Learning what she's been taught

[quintessent]

Who: Allura (quintessent), Lance (particlebarrier), & Shiro (wingliner)
What: Silly birthday shenanigans and also catch all.
When: Feb/March
Where: Olympia
Warning(s): None


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I told you I'd do it.

[quintessent]

[Birthdays aren't so much of a thing among Alteans. Whether it's a byproduct of a species that lives well past a few hundred years old, or because space travel made counting days a little more complicated, but it's simply not a holiday that Allura was used to prior to when the earthlings first arrived on her ship some time ago.

(If she's honest, she quite likes the holiday, even if it perplexed her the first time the humans threw one.)

And this time— Shiro's birthday — it's an extra special occasion, according to Lance. Not only because this is the first time that he's celebrating it with them on Nysa (and he had missed at least one on the castle ship, though that was a more complicated topic), but because of something involving Sleep-years.

Or was it Leap? Leap-years?

In any case, it's incredibly important, and Allura and Lance have been busy all day, setting up their little home-away-from home in Olympia for a small celebration, waiting for Shiro to get back from a small errand they'd fabricated to get him out of the house for awhile. And as Allura waits, she reflects on a conversation with Richie. Something involving human slang and extreme terms of endearment. Hm.

And so when the door knob turns, Allura stands ready under a canopy of streamers, hands clasped earnestly in front of her-]

Happy Birthday, Motherfucker!

[:D?]

i believed you but somehow seeing it i'm still in awe

[wingliner]

( birthdays have always been. something he'd never put a whole lot of thought into when it came to his own, more when it came to others because it was always so much easier to expend the effort on someone he cared for as opposed to expecting someone else to expend that effort on him.

basically? as usual, he would rather think of others in place of himself, and the passing of another year doesn't make a difference in the long run when it comes to making a big deal about things. it's just another day, he's another year older and it makes even less sense to make a big deal out of it when you take into consideration that his real birthday only happens once every four years.

being sent on a fool's errand ( most emphatically, we might add, by these two scheming friends of his ) had gotten the wheels turning in his head, and he has a feeling there's going to be something waiting for him upon his return; he really, really doesn't want a big deal to be made about it, but considering lance is a big part of the proceedings, he's one hundred percent convinced it isn't going to be like that. at all. in the slightest.

and that. makes him smile in a way that he hasn't much in the last little while. because it is nice to be thought of, even when you're not the biggest fan of being the center of attention.

so. he's preparing himself mentally on his way back, and when he opens the door to the sight of a very pleased-looking allura and streamers it's all normal and pleasant enough, and he's smiling, ready to look as surprised as he can muster —

and then she comes out with that, and he damn near chokes on his own tongue trying to keep his mouth from dropping open with the sheer amount of surprise plastered across his face. ) I —

Thank … you? ( where did you learn that word asdlkhfa )