isleofavalon | [open] May catch-all

🧙 WHO: Lucy/Nyuu & You
⚔️️ WHAT: 1st big opera role, quests (No Buccaing Out & Holo, Goodbye), & bug catching contest.
🕒 WHEN: Throughout May
🗺️ WHERE: Various
⚠️ WARNINGS: Mentions of blood (blood magic); drinking; drunk Nyuu: IC, drunk Nyuu forgets about personal space and will become clingy.

I. 1st Big Opera Role (Lucy or Nyuu) | CW: mentioned religion in link to the opera's synopsis

[Although it's not a starring role just yet, the girls are finally getting a bigger supportive role for this month's opera performance. They've told their friends and acquaintances about it, inviting them to come watch, but it's a public performance so all are welcome. The opera running this month is Rinaldo, but with an Avalonian twist. Lucy and Nyuu's role (depending on who is in control) is Almirena. Each night, they are wearing a blue and gold dress, and their hair is styled into a braid that hangs over their right shoulder. There's even tiny flowers intertwined with their hair.

No matter which of the girls is performing, however, both have made sure to memorized their lines. During Act 2 is a scene where Almirena sings of her grief of being in captivity, and all eyes are on the girls. Each of them sings beautifully during their nights of performing.

The girls can be approached after the performances if one sticks around a little longer and spots them exiting the theater, dressed in their regular clothes while their hair and makeup remains. Or perhaps they are spotted walking on the street during a normal day out and about.]

II. Quest: No Buccaing Out (Lucy)

[A diving suit would have been the best thing to wear, but those were expensive, so Lucy just bought a swimsuit with shorts that's a combination of pink, lavender, and black colors.]

I can turn into aquatic animals with my animal magic, so if you need the potion, go ahead and take it. I wonder if a crab's shell could withstand the paralytic? I know of a crab native to Japan that's pretty big and has long limbs. What about you? What were you planning to do?

III. Quest: Holo, Goodbye (Nyuu + a possible switch to Lucy? Depends on how drunk Nyuu gets.) | CW: Drinking, Drunk Nyuu

[Because the fairies are drinking, they're either more cheerful than usual, or more mischievous, or maybe even both. Either way, they offer some of whatever they're drinking to Nyuu. She puts her hands out in front of her and laughs nervously.]

Ahaha... I mustn't drink. I don't really drink anyway--

[The fairies become offended by Nyuu's rejection and threaten to withhold the stones. Nyuu panics and ends up accepting their offer. She's still normal after the first drink, but the fairies want her to drink more.]

Eh? M-more? [She looks helplessly at whoever's decided to accompany her on this quest.] What should I do? I don't want to become a burden by getting drunk, and we have to get the stone to the family before the holo wears off. But if I don't drink, they said they wouldn't let us take any...

IV: Bug Catching Contest (Nyuu)

[Nyuu's all for the middle ground stance (as well as the slow/steady, but that's mainly because of the bribery with cookies). She's got a plastic bug cage with what she's caught so far. It's not full to the brim, but it's a modest amount of bugs, until one of the bipedal frogs wraps their tongue around her ankle. Nyuu cries out in surprise as she falls to the ground, dropping her cage hard enough that it bursts open, allowing the frogs to gobble up everything she had.]

Oh no! My bugs!

[She just stays on her knees, looking at her fallen cage dejectedly.]

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[Nobunaga officially LOVES opera! Who knew it was so relatable!? Well, aside from the magic and religious stuff! BUT OTHERWISE!]

[He is all dressed up in a super sleek suit, nearly a tux, and he definitely needs to find more excuses to wear this, because he looks AMAZING, if he says so himself!]

[He also has two flowers, because he heard it's customary to bring flowers after the show, and they're different colors. Pink and dark dark blood red. Courtesy of Kitsuno though, because she picks up flowers for the shop. But one is for Nyuu, and the other for Lucy, because making them share one doesn't seem fair.]

That was amazing!

Thank you. Are you Oda Nobunaga? Nyuu wrote to me about you. I'm Lucy.

[She gives a polite bow, braid falling to hang loosely against the side of her face until she straightens up. It may be the same face, body, and horns, but there's still some noticeable differences between Lucy and Nyuu. Lucy's eyes, though not as cold as they used to be, are still not as bright as Nyuu's. Even their cadences are different, with Nyuu being slightly higher and Nyuu leaning more towards the low side.]

[He bows back!] I am. Nice to meet you Miss Lucy. Were you both performing on stage tonight, or just one of you?

[Yeah, he gets it pretty instantly. Nyuu is a lot more childish, Lucy he has no trouble seeing as an adult, and someone to be more wary of, someone who has seen her fair share of death and knows how savage the world can be, while Nyuu has the childishness he mistook for even being her physical age at first.]

Only me, but Nyuu will have nights to perform too, since the show is running all month. I've gotta say, though, I never thought I'd see a historical figure from the Sengoku Period in modern, Western clothes. It's not a bad look for you, though.

[It's actually rather fitting, surprisingly.]

Are those flowers for me and Nyuu?

I'll make sure to return then, it was rather riveting.

Thank you. [Nods his head!] Likewise, actually. The costume and performance brings out the best in its performers, I believe.

Yes! [Flowers! And he gives them over!] I didn't think it was fair to make you share. And I have access to someone who finds them.

The Demon King is praising an opera performance I was in. This world just keep throwing unexpected situations at me, but--that's not always a bad thing. It just feels surreal to be talking to you in this world, after only reading about you in books when I was a kid.

[The corners of her lips perk up slightly, but only very briefly as her face returns to a calm expression. Not because Nobunaga said anything wrong; Lucy is simply more reserved than Nyuu. Although her smile may not be as bright, her eyes seem to light up as she takes the flowers.]

They're lovely. Me and Nyuu will take care of them for as long as they're able to last. Tell the person who found these that we send our thanks.

I'm just as delighted to know the future holds such wonderous things. [Nope, he gets it. He wasn't sure at all that he would, but he's relieved how easy it is to tell the different energies apart.]

Ah, yes, Kitsuno. I will.

We haven't forgotten your name in the future, either. Your name, along with Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, and others are taught to Japanese children in the classrooms.

[She needs some time to go through her memory on where she's heard the name Kitsuno before. It's been awhile since she was last in school, having gone on the run at age ten.]

Oh, now I remember that name. Nyuu wrote about you mentioning her, but I also remember reading and hearing stories about you two. I just find it mind-blowing how many different "versions" there are of the same person throughout all the worlds. I didn't believe any of that prior to being taken from mine.

Wait... Kitsuno? There's things written about her too? [He's actually dazed at that. Often times it seemed like the information he could find was so scant, he doesn't even know what she offers to history!]

[He leans against a wall in thought!] I was completely shocked when she told me her name. I called her a ghost and told her to go away. They don't have that much in common, truthfully, but I'm glad. It makes it less -- [Painful. Shocking. Blended. Something.] Discomforting.

Yeah, but not a lot. Just that she was of the Ikoma clan; her first husband died in battle; and she was your favorite concubine who gave birth to three of your kids.

[Oh boy... Lucy's been getting better at sympathizing and empathizing, but she still can't help but feel awkward when doing so. The fact that it's Nobunaga only makes it more awkward, since he's a historical figure well known to her. How do people figure out the right thing to say in these kind of situations??? Uhh...]

I'm glad.

[Really? That's all she could come up with?]

Sorry... I'm not sure what else to say. I don't have anyone waiting for me in the afterlife at present.

[Except maybe Aiko, but that's about it. Not that Lucy's complaining, since most of her friends are alive right now and she'd like it to stay that way for a long time.]

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