headcanon birthday time~

[nobodys_king]

You knew I had high standards when you met me.

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[nobodys_king]

Well, you would make the perfect present. All you need is a suitable ribbon, though I don't think you'd trust me to select one.

[umi_no_kami]

[Here we go, his "Absolutely irritating" mode again.]

You just never give up, do you? I will credit you for that much.

[nobodys_king]

Would you expect me to?

[umi_no_kami]

Yes. Especially as you grow older.

But because it's your birthday, I will humor you this once - what would you adorn me with?

[The question is nothing short of disgusting to him, but. Damn his curiosity, sob.]

[nobodys_king]

Ah, but if I abandoned my quest, I couldn't be considered the same person, could I? It would mean leaving behind my fundamental nature.

I would, of course, adorn you with praise. But since you have to be convinced to remain in one place, there would have to be more...physical adornments as well. At least until you learned to appreciate your surroundings.

[umi_no_kami]

Is that the extent of your respect for me? You would keep me in chains?

[nobodys_king]

Don't be so gauche. The capture devices are works of art themselves, and it would only be until you learned to stay put.

[umi_no_kami]

Works of art? They are merely the physical manifestations of the only thing you feel for me - envy of my freedom.

[nobodys_king]

Funny, coming from the one who took my freedom from me. Though I don't hold it against you. Why, you never even saw my gallery.

I was freer than perhaps any human has ever been and you call me envious?

[umi_no_kami]

You had built a prison for yourself, locked yourself in... and you call that being free.

[Lugia is not angry, either, just not getting Jirarudan's logic, as always.]

[nobodys_king]

A prison! The width and breadth of the world and you call it a prison!

To be free, it's said, is to live by your passions. And that is exactly what I did. Everything I did, everything I brought into my ship, it was because of my passions. And you were the greatest of all.

...You still are.

[umi_no_kami]

[There is a lot of staring on Lugia's part before he decides on a cogent answer. Nothing about this man makes any sense.]

So because your passion chains you, I should be chained as well...?

[nobodys_king]

...I'm not certain how you could still insist that I'm "chained" after what I just said. I suppose you have limited interactions with humans...

[he's one to talk]

I wish to keep you as part of that history. The most glorious things in the world. It's truly an honour, you know. A reverence.

[umi_no_kami]

I am no inanimate thing, human.

And you are the inexperienced one, if you do not realize that all things and beings in this World are worthy of reverence, praise annd respect.

[nobodys_king]

Are they? So much simply exists, with no effort put in to make it special. Though things like trees and grass certainly can't do anything to change that, sentient beings have no excuse. The world is so dull, so utterly grey, that such things are glittering gems indeed.

I'd, for one, be honoured to be taken as part of such a collection. It would be a sign that I was one of those gems...though I would question why they would take interest in me.

[umi_no_kami]

All of creation is a priceless treasure.

If you fail to understand that... it must mean that within your shell of arrogance, you are hurt and bleeding.

But I have no wish to argue with you on your birthday. Close your eyes.

[nobodys_king]

It's simply fact. Commonplace things are just that. How that makes me either arrogant or bleeding is nonsense.

Ah? Very well.

[umi_no_kami]

Can't you see? It's because there are normal, trivial things... That you can have special moments to treasure.

[If Jirarudan's eyes are closed, he will feel a brief kiss, a firm peck on his forehead, dry lips smelling like ocean. Once he opens his eyes, he will find an intricate necklace around his neck, like a net of silver descending to his chest and constellated with pearls, fragments of Silver Wings, and blue precious stones.]

[nobodys_king]

Of course, but--

[the motion catches him off guard. In truth he had suspected that Lugia would probably leave, but to be given anything--contact, and then this heavy thing--was enough to make his eyes well up before opening them. His hand flew to the new object, feeling it before he saw it.]

...I...you've caught me in a net of your own, I see.