DECEMBER 2ND, birthday armageddon action mingle

[parodeity]

So, anyone in the entertainment room area come December 2nd will be subjected to a ridiculous clash of colors and decorations. While the only advertisement was word-of-mouth, it's a six-way birthday party although none of the guests of honor seem to care if people actually celebrate their birthdays; it's possible to just come by for cake and/or random hangouts. The room seems to be divvied up into six pie slices with decorations, with a table in the middle with six cakes. The slices are kind of variable but easy enough to match up to their respective "owner": Jade's is neon green paired with white decoration-wise and seems to mostly be dog themed, although there's also more glitter in her slice than anywhere else; Jake's is less neon green paired with black and the collective Dave-and-Rose decoration committee apparently decided skulls was as good a theme as anything; Dave's is red and black and records although also just really dumb sbahj drawings which tbh have infected the other slices aside from Rose's; Dirk's is orange-and-white and robots; Rose's is purple-and-black and wizards and octopi; Roxy's is pink-and-white and cats and wizards. None of the decorations really seem intended to mesh with any other slices' decorations at all?

The cakes are equally mismatched, although some of them work together. Jade got a Bec-head shaped cake; Jake got another...skull...THEY TRIED, OKAY JAKE; Dave elected himself for hella jeff; Dirk got assigned sweet bro because Rose couldn't convince Dave to Not; Rose herself got a very disturbing octopus tentacle thing, what the fuck Rose; and Roxy got a cat.

There are like six pinatas in various colors and some party games and a movie marathon that seems to have literally no theme beyond being chosen by Dave and Rose and therefore the theme might actually be "what movie will annoy my sibling most" back and forth. So there's. Just a super variety of stuff there. And there's music which Dave seems to have been in control of, although most of it is lowkey so that's nice???

Sorry if you wanted to do something in this room related to not this hot mess today, BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE NOT DOING SIX SEPARATE PARTIES??? Also there are party hats in the colors of each slice (with a dumb paper crown in slice colors for each birthday kid) so pick your poison. There's a generic and very messy "HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY" banner so apparently it's just. 6 17s? Nice.

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[voidkatini]

[ Roxy is thoroughly enjoying all of this love and affection in one place. She wishes they could just have birthday parties every day for the rest of their lives, forever, without any drama, thanks. ]

Awww. You didn't have to do all this.

[ She leans down and kisses Hotaru on the cheek. She is too pure for this world. ]

[splinten]

It's pretty helpful. [A pause] Once URSULA gets you your communicator I can send you it.

[UNLESS ADRIEN HAS IS Dirk is assuming know because of the birthday present arrival.]

[voidkatini]

Awwwwww, you didn't have to get me anything, Dirk.

[ But of course he did, and she considers herself very lucky to have the opportunity to celebrate all these birthdays in person. Nothing will ever beat the gift that is her family, yo. ]

[oneandmikleonly]

[he laughs -- he'd been at the fringes of the party since dropping off his presents, more peoplewatching than participating -- and bumps Dirk's fist accordingly]

I'm glad you like it! It was a challenge to think of what might appeal to you.

[splinten]

[It probably has cool stuff inside at least?]

No idea. Maybe when you start getting good.

[parodeity]

[ it probably is but dave's about to make this more awkward by just blurting a change of topic: ]

Yeah maybe. So. Will you reconsider the whole going places alone on no sleep thing and or the no sleep thing?

[superseding]

Is it? I thought singing "Happy birthday" and blowing out candles were important, too.

[ When was the last time Hotaru was invited to a birthday party? Probably when she was five. She's working off of memory and television. ]

I had some of the Lovecraftian one? The tentacle one?

[alienates]

[ it's going to be awful. also karkat looks extremely embarrassed at the cheek kiss.

he takes the cake though. ]

Uh, you're welcome. [ he just used a manner, praise him. ] Happy birthday even though this isn't your actual day of birth.

[alienates]

[ that's true... there now probably stuff falling out of the now hole in the actual pinata too ]

I am fucking fantastic at dismembering shit, fuck you.

[alienates]

[ that is such an abrupt change of topic that it just gave karkat whiplash ]

I thought you had accepted my unique sleep schedule.

[parodeity]

Yep. You can say "no".

[ he is only bothering to ask to get dirk off his case. ]

[alienates]

[ karkat just looks bewildered now because "hey can you stop doing this thing but feel free to say no" seems contradictory ]

Uhhh what brings this up?

[parodeity]

An intense desire to avoid bein' mommed.

[ BY DIRK ]

[alienates]

So you don't actually care if I reconsider then.

[ is what he's getting from what dave just said. ]

[parodeity]

I fully expect you to say no.

[ since he already did?? ]

[alienates]

[ ok but telling karkat that you expect him to do something is always going to result in him... arguing...... dave no ]

Okay so it does still bother you or not then? There is an important distinction here.

[parodeity]

Oh my god it was a yes or no question.

[ his hands go into his back pockets and he shoots a scowl at dirk. not that dirk is. paying attention probably. ]

Idk, assume whichever answer ends the conversation faster 'cause the idea was to avoid another one not gain an extra one in addition to whatever the fuck other people are gonna throw at me eventually.

[alienates]

[ he follows dave's gaze towards dirk and just. frowns. before looking back at dave. ]

Just tell him I said whatever the fuck you want me to say then.

[parodeity]

That actually would not work. Just say whatever you want so I have a legitimate answer. I can't actually lie to him in a fashion that does not end with him naggin' me until I quit lyin' to him. I've tried, it literally always ends with me losin'.

[ a pause. ]

Don't tell him I said anythin' remotely like that.

[alienates]

Fine. [ although karkat still doesn't see why dave can just go tell dirk whatever since karkat does not seem to be that important in this whole conversation?? the whole focus is dirk, so. he's still frowning. ]

Go tell Dirk I said no then if it'll end this conversation faster.

[parodeity]

Eh, I'll tell him whenever he brings it up again.

[ also he warned dirk he would probably fuck up asking primarily so at least he can confirm that was a thing he did for sure when asked later. ]

So Kanaya's datin' some dude now?

[alienates]

She's in a moirallegiance with Komaeda. He's a rude fuck and weird so of course she'd have pale feelings for him.

[ kanaya has a Type ]

[parodeity]

Yeah I didn't really like him either, but I'm obviously gonna have to try again if he's...

[ uh ]

Rose's girlfriend's moirail? I guess that functionally means nothing except he will probably show up at shit and I should probably not be rude. Hypothetically.

[alienates]

If he's rude first then fuck it, be rude back. Although try to dial it down some I don't want to hurt Kanaya's feelings.

[ look if anyone is gonna suffer here, it will be karkat because he does not like the dangans that much but now he is going to have to at least Make An Attempt at being civil to at least one of them. ]

Is Rose okay with it? [ karkat does not think rose would have a problem since she has always been more open to troll shit than... almost every other human, but. ]

[parodeity]

Please, she's way more cosmopolitan than me and I would be way more bothered by it if she weren't okay with it.

[ because, no offense, but he will always land on rose's side in a debate if it comes to her being okay with something or not?? that's just an obvious fact of life. sorry kanaya he likes you but you rank lower than his sister ]

I think she thinks the dude is weird, but also she thinks he would be interesting to analyze. So, you know, she's Rose. Also I'll be nice if he never brings up the subject of luck with me ever again? Is that a possibility. Can Kanaya like, mwahrail at him and get him to like tone that down.