isleofavalon | TAKO 'bout a birthday party❗️✨🐙🍘🥳✨

🧙 WHO: Dotsuitare 3-po 😒😆😎
⚔️️ WHAT: Rosho's Birthday & takoyaki-cooking party 🥳
🕒 WHEN: March 1st 🌟🚶‍♂️💫
🗺️ WHERE: Da Dotsu Z0ne (....sasaro house, where rei has also been living for months, now)
⚠️ WARNINGS: messy kitchen 😱🥶😤

[ Unwrap your presents before eating...! That was Sasara's insistence, despite it being Rosho's birthday. As good as he is about keeping secrets when he oughta ~~not~~, at some second it all bubbles over. The little plant pot (...かわいい小さな植物の男...) will mysteriously make its own way into a corner, safely away from the trouble about to be stirred up.

Or rather, the dough!?

The takoyaki pan and tabletop gas arrived, as a mysterious package at the Roost some weeks earlier, addressed to land on Rei's desk– And then addressed by Sasara to be brought here. A refined surprise to the last; Rosho must'a figured it out when they went shopping for ingredients yesterday, though! Of course, as much expensive wine and other alcohol they celebrated with last, nothing so oughta steal the show tonight. With the fizz from one cheap, canned beer and jumping up from his chair, Sasara announces: ]

Dotsuitare Hompo's First Takoyaki Party is a dan-GO! Hahaha!! [ ( Get it...!? ) ]

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[ Rosho pulls his gaze away from the cute little plant buddy tucked away in the safe corner for about the tenth time that day. He can't help it that he keeps looking at it, its so adorable! And it was an incredibly thoughtful and creative gift for Sasara to give him. He honestly wouldn't have expected it. To think he'd been ready to forgive Sasara for anything stupid he'd do for his birthday. But no, that feeling didn't last long even as he's halfway through his first beer and the familiar flush of color spreads over his face as he yells at his noisy jokester of a boyfriend. ]

Don't go ruinin' my birthday with your shitty jokes, I just wanna enjoy myself! Honestly. Ya can't even stop for a single day, huh?

[ He should have made it his birthday wish. Yet even then it probably wouldn't come true... :( Rosho gives a shove at Rei. ]

Rei, tell him to stop, c'mon! For my birthday!

[Unfortunately for the birthday boy, Rei harbors no such intentions. He takes the shove in stride, laughing as he keeps his beer from sloshing out of the can.]

It's fine, it's fine. [IT'S NOT BUT OK] Been a while since we had real takoyaki, right? Always wanted to try making it alongside some local experts.

[show this old tokyoite the ropes!!]

Eh-heh!! [ Victory and vindication! And surely, the last time they had some was... well, however many months it's been in this place; nothing makes ya homesick like food. Though, that queasy feeling is only an empty stomach. ]

Well, ain't that just so!? [ They sorta owe it to Rei for making him stay on the team. Not just that, though. ] Plus, when ya said as much about it, I remembered Rosho and I hadn't even made 'em in a while.

[ And from scratch, too! Sasara slides the beer can a little ways away from Rosho—for that purpose, they oughta keep him going a little longer than his best fifteen minutes. ]

When we were living in the inn we had better priorities than buyin' a takoyaki maker, but even with a house of our own now we're all always so busy. If we left a single person out, there'd be complaining, 'specially from you.

[ There's an extra hard jab of his elbow into Sasara's bony side, and for good reason too. ]

Don't take my beer!

Whoa, there! [Rei distracts Rosho from the stolen beverage by nudging him himself, grinning over the rim of his own beer. Maybe putting Rosho between them was a bad idea?] Careful with all that flailing. Gonna burn yourself on the thing before we even get started.

[Rei leans forward and places the batter bowl in front of Rosho to placate him.] C'mon, then. Show a poor old man how it's done, won't ya? Give us some bona fide wisdom, Sensei.

Teh–! [ He has no protective layer... ] Ya can't fault a guy for that, though, can ya!? [ Like, who'd wanna miss out on takoyaki!!

And fittingly eager, just after Rei puts the bowl down, Sasara leans across the table. Err, maybe they oughta have arranged it all a little better. At least, the flour is already in the bowl and the eggs won't even spill as long as they don't get dropped—two per hand is definitely borderline. But they'll have to make a lot, ya see. ]

C'mon– Batter, batter, batter!

[ 2 boke 1 tsukkomi. ]

[ How could you take his beer away from him on this, his day off, when they're supposed to be enjoying making takoyaki, on his day of birth? You guys aren't getting birthday gifts for your next birthdays.

At least Rosho's the sort of person where if you give him a task he's bound to do it, and with the bowl plopped down right in front of him and that request already announced, he can't ignore it. ]

Eh? Ah, okay....

[ He coughs into his hand to clear his throat and stares down into the bowl. ]

They say takoyaki was invented in 1935, where it was most popular in the Kansai region. Did ya know it was based off of akashiyaki—

[ Not that kind of wisdom!! ]

Wait, wait, wait. [Rei cackles. Now who's the tsukkomi?!?!] Teach with your hands, not your mouth!

[Here, a whisk.]

Who is "they," anyway? [Who says takoyaki was invented in 1935, huh????]

[ The point's having the beer WITH the takoyaki, ya see, not get drunk way before. Besides, ya don't teach drunk, do ya!?]

A-a--ah. Err, ya see... some folks are hungry for knowledge, but over here it's our stomachs being empty!!

[ Their heads too, but that ain't the point. ] Eh-heh! [ The only notes Sasara thinks of taking during the lecture are of his own jokes, typically. ] Maybe more like, whisk us away!

[ How dare you both interrupt his lecture?! Rosho scowls for a moment, almost considering a revolt and not lending a single hand in helping make this takoyaki if they can't at least listen to him talk for a minute or two (or ten), but he's admittedly pretty hungry and excited for a taste of home.

So he'll concede, but only a little! ]

It doesn't hurt ya any to do a little bit of learning while we cook.

[ With a huff, Rosho starts whisking the batter they'll need, but of course he keeps talking. ]

And I mean food historians, obviously! I haven't got a specific name or anything. The documentary I watched never mentioned one... but human accomplishments are meant to be recorded, all kinds, even food. They should be celebrated too. Imagine creating something and not getting recognized for it?

[ Rosho pauses for a moment then gives Rei a bit of A Look. ]

Except for you, that's a good thing. And its what you deserve.

[The three of them really haven't touched on Rei's work with the hypnosis mics all that much since the initial reveal. Rosho had even declared that he didn't really care about any of it. Which means that when he drops that dunk, Rei is genuinely stunned for a minute!

Then he loses his mind laughing.]

Bwahahah!!

[His knee hits the bottom of the table (ow) and jolts it, making the batter splash a little.]

Sure, I've gotten exactly the amount of recognition I care for already! [the MONEY $$$$$😎😎😎] Those Party of Words girlies can have it.

[ It's the same, puzzled silence from Sasara. Keeping a lock on the topic has served the three of them better than anything else might have. And anyway, for Rosho to spring something like that... He's still got his roots, and a real knack-- ]

A-ah! Rosho, you—! [ But-- huh—?

Just then, before Sasara's hasty attempt at swaying the situation takes up, Rei's laugh bellows through the space. He sees specks of batter flying up in front of Rosho's face. This is seriously why they partnered up back when...! KYA~!

He won't miss to get his own jibe in, though. ]

Old man...! Ya only say so much 'cause yours never went for 300 yen a portion!

[ HIS GWASSES...! Rosho yelps and has to stop stirring the batter so he can clean the lenses for a moment. Why he's even wearing them when they're just making takoyaki is anyone's guess, but he pushes the bowl over toward Sasara as if signaling it should be his turn while he cleans up the mess they made. ]

Even if it did that's a decent amount. In fact, just two mics is more than enough to pay off the amount that you still owe me!

[ Without the glasses on, Rosho's death glare is pretty sinister. ]

TAKO 'bout a birthday party❗️✨🐙🍘🥳✨

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