Happy Birthday To Me

[forgotten_vows]

Dear Mun,

Thank you very much for the headspace party. And for my present. Getting to play with the Jabberwock's Eye Staff -- even if I can't use it anywhere but in your head, it's still amazing.

Yes, I wish more had happened on here or on tumblr too -- it would have been nice to get a few more birthday greetings -- but you gave me a nice party, and I got to talk to a few people, and you updated the next chapter you've been meaning to fix in my "canon" and -- well, it's been a nice day overall.

That "Snickers-flavor" ice cream cone helped a lot too.

So yes -- thank you for giving me a nice birthday.

Please don't ruin things by throwing me in a horrible meme now.

Yours,

Victor

Comments

[gabriellightwood]

Headspace party?

[forgotten_vows]

Oh -- it's sort of a tradition with my mun to throw birthday parties for her muses in her personal musebox. It's set up as where we "live" when we're not in games or memes or such. This year was my first.

[gabriellightwood]

That's very nice of them.

[forgotten_vows]

It is -- one of the benefits of being one of her muses. Helps balance out things like waking up in a straitjacket one day in your game.

((You are NEVER going to let that go, are you?))

No. You knew the risks when you did that.

[gabriellightwood]

That sounds unpleasant.

[forgotten_vows]

It is. Deeply unpleasant. Especially when you live alone. Fortunately I was able to communicate my predicament and get help, but. . . And pathetically, that's not the worst that could happen to me in the way of nightmares.

[gabriellightwood]

There are many nightmares in the world and beyond that the general populace is unaware of.

[forgotten_vows]

Of that I have no doubt. I wish I was unaware of some of them.

[esper_child]

It's your birthday, Victor? I wish I'd have known. Happy Birthday!

[forgotten_vows]

Heh, well, it's not in mallowhallow thanks to the slowed-down time. . . It won't be my birthday there until the middle of real-life July, I think.

Still, thank you for the well-wishes!

[esper_child]

I've got time to prepare then. Good.

[forgotten_vows]

Yes, I'll probably mention it on the comm system when the time comes.

So, ah, how are you?

[esper_child]

I'm good, thanks.

If perhaps a little apprehensive. My mun continues plotting to slowly unravel my memories.

[forgotten_vows]

Ahhh, I see. That's -- well, I can see how that would be both good and bad. Good, because you'd finally get a proper sense of who you are, and bad -- because who knows what might be lurking up there? Though my opinion is and always will be that it's better to know than to spend your life wondering. . .

[esper_child]

I agree. But I'm scared to find out too.

[forgotten_vows]

Because you don't know what you'll find?

[esper_child]

You saw what I became, Victor. Who knows what that means about me?

[forgotten_vows]

Ah -- true. Would it help if I reiterated that that form didn't seem explicitly hostile? Just -- really, as confused as you yourself were.

[esper_child]

*small smile*

A little.

[forgotten_vows]

[He nods.]

I wish I could offer more comfort. Or at the very least, an assurance that it wouldn't happen again. But I'm sure whatever your mun has planned makes that unlikely.