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steve rogers ([personal profile] decommission) wrote in [community profile] station722016-10-02 09:37 am

PARTY PARTY PARTY

CHARACTERS: Everyone!
WHERE: The streets of Concordia
WHEN: Dusk til just before dawn on DAY 040
SUMMARY: IT'S A PARADE
WARNINGS: Add them to your top levels as necessary etc etc


As from the calendar:
Confetti! It's a parade! The annual Arista Parade, to be precise. Nominally a part of Aristana, the celebration of the ribbons of life, it's a holiday who's origins are nearly forgotten. Nowadays it's a big, raucous celebration pretty dedicated much entirely to drinking and partying. Almost all those in attendance will be wearing ribbons tied around their hair, their wrists, off of their belts and the edges of their sleeves. Pull one off, and you will be rewarded with a kiss - on the cheek, usually. The parade itself showcases a number of performers, costumes, and moving art pieces. It's route covers a number of the main streets of town (which will be closed, sorry traffic), and it lasts from dusk till nearly dawn on DAY :040. Have fun, if it's your kind of scene.


From the mods:
No notable NPCs are present at the parade - at least not in any official capacity. However if anyone wants to interact with a Concordian native, feel free to make up/interact with any randos you feel like!


Feel free to use this log for all of your parade day activities!


*moving art piece not included, original characters do not steal
headinjuries: i pet it. like i was pocahontas. (i made friends with a raccoon.)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-10-22 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Big question. He slowly lets out a breath. ]

I don't know. I kinda just want it all over with.
greentech: (Straight-faced and serious)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-10-22 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
That's kinda how I feel, too. But at the same time... if we can help people here, shouldn't we?

[ She's been getting that feeling the last couple days. Gnawing away at her. ]
headinjuries: in the middle of the street last night... normal (saw a man tazing a raccoon)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-10-23 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that...

[ He frowns. Putting words to feelings is kind of hard sometimes. On the bright side, Pidge is in his brood, so he doesn't entirely have to - some of the intent will come across even if he can't figure out how to say it right. ]

The part about why we're here in the first place - I still don't know what to think about that. I mean, helping people is a no-brainer, that's what superheroes are supposed to do. But I don't know about like...changing the way their whole culture is going. That feels kind of weird, even if I think the anti-synth stuff is totally stupid.

But then there was that bombing. And that's like - that's the kind of thing I know we can stop. And should stop.
greentech: (Combat)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-10-24 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. No one deserves to get blown up just for going to a stupid nightclub.

[ She grimaces. Not that she can talk a lot, considering she's blown up a few Galra ships. Woops. ]

But I get what you're saying. Why is it our job to change how a whole society thinks? Even if I think they're wrong, shouldn't they figure that out for themselves? If they just do it because of us, what stops them from going back, later?
headinjuries: was get my life in order. i feel like i wasted my time. (all i did this weekend)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-10-25 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. And, like - it's not our planet. It's not even our galaxy, probably? I can't match it to any star map I've got, and if it's not in the Xandarian databases it's gotta be way elsewhere.

If it were home I wouldn't feel so weird jumping into things. I'm a Nova. People expect that. Most of them welcome it - I mean, there are always people who don't, but there's people anywhere who hate cops, so whatever. But here...we're just some strangers who wandered in and are trying to change everything.
greentech: (Pout)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-10-26 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's not even like they're trying to take over the universe, either. They're just figuring things out, like we did on Earth. We weren't perfect and we're not perfect-

[ Pidge sighs. ]

This mission is stupid.
headinjuries: was get my life in order. i feel like i wasted my time. (all i did this weekend)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-10-31 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
People screw each other over all the time. Back home we're not even past that.

[ He frowns. ]

I don't like what they're doing here, but Sam [ Anders, the unspoken connection makes clear ] and I were talking about it a while back and...it might be there's nothing that'll get things straight but stay clean. They might be headed for a war. We might be pushing them there faster.

And that...I don't know. What if we're just making everything worse?
greentech: (Pout)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-11-01 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
I... hadn't thought about that.

[ But it makes a weird sort of sense. Sort of. They're trying to push this society to change, even if there are only a handful of them. No matter where you are, someone isn't going to like things being different and if enough of them don't like it, there's conflict. And conflict can blow up very quickly. ]

I don't want to make things worse for these people. Most of them just want to live their lives... And if we somehow start a war...

[ She groans and rubs her forehead. ]

Or what if it starts after we leave? How are we supposed to deal with that? How are we supposed to be responsible for changing an entire planet?
headinjuries: on top of the garage. i'm not even going to ask myself why. (found my bike today.)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-11-03 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. But if even stuff that looks like doing the right thing can end up wrong -

[ The mental image of Skaarn comes up to the surface of his thoughts, of saving what he thought was a stranded ship full of decent people and realizing he'd actually bailed out an infamous slaver. ]

- if you can actually see wrong stuff coming, how much worse can that get?
greentech: (Green Lion)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-11-03 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I guess-

[ She breaths out slowly and glances over at Sam with a shrug. ]

I guess we just do our best. And try to help people. That's what we're supposed to do right?
headinjuries: the forehead prints off my glass doors. (i thought of you while cleaning)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-11-03 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[ Sigh. ]

So! Catching bombers! At least I know that's gonna help more than it hurts.
greentech: (Straight-faced and serious)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-11-04 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, definitely.

[ Subject change is good. ]

I just wish we had more than theories to go on.

[ Breathe in, out. Feels like they're going in circles sometimes. ]

Somehow I thought being a space paladin wouldn't involve as much running in circles.
headinjuries: the forehead prints off my glass doors. (i thought of you while cleaning)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-11-07 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes it feels like all I've done since I started being Nova is running in circles.

[ He'd made some progress, sure. Or he'd thought he had, and then wound up right back at square one with nothing but an extra layer of frustration to show for it. ]
greentech: (Pout)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-11-08 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
I thought I was finished, but then...

[ Pidge shakes her head. ]

You know what? I'm going to stop thinking about that. Because it's not helping me get anywhere.
headinjuries: do i need to take before i think its a good idea to set the house on fire and scream satanic mantras? (how much of this shit)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-11-11 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Good call.

[ Not that not thinking about something is...all that easy, most of the time, but it's at least worth making the effort. ]