[Video] I am an Excellent Friend

[namisan]

Who: Nami and you (may include sputtering Winchesters)
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit at the Space Bar.  (Alternately, getting hammered at some nightclub down below later in the evening.)
When: 5/02

For the record, it's the birthday of one Sam Winchester today! ♪♫

He's on shift at the Space Bar, so make sure you drop by to wish him a good day.  Preferably in the most embarrassing fashion possible.  If you make me laugh, I might even buy you a drink.

[She's sorry, Sam.




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...no she's not who are we kidding.  But she'll make up for it by dragging you out after work?  8D?]

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[namisan]

[She laughs.] I appreciate it, but trust me when I say I know my strengths.

It's not, no. But we travel a great deal, so I suppose I've never been in a place long enough to see what birthday traditions exist in other places. It was certainly not a song sung in my village as a child, though.

[bythewaves]

Mm, I always find it interesting to see what traditions others have. [ Maglor smiles ]

Although my folk do not actually celebrate birthdays.

[namisan]

No? [She peers at him.] Well, that's fair. I mean, most people only celebrate so they can have an excuse for a party, there's no real significance unless they've come of age.

Do you have a coming of age ceremony?

[bythewaves]

No - well, when we are younger, we celebrate Begetting Days, but it tends to be a little redundant after a while.

Not as such, but our fiftieth, and then our first century do tend to be celebrated rather larger than normal.

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[namisan]

Long-lived, huh? [Well, she already figured he wasn't human and all, but...] I guess birthdays would probably get a little wearying after a, uh. Few hundred. Even for people like me.

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[bythewaves]

I believe the term is "functionally immortal"? [ Maglor says thoughtfully ]

We may be slain - by blade or poison or grief - but we do not age as Men ... sorry, humans, do, for we are tied to the world, to live as it lives and die only when it ends. But yes - I am... roughly some nine thousand six hundred years old by now, and I gave up celebrating long ago.

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[namisan]

[..........


WELP OKAY THEN.]

Okay. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'd have given up somewhere before my first, uh... millennia.

[Holy god you're ancient.]

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[bythewaves]

[ Those reactions never get old, but Maglor politely doesn't call her on it ]

Even so! It has been long and long indeed since I even bothered to think on it. I count my age from the turning of the seasons, these days.

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[namisan]

You must have seen a lot in such a long time. Did you travel much before you came here?

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[bythewaves]

Well, I suppose I have travelled a decent amount.

[ He muses ]

Certainly the length and breadth of Middle-earth, although I have yet to venture across the desert.

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[namisan]

[...huh. That's a half familiar place name, how odd.] Deserts are... generally something you only travel if you have to. Is there a correlation between Earth and Middle-Earth?

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[bythewaves]

I do not know.

[ Maglor says thoughtfully ]

We always knew that we would be forgotten - perhaps Earth is what will come after us.

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[namisan]

What makes you think you'd be forgotten?

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[bythewaves]

Because we are leaving. [ Maglor shrugs ] And Men forget, what they do not see. Even now, some think of us as no more than legend, or they fear us, for we are unknown to them. Eventually, it is inevitable, I think.

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[namisan]

...can't deny that. Humans are incredibly forgetful. Though sometimes the government likes to help them along.

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[bythewaves]

I suppose it is inevitable. [ He shrugs a little ]

But perhaps in tale and song some part of us will be remembered, or so I hope.