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Children’s Day ask prompts! “my” muse = the muse of the blog, “your” muse = the asker. Feel free to specify if the muses should remember their adult lives or not... :3c

Send ◉ to meet my muse as a child! Send ✦ for my muse to have to look after the kid version of yours! Send ✿ for both of our muses to meet as children! Send ♥ for our muses to become the proud(?) forcibly(!) adoptive parents of a kid yokai intent on living the full Human Child Carnival Experience.

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Day 2 — Tanabata

As the second day of the festival arrives, it brings Tanabata with it. Wind chimes gently sway in the summer breeze, streamers shiver, and around the festival, youkai hang colorful strips of paper on the branches of green bamboo stalks, where they’ve written down wishes for this star festival. In the sky, two stars shine even in the daylight.

A river of starlight splits the grounds in two, seeming to stretch forever along where the main road once was. While humans can walk through with ease as if ankle-height water, the youkai cannot cross, repelled by some magical energy. Across either side stand two gods in flashy summer yukata, separated by fate, who introduce themselves as Orihime (who looks suspiciously like Artemis) and her love Hikoboshi (...who looks like a super-ripped and somewhat-bear-like version of Orion?! It’s a special, pre-Lostbelt cameo!)

In order to reunite the two (and let the youkai cross the river), Orihime and Hikoboshi have asked you to grant wishes to gather the magical energy needed to create a bridge across the starlit river.

“Darling~! Wait for me, my love! I’ll absolutely meet with you again!“

“Ahaha, actually, the thing is, I wouldn’t care if the bridge wasn’t repaired, but she can still hit me with her bow from over there, you know? So it’s really in our best interest… haha.“

Make your own wish, or grant other people’s wishes! While a wish for world peace and other lofty goals might be outside the scope of this festival, who’s to say it couldn’t come true someday? (That is to say: while we can’t grant a wish like that, maybe someday in the far future, your wish will come true when you least expect it...) We’re counting on festival-goers to help make today a success!

(And, if you’d like to, feel free to submit your own wishes for others to grant!)

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“Hello, hello! Come, sit and listen before wandering on!”

A nekomata sits atop one of the computers in Chaldea’s main monitoring room, unperturbed by how precariously it’s balanced. “The pathway is open. For those eager fellows, you can come visit us ahead of time. But, please, don’t be too bothered if some stalls or games are still being assembled. In fact... this humble servant heard tell that if you help out some stall-owners whilst they set up, they’ll give you ample rewards...” A strum on the cat’s shamisen. “But that’s just a rumor. Now, would you like me to play you a request?”

Before the festival truly “begins”, those in Chaldea can still visit it! The festival has been travelling the world before picking up Chaldea, so there are plenty of stock-standard festival fare there, but there’s also plenty of youkai setting up shop to service the new guests of humanity!

Many youkai here haven’t met humans yet, and almost none have ever seen a Servant. Who might your muse meet? Will they help anyone set up a game or food stall? How might they be rewarded? Or, perhaps, are they going to sabotage any games to allow for future cheating? The festival itself is the standard image of matsuri/parade/carnival, and currently takes place in a perpetual late afternoon, with everyone welcoming and excited to see who of Chaldea comes.

If you would like to post an open, please use #youkaifest2021 ! Don’t be shy, let’s all have fun!

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