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Who: Any of Sollux's friends who saw the invitation.
Where: Private room at a local restaurant.
When: 2/22, early evening.
What: Birthday party/dinner thing, because Aradia was serious about it.
Rating: PG or PG13, SOME OF THE GUESTS HAVE LANGUAGE WARNINGS (Sollux and Karkat).

[ It's a party slash dinner thing! The room is decorated with red and blue streamers and such, and there are party hats for anyone who wants them (if you don't want them, you can probably get away with not having them). It's a pretty simple layout, really. There is also a cake (...and a mini cake for Karkat Vantas, for Reasons having to do with slight bribery and promises) and various other sweets around, so there's that. When the cake is served there will be a mandatory birthday song singing, sorry Sollux.

There aren't any real surprises here, it is literally just a birthday dinner with decorations. ENJOY, and feel free to start any thread you like for mingling. ]

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...Well, I guess it's technically your day, so you don't have to smile if you don't want to. Do you want a hat? You can have two, even!

...What colour hats.

Red and blue. [ She and 99% of the world are aware of your colour choices, Sollux. ]

...Fine.

[ Well, he might not be smiling, but that certainly makes her smile - and she'll happily hand over the party hats. ]

Now you'll be truly party fashionable. [ She's teasing. ]

Truly.

[And he puts them where his horns should have been.]

[So fashionable.]

[ ....pffffffffft. Okay, give her a second to stop laughing. ]

If we got you two more and cut them off a little, you could have horns again for the day!

[ aradia no ]

Best birthday present ever? I think so.

[ She will actually do this, Sollux, don't test her. ...Although considering his canon choices of fashion...

Just going to hold them up to Indy to do the snipping, actually, after she thinks about it. He clearly knows what's what, and will get on that, passing back the modified hats after a few seconds with a cackle. He's never not cackling though. ]

See? I told you it'd be fun! [ Want help getting these on or not, Sollux? ]

[What kind of man would he be if he couln't put on modified party hats by himself? A really sad and pathetic man, that's what kind.]

Okay. Fine. It's fun.

So, now that it's your birthday and you're officially celebratory, is there anything else you want to do? We can play games or something!

What kind?

[He will most likely go for video games, but yolo.]

Any kind you want! Card games, board games...I think there are some human party games we don't know, but we'd have to ask Jake or Dirk or Jane about those...!

Ugh. From the troll party games we have, I don't even want to know what the humans came up with.

[He wouldn't complain if she made him do some anyway.]

I don't know what they have really! I mean, the only human party tradition I've figured out is mistletoe, and the other dead plant ones. And also I've learned not to drink punch at a party with our humans because apparently they like to spike it with soporifics??

[ She needs to research party games, stat. ]

Fucking mistletoe... wait. What other dead plant ones? [Do they even have dead plant games in a world where nothing dies?]

Remember the balloon tree? I guess normally they actually cut down a large tree! And then there are wreathes of dead plants, which get hung on doors.

[ Basically Christmas = dead plant holiday? ]

Oh, I thought you were counting that as the same -- the balloon tree.

[Twitch.]

John's?

Counting what as the same?

[ Sunny smile! ]

Yes, that one! I thought it was sort of creative.

It was sort of ridiculous.

Well, maybe a little bit. But I think it was probably meant to be! It's John, after all.

[ And that's said just as fondly as it sounds; after Jake, he's probably one of her favourite humans. ]

But I don't think that party was all bad, even if there was a little drama! We managed to avoid it, right?

I didn't hear. What drama?

[ ...

How does he miss these things...? ]

Well, the punch was spiked with human soporifics, which I suppose caused people to act...out of character, although not exactly that. With a lot of making out under mistletoe? And human love triangles. I'm actually not sure why so many people told me about their respective experiences, come to think of it.

[ At all. ]

Do I look like I know about that sort of thing? Because I'm really more well-suited to give advice about, I don't know, unearthing artifacts or crossing chasms with a whip?? Or time management?

Oh. I thought you meant actual drama.

[Ah well! He knew people were being dipshits, but mostly he spent the night with the companionship of his good old friend, Laptop.]

No, no one really kills anyone else here?

[ Sollux/Laptop OTP, except Aradia wants him to start shipping Sollux/Fresh air. It will never happen. ]