public channel | day 92, afternoon

[dontpokethat]

Alright, we got any priests here? Tanyuu says we need one.

[There’s a lot more he could say here, like the fact that they’re specifically looking for a Shinto priest, and that they need one so Reira can experience a proper shichi-go-san festival, and that he suggested that maybe it didn’t really matter since it’s all symbolic anyway, and Tanyuu didn’t seem to like that suggestion.

But none of that has occurred to him, so here we are.]

Comments

[osteothropy]

Is someone getting married or exorcised?

[dontpokethat]

Uh-- neither? Why would we be doing either of those?

[Though... okay, an exorcism probably isn't too big a stretch around here.]

[osteothropy]

Okay. So... It's a funeral, then.

[dontpokethat]

What-- no. If someone had died do you really think this is how I'd bring it up?

[reflash]

Why do you need a priest?

[dontpokethat]

Tanyuu and I are trying to get a shichi-go-san festival set up for Reira, and... Tanyuu says we need an actual priest to do part of it. I guess it's a tradition thing.

[reflash]

I think our father just took us to the shrine for photographs. [But Shiro Fujimoto was a Catholic priest, so there might have been a conflict of religious interest there.]

[dontpokethat]

Yeah? That'd be a simpler way of doing it... For now, we're planning to try and get her as much of the experience as possible.

[Which... Tanyuu is going to be better suited to plan out than Ginko, obviously.]

[scientificist]

Do your priests marry people?

[dontpokethat]

Yeah, 'course. I mean, not right now they won't be, because nobody is getting married, but if they were we'd need a priest for that too.

[scientificist]

I only ask because it seems very likely people would come here for, various celebratory purposes, including. Impulsive weddings. It would make sense for them to provide a priest. I'm not sure why you're asking us and not the locals, though, wouldn't that make more sense?

[exaomori]

Just what are you needin’ one for?

[dontpokethat]

We're trying to set up something like a shichi-go-san festival for Reira - not really the right time of year for it, but she's about the right age and she's never been to one. And Tanyuu says we've got to do it 'properly'.

[exaomori]

Somethin’ like that? Don’t think there are any Shinto priests here. You might hafta talk someone into dressin’ up if you wanna do that.

[impatientdefense]

[Quietly, like she's holding the radio too far from her mouth]

Wait, so we've got healing magic... but none of them are clerics? Is it all nature stuff?

[dontpokethat]

[Ah. He takes it that'd be a newbie.]

I guess you could call it 'nature stuff'. But, it's mostly fae magic, when it comes down to it.

[impatientdefense]

Oh, okay.

[Yeah, it would be. And she's holding the radio while doing stuff, so the volume just shifts louder and softer at random.]

And fae magic, that's why you guys are all allergic to iron? Almost seems like gods would be less trouble.

[periphrasing]

Amethyst could probably shapeshift into one, if you want me to ask her.

[What is religion,]

[dontpokethat]

[That... actually gets something a lot like a laugh, because, holy shit, that would be such a mistake.]

Ah-- well, it's not really that simple. Not sure how one would go about shapeshifting into a priest, anyway.

[periphrasing]

Nyeh? Why not?

[flashover]

Hahaha! I guess we don't really have a shinto priest or anything... maaa, if only Kamiki were here. She has miko training!!

I don't even remember my shichi-go-san... Obviously, I was really little. Was that one of the times that Yukio got separated from me and Dad at the temple and cried? Maybe Yukio remembers!!

Anyway... I don't think it's super important to have a priest. As long as she gets to wear a cute yukata and get some candy.

[reflash]

Nii-san!! [NOT OKAY BRO]

[flashover]

Whaaaat! I was just saying I didn't remember! Maybe that was the time where we found you by the inari statue...? It's a pretty vivid memory, I just don't know if that was the right time.

[dontpokethat]

Ah, that's too bad. [About probably not having a priest or about Yukio getting separated and crying? Who knows. Maybe both.]

Right, that's about what I figured. If we can't find someone, I'll try again to see if Tanyuu would be willing to just... simplify it a little.

[flashover]

If she needs some convincing, I can help! She can't say no to a poor blind boy. [using his new disability as leverage??? he has no shame!!]