Don’t worry about the future.

[mansionstaff]

Who: EV ERY ONE
What: Graduation. Prom.
When: The evening of May 31st.
Where: The Stadium.
Warnings: WHO KNOWS

It's a beautiful spring evening at Smash Academy, the barest hints of summer just beginning to touch the stadium floor, which had been rearranged into a platform overlooking neat rows of chairs meant to seat the gathered crowd of faculty and students. Towards the other end of the complex was the arrangement for the prom that was to follow. Food and drink, chairs and tables, each with a floral centerpiece, and, of course, a dance floor.



Before everyone could get their party on, however, there was the main event of the evening. From his place at the podium, Master Hand watched students and staff alike find their way into the stadium. With the recent shadow bug invasion, there seemed to be tensions in need of dispelling. If the Headmaster knew one thing, however, it was that some silly antics were not going to ruin this esteemed event. Not tonight. Not if he could help it.

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HEY DUDES! Here's how stuff is going to work. We kick off the log with GRADUATION. This part of the log will be divided into separate threads. I'll post them all at once, so feel free to hop around, mingle, post whenever, wherever.

HOWEVER, once the PROM starts, it will be up to you guys to post your own threads. Please check out last year's log if you'd like an idea of how this works. Everything after the thread titled "DISMISSAL" (I will post that in a bit, so don't post prom threads until I have that up!) will be considered prom, though don't let that stop you from continuing to post in the graduation section.

Please label all your threads appropriately! (Examples: "SHENANIGANS AT THE FOOD TABLE", "DANCE-OFF", "THE PUNCH IS SPIKED", "BOTHER X" In general, a location + what is going on in the thread is the way to go. Obviously, more than one thread can take place at the same location. 

Linking back and forth when and if you thread hop is very much appreciated. If things start to look a bit laggy, we'll bump to the next page. Most importantly, TAG YOUR DUDES, HAVE FUN, and let a mod know about any problems or concerns you might have!

Comments

[forgetbeam]

It should have been a touching moment, something that made him feel relief and comfort, but he could only frown a little instead.

"You can remember all of that, can't you?"

That being everything that he couldn't, of course. Even if Mukuro came from some weird alternate timeline where the Despair Game failed before it even started, Kiyotaka was willing to bet that everything before that divergence remained the same.

"...I'm sorry. I can't even imagine what our friendship used to be like."

[iksb]

"I was... not close to many people." You can blame Junko for that, for feeding her self doubt relentlessly. "But we agreed on many things, as the most disciplined out of everyone in our class."

Mukuro's expression becomes pained. There was still a bitter taste and a heaviness in heart every time she talked about her complicit cooperation with Junko in setting up the despair game.

"As much as I could spend much time reminiscing on the friendships formed past, I would much prefer to make new bonds in a forward facing manner."

[forgetbeam]

Of course he preferred to subscribe to that mindset. It didn't make it any less difficult to cope with the fact that such a huge chunk of time had been essentially stolen from him. Even if most days he could ignore it, or keep it to wondering what his relationships with his classmates might have been like once upon a time, one in a while it did just drag him down. Particularly on a day like today, when students would cross that stage in front of him like he should have done a year ago.

So. So butthurt.

But moping wasn't going to change anything. "No, you're right. We have the whole summer ahead of us, which gives even more time to forge friendships!"

And more time for studying, but that was a given.

[iksb]

"Yes, precisely." Mukuro smiled more naturally now, settling into her seat more. "The past is the past, and I must atone for it in the future, in what I do and who I choose to be with."

Dangan Ronpa: Friendship is Magic.