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★ WELCOME TO THE WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES ★

[ congratulations, fellow athletes, and welcome to the winter olympic games! the opening ceremony was beautiful and involved lots of pomp and circumstance. enjoy the team walk, snipe at the country in front of you's uniforms, wave at the crowd, throw up on someone's feet out of nerves and excitement, but most of all, make sure you smile and wave because you are live and on tv! a lot of tv. no worries. it's cold as balls, too, so i hope your team supplied lots of warm clothes.

there's a dinner in the olympic village that acts as a mingle for athletes. do you stick to your team or meet your competitors? is your old friend on a separate team? is the food any good? figure it out.

or maybe the opening ceremony has ended and you're hard at work practicing in the gym? after all, no one goes into any international competition cold. the practice facilities are only a mile from the olympic village and are as massive as anyone could imagine. any sport you want, any equipment you want--everything's here.

attached to the gym is a sauna, a great place to meet sweaty other athletes. naked.

or maybe you'd like to visit the olympic village itself. meet your neighbors, explore the shops, have some coffee, start a snowball fight... do what you like. the living accommodations are spacious and deserve exploring as well. just try not to throw any wild parties. (or do. the competition technically starts tomorrow but not everyone's playing... better not piss off the neighbors, though.)

no matter what you do--whether it's something listed here or something else entirely, the winter olympics are OPEN FOR BUSINESS. ]

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the olympic village
[ excitable, energetic hinata shouyou hasn't changed much since his days as a high schooler--at 23 years old, he's still just as delighted to be at the olympics as he was at his first snowboarding comptetition in high school. hinata's bouncing around looking at things, letting out "uohh!!" noises of excitement at random things he never got to see back home in miyagi. his infectious joy has led to him whirling around to look at the nearest person, fists clenched in front of his face, eyes huge with delight. ]

Did you see the gym!? It's the biggest gym I've ever seen in my life!! There's a slalom in it!!!! A slalom!!!

olympic village, pt ii.
[ look, hinata is a nice guy, okay, but there are some things he just can't resist. case in point, his rival and teammate kageyama tobio across the way, sipping a drink or something and looking completely helpless. hinata ducks down and scoops up a snowball with his gloved hands, packing it together effortlessly, and takes aim at the back of kageyama's head, his tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth. after years and years of competing, he's far less (but not totally, it is kageyama) afraid of tobio, and as he winds his arm back, he yells-- ] THINK FAST!! [ and lets the snowball fly.

however, if he hits a passerby, he hits a passerby... oops. ]

wildcard.
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[ Kageyama is, of course, minding his own damn business. He's been looking all over the village, trying to see if maybe there aren't any machines selling milk boxes hiding around a corner or something, moody about the fact that he's failed to find anything except water, sports drinks, and soda machines. Not that he doesn't like a sports drink or the occasional Coke like the next athlete, but he's a little jilted at the moment.

He's in the middle of wondering whether the dining hall will have any when he hears Hinata shout, which causes him to jolt and bristle up. But all he has time to do is jump and turn, and then -

Bullseye, and sputtering and yelling. ]

HINATA!!

a. the rink

Since he's not doing anything too rough right now, they should be fine, right? Sanada figures that he can get a pass on just skating and doing a few shots when he's not tiring himself out much by doing these easy drills. Sure, he's digging in - sorry, zamboni guy - and getting some deep cuts here and there along the ice, but it's just so satisfying to get that crisp crunch as he circles the rink. He's doing his best to avoid getting in anyone's way, not wanting to interrupt their own practice. After all, he's pretty sure he's not the only one doing this to unwind, to burn off energy before the games really begin.

This sort of means that he's spending some of his time drifting along the ice in his casual clothes, retrieving stray pucks that miss the mark or bounce off the walls to make sure no one trips over them, apologizing with a friendly "sorry about that!" if he skates into someone's path. As he skates and shoots, his stick taps every now and then to some arbitrary beat he's picked, one that he whistles along with cheerfully.

b. grab bag around the village

The thing about being Sanada Shunpei is that he is a pretty friendly person. Even rival hockey teams get a fairly cheerful opponent when it's off the ice - even if he's prone to maybe taunting/boasting a little, it's just all in good fun, right? But he's definitely one of the people that will get involved in a i. snowball fight - watch your head, he has a mean throw, he could've gone into pro baseball no problem - or other ii. snow shenanigans, like building snowmen or making snow angels.

He's also easy to spot in the iii. cafeteria, since for... some? reason? he's wound up grabbing an entire bunch of bananas. A huge one. That he has to carry under his arm because of its sheer size. If asked, Sanada'll just pat them and explain that it's incentive for a teammate and leave it at that.

Or you can iv. wildcard, he's a social guy.

OPENING CEREMONIES

hinata shouyou - snowboarding ( ota )

fuck you hinata

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