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[thejoyrider]

Name: Marie Antoinette
Date: 2/11
Format: text

It’s my birthday! Second time I have celebrated one in Aefenglom. Time really flies! Hard to believe I have been here for more than a year already! :D I hope I can celebrate with everyone next year as well!

[Yeah, on the topic of celebrating with everyone...]

This year I will not be able to celebrate with two of my dear friends, the musicians Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. For those of you who knew them and attended the performances at the opera house... To my best knowledge, they are not in Aefenglom with us anymore. I felt the disappearance of both of my Bonds with them so unless something unknown is going on, it is safe to say that they have returned home. I am going to miss them but I am also happy to have been able to spend the past year with them.

[She is definitely not upset or at least is not going to show it.]

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text; un: feal

[noblegarnet]

Happy Birthday.

[Exclamation points are too emotionally draining right now. And he's a little distracted by the idea that Mozart was here? What the hell is this place even...

The thought of a birthday is a complicated one for him, because it requires thinking about the future. Even so, his watch from home tells him he'll be eighteen in several days...]

Are you just using Aefenglom's calendar? It's really similar to the one back home for me.

[thejoyrider]

[if you thought it was strange that Mozart was here, just wait until you find out who are you talking to]

Indeed, it translates well to Aefenglom calendar. The day of my birth back home falls on the second day of November. Is this a month name you are familiar with?

[noblegarnet]

[That'll sure be a realization!]

Yeah. It was almost December back home when I was brought here last month. It's strange to think of this place as some kind of alternate Earth, but at least it makes things easier to remember.

[He wouldn't expect a different planet to have a "Victorian, but make it folklore" feeling, but that's different realities for you, he guesses.]

text; un: steak

[battlebound]

happy birthday, marie.

( as for the rest of that... well. he is hardly the person you want commenting on these kinds of affairs in general, but especially given his own disappearance and reappearance in Aefenglom. true, he could point that out, but he has no way of knowing that they could return, and is false hope really something worth giving?

Steak doesn't think so, anyway. )

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[thejoyrider]

thank you Steak, thank you so much! I appreciate these wishes a lot

[and she really means it. Not many people in Aefenglom have seen her upset and she’s going to do her best to avoid that number going up too much.

Salieri already disappeared and came back once before, so she’s going to cling to that hope for a bit. But for now? Yes, it does hurt. So she appreciates each and every kind word]

I am glad I was able to meet you here

[battlebound]

( these things happen. and they suck, but he believes Marie seems like the resilient sort. she'll be fine with it soon enough, right? )

what's this all about? haha.

( you don't need to tell him that, Marie! he is also glad he met you, after all. )

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[scatmaam]

[ It was becoming a more and more common thing, these days, for Scathach to just find Marie wherever she was in the house and wrap her in a warm, sometimes tight hug. So it wasn't particularly unusual, any longer, for her to do so in that moment, seeking out the queen by her scent, and wrapping her in that embrace.

Though this time, it was not simply for her own sake. ]

[thejoyrider]

[Just last month Marie was doing what she could to take care of Scathach and ease her burden for a bit after Zelda’s disappearance. Now, having lost dear friends and both of her Bonds at once and not too long after losing the Bond with Lance she found herself in the same situation.

So the physical closeness was more than welcome]

Thank you. I just wanted you to know, I am really happy you are here.

[scatmaam]

I feel the same, my friend. [ Scathach sighed, nuzzling against Marie lightly. ]

Anything you need of me, you may ask. Even if it is simply to be here, for you.

text / @keith

[marmoron]

you were also bonded to lance a while ago weren't you?
you've got some impressive luck with people getting sent back

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[scatmaam]

Keith.

[ Said almost like a scolding mother. Don't rub salt in a wound, lad. ]

[thejoyrider]

Yes, I was.

I hope he is happy and all right wherever he is now.

un: joao

[navegador]

feliz aniversário!
i am sorry that i missed the opportunity to watch your friends perform.
it sounds like their music brought much joy to this world.

[ Portugal thinks about adding, "just as they did in mine", but then deletes it. He doesn't want to assume that they're the same people just because their names are familiar. It could just be a coincidence, after all.

There's a pause after the previous line, and then, once he's thought his response through: ]

are you at least enjoying some cake?

[thejoyrider]

I have high hopes their works will continue to be performed in Aefenglom. This will be their legacy.

Thank you for the wishes! I am and I have a lot left, would you like a slice? :D

[Marie is going to let everyone eat cake. She might have never actually said that line in her life but it’s part of her legend either way.]

text, un: filament

[omnicrafter]

Ah... I'm sorry. Pity, that; they just missed the masquerade by a hair, too.

Are you doing anything nice for yourself this year? Even something small?

[thejoyrider]

It’s a shame they couldn’t go. I was really looking forward to enjoying it together with them this year...

I do have cake. Would you like to come over for a slice?

[Having company is nice, especially on birthdays]

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[whydogs]

Oh shit, it's your birthday? I had no idea.

Want me to fix you up anything special tonight?

[thejoyrider]

Actually, would you like to come over for some cake? I am not having a big party this year...

[Mood is a bit off for big parties.]

But I do have a lot of sweets and company is always nice

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[loadme]

Happy Birthday ♥

How many years is it, now?

[thejoyrider]

[Now that’s a good question... One that’s a bit hard to answer]

Let’s see... My human life ended shortly before I turned thirty eight, but the form I have been summoned as a Servant is from when I was a young woman. My summoning as a Servant happened a few hundred years after my death and it’s been roughly two years until I found myself in Aefenglom where I spent the past year...

Never ask a Heroic Spirit their age, not because it’s rude but because they will genuinely have no idea how to answer]

I think I will go with the “forever 18” route

text | un: taru

[seemstressed]

Happy Nameday Miss Marie! Will you be doing something special for the celebration?

[thejoyrider]

[The mood is not really one for parties but that doesn’t mean she didn’t do anything]

Actually, I got some really good sweets. Would you like to try them?

[wordsinthesoul]

my congratulations to you on another year!

I am sad to hear it accompanied by such news, though. [Surely more time would not have been too much to ask.] Is there aught I might be able to do for you?

[thejoyrider]

Thank you! Aefenglom feels more and more like home with every week, it’s hard to believe it’s been so long already

I am really grateful for your concern! I shall be okay soon, hopefully, but I will let you know if I require any help.

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[enkidoh]

[Losing bonds is a big thing. Enkidu knows that because they lost all of their bonds not a long time ago. It leaves an awful hole inside the chest.]

are you well, marie?

[And it is odd because they remember that Salieri just came back.]