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Who ☀ Hector & "everyone"
What ☀ It's Hector's birthday!
When ☀ August 5
Where ☀ Lumina Cloth. Surprise!
Content Warnings ☀ drunk people, will add as needed

[ Arrive at Mac Anu, where the welcome party was held, to find it...empty? A quick look on the forums shows a little edit to Hector's post:

We're popping Lumina Cloth's cherry! See you there :-)

So that's where he is.

In the center of the brightly illuminated nighttime city, Hector's set himself up for his little get together. But since he doesn't have any tables or plates or anything fancy like that, all the alcohol and food he bought from various vendors are just...strewn around the floor. The food is probably still good to eat, though. It's fine. Take what strikes your fancy!

Hector's wearing his outfit again. He lounges on the steps of that funky spinny thing in the center of town, and anyone who gets close enough to hear him will hear music coming from his mic. Give him a break. He's doing his best.

When enough people have gathered, he might actually get up and drag everyone into a drinking game.

So enjoy—eat, drink, mingle, and smack your friends! PvP is enabled here, after all :) ]

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I promise to do my best.

[ He sounds like he means it, even with the light hearted undercurrent. ]

Oh, I am, thanks to you. But don't worry. Love can hurt a little sometimes, but It's always worth experiencing.

( ... )

Do you feel you still love him?

Not at all! I don't even miss his hand anymore. He seemed pretty nice, but I don't really know him at all.

[ The answers come quick, happily, and yet Tylor is still content to be here. He looks up, the stars only obscured slightly by the light of the city but still visible. It's fun, not knowing them all for once. It reminded him of learning them all as a kid in the first place, not that he had the drive to study them now. ]

What do you think of the stars here?

Edited (shhhhhush) 2023-08-12 08:35 (UTC)

( A surprisingly practical answer. He looks up, though, when prompted, and considers the stars for what seems like the first time. )

... They're fine. Different. Do you like stars?

They can be beautiful. So, of course.

[ He doesn't look down from them. ]

Hey, do you know what kind of fish live in space?

( sasuga

Mithrun glances at him like "?" )

I wasn't aware there were fish that could survive in space.

[ Tylor glances at him playfully in turn.]

Actually, the answer is Starfish.

[ And then he laughs whether Mithrun gets the joke or not. ]

( .

, )

... I see.

( He understands the wordplay, and the fact that he was subjected to A Joke. He doesn't laugh, but he clearly gets it. )

... I used to do some work for NASA, before. The people there would make jokes like that sometimes.

( One would think they'd get tired of it after living it day in and day out, but not so for a number of them. )

[ His eyes remain upward, a soft hum at that information. ]

Do you remember any good ones?

I don't know if any were good.

( How often are jokes genuinely good, anyway? Still, he seems to consider it. )

... "Why are astronauts always cleaning their spaceships?"

Edited 2023-08-12 09:53 (UTC)

I don't know. Why?

"Because they're full of stardust."

( badum-tss.................................... )

[ Tylor laughs again, but it's even funnier hearing Mithrun tell one. ]

You know, I think you make these jokes funnier. Like an ashtray full of stardust.

[ But, he did say NASA-- ]

So, do you live in America? You don't have to tell me where.

( ashtray full of stardust...................... )

Yes, I do. Do you?

Not right now, no. [ With all seriousness: ] I can't live there again until I'm 21.

( what law did u break............ )

Why?

That's the drinking age. In Japan it's only 20!

( ??? )

You could refrain from drinking for a year.

( Then again, he is college student aged, apparently... College students do love their drinkies. )

Why? Are you asking me to move in?

[ He jokes, his own drink already neglected behind him in favor of continuing to hold Mithrun's hand. ]

( He does assume it's just him joking, considering. )

Would you, if someone "pretty" asked you to?

( no more edging we're playing chicken )

Well... I'd have to really like them, but sure, why not? Oh, and they'd have to be over 21.

[ A beat. ]

So what if someone asked you to move to Japan? Or to visit?

Over 21... to drink with?

( He's assuming. )

... There's something I have to be in America to do. I'd only leave if it serves that end.

And to buy me drinks!

[ Mostly right, good job Mithrun. ]

Oh?, I see. What do you have to be there to do?

( ... )

It's something that won't let me be online anymore once I start it. And I'll start it once I finish recuperating. It should be soon.

Oh. It must be pretty important then, huh?

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