un: nines

[twoaffirmations]

Okay, so this has really been bugging me lately.

Why are there so many coins in the fountain? Not just here, but back home too. Wouldn't that contaminate the water? I mean, I guess it's not very clean to begin with, but still! They don't use Old World currency here, so these coins have to be at least as old as the Sound Eaters. So why? It seems pretty pointless to just throw money away like that.

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un A2

[a2brutus]

It's for luck.

[twoaffirmations]

What? That doesn't make any sense.

[a2brutus]

They don't have to make sense. They're humans.

[twoaffirmations]

Yeah, but that's pushing it. It's counter-intuitive.

un: nishizono

[nishizono]

you make a wish, toss a coin, and allegedly some spirit or deity or god will consider your offering and grant your wish

it's weird

[twoaffirmations]

[See, he knew A2 was wrong. Not that this is much better.]

Humans sure are strange creatures. Has it ever actually, you know, worked?

[nishizono]

[ to be fair tetora doesn't understand half of this either ]

how would i know, i've never tried it
are you gonna try it?

un: liaison.laurel.

[clarius]

It's a tradition from this world, apparently.

When you want to make a wish, you think of it in your head and toss a coin into the water. It's supposed to help make it come true though I've heard different variations of this tradition. I admit, it's kind of strange but charming.

[twoaffirmations]

That sounds a lot like what Tetora said. What are some of the other variations? He said something about gods and deities... Stuff like that.

[clarius]

Oh! I haven't heard of those. I heard of things like you always need to flip the coin with your right arm or for the wish to work you need to do it over your shoulder. Things like that.

I think my favourite version I heard so far involves this famous fountain found in Rome, Italy.

It's called the Trevi Fountain and I've been told you had to throw have to throw three coins into the fountain, not just one. The first coin is to guarantee your return to Rome. The second coin is to ensure a new romance. The third and final coin is to ensure marriage comes out of that romance.

un: kyouken

[justbeingknife]

Whoever runs the fountain collects all the coins people wished on.

[twoaffirmations]

Er... But Tetora said taking the coins is stealing? Do the people who made wishes know about that?

[justbeingknife]

It's not stealin' if ya own the fountain. Then you give it all to orphans or something. Everyone's happy.

There are people that skim coins outta the water illegally, but you're liable to get caught by the cops.

un: witchplz

[delincuente]

you mean you don't know about coinfish

[twoaffirmations]

Coinfish?

[delincuente]

yeah
fish that look like coins
they just sit in the bottom of fountains and you make wishes on them

[Sorry, Alex is a professional bullshitter. Minus the professional part.]

un: MadMax

[beyourzoomer]

Yeah it's this weird thing where people believe if you toss a coin in a fountain or a wishing well and you make a wish, it'll come true.

[twoaffirmations]

I noticed a lot of you humans call it weird. If you know it's weird, how come you do it anyway?

[beyourzoomer]

Wishing for shit that'll never happen, or using coins to do it? I don't bother with either.

[She saves her money for the arcade instead of throwing it away.]

un: nameless

[historyrabbit]

[Lavi has...something different to "contribute" to this.] Question, if you still have the coins, anyway. What's the earliest and latest year stamped on the coins if they have a stamped year on them?

[twoaffirmations]

Uhh... That's a lot of coins to look through. Most of them are pretty dingy, but the dates I did see were inconsistent.

[historyrabbit]

If I can take a glance at them, I can probably find them. [No probably, a definitely.] Are you able to take pictures of them? Or can I see them?

[a2brutus]

I told you so.

[twoaffirmations]

You said it was for luck, not wishes.

[a2brutus]

It's the same damn thing.