Summer Festival

[thalassino]

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We're having a special event this time on the Island. Please come when you have the time.
- Station Master

◣ Summer Fair ◢

If anyone actually wanders up there, they will find the whole village decorated with strings of light, fish shaped lanterns, streamers, and kelp. Just past the North edge of the Village was a fair.


Events


✗Baking Contest on Tuesday
✗Pie eating Contest on Wednesday
✗Three-legged Race on Thursday
✗Karaoke Contest on Thursday
✗Chocobo Race on Friday
✗Host Club Date Auction on Friday
✗Concert by Marceline on Friday
✗Lanterns on Saturday

There was a large stage in the center of the fair, rides, a fortune teller, contests, games, a petting zoo, a fish exhibit, stalls, booths and everything else you can find at a fair.

Comments

[fourleafed]

A fuckingninja?

[She has not heard of that particular kind of ninja.]

What does a fuckingninja do?

[shippingmath]

The same thing as a normal ninja. We just do it cooler.

[This is probably going to lead to the weirdest conversation later on, and he isn't even sorry.]

[fourleafed]

[Uh oh, this 'fuckingninja' is apparently cool. And Dirk does look cool, he has awesome glasses and everything. So maybe he can teach her to be cool!]

I want to be a fuckingninja! Teach me!

[shippingmath]

I dunno if you're up for it. It's a lot of work. And it hurts sometimes, too.

[That said, if she does still want to, he will. It'll probably lead to a lot of tantrums on her part, but he will.]

[fourleafed]

I won't cry if I get hurt, I'm a big girl.

[She sounds so serious for someone who's so tiny.]

[shippingmath]

We'll see about that.

[But he will take her word for it! Because he doesn't know better.]

You know what weapons a ninja uses, right? You ever touched any of them?

[fourleafed]

[She shakes her head.]

Daddy says I'll get a time out if I touch weapons by myself. A grownup has to help me.

[shippingmath]

Well, if you're going to be a ninja, you're going to have to touch them on your own. Without a grownup. Though I suppose I can supervise at first, even if I'm not an adult.

[And what better time to get started than now? None. Which is why Dirk pulls out his Katana.]

[fourleafed]

[She stares wide-eyed down at the katana.]

It's a sword!

[shippingmath]

Good observation. It's called a katana.

[He holds it out, hilt first.]

It's too big for you, but touch it anyway.

[fourleafed]

[She's going to carefully grab the hilt of the sword, still staring down at it in amazement.]

It's big...

[shippingmath]

There are daggers called kunai that are probably easier to use. But a katana is fucking boss. Hence the introduction.

[And he lets go of the sword, leaving it entirely in her hands.]

[fourleafed]

[The blade drops and clangs against the ground, but Yotsuba still holds onto the hilt.]

It's heavy too!

[She looks up at Dirk now.]

How come you can hold it? Are you strong?

[shippingmath]

I'm stronger than you. But I'm also bigger than you, which means I have more leverage, and I can pick it up more easily.

[To demonstrate, he reaches over to take the sword, and lifts it with one hand.]

[fourleafed]

[She is amazed by how strong he is.]

So I gotta grow up to pick up swords.

[shippingmath]

Basically. But you can grow faster if you practice starting now.

[fourleafed]

I'm gonna practice and grow up fast!

[She'll try to take the sword and swing it around wildly.]

[shippingmath]

[She probably wouldn't get far with it anyway, but Dirk gets his hand around the hilt just in case.]

Hold your horses, shit. You don't get to start with a sword.