victory_road | video | i got a pair of wings for my birthday

[ Annie has damp hair she's wearing in a braid draped over her shoulder, sitting next to Krieg at a wood table, water glasses and what might be alcohol in frosted glasses before them. They're both facing the camera. Annie isn't smiling, but she's holding her one hand up making a victory sign in the least enthused manner ever. ]

Puck, just take the photograph already.

[ Krieg, bemasked as always although presumably?? Also drinking?? Is a little more into this whole photo session than Annie - he leans in next to his buddy and also flashes a victory sign...behind her head. Classic. ]

You gotta say "CHEESE", Honeyshine!

[ She starts frowning, eyes slanting to look askance up at him. ]

Why the hell would I shout cheese—

[ She's cut off as the sound of singing begins, a cupcake with a candle burning brightly in the middle being placed down in front of her. Puck shifts the camera to show the serving staff gathered behind the two diners, everyone smiling as brightly as the candle burns. Happy Birthday to you~ Annie is almost cut out of the frame, but what can still be seen of her face has her eyes going from blinking down at the cupcake, to wide open with the whites showing. What the legitimate fuck?! ]

Because when you say it you smile! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!!

[ The servers finish the song with a loud, “Happy 18th Birthday, Annie!” which anyone who knows she just turned 17, actually, might tip off about why she has a beer. Annie has hunched her shoulders, and the camera's starting to shake as Puck laughs silently. Annie gives Krieg a flat look, plucks the still burning candle out of the cupcake, and without a hitch in her movements, shoves the pretty, frosted cupcake into his masked face.

And blows out her candle. ]

Happy birthday yourself.

[ Krieg, his mask now caked in confectionery, just laughs. ]

PffffmnahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[ The video ends as a small, barely there smile curls her lips up at the corners while he laughs and the servers look on in slightly distressed confusion. ]

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You're not finding a few like that here and there, on this world?

There are. But... part of me always expects something to go wrong. Like prom.

You are, or were, a soldier. Or whatever term you prefer. I don't think anyone whose been there and loved through anything like war ever fully learns to relax again. Something already might go wrong. Sometimes we're even right about that.

Edited 2019-03-27 01:57 (UTC)

[Well. Never say talking to Annie didn't go anywhere strange. Or somber. Because this sure did. It sure goes against what he's been striving for. Hoping for.]

You really don't believe it's possible?

No. I think we cope. I think with time and support, we're even happy. But I don't think we ever fully come back. We're never who we were before. We change, and I think part of that change is learning a new way to live with all the people who've never had to do or see the things we have.

[We're never who we were before]

No matter what we want, huh?

[What if that's all you wanted? Just the chance. The potential. To be Shiro, when all that's left is the Kerberos Pilot, the Champion? The Black Paladin?]

No matter what we want. We've changed. There's no undoing that... there's just continuing to change and adapt.

For what it's worth, all I know is the person you are after all those things in your life. And you're not a shitty asshole. So there's that.

[ this is someone who will never, ever, ever be asked to give a peptalk. ever. ]

I appreciate that.

[Even if it wasn't entirely what he was concerned about to begin with. But oh well. It's... something.]

Anyway Happy birthday. I know I already said so, but. One more time can't hurt.

Thanks.

... When's yours?

Doesn't technically exist

[Shiro you shit.]

[ LMFAO does AoT even have leap years ]

I see. So you're not technically old enough to drink. Poor man. I'll pour one out for Krieg in your honour, Sugar.

Technically, I'm only six years old So no, drinking is a terrible idea for me

Juice and water only from here on out.

[ everyone is shits in this conversation asdfjk. ]

Share the tall genes, kid. You're six and looming over the population, I'm three times your age and can't see anything. This is cruel and unfair. Like life, and like plastic window jeans.

I followed you up until the "plastic window jeans". Is that a thing?

They exist. If they're a thing or not is something I'm purposefully unaware of. They just strike me as being cruel and unfair to knees everywhere, and the concept of clothing.

In that case, anyone who wears those is not allowed to question my clothing choices ever again.

I don't feel like they should be allowed to question anyone's clothing choices. Maybe their own?

[Annie, this is the guy with the oshawott shirt that says "OTTER SPACE".]

Yeah, that sounds fair. Just their own.

[ is there something wrong with that shirt other than it's corniness, her height of fashion is hiding in sweatshirts ]

Though maybe the one who came up with the idea is the one who wears them. You could at least admire that follow through.

[Hiding in sweatshirts is perfect fashion.]

Yeah, I guess we have to give them that much, huh?

If we're feeling kind.

Off topic, but have you had to deal with any of these new Pokemon that showed up after the crash? Krieg mentioned them to me and showed me the articles.

Yeah, I have. One of them attached itself to Kuro. And now he and Yellow are looking after it.

They do seem more comfortable with other Pokemon than people. One more surprise after coming out of the woods, I guess.

Well, if a human was responsible for what happened to these guys, it doesn't surprise me they're more comfortable with other pokemon.

With the plane involved, humans would have been, though if it's a reaction to the crash or earlier treatment, the response would likely be the same.

I'm more curious about the region getting opened to air traffic to other parts of the world, one day.

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