aefenglom | Important Public Announcement

Name: un: taru
Date: March 1st
Format: Video

_{[When the feed connects there's a moment before anyone can be spotted. All there seems to be is the backdrop of a kitchen and a lone, wooden chair set out. Soon enough Tataru's hopping up onto the chair as if to draw even more attention to herself (and add a few feet to her, uh, short stature). Up her arms go as she waves them about, determined to be seen and heard.]}

Attention, attention! After asking many people I've realized that an extremely important Eorzean holiday is unknown here! I thought that perhaps it might be celebrated since Valentione's Day was but apparently not...and I simply can't let that be!

_{[Is someone passionate about this? Seems that way.]}

What sort of holiday could be so important? Why, it's Little Ladies' Day - a celebration of all womenfolk! A day where every lady, regardless of age, race, creed or class is treated like they're the sultana themselves!

_{[To put it frank, it's an All Women Are Queens day. Who wouldn't think that's a good idea?]}

As someone from Ul'dah it's especially special, thanks to the tale of its founding! So, I've decided it's my duty as a Lalafellian lady from Ul'dah to bring it to all the ladies here! It's a day to dress up in your finest garments for a day out, eat tasty treats and best of all be attended to all day by a loyal seneschal.

_{[If you want something you've got to make it happen yourself, which seems to be the case here with Tataru. What a busybody...does she ever chill out? (The answer is no.)]}

I've already been in talks with local establishments who seem willing to participate if celebrations are held later on in the upcoming weeks, but their support won't be enough. It may be a day for ladies, but without dashing men to play their part any organizing I do will be for naught.

So! _{[She jumps off her chair, disappearing for a moment before the feed is adjusted and she can be seen again, this time far closer.]} Won't any men step up to the challenge and help this 'Little Lady' make her efforts successful? I'll be taking volunteers soon!

_{[And...that seems to be the end of it...only it's not.]}

Oh! And if anyone else would like to lend a helping hand in general I certainly wouldn't be opposed to it! There are still a few matters I'm trying to get in order, after all. Music, sweets...there's still much to be accounted for!

_{[OOC: Little Ladies' Day will be celebrated on the 22nd of March, as an addition to Eostre. Details and a proper sign-up will be posted at a later date on the OOC com for those who wish to sign their characters up for a bit of silly matchmaking/shenanigans to occur.]}

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I said this holiday is a matter of importance and you said, and I quote 'I really don't see how.'

I've only been here for a month. Regardless, there's nothing wrong with a bit of festivity to liven up people's lives.

I don't see how any of them are a "matter of importance." Content doesn't matter. It seems pretty excessive to constantly be celebrating something.

Whatever. You all do what you want, but don't let Mira do any work. And I mean any work.

If you're so worried for her than you ought to make sure she has the best Little Ladies' Day ever, especially since she never had the chance to celebrate it in Ishgard.

You're both from the same shattered star?

_{[Shattered is...not exactly the word she wanted to hear but lalala whatever.]}

...We're both from Hydaelyn, yes. The place we're from is called Eorzea. I'm from a city-state called Ul'dah and she is from Ishgard, where I've spent quite a bit of time as of late.

[ It is shattered. Deal with it. ]

And were you on the First?

[ Careful, Tataru. ]

I don't really understand what you're talking about. If it's something to do with the future I don't want to hear it.

Edited 2020-03-02 01:46 (UTC)

Future. Past. It's all the same, all connected. Though I am curious about a few things myself.

[ Someone probably should tell Van that Tataru wasn't involved. ]

You sound like Urianger.

_{[Her head hurts please stop this is the kind of shit she's trying to not think about by distracting herself with 500 projects on the go.]}

Such as?

Who I also intend to have a little chat with, actually! Thancred soon after, I'd imagine.

[ Face reality. ]

I want to ask a few questions, that's all.

_{[Reality makes no sense so nah she's fine.]}

Then ask.

Who is it that keeps pointing your precious Warrios at every enemy? Are you not strong enough without them? Are you incapable? Do they not get a say before they're thrust onto the next and then the next?

Are they even allowed to walk away, if they so choose?

_{[Okay no but really what the fuck are these questions?]}

I honestly cannot answer that. You would be better off asking the Warriors themselves.

Edited 2020-03-02 02:16 (UTC)

I'd rather ask the people that are supposed to be their friends, truthfully. Heroes never stop and think about these things after all. Be it duty or obligation, something gets in the way.

Then you're misguided in thinking I knew any of the Warriors here before arriving to this world. They all know of me, even have memories of us together, but I haven't any of my own memories with them. The 'Warrior of Light' was a different person altogether.

I cannot be expected to have the ties I supposedly had with each and every one of them. All I can do is try to forge new memories here in this place. I don't want anyone to fight on my behalf. I want to fight for myself.

I figured as much.

[ Because Vanitas is already well aware of the different realities and timelines. It's weird, but an acceptable weird. ]

They're all different people, but they've all lived those same events, haven't they? So the questions still stand for every single one of them, your own Warrior included.

[ Those his ire does subside slightly. "Don't want anyone to fight on my behalf." That's a pretty good answer. ]

It's fine, if your attitude is like that. You're probably not the problem. So don't worry about it.

How am I to know what they've lived and haven't? The whole situation makes my head hurt.

_{[Look she's just doing her best okay. In fact, she's trying extra hard not to be a problem for anyone. Why do you think she's enlisted Felix and Sephiroth to teach her swords? She wouldn't be attempting magic again either if she wasn't so desperate to become strong and a force to be reckoned with.]}

I'm trying not to worry about it. I've plenty to worry about as it is.

True, I haven't really encountered alternate timelines and whatnot before, but sharing existences? That I know a thing or two about.

[ He clicks his tongue for a moment. Does he or doesn't he... ]

But distracting yourself doesn't really solve anything. It just makes it hard to face what you need to.

I'm not distracting myself. I'm doing my best to settle and make this world my home. I haven't anything I need to face - the present, the here and now, is what's important.

If you say so.

[ To each their own. ]

Back to your holiday then. What all does it entail?

The holiday is one commemorating the Ul'dahn Legend of the Lost Lady. In Eorzea, women of all sorts dress in their best clothes, eat sweets, and have a day out on the town, all the while being tended to by a man who serves as their seneschal for the day.

You know what I'm going to ask next right?

No?

What's the Lost Lady.

The tale takes place in Ul'dah three hundred centuries past, under the rule of Sultan Baldric, who loved his daughter more than anything else. Princess Edvya, who had been her whole life confined to the palace, switched places with a common miller's daughter and snuck out to explore the city. Her overprotective father, Sultan Baldric, flew into a panic, his army all but razing the miller's house as they searched for the precious princess. When the princess returned, however, the sultan came to repent his hasty actions. He had the miller's house rebuilt, and insisted upon personally serving as seneschal to the man's daughter for a day to repent.

His actions to make amends were seen as something to aspire to and from then on Little Ladies' Day was born.

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