Chinese Lunar Festival


"Long ago, a beautiful maiden named Chang'e kept an elixir for safekeeping that the gods had gifted to her husband, a famous hunter named Hou Yi. When the evil Peng Meng tried to steal it, Chang'e quickly drank the elixir to foil his plan, and suddenly became light as a feather, flying up into the sky and arriving on the moon. No matter what, she could not come back down to the ground. When Hou Yi returned home and found his elixir gone, he realized what had happened, and grieved that he had lost his wife. He asked his servants to put out tables in the garden with her favorite food and snacks on it that she might come back down from the heavens, and soon the rest of the village joined in sending prayers to the moon for her safety."



Your character has wandered into a gathering of people in an outdoor park celebrating the Chinese Lunar Festival, a celebration themed after reunion. Chat over mooncakes about those friends you've made over the years, who you wish you could see their faces again. Reminisce about adventures had while gazing up at fireworks bursting in the night sky. Light a lantern and send it up with your wishes for the safety of those who you can no longer see.

And perhaps, just perhaps, the day when you'll see them again might not be far.

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Open to all, just feel free to chat and mingle! There's a special magical dust in the air that is compelling all your characters to share their pasts with others, and maybe even catch up with those they haven't spoken with recently. If you have a newer muse, have them share their canon past.

And if you want, bring up those old muses you've dropped in the past, to have them reunite with their long-lost friends just for tonight...

the self-indulgent hurt/comfort shipping kink* masterpost meme
* "kink" here being used very loosely and not necessarily involving sex


In order to avoid long extrapolation, I'll say one thing: I've noticed that people like what I call "h/c shipping kink." Kink may not be the right word - sex need not be involved - but essentially, crappy things happen to our characters in their crapsack worlds in canon all the time. Sometimes, we like to see them happy. Or relatively happier. And less evil and more adjusted, for those of us who play those types. It's all very self-indulgent.

And, as you can tell from my username, I'm going to be compiling memes that have, for some reason, got micromanaged into ridiculous niches when they should all be under one umbrella. This first project is to wrangle up all the "caretaking" themed shipping memes. Basically, one character cares for the other, be it physically, emotionally, or otherwise. There is also shipping.

The end goal is to weed down redundant memes and, maybe, make this an all-purpose post!

HOW TO PLAY

• You know the protocol.
• Comment with your characters and preferences. Also, be sure to include whether your character would be the caretaker, the cared for, or if you can play either.
• Reply to others.

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