Birthday Hogs

[sonic_wachowski]

WHO: Hedgehaus and friends
WHAT: Birthday Party
WHEN: Hedgehog Birthday Weekend
WHERE: Hedgehaus
WARNINGS: A stupid amount of chili dogs. PROBABLY FEELINGS? Listen, some people have personhood issues. Maybe Boomdow.


Sonic new it was around his Birthday. Vaguely. Move around planets enough and its hard to track the date, he had a birthday not too far from when he arrived on Earth. So the BEarthday was very fitting. And, well, Shadow woke up from cyro the same day or day after, so Sonic figured he could share it with his Shadow.

But also explaining that to people would be weird, and telling WAY too much, and also Primedow and SonIDW had their birthdays around the same time and that's why the banners say Birthday.

Sonic was nothing, if not stupidly sentimental. He knew he was throwing a party for his Shadow because he deserved it and well, he isn't going to just ignore the others. Maybe talk about a week of celebration or something for next year.

The beauty of superspeed though is he can set up a party FAST. He just has to make sure Big Blue is busy upstairs for a few minutes and BOOM, party is set up.

First and foremost, the party is an explosion of color. Why? Sonic promised Primedow and SonIDW pride flags and he delivered. There are rainbows and all sorts of other flags scattered across the yard, on the walls, and over the first floor. He's even got balloons over pride flag colors.

There was a banner that said 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHADOWS AND SONICS!' Hand painted, so its a bit messy, and made with blue, red, and black.

There is SO much food. Most of it is cake and chilidogs. Mostly because Sonic knows how much Sonics can pack away, and other people should get to enjoy these foods. There is even a variety in the cake flavors! Chocolate, white, strawberry, even lemon.

There is also coffee beans. Just....just straight coffee beans.

And some chocolate covered espresso beans, and Tiramisu. Less of that, but still plenty. And burgers for those who think hotdogs are beneath them or something.

There is also fruit salad, and guacamole with chips for those who want something kind of healthy.

There is a table labeled GIFTs and a sign. 'Be sure you indicate WHICH Shadow or Sonic. Fluffy are the younger ones.'

The party activities are scattered in the yard and the first floor of the house. Its nothing too over the top, beyond the color explosion. There is music for outside hanging out, some dancing. There is also a television for people to play video games on. (There will be DDR at some point, thanks Eva.)

Inside, there is a large stack of DVDs to watch movies inside.

There are board games on the dining room table for people to play those.

There is also a sign at the stairs to the second floor. 'RESIDENTS ONLY. If someone is upstairs, you leave them alone, even if they're one of the Birthday Boys! Any non-resident attempting to go upstairs if not accompanied by a resident will be swiftly removed.' (He figures he should account for social batteries. Especially for his Shadow and Maria. Sometimes you need a space to retreat away from people.)

((Feel free to mingle!!!))

Comments

[abnormalizes]

Ohhh, that kind of stuff. Got it! I'll help you work on that.

[It's probably more effective for hunting people down, but Evangeline does appreciate how cool he looks doing it...]

[fauxbot]

Ouais, that kinda stuff! ... I'm so glad I ain't gotta say it straight, but ya still get it -
And ya support me, too!

[And he is, in fact, grinning about it! One of those grins that I still need a proper icon for.
It's fine, they're still under the table.]

Fuck, I'm the luckiest bastard this place ever seen.

[abnormalizes]

[Her favorite grins! She adores him so much.]

Of course! -I do think it's a shame to use invisibility for that, though, you look so cool doing it.

[fauxbot]

[Her favorite grin... that's coming with a smooch!!
(Sorry to all hedgehogs nearby having to hear them get all schmoopy.)]

Awww, hun - I try to look cool! Ain't right if I ain't cool the whole time, ouais?
But, y'know, sometimes gettin' seen makes the whole thing hard-hard... I like me a challenge, yeah, but not all the time.

'Sides... sometimes the whole thing scarier if ya can't see the guy comin', right?

[abnormalizes]

[She smooches both his cheeks in return. The gross smoopiness will continue. This is a threat.]

That's true, and I definitely get wanting to take the more practical option... You'll still be cool even if you're invisible, for sure.

[fauxbot]

Heheh...

[How about he pulls her all close now, too? The shmoopiness gets worse.]

Maybe I oughtta look into some kinda charm, letcha see through that invisibility? Letcha see me bein' cool all the time like that... betcha Reiner could do it!
He sellin' all kindsa cool shit down at his shop, sounds like he good at all kindsa shit.

[... Has he told her that he's selling his own work out of BraunSphere? He probably should have told her this??]

[abnormalizes]

[They are snuggly as fuck right now.]

Hmmm... I feel like the only time that would come up is if I were helping you, and if that's what was happening, then there wouldn't be any point to being invisible unless we both were invisible anyway? I'm sure Reiner could do it, but I wouldn't get to use it much.

[fauxbot]

[The snuggliest.]

Mmm...
But what if ya just wanted to watch me be cool? 'N what if I wanted ya to watch me be cool, too?

[This is a totally valid reason to use magic and not at all silly and/or goofy.]

[abnormalizes]

Hmmm... If you're sure I wouldn't get in your way...

[She's really considering it, unfortunately.]

[fauxbot]

You? Never. If I could make you invisible, too, I'd just tote'cha 'round the whole time I'm--

Ehh... huntin'. Let's say.

[Because of course he'd bring his girlfriend with him on a spree, what kind of killer boyfriend would he be if he didn't??]

[abnormalizes]

That sounds like fun, actually. I’m up for it if you learn how.

[She enables such good life choices.]

[fauxbot]

[This is why they're so good for each other.
He makes awful, horrible choices, and she supports him full for all of them.]

If I figure it out, I'll tell ya! Heh... make a good date night, huh?

[He also makes awful, horrible grins, and she supports those also.]

[abnormalizes]

[Horrible grins get smooches!]

Better or worse than monster trucks, do you think?

[fauxbot]

[Smooches for horrible grins get horrible smooches in return!!
Mostly because he can't stop grinning like this. She's gonna make his face hurt from grinning so much...]

Aw, 's a hard one, that... guess it'd depend who the targets are ouais?
I can get real mad sometimes, dependin' on what they done... y'know how it is. But that might make it a LOT less fun than monster trucks, for sure.

Otherwise? Definitely better.

[abnormalizes]

Hmm, yeah, thinking about the serious stuff they did to get on your list doesn't sound all that fun... But it's a lot more involved than a monster truck show.

[...maybe Chipp should drive monster trucks, is the takeaway she's getting here.]

[fauxbot]

'S a lot more involved, yeah, for sure. With the right guy, though, you'd get a monster me show - 's just as good, right?

[Joking about the fact that he's, y'know, a killer, which most people think is monstrous, including Chipp himself,

And now he's gonna finally partake in some of the guac he'd served up for them forever ago. It's why they're under the snack table, after all!]

... Could always do a quest together, watch me go ham on some monster-monsters?

[abnormalizes]

Hey now, if we're fighting monster-monsters, I'll be right there fighting with you! I like to show off just as much as you do.

[Let her be hot and violent too!!]

[fauxbot]

'Course! 'Course - what kinda monster-huntin' date would it be if we weren't both kickin' ass?
I'm just sayin', y'know... if you wanna watch me get all kindsa crazy 'bout it, 's a good way to go 'bout it!

[It's the perfect opportunity for him to go completely unhinged after all!!]

[abnormalizes]

As long as you know that! -It'd be a problem if you got so hot that I was distracted from fighting, but I'm usually pretty good about that...

[fauxbot]

But... if I distracted ya from fightin', I could go all movie hero on ya! Save you from monsters, 'n then you call me reckless 'n stupid - y'know, like in the movies.

[abnormalizes]

If I needed rescuing, I'd be calling myself stupid, not anyone else?

[Baffling, tbh.]

[fauxbot]

Naw, naw, you gotta look at it through the goofy lens of a movie -
I'd be riskin' myself, jumpin' in to save ya; that always gets the hero some line like "Are ya stupid? I can handle myself!"
Or some shit like that.

I'm thinkin', like, back of the store, on clearance action movie, here. 'Cause, y'know... ain't like I'd actually ever need to hop in like that?
You actually can handle yourself.

[Because she's like, powerful? And strong? And smart??
(And pretty, and friendly, and smells nice, and--)]

[abnormalizes]

[Evangeline has seen those movies. The threat is usually smaller, though, if it's something that the movie wants to sell to her that the heroine would have survived without help.

Of course it's obvious that if Evangeline got too careless and distracted out in the Segments, she would probably die horribly. That's what happens when you get careless and you don't have an absurd healing factor. But Chipp doesn't think he'd need to step in for her, because she wouldn't get careless in the first place?

...Maybe monster-fighting date is a bad idea. She has confidence in her ability to focus on fighting over people being hot in her vicinity, but why test it when she doesn't have to?




She's very clearly overthinking this and hasn't responded to Chipp in a full minute.]

[fauxbot]

...

[...




... He's more than happy to let her think for a couple minutes, honestly. Even has a couple chips as he waits.
He is Not a normal person, the fact that she's gone completely silent while overthinking does not phase him nor does it occur to him that that's what she's doing.
boy got that autism swag like that

Eventually, though, he tilts his head with all of his big ol' cowlicks flopping with the motion, giving her a blink or two.]

... Eveé?

[abnormalizes]

[Ah. Right. She should probably tell her boyfriend how she's feeling. ...Words.]

...I like to think I'm. Fairly strong? Maybe upper middle tier, here in Ellipsa? I have all the standard summer powers learned, and I'm used to fighting things that are frankly a lot more dangerous than the average monster in the Segments.

But I don't think I'm so strong that getting careless or making a stupid mistake couldn't still get me horribly killed? That's kind of just how the world works, for me.