Once you party with us

[knightime]

Characters: Dave Strider, the loser Homestucks with birthdays in December, Naminé, and everyone else who's in the Media Room at that time.
Setting: Media Room
Format: Either
Summary: Party in the media room. Look at all these stupid kids who have birthdays in December.
Warnings: Teenagers are dumb. Stupid shenanigans.

It wasn't really a proper party set-up. There were no decorations or anything that would signify it were a party. Dave didn't really have supplies or time to make anything and he wasn't really around to even plan anything in the first place.

Jason didn't really make it any easier by giving them only foodbars and water for this month either.

But he did try. He made those shitty paper ringlets to hang and he taped really crappy drawings of balloons to the walls. An attempt was made and he thinks his balloons are pretty fucking awesome anyways. It was a little sad. The list was a lot shorter than he anticipated. He ignored that nagging thought though. He didn't want to recall that a lot of his friends had left while he was gone.

Yeah, pretending that isn't a thing that happened.

Too busy admiring his really shitty attempt at birthday decorations.

Damn, he even made a cake. Ok. It wasn't really a cake. He mashed nutrition bars into a bowl with water and attempted to bake it. That...that didn't actually really come out like he hoped. Mostly, he put it in too long so the outside was completely burn yet the middle was still a really gross mush. No one was probably going to eat it. But it's the thought that counts...

It's a really gross fucking cake.

Obviously though, he should be in charge of birthdays all the time. "Fuck, I'm amazing at this." No, Dave. This is pretty shitty and you know it. You tried though. You tried.

[[OOC: Feel free to threadjack and mingle!]]

Comments

[ghostytrainer]

[Just staring at that "cake." An attempt was made, sure, but dear god that is just...]

[Ew. Gross. Not that he would be singing a different tune if it was actually a real cake, but still. John's Zorua doesn't seem to share his opinion though, as he hops up onto the table, trots over to the bowl, and...sticks his face in it.]

Michael J., no! Don't eat that!

[You ever seen a kid try and pull a magic fox thing out of a bowl of mashed up nutrition bars? Well you have now!]

[tentacletrainer]

From the looks of it, you may not be able to stop him. [[Rose is just going to be standing behind John, watching the little fox go. And then just watching as Turkey tries to haul himself up onto the table. He kind of gets up there, and then just starts dragging the cake bowl toward him instead. Screw getting the rest of his body up there.]]

[heirterosexual]

[John's just kind of cracking up from over here, 'kay.]

Dude, let him! That way we won't have to eat it.

[knightime]

[Wow, don't make fun of his cake?! He tried real hard to make a cake with what they had at hand. Shut up.]

Wow, that's fucking gross...

[Okay, even Dave finds this cake really gross.]

[floreatnoctem]

...goodness.

[Chidori watches this with something like a smile on her face, head tilting slightly as she watches. She should probably help but... well. She doesn't really want any mashed nutrition bar getting onto her dress.]

Well, at least it's being eaten?

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[It was a shame there was no other food around here, because this would be the perfect thing to eat some popcorn at.

Yep she's just gonna rest her elbows on the table and watch sorry not!ectobro.]

Gotta let a growing.. [izzat some kinda fox or....] fox monster get their nutrients.

[heirterosexual]

[So probably the coolest thing about being the Heir of Breath... was that he literally got to become air. It was completely and utterly and did he mention ridiculously awesome.]

[So the first thing Dave probably notices is the slight draft in the room, followed by familiar snickering, and eventually hands settling over his eyes.]

Not like it's hard, but guess who.

[knightime]

[Dave nearly jumps like ten feet because wow-where-the-fuck-did-you-come-from-holy-shit. He makes a strangled yelp or scream or some kind though. Oh my god, that's so embarrassing.]

Holy crap, where did you come from?

[tentacletrainer]

[[Those balloons were true beauty. Works of art that should be put into every mueseum across the globe. If there were any left, anyway.

But Rose can't help but notice something is...missing from each. What would that be? Well if you bother watching her, you'll notice that she is drawing pictures on the balloons. Birthday balloons typically have little pictures on them, right?

There are cats and rabbits and birds and dogs...

After she's added a fair amount of doodles to these balloons, she's retired to a seat in the room, watching everything for now.

And yes, she's completely ignoring the fact that her Pokemon are out and about making friends. Well, two of three at least. Unfortunately Vodka is a little too big for the Media Room. But you might find a purple fox like creature staring at you intently, or perhaps a three foot tall fuzzy grub trying to fit in places it can't or sneaking some of the cake when nobody is looking.]]

[knightime]

You have a problem with my balloons, Lalonde? [Not enough penises are being drawn. Tsk, tsk Rose. You know better. Always gotta draw peens. Have you looked at the book that Karkat and Dave got ahold of during the intermission?]

How many of these things ended up in your trunk?

[Dave actually let Missy loose to wander at some point while he was decorating. He's pretty sure she'll be back soon though.]

[floreatnoctem]

[ >Feed the grub?

Yeah, Chidori can do that, especially if it means more of that cake-but-not-cake gets finished. Less for the rest of them have to somehow put away. So yeah, don't mind if Chidori occasionally bends down to sneak it pieces of protein-cake whenever people aren't looking.]

[plushaeusrumpified]

[Aaand here's Bro. Honestly, he's a little disappointed that the party is a little late. He'd have preferred it be on Dave's actual birthday, but oh well. He at least wished Dave a happy birthday on his birthday and accepted that the party would be late because of how many kids needed to be accounted for.

He's just gonna be here... eying the cake. He's pretty tempted to eat it to show support. Y'know, take one for the team. Show a little enthusiasm. Get a little party spirit going on.

But yeah that requires building up the courage.]

[tentacletrainer]

[[Oh. Hello there, Bro. Rose had no idea that you were here too. It's kind of hard to believe that maybe their entire group was just transplanted from Johto to here sometimes with the similarities in head count, but whatever.

Just going to caaasually sidle up beside him.]]

I'm fairly certain it isn't toxic, so if you were eying it because you wanted to try it you're likely safe.

[heirterosexual]

[Squint.]

...Mr. Strider, right?

[knightime]

Please tell me you aren't actually considering eating it.

[Even Dave won't eat what he made.]

Seriously. We can toss it out and pretend everyone got a slice and never speak about the monstrosity again. We now know the extent of my cooking abilities. Or lackof if we're gonna take the honest route.

[floreatnoctem]

I wouldn't.

[Chidori's been eyeing the thing since she arrived- and she really wants to know what Dave even did to manage to get nutrition bars into a cake-like formation.

She's a brave soul, but not even Chidori has the stones to slice herself a piece of that particular masterpiece.]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Building up courage? Right she could. Totally do that. This wasn't weird at all, right? This guy was basically Bro just not...her, Bro. The Bro that was Dave's Bro and their Jade lived on an island possibly??

But anyway. She could...totally do this. Not like her Bro was dead anyway and uh...

Nope nevermind she definitely couldn't do this so Jade was just going to stand there awkwardly and kind of stare at the cake a foot or so away from him being an accidental creeper.]

[ghostytrainer]

[Oh god the weirder Strider is here too. This is the first time John has actually been in the same room as him in god only knows how long. And wow, hey, he's going to stop trying to remember exactly how long it's been because he had successfully blocked out their last encounter and he intends to keep it that way.]

[Shit was awkward, yo.]

[But when he talked to him a couple of months ago, things weren't so bad...dude is definitely still weird though. John's Zorua is still in his arms as he approaches Bro. His last encounter with the "cake" wasn't exactly one John would like to repeat, after all.]

Waiting for it to do a trick? Because it would not surprise me if it did one.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Jade would've much rather been spending time in her room where it wasn't freezing cold like the rest of the tower, but she'd made due throwing on the top of her God Tier pajamas and bundled up in her scarf as best as she'd could. You can't deny a fellow Strider hen they randomly pop up to tell you to come to a birthday party, after all.

Granted, she hadn't actually been involved in setting up the party, but right now she WAS lying down on the couch, nested in the cushions, blowing air into the balloon, letting it out, and repeating ad nauseam. Truly a party animal.]

[tentacletrainer]

[[Well well well. Which Strider is this? At least she's pretty sure this is a Strider. Shades, red theme, Hero of Time. Bundled up like it's a blizzard.

Black hair though. Hm.

Well, either way, Jade how would you feel about a good sized fuzzy grub crawling onto the couch to nestle beside you? He's probably long enough to be a decent body pillow and comes with the added bonus of being really, really warm.

Perks of being part Fire type, right?]]

You look like you could use a little entertainment.

[knightime]

[And suddenly a Ninetales is bounding up to Jade and sniffing at her before it starts licking her face. But Missy was a relatively warm pokemon since she was a fire type.]

I think either she really likes you or she's trying to lick your face off. I'm not an expert though.

[lethechained]

[General]

[Naminé will be making a meandering circuit of the room, taking a good look at everything, all the 'decorations' and the... 'cake'. Regardless of the quality of said things, she's smiling to herself all the same. (The cake does get some raised eyebrows, though.)]


[Dave (OU)]

[Oh, that sure is a Naminé wandering over his direction. She comes to a stop at his side, studying the same portion of the decorations he is with a small smile on her lips.]

You really... put some effort into this.

[This probably translates as a 'You Tried' star, but her tone is positive.]

[heirterosexual]

I'm keeping guard on that thing in case it decides to become sentient and try eating us.

[He doesn't look away from the cake as he says this, but he brings it up when Namine pauses to peer at the cake. Hi there, nice to finally meet you, girl that my best bro is kind of totally into.]

[floreatnoctem]

[Never fear, a real cake is here. Or well- as close to a real cake as Chidori managed, given the current tower conditions. It's a fairly simple thing- apple-spice flavored and topped with apples- getting things from the restaurant had proved difficult, but not impossible. Though getting the ingredients and not what they were meant to make had taken some finagling. She sets the cake down next to the one that's already there and takes in the decorations with a careful eye.

Well. He tried, at least.

She settles for wandering the party after setting the cake down, a paper-wrapped parcel under her arm, tied with a spare white ribbon.]

[plushaeusrumpified]

[Holy shit. Holy shit she did it, she came through. Bro could pretty much just kiss her right now, jesus christ. He wasn't sure she would actually be able to come through. But here she is. With the delay in party, he'd been unable to participate in helping, but that doesn't even matter now. He trusts this beautiful person with this beautiful cake.]

You're a fuckin' lifesaver.

[semipotence]

[Jade can be found fondly regarding the decorations and basically looking around at everything. She doesn't come to the media room all that much.

She is also very obviously contemplating trying some of the "cake" Dave made. Mostly because nobody else but the Pokémon seems to have done so and that makes her feel bad. NOBODY LET HER DO IT...]

[knightime]

[Please don't eat it. Dave is pretending it doesn't exist at the moment because shit is nasty.]

Was hoping you'd make it. It wouldn't be a party if not all the birthday kids were present. [Also, because it's Jade.] Party don't start till you walk in.

/slams this in here late as fuq

[hellacious]

[Whoa there y'all, who started the hoedown without her? Okay no, but seriously.

Sis wasn't aware of the party,she'd just been making her way along the tower to scope things out when she heard the noise, and stopped to lean against the stairway to peer at the kids partying. It took her a second to realize that most of them looked familiar in one way or another. Not to mention godtiers- godtiers fuckin' everywhere.

So yeah, have one slightly dumbstruck lady Strider kind of frozen partway off the staircase, one hand jammed loosely in her pocket and the other adjusting her shades like it'll change what she's looking at.

Wow okay this tower sure just got about 90% more Completely Unacceptable in her eyes.]

[knightime]

[Dave was enjoying himself. It's been awhile since he's really relaxed and did normal teenager things like this. Well, he kind of did stupid teenager shit all the time, but it was less about forcing himself to do so and this time he was actually just acting his age.

But that didn't mean he wasn't observant. He always made sure that he can view the entrance into the room in case. Partly out of paranoia and partly just wanting to make sure that no one got hurt.

Dave was floating a few inches above ground for a moment, but he let himself drop back down to the floor, his face going from a smile to that of complete surprise. It could just be him overthinking, but the anime shades and just the way she held herself...the feeling she kind of radiated.]