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[candothat]

I realize that many people are distressed by this curse and I'm very sorry for that, but I have a question: are eighteenth birthdays of any special significance where you are from? At home, eighteen is the age at which someone is considered an adult. It is also the minimum drinking age in many places, as well as the minimum age for a variety of activities that I have been told about but would rather not repeat here.

Are birthdays celebrated here? We age, I know that, but it seems greedy to celebrate a birthday here only to celebrate it again after we have left.


[Private Message to Doc Brown]
I am afraid that I will be of no use to you in your experiments and studies until next month. I'm sorry.

[Private Message to Delacroix & Pepper Potts]
Apologies, but I will be unable to come to work at City Solutions until the fifteenth of October. I can offer an excuse if you would like it.

[Private Message to Charlie]
This is a strange question, maybe, but does your tea shop accept temporary employees?


[ooc: Yes, he is cursed. No, he does not want to share. Most importantly, tomorrow is his eighteenth birthday. There's also this deity trade thing that happened, but he would rather not talk about that, either. Or Howl. Or...]

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[prosopopoeia]

A month?

[...But. Who else will be competent for her.]

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[candothat]

Sorry Delacroix, but I will not be useful for nearly a month. It would be wasteful for me to come in.

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[prosopopoeia]

What have you done.

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[charring]

Yes. Why?

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[candothat]

I may require a temporary job.

I am not sure where else to look.

[trenchknives]

Where I come from, there wasn't a minimum drinking age. Not until they outlawed all booze, anyway.

[A pause.]

But yeah, eighteen is significant. You can enlist in the military at eighteen.

[candothat]

Why would all of it be outlawed?

[A sound that's not quite a scoff or a laugh.]

I am already enlisted, but Starfleet is unlike what most people mean when they say "military."

[infernoandhearth]

There's nothing wrong with more than one celebration. Especially when you apparently won't remember the first one.

[candothat]

Maybe so, but what is the best way to celebrate?

[tangledintower]

Birthday's are really important! Is yours coming up soon?

[Because if it is, then Rapunzel will make sure that it is special. She'll bake you a cake that looks like a fish.]

[candothat]

Yes, tomorrow.

I will also begin working at the tea shop tomorrow. It will be a an important day.

[mightbeconcussed]

Eighteenth birthdays are totally important, Pavel. We have to celebrate.

[candothat]

So I've been told.

I am not sure that I should celebrate, however. A friend--one of the two I live with--has left, which has been sad. A celebration may upset this remaining friend.

[hexuality]

Well, we all know how I am about birthdays. I say go ahead; here or at home, it's still your birthday, you know? Should count towards something. And where I come from, seventeen's the big age for all that stuff.

[candothat]

Yours was very good--your birthday celebration.

Seventeen? I wish that was the same at home! It's very unimportant. I think I may have spent it studying.

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[firesneeze]

I'd say we're entitled to having two sets of celebrations for birthdays.

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[candothat]

Entitled! Then I will celebrate.

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[what_the_flux]

Well, I'm... very sorry to hear that. Though there's certainly no need for you to apologize.

Are you all right?

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[candothat]

It is very necessary to apologize. I traded with the deities and negotiated badly.

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[majorcrotchgrab]

We drink more. And get you a delicious pie.

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[candothat]

And you would be entitled to at least half of that pie.

[mortemscintilla]

I don't think there's anything wrong with celebrating them here. [ Not that he celebrated his birthdays. Survival in a warzone left no room for frivolity. ] Are you turning eighteen?

[candothat]

No, of course not. There is nothing wrong with celebrating, and I am, yes.

[voice]

[claimyourself]

It's sixteen for my family. For our... people, I guess you'd say.

[Her voice sounds rather bland, because her sixteenth birthday was not a good time.]

That's when the really significant stuff happens.

[voice]

[candothat]

What kinds of significant things?