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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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With them, anything is worth it!

Are you going to celebrate everyone's birthdays?

[He looks back at the original post, taking note of the dates. Hm, Aradia's on March 25th?]

when possible id like to at least wish them a happy birthday!
and send them a present if i know them well enough that its not intruding haha
i think having parties is fun but were all so spread out generally
if im near someone when they have a birthday id be happy to have one though!

With our own plans, it can be hard to attend all the parties without some early planning.

Getting presents shouldn't be intruding! It generally means someone out there spend their time and put some thought into getting it for us. I'd be happy with getting almost anything.

exactly!
and i think the more people you know the more ridiculous it would be
to sort of stop everything for a party every month
which is sort of an issue even with just the people from my world!

that is true
i think its nice to know people think about you
even if just a little!

Yeah! Attending so many parties just because you know a lot of people would be very tiring, even if you didn't mean to.

I take it there's a lot of people from your world here?

[He's kind of envious of that. Atsuro's the only one from his world for several months now.]

yeah exactly!
although of course i want to wish them well on special days!

and yes
there are counting me
eighteen of us all told
from different time periods and occasionally different planets

[There's a pause, as he reread the text.]

Whoa, eighteen? That's a lot! Different time periods are normal, but the different planets thing is a little new. We haven't discover any other intelligent lifeforms on other planets back home.

well different planets and different universes too so
six from earth and three from earth in another universe
and then the rest of us from alternia

I take it you're from Alternia? Since your original post mentioned terms I'm not familiar with, or their context (like wriggling day and sweep).

yes i am!
wriggling day is a birthday
and a sweep is how we count time
its about 2 point 16 human years

Interesting! I'm kinda curious about the numbers for that, like do you have more days in a month or more months in a year? And was it easy to adapt to the human calendar?

i can try to sort it out for you later for sure :o
but we dont really have years so im not sure how many months there are
i think a perigree is kind of like a month!
and it was pretty easy
but our time counting had already been screwed up due to unavoidable events so

Unavoidable events are understandable. It's too easy to lose track of time that way.

What kind of unavoidable events?

well a lot of us died
and were from different times anyway
and some of us came from the afterlife where time was optional
or were time players who manipulated the flow of time enough to make it not mean anything

[A pause as he read and reread that.]

That's a lot of stuff happening!

The most deal with was school, studying, hanging out and I guess being stuck in a lockdown.

lockdown??

Long story short, people's been summoning demons, so the government's forced to put Tokyo under a lockdown to keep it contained.

I was unlucky enough to be inside when they put up the barricade.

[ ...Why does the demon thing sound familiar...? OH WELL... ]

oh i see!!
that really is quite unlucky :(
i hope you were doing all right at home

Yeah, and it's really tough.

[Y'know, chaos, violence, demons, watching people die.]

But me and my friends are working on solving the problem! We're almost done, but Johto happened.

how were you going to solve the problem?

By reprogramming the demon summoning server, we can control all the demons for our own use!

Of course, there's the risks of power abuse, so only authorised people are allowed to have access to it. That way, demons won't be running in the streets and we can use their powers for our benefit.

how do you plan to use it to your benefit :o
i mean besides the obvious benefit of not being attacked by demons
which is a pretty terrific benefit!

Demons have a lot of special powers, right?

If we can study them right, we can use them for both technological and scientific advancements. That way, society will reap the benefits, like getting electricity from power plants owned by the government.

i think that sounds very impressive then!!!
i hope that in your timeline proper things would out and you succeed
and have your demon power plants :p

Thanks! I just need to find a way back home to finish things off, then we can have our demon power plants.

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