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?

Comments

『 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.

I am sorry for him, he does this

[monkeyblue]

No.

This thread has been frozen.

They've both made such perfect first impressions

[seasung]

[What? He can't respond anymore...? Hm. Fushimi, more like 'CRABshimi'.

Once Kanata gets settled in and finds out more about how this place works, he'll have to remember to send Crabshimi an real birthday present.]

[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?

[monkeyblue]

It's too sweet.

[sweetdeath]

Okay, now you're just wrong.

Presents then! Everybody likes presents. Even people who're wrong about cake.

[monkeyblue]

Are you always this dumb or is it just because it's Wednesday?

[sweetdeath]

So what's your side of the argument? "I can't be happy anymore because I'm dead"?

[monkeyblue]

You're making assumptions.

[sweetdeath]

You're not answering.

Being dead's not a reason to not celebrate a birthday, not when you're still around. So why don't you want to?

[monkeyblue]

Didn't say that. I'm asking what's the point.

[sweetdeath]

Doing something special for a day. Enjoying yourself.

I guess the cake is optional.

[monkeyblue]

I guess

[sweetdeath]

Being dead's no reason not to enjoy yourself, either, right?

Since we're still around.

[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]

I guess

[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.