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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[potentite]

[Heat rushes under his skin and he has to bite his tongue to keep a million denials from flooding out of his mouth.]

URSULA helped me, so, um... [He needs to at least put that out there. It's not like this feat was accomplished alone. And certainly not with his paltry abilities. But he studied and studied day and night whenever he was alone to do this. Somehow, saying that doesn't work very well.] I just... I worked hard. Whenever I hit a roadblock, I asked her. I hit a lot of them. But I wanted to keep it all secret.

[splinten]

[Dirk tugs on Jake's hand and he kisses him. He knows Jake can't see how incredible it is but Dirk wants to tell him, he wants him to know how much working hard and asking for help means and how it matters the most and how Dirk is so grateful that he did. And he will, he'll try to find words, he wants to say it. But first he needs to tell him with a kiss.]

[potentite]

[Jake makes a startled noise but kisses back, relaxing slowly. He doesn't really think it's anything special when URSULA did at least half of it but he keeps those thoughts to himself at least.]

[splinten]

[When he pulls back, he's still holding Jake's face in his hands. He chooses his next words very carefully.]

Thank you, Jake. For working so hard for me, and for thinking so carefully about me. It means a lot to me.

[potentite]

[It's careful enough that there's technically nothing he can say against it and he smiles.]

Um, I hope you enjoy it. Happy birthday, Dirk.

[splinten]

[Good. He pulls away only because they're at a party. He decides to hold both of Jake's hands anyway.]

Happy anniversary of your arrival on planet earth via meteor, Jake.

[He's awful.]

[potentite]

[He keeps holding his hand.]

Wanna shoot at the pinata with me?

[splinten]

While we're blindfolded? That sounds safe and romantic. I'm in.

[potentite]

[He winks.] Knew I could count on you.