It's a colorful scene. The young ladies wear furisode, the young men wear suits or, for the more traditional, hakama. They mill about, many of the girls exclaiming over each other's hair and robes. Couples have quiet conversations off to the side, sometimes teased by their friends. All of them look their finest, and there's a sense of excitement in the air.

Though a public official, the man chosen to head the coming-of-age-ceremony looks young himself, barely an adult, with blond hair and youthful features. Once the ceremony begins in earnest, his speech is all about growth and renewal: in the environment, in the job market, in the future. A few listen intently, a few look bored, or just eager for the promise of what comes next.

As soon as the ceremony is over, the bright chatter begins again, with high spirits among the new adults as they talk about their plans to go drinking tonight, and when they plan to get their driver's license. A group of girls cluster around Ami, gushing over her looks and chirping for her attention, just as she's always wanted. She responds to them with a careless ease she's never possessed naturally, and though they melt away like the sham they are when someone else approaches, her smile is real.

(ooc: anything goes! feel free to threadjack to hang out with others as well, and feel free to move away from the main part of the dream to do something else to celebrate, or include other rite-of-passage type ideas!)