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yumemigaoka2024-05-09 07:46 pm
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Happy Dreamerversary!
YUMEMIGAOKA
May is always a dicey time to have an outdoor event in Yumemigaoka but this year it seems like luck's on everyone's side. The morning of the 14th dawns with bright blue skies, beaming sunlight and a refreshing breeze - in other words, the perfect weather for an outdoor festival! As it does every year, the Dreamer Union is hosting its annual celebration of the first Dreamer Awakening now fifty-one whole years ago! Damn! Today's the day the entire community comes together to say happy anniversary, Dreamers!
Part of the DU has been opened to the public for the event - while the upstairs beyond the second floor are still off limits, a number of informational boards with quick and breezy rundowns of the DU's functions and how it supports Dreamers are set up around the atrium and on the second floor. Some are informational, some are educational, and a few have trivia quizzes on them that you can answer at the front desk to get a little token for some free food at the event.
The majority of the setup is outside, though - something between a pop-up market and a festival, with colourful sparkling banners and materials lining each stall. Some are small, independant businesses from around Yumemigaoka, some are larger organizations who sponsor the DU (they've gotta keep the lights on somehow!) and plenty of food and drink vendors. A few indie artists from the community are also selling merch and art catered to their fellow Dreamers, with imagery and in-jokes that wouldn't really mean anything to normal folks.
Some particular stalls to keep an eye out for include...
- ⧖ Dreamery Creamery are serving up scoops of their ice cream in all kinds of crazy flavours with a massive array of toppings and cones for you to choose from. To make things more exciting, Dreamers Sage, Soleil and Prisma are all helping out at the booth and serving ice creams themed after their Dreamer selves! How does Soleil Sorbet sound to you? Maybe Sherbert Sage? Or are you going for Prisma Pomegranate?
⧖ Dice and Dash have a shaded area set up for people to sit down, take a load off and chill out with some board games! They've got a selection of games to borrow, but so long as they're not too busy, you're free to take up a table with your own entertainment if you've got it.
⧖ Dream Weavers, famous for their position as the DU's go-to tailor, is strutting their stuff with recreations of some famous and well known Dreamers' outfits! As well as selling their goods, they're also hosting a little workshop where visitors can learn some quick and simple cosplay and sewing techniques to see how these outfits get made. Dreamers Luck, Gungir and Hanako will all be volunteering and... doing their very best at the cosplay workshop!
⧖ Hybrid Colours is selling portable wares like canvas bags, keychains and postcards of the various prints/paintings available at the gallery! Since they only just arrived at Yumemigaoka, all the locations are international or from other parts of Japan. (Aleena will do face painting or hand painted 'tattoos' for kids, teens, or the daring adult and has a small table set up with a catalogue or 'surprise me!' option for it)
⧖ The Yumemigaoka Cultural Museum has their usual setup! As well as a truncated version of their installation explaining the Dream Sphere and its history, they've set up several dioramas of places in the Dream Sphere, recreated in miniature! There's some moving elements like miniature Torments bobbing around here and there and some cute interactive gimmicks, like a button that will raise and lower the water level in the miniature Vale of Sorrow or a switch to make the volcano in mini Fury Peak go kaboom!
⧖ Finally, a soundstage has been set up just a little ways away from the rest of the stalls with plenty of sitting room for the audience. Dreamer Ai-Doll will be performing a small set of songs partway through the day and the rest of its time will be dedicated to hosting a Q&A panel of a rotating list of volunteers to answer questions about life as a Dreamer or day to day goings on at the DU. Please be aware that both Angelica AND Chloe will kill you if you post cringe on main so be on your best behaviour!
There's lots to do and plenty of time to do it in - the event runs from 10AM and starts wrapping at around 4:30PM so everyone's got time to head home for work the next day. Dreamers will be able to attend the afterparty in the Dream Sphere if they'd like to but for the most part, that's this year's event wrapped up!
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Yeah! Yeah, she's really good! I'm not from around here, so I've never heard her sing before. Just ran into her in the halls once or twice.
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Oh, you're the man from the library..!
[ It seems like the connection to Omen is nowhere near close to happening. Instead she just curiously blinks at him for a moment and then nods, like him maybe not knowing Ai well actually makes sense in that context. (His Japanese does seem a lot better, but-- it's been a while since she ran into him. Of course he would have learned a lot more by now. Adults are smart.)
As for the Ai thing, maybe she isn't as big yet in other countries..? It's true that Illya didn't hear that much about her either, back when she was still travelling around with her parents. ]
It's a good thing that you're here now then! I think that anyone who isn't able to experience Ai-san's performances and music is really missing out..! It's the kind of music that can reaaaally cheer you up when you're feeling down! I listen to it all the time!
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[It wouldn't have made sense for him to recognize her right away. It's been quite some time since they spoke in the waking world.]
Yeah! I, uh, I still don't listen to a lot of music here, I don't understand most of the words. It's different from talking to someone, lots going on. But the tune's good!
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[ .. that definitely sounds like a kind of childish thing to say, right. Especially when Illya says it so innocently. On the other hand, she's definitely at the sort of age where she can get away with being so genuinely corny.. Especially since she smiles like she truly believes those words herself. ]
As long as her music can touch you and make you happy, that's the important part. That's what her music does for me..! It doesn't even matter which song she's singing. They're all great like that.
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Yeah...yeah, you're right! That's what music is for, right?
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[ There's a slight pause, and the girl looks like she's thinking..
Thinking about what exactly becomes pretty clear when she turns to him to ask: ]
Do you like music too, sir?
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[He didn't exactly bring a bunch of CDs overseas with him, but fortunately he now has regular internet access!]
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I think I've heard Spanish music before when I was younger. [ Hard to not listen to all sorts of music when you're travelling all over the world with your parents, after all.. ] I think it sounded kind of interesting! I mean.. um.. sometimes the instruments they use are different in all sorts of countries, right? I don't remember it sounding a whole lot like Japanese pop music.
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[He chuckles.]
Of course, some of that's just because I'm old, too.
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[ That's definitely the tone of a kid who is trying to pay someone else a genuine compliment, but is utterly failing at it. Because he definitely is pretty old to a very young girl like her, but she thinks that pointing that out or even just agreeing with him feels kind of rude..
Hence this half-hearted attempt. An attempt truly was made. ]
Or do you mean they really had no music like this when you were younger..? [ Judging by her tone, it's difficult for Illya to imagine. Especially when she's known music like this pretty much all of her young life. ]
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[Bruno chuckles a little nervously. That's nice of her to say, but like.]
Oh, no. It wasn't so...electronic, back then. I guess...have you ever heard of Ernesto de la Cruz? My sisters loved that guy growing up.
[Bruno is not online and has not watched the four-hour-long hbomberguy expose on Ernesto de la Cruz!]
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So she shakes her head. ]
No! [ But since she seems curious all the same-- ] What kind of music does he make?
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[Well, he doesn't have any examples for this part of the world. Bruno's not so well-traveled; he always stuck to Colombia even after leaving home, and this entire venture was his first time leaving.]
...Frank Sinatra? Yeah, kinda like that.
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.. and even Frank Sinatra just seems to make her blink in a way that clearly makes her look confused.
Sorry, Bruno. This is what happens when you're dealing with The Youth™. ]
I don't think I've ever heard of this mister Sinatra either.. Is he also old?
[ ACCIDENTALLY BLUNT.. In that sort of way that kids never seem to realise it when they're making someone feel extremely old. ]
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[so? yes???]
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[ Shock.
SHOCK.
Bruno, apparently Illya is much too delicate to just tell this to.. Her eyes are so wide and so worried, even though she clearly did not even know who he was in the first place. Like she's this concerned about a long-dead stranger. ]
Oh no.. I feel so sorry for him. I didn't even know he was sick.. [ Illya, you didn't know him at all!!! ]
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[WAVING HIS HANDS FRANTICALLY]
- hey, hey, it's fine! He's been dead for a long time!
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But she still feels a little bad for Frank Sinatra all the same.
At least the words do seem to be enough to make her settle a little bit. Just a little bit. ]
But you still listen to his music..?
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