starfishlovesyou | ★4th Star☆ [Video]

[It had taken her some time, a little heavy lifting and an awful lot of reading up on taking care of fish and sea life in the library, but it's finished. Room twelve in community building three now has a fully functioning fish tank! There's a hanging filter happily bubbling away into the water of the pretty bare looking tank. Fuuko had wanted to go down to the beach and find a few shells and what not but it's really cold, so for now the tank only has some gravel along the bottom and a rock or two in it.

As the journal comes into focus it's possible to notice something in the tank past the gravel and rocks. In fact if you can't notice it you must need your eyesight checked as Fuuko currently has the journal pushed right up against the glass of the tank.

The most adorable of adorable starfish is inside, laying on top of one of the rocks. Yes, a real live starfish. Fuuko couldn't believe it either. A real live starfish! It needs repeating, okay, it's a real a starfish. REAL. Many a trance came and went when she first unwrapped the jar containing the little guy.

Having kept the journal on for a minute or so in silence whilst she shows off her new pet, Fuuko speaks up.]

Fuuko cannot thank whoever gave Fuuko such a gift this Christmas time enough! Had Fuuko been able to find a tank and supplies sooner then rest assured, Fuuko would have thanked whoever-you-are long ago!

[Turning the journal towards her face which has a giant smile plastered all over it, because hey, guess what guys, it's a real starfish. And it's her pet! Aaah!]

Fuuko has even decided to keep the jar that-- Oh, Fuuko still needs to think of a name... But Fuuko is keeping the jar he came in as a memento of this wonderful present even in his nameless state! [Giving the journal a wave she starts closing the journal-- But wait, ooone more thing.] Fuuko almost forgot to mention the Starfish Festival seeing as all Fuuko can think of right now is this cute little guy. It'll probably be in April sometime, though there's no definite date yet. Just letting you all know!

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Another sort of magic...?

[And then, without really thinking about it, a familiar phrase pops into his head.]

... "courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality."

'Courage is the magic'? What a strange turn of phrase. [But she's going to take a second to think about what was just said veeery seriously.]

So being courageous is a type of magic which is used to make friends, and if you want friends by being courageous you'll make having friends a reality! ...That's a little complex but Fuuko understands. [FRIENDSHIP MAGIC!]

That's right. It's something one of my friends said to me when we first met. And the longer I've been here in Luceti, the more I've realized that it really is true.

Could you apply that to things outside of friends? Like... Being courageous motivates you to go looking for starfish which you really want to do. So if you go looking for starfish and find some you've made what you wanted into a reality?! [Applying starfish to it is the logical thing to do.]

I guess so... I've never really thought about it when it comes to things like starfish before, but I don't see why not!

Excellent! Fuuko is making a note of this phrase, it that's alright with you Emil-san. Such a perfect figure of speech which can be used to motivate others into finding starfish must be recorded! [...] On that note, Fuuko should apply this message to finding out who Fuuko's secret santa is, having courage and making finding that person a reality.

That's fine with me. I think Richter would be happy to know that other people are using that phrase too.

[Although he's... not really sure how Richter would feel to find out that it's being applied to starfish. Oh well.]

And that's right-- if you really want to find them, then I'm sure you'll be able to. You just have to believe you can.

Then Fuuko will definitely work to live by these words! Even if it goes against the magic of the season it's important to find out Fuuko's secret santa and make it a reality, so Fuuko can say thank you.

Richter-san must be a great person if he thought up a line like that... Or did he find it in a book? A movie?

Actually, he learned it from someone else, but I'm not sure where that person got it. I wonder if it really did come from a book or something. It does sound like the kind of thing you might find in a story...

So it was passed down from person to person, and now it has finally reached Fuuko. Perhaps this is a deep saying from legends which Fuuko has not heard about yet! [...] Or yes, it could just be from a story book.

You think it could really come from a legend?

It could, you never know! One thousand shinto priests could have discussed it, and slowly over time the legend became condensed into 'courage is the magic which turns dreams into reality'.

I don't think we have shinto priests in our world... maybe they were just regular priests instead.

Regular priests then, the ones without bald heads who wave around incense, the other kind! Either way the legend has been past down from priest to priest, no matter what sort of priest they might be.

Right... I'll have to ask Richter about it the next time I see him again. I bet he'd know where it really came from.

Make sure that you do! Or maybe Fuuko will ask him if he ever shows up. It's very important to know the origin of such inspiring words after all.

I'll make sure to write myself a note so that I don't forget!

And make sure you tap your head everyday when you wake up and you repeat those words to yourself to make even more certain you won't forget! Fuuko has faith in your memory, Emil-san!

Right! Thanks, Fuuko. I'll make sure I don't forget!

★4th Star☆ [Video]

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