[open] It's a (very belated) birthday log!

[queenofminiskirts]

WHO: Kaoru, Shiho and friends
WHERE: Town hall
WHEN: Last week of February
WHAT: It's Shiho's birthday
WARNINGS: None probably.

I: Food!

[What is a party without food? Kaoru can't cook but she happens to know people who can! There's even a cake! She may have borrowed a table from another house for the purpose of keeping the food.

Though, oddly enough, there's also a small card (all of them different colour and sizes, some of them looked like they'd been gently folded then ripped along the fold) beside each dish with a number on it. There's also a list (all handwritten in pink), with the same numbers all listed on one side and lines beside it like something you should fill out.

On the top it says: Guess Who Made This Dish!

Are you here to play or are you just here to eat?]


II: Games!

[There is a hastily written sign on one side that says: NO DANCING.

But every party needs entertainment so beside there is a sign with game suggestions like: Truth or Dare, Never Have I Ever...or maybe you'd like to take your list from the food table and see if you got more correct than the person beside you!]

Comments

[pyrafect]

[ Haha, she feels satisfied getting this answer out of him at least! But she's rather sad to hear that he doesn't want his birth to be celebrated? Well, maybe that means she'll just have to do something small and special just for him. If and when his birthday actually does happen....


In any case: ] Truth. [ Hey, might as well make it even. ]

[shizun]

[ Does she know what's coming! She should!

He offers his warmest smile. ]

When is your birthday?

[pyrafect]

Funny you should ask, I don't remember it.

[ :>




No, really, she doesn't. Also technically she was never born from anyone so, uh, yeah. ]

[shizun]

[ .............. ]

Are you having a go at me?

[ Tit for tat, as it were. ]

[pyrafect]

Eh? Oh, no no... It's... [ She raises a hand to twirl a strand of hair around a finger, her smile sheepish. ] not a matter of having to wait to recall it because--.... I honestly don't remember.

That's the truth.

Sorry, that's not really exciting-- would you like to use your turn for a different truth?

[shizun]

[ He feels his throat constrict a little.

His head slightly tilts as he comes up with an idea, and nods at wanting to ask for a different truth. ]

Would you like a birthday?

[pyrafect]

[ ...Is that where he's going with this? She looks at him in surprise. ] Can you.... can you just choose a birthday?

[ That's not how it works, she's pretty sure! ]

[shizun]

You can't remember when it is.

[ A fond smile touches his lips. ]

Who is to say that the date you choose for yourself is not actually the right one, ah? If it calls to you, perhaps, that has been it all along. So... go ahead and choose.

[pyrafect]

[ She suddenly seems very--.... embarrassed about all of this. Who is she to choose her own birthday at another person's birthday?

Ah, well, but he asked, so... ]

Oh, but birthdays are important, aren't they? [ Hggggggggggggggggggggggrrrrrrr..... ] Maybe.. Maybe...

[ Give her a moment, she has to think of a date.



The day of her awakening would be the most appropriate date for something like a birthday. And, gosh, when had that been? In the spring sometime, because she remembers there had been flowers, she remembers that the cherry blossoms in Uraya had been in full bloom back then, turning the interior of the Titan a pallet of twilight-pinks.... ]

Sometime in spring, would be nice. When there are flowers... [ so fucking shoujo ] Maybe late April... or early May?

[shizun]

[ Please don't ask that of me, Pyra. I'm afraid I'd have to say that it's another day if I'm going to be honest. Didn't I say I stopped celebrating mine?

He instead just keeps smiling as he sees that she's really thinking about it. ]

Let's have it be late April. While you like more time to plan these events, I like the idea of being able to celebrate your first birthday with you as soon as possible.

[ Maybe not the best thing to say at someone else's party, but it's fun, right? It's fun to talk on things for the future. Ah. It will be, eh? And certainly, there is a chance that Pyra may disappear from this place, so he feels a little itchy and anxious.

A memory like that... I don't want you to leave here without it. ]

[pyrafect]

[ He wants to celebrate her birthday with her? How kind of him to say that; his words bring her out of her thoughts, earning him a warm smile... if a bit shier than usual, because she realizes that fretting over an actual date is probably a childish thing to do.

Guess she'll just have to pick a date! ] Late April.... April 20th. [ Yeah, that's a good day, she thinks. A nice, solid, even number.

But, oh, goodness, that is coming up sooner than she'd think!

She reminds him gently with that in mind: ] But... we're still planning a wedding, you know. It'll be okay, if there is no time for my own birthday.

1/2

[shizun]

[ April, huh? The 20th of the 4th month.

He opens up his mouth. 420. Blaze it. His mouth shuts. What is he supposed to say? Pyra! NO! She looks so sincere and happy about having chosen the date for herself that he's at a complete and utter loss.

My experiences are not universal. So. It's fine. ]

[shizun]

[ And we're back1 ]

It will not be okay if there is no time. [ Fuck that! A person can't do so much for everyone and not be rewarded a little for it. He hates those kind of stories. He hates them and won't let that be Pyra's story. ]

There will be time for your birthday. This teacher will not allow it to go uncelebrated.

1/2

[pyrafect]

[ ....

This teacher will not allow it to go uncelebrated.

Her eyes widen for a moment as she looks at him, bringing a hand up to her mouth, and... ]

[pyrafect]

.......Such a serious expression you're wearing, when you're saying that sort of thing.

[ She can't help the giggles that escape her.

Okay, sure, his expression is almost of a stoic's, controlled and calm... but she's come to see different levels of seriousness from him. Minute differences, subtle quirks, that sort of thing. Nothing that she can effectively read beyond his expression itself, but it is rather funny to think about someone promising to plan a celebration looking as their life depended on it! ]

[shizun]

[ I suppose that it is something to laugh about! If I said the reason why I'm so adamant, I think that'd bring down the mood.

He lightly scratches the back of his neck, before he smiles in gentle, soft fashion. Don't leave here without that memory. I'm someone who hated big festivities related to me, but you haven't had a chance to experience them to know that you hate them. With that in mind, he has to make it a bit of a loud mess, doesn't he? ]

Because I am feeling very serious. So, I hope that you're prepared.

[pyrafect]

[ ...A smile from him. Better.

“Prepared”?? ]

Now you make it sound as if I’m going to have to get ready for battle! [ She’s only joking around, however. ]

But alright, alright, your turn, Shen Qingqiu. Truth or dare?

[shizun]

The battle of being adored.

[ Which can be tiring in and of itself! ]

Dare? [ If I trip over anymore truths, I'm really going to feel bad!! ]

[pyrafect]

[ Ah, he's making it sound like a lot of people here do care for her...

Has she been blind to how many do, perhaps? Or how much? She supposes that it's.. nice to be reassured that others do care for her. "Adore" her, as he says. But moving on-- ]

Do you know Lord Berkut? I dare you to give your best impression of him.

[ If he doesn't she'll tell him about Berkut!! ]

1/2

[shizun]

[ His eyes widen before softening. ]

You've met Prince Berkut. [ He cannot help but smile; it's good that the prince is able to meet more people that will be his friend. He has no doubt that Pyra extended her hand in friendship to him, as well. ]

But ... I'll do my best.

[ Impression of Berkut, huh? ]

[shizun]

[ Time to put on his most serious of expressions. Really, the prince could stand to smile a lot more!

What about the most memorable line! Yes, the line that had me decide the two of us were Oven-bros. That is to say that Shen Qingqiu told Berkut to throw a puppet witch into an oven and the prince calmly and elegantly murdered the puppet. HA! Calmly and elegantly. It was more like: ]

Die, worm!

1/2

[pyrafect]

[ ---Oooh, she can actually feel that glare as if it were Berkut standing right in front of her! What a cold stare, like he truly feels she's less than the scum on his boots! ]

[pyrafect]

[ And then she laughs, clapping her hands. ]

Oh, my...

If I didn't know better, I'd say you had a lot of practice glaring like that! Bravo!

[shizun]

Thank you.

[ He bows slightly. ]

This humble one can't always be the aloof, cold cultivator. Sometimes, a person can only learn what is right and wrong through force. [ Sometimes, you just gotta beat someone's ass into the ground. ]

But also, it helps against disciples that are out causing trouble.

[pyrafect]

[ Oooooh ]

Ehh? You have troublemaker disciples under your wing? [ That... that actually probably makes for a hilarious scene. Of course she's picturing something like him at the front of a lecture hall and students tossing paper airplanes in the back, which is probably completely inaccurate. ] I would have guessed they wouldn't even dare!