While Lunar New Year was one of the big events in February, because of how it tends to "shift around" a lot, there were other things happening at the same time that were a bit more predictable, such as Valentine's Day. While Lunar New Year was still going on, there were things tied to Valentine's Day going on as well, as well as a few other things that were neither good nor bad.
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Heiya Island was not only celebrating Lunar New Year in its own, mostly traditional, way but was dealing with a few new things as well. The most well-known, due to proximity, was that China had recently enacted a policy against "girly men", but while this was considered a serious Human Rights infringement, Ammy was one who knew that the policy was due to China seeking a scapegoat during an economic crisis of their own. Because of it, however, a lot of homosexuals were moving into Heiya Island, some less willingly than others, no doubt because of false claims that continued to circulate that the Animalia Virus was a cure for homosexuality, despite repeated attempts to say that that wasn't exactly how that worked.
Not that Ammy was going to turn them away. She and her council had been planning a few farming villages to deal with the recent population influx and this was good progress towards that goal, but she didn't really like the idea of China shipping "undesirable homosexuals" which was not what Heiya Island, and Animalia in general, was about.
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Samurai Prep, as the Heiya Island branch of WSA was known, was a good way to experience, and adapt, western holidays to a more Asian theme, and Valentine's Day was no exception. While most were able to enjoy most aspects of Valentine's Day, such as the candies and art projects, there were a few things that were only available to upper classmen and/or double dosed Animalians, such as "Kama Sutra" classes, though nobody really knew who gave them that nickname.
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Another thing that was going on in Animalia in general were the half-price conversions for couples in honor of Valentine's Day, even though roughly 3 to 6% were of homosexual couples, though their awakening heterosexuality was a bit less of a surprise now than it was when it was first discovered.
Speaking of conversions, Morgan's rabbit conversion had gone better than anyone anticipated. While she did get into a snit over being a rabbit instead of what she wanted, all it took was a predator Animalian growling at her to scare her into submission, at least for a little while. As part of her assigned punishment, that she didn't quite know about yet, Joanne and Nicole had offered her a job as a domestic servant, which she wasn't too happy about but accepted. There were plenty on the staff who were looking forward to Morgan's first punishment, especially Lars.