♔ 007; [video]

[velveteenmage]

Psssst. Hey. Hey you. Over here, check your terminal~

[Whispering conspiratorially over the D-Terminal is...a Piximon. How odd. Has she been seen in the city at all before? Probably not. She's been busy annoying her partner wth her shiny new Ultimate form because wow holy shit it's got wings and is super fast.]

Listen, listen~ I know you're all suuuuper busy with all the...uh...

[She turns and looks out the window at the mob of inexplicably falling Digimon before turning back and pointing at the window behind her.]

...all the that. Stay inside and be safe, alright? Maybe put a mattress outside for them to land on~♥

[Was there a point to this?]

Listen, listen, there's something I want you to help me with next week! My partner, I think he's kinda lonely. He doesn't have a whole lot of friends and he's pretty dumb about the ones he does have. And he hasn't told anybody but me, but it's his birthday next week, on the third. So that's where you come in~♥

Somebody just say hi and be nice to him then, okay okay? And if you want to come by with a cake, I sure wouldn't mind that.

[and thus her true intentions come to light...]

Whoops...I'm pretty sure he's coming back, so you didn't hear anything from me, got it?

[And right on cue, Waver walks in--scrambles, really--with a very angry Gatomon beating the everloving shit out of his head.]



GET IT OFF ME GETITOFFME--!

[if ever there was a well-timed video cutoff, that might have been it.]

Comments

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Is this the year he'll finally become a real man?

[ A totally unrelated question right? RIGHT?? ]

video; i'm sorry i have like no digimon icons at all

[velveteenmage]

[After dealing with the disgruntled cat and presumably sneaking off with the D-Terminal...]

You shouldn't sell him short--hiyeheheh, I know he is pretty small and pathetic, but he's not as useless as he looks.

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Do you think I'm not aware of that? If he was useless, I wouldn't be wasting my time getting to know him.

[ Leave it to her to be so blunt and yet oddly open about the purpose of her friendships. ]

If I can learn enough from him about the old world magecraft, maybe I can duplicate it again in this world. Being able to use code casts in the Moon Cell was one way of accommodating for the loss of magecraft--by those means, it should be theoretically possible to use it in this world.

video; a fate worse than death, i know

[velveteenmage]

Oooooh, I get it. And here he kept going on about how you probably just liked messing with his head.

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[headup_stickontheice]

Maybe you should give him a hand...?

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[velveteenmage]

[Juuust a bit later:]

We got it, we got it~ Boy, she was awfully mad about landing on him.

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[headup_stickontheice]

Yeah, I'd be too, but it's not his fault.

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[velveteenmage]

[Shrug.]

Poor kid, he's just some kind of lightning rod of bad luck lately. I think he could use a break~

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[notmyprophecy]

What's a birthday?

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[velveteenmage]

Just what it sounds like~ Humans celebrate the day they were born once every year. Usually with cake.

...And I really want some cake.

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[notmyprophecy]

So... hm. Maybe a use for that calendar thing I've heard about...

...What's cake?

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[velveteenmage]

It's this really delicious thing made out of sugar and...and, uh...probably other things that aren't sugar that are less important.

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[candeloro]

[So Waver's having a birthday soon? Well, Mami certainly will have to try to figure out something to get him, maybe make use of the cafeteria kitchen to bake him a cake, too...

... Wait a sec-]

Pardon me, but did you say that Waver-san's birthday is October 3rd?

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[velveteenmage]

Sure did, sure did~ Why?

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[candeloro]

Incidentally, that happens to be the same date as an aquaintance of mine from home.

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[velveteenmage]

That'll probably make it real easy to remember, then~

[as i say with many things, 'blame urobuchi']

[guilmon]

It's his birthday soon?

[GASP. That's amazing! At least, it's amazing to Guilmon because birthdays are special. This needs more than just smiles and kindness!]

Are you gonna throw him a party? I think birthdays are supposed to have big, big parties with cakes and balloons and party hats.

[Maybe even party games.]

[velveteenmage]

We should, we should~! But I can't do it on my own, so I want to get people to help me out!

[guilmon]

Good idea! You'll get lots more done if you have some extra hands! And more people means you can get more stuff a lot faster. Maybe Guilmon can try looking for some balloons right now...

[Granted, he's never actually... orchestrated a party before, but how hard can it be? Guilmon knows how to have fun. Parties are supposed to be fun! Clearly they just have to put on their thinking caps and do something crazy.]

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[robotfightclub]

You know what, I'm gonna ask. Can anyone explain to me why birthdays are such a big deal around here? These messages are popping up too often for me to keep ignoring.

[She's trying to learn, honest.]

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[velveteenmage]

Why? Uh...I don't really know why, it just is. Kind of like a holiday that's just for you specifically, I guess?

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[robotfightclub]

[A beat.]

That doesn't sound egotistical at all.

[But that isn't really the most important thing right now, is it?]

Maybe you should make sure he's okay before celebrating how long he's been alive. You know, so he can make it to his next birthday.

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[needsteaplz]

[Saori blinks as she watches Waver getting owned by a Gatomon.]

Oh dear. Spraying some water might help but it might get that Gatomon mad...

If it's cake you want, I can easily whip one up for such an occasion.

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[velveteenmage]

He can handle it. ♥

Would you, would you really~?

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[needsteaplz]

[She laughs]

Sure! I love cooking and baking for people. So, what flavor cake do you think he'd like?