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Envy ([personal profile] exeggutorhead) wrote in [community profile] victory_road2016-11-05 10:12 pm

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[Another year in Johto a month ago...and now, another birthday. Which is a strange thing to think about. Up until a few years ago, he hadn't even known the date of his own birth, hadn't even thought to wonder what it was. Back in Amestris, a homunculus' birth isn't something that anybody really wants to remember or celebrate, after all. But here? People have found it out, wheedled it out of him...people have remembered it, asked after it, thought that the fact that Envy was born was something important.]

[And for two years now, he's awkwardly accepted the couple of gifts and the well wishes he's gotten, but it had still felt strange to even acknowledge. But now, the third year he's known about the day...it feels a little more natural. He actually remembers what day it is without being reminded, and if any of his patched together little family brings it up, or does something for the occasion?]

[Well, maybe this year he'll react a little less like a cat who's just encountered a vacuum cleaner for the first time.]


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Hey, I've got a question for anyone who feels like answering. When you do things for somebody's birthday, what is it that you're celebrating about them? Is it that they managed to survive an extra year or that they were born in the first place or just because parties are fun or what?

What is it about a birthday that makes it something important?
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[personal profile] toothaches 2016-11-06 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
i think its how people say theyre glad some1 is in ther life

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foolishwren: me: *makes fun of the typo, repeats the typo for the next ten minutes straight, makes puns based on the typo, names my firstborn after the typo* (friend: *makes a typo*)

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[personal profile] foolishwren 2016-11-06 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Hey hey heyyyy!

[As soon as Envy's done posting his deep philosophical birthday questions to the network, the obligatory Funny Voice (tm) happens behind him and then a couple of arms snake around his middle and do that obnoxious thing where she picks him up but only like an inch off the ground.]

It's the birthday boy!

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[personal profile] shiro2hero 2016-11-06 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
It depends on the person. Sometimes people just want to take the day and have fun, and other people don't want to celebrate at all.

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[personal profile] cardboard_boss 2016-11-06 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
We celebrate someone's birthday because they're a year older. Some would say wiser. A lot of people have strong memories and experiences over their life. We celebrate that they're still alive and able to share those experiences with others.

[Maybe some of Kaz was rubbing off on him, since he didn't usually get sentimental about birthdays or talk so much.]

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[personal profile] meowbel 2016-11-06 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[And you just crawled right up into Mabel's terrority! Watch out Envy]

It's all of the above! Sure, it kind of sucks that you're another year older but you gets lot and lots of presents! Oh and cake! You definitely can't forget that!

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[This whole birthday thing is still rather new. But Lust has come to appreciate the symbolism of it. She still remembers they very long and passionate conversation she and York had on the whole subject.]

[And when Envy's rolls around - nearly forgotten, because she can barely even keep track of her own and they fall so closely together - she has to acknowledge it. He's her brother. As much a brother as if they'd been born to the same families.]

[And because it is Envy, she goes to a little extra effort to tailor her 'gift' to him. So at one point, when Lust finds him in the kitchen, she sets out on the table a terrible looking homemade cake.]


Happy birthday.

[And doesn't she look so proudly pleased of her atrocity?]

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[personal profile] veggie_vamp 2016-11-06 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Parties are always awesome, but birthdays are like - OH MY GHOUL, YOU EXIST??? That's SO COOL! You celebrate that this person is, like, there!

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[personal profile] schachmeister 2016-11-06 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I always felt birthdays are a good time for reminding people how grateful you are that they are in your life. You never know when they might be gone, after all.

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If you find out, let me know.

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[personal profile] cyan_maid 2016-11-06 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh.
You know, I've never actually sat down to think about it.
But personally, I believe a birthday is an excuse to celebrate the person in question - so probably the fact that they were born at all.
And it's important because of the person who was born, and their relation to their friends and family. If someone's my friend, I'm happy to celebrate the fact that they exist.

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[personal profile] heartdive 2016-11-07 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
i guess it kinda is all of that. parties are fun sure but the most important thing is that you're celebrating the day that they came into the world. it's about how important their life is to yours.

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[personal profile] bloodisthicker 2016-11-07 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
You know... I never really thought about it that way. Then again, people who have done things that make them worth remembering to history occasionally have festivals in their honor, so really, it seems like a smaller scale version of that.

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[Alphonse hadn't known the significance of the day--he's only had about one year of living in the house altogether, and the first chunk of that had involved Envy and Al acting like territorial cats at one another. Trading birthdays had not been high on the list of priorities.]

[But he is observant, and when he hears the well-wishes from around corners he feels...weirdly bad about not having anything ready for his half-brother. Which is why later in the day, Envy will find a cupcake on a paper plate just outside his bedroom, with a glass bowl turned upside down over it as protection from the Pokemon. It's had the frosting all scraped off, but at least it's Funfetti flavor, right?]

[A little while after that, he responds to the post.]

I guess it can be all of those things, or other things, too. Being glad they're in your life and having an excuse to spoil them, or letting them know you're important to them.

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[personal profile] bertall 2016-11-11 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
I think for me it's always the first two, but if I had to choose only one, I think it'd be them being born? People... don't live for very long where I'm from, so you couldn't really celebrate their life or memory if they never existed in the first place.

It's... also really nice to see them happy on their birthday.

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you know theres only one reason people ask these sort of questions
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[Guess what time it is, Envy.]

[It's birthday time.]

[Henry hunts down his long-haired best friend like a drowsy shark with a brightly colored bag clenched in its fins. Once he locates him, the horror protag who has been more or less all blood and rust up until this point tugs a small plastic kazoo out of his shirt pocket and toots a fanfare on it.]


Happy birthday, Envy.

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