driftfleet | Video. Happy Late Birthday, bud.

Who: Takeshi and you!
Broadcast: Video
Action: SS Goldstone, if you need him for whatever reason! Also the gym on the iskaulit.
When: October 5th

[Takeshi's had a bit of a rough time, knowing one of his crew is gone - hopefully not gone gone, but still gone, and that's too much for him to want to think about. Mr. Okita, he shouldn't have gotten killed. Takeshi feels an insurmountable guilt, because he's the captain, and he should have gotten out there and picked up his friend. His teammate. Even still... Mon-El's awake now. Good things are happening again. They've set out, and now all he can really do is wait and see what happens next.

... But it's October, he realizes belatedly. He had not been keeping track, and so he addresses the fleet with a little smile.]

... I turned nine years old on October 1st.

I couldn't remember my birthday when I first came to space -- that was when I was five. But they said I could have a new day... The month I showed up there, that was my new birthday. I guess I... kinda lost track! But I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be another year older with everyone else.

What kinda' birthdays do you guys have?

Do you remember any really nice ones? I had a pool party, once...! On the Tranquility.

[It was one of the best days of his life.]

If you don't have one, we can figure out one for you. Okay?

[A LIL' DASH OF ACTION]

[If you need him elsewhere, he's also in the gym aboard the Iskaulit, today. Working out, actually! He's currently giving the punching bag in there his all, throwing some hard right hooks and leaping kicks. In fact, he gets a bit too into it and accidentally kicks the whole thing right off the hanger -- it goes sailing across the room into the wall, with Takeshi slapping his hands on the sides of his head and 'WAHHH'ing in dismay.

... Just a normal week aboard the drifting fleet.

Now, where's someone he can train more with? He's getting stronger by the year!]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You should have said it was your birthday.

[she would've tried to . . . something . . . ]

I do not celebrate mine. There is no point.

Well... Everyone's been trying to get back to normal after the planet...

I didn't wanna bother nobody.

[A pause.]

But your birthday's important, too. If yours isn't, mine isn't...

You know that it would not have been a bother, Takeshi.

[...] My birthday is not as important. It is simply another day. You are still young enough that it means something.

[He's not so sure about that... He's gotten used to things being tense and awful most of the time in other places, it's hard for him to imagine things stopping for a birthday party. He's a soldier and a captain, a fighter and a teammate -- he doesn't mind not having birthdays like normal kids. He never really had them to begin with, anyways...]

I think it is... If I think it's important, it must be important, right?

Were it not important to you, you would not have mentioned it at all, yes? So yes, yours is important.

Noooo, silly. I mean you birthday.

If I think it's important, isn't it?

[why are you doing this to her]

Do not turn this around on me.

I dunno what you mean, Miss Tempest. I'm just saying the truth!

[The picture of innocence.]

You know exactly what I mean. That won't work on me.

[it won't work!!]

[He smiles brightly, eyes scrunching.]

You're pretty silly, you know.

Oh, I am the one who is silly?

I dunnooooo Miss Tempest -- you're the one who's real funny about birthdays.

Video. Happy Late Birthday, bud.

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