you go ahead and dance, I'll just sit (August stuff)

[fruitknife]

🧙 WHO: Shinji and whoever!
⚔️️ WHAT: Don't Treep quest, SEES House shenanigans, some asshole completely forgetting his own birthday is a thing.
🕒 WHEN: early August
🗺️ WHERE: farms, SEES House
⚠️ WARNINGS: none anticipated


A. Don't Treep, Man (OTA)

Shinji can't, as a general rule, be bothered with the quest board. He's tired, okay. He was tired before he got here. Frankly, he was burnt out before he got to Liminal Space.

(He'd say the animal-parts curse didn't stick on him because he has built-in magic resistance, but he's honestly not sure if that's the case anymore or not.)

But. Tell him there's danger of a food shortage and he will do anything in his power to fucking well make sure there's not one. He's done his time with little to no food available, and he's not about to let it happen again.

He's on-site more than once in the time it takes to get the farms back to rights. Sometimes he's helping with the heavy lifting; others, he just shows up with some food for the people doing the heavy lifting to eat.

B. SEES House (closed to people who'd plausibly be there)

It's kinda weird, actually living with people from the dorm again.

In Liminal Space, Minako had her own room, Shinji didn't even live in his since Helena gave him a bed first and it would've been weird, and no one else from SEES overlapped with him. Not long enough to actually need a place to stay, anyway.

It's a good weird, but it's still kinda weird. In any case, it's no one he minds bothering him, if he's there to be bothered, and if nothing else he's bound to make sure everyone has dinner.

C. Some dipshit completely forgot about his birthday (closed to close CR)

It's August. Shinji's birthday is the 11th.

He hasn't thought about that fact at all, between his abysmal self-esteem and Liminal Space's general lack of... well, coherent time, really. Between-jaunts time was guesswork at best, and the jaunts themselves tended to have very weird calendars if they weren't on alternate Earths (and sometimes if they were).

If anything's gonna happen, it'll be up to his friends and acquaintances to make it happen. Mitsuru might be the only person here who even knows when Shinji's birthday is.

(OOC: Basically, a place for a partything to be plopped, if a partything is to be had. ICly, Shinji won't be remotely bothered if there isn't one; OOC, I won't either, since I only thought of this myself on Sunday. XD)

D. Kotone's the Wild Card here-- I mean, what?

[None of those appeal? Feel free to hit me with something else! Shinji works in the kitchen at the karaoke bar, and can occasionally be found Just Chillin' in other places.]

Comments

C~

[vrepit_no]

Some puppy once told him, August was Shinji's birthday, and it really stuck around in his head.

So he may have asked Kosmo to double check the date for him, and now he's got a couple of fabric-wrapped items under one arm. (A two-foot-by-eighteen-inch end grain cutting board with recessed handles, a 16-inch serrated bread knife with hardwood scales with mosaic pins, and a loaf of genuine melon pan because Makoto is amazing like that.) He has Shinryu knock on the SEES residence door.

B

[whatsamada]

[Meanwhile, here Ken was trying his best to make the best cake that he possibly could for Shinjiro. It was only fair after he helped Ken make one for his birthday! Although, as he stared at the chocolate cake, he gave a sigh. He had no idea how it could taste as he was only following a recipe he found online.

That and with the help of Kotone, he figured that it would taste good.

So here he was, staring at the cake sitting on the table wondering if he should surprise Shinjiro with it.]

A

[bakudan_bambino]

"Oh shit! Can you get that bale? I think it landed on the poor thing!"

The heavy lifting is one thing, but there seems to be a goat stuck under a few bales of hay. Maybe it tried to climb and toppled it? Obviously it is stuck, though. This isn't the permanent place of this hay, either, but just to get it out of the way so that the fences can be repaired.

A

[tempredmental]

"Thanks." Keith took the offered food after returning from his latest herding run. It was tough work, and he was due for a break anyway judging by how tired he was starting to feel from using his animal magic to guide the livestock back to the farms. After a moment of just eating and breathing, Keith spoke up.

"You're Shiro's friend, right?" he asked. "You guys met in that... liminal... space... place?"

Keith still didn't fully understand it, despite Shiro's best attempts to explain, but he just knew that there had been another place between Avalon and home for Shiro, and that he'd met Shinji there.

C

[kirijo]

"Happy birthday, Aragaki-san."

Mitsuru smiles warmly in her subdued way, approaching him after the other members of S.E.E.S. had each taken their turn to greet Shinjiro and wish him a happy birthday.

"I hope you'll forgive me for setting this in motion."

To her credit, and that of the rest of S.E.E.S., it was a modest affair. They'd decided almost immediately that he would prefer something more subdued rather than any sort of extravagant celebration, so they'd kept it simple - takeout from one of his favorite restaurants, a cake prepared by Kotone and Ken, and ensuring that they all had the time to spend the evening with him.

Hopefully that suits him.