driftfleet | Video: DON'T blow out all the candles

Who: Lumière and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Wonderduck
When: December 27th

[Christmas is always something of a bittersweet experience for Lumière. He loves the holiday, yes- but it's also the anniversary of the curse. The fact he has experienced an 11th Christmas stuck in this form is not a comforting one. Were he back home, that would have meant it was permanent.

Still, he's managed to keep his usual upbeat attitude- and then today happened. The video opens to him in the cargo hold of the Wonderduck. A footstool snuffles around him, occasionally letting out an excited yap before bounding off to explore other parts of the hold back end (or what you'd ASSUME is the back end) wagging. See, Sultan was a NICE gift, Atroma. This. This is bullshit.

Lumière is staring at a cake. It's his cake. And, of course, it wouldn't be Atroma if it wasn't mildly offensive. There's also a shitton of candles on it- 42, if you care to count. ]

Oh...wow. Atroma. You....shouldn't have. No. Really. You shouldn't. [He gives the offending cake a prod.] I am not sure if I should offer this to anyone or not. I dread to think what is inside of it and I'd hate to give any of you food poisoning before New Year.

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She pulled no punches.

[There is absolutely a cushion cat and it's the best.]

Oh, oui, he's very happy, despite the curse. His name is Sultan.

Well, it must be nice to have a familiar... footstool... around. [Keith smiled slightly. Footstool or not, that was definitely acting like a dog. Dogs could be cool. So, by proxy, it was probably a pretty cool footstool. He... it... he... Sultan.]

[He's a very cool footstool-dog. ]

It is, I'm sure he'd be happier if Chip was around, but it's good to see him all the same.

Chip? I'm guessing that's another person in your castle?

Oui, the son of the head of our kitchens. He's just a boy, he loves the dog a lot.

[Just a boy... Keith was afraid to ask what the kid had been turned into. So, he didn't.]

That's not surprising.

[Instead, there was something else to acknowledge there, too.]

So... birthday, huh? Is that uh... forty-two candles?

[Best to not ask, the fragility of fine china foisted onto a six year old is not worth thinking about. It really isn't.

Lumière casts the candles a dark look. ]

They miscounted.

[They did not. ]

Did they?

They seemed pretty accurate with mine.

[Of course, Keith couldn't really be absolutely sure of that, so he was just going to guess they were. The tribulations of losing track of time in outerspace.]

[R.u.d.e. ]

No, no. I'm pretty certain they are wrong.

[Good thing he was still a candelabra, because it made it hard to tell true age.]

So... what should the number be then?

[If he said twenty-nine, Keith was going to laugh.]

That depends on if you count the decade spent as a piece of furniture. I, personally, do not.

[But Keith, come ooooon.]

[Keith looked thoughtful about that for a second, and then nodded a little.]

Okay, I'll give you that I guess. So... thirty-two, then. [He'd be nice.]

[Just staring off into space. Staring. Forever.

He hates feeling fucking old. ]

...I will live with this.

[Keith considered it for a moment, and then smirked a little.]

You know... you're older than Shiro.

[ ... ]

I'm fairly certain Shiro is only in his twenties, no? He's just a kid.

[See, referring to someone in their twenties as a kid kind of shows how old you are, Lumière.]

You just called an adult a kid. You're old.

[Keith grinned.]

[SO MUCH SQUINTING. ]

..You win this time.

[Yup. Keith wasn't the type to give up until he won, too, so score one for him.]

Of course.

[He chuckled a bit.]

Seriously, though? Happy birthday.

[Aww, Keith gets a little bow. ]

Merci becoup, mon ami.

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