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TOKYODISA ([personal profile] tokyodisa) wrote in [community profile] paradisalogs2013-07-18 12:58 pm
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隅田川花火大会 SUMIDAGAWA FIREWORKS FESTIVAL

Who: Everybody!
What: Tokyo Day Three: fireworks festival
When: Thursday, 18/July -- evening
Where: Hotel or Sumida
Rating: pretty

Tonight, in the sky, there are fireworks.

You can see them from the hotel window, but for a better look -- so suggests the helpful concierge at the desk -- you'll want to head to Sumida, where locals and tourists alike gather on the edge of the Sumida River.

[ Watch fireworks from the hotel | Watch fireworks from Sumida ]

[Technically the festival is supposed to happen on the last Saturday of July, but whatever! It's Paradisa. For more information on the festival please visit here, and you can watch YouTube videos here.]
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-07-19 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, her plan hadn't been to stop for fireworks. Once it had started getting dark, Cass had set out on her own with only one goal:

Climb everything with more than ten floors. And yes, she can totally do it even in her outfit.

Of course, once things start exploding in the sky, she kind of has to stop and watch. The fireworks in Paradisa had been nice, but there's just something a little more spectacular about these ones.]
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[personal profile] assassino 2013-07-19 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Ezio's been there. He was arrested in Paris, after all, for climbing the Eiffel Tower. He's not really looking to get in trouble today, but he is going to notice others giving it a try.

He whistles at her from the ground.]
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-07-19 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[She's not too far up yet, so the sound doesn't get carried off the wind. When she looks around to find the source, she lets go of the building with one hand so she can wave.]

Coming up?
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[personal profile] assassino 2013-07-20 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs in reply, knowing full well he shouldn't do it... but he does.]
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-07-20 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She's really not surprised, it's a giant building and people aren't supposed to climb it so of course it has to happen. Once he's closer, she grins at him.]

Want to race... to the top?
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[personal profile] assassino 2013-07-23 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's up to her in no time, moving faster than usual without long coats and weaponry to weigh him down. Free-handed, too; it feels so nice to be up in the wind.]

Of course, dolcezza!
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-07-23 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't count to three and say go, she just goes. The shoes are a little clunky, she's never had to think about the people of Gotham looking up her skirt before, but this is where she's in her element. Buildings like this, modern ones that aren't a castle, it's what she knows. Her ascent is graceful and very quick, filled with leaps to new ledges and very little obvious regard for gravity.

If he's not very fast too, she might beat him. She feels a desire to prove herself now, after she let him catch her in the hallway on his birthday.]
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-07-19 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cass isn't the only one with the same idea.

Connor is coincidentally already on top of the same building, and once the fireworks start, he moves closer to the edge to get a better look. But he also happens to glance down.]


You should either come up or go down.
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-07-19 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well she's come this far, going back down when she's found a friend to hang out with seems dumb. She climbs up the rest of the way and then smiles at him.]

Up is better. Hi Connor.
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-07-21 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[He stands back to give her room, nodding in greeting.]

Hello, Cass. I did not know you also climb.
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-07-21 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh good, maybe she's doing a better job at hiding the whole Batgirl thing than she was giving herself credit for. Once she's all the way up, she turns to look at the sky, the fireworks.]

Whenever I can. Like it, being up high. [She points to the building across from theirs that's quite a few stories taller.] That one's next.
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-07-22 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he could tell there's something special about her level of fitness, but he thought it was because she was combat-capable. His Eagle Vision allowed him to see just how well-trained, though he's a little blind without it right now.

He follows where she's pointing and nods.]


Where I am from, the buildings are not this tall. But we have trees this height -- and cliffs as well, beyond that height.
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-07-22 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[One day they'll spar and she'll show him exactly what her level of fitness is, it'll be fun. She'll even tell Ezio how great a fighter he is.]

Gotham's a lot... like this city. I'd missed it, so... this is really nice.

[She'd been so homesick, but seeing a real city again has been very nice. She even blends in here, where in Gotham and Bludhaven most of the people she knew were American.]
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-07-29 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Anything to help impress Ezio would be really appreciated, yes...]

Is all of America like this in your time?
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-07-29 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
No, there's still... farming places, with big fields. Lots of cows. Cities are better, though. More to do.

[More crime to stop, more people to punch in the face for fun.]
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-07-29 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Big fields...]

Are there still forests? There must be.
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-08-06 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
There are. Big ones, with lots... of wild animals, still.

[It seems important to tell him that, for some reason. For him to know there are still natural places, places that are still more green and clean than grey and dirty.]
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-08-06 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[It's very important to him, yes -- he practically radiates relief when she says that, though it probably wouldn't be visible to anyone but Cass.

He looks at her for a moment, then turns his gaze back out over the city. There are so many lights, even without the fireworks, and it's extremely disorienting.]


Just before I came here... to Paradisa. I went to a city for the first time. It is called Boston, if it is still there in your time. And there are -- there were -- so many people in this place, all sorts of people and sounds. Smells. I worry that places like Boston will keep swelling with people, to become places like this. [He gestures out at Tokyo with a nod.] And I worry they will take over the forests, and the animals that live in them. And I worry for the people, too.
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-08-07 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Gently, she puts her hand on his shoulder, squeezes it in an attempt to comfort him.]

Never been there. Lots of cities there... are like this. But lots of places... still have nothing. Few people, few buildings. Where I grew up... was just one dojo, one... training house. Nothing else, for miles.
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-08-08 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Connor doesn't flinch away from her hand, accepting the gesture with some small degree of solemnity. That isn't exactly what he meant, but he doesn't correct her.]

That sounds lonely.
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-08-12 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
It was okay. Just saying, there's still places... in my time, with trees. With the stuff... you're used to. Not just this.

[She nods to the city, which is beautiful and like looking at home to her but so different, for him.]
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-08-15 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[It doesn't really sound like it was 'okay' to him, but he's not going to argue. He looks back at the city too, a small furrow between his eyebrows.]

I wonder if the places I know are still the places with trees.
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-08-18 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Wish I knew. Wish I could... say something, to help.

[But she doesn't think there is anything to say, so Cass just slips her hand from one shoulder to the other, effectively putting her arm around him. She gives him a little squeeze, a half hug as she looks out over the city as well.]
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[personal profile] eaglet 2013-08-20 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Connor doesn't reciprocate, not being a very physically affectionate person, but the way his shoulders briefly tense and then relax under the weight of her arm should translate that he's grateful for her sympathy.

He's quiet for a little while, thinking. Paradisa was culture shock enough, but Tokyo is really throwing him for a loop.]


If we are ever taken to the land of my people, I will show you what it is like there.
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[personal profile] hellofist 2013-08-20 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[That's one of the benefits to understanding what bodies say, he doesn't have to do anything for her to know this is helping. So she leaves her arm where it is and smiles when he speaks.]

Good. Would like that. When we go back... to castle? Can live in forest, for awhile. We'll camp, or something. Will be good.

[Not home, but something close to it at least.]

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