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victory_road2016-11-05 10:12 pm
exeggutorhead) wrote in 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?
[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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Cake and presents I can get behind. especially chocolate cake.
although I guess when you're my age the actual year older part starts to matter less
I'm not actually sure EXACTLY how old I am, I just round up
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Whoever said that is way too serious for their own good and need to lighten up!
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would you believe me if I said I'm almost four hundred today? like I said, I don't remember the exact year, but I'm getting closer. maybe 394.
but I've only gotten to actually celebrate three of them, so I like to now that I can
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Oh, we gotta make sure you get the biggest and most awesomest party ever! Especially when it's only your fourth! Quick, we need to find someone that can make you the tallest cake ever!
We gotta make sure we can fit all those candles on there!
text Sorry for the delay!
I don't know that there's any cake big enough for that many candles
you don't need to go throwing me a party, I mean you don't even know me that well
text Same here!
So? It's your birthday, you definitely deserve a party! And besides, if we can't find anyone, I'll just make the giant cake myself!
How hard can it be?
[Do you really want to ask, Mabel?]