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[timelymaid]

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. ]

Comments

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, I should say that it's more like getting an organ transplant than having it just appear or something along those lines, but given that it's a crest... 'engraving' is a far more artistic way of referring to it. It's actually a fairly long process that involves the transferal of magic circuits, which are, of course, the things that allow us to use magic. They have an extremely high chance of rejection even among close relatives, so it takes a fairly long time to prepare someone to inherit a crest.

I have my issues with it, but it's entertaining enough.

[timelymaid]

a chance of rejection?
how does that work?
i mean what happens if it is rejected

[enjoymyatelier]

It's something like getting an organ transplant, really, albeit more complicated. If the body sees the crest as an invasive foreign object, it will attack it as though it were a virus of some sort, which both renders it useless and causes a great deal of pain to the bearer.

[timelymaid]

well
im glad that didnt happen to you then!
it sounds terribly unpleasant

[enjoymyatelier]

It really isn't something I would have had to worry about--this sort of thing generally happens to newer families for a wide variety of reasons. Established families generally have ways of ensuring it doesn't happen.

[timelymaid]

ways of ensuring it?
like magic or

[enjoymyatelier]

Occasionally, yes; there are certain medicines that can help with it, though more than anything, it has to do with the purity of the bloodline in question.

[timelymaid]

so you have a hemospectrum as well?
sort of

[enjoymyatelier]

Something like it, yes. It's something that can be built up over generations, though, since our ancestry is more easily traced.

[timelymaid]

so youre near the top of the hemospectrum?

comment 413 yeahhhh

[enjoymyatelier]

You could say that, yes. I'm not sure what the equivalent would be, honestly--my family has been practicing for over 500 years, but other families have been practicing for over 1000. Of course, that doesn't prevent my family from being almost as powerful and influential as they come.

CONGRATULATIONS

[timelymaid]

hm
i think that actually helps me understand it a bit
i think it must be interesting to be able to trace your ancestry to that degree

[enjoymyatelier]

It most certainly is. I'm glad that I can take pride in being descended from people who are actually worth remembering.

[timelymaid]

haha sometimes you remind me of eridan
just in things you say

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, we are of roughly the same social status, I would imagine, though I would hope that I am far more adept than he is.

[timelymaid]

you seem more well versed in social ways if thats what you mean!

[enjoymyatelier]

That's precisely what I mean. I have no idea why he's so abysmal at them.

[timelymaid]

um
hes always been like that pretty much
kill all the land dwellers etc
feferi whos above him on the hemospectrum is nice so im not really sure what happened there
its just eridan i think

[enjoymyatelier]

...I was talking about his social skills, not his genocidal tendencies, though those are admittedly even more worrying. I'm glad that at least it isn't your entire aristocracy that's lacking even the social awareness of a teaspoon, at least.

[timelymaid]

oh yes but arent those tendencies sort of bad social skills?? :o
and really he spent a lot of our game killing the denizens of his planet
so
well its just eridan

[enjoymyatelier]

Saying that his attempts to murder practically everything he sees that isn't someone of high blood are "bad social skills" is rather like saying the ocean is a bit wet.

[timelymaid]

haha actually
its pretty socially acceptable back home to kill people?
i mean
i know its really not for humans but killing other trolls is a thing that happens :/
especially for highbloods

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, surely genocide is still socially unacceptable, isn't it? That's certainly above and beyond anything else.

[timelymaid]

well thats pretty much why kanaya killed him
he sort of accomplished the genocidal thing more or less
honestly everyone sort of avoided him at home
although i think some people avoided him because he hit on them
not sure

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, I really can't blame them for it, now that I have a better picture of the kind of person he actually is. He was difficult enough as it was when I was actually trying to put up with him.