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[hippocarnival]

Who: Yuya and you!
What: May Shenanigans
When: Mid-May
Where: Idk, everywhere
Warnings: local teenager embarrassing himself

[Vote for Banana]

[Nana's running for student council president, and Yuya takes his job as he best friend and biggest supporter very seriously. So at various times in May, he's standing out in common areas and outside the grand hall with stickers. There's a frog in a banana peel, with Nana Daiba's full name and the slogan her voice is your voice.

He's handing them out pretty liberally. Vote for Nana!]

[May 15 | Uninhibited]

[Yuya's day starts as any other, unaware that he's become the next victim of Akechi's manipulations. He doesn't think he feels any different (well, except brighter and more rested), except that he's decided classes are unimportant today, and with nothing stopping him from taking the day off he does. Just that. He's dressed casually as he roams the campus, oddly free-spirited as he makes a beeline to anyone he knows in an attempt to rope them into his fun.]

Hey, want to go to Soleil?

[It doesn't wear off until night, although Yuya insists the entire time that he's fine. Once he's back to his senses, though, he's conspicuously absent the next day. There were probably some embarrassments he's not ready to face.]

[Sleepless Nights]

[Ever since the back to back missions earlier in the month, Yuya's had a hard time with sleep. At first, it was easy to blame it on the back to back travel and exertion, but that excuse doesn't last forever and he finds himself waking up from his nightmares more than he normally did. Sometimes, the end of it is clearer than it used to be.

He sits to the back of his classes, now, propping up his textbook to hide his dozing. His shoulders hang a little heavier, but he's always quick to offer a smile and wave it off. He's just sleepy, but it's fine!

Outside of classes, during meals and in the second floor common room, he's started reading a big, archaic tome. Which is pretty abnormal for him to be studying so openly and so intently. His brow is furrowed as he pours through pages of--daemons? It seems to be about daemons.

And his face looks increasingly frustrated.]

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Sleepless Nights

[yokeye]

[Having been dealing with a lot of his own issues lately, Toki hasn't been focused on Yuya's nightmares as much as he used to be. When they started getting progressively more frequent, he turned his attention back on them. Somehow, he misplaced his original notebook on Yuya's dreams and that may potentially be a problem, but telling Yuya about it can wait. Toki has since began a second cataloguing of the nightmares, pages filling up fast with more coherent mumbling about pain and death. He thought he heard something about daemons once, and marked it with an asterisk in case he heard it wrong. He's trying not to jump to conclusions so much, as Yuya himself suggested.

In the second floor common room, it's an odd sight. Yuya with a huge book; the pages old and yellowed. He looks to be intensely concentrating. Toki hesitates on interrupting, but can only hold back for about a minute.]

Yuya~! What are you reading~!?

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya looks up from where he's scrunched in a chair.] Oh, uh--it's a book from Professor Valvatorez.

[Not suspicious or anything, right.]

[yokeye]

Is it about sardines or vampires~!?

[Toki takes the chair closest to Yuya.]

It looks pretty old, so maybe not sardines...

[hippocarnival]

It's about daemons. [So, neither.] I'm borrowing it.

[yokeye]

I thought- okay, I know I said I wouldn't like bother you about nightmares and things, but I swear I heard you talking about daemons at least once in your sleep! Is that what this is about!? Did you remember things!? It's just, there's been a lot more of the screaming and everything lately! If it's like for a research paper or something, then nevermind, but if you, if you want to talk about anything...

[He trails off, because he shouldn't have even mentioned any of it. It's jumping to conclusions and filling in blanks himself and it's not helpful.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya scrunches up further, hiding half his face behind the book.]

I don't... really remember them. This isn't because of my nightmares.

[It's from a far more damning indication of some demonic relation, but he's a little reluctant to say it out loud.]

[yokeye]

Okay! Well! I'll leave you to your studying!

[It's something Yuya seldom does, so Toki's a little suspicious. Though maybe Yuya's on the verge of failing Valvatorez's class and got an extra credit assignment or something. He'll stop asking questions, but he's still going to hang out here in the common room and glance over every now and then. Toki digs through his bag for anything school related and finds absolutely nothing. Notebook it is. He proceeds to scribble in it, angling it away from Yuya, and trying to appear in deep concentration.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya sinks back into his seat, tilting the book back as be continues to read. Occasionally he slowly sounds out words he doesn't recognize, typing in his phone as he tries to recognize archaic terms and meanings he can't make much sense of. Why does this book have to be so old.]

[yokeye]

[Toki doesn't know any of those words Yuya's attempting to say. He pretends to check his phone for messages, but turns on the voice recorder. He will look these words up later and add anything strange he finds to a new section of the second Yuya notebook.]

[hippocarnival]

[Toki's creeping has escalated from recording dreams to recording him during the day.

It doesn't really provide a lot of context to the book, though, really just being scattered old words Yuya can't recognize. A couple might just be names of important figures in history that were associated with demons.

He makes it through about ten pages before he drops his face into the book in defeat.]

[yokeye]

[Toki will keep an eye on where Yuya leaves the book and he'll attempt to read it all during the night, but likely not even make it as far as Yuya. That is, if he can't get any answers at present.]

It's really important, isn't it; whatever you're researching?

[Yuya never seems to be this invested.]

vote for banana!!!!!

[suddenlybees]

[ Yessssssssss

For any kid, stickers are the absolute best and it doesn't even matter what's printed on it so long as it's fun and bright and colorful. ]

Yu~ya!! Hey!! Can I have a roll?

[ AN ENTIRE ROLL ]

[hippocarnival]

[First, Yuya peels off a sticker and proceeds to press the sticky end to Kano's chest. Showing support for Nana is important.] So you can help pass them out, or is this a personal project?

[suddenlybees]

[ He will wear the sticker with pride and won't take it off for the rest of the month. Which is entirely possible because he never changes this jacket anyways. ]

It's both, it's both~ They'll get passed out, but it'll also help me out too!

[hippocarnival]

Huh? [Yuya tilts his head, flicking his gaze up at Toki.] Oh... yeah. It's really important to me, but this book is so hard.

[Whine whine. But so far it's the best lead he has for any answers.]

[hippocarnival]

Okay, okay. Just remember you're representing Nana! [He grabs one of the unopened rolls and hands it to Kano. They're rolls of 500, so he's going to have campaign stickers for days.]

[suddenlybees]

Mmhmm, yep!! Thanks, Yu~ya!

[ This is the best, Yuya's the best, Kano can't fit this in his pocket so he wears the roll over his wrist like the heaviest chunkiest bracelet in the world. It's also the cutest. ]

Is it just stickers? Are you giving out t-shirts? Is there going to be a parade?

[hippocarnival]

It's just stickers. We didn't talk about a T-shirt or parade, but I'll ask Nana and see what she thinks!

[Apparently they get like, 5k Euro to campaign with from the school and so far it's only been used for stickers. They can flex.] She'll definitely have a booth, I was just helping get word out that she's running for president for anyone who didn't attend the speeches. What do you think of the slogan?

[suddenlybees]

[ A parade would definitely be eye-catching, if not a blatant waste of money, but Nana's rich? It's fine. Parades are fun. ]

"Her voice is your voice..." Coupled with the frog, won't people think of a frog croaking?

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya frowns and looks at the sticker.] Uh. I didn't think about that.

[Oh no, but Nana's already into the frogs and bananas and the slogan.

He points at Kano.] Hey! Since you're passing out stickers, can you keep an ear out for what people are saying about them? If everyone thinks they're cute, it's no problem.

[suddenlybees]

Hm, yeah, I can do that!

[ Passing out the stickers isn't exactly the plan he has in mind for them, but eavesdropping is a specialty of his, and this isn't too tough a job. ]

If it's cuteness, don't you think Nana-chan would win anyways? Easy, easy~

[hippocarnival]

[He said he would, don't be a liar Kano.

Yuya's shoulders ease and he smiles.] Thanks, Kano! And Nana is the cutest and the most qualified person running, so that means her campaign image has to reflect that properly.

[He's so confident in her and he's gonna get her there and then he'll be so proud.] She's always running away from the lead roll, so I want her to take this one. She'll be great!

[suddenlybees]

[ He will never not be a liar, sorry you made a friend like this, Yuya. On the other hand, Yuya's always so straightforward, saying stuff like that with a straight face without missing a beat, that Kano can't help but laugh and agree. ]

It surprised me too, that she wanted to run for president, when she didn't even want to become general of the theater club! She'd be really great at it, and she'd do really well at it... You know her better than me- what made this different?

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya loves his friends, although he normally flatters them with more composure than that picnic with Kano. But if Kano won't talk about it, neither will Yuya.

Yuya tilts his head, putting a finger to his chin as he looks thoughtful.] I want to say that she's getting more confident, because before she definitely would have run for Vice-President or Treasurer instead. But as the President, she has the most power and responsibility to make a difference for everyone.

Vote for Banana

[prisoneroffate]

[Ren is making the rounds to the staff with refreshments. He swings by Yuya, holding warm cider and speaking in Japanese]

Thank you for your hard work today.