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[ open ] birthday time!

WHO: Marcille, Ryoji, and YOU!
WHAT: A party for the April (and May) birthdays!
WHERE: LILICO Game Center in Akihabara
WHEN: April 20th
WARNINGS: TBA

No matter who you are, you receive a text early in the morning from Ryoji (

memors):

Good morning! Did you know it's a special someone's birthday today? Actually, we have several birthdays to celebrate, so join us today at the LILICO Game Center! There will be cake! Lots and *lots* of cake. Hope to see you there!

This is an open log, so feel free to tag out or top level or respond to the prompts below. Have fun!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Wriothesley, answer me honestly.

[ she's sitting straighter. ]

Do I look like an activist to you?

[ this is relevant promise ]

[ He's sitting here thinking deeply about how Malkuth ripped into Yuwon for answering her question wrong. ]

[ Smoothly: ]

Why don't I let you tell me instead?

[ SLAPPING her hand on the surface so hard her drink trembles. ]

Because I'm asking you, Wriothesley! Does no man here have an opinion of their own?! Do you think someone would look at me and think I'm an activist? Yes or no! It isn't a hard question!

[ sorry. ]

[ Don't worry, he is sitting very calmly throughout her table abuse. ]

Do you always act like this when you don't get the answer you want, Malkuth?

[ ...

slouching a little, rubbing her hand. her drink sure is interesting. ]

No. Only if I don't get an answer at all, really... I'm not gonna be offended either way, though I have been turned away from the more affluent restaurants when I asked. In a world of mostly processed meats, they don't come cheap, you know?

[ so they're protective of their sources, legal or not. no word for the young miss that is seeking a few pets. ]

[ Government-assigned animal rights activist Malkuth Library of Ruina....

He does, however, appreciate the tempering of her emotions, and takes a sip of his cider once the reverb has worked itself out of the bar counter. ]

Sounds like it's time to recruit a friend to help out. [ Not him though, they'd just call the police on him. ] But to answer your question, you do seem like you could be some sort of animal activist. Sorry.

[ Said with an apologetic smile. It's the white girl energy she radiates. ]

[ it really is. she looked at one of the most powerful weapons in human form from her city and went "but he's just so sad" like a white woman might do a coyote. ]

Figures. I'll bring Ryoji next time and say that my fiancée wants to surprise his soon to be mother-in-law with a pair of fresh birds for his chef to cook up. What do you think?

[ .............Give him a sec to stare at her over his glass. ]

Specifically fiancee.

It's got more weight to it than just boyfriend, right? They'll be happy to help out a pair of lovebirds.

[ she doesn't see a problem with it... ryoji can probably keep up. this won't be embarrassing. sipping her own drink... ]

[ Why is it always fake dating.....? After his own fake dating experiences he's of the mind that he never wants to engage in any sort of couple-themed espionage again. Archons forbid he catch feelings for another person.

But voluntary fake dating is probably better than government-mandated fake dating, so he merely offers up a nod. ]

Best of luck to you two then on procuring your prize waterfowl.

[ Though, while they're on the subject: ]

Did Vergilius ever speak to you?

[ it's fine. she can't catch feelings she already has (?).

at the topic change her face colors though, and she siiiiiiips at her drink. does. does everyone know. what is with this. why is he asking. did vergilius spill in his drunken fervor. he must hate himself. ]

Yeah. March gave him a real talking to, and he ended up coming over later on to apologize. It was much appreciated.

[ toooooooooo say the least about that particular encounter! ]

[ Sometimes you get drunk and make Mistakes and this why Wriothesley has chosen never to overimbibe on alcohol again. But also: sasuga March. ]

I see. [ Please hold while he mirrors her and also takes a sip of his drink. ] I'm glad the two of you were able to resolve matters.

[ That's it, that's the extent of his nosiness. ]

[ ... ]

Your discretion is one of my favorite things about you.

[ just so he knows. okay. ]

Would you call your life particularly exciting, Wriothesley? Here, back home...

Exciting....?

[ What a sudden question out of nowhere. But that seems to be standard fare with Malkuth so he settles into his seat, fingers resting against the cool glass of his drink as he mulls over the question.

A lot of it would be exciting, to anyone else. The act of murdering his parents at a young age, his public trial put on for everyone to see, the coup he'd planned and then put into action while hundreds of meters under the ocean. But all of those events are ugly things, not exactly stories to mention in polite company. (Even if Malkuth had talked a little about her own Library way back when.)

Hmmmm.... ]

No more than anyone else's here, I'd say. [ This is probably true. ] I suppose I did almost dissolve into water once, but I hear that's not unheard of in the City you're from.

[ Thanks, Ishmael. ]

Oh, really? I don't think I've had anyone under my guidance dissolve into water before, but I've had them ground up into a meat paste while their bodies produced music beyond imagination.

[ which, obviously, is worse and definitely not dinner talk, but it's fine. people in the city have such interesting experiences... ]

I was just wondering... because this month has been more eventful than a single day in my entire life, and if a normal person deals with this on a regular basis, I don't think I'm cut out for living a normal life.

[ Oh?? That's an interesting way to phrase things. ]

Did something happen outside of this birthday celebration? [ So sorry bestie, he has not been keeping up with her life. ]

[ no, please don't keep up with it. march keeps enough up with it. she's exhausted. ]

Enough that I'd need an unwise second drink to really get into it. [ light but resigned.

a wave of her hand. ] It's... all dealt with now, so I'm sort of hoping nothing happens for the rest of the month and I can just coast by. But in a few words, I'm quite the wanted woman.

[ which is! an absolute surprise to herself! her? her? really? her? crazy. ]

[ Is it really a surprise though?? She's really out socializing and making friends with (almost) everyone she meets and being kind and welcoming when half these people have never had a kind word said to them in their life. That's what he thinks, anyway.

But he does not say any of that, opting instead to simply nod along. It's all dealt with, she said, so there's no point digging back into it now. ]

Should I be putting up posters with your bounty on them?

[ A joke so bad it didn't even land. ]

More seriously [ not actually serious ] have you considered locking yourself in your room and not coming out for a month?

[ it is!!!!!!! it's as much of a surprise to her as ishmael being dubbed hottest woman would be to ishmael!!!!!! ]

Only if you've got those cuffs of yours on you.

[ she hasn't forgotten them. that meme inquiry... neither of these are serious considerations to her, let her have a little fun. ]

And... Kaito can use portals, so he'd just kidnap me out of my room anyway. Him and March would worry too much about me if I did that. I just need to stop sticking my nose into other people's business.

[ challenge: impossible ]

[ Immediately: ]

I always have my cuffs on me.

[ Why? Moving on. Don't mind him as one eyebrow lifts halfway up his forehead at that assertion. ]

No offense, Malkuth, but I'm not sure you could do that if you tried.

[ ............. why.......... no go back.......... can we address that? why............ she's not so discreetly going to look for them. even as she replies. ]

None taken, I've had worse things said about me. [ moving on. ] But I can at least try, can't I? I think that might be what's gotten me into the most "trouble", if you can call it that.

[ making sure they have at least one friend... a kind word... welcoming in ways they might not have had before... she just needs to stop being so that. ]

[ Don't worry, they're just hanging off his belt. Because.........................why? Don't worry about it. ]

Your highly eventful month, you mean?

[ hm............. maybe to quickly cuff any rough-housers. how responsible of him!!! back up she goes. ]

My highly eventful month. It's not hard to believe that not a single person ever looked my way back home, right? I mean, to my knowledge.

[ ................

which is

okay she isn't the Sharpest tool in the shed, especially that way, but, ]

It didn't bother me, [ it did but take her at face value for now, ] but it's made me feel out of my depth here. Or maybe it was just the timing.

[ Hmmm.....Give him a moment to mull this other. ]

You're an attractive and smart young woman. I doubt there wasn't a single person that had some sort of interest in you. [ Romantically, that is. ] But given what you've told me about your previous occupation and the priorities of your coworkers, I can only assume that there were bigger fish in the sea they needed to worry about.

[ So....not her fault! But also probably not the greatest feeling. That's his view on things, anyway. ]

Meanwhile, most of us here have more freedom and less direction than perhaps what we're used to, so it's only natural to start exploring previously unconsidered options.

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