First Floor Rec Room [Sunday Late Afternoon]

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Yesterday had been spent handwavily exploring, but Yurika knew that today was Very Important.

Yesterday, she had been Five. Today, Yurika was Six.

Normally her nanny or her Okāsan would throw her a party, with lots of balloons and treats and other little girls wearing very pretty dresses, which was actually very very boring, but Yurika had very quickly realized that there were no nannies or okāsans anywhere to be found.

Which suited her just fine.

She'd very diligently made a poster using some crayons she'd scrounged up, and managed to attach it to the door without using the whole roll of tape. Yurika had also managed to handwavily again get a red wagon at a store in town, and gone over to the bakery and gotten them to fill it up with moddable treats.

Even at six, she knew exactly what the credit card was for, and the employees were too frightened of the bossy child to object.

Now she had cartoons on the tv as she bounced on the couch, eating cake for lunch and wearing a glittery tiara. Best Birthday Ever!

[Open w/ moddable treats for all! ETA: Running errands, back inna bit.]

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[withoutverona]

Romeo saw the poster, which was good, because otherwise he would have been wandering around all day looking for Yurika. He had taken a bath when he woke up, so there was only a little mud left behind his ears, and he carried a bottle of something "wrapped" in about half of the Sunday comics and most of a roll of tape.

"Yuriiiiiiika!" he announced. "Happy birthday!"

[OOC: Queen of SP today, sorry.]

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Romeo!" she cheered, bouncing off the couch in her excitement. "Ohaiyo! I gots cartoons!"

[You and me both omg]

[withoutverona]

"I got a present!" Romeo returned. "What kinda cartoons?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Voltron or the meta!" she answered. "Ooooooo... what'd you get a present for? Is it your birthday too?"

[withoutverona]

"Nooooo," Romeo said slowly. "It's a present for you! My birthday was back in 'vember, r'member?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Right!" she cheered. "I get presents 'cause it's my birthday!"

Even wee, she had priorities.

"I gots cake, too, from the store. If you want some."

[withoutverona]

"What kinda cake?" Romeo asked, bouncing the present from hand to hand. Not that it mattered, he wanted some anyhow.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Cake with chocolate and frostings," she said seriously. "That's the best kind!"

[raspberryturk]

Reno totally had to run to the birthday party after his shift at work ended, and that phrase totally made him all giggly. He was a kid and he had a jooooob.

Wrapped up in a really messy Sunday newspaper comics page, smeared in mud and gunk and donut grease, was Doji's birthday present. And stuck to the top with a piece of chewed bubblegum, written on the back of the sales slip for the pony, was a 'kooponn' for a free apple juice, courtesy of Reno.

Tomorrow, it would be an IOU for booze. It would probably be best to not redeem that today.

The sparkle power unicorn, however, was going to always be a sparkly unicorn.

"Happy birthdaaaaay!"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Happy birthday to meeeeeeee!" Yurika sang, waving at him. "Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed."

[raspberryturk]

Reno was waving back with an armload of birthday present.

"Wanna open your present yet? Presents are fun! Is there cake? Gonna share?"

If she shared, Reno wouldn't punch her for it. Deadpool had given him permission yesterday to hit people for sweets! Deadpool was awesome.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

She considered this for a moment. On one hand, it was her cake. On the other, this was Reno.

"Hai!" Yurika decided, holding out her hands for her gift. "Since you brought a present, you can have as much cakes as you want."

[raspberryturk]

"Yaaaaay!" That there? That was Reno's happy dance. It involved stomping and waving of arms, and Deadpool had called it a see-shur yesterday but Reno didn't know what that was so he figured that meant it was a good dance!

It meant he didn't get to punch anyone, but that was okay. It was a birthday party anyway. "Thank you for the cakes!"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Ie ie," she replied automatically as she ripped into the present. "Oooooo... PRETTY!"

Tomorrow, Dojima would kill him. Today, Yurika thought it was the prettiest unicorn EVER.

[raspberryturk]

"Just like what you always wanted?" Reno seemed kind of proud of himself, right then. He'd never really been to a birthday party like this one, so it was good to know that he was doing it right!

"And keep the coupon, too! It'll be all useful at snacktime."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Okay," she replied seriously, carefully tucking the coupon into her pocket. "Does the unicorn gots a name, or can I give it one?"

[raspberryturk]

"You can," Reno chirped, looking anxiously at the cake. It was all the way over theeeeere and he was all the way over heeeeeere and that wouldn't do. "I'm not good at namin' sparkly things like girrrrrls are."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Boys aren't very sparkly," she agreed since she's too young to know about Fandom Glitter, dragging the unicorn back on the couch with her. "But that's okay."

If Reno went for the cake, she wouldn't be offended. She was too busy studying her unicorn and trying to think of a name.

[raspberryturk]

Which was good, because there went Reno for the sweet stuff at a full-on run the moment it looked like she was good and occupied with the present.

Food! Cake! Cakefood!

It was the best day ever.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Get me some too!" Yurika yelled, not looking up from her new toy.

"Please."

It took her a moment, but she remembered her manners.

[raspberryturk]

Well, if there were manners involved... Even if manners were kinda dumb...

A few moments later, and Reno returned, a biiiig piece of cake in each hand, lopsidedly balanced on a napkin each. No forks, though. Forks were for losers.

"Does your pony have a name yet?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Yurika held it up and studied it for a moment longer. "Hikari," she decided. "'Cause it's sparkly."

[raspberryturk]

"Is that what that word means? Sparkly?" Reno seemed kind of awed at that. He liked Doji, even if she spoke with that weird Wutai stuff sometimes and people didn't like Wutai people much where he was from because of the war and stuff. And learning was kinda neat. He could say words and people would think he was smart!

"It's a really sparkly unicorn. Is it a boy or a girl?" And now he was holding a piece of cake toward her.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"It means 'light', which is kinda sparkly?" Yurika explained, making it dance on her lap before setting it aside to take the cake. "Is a girl-name, usually. I didn't think a boy unicorn would have a pink bow."

[raspberryturk]

"Yeah. Only weird boys wear pink bows."

Like every guy who ever knew that Ancient, in lieu of black armbands, but Reno wouldn't know that. And anyhow, they were all pretty weird.

"It's a neat name, though!"

And now he was digging into his own cake like he was afraid ravenous wolves were going to try to steal it from him.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Cake was nummy, and Yurika dipped her fingers into the frosting. "Lotsa names mean things," she answered. "Like mine being a flower."

"I don't think there's a word for 'Reno' in Japanese. 'Cause you're the only Reno I know."

[raspberryturk]

Reno looked all proud at that.

"I'm the only Reno I know, too!" And he was also the only Reno who was thoroughly smeared in frosting and licking his fingers off at the moment, pondering more cake. "An' you're the only you!"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"The only Reno and the only Dojima!" This called for making the unicorn dance again. "We're special!"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Whoa, it's your birthday?" Hugo said, entering the rec room.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Hai!" Yurika exclaimed, waving her cake slightly. "Daddy says to 'Beware the Ides of Yuri-chan,' but I dunno what an ides is. Do you?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"No idea," Hugo said. "Maybe he meant... eyes?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Maybe?" Yurika shrugged. "But I dunno why someone would beware my eyes. My Okāsan says I have pretty eyes!"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Maybe you have special eyes?" Hugo said. "Like, maybe you've got special powers in 'em."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Laser vision! Like in the anime!" she cheered, seemingly appeased by this idea. "That would be neat!"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"So like, how old are you, laser-eyes?" Hugo joked.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Six!" This required more bouncing, and more cake. "Yesterday I was five!"

Tomorrow she would be nineteen, but Yurika didn't know that yet.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Cool," Hurley said. "That's almost as old as me."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Are you seven?" Yurika asked, eyes widening as she considered this. "Seven is after six."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Nine," Hurley said. "Which is even after eight."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Ooooooo!" Yurika was suitably impressed. "You're almost an adult!"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Hurley said. "It's kinda nice."