Evening, day of the festival

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Koutarou Takao @lemonleaves

They are cute, the chocobo chicks, but it feels a little sad that so many people seem to have forgotten about #horses and their #foals.

Koutarou Takao @lemonleaves
I was asked if they are some form of weird deer among other things.

((ooc: 1 & 2; pretend they're sketches, I just couldn't resist using these since they're so charming.))

Comments

[doublesmall]

spChuuya Nakahara @kuraitenko spyeah it's like half the damn city's gone nuts

spChuuya Nakahara @kuraitenko spthing is, i can't figure out which half of us it is yet.

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spDo you think it might be us that have?

spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spI remember going to study horses close up last October, does that mean I might be imagining that?

nobody has time for phone html

[doublesmall]

i mean it's either us or them, right

two options: they're under some mass delusion that made them forget horses

or we're under one that's making us think they were a thing

either way a bunch of people are all thinking the same weird-ass thing is true and idk how to tell which one is more likely

phone typing at all is a pain

[wordcarvings]

spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spI wonder which would be preferable...

spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spIt’s sort of unsettling.

[doublesmall]

i mean obviously i'd prefer not to be out of my goddamn mind

but forgetting something's still easier to deal with considering y'know

you don't even know

[momentaryspring]

Now that I think about it, I never did see a real one up close.

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spYou didn't? I know they have some at the zoo, and there is a school for horse-riding, too.

spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spOr had, I suppose. I haven't gone to look yet.

[momentaryspring]

Maybe when I was a kid.

[Though he would have been young enough that he didn't remember. It had been quite some time since he'd been to the zoo.]

I didn't take any horse riding lessons, either. But I saw plenty in movies and television.

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spThere are a lot of them in media.

spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spWere?

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard I suppose this is all we have now to remember them by, isn't it?
Chloe Bouchard I wish I had an actual picture, to help remember them.
Chloe Bouchard It feels important.
Chloe Bouchard Not that the birds are bad.

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spI suppose so, yes. I had some photobooks for studying but they have all been replaced, which is also odd.

spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spNo, the birds have their own charm.

[true_noir]

spChloe Bouchard @black_rose spIt is a very thorough job that someone has done to change this perception. I cannot think we are insane, as there are several of us, so I just do not understand the why. What was wrong with having both?

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spThat is a mystery. Why would someone go through such an effort?

[tarotcards]

It is rather strange that no one seems to remember them. It's a little stranger that they've been replaced with something completely different.

A new type of deer or another four-legged animal might make sense, but giant chickens? That's a big stretch.

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spRight? I can't understand how that might have happened.

spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spI wonder how they bred those chickens to make them that big. Or is it because of their diet?

spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spMaybe they're related to ostriches or emus somehow.

[tarotcards]

spSouji Narukami @meowji spI originally thought they were dyed emus at first, to be honest. After all, no one has really heard of these "chocobos" before today, right?

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spIt would make much more sense, yet they're built somewhat differently. Dying them would be unkind, too.

[quaria]

spSetsuna F. Seiei @gendum spQuestion. Is there anyone among us here, those who utilize the Retrospec app, who does not remember horses?

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spThat's a good question. I have not come across anyone that don't this far.

[quaria]

spSetsuna F. Seiei @gendum spIf you or anyone else come across someone, please let me know. If this remains unchanged, I believe this might be worth noting about in the future.

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spSure, that’s alright with me. You think so?

[samuraisoul]

spJūbei Nankōbō @petbutler spIt feels like they've been written out of the memories of all but us on this app. Nobody else I've talked to knows of horses at all.

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spIt's incredibly odd. And horses have had such prominent parts in history and media. Do you think it might be some form of mass hypnotism?

[samuraisoul]

spJūbei Nankōbō @petbutler spPerhaps... I cannot think of any other rational explanation. It all seems completely impossible.

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spKoutarou Takao @lemonleaves spI have never heard of it being possible outside of fiction at such a large scale.