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Birthday List v2.0! [Voice/Text]

Hey, everybody, it's me, Hajime! I didn't do a birthday post last month because everybody was so busy with their visit to Isla Empieza. We were on Phantasia, so sorry we missed you all! We'll all need to get together again some other time.

Anyway, now that it's a new year, it's time for a new BIRTHDAY LIST! Lots of people on the old list went home, so it's super short now. Let's all work together to make it big again!

[She then copies down the names of people from old list that she knows haven't left (in actual chronological order this time!)]

JANUARY
2 - Gaius
6 - Roxas

FEBRUARY
~~2 - Rin~~
16 - Elissa
~~22 - Homura~~

MARCH
27 - Lea

APRIL
??? - Mitsuhide
1 - Pinkie Pie
7 - Harlock
14 - Maribelle

MAY
7 - Vyse

JUNE
9 - Itachi
10 - Codi

JULY
6 - Namur
7 - Susumu Kodai
16 - Selphie
23 - Sasuke

AUGUST
~~1 - Boris~~
~~20 - Olivia~~

SEPTEMBER
27 - Clementine

OCTOBER
~~8 - Zozo~~

NOVEMBER
3 - Keimi
13 - Henry
24 - Me!

DECEMBER
~~3 - Cap'n Di-Stri~~
17 - Ban

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Alright. I'll be there shortly.

[ Soon enough, Homura's walking along the docks, clad in her magical girl outfit as she looks for her friend. ]

[Hajime has been sitting on the edge of the dock, kicking her feet and humming to herself while she waits. When she sees Homura, she scrambles to her feet and runs up to her.]

Homuraaa~~!! There you are!!

[And of course the next thing she does is launch herself at the other girl and attach like a barnacle.]

[ Homura barely has time to blink before Hajime's on her. She braces herself in the nick of time, though, so the hug only knocks her back a step (instead of slamming her flat on her back). ]

Hajime Ichinose.

[ Eventually, Homura tentatively pats the other girl on the back. It's a complicated feeling, having someone so happy to see her, and so she's more awkward than coolly professional. ]

It's... it's good to see you again.

It's good to see you, too! I wanna hear eeeeeverything you've been up to and I've got so many stories I can tell you!

[Hajime just plows right over the awkwardness, as usual. Of all the people she met face to face that first month, Homura is one of the few that hasn't gone home yet and she can barely contain her excitement at seeing her again.]

[ Thank goodness for that. If it were up to Homura, they'd be staring at each other in awkward silence for at least a minute. Still... she's well aware that many people have returned home, ever since that first day. So much has changed since then- she finally had something to smile about, until Madoka was taken away from her. ]

[ But here and now, in the face of Hajime's excitement, there's another shy smile edging its way into Homura's expression. It's a little sadder, a little more melancholy, but a smile is still a smile. ]

Alright. But... I'm afraid I don't have very many stories to tell. Only something to tell you, at the very end. So why don't you go first?

Alright! Here goes!

[Hajime launches into story after story, gesticulating wildly and even acting out short dramatizations, providing all the voices to go with them. First there's the story about finding a baby kraken in the south seas, then the time most of their crew turned into monsters, then the time a feast magically appeared just in time for her birthday. She's a bit more subdued when she points out that, over the course of that month, Haruka, Rei, and Makoto all disappeared and she and Clem were left to find a new crew to take them on.

When speaking of her new crew, though, Hajime immediately perks up. She rambles on at length about her captain, a skilled musician who appreciates her artistic abilities, the first made, whose sad face reminds her of Homura's quite a bit, Ai, a boy her age who seems almost as excitable as she is, and Rin, who she always puts on her angriest face for when she does impressions.

Then there's what she calls the "Santa Boat," where they met up with another crew captained by an "actual pirate with an eyepatch and parrot and everything!" and what sounds like a rather motley crew, though clearly her favorite is the one she calls "Ragrumpy," who sounds like he didn't like her at all.]

...aaand then I went to someone's first birthday party! They'd never had one before! Can you imagine that?

[ Homura listens patiently. It's... it's VERY hard not to keep cracking smiles at everything Hajime does, ranging from the voices to the absolutely irreverent tone of her storytelling. It's a lot to take in, and she can't bring herself to get a word in edgewise; Homura isn't a particularly outgoing person to begin with, and in the face of all this HAPPY, it's a lost cause. ]

[ Once it's over, though, she can't help but look a little like a deer caught in headlights. Alright. One thing at a time. ]

No. I can't even begin to imagine- does that person not have birthday parties where he or she comes from?

[ ... come to think of it, between what Hajime just said and what she wrote on The List: ]

... your birthday was in November?

Edited (WHOOPS) 2014-01-13 13:33 (UTC)

Yup! The 24th. Now I'm 17! Roxas (that's whose birthday party I went to) isn't even two yet! Apparently he just POOFED! into existence one day and they didn't have time to throw him a party. He told Pinkie and she decided he needed one ASAP and I totally agree with her.

Happy birthday, then. I'm sorry I missed it. I'll have to find a present for you sometime.

[ And she's speaking straight from the heart, here. Still... 'poofing' into existence? ]

Is Roxas... human?

Yes and no! The explanation was complicated, but he seems human enough to me.

[All the talk of hearts and losing them was worth thinking over, but that could wait until she had more time for it.]

But let's not worry about that. I want to get you a birthday present too, but I don't know when your birthday is, Homura.

Sometimes, it feels like that's as close as we can ever get.

[ Technically, Homura and the other magical girls from her world don't quite count as human anymore, buuuut. ]

... February 22nd. You don't need to get me anything.

I still will, though! That's not too far away, really. You could come to Rin's birthday party if you want and I could give it to you then. That's gonna be on February 2nd.

[She's started planning it already, especially since Pinkie wants to come and Pinkie can throw an amazing party.]

In that case... thank you. I'll look forward to it.

I don't believe I've met Rin before. Would it really be alright for me to come?

Of course it would! I never met Roxas before his birthday and we had a great time! All but one of his friends went back home, so he's gonna have to stop being a grump and make new friends sometime and a party would be a great place to do that!

[Rin is a total grump, though, so getting him to come to the party at all will kind of be the first hurdle.]

[ Well, she's CERTAINLY been there and done that, so she's kind of seeing the problem of how to get him to the party, too. ]

That may be difficult if he's really as much of a grump as you say he is. How well do you know him?

Not as well as Ai, but I'm working on it!

[Obviously Ai has the advantage because he's a boy and he's Rin's roommate and teammate from back home.]

I'm gonna have to rely on Ai a lot to get the party planned. He's a first year, though, so he won't know what Rin did for his birthday last year. I kind of wish we could write to the people who went home. I bet they'd have some good ideas.

[ ... oh, does she EVER wish she could write to those who went home. ]

If we're lucky, the shop might someday carry something that would allow us to do just that. Still, if his friend at least knows him, that would be a great help.

You think so? Maybe I should stop in there and ask. I still have to drop off Dog's present and see what she left me before we set sail again. When are you gonna leave port? We hafta wait until the boat is done.

[Not that she's complaining. She's kind of missed being on land somewhere there are actual people to talk to.]

That wouldn't be a bad idea. I might swing by to see if she's picked up anything new, as well.

... I'm not sure when we're going to leave port, but it will have to be soon. [ Upkeep is a horrible thing to have looming over your head. ] Will you be okay until your boat is finished?

Yup! I've found lots of stuff to keep me busy. I'm hoping I'll get to start decorating the new boat soon. That'll be three boats, now, so I've really got the whole thing figured out!

[She strikes a pose, then laughs at herself.]

You've decorated three boats already? All on your own?

[ WELL... okay, she can see that, Hajime has so much damn energy in her, but on the other hand, the boats certainly aren't SMALL. ]

Well, I got some of the crew to help me on the Koumyou and I bet they'll again! I hope we find more crew when we're here just to liven things up a bit. I like everyone a lot, but I think I'd like to have another girl my age around. Or a talking animal like Pinkie!

[She knew that Pinkie was a talking pony, but she hadn't really expected a talking pink pony. She probably should have, though.]

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