magicalesbian | 2ND ☄ s h o o t i n g s t a r ☄ v o i c e / a c t i o n

Hello, Lucetizens!

[A pause. Let that sink in for a moment.]

It's weird, you know? If I hadn't gone home the first time, I'd have already spent a year here... [It almost sounds like she's going for a serious moment of reflection... but the smile pops back onto her face pretty much right away.] But what I'm really getting at is I never got a chance to re-introduce myself! So!

I am Hoshikyo, Luceti's newest magical girl! Some of you have probably already met me. I'm kinda hard to miss. You know. Being pink and sparklie and all. But that's besides the point!

What I'm really hoping to ask here is if there's anyone else in this village who lives as a part-time hero. And I don't mean you RPG protags or Shounen Jump wannabes. I mean, like, secret identity type hero or wears-a-cool-uniform hero. That kind of stuff! I mean, I know you're out there and all, but in a place like this it just makes sense for us hero-types to try and get along, you know?

Not... that I expect anyone to respond to this with their secret identity, of course. Because that'd be stupid. And if you do that? I'll call you stupid. Just getting that out of the way.

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[After a few hours spent as Hoshikyo talking over the journals, she reverts back to her usual self (

normalesbian) to go about her day in a far more normal manner, stopping by the library to pick up a few dozen (yes, dozen) books before going shopping for some groceries. It'd be nice if she could just take advantage of the free restaurants here, but having to go outside everytime she wanted to eat? No way. She'd rather just continue her meager existence of living off of instant foods. Just like mom used to make, yep.]

[Despite her earlier countenance over the journals, she is starting to feel a little homesick. And she can't help but wonder what the others back home are up to right now... there's a definite gloomy air hanging over her as she heads back home, several large shopping bags in hand.]

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[[ooc: Since a lot of Hoshikyo's canon deals with the idea of fictional worlds being real, please take a look at THIS POST if you are okay/not okay with 4th-Walling! Feel free to post to it even if they've already met, since it'd be pretty easy to handwave her just not recognizing someone right away. Additionally, any character is free to recognize Hoshikyo as though she exists in media within your character's canon, whether as the star of a shoujo manga series, a new brand of Vocaloid, a soft-drink mascot or whatever! My only condition is that recognizing Kari is off-limits.]]

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Okay! [She's got a smile on her face in full bloom right now. It's almost sad to think that with a a very few notable exceptions, this is probably the first time Kari's every been invited over to someone's house. Let alone, invited over to dinner!]

Do we need to stop anywhere to pick things up to cook with? I mean, unless you're better at planning meals ahead than I am...

[Honestly this is probably the first time Rei's invited a friend over for dinner who wasn't one of the Senshi, or Harry Dresden. These two are just such loners.

She shakes her head though.]

No, I just gathered food yesterday. I'd planned on making curry tonight, since I can store it for later in the week. I've got all the vegetables and things. Though, if you prefer beef to chicken, we can stop and get that.

[And even then, little does she know she's technically inviting a fellow senshi over right now.]

I like beef, but chicken is good too. Besides, I wouldn't want you going too out of the way for me. You'll make me feel spoiled.

Beef it is, call it an early Christmas gift, Kari-san.

[She heads off towards the store, not taking no for an answer.]

E-Ehh? Hey, wait!

[Clearly she shouldn't have said anything, gosh! But she still follows.]

...what do you mean, Christmas gift?

I mean that Christmas is in ten days.

[She smiles mysteriously, letting Kari take that as she might]

I know that! But. I mean. What do you mean by "gift"?

[Christmas is a little different where she comes from. It's kind of hard to adopt a tradition for wrapping presents and Christmas trees when that tradition died out of necessity almost 100 years before.]

It's a tradition in my world. People give gifts to friends for Christmas. A nice dinner can be a gift, can't it?

Really? [Sounds like a nice tradition.] I mean-- yeah, I guess that can be a gift, but...

[Does this mean she has to give one in return? Not that there's an inherent issue in that, but what could she possibly give?]

I guess I never really-- I mean, I guess I wasn't really here around Christmas last time I was here. So I didn't know that was a thing people did.

Well, it's no big deal.

[She certainly doesn't expect a gift, period. By now they've probably hit the grocery store though, and Rei's making her way over to the meat.]

It's just...the spirit of the season. What do people do in your world?

It depends on the country, I think. In Japan, it's pretty much just a step above Valentine's Day for couples. Like, kids with crushes exchange chocolate on Valentine's Day, while married couples go on second honeymoons for Christmas. And some people just go on dates for both...

[She sounds rather unenthusiastic as she explains. Christmas still has some lingering bad memories for her, given how this last year went. She just sort of shuffles along behind Rei.]

It's kinda weird though. When I got here, we'd only just celebrated the New Year. It almost feels like I went back in time.

Well, that's what it's like in Japan as well, but friends still exchange gifts too. I attend a Catholic school, so I tend to think of it more from a Western perspective, from Europe or America, because that's how the nuns taught it.

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