Event | Summer Jubilee | June 22nd-28th

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Characters: ALL! With special guest appearance by Asti
Date: June 22nd-28th, 2014
Location: Keeliai, all sectors
Situation: To celebrate the six month hatching days of the baby turtles that coincides with the arrival of summer, the kedan are throwing a city wide party! And Asti gifts everyone with a happy dream to make up for the badness plaguing Keeliai lately.
Warnings/Rating: TBA

While the kedan have a complicated and extensive system of writing, a good portion of their folklore is oral tradition and there's one prominent tale that's being told over and over this week. Small variances in the tale do occur from telling to telling but the core of the story goes like this:

Long ago before there were any people in the world, the First Family was made in the sky. Sun, the Mother and Moon, the Father were happy but desired children of their own. They watched all the creatures in the oceans, on the land and in the air and wished they could also have a family but they could not, for they didn't know how and so they were sad. They drifted apart, with Mother the Sun only coming out for part of the time and Father the Moon sometimes disappearing from the sky. Not wanting to see them so saddened, the creatures in all the lands and seas and air gathered together and searched their respective domains for children to give into the sky. From the four corners of the world they came with four children: one for the Dawn, one for the Midday, one for the Dusk and one for the Night. Mother the Sun and Father the Moon were overjoyed! They thanked the creatures of the world and promised they would never again abandon their places in the sky and became the First Family. And for a time, all was well. But Dawn and Midday and Dusk and Night grew older and, as children are wont to do, started asking when they could leave their home in the sky to begin their own families. Their parents were afraid of feeling so alone again if that happened so each year they said, "next year, next year". Eventually the children grew tired of this answer and so, sneaking into the place of the Stars where everything that was known was kept and they cut the end off of Time. The next time that their mother and father went to deny then, the children cried "You cannot say next year, for next year does not exist anymore!" And the Sun and Moon were afraid that if the children went away, then Time would indeed run out and so they agreed that their children could have families of their own, if they stayed and became the Second Family. The children agreed and even today, it is said that they are still waiting for the end of Time to grow back so they can visit other places without everything ending.

OOC INFO & LINKS
Subheaders are for various parts of the event and the rest of the post (not in sub headers) is for general mingling and tagging! Questions relating to the event go HERE.

Adopt-A-Foreigner | The Ritual | Dream A Little Dream | Asti's Blessings | Barbecue | OOC Post

Comments

[looksfine]

Uh-oh.

Aya knew that face. Different Hal, but same exact expression. And she had become well versed enough over time in contextual clues to--combined with his question--deduce what this could potentially be about.

"She did not just pick it off the ground, Hal Jordan. There was no act of deception in her acquisition of it. I checked. If there had been, the ring would not have responded to her."

Lantern Rings 101.

[animosus]

"The rings don't lock when anyone other than the Lantern assigned to it tries to use it." Hal would know, he's had his rings taken off him a few times to learn that the hard way. Even Ollie managed a tiny construct once.

"And last I checked, Mogo wasn't here to pick new recruits so she did pick it off the ground."

This is where willpower doesn't come in handy because it means he isn't going to budge.

[looksfine]

And this is where it would equally not come in handy that Aya was...quite literally made of the stuff. Willpower, that was. But also pure stubbornness.

Two guesses where she got her latter habit from?

"The rings I am familiar with do lock. And Mogo does not select new recruits. He is a new recruit. As was I, less than two of your Earth years prior." She didn't even wield a ring, which was why the small oan creation was hardly the definitive symbol of a genuine Lantern for her, either. "I also do not judge her for the ring alone. Tell me, Hal Jordan--what is it about her presence you object to so strongly?"

[animosus]

Hal's never really examined why he couldn't accept Korra as a new recruit. It takes him several tries before he starts getting somewhere.

"Being a Green Lantern is an honour. We're singled out because someone sees something in us and even then some of the new recruits wash out during training, but at the end of it you know that every single one of the rookies who gets through is someone you know will have your back. I don't know about her character, no one picked her, she's a civilian that found a gun and wants to play at a cop."

He'd been struggling with his place in the Corps ever since the incident in the bottle and to see someone just waltz in and claim membership was the greatest insult.

[looksfine]

It would have been a fair assessment, were it not for one very important detail:

"No one picked me up either, Hal Jordan. I chose to become a Green Lantern. In fact, there were a number of Guardians who continue to object to my very existence. Including my own creator."

[animosus]

That does put him into a bit of an awkward position. He can't exactly stick to his argument without saying that she wasn't a real Green Lantern.

"Uhh, well you've got the same energy in the rings powering you so it's like you were made for it."

But it's a-okay to find exceptions.

[looksfine]

It was a surprisingly logical argument. Aya was both taken aback and impressed. But also too determined to give him the credit just yet.

"You are able to make that claim now, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, because you have seen me in action. Just as I have seen Green Lantern Korra in action." Oh yes, she was still going with that Title. "Perhaps if you were to see how she has accepted both the ring and responsibilities that come with it, you might be more inclined to realize that I am right."

[animosus]

"I've seen her in action and it left much to be desired."

Or he let his prejudices influence his view, but semantics. He doesn't see why it's so important that he accept this interloper into their Corps. They were almost like a religion to him and it was why he was taking it so personally that anyone could just join.

[looksfine]

"Then you need to see more. Perhaps a group training exercise?"

And perhaps why Aya was taking it so personally that Hal Jordan, of all people, was refusing to accept somebody who chose to become a Green Lantern.

[animosus]

"I doubt she'll have improved enough to impress me."

That's not a no, but a caution that his opinion wasn't going to be easily swayed. He has nothing against her personally and she can try and prove herself, but Hal thinks it's inappropriate at this time and is unlikely to change.