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Izunia Lucis Caelum ([personal profile] founderinglight) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-09-26 07:54 pm

and for the dark; and for the light

Who: Izunia and you! Especially if you are Ardyn or Maddie.
What: Birthday bros! And a few other conversations. Also, Armiger practice.
Where: Rise kitchens, library, a few other places.
When: The last few days of August and the first week of September.
Warnings: Murdergame discussion likely in Ardyn's thread; child abuse/neglect discussion likely in Maddie's.

[Aug 30; Text -> Kitchens, closed to Ardyn]

[Early afternoon comes a message from Ardyn's least favorite twin - ]

If you're still willing to participate in birthday cake production and related activities, I'll be settling up in the kitchens here in about an hour.

[Always leave him room to back out - truthfully Izunia is still extremely surprised that Ardyn agreed to the idea in the first place. But he'll be at the kitchens at the appointed hour, idly scrubbing pans and loading the dishwasher while he waits, very much not starting on the cake itself until Ardyn arrives.]

[Aug 30; Kitchens/common room, later]

[It appears that someone has set up... a surprising quantity of nicely decorated cake out? And there's also ice cream cake in the freezer. How'd that happen.

If you fail to run into the culprit, you might discover Izunia sprawled across one of the common room couches, a plate with no less than three kinds of cake on it. Most of them are the well-decorated ones, but there's also a very plain one that just says CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'VE AGED on it.

He's also keeping a particular eye out for Maddie if she passes through.]


[Library, Aug 28-Sept 3rd minus the 30th]

[Outside of his birthday celebrations - lowkey as they are - Izunia can mostly be found in the library this week. As usual, a good portion of what he can be caught reading is magic-related texts, but there's also a genuinely shocking number of children's and YA novels getting stacked up next to him, sorted into a series of piles. He seems to be churning through them in about half an hour to an hour a piece, so it's... getting to be a lot by the time he packs it in for the day each day, even with the usual amount of Nap.]

[Beach, Sept 4th, night]

[It's a very far way off from the Station that the flashes of blue light can be seen, and likely to very unusual to those who recognize their source. It's hardly just the trails and afterimages of warping and phasing that hang in the air, though. The shapes of Royal Arms hanging in the air, but also the orbs of light that are seemingly his to conjure now -

It's rare to see Izunia push himself, usually confident in his abilities, but it seems like he's doing so now. And it's suitably impressive, but something about his posture seems unsatisfied...

Hopefully, you weren't so foolish as to approach without a light, though, because if you hadn't heard, the guy flinging explosive balls of light and a variety of magical weapons around is Jumpy in the Dark.

And much later that night, you might catch him returning to the station, physically exhausted but with the usual air of warm gentleness about him, and rather a lot of sand still clinging to his clothes.]
blackestwitch: (really really not paying attention)

commons

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-09-27 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maddie can smell the cake(s) when she enters, but that's not TOO unusual. They have the stuff to make cakes, people like to eat cake, to each their own.

Despite the fact she now wants some cake, she simply finds an empty couch and collapses onto it in a gay-like manner, pulling up her feet almost immediately and pulling out her phone, casually propping her cane up next to her.

Zel will nod to Izunia, though, as he enters slightly behind Maddie. ]
burninglight: (can i bear to seek the truth)

kitchens

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-09-27 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like it on record that I'm only doing this because I like cake and I said I would, in that order.

[Ardyn yawned as he walked into the kitchen, as well put together as he ever could be but clearly having only woken up a short time ago by his tone.]
burninglight: (can i bear to seek the truth)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-09-27 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
You presumed correctly. [Ardyn deadeyed him before stifling another yawn, turning to set out a kitchen's worth of ingredients from the Armiger.]
blackestwitch: (not having an existential crisis today)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-09-27 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gah-- ] OH. I thought I smelled something familiar. [ IS SHE SAYING YOU SMELL?!?!?! ...No it's the cologne. ]

Hey. In a cake mood? [ She pauses... ] Wait, is it your birthday?
burninglight: (suddenly i see that i can't break free)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-09-27 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
You're disgusting, and I've never tried.

[have a small plastic bottle of imitation vanilla tossed at your head.]

[...this is bonding.]
blackestwitch: (thanks for coming to me ted talk)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-09-27 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Hey now, every birthday is important. It's an excuse to get stuff and eat cake. [ Says the girl who's only gotten cake OR presents since arriving here. ]
nojohnyouare: Full-body shot in the hall. (i need to make it right)

beach

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-27 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Mai walks out to the beach and stands there quietly, watching. She keeps a grip on her sword.]

...?
burninglight: (can i bear to seek the truth)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-09-27 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Fine. [Ardyn sighed, going through the cupboard for the bottle.]
nojohnyouare: Concerned look, but still guarded. (you want a revelation)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-27 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
...

[She blinks at being detected. Pauses.]

I didn't want to bother anybody else. You train here?
nojohnyouare: Turning to speak. (they think i'm crazy)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-27 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry. ...Because of the light? Or you're trying something new?
nojohnyouare: Mai looks up, dancing. (Default)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-27 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I've heard things. So you're practising. In case of a bad Fissure?
blackestwitch: (tell me what do your elf eyes see)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-09-27 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
You can.... you can make ice cream cake!?
stormkingofshepherds: (And breathed my last of clean sweet air)

Commons

[personal profile] stormkingofshepherds 2018-09-27 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Nathaniel pokes his head into the room, followed by an excited-looking Ludicolo's.]

Ah...whose birthday is it? [Rinn is already moving towards the cake, and Nathaniel has to put out an arm to get him to stop.]
burninglight: (suddenly i see that i can't break free)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-09-27 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
I don't see why I should go digging through the Armiger for one when there's a bottle right in front of me. Do you want this cake or not?

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