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[splashpuppy]

[Action: 5720 Cunningham]

[Hajime is trying to measure himself by standing up against a door frame and marking his height with a pencil. It... isn't working very well, because it's more of a two person job]

[Phone]

W-what do you think happens at home, while we're here? Is time passing? If it isn't... do birthdays here count? I'm gonna be nine soon. I feel older. I'm definitely taller. But... does it mean anything?

Comments

Phone

[ooeeooahah]

Birthdays always count. From what I have seen so far, you might get to have some of them twice. That doesn't make it any less meaningful.

Re: Phone

[splashpuppy]

How does that... work, though?

Re: Phone

[ooeeooahah]

I'm not sure, but honestly, I plan to celebrate my survival. Being here is no picnic, but not letting them grind you down is an accomplishment.

[motheringnation]

[See's that and walks over.]

Oh here, I can help you with that.

[splashpuppy]

Thanks!

[He holds out the pencil he had been trying to use]

[motheringnation]

[She'll take it and mark his height on the door frame.]

Alright, you can move now.

Phone

[snacklist]

[He sounds highly indignant, the thought of a little girl not getting a birthday is horrible.]

Of course they count! And you should get a cake too.

Re: Phone

[splashpuppy]

Maybe Ukraine will make a cake...

[snacklist]

Not just cake! Pie too, apple and blackberry, and cookies and candy...

[Don't mind him, he's already salivating.]

[Phone]

[tofightfor]

Think it'll count if ya want it to.

Re: [Phone]

[splashpuppy]

I guess I counted it last year....

[tofightfor]

Seems it should count again then, yea?

[ phone ]

[imoutos]

I-I actually wasn't so sure either.. I didn't celebrate my birthday here last time since I-I didn't know if it was a real birthday or not..

Re: [ phone ]

[splashpuppy]

I did last year but... I'm starting to wonder. It's been a long time.

[ phone ]

[imoutos]

But then you'd have to make up for the past years' too, r-right?

Phone

[chalicejoker]

[This Hajime's going to have to clamp down some on his natural gloom and doom tendencies--he doesn't like upsetting kids, and this one says he'll be nine.]

There's no real way of knowing what's going on back home.

But I don't see why birthdays here wouldn't count. Some sort of time is still passing. Doesn't matter where you are as long as you've lived the year. That's still worthy of a celebration.

Re: Phone

[splashpuppy]

I just wonder... if it does count, will they even recognize me?

Re: Phone

[chalicejoker]

I think they would. I know I'd recognize those close to me no matter how much time has passed.

[unexculpable]

'Course it does. Birthday's are always important and they always mean something. Doesn't matter where you are.

[splashpuppy]

I didn't really think about it last year. I don't know, this is... it's a long time.

[unexculpable]

... How long have you been here for, exactly?

phone;

[italktomyplants]

It's a good question. [ One she'd not thought of. People seemed to be here for a while, why wouldn't they count? ] They should. Birthday's are important.

Re: phone;

[splashpuppy]

I hope they do but... I wonder about home, then.

Phone

[silvergoldengun]

I was back in my world for a short while, and it seems time does not pass, so you don't have to worry about that.
But I don't know how it's about birthdays. I'm old enough that it doesn't matter, but maybe we turn back to the age we were before we came here.

Re: Phone

[splashpuppy]

Do you think our bodies change back too?