[Open] Birthday Partying

[welcome_home]

Who: Nanako and Everyone else!
When: the afternoon of October 4th
Where: Nanshe's Temple
What: It's Nanako's 7th birthday! She's invited everyone over for cake.


[ The party is a little last minute, because Nanako hadn't exactly planned on having anything until a few days before, but it doesn't take much to make her happy and the decorating was simple enough to do, especially when she enlisted some of her friends for help.

Her temple is decorated with some streamers and colorful balloons in pink and purple, the doors swung open so people could go in and out as they wished, since the weather was still warm, even for October.

There's a birthday cake, too, although it's small and round and meant mostly for Nanako, seven candles placed carefully atop it, waiting to be blown out. Instead of making a cake big enough for everyone who might show up, she instead had asked for help baking cupcakes, some chocolate, some vanilla, the frosting in flavors of peanut butter or strawberry and mixed and matched between them.

Nanako herself is dressed up in a pink flowery dress, not quite so fancy as what she wore for the dinner party a few nights past, but something a little nicer than every day, her hair done up with pink ribbons. She looks a little nervous when the first few guests show up, unsure if anyone would really come, but once her friends start showing up, that's entirely forgotten as she is happy to see everyone who shows up to visit and happily bounces between all her guests to say hello and make sure they get a cupcake.

And if she looks like she's concentrating especially hard on her wish when she blows out her candles? Well. She's doing her best. Celebrating with her friends and almost-family here might not be the same as what her birthday might have been at home, but she's still happy for the chance, all the same. ]

Comments

[skygaze]

[He doesn't respond for awhile, preferring to just watch Shun feed the pelicans. The party is still strange to him but if it made Nanako happy, it was fine. Every once in a while there should be celebrations like this? That seemed like a hassle.]

Considering how Nanako speaks about you, I shouldn't be surprised...

[Still, it's hard to picture Nanako's words fitting a guy like this. Still, she said nothing but good things.]

I'm glad she has other people to look out for her.

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun isn't too surprised that Suou's heard about him from Nanako, considering how enthusiastic she tends to get about him, but he can't say he isn't curious.]

What does she say about me? [Probably nothing that falls in line with the image he tries to give off, but then, Nanako doesn't see so much of that from him anyway.

He does give a faint hum of agreement at the last thing, though.] I'm not surprised, but it is good to have that kind of security.

[skygaze]

Nothing but good things. She sees you in a different way but that's probably because of her bond with you.

[Sorry Nanako, he's not seeing the 'big bro' and super nice side of Shun. But he doesn't really expect to. Really its a very hard contrast compairing what he's heard about Shun to the sharp-eyed man standing next to him. Suou doesn't doubt Nanako's feelings on Shun but its just hard to picture. Then again, he just really hopes she won't go around and say how nice he can be too. Hopefully Shun will be the solo focus for that.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun gives a faint snort, though it doesn't seem like he's surprised by the answer.] Sounds like her. I did tell her I'm kinder to her than I am to most others, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

[She'd mostly just seemed confused about it before moving on anyway with the same kind of attitude. Not that he really wanted anything bad to come of it.]

She'll probably do the same sort of thing to you. I know she's fond of that other shinki of hers.

[Shun never got on particularly well with Homura, but at least she's got the protection of her gods as her focus.]

[skygaze]

[Suou stiffens and blinks at that. He lets out a small scowl and looks away. He hopes not. That sounds embarrassing. He's fine with her thinking he's nice and what not but then going off to tell others that? He's not so sure.]

Then I hope you'll be more of her focus than me when she talks to other people...

[Sorry Shun but better you than him. You are her 'big bro' or whatever, right?]

[revolutionfalcon]

[That gets a somewhat dry aside glance from Shun, because it sounds like this guy doesn't have a great deal of experience with children.]

She's seven. She'll have talk enough for all of us, not just me. [It's the kind of thing kids do, talk up people they think are cool or interesting. Nanako seems to think that of a lot of people, and he can't imagine she's limited to just talking about him even now.]