whether she was doing it right, but after a moment, wrote on the other side in English.

I want to be daring regardless of the dangers ahead.

[action]

[boxingmidget.livejournal.com]

Mac could wish to be the champ. He really could. But he asked for something else.

I wish to be happy.

Simple, but a lot more broad, he thought.

[pink-shroom.livejournal.com]

Peach is going to be obvious.

I wish for the safety and happiness of everyone.

[action]

[auraqualia.livejournal.com]

Riley just stared at Dedede in anger. Almost in shock, as well.

"Hey!" he called out. "Don't do that - that's selfish."

He wasn't sure what called for the outburst - maybe for the fact that he wanted to write something on the paper as well? No, it ran deeper than that - what Dedede was doing was contrary to the whole spirit of the festival. Or so it seems.

[ihaswillpower.livejournal.com]

[Azelf wrote down his wish and placed it on the highest branch of the tree before he went back into his dorm. He doesn't want anyone to read it, which states:]

I wish I was brave

[ihateplumbers.livejournal.com]

::Written in an very easy to read hand in very visible ink::

I wish Luigi would stop being such a terrible roommate.

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

I wish she'd let me kiss her again.

[awooooooooooooo.livejournal.com]

Wolf smiled--what a cute concept! Well...maybe he should entertain the soul who went to all of the trouble to put this together...

I wish James were here to tell me if I'd made the right decision to return.

[slicingdicing.livejournal.com]

Oh...what the hell. Scrawled in sharp, slanted, but decidedly feminine handwriting:

I wish that big green dumbass would notice me, for fuck's sake.

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

[SORRY I'M TERRIBLE

Vinnie probably noticed the wish, but... well, he's not really that green, mostly just warty blue and pink, so it totally slips his mind that this could be about him.

Maybe it was for Bulba. Poor girl, whoever she was. Probably didn't know he didn't swing that way.]

Ackshun

[miss-dreavus.livejournal.com]

[So many things to wish for, but all of them selfish. At least she wasn't the only one, judging from some of the slips that hung from the bamboo. So Blacky decided to write her own after all.]

I wish for things to be the way they used to be.

[It wasn't going to come true anyway.]

More actions

[frecklexplosion.livejournal.com]

[There were some things Jeff wanted, sure, but he didn't want to make himself obvious. That would just be embarrassing.]

I want to make the impossible possible.

[That's just vague enough to work, right? Anything can happen if you pray from the bottom of your heart.]

[4x4-of-manly.livejournal.com]

[Oh, this thing again? Sure, what the heck. Lighter set his 4x4 and toolbox aside to jot down what he felt was appropriate.]

Another year of health and happiness.

[4x4-of-manly.livejournal.com]

[And then on the back:]

Also catching that kraken this year.

Action

[getthisguyoffme.livejournal.com]

[This was ridiculous. Simply writing on a piece of paper was not going to help with his his current situation but it was worth a try. Plus Slippy had always been an optimist.]

Employment for us.

[He tied to a branch, hidden by some of the other wishes.]

Action, of course.

[hasmoreberets.livejournal.com]

[He thinks of this, and he thinks of it really hard. He knows that he has to make this count. There's a lot of things that he could wish for... but he decides to make it short and simple.]

I wish that either of them were here to help me, and for me to be strong.

Action.

[time-mast3r.livejournal.com]

[It was foolish... but she could not help it.]

I wish for him to be happy in whatever he chooses.

Action.

[time-mast3r.livejournal.com]

[But that's not enough and she grabs another one.]

I also wish I had a few more clocks!

Haha I couldn't... help it.

[cantnjoysammich.livejournal.com]

[There's a simple note.

No one knows who put it.

What does it say?]

I wish I could enjoy my sandwich.

[She's been pretty busy.]

action it's a party

[all-range-mode.livejournal.com]

[Something like this shouldn't be so brain wracking. How hard was it to come up with something to write on a tiny strip of paper? Fox totally blanked on it at first, staring at the paper for a good five, ten minutes before finally coming up with something. "I wish we had more work"? no, that sounded too selfish. "I wish I didn't have to pay off the Great Fox"? No, too pathetic. "I wish he wasn't dead"? "I wish I'd had more time with dad"?... Nah, too depressing. "I wish I knew whose neck to break for-" okay no, too violent. He was probably missing the point of this thing completely, but try as he might, Fox just wasn't good at being selfish. Even if it wasn't actually being selfish.]

[At long last, he finally settles on something:]

I wish I didn't have to wish.

[Short, simple, to the point. Finally satisfied, Fox hung his little strip of paper up on a branch, and stuffed about five unused rejects into his pocket. Mission complete.]

[punchtheflowers.livejournal.com]

[Vinnie wasn't normally one to be hung up on just wishing things to be better, but after seeing all that decorated bamboo around the school, well... it wouldn't hurt to be festive for Tanabata.

His writing was messy, but bold. His paper was pink.]

I wish I was stronger for everyone

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

[Oh, how nice! Sable remembered this from last year. She felt compelled to write down a wish of her own, so she did.]

I wish the family shop has plenty of business for years to come.

[electriccharge.livejournal.com]

[It wasn't hard at all for Watt to come up with a wish for this time around, that's for sure.]

I wish that what happened a few months ago will never ever EVER happen again.

[temptedthesnake]

[Late at night that night, someone came to inspect some of the wishes. Big green dumbasses, something in Cryllic that she had to stop herself from tearing off the little tree, and a lot of wishes for peace and happiness. She laughed quietly to herself, then wrote her own note.]

I wish that you would drop dead already.

[Instead of hanging it up, though, she crumpled it up and left it with the other blank pieces of paper. No need to spoil everyone's positivity...]

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

[After a while of thinking, Luigi hesitantly writes down his wish.]

I wish I was as heroic as my bro...