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!]

resurrection_butterfly: (at ease)

[personal profile] resurrection_butterfly 2016-10-22 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! My apologies. I was thinking out loud. How embarrassing.

[She didn't seem embarrassed by it at all though.]

I'm not doing very well so far am I?
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[personal profile] ufonium 2016-10-22 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She

She has no shame about that at all.

... Damn.
]

... Um. I-I wouldn't say that, just really surprising. I'm usually the one to stick my foot in my mouth cuz I don't think when I speak. [... Like right now.]
resurrection_butterfly: (Sake with a friend)

[personal profile] resurrection_butterfly 2016-11-04 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... well, sometimes it can't be helped. We are who we are. There's nothing wrong with that though. It's simpler that way.
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[personal profile] ufonium 2016-11-06 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
... I can't really disagree. [She can't, either. It's easier to just kind of be herself and let herself go along with the flow. Well, except the part where she acts distant to hide that she's really blunt and cynical, but whatever. It's easier to fit in with a small group of people.]

It's just I don't see it around often. Not a great way to make friends. [Yeah, like that.]
resurrection_butterfly: (at ease)

[personal profile] resurrection_butterfly 2016-11-13 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
I feel any friends you make that don't know who you are, probably weren't having in the first place. Sooner or later they'll see what you want to hide, and a choice will have to be made. Isn't it more comforting to not worry about those sorts of things?

[But then it might be easy for her to feel this way since she really didn't care what others thought.]

Everyone can make friends just being who they are. It just might... not be as straightforward?
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[personal profile] ufonium 2016-11-15 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
... But sometimes you're not supposed to really be a certain way... [The number of funny looks she's gotten from saying things a little too bluntly...]

You're really weird. [LIKE THAT.]