Lillian Private Academy for Women ([personal profile] garden_of_maidens) wrote in [community profile] lillian_academy2014-09-08 10:25 pm

Welcome to the New Year

"Gokigenyou."

"Gokigenyou."

The clear morning greeting travels through the serene, blue sky.

Today, once again, the maidens that gather in the Virgin Mary's garden smile purely to one another as they pass under the tall gateway.
Wrapping their innocent bodies and souls is a deep-coloured school uniform.

Walking slowly as to not disturb the plaits in their skirts, so as to not toss their white sailor scarves into disarray... such is the standard of modesty here. Running because one is in danger of missing class, for instance, is too undignified a sight for students to wish upon themselves here.

Lillian Private Academy for Women.

Founded in Meiji 34, this academy was originally intended for the young women of nobility, and is now a Catholic academy of prestigious tradition. Placed in downtown Tokyo, where you can still see traces of Musashi Field's greenery, it is protected by God, a garden where maidens can receive tutelage from pre-school to university.

Time passes, and even now, in Heisei, three era-names past Meiji, it is a valuable academy, where nurtured ladies raised in greenhouses are shipped out in carefully packaged boxes after 18 years of schooling - an arrangement that continues to survive.
As the last note of Maria-sama's Soul rings through the chapel, echoing into the high rafters, the Yamayurikai stands tall at the front of the procession, ready to give out the gifts of rosaries to their newest arrivals.

The respective classes of each first-year are called, and each one receives their gift from the Yamayurikai members. The second and third year students are sitting by, simply watching, perhaps commenting quietly to each other whenever a particularly interesting first-year passes by, but they are quick to silence when the stern gazes of the nuns passes over them.

A new year has come to Lillian Academy, and the students are ready to start their adventures in life, love, and everything else.

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[Open post for the welcoming ceremony and the beginning of the year! Feel free to use this for the actual ceremony, shortly thereafter, or the general first day of school. Welcome!]

ibara_no_mori: (V for Victory!)

[personal profile] ibara_no_mori 2016-10-10 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yep, that's easy enough! And Sei is going to meander her way on over, completely ignoring the fact the crowd seems to whisper as she passes by, with intent on one of the other girls in the area.] Hey! Long time no see.

[... has anyone mentioned Rosa Gigantea is a weirdo?]
theleonking: (grin)

[personal profile] theleonking 2016-10-11 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, she's a little surprised. Eyebrows go up, eyebrows go down, she can't explain this. But damn it, she's a smooth operator herself, and she give the White Rose a polite little bow for appearances, before her undaunted eyes track up to Sei's.]

If you count by minutes, maybe. I must have made a good impression.

[Leo puts her hand on her hip, breaking the stiff, demure posture of the bow and matching the casual tone.]

Come to join us? [She was speaking to a couple other first-years, something ridiculous about swimming the English Channel.] Or do you need me for something?
ibara_no_mori: (Oh god what are you going to-)

[personal profile] ibara_no_mori 2016-10-12 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no, I just thought I'd say hello. Make sure you're not getting into too much trouble. [She says it so casually and familiarly, like they've known each other for months, at least, instead of literally having seen each other once.

Interesting first years are definitely a thing to seek out, because they always have the most interesting stories around them.
]

Being an exchange student is hard, and even harder if you're foreign. Call it a duty as a member of the Yamayurikai. [That it literally a lie, but it comes so easily from Sei it placates the crowd. She literally doesn't care about much, because some things haven't changed since she was a second year, spiteful at the world, so she really only goes after what interests her.]