daybreakacademy | Trip Around the Sun (Open)

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Trip Around the Sun (Open)

WHO: Maya, Open unless otherwise stated
WHAT: Maya's birthday
WHEN: March 2nd
WHERE: All over
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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.

Threaded | Flat

Fakir was passing through to practice when he heard the sound of a cello. He pulls the buds out of his ears to hear better as he curiously peek in to see who was playing - ah, it's that girl from the bakery.

The young man decided not to bother her, and goes to leave when his earphone's cords catches on the door handle.

"Auugh?!" He jerks back as the remaining bud rips out of his ear, catching himself before he falls off balance.

[Maverick doesn't normally go out after work, since he's tired from closing up the small restaurant he works at, but it was a pretty easy night, all things considered, and it wasn't like he was getting to sleep easily these days. He has energy left to stop and unwind. Maybe it'll help. And maybe if it doesn't, he won't remember it. Depends where the night takes him!

He becomes increasingly dissatisfied with this plan the more steps he takes into the establishment. And there's...that one chick. Playing pool -- he was garbage at pool even though Ramona could play it well enough, because he couldn't always see the numbers and he had too hard of a time telling certain ones apart, and because he didn't have a good eye for those things. He does have a fond memory of whacking someone in the back of the neck with the stick, though. That was a good pool memory.

...Her birthday, huh. He isn't sure he quite believes that, but he owes her, anyway. During one of the lulls in her hustling, Maverick goes over and hops up to sit on the edge of the table.]

Hey, porcelain -- you're starting to look too sharp, we gotta top you off. What d'you drink?

[Gwen had found a spot to herself in the common room, mostly just to study. Or... to make it look like she was studying. Actually, she was just listening to music with her textbook open.

And every now and again she would turn the page.

It was only when Maya set the cake down that she took out her earbuds.]

I accept your offering.

Yuya's voice carries down the hall as he heads for the common room, poking his head inside.

"Gongenzaka, are you--? Oh." He pauses when he sees Maya, looking between her and the cake. Since her admission she was avoiding him on the field trip, Yuya's been mindful about keeping space between the two of them. But she's Gongenzaka's roommate, so it's impossible for him to never see it.

He looks at the cake again, a little curious.

"... Hi. Did Gongenzaka already leave the dorm?"

Toki can't sneak up on anybody, and Maya probably 'hears' him the second he enters the cafe. After obtaining some coffee, he looks for a place to sit. It's a little crowded, but there's an empty chair at Maya's table just waiting for him, so that's where he goes. He sits without invitation.

"Maya~! Hello~! How are you~!?"

Maya was standing in the Floor 1 Common in some work-out clothes, on a yoga mat, with her baton. She couldn't do a full training session here (that'd be rude to her floormates), but she could just- work on getting the baton to extend when she wanted it to.

She got it most of the time, but it wasn't all of the time. Which is really where she needed to be if she was going to do anything to really help, right?

Maya was, however, in better spirits. Some things had just been working out well, she had a plan (half of a plan), she's started opening up a bit more (sometimes), some good things were happening around her. One being a change she noticed in Ms. Rivera's sound, which made Maya smile just a bit every time she saw her.

But that wasn't the topic right now, right now she had a baton to extend and collapse over and over. In the common room. Where anyone could just walk in.

Threaded | Flat

Theater

hog's swill

Common Room

Common Room

Cafe de la Lune

[Closed] [Not on March 2nd, later than that] - Imelda