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[freshbreeze.livejournal.com]

Who: Aqua watersbound, Hope Estheim airwinged, Lightning Farron soggypastry, Rise restardom, Serah Farron wistfulfocus, Squall "Leon" Leonhart usedroar, Terra landbreaker, and Ventus freshbreeze. Pile on in if you're in town and want to celebrate Light-day!
Where: Lightning's room at the inn to start with, then a steakhouse called Elizabeth's.
When: Evening on March 9th
Summary: It's Lightning's birthday, time to dogpile her with love!
Rating: G
Log:
[It's evening when everybody's gathered together, hiding behind various pieces of furniture in Lightning's room. Everything's relatively still, except for the occasional startle-attempt from Lightning's Haunter, Fang. So far Fang's managed to startle a squeak out of Rise but the ghost's largely unsuccessful in antagonizing the crowd. They're all much too focused on waiting, watching for a sliver of light to indicate the door opening, listening for the telltale turn of the knob...

Any minute now, the birthday girl's going to return, and when she does, they'll be here to surprise her]



[ooc: Spam away, guys! Since we all have different schedules (and Terra-mun's without computer for a coupla days), just hit things up as you like. If somebody gets to moving things to the restaurant first, please put something in the subject line so others can follow. As a note, the employees at Elizabeth's have been made aware that it's Light's birthday and are prepared to serenade her over a slice of cake. For spamming purposes, action tags are recommended for this log]

Comments

jump/dogpile her as you see fit, everyone~

[soggypastry]

[Lightning had a routine. She'd get up, spar with Leon or go for a run, then get ready for work. She'd work, spend some time training, then sleep. This day was no different, and she'd shoved the idea of it being her birthday out of her mind as she returned to the inn. Hearing Fang laughing as she came up to her room door, Lightning turned the handle with her eyes closed.]

Fang, you'd better not have done anything stupid.

[She reached for the light switch, eyes still closed and leaving her unaware of the crowd she had waiting to surprise her.]

[restardom.livejournal.com]

[ too bad Rise is TOTALLY aware (especially after that initial Haunter fright), and once she hears the click of the switch, here comes one idol flying out from behind one of the chairs.

... ALMOST stumbling, but managing to reach Lightning for a hug anyway. ]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY~!

[soggypastry]

[It's become almost instinct to hug Rise whenever the idol launches herself at Lightning, and that doesn't change even when Lightning is surprised. With one arm around Rise's shoulders, Lightning looks at her room and the people in it, along with Fang the Haunter snickering in the back. This is...entirely unexpected, actually.]

When did you all plan this?

[restardom.livejournal.com]

Ah, ah, ah! [ Rise beams up at her. She's never one to take Lightning affection for granted, so every time she gets a hug in return, it makes her even happier. ] That's a secret, Light. My lips are sealed.

[soggypastry]

[That, while earning Rise a look of fondness, gets more of a smirk than a smile out of Light.]

We'll see how sealed they stay during training.

[freshbreeze.livejournal.com]

[Once the light comes on, Ven tosses a couple of fistfuls of confetti in the air, just to add to the festive nature of the occasion.

...Hey, he does it in battle back home. Enjoy that sparkly rainbow colored Rapidash confetti in your hair, Lightning]

Happy birthday, Lightning!

[soggypastry]

[Enjoy a surprised look on Lightning's face, Ven. Confetti? It's just going to settle in her hair and offset the pale pink now. This has...never happened before.]

How...how long have you been waiting to do that?

[freshbreeze.livejournal.com]

[Oh, well...he'll just glance aside a little]

A...while?

[Best not to let her know he's been waiting for this for a good long time]

[soggypastry]

[Lightning reaches up to her bangs, removing a piece of bright green confetti from them before it can enter her eyes. A while, huh? Why does that sound so much like Ven?]

That doesn't surprise me. [And it's best to not let her know that. At all. But have a tiny, barely there smile, Ven.]

[adamant]

[ Leon is half-afraid that Lightning is going to punch the first person to hug her in the face, but tries to relax. Her combat reflexes will stop her in time, right?

He doesn't exactly join the cheer when the lights come on, but there is a smile on his face. He'll just let the younger ones get their hugs in before he moves in to congratulate her. ]

[soggypastry]

[If it had been Terra or even Aqua who'd jumped her first, she might have. But Rise's form is a familiar one and Lightning stomped on the fight instinct, hard, as the idol hugged her. Needless to say, she was just looking around the room with surprise still etched on her face as she hugged both her sisters, and she caught Leon's eye over their heads.

...He'd been in on this? She'd known there was something strange about how much he'd put into that spar this morning, even if she'd enjoyed it. Now it was making sense. Still, she'd wait to ask and just nodded in greeting.]

[adamant]

[ Their gazes meet over the sea of multicolored hair--Ven, Rise and Serah are so short--and he just nods back, in response to both her flash of realization and to her greeting. He waist until her arms are disentangled before pressing forward. ]

Happy birthday, Light.

[soggypastry]

[Planting one hand on her hip and raising a brow, Lightning gives Leon a look that could border on stern or just plain amused. It's leaning more towards amused after a second though, and she cants her head to the side. Happy birthday? ....sure seems it might turn out that way.]

And how long were you in on this plan?

mistag. fffff

[wistfulfocus.livejournal.com]

[This would be the start of a glorious chain reaction. As soon as Rise hopped up, it clicked in Serah's mind. Light was here! Ahhhh!

From behind the couch, one excited Serah lept - yes, lept all the way over to Light to embrace her, along with Rise. And Light, you should be expecting more than just these two.]

Liiiiight! Happy birthday!

no worries~

[soggypastry]

[Serah hugging Lightning makes her take a half step back to not over balance and fall, but she wraps her other arm around her blood sister and blinks, still not fully processing all this. How had they planned this without her knowing?]

...Yeah.

[wistfulfocus.livejournal.com]

[When Light hugged her back, Serah latched on even tighter for a second, then loosened her grip. She didn't want Light to be overwhelmed by these hugs - or this love. Well, too late for that.

Picking a piece of confetti out of Light's hair, she let it fall to the ground then smiled at her sister.]

C'mon, be happy! Trust me, this birthday will be fantastic. [better than the last, at least.]

[restardom.livejournal.com]

[ Rise will wait until Lightning moves off to greet the other, less-clingy guests before she grins rather happily at Serah. She's gotten a little more used to that brief flash of surprise every time she hears her speak. And as she thought, it's much nicer to meet her in person. ]

Soooo, little sis, you know her best. How do you think we're doing?

[wistfulfocus.livejournal.com]

[ Serah was also looking forward to meeting Light's new pseudo-sis. She definitely seemed like someone she could get along with - and Light always told her she needed more friends. So it definitely couldn't hurt. Rise will be receiving a smile back, though a bit less big, but just as happy. ]

Hmmmm. I think we're doing great, actually! She's smiling. It's... still a little weird to see that so frequently, but it's wonderful. And she seems quite taken with you, Rise. Almost makes me a little jealous.

one tag before bed X|

[airwinged.livejournal.com]

[He's almost in a corner, waiting for everyone to be done with their greetings. They're all so loud and it's kind of sweet, but he knows Lightning's not one for huge, loud things.

So Hope's just waiting for his turn, hands behind his back, and once the crowd's cleared he's walking towards her.]

:3

[soggypastry]

[She's admitidly gotten better at taking huge and loud things, but Lightning still has her boundaries.

Boundaries that she doesn't bother putting back up even after she's been released, and she turns to offer Hope a tiny smile. She's glad he's here for this, really.]

Hope.

[airwinged.livejournal.com]

Hi, Light. [Fidget fidget--] Happy birthday.

[He finally takes his hands from behind his back. It's not a big present, really-- it hadn't taken him a whole roll of wrapping paper to doll it up. Just... well, a good deal of yesterday to figure out how to wrap something without making a huge mess of it.

It's a small box in red paper, really. Hope's spent his money, even the past money he had during his last stay in Johto on this.]

Restaurant [Dogpile as you see fit~]

[soggypastry]

[It hadn't taken long after the surprise in Lightning's room for someone to mention that they still had dinner to get to. Lightning had tried to protest, but had been overruled and out of the Inn they all went. To be fair, it had been a token protest and her heart hadn't been in avoiding it.

She wasn't the type to say this was the best birthday ever, but...it came pretty close.]

because you asked for it ^_~

[adamant]

[ After all that food--and there had been a lot of food, including slices of cake for the attendees and complimentary 'Happy Birthday' sung by the staff and most of the table (except for...one)--Leon needs some air.

He steps out into the Violet city evening, enjoying the coolness on his skin. He didn't realize until he came outside just how warm it was in there. ]

♥

[soggypastry]

[Once the meal and surprise 'Happy Birthday' had ended, it didn't take long for Lightning to slip past the still talking teenagers and out the front door. The chill of the evening was a welcome change from the warmth of the steakhouse, and Lightning took a deep breath of it.

Catching sight of Leon not far off, she turned and walked in his direction. Something about him seemed...different now. She just couldn't tell if it was Leon himself that had changed or her view of him, but it didn't matter. Not with the familiar and comforting weight of the knife he'd given her still in her pouch.]

[adamant]

[ He glances up at her approach, sharing a knowing look. Crowds and Lightning aren't a match, he knows; it was one of the first things he learned about her. ]

It's nice out, isn't it?