UN: Zodiac: It's Gonna Be May

[kaisoumods]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: May 1st
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: Parental issues. Oh god so many parental issues

[The night will grow darker as the Spirit Vein darkens, taking on hues of black and purple as the Shadow element rolls in. Starting tonight, there'll be an increase of ghost activity throughout the city. Not only that, but anyone who looks in the direction of Central Square will notice a massive pyramid rise from the ground and take its place next to the Crystal Tower... along with a massive neon sign indicating it's a bass pro shop. What?

Everyone's devices will emit a soothing wind chime sound as a new Zodiac post appears. The chime will sound even if you have your phone turned off or on silent, and will not stop until you read their message and comment to it.]



Zephyr, August, and Dion have joined the app. Say hi everyone!


Jax, Nico, and Faye have left the app.

[The post then continues on.]

Hello and thank you for using the Libra app.

Happy May everyone! First we'd like to thank everyone for their help in saving Easter! It would've been truly tragic if such a hopeful holiday had been ruined everyone, so we want to thank you very much for helping them. And we also wish to note that Zodiac had zero connection to any of the more negative eggs.

Moving on, this month we're excited to announce there'll be a stargazing festival in Blue Fish Park! According to local astronomers, this is an excellent month to take a look at the heavens, and so they will be celebrating by having fun events throughout the month in the park! Come look through telescopes and learn about astronomy. And don't worry our astrology lovers, there's stuff for you too! The local astrologists will be holding their own events at the festival! Come learn some secrets of their craft, as well as get your own fortune read! It's a fun time for the skeptics and believers alike!

And speaking of astrology and fortune telling- we have good news from the seer department! They've indicated that there shouldn't be any concern for dangerous gates appearing outside the city's barrier this month. However, they did mention about a huge spike of ghostly activity... but it's pretty normal during Shadow months for people to be more spooked with all the darkness, so we're sure it'll be fine!

That's all for now! As always, we leave you off with an ice breaker question! We understand the last few questions that were provided by our collaborator were considered by some to be obscene, but worry not. We've made sure to provide this holiday themed question to be more appropriate for everyone.


This post is sponsored by the "Bass" Pro Shop! Now open in Central Square! Get 50% off all purchases when you bring in a fresh fish!

[Users will have the option to choose their own display names and userpics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone.

Please note that there will be no city log this month, with the next event log being posted on the 15th. As such, players are free to make their own posts and mingles regarding city events. If you want more details on what's happening the city this month, it can be found here.

OOC Note: If you haven't responded to AC, you still have until 11:59am EST today to do so! Once you do, you'll be removed from this post. ]

Comments

un: belleoftheboulevard

[greatlydares]

That is the most loaded question to ask this entire app, I think.

[A beat.]

My mom was great, but uh, she's no longer with us. [An even longer and more awkward beat.] Let's just say there's a sperm donor who contributed to half my genes and leave it at that.

un: fuego

[fuegor]

[Bitterly in a way only a Foster Kid could manage:]

Which ones?

[Less so:]

Wait, there's a Bass Pro Shop here now too?

text: un: trienemybest

[droptheious]

I know I'm gonna regret asking this but here we go: What is a Bass Pro Shop? I'm assuming it's something to do with fish?

voice | un: blackbirdtarot

[drewthetower]

[Faux brightly:]

I'm possessed by my dad, so, you know. [He's actually fine with this but it's Janet. Fuck Janet.] I was raised by my lesbian aunts, and we're fine, and my mom was in the Spirit Realm for twenty years and is still learning how to be a person!

[Fucking Janet.]

UN: hikari-vi | Text

[whiteshroud]

Possessed by dad i think wins for one of the weirder relationships on here...

Congrats?

un: wilder | text

[wilder]

Bruh.

I have 4 half-siblings that I KNOW about because my televangelist deadbeat old man couldn't keep it in his pants before he croaked. How do you THINK our relationship was?

[greatlydares]

that we currently know of. I'm not discounting the possibility of more half-siblings coming out of the woodwork.

un: photocutie

[trailblazingspirit]

...I don't remember my parents.

text; un: absolutenumber

[mediocrites]

...My parents are actually perfectly well, but that's quite a bold choice of question if you consider the audience, which I'm quite sure you haven't.

[The fact that he hasn't spoken to them in months and this is pretty normal for them is irrelevant.]

text: un: trienemybest

[droptheious]

I'm pretty sure she just picks these out of a hat at random at this point. She just didn't get anyone to check over it before she hit send.

voice | un: chaosraccoon

[actnormal]

I don't think I've seen my parents in person since I was, like, in middle school? Maybe high school, I don't remember when they just went off to do work and left me home with the neighbor and a cellphone.

un: midnightfishing

[illucesco]

my dad died two years ago. it's a little hard to keep up a relationship with a gravestone.

[actnormal]

Wanna hit up the Bass Pro Shop? I won't be there as long as you will, but it'll be fun.

[Cousin bonding!!]

un: ragna

[centralfiction]

Fuck off.

un: silhouetto

[threebetrayals]

Don't commit any crimes Tsuki. I can't post bail.

UN: makeitaventi

[venti_late]

Girl, what?
I take the month off and this is the question you think is way more appropriate to ask?????????
BRUH

Anyway, I love my parents but they're no longer with us and haven't been for a long time.
Thank you so much for asking! 💖

Oh, yeah, also Zhongli has some interesting stories he can tell you on the history of fortune telling, so don't hesitate to ask him to demonstrate~!

[He's trying so hard to put his lovely lizard to work.]

text; un: ginkgo

[lapislazily]

Oh? Is someone curious about the origins of Chinese fortune telling? While I fully believe in mankind's ability to determine their own destiny, the variety of methods that have arisen over the last four thousand years or so are fascinating. The rituals that utilize the I Ching are mostly ways of discerning a hexagram, and the most popular modern method is little more than astrology in execution... Nature itself is not so easily reduced to neat little numbers, but I still find it all quite fun.

[why are you marrying this man, venti]

voice | un: lynya

[felyney]

[Trying so hard not to laugh.]

Can I give a shout out in my next video for "Worst Case of Can't Read The Room-itis"?

un: badnews

[whitestonelives]

We tried exceedingly hard to dissuade her, but she insisted on something family-friendly and wouldn't hear otherwise.

text; un: knitpicking

[cutenessproximity]

I have told my mother to stop contacting me at work, but you wouldn't have to be jealous of her lifestyle if you stopped looking over my shoulder.

video; un: kesitakame

[hoshikiri]

I do not expect tact from the woman sharing her own icebreakers, but if I may be so bold for a moment I don't think she has been so tactless in all my time here. Had this been unexpected, I would be impressed.

Ah, but I suppose if everyone else is responding I will as well. My father died of illness when I was a young man. I reunited with my mother a handful of years ago after thinking her dead as well. She has taught me much and is a wonderful person. Even disabled she fights with a spear against those who threaten her. I do miss her dearly but to know she is in good health is enough.

un: badnews

[whitestonelives]

If that's what you see as bold, you could stand to be bolder. Perhaps a tongue-lashing from you might be what cracks through her skull.

Voice | UN: HelplesslyWeak

[life_ethereal]

[With the kind of light heartedness that makes it sound like he's making it up or joking around:]

My parents abandoned me in a hospital in both of my lives! I guess they just didn't like whatever I was diagnosed with~

UN: hikari-vi | voice

[whiteshroud]

Do you think we could convince Zodiac to give us compensation for reminding us of our trauma?

[Says Jun who does not sound remotely traumatized]

UN: hikari-vi | Text

[whiteshroud]

[Jun normally isn't one for sharing his past, but like...it's already pretty well known, and if it makes an annoying capitalists life even worse? Yeah. Yeah he's petty enough.]

My mommy and daddy sold me to a cult when I was 2. (┬┬﹏┬┬)

[Sure he's happily adopted now but-- suffer Janet]

text: un: trienemybest

[droptheious]

I think you need this one to really hammer the point home, Honey:

ƈ ͡ (ुŏ̥̥̥̥ ‸ ŏ̥̥̥̥) ु

It really gives the heart-tearing upset she's put you through by doing this. Like kicking a puppy.

(That was your one kaomoji I'm giving you for the month, you're welcome).

un: badnews

[whitestonelives]

We told you so, Janet. At length. Quite loudly. You've dug this hole all by yourself.

un: hextechnician

[hexcrafter]

Good thing our image can't very well get worse. Better, knowing this is not my department.

Text | UN: DLesage

[light_warden]

[Dion can get behind the train of making this person regret asking such a question.]

My birth parents divorced, and my father married a woman I can only politely describe as a canker. She even orchestrated gaining sole custody of me while they were on their honeymoon and dragged my mother's reputation through the mud.

Otherwise, I have a wonderful relationship with my mother and I've reconnected with her now that I'm no longer imprisoned by The Black Order. I hope this satisfies your "icebreaker" question.

text | un: paintedfox

[stripartist]

[Yusuke is never on these posts.

He links a news article, in both Japanese and English, talking about Ichiryusai Madarame. Yusuke is mentioned by name in the article.]

Famous Japanese Artist Found Guilty, Plagiarism, Second Degree Murder

His first victim was my mother and, despite evidence to the contrary, I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out what my relationship was like with the man before he died.

not quite here

[hoshikiri]

[Local boyfriend mad he didn't get to kill Madarame himself.]

text | un: kissmyash

[switchaxe]

[Eh, his brothers are doing it. Fuck it. Let's make her life miserable.]

birth ones died in a car crash, and then I got picked up but a cult. and then was on the streets. and then picked up by another cult.

my dads now are great, one of 'em's a lawyer. you'll probably be hearing from him soon, actually!

text; un: lagenaria

[pharmacologic]

As for myself, I had wonderful and loving parents, who unfortunately died of illness when I was a teenager. We were too poor to afford good care, so I took care of them myself until I also fell ill - though unlike them, I did recover. [With help.]

un: hextechnician

[hexcrafter]

That does happen to remind me. Out of curiosity, have you focused any particular study to the potential effects of the spirit vein's elemental cycling on illnesses?

Text | UN: Malipo CW: talk of abuse, addiction, and domestic violence

[quit_ur_kiniching]

[Oh, Janet, you deserve all of this and Kinich is only going to go ahead by making this worse for her. If everyone's traumatizing her back, he'll oblige.]

My mother was most likely killed by my father, who would then take his frustrations out on me when he didn't win big at the casino. He took loans from the wrong people, so he's not with us anymore, either.

un: fuego cw: abuse mentions

[fuegor]

[Well, there's a name and face on profile he hasn't seen in a while.]

There's a million more of these stories of kids being the punching bags for their parents and spouses then ending up in the gutter. This lady's gotta be itching to hear it all if she came out with this one. She could have just asked any foster kid.

[Source: Lorenzo is a foster kid. And he took out his own loans that got him into trouble, faced every day wondering when the sharks would lose their patience despite appeasing them with steady payments the last few years working for Ghost City. But he'd always take that beating on his own. Even when he was a kid he'd take them over other kids.

He did switch the feed to private voice though and in Spanish:]

Haven't heard from you in a couple years, Kinich.

un: hextechnician

[hexcrafter]

What in Janna's name is her problem this time? Don't tell me she's bitter about her family reunions, too.

As long as we are ruining Janet's evening: My parents both died of a painful respiratory disease, for which nearly all the common names are derogatory.

voice; un: shadeshift

[sunforging]

[Casually:]

...I ain't even sure I had parents, mate. For all I know, Hydaelyn slapped Miqo'te ears on some aether n' dropped it in th' middle of Limsa.

text | un: silhouetto

[threebetrayals]

lol. lmao.

Text | UN: lunae

[heng_like_a_dragon]

I have a complicated relationship with my parents. I love and respect them, but I also was very highly pressured into succeeding as a medical doctor or lawyer. My dream was to be an archivist at the Library of Congress, but my parents were against it. Research biology was my only successful compromise so that my little sister could still follow her dreams even if I couldn't.