Astral plane, activate! (HH anniversary plot, RP open to all)

[ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com]

The Sorting Hat had been dabbling in way too many fringe philosophies. (Neo-Rosicrucianism? Really, Sorting Hat?) It seemed that puppet!Ron Weasley's name for it, Sorting Hat the Wise, had gone to the Hat's lack-of-visible-head.

On the morning of Dec. 13 (or was it the 14th?) the Hat's esoteric interests affected the school for the second time.

The first instance had been more than a year past, when the Hat took a cue from Rev. Sun Myung Moon and united most of the Hogwarts students in mass marriages. That had been a lengthy and concerted effort by the Hat and its house-elf minions, opposed vigorously by the wicked (or noble??) Kojiro. Kojiro's kidnapping of the Hat's bride had been something of a turning point for the headstrong headgear.

This new instance ... even Kojiro might be powerless to counter. And the Hat's agency would be difficult, if not impossible, to discern.

In a mighty magical working, the Hat projected many of the students ... to the astral plane, in their astral forms.

Astral Hogwarts resembled the real material Hogwarts (well, the Sorting Hat's version of material Hogwarts) very closely indeed. There were some dissimilarities: did Hogwarts, on the material plane, really sparkle so much? Were there so many rainbows in the sky, without a hint of rain to prompt their presence? Were there really pastel-colored unicorns frolicking on the grounds? Unicorns with hair made of cotton candy?

Could the students fly without brooms in material Hogwarts?

Other than that, it would be instantly recognizable as Hogwarts. The astral students would find nothing jarringly unfamiliar, being astral themselves. No disorientation, as there had been with the mass weddings; only a pleasant surprise, if they did happen to remember the absence of pastel unicorns and self-propelled flight.

Finally the Hat would have achieved paradise! Too bad not all the students could be brought into this happy realm. The Hat hadn't quite figured out how to bring everyone en masse. But many of them could be.

Including Kojiro, perhaps ...


(( OOC note: People are welcome to RP astral shenanigans here, or to start their own new posts for interactions of a closed variety. Please, if you embark on NSFW action, make a new post so that it can be lj-cut with appropriate warnings. ))

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[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

The castle is sparkly today. Obviously this is in honour of Kami! and his magnificent radiance. ('Kira kira' means sparkle, it makes PERFECT SENSE.)

To celebrate, Mikami has donned a frilly pink apron over his work clothes, and is baking cookies.

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

An apron. He wondered if his Gunter would wear an apron for him. It would look so nice with his long flowing hair.

Ah, Gunter, where are you?

"Excuse me. Have you seen a man with long white hair around here? He'd be dressed in white too?"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"You can't have any cookies!" Mikami declared, spinning round dramatically to ward off the interloper. "The cookies belong to Kira! Touch them and be sakujo'd."

...at which point he realised what the actual question had been. "Er... no, I haven't. Sorry."

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

"Who is this Kira person. There's no way he or she or it could be as great as Gunter," Gwendal said, his hands clasped under his chin, batting his eyes. He then points accusingly at the apron wearing freak. "You! You did something to him."

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"How dare you! Kira is Justice, and more righteous and magnificent and glittery than any others!" He reached for his pen, and a familiar black notebook. "You will pay for your blasphemy! SAKUJO!"

There was a flash of red light as he wrote Gwendal's name, and then an awkward silence. "...oh. This is the wrong book, there's a grocery list in here."

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Gwendal's hand went to his forehead. "Oh, Gunter, where are you? This vile creature has hidden you from me!" he sobbed dramatically. "And, he's calling you a grocery list! Oh, Gunter, will my love be able to reach you?"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

Mikami glared. "I am not a vile creature, I am a loyal servant of Kira! If you're not going to have a heart attack go away and look for your Gunter person somewhere else."

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Gwendal's finger shakes with the outpouring of his emotions for his lost Gunter! "A heart attack? How could I have a heart attack when my heart is missing! You know where he is! Give him back to me!" Gwendal falls to his knees,his hands in his hair, not quite tearing. Gunter likes his hair. "Gunter," he howls.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"I don't know where your Gunter is." He sighed. "I'll tell you if I see someone with that name, all right? I shouldn't, because you insulted Almighty Kira, but you obviously have proper respect for hair so I'll let you off just this once."

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

"Gunter," Gwendal wailed disconsolately. "Where are you?" he sobbed. He crawled over to the man. "Can your Almighty Kira bring him back to me?" he begged, clinging to the apron.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"Um, Kami doesn't really do bringing people back. But you could ask him! Just don't interrupt when he's eating my cookies, or potato chips - especially potato chips - or when we're having private Kira time."

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Gwendal sniffles. "I just want some private Gunter time again!" His voice breaks into a wail at the end. "I wouldn't interrupt your special time together. It would be rather...embarrassing," he said, his voice catching.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"It would. And if you embarrassed Kami I would have to sakujo you. For real."

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

"Is...is that what happened to my dear Gunter?" Gwendal whimpered. "Is it?"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"No, I don't remember him at all. He's probably just in another castle or something."

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Gwendal sniffles. "There...there are other...other castles? Oh, Gunter! Where are you?! Where has my heart gone?" He collapses on the floor, sobbing.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. There might be." Mikami shrugs, and turns back to his oven.

[sir-knits-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Gwendal pushed himself to his feet, still sobbing and staggered out of the room in search of more castles to find his precious Gunter in.

[ringo-raver.livejournal.com]

Ryuk flitted around Mikami's head. He didn't think much beyond his next apple.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Ryuk!" Mikami handed him an apple from the pocket of his apron. It was a spacious pocket, and contained many things. "Have you seen Kami today?"

[ringo-raver.livejournal.com]

"Ryuk hasn't seen Light!" The apple was about as big as he was, and he floated down to the ground to eat it.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"Well, if you see him, tell him I'm baking him cookies!"