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whens your birthday?
im curious
and how do you normally celebrate it at your home?

where im originally from we dont use years or months or any of these things as a time term
a sweep isnt even equivalent to a year
and you have one wriggling day a sweep
although theres not much you do on them compared to human parties which i think are more fun
i cant even begin to figure out how you would equate a wriggling day to a yearly thing anyway
so i just did what jake suggested and picked something else for fun

speaking of!
ive got a list now and since i need to get it to several people this seems appropriate
sans terezi nepeta equius gamzee the birthday calendar is as follows:
february 14 eridan ampora february 22 sollux captor march 25 aradia megido
april 13 john egbert and jane crocker august 31 kanaya maryam
september 21 or 22 karkat vantas because whichever is the equinox!
and then december 1 is jake english and jade harley
december 3 is strider day
and december 4 is lalonde day

so that crosses off everyone i know from home but i do not have the days of everyone i know here
thus this very important question!
if you dont have one we can pick one because this is exciting!

[ as always, if you respond in something else, Aradia will match you. ]

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oh im not from an earth country!
im from alternia
thats another planet :)
and yes it is something like it!
although we dont really celebrate like you do

do you like to draw shaun?

Whoa really? Another planet? So you're like an alien?

Yeah, a little. I'm not that good at it though.

yep!
although youre the alien to me :p
and im human here
everyone who wasnt human to start with becomes human when they get here
its just something that happens i guess!!

id like to see sometime anyway!
im not an artist myself

What do you look like when you're not humanfied?
If that's okay to ask.

Okay. I have to get paper and stuff again... All of mine are still at home.

oh i dont mind!
i normally have gray skin and rams horns
which are gradienty orange to yellow
and the whites of our eyes are yellow
and my blood is burgundy not red
and i usually have butterfly wings these days!

Wow, that's neat! It sounds a lot different from being a human. Was it hard to get used to?

Yes. [ She doesn't mind exactly, but she misses her general biology. ] I think the hardest part was getting used to being awake in the day. We're normally nocturnal, since our sun is pretty dangerous.

[This is a child whose bedtime is 8 pm. He does not understand nocturnal anything.]

Really? You mean like, it's too hot to go outside during the day? Don't you have school and stuff?

Most of us couldn't survive out there - at least not without serious injuries? Among other things, the sun has been known to blind people, so...

As to school, not really. We learn from our lusii. Putting a bunch of trolls into one place to learn history or something just sounds like a terrible idea!

Wow, that's really scary...

What's a lusii?

its a monster that cares for a young troll into their adult stage!
oh you never said your birthday by the way :o

A monster? Isn't that dangerous? Don't you have parents?

January 19.

its hard to know who the trolls who specifically donated their genetic material to your birth would be
its all sort of mixed together by the mother grub
and then the eggs are laid all willy nilly
so
your guess is as good as mine!
and it isnt dangerous
the lusus adopts a young troll as its own
and raises them into maturity :)

i see! it looks like we just missed it then :(

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