❀ - [Video/Action] - 第五 [中秋節; Mid-Autumn Festival, Discedo]

[meilihua]

[Hopefully by now, most people on Fortuna have somehow received a prettily wrapped package containing four different varieties of home-made mooncake outside their doorstep. Those within Discedo had them hand-delivered; everyone else...hope they made it...]

Hey everyone! I know things have been really crazy recently, but if you have a chance [pause] and are in someplace where it's safe to do it [pause...], you should definitely go outside and take a look up at the moon! If you squint really closely, maybe you'll see Chang'e ( 嫦娥), the moon goddess who lives there, or the Jade Rabbit making medicine!

[A soft, kind of wistful laugh] At least, that's what I would say if we were at home...

Anyway, I hope all my packages made it safely, but even if it's not the same moon, you can definitely still eat the mooncake! There's 4 kinds: lotus-paste, red bean, green tea, and chocolate! Just for variety.

I included egg-yolk in a few of them, but you don't have to eat it if you don't like it.

[Oh wait...] Yeah, and I guess it's China's birthday tomorrow too.

祝你生日快樂，老師！ You're still old, by the way!

Oh, and I don't care if you changed to simplified, you're still going to have to get all your greetings in traditional from me! [Yes, Taiwan did just stick her tongue out in the video. How mature.]

Comments

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[fierybluebird]

Would that actually work?

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[meilihua]

You never know unless you try, right?

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[fierybluebird]

That's exactly right, eh. So might as well give it a shot.

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[meilihua]

We can write him a letter. With detailed illustrations about how we want the story to end.

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[fierybluebird]

This seems like a good plan.

Okay how should the story end? Other than her husband finding a way to live with her and the rabbit.

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[meilihua]

Maybe if they were able to visit Earth once in a while... Like during an eclipse!

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[fierybluebird]

Like Davy Jones kind of?

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[meilihua]

I don't think I know his story that well...I mean, I know he was a pirate...

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[fierybluebird]

He was the opposite of devil fruits, eh. Cursed to always wander the bottom of the ocean and can only surface once in a blue moon.

[Lalala making stuff up. Davy Jones is a mythic figure in One Piece, but how involved and his story we don't know yet. Marco would know though, so pretend 1/2 trolling, 1/2 mun-fail.]

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[meilihua]

...so he just walks around in the dark and the sand down there all by himself?

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[fierybluebird]

Mm-hm. Cursed forever. When we play Davy Back, we throw coins in the sea for him. Sort of his dues as pirates.

[That's actually canon at least.]

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[meilihua]

But what does he need money for? It's not like he can go shopping under the sea...

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[fierybluebird]

It's a tribute.

Some pirates just want the gold, and it's good to remind yourself of the sacrifices of being a pirate.

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[meilihua]

And I guess it's a tradition, right? Though I don't know where he'd keep all those coins...

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[fierybluebird]

In his locker.

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[meilihua]

He should invest in a purse!

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[fierybluebird]

[Laughs.]

Maybe someone will throw him a waterproof one, eh?

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[meilihua]

What, don't you have plastic in your world?

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[fierybluebird]

Can't say we do. Usually equipment for underwater just gets coated at Sabaody to keep it air-tight.

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[meilihua]

What, really? How do you even do that? Is it like a giant bubble? [Haha, she's just joking...]

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[fierybluebird]

Aye, exactly.

[He'll just wait for that to sink in.]

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[meilihua]

Oh, haha, well that's-

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[meilihua]

W-wait...

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[meilihua]

W-what? How can you go underwater in a ship with a bubble? Wouldn't you float instead?!

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[fierybluebird]

[Shakes his head.]

That's why the coating engineers are geniuses. They have to neutralize the buoyancy. Both of the air, and that of the ships'.