II. the priestess's third wish | video | violet city

[fullmoonfortune]

[Ryoji's grinning this evening because - not only is it Tanabata, one of the festivals he never had the chance to celebrate back home - his Eevee egg has hatched! The sleepy fox pokémon in question is lolling around beside him, and he's scratching her stomach softly as he shows her off.]

Hello everyone! It's Ryoji again. I hope everyone's celebrations are going well, and that you've made your wishes! I know I have.

[The Eevee yawns and Ryoji chuckles, turning the 'Gear away from her and back to himself.]

I guess Orihime-chan's still a little tired. She's named after the beautiful woman from the legend - isn't that great? I thought it'd be fitting, since she was born today.

[And while he is super interested about wishes, he won't ask about anyone's in public.]

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[fullmoonfortune]

A festival celebrating the day that Orihime, a beautiful weaver who was the daughter of the king of the sky, and Hikoboshi, the man she fell in love with and was wedded to, can meet. Unfortunately, if it rains the magpies that usually make a bridge across the river that separates them can't do that, and so Orihime and Hikoboshi don't get to meet. It's a very lovely legend in Japan, if sad.

[usedshooshpap]

I MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN HEARING THE WHOLE THING.

[fullmoonfortune]

[Phew! All right, let's see.]

Well, once upon a time there was a beautiful woman named Orihime, the Weaving Princess, who - like her name suggested - wove equally as beautiful cloth by the bank of the Amanogawa, which is a river of stars to the gods but just the regular Milky Way to us. Her father adored the cloth she wove, and she worked hard every day for his sake. However, because she worked so hard, she could never meet a man and fall in love with him. Her father, the King of the Sky, loved her so dearly that he decided to arrange a meeting between him and a young man named Hikoboshi, a cow herder who lived on the other side of the river.

The two fell in love as soon as they laid eyes on each other, and married not long after. However, after they wed, they forgot all about their daily tasks, and so Orihime never wove her beautiful cloth for her father and Hikoboshi's cows wandered all over Heaven. Furious, the king sent Hikoboshi back to his own side of the river and forbade them two ever meet again. Orihime was understandably saddened by the separation - as was Hikoboshi - and she pled to her father to let them meet once more. He loved his daughter so much that, his anger forgotten, he agreed to give them one day - the seventh day of the seventh month - to meet -- as long as Orihime worked hard and finished her weaving.

However, it was almost not meant to be. When the day came, and Orihime and Hikoboshi stood at each bank of the Amanogawa, they found the water too treacherous to wade through. Orihime began to cry, and her tears summoned a flock of magpies, who then promised to help form a bridge with their wings so that she could cross the river from then on and meet her husband. However, the magpies can't come down to make the river if it's raining, which means that Orihime and Hikoboshi can't meet, and wishes made on the day won't get granted because neither lover will be happy.

[usedshooshpap]

IS THIS SOME HUMAN MYTH?

[fullmoonfortune]

I guess that's pretty obvious, huh? [Heheh.] It is. Japan has a lot of them, since they have a lot of gods.

[usedshooshpap]

I DIDN'T THINK HUMANS WERE ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF WEAVING SUCH STORIES.

[fullmoonfortune]

They really are amazing, aren't they? But you're human now too, even if you weren't before, so that means you could weave just as beautiful stories.

[papshooshing]

HA HA HA. NO.
TROLLS WRITE MORE INTRICATE ONES THAN HUMANS DO.
JUST BECAUSE I APPEAR HUMAN DOES NOT MEAN THAT I COUNT MYSELF AMONGST THEIR RANKS.

[fullmoonfortune]

Oh. Can I hear [or read, technically!] one of your culture's stories, since I told you one of Japan's?

[usedshooshpap]

OURS HAVE MORE BLOODSHED AND USUALLY EXPLOSIONS.

[fullmoonfortune]

Why?

[usedshooshpap]

WE'RE VERY VIOLENT.

[fullmoonfortune]

Don't you have any nice ones?