Let them eat cake

[cuntryroads]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Congratulations, you've survived another orbit around your planet's star! Now go celebrate it, you birthday guy/gal/non-binary pal!

RULES:

• Post with your character, canon, and preferences - also just for fun, you can add their date of birth in the comments section. Feel free to headcanon or handwave the date if you don't know it.
• Have fun!
  
  OPTIONAL PROMPTS:
• Birthday Party: Celebrate your special day with your friends or family! Reserve an event space or restaurant, celebrate at home, go out and celebrate in town, whatever you wish!
• Surprise Party: Maybe your pal isn't the type to celebrate, never had a birthday party before, or you got someone or something special planned for them that you have to keep a secret until it's the right time.
• Quiet Party: A more introverted variety. Staying at home with fewer people, having a less loud celebration with dinner, binge-watching, or just basking in each other's presence.
• No Show: You had everything planned and prepared, but thanks to something coming up or maybe people just don't like you - nobody showed up for your birthday party. Maybe one friend is just late, or had a change of heart, or maybe pull in a stranger to celebrate with you.
• Happy Holidays: Your birthday happens to fall on the same day as a holiday, so you either get to celebrate two things at once or have your birthday overshadowed.
• Gift Giving: Part of what makes birthdays great! Is it something cheap, expensive, maybe even hand-made? 
• Wildcard!

Comments

Claire Bennet || NBC's Heroes || OTA

[infinite1ups]

( Heroes canon couldn't decide on Claire's birthday. One source says January, another says something else... it's ridiculous. So for the purposes of writing her, I gave her the birthday of July 30, 1990.

No special reason for this date, except that it was kinda in between the months and years given in her possible canon birthdays. Oh! And I did later spot on a rewatch that it looks like her high school class ring in season one appears to maybe have a ruby set in it, which is the birthstone for July.

But it also fits in with her canon life that she could've just been given a new birthday when The Company gave her to the Bennet family to raise. I headcanon it this way, and for what it's worth sometimes I do write her knowing about this discrepancy. Both because it makes sense and I find it funny.

This is a lot of explaining for a meme... I'm sorry, I have no chill. XD )

chrissy cunningham ( stranger things )

[elnett]

[ according to the stranger things wiki, chrissy's bday is june 13th, 1968 ]

Samantha Murphy | OC | OTA

[andgracetoo]

(( Her birthday is June 8 - and she's a twin, for what it's worth! OTA for gen, M/F for anything shippy-leaning. Info on her profile and journal, feel free to assume CR! ))

alexis rose 🌹 schitt's creek 🌹 ota

[cutehugeyacht]

[Alexis' birthday is never explicitly stated, but she was born roughly in 1987.]

Zhang Qiling | Grave Robbers Chronicles

[xiaoge]

[ He can't remember his own birthday. ]

benedict dearborn — original ⦅ academic, exorcist ⦆ — ota

[fumitory]

( Ben's birthday is in about a week from now, September 7. he doesn't do anything extravagant for himself, so...sounds like a great opportunity to surprise/embarrass him. 👀 he enjoys experiences over items, but he will take meaningful gifts regardless of objective value with him to his grave, probably. he's naturally adverse to big/surprise parties but like...who asked him though. (but low key one-on-one things would make him the happiest.)

assumed cr welcome, info here and AUs + fave cross-canons here, extra love for Genshin Impact and Magnus Archives, but open to anything! )

darcy lewis • mcu • ota

[stemtypeoflady]

[Who knows when her birthday is, but she's in her thirties!]

[ourlittlenordicangel]

Oh... oh, I have a gift for you! [ He instantly hands her a random scrap of colorful fabric. ]

We are almost same age? Oh... you aged good, Miss Darcy.

[stemtypeoflady]

Swede, this is so pretty! I love it!

[ She throws her arms around him in a grateful hug. ]

Thank you! And thank you for thinking of me.

[infinite1ups]

[ Whatever day it is, Claire has cake! It's decorated with colorful sprinkles and "Happy Birthday Darcy" written in icing with Claire's bubbly handwriting. ]

Surprise!

Kim Wexler | Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad

[saintclaire]

[February 13, 1968!]

SCP-662-1 ("Mr. Deeds") | SCP Foundation

[bellboundbutler]

((He doesn't even remember his birth year (though I headcanon that it's somewhere around 1850), let alone his birthday. Give him one?

Not that he actually ages (biologically, I have him in his early 30's by default, though I can wiggle that about 5 years younger or 10 years older for threads since it's really not clear) unless you keep him out of his bell for long enough....

Alternatively, let him dote on you for your birthday!

Good with cross-canon, cross-medium, assumed CR, random stranger tags, all that good stuff. Info/links in journal.))

Bumblebee | Transformers Cartoon G1

[courageousandfocused]

(Give him a birthday and show him how this day is celebrated on Earth)

Wendy || Rule of Rose

[obsessivewendy]

[Her age is very young but her birthday isn't known. Also it's very likely no one came.]

Loki | MCU | OTA

[cuttingremark]

[Who knows when his birthday is, but we do know he's about 1050 in Earth years.

So if you want to make that fire hazard of a cake...]

Val Adrik | FFXIV WoL

[concussionprotocol]

[ she has no idea when it is and has no memory of every celebrating it. someone save her. ]

james buchanan barnes | mcu

[counterstep]

( his birthday is mario day, and i need someone to point this out to him for him to be confused over. alternatively, y'know, give him some cake, or whatever it is people do now. he doesn't celebrate anymore, so he wouldn't know. 😢 )

gwen wynne-york | original

[trouvaille]

( gwen's birthday — her thirtieth, this year — falls on the 16th of december, and typically marks the beginning of festivities at her father's castle spanning from the week of her birthday through christmas and new years. december is a big deal. she has spent it away from italy once, with her mother and stepfather, and has been hearing about it every year since.

december celebrations at the castle, an hour or so outside of florence, open with a blow-out birthday bash usually in either the repurposed chapel (sunken sofa pits where the pews used to be, a movie screen replacing the altar) or the ballroom, and guests come and go throughout the month. specific extended family and friends always attend, in addition to anyone they might feel like inviting— the more the merrier! it's not as if there's a shortage of rooms for them to stay in.

the opening birthday salvo is usually 24 hour - champagne breakfast, a grazing lunch, sushi dinner, relaxing outdoor activities with heated braziers when weather allows, movies and conversation inside if not. the chapel transforms effectively into a nightclub atmosphere after gifts have been opened in the evening, and gwen—

is usually pretty tired by then. )

[brittlest]

Once, a long time ago now, Michael Ralston had been a welcome addition to shindigs like this one. What else is the astoundingly clever ward of a notable political appointee to do with his time if not run roughshod through garden parties, generally fashioning himself into an entertaining albeit vicious nuisance while endeavoring to snort coke off the vanity of at least one bathroom in every castle from Svalöv to Palmero? Once, a long time ago, he would have been pleased with the prospect of getting out of Evadne's cramped offices and shirking work for a weekend or two under the guise of seeing and being seen.

(Before Ralston had murdered her, Evadne Bayard had found it useful to have the child she'd acquired be nominally well connected and properly socialized.)

He is not, however, meant to be here now. Not alone, anyway. But somewhere between London and Florence, he seems to have misplaced the well meaning fellow to whom he was serving as a plus one. And now here he is—comically out of place amidst Gwen's guests, cheerfully radiating scandal from wherever he might be slouched simply by existing. Early release for excellent behavior, someone has claimed, but Michael Ralston had only ever behaved well for one woman and then had pushed her down a flight of stairs.

So.

"Ward's devastated to be missing all this," he'd said at some point and it wasn't a lie. John Ward had been mortified to find Ralston hadn't cancelled his travel plans when he had.

'You don't even want to see any of those people,' had been a toothless point in the argument. Yes, John. The feeling is mutual and that's exactly the point.

—is a sentiment that has lost some of its sadistic novelty less than twelve hours in. Driven to some brazier-heated veranda, he sits on the lowest step with that ugly dog-headed cane across his knees. He sucks down a cigarette. It provides meager resistance to the cold's bite.

Fuck this, actually.

[evokethestarsabove]

It's somewhere between the "relaxing outdoor activities" and the gifts that Alasdair makes it close enough to her side to murmur, "I can't believe you've done this thirty times" at a low enough volume he's fairly confident no one else could catch it.

(He'd acknowledge, if pressed, not exactly this ... though, on reflection, he thinks it not improbable that her first birthday involved similar amounts of alcohol.)

It's truly not his scene, but on the other hand, he's a man from a large and boisterous family. It's not as if he hasn't developed skills for coping with wall-to-wall party, and he has the advantage of not having heard absolutely all of the other attendees' stories before.

[shoulders]

[ Scene: interior, castle chapel, righthand corner, by the sacristy. Easily mistaken for a ghastly addition to the somewhat non-denominational decor is Bruce Wayne, an appalling apparition in coal-black, the Krampus of the pre-Christmas birthday party; having flinched his way through the entirety of the Wynne-York morning proceedings, he radiates an aura of bulletproof unsociability that scalds to the touch, if mildly. Somewhere between a 3 and a 4 on the pH scale.

(At least he's not basic. Badump-tssh.)

Bruce isn't sure what mask to wear, here. He has pointedly spent the last however-the-fuck-long staring intently at the movies being screened over the chapel altar, feigning fervent appreciation for Alain Delon in Le Samouraï in favor of acknowledging all the family and family-adjacents milling about the place. Knifepoint focus, put to the test: every so often he hears a mother or a father that threatens to pull him into a very genre-appropriate flashback to a Bad Place™.

New shoes scuff over stone flooring. Alfred hasn't even done him the courtesy of letting him wear them right out of the box; they're just broken in enough that Bruce can't use them as an excuse for his general discomfort.

This was a mistake, Bruce thinks. And, afterwards, once he manages to pull his head out of his own ass enough to stop looking like he's bleeding out from a gaping chest wound: well, Gwen looks nice.

She does. He is Looking, and it's just respectful enough that it doesn't make him seem like a mouth-breathing creep who broke into the party for hors d'oeuvres. Waving does not happen, but there's just the slightest incline of his head that says, to a careful viewer, "aren't you sick of all this yet?"

C'mon, Gwen, let's live a little. And by "live a little", we mean "let's go into the sacristy and eat lukewarm sushi without 50 people asking us questions about where we met." Tempting offer, he knows. He's gesturing towards the door with glum urgency. ]

Ichiban Kasuga | Yakuza

[donzoko]

[January 1, 1977!]

[astrogator]

[ Birthdays don't work all that well when you're a spacer. Ari can tell you that she was born in the 'fiftieth year of the Tower'. Does she know how long that year is compared to an Earth year? No. Does she know what the current year of the Tower is on her homeworld? Also no.

This is not because Ari is hopeless with calculations. Quite the opposite. It's because her age doesn't matter, she's a fully qualified astrogator, thank you. It's in her interest to keep it vague and fuzzy, even if she could approximate it easily enough. ]

Saint-Germain | Symphogear

[alchepistol]

[[ i decided it's bastille day july 14, xxxx bc..... ]]

gwen stacy | tasm/tasm 2 | ota

[chocolatehouse]

[ ooc; a google search told me march 2, then i did a little bit of subtraction to figure out she had to be born in 1995 to be 17 in 2012 when the first movie came out. she's the oldest of four children so the friend/family thing is a total given, but doesn't mind quiet, understated things either because well, she keeps herself busy! ]