text | from Fushimi

[monkeyblue]

From: Fushimi
Date: October 25th

[Still late at night, but this time his post is signed? He has no shame about spamming the BBS with stuff like this, and anyway it's important.]

Can shinki celebrate their birthdays if they remember them?

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『 Text 』 From Toyotama-hime

[seasung]

I'm still very new here, so it would be 'silly' to act as though I have a real answer for you. But

so long as you focus on celebrating the you of 'now' and not the 'past', shouldn't it be alright?

[monkeyblue]

But we're dead.

[seasung]

Yet still, you 'exist'. I know because I am 'communicating' with you right now.

[monkeyblue]

Drop the airquotes. I'm not asking about philosophy, I'm asking about the logic behind dead amnesiacs celebrating birthdays.

[seasung]

You are being ridiculous, 'Fushimi'. I will have 'no more' of it.

Look, here is a cute fish: 🐟 I will offer it to you as a 'birthday gift', okay? Now it's too late to turn back, since we've already started handing out presents.

[sweetdeath]

I don't see why not.

Even if you don't remember, you could pick a day to be your birthday!

[monkeyblue]

I remember.

But I'm also dead.

[sweetdeath]

Well yeah, me too. Just because you're not getting older doesn't mean you can't celebrate.

[monkeyblue]

Why celebrate a life that's ended?

[sweetdeath]

We're dead, not gone.

Plus, who doesn't want an excuse for cake?

[Action because typing would take him too long and this is important.]

[thevanguard]

[ So he'd snored his way through Saru's last venture onto the Network, but it had been anon anyway, so he probably hadn't missed much. Maybe.

This, though. This was something else entirely.

And the moment he sees the message, he abruptly drops his phone and goes hunting for his partner, bursting out into the room with wide eyes and a loud exclamation. ]

You remembered something?!

[monkeyblue]

Tch. You could knock, you know. What if I was naked?

[He's not. He spins around in his chair with a shrug.]

My fifteenth birthday and the week before it.

[thevanguard]

Then I'd be screaming and throwing something at you, deal with it.

[ He launches himself closer, flopping forward onto the bed on his stomach with an energetic bounce and propping his chin in his hands. ]

Tell me? Well. If you can tell me? Also when's your birthday? That's important.

[monkeyblue]

Tch.

[He is a child. Fushimi turns back to his computer.]

November 7th. I don't think I can tell you about the memory, though. You were the only one in it.

[The only one in the memory of his fifteenth birthday was his best friend.

Not his parents.]

[thevanguard]

[ Pretty sure you knew that already, Saru.

Although he studies Saru thoughtfully as he turns back to his birthday, thinking over those words and trying to decipher anything from them. ]

....Was it a good birthday?

Text, from Shinju

[yoshinocherry]

Absolutely! There's no better excuse to have a party than a birthday, right?

[monkeyblue]

I don't want a party.

[yoshinocherry]

Not even with a couple of close friends? A party doesn't have to be big to be fun, and it's a good way to celebrate! (o˘◡˘o)

[monkeyblue]

Parties are boring and exhausting.

[yoshinocherry]

Even if it's just spending time with your friends and eating good food? 「(°ヘ°) I can get how it might be exhausting, but something like that doesn't sound too boring, I don' think!

From: Kairi

[pure_radiantics]

So what's the verdict?

[She'd completely forgotten about this in her five months.]

[monkeyblue]

This place is obsessed with parties.

[pure_radiantics]

Well you did say 'celebrate' ... what else were you thinking of if not a party?

[monkeyblue]

Acknowledging it?

[pure_radiantics]

Guess we have different ideas of 'celebration' then. That sounds pretty tame, to me. You could at least say, I don't know, taking a personal vacation alone to a new city!