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[ofexperience]

Who: V and you! (Featuring one closed prompt and one general mingle prompt)
What: Reira's birthday! And then V in the library in the coming days being a nerd
When: First three prompts are October 10th and October 12th, the last is throughout the month
Where: On the network, Lum 3's common room, the library
Warnings: Shouldn't be any!

Cake Time! (Oct. 10th, Closed to Hieke)
[Reira's birthday... according to the files he's seen, it's coming up within a couple of days. Of course he's going to try to do something for her, and... well, he's got an idea, at least, for what can be done for the cake. When he thinks back to that one meeting...]

Hieke, may I ask you a favor?

An Invitation (Oct. 10th, UN: Ahania)
[And now the next part of his plan... Well, that's when he encounters a bit of a problem: he actually has no idea who Reira's friends are at this school. So... network it is.]

For those of you that are friends with Reira, her birthday is on the 12th. There will be a small get-together on floor three of the Lumière dorm for those who wish to celebrate with her.

Party Like It's Your Birthday (Oct. 12th)
[It... is in fact a small get-together, set up in the common room of Lum's third floor (though hopefully not spilling into any pumpkin carving going on that day). There's a cake, some soda, and V there with Reira. Come tell the birthday girl happy birthday!

OOC: Feel free to treat this as a general mingle prompt! V will be around to interact with people, but most of the focus is supposed to be on Reira since it's her birthday!!]

And Back to the Books
[Throughout the month, when birthday preparations aren't being made, V's mostly going to be found in his main haunt around the school--the library. He's largely focused on his reading or gathering books to go back to reading, but he'll greet anyone who approaches him.]

Comments

cake;

[inflictwounds]

[It's not often Hieke gets texts asking him for favors, so he's just curious enough to be on board.]

Of course. What do you need?

[ofexperience]

Reira's birthday is coming up and I was wondering if you could help me with a cake for her.

[Straight to the point...]

[inflictwounds]

[Well, at least the mystery is solved quickly.]

Oh, sure. Do you have any idea what kind of cake?

un: ornithology

[hawkwardness]

I've met her. Do you think I should go?

[How do birthday parties work...]

[ofexperience]

Absolutely. The more the merrier.

[It's not going to be much of a party but it'll be something...]

[hawkwardness]

Okay. What do you think she likes? I don't have any money, but I can try to figure something out.

[ofexperience]

Not especially. She's just fond of sweets in general...

[ofexperience]

She's fond of animals, but also of floral things, I've noticed.

[hawkwardness]

Flowers it is. Cool. See you there.

OTA PARTY TIME!!

[soft_focus]

[Birthday?? Birthday. Reira's never experienced a birthday. She's vaguely, of course, heard about them by this point but somehow it didn't occur to her that a birthday is in fact what she could Have.

It's all quite the shock and she's sort of been looking at everything in a daze of wonder as she goes. It's not even that much to take in. She has good cake. She has good sugary fizz soda drink. There are even, visitors willing, presents and if someone hands her something and is ok with it she absolutely Will open it right there.

She's sort of holding the Moonsprite like a security blanket if such blankets were the size of a small dog and resembled rabbit moths, but that's easy to ignore, maybe.]

This is...for me..?

[She could mean literally Anything at this party, honestly.]

[ofexperience]

It is.

[V smiles a bit and lets his hand rest on Reira's head.]

Happy birthday, Reira. I have a gift for you as well.

[hawkwardness]

[He's flat broke and likely to stay that way. Who's going to give a bird an allowance? So he did the only thing he could do and... picked some flowers, going human long enough to tie them together with a ribbon. He knows nothing about flowers and symbology, they're just a random assortment he happened to think looked nice. But they're fresh, clean, and pest-free!

He lands on the back of a chair with the flowers carefully carried by the stems in his beak.]

< Hi. Yep. I thought you might like these...? >

[inflictwounds]

Well, that makes things easier! Won't have to worry about fucking up so much.

When do you want to make it?

[ofexperience]

[Okay, he snorted a bit (not that Hieke can hear that).]

Her birthday is the 12th, so today or tomorrow would be ideal.

[inflictwounds]

Well, I'm free whenever you are. Just stop by my apartment when you're ready - and don't worry about the ingredients.

[ofexperience]

Alright. I'll see you soon.

[And it doesn't take too long for V to show up at Hieke's apartment, knocking on the door.]

[inflictwounds]

[Hieke answers the door, mushrooms in tow, and he gives V a soft smile.]

So, I should have asked this earlier, but...have you baked before?

[soft_focus]

[Someone get this bird an allowance, stat!

As it is, these are very nice flowers, and hopefully fresh enough that Reira can take the cuttings and re-pot them somehow. The flower sprite will probably help, and in fact it mists off from its bracelet form to stare at them quizzically as Reira eyes them with absolute wonder.

At least, it might be wonder. It could also just be happiness, but without a full smile since she still has the tendency to forget one can do that.

Anyway.] Y-

Yeah..! They're pretty...

[Present...Success!]

[soft_focus]

I didn't know there was going to be cake... [Or a party. But.

...Wait what.] ...You do?

[What! More things!?]

[hawkwardness]

[He never smiles, he gets it. That's more awe than he was expecting for a mere bundle of wild flowers. He drops them on the seat of the chair so she can actually pick them up!]

< Cool. Happy birthday, Reira. >

[ofexperience]

Hieke helped me bake it. I wanted it to be a surprise.

[He smiles, before taking a package out of his coat. He kneels down to Reira's level before opening it, revealing a pair of hairclips.]

Here. [...] Would you like me to put one on you?

[soft_focus]

Yeah!

[Yeah, happy birthday, or...

Hey wait a minute. Reira pauses while she picks up the flowers, looking around at the refreshments and things.] ...

Do you want a mouse?

[REIRA] There's only cake here.

[soft_focus]

[Woah...

The news about the cake- which is delicious cake, she really likes it, thank you V and thank you Hieke- fades into the background for Reira for a bit, because she's presently rather distracted by the clips. They're very pretty, but more importantly, well.]

They're moons... [Little moons..! For her hair, even?] Umn- yeah. I don't know where they're supposed to go except in hair... [Help, therefore, would be appreciated.]

UN: xhatgurlx

[hattersgonnahat]

a birthday????? [HAPPY BIRTH.]

i should bring something!

[Had she known sooner, so could've made Reira some fancy new rune thingy too. If Puella had the resources. Something to keep herself distracted from family issues would be nice too.]

[hawkwardness]

< No, it's fine, you don't have to feed me. I'll get too fat to fly if I overeat. >

[He's... not very funny.]