Trip Around the Sun (Open)

[lastexit]

WHO: Maya, Open unless otherwise stated
WHAT: Maya's birthday
WHEN: March 2nd
WHERE: All over
NOTES: If you want a specific starter, or wanna plot, hit me up on Discord (purplerakath#9681) or Plurk (Rakath)

Set-Up and Info

Maya hadn't told anyone about her birthday. The reason being she just- didn't feel like celebrating another year on this Earth. Messed up, right? It was just a reminder, to her, of the years some people didn't get. And she didn't feel she deserved to get free stuff.

Not that she didn't like free stuff, it just itched at the back of her mind when it happened now. Family it was different. Friends- well, she couldn't refuse stuff once it was sent. Especially now. So her presents from home were opened as they arrived, Katie's and Mom's gifts arrived on the first. Grace, Miles, and Zoe's gifts arrived a few days ago. Zig and Tiny swear theirs is in the mail, they forgot about customs.

But Maya hadn't really been making a big deal about them, and dismissing the things as just 'some stuff from home' and hiding the cards as best she could. Her school account does list her age, and it did tick up to eighteen that morning. If one pays attention to that sort of thing.

Lumiere Floor 1 Common - Morning (Open)

One of the school golems arrived at Maya's door early in the morning. It had a cake. The container had the markings of being from Honey and Sugar in town. And a note.

Maya, sorry we can't be there today, but we felt cake for breakfast might make it easier for you. - Love Mom & Katie

Maya stuffs the note in her pocket and sets the cake up in the common room. She's indifferent to the lack of text on it, but it's a simple red velvet cake and she has no problem at all cutting herself a slice and serving it to herself in her pajamas, in the common room. Sitting there to eat. Eventually she should make a note about anyone can have cake. But for now she'll just tell people.

...or she'll eat the whole thing. She's fine with either option.

Theater Lenormand (Open)

Maya ditches all her study sessions for the day and spends a great deal of time in one of the practice rooms, with her cello, playing all manner of song to herself. Hours of just letting her cello sing. Most of the songs are melancholy in nature. Although once to amuse herself she does play happy birthday. Just- to say it happened, she supposes.

The door is open, letting the music spread out into the hall for anyone nearby.

Cafe de la Lune (Open)

Maya's writing in her notebook, with a latte next to her that she works on slowly.. This isn't her usual notebook, this isn't for songs and music. She's trying to work out what she wants to learn here. She hadn't really- thought it through past helping people.

So she's working out what sort of tools and magic would improve her power. Make her more useful, less of a burden. Occasionally she just leaves her book open and watches the people. Just- listening to normal people going through their day. Most of them sound so happy and okay with the world.

Please sneak up on this grump while she is distracted.

Hog's Swill - Night (Open)

Listen, it is her birthday she is going to drink a little. Not get drunk. She just wants to drink a little and hustle some pool. Act a little less coordinated than she is, call it a stick thingie, lose a little. Ask them to go easy, it's her birthday.

Then take them for everything they have when they actually bet money. Maya has very simple demands on this day. And this is about the only time during the day she'll fess up to her birthday. So maybe you overhear that.

Comments

[deafleppard]

Makes enough sense to me.

[Although she pauses once she hears the rest.]

Wait, why crickets?

[lastexit]

We're eating so you probably don't wanna know.

*Lumiere Dorm is trouble dorm for a reason.*

I'm hoping today is relatively quiet...

[deafleppard]

Good point.

[Insects and eating food weren't really a good mix.]

You and me both. You'd think anybody looking to start something would be more considerate of students and their studies.

[lastexit]

Oh. Yeah.

*She'd forgotten most people are worried about schoolwork, not Maya's selfish desire to have a quiet birthday where nobody gets hurt. So if she seems a little surprised by this, it's because she is.*

Your powers aren't connected to Peter's right? I mean- you two are old friends but you don't have abilities just cause he does.

[deafleppard]

[The question puts her a little on edge, to be honest.]

We uh, got our powers differently. I can do a few things he can't, but he's way smarter than me.

[For a certain definition of "smart."]

So I guess it evens out.

Why?

[lastexit]

Just- trying to figure out how it works, why some people have friends from their lives before, others don't.

*Maya may be feeling the loneliness of being here on her own. A little. For various reasons.*

I know you two have different abilities. I just- like understanding things.

[deafleppard]

What else do you want to know? I don't really mind, and besides...

[She pauses for a moment.]

It's probably better than actually studying.

[lastexit]

I wanted to give myself the day off from studying anyway. Just going to practice my cello a little today and maybe get my drink on.

*Maya plans her birthday out to avoid responsibility.*

I dunno what I wanna know, I just know what I hear is- different, from you. And you don't seem like magic and weird was always your life? So you and Peter had to stumble into two separate magics for you both to end up here.

Just- how does that happen, given how much emphasis is put on people not knowing magic exists.

[deafleppard]

What exactly have you... heard about me? Maybe we can start from there.

[Gwen is well aware that she had a hell of a first day here. And she's expecting more people to have caught wind about that, given how sociable Peter tends to be.]

[lastexit]

It isn't what I've heard about you, it's what I hear off you.

I hear magic. I also render info about who a person is in the sound they exude. I can hear who people are, basically.

So- yeah, I can hear that its there.