🎉 if i celebrate, i want to offer my heartfelt and honest congratulations

[nortonnnn]

Who: Norton Campbell, Nagito Komaeda, and open to anyone who'd be willing to offer Komaeda birthday wishes of their own volition
When: April 28, after class
What: 3rd floor, music room

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Arriving

( so, it's like this: nobody likes komaeda.

well, it seems that way a lot of the time, from what norton's observing, and the unfortunate fact of the matter? no matter how absolutely off-his-rocker insane he's been acting, he... well, real or not, he didn't seem to be a bad guy in those memories norton has of him. try as he might, he can't simply act as though they don't exist either. so instead, with a sigh of defeat and an important date that he'd learned in those strange memories in mind, he'll go about collecting those who seem to be... more tolerant (even if that's a generous way to express it) of komaeda lately.

he's already arranged for the most reliable chef he's yet to meet in this school to help by preparing a birthday cake, (and learned quite a bit in the process, actually,) and he's let the others know where they should gather. so, when norton decides it's about time to drag komaeda to the survival club's meeting room for some kind of survival club-related excuse of a reason, there should hopefully already be at least a couple of people there and waiting for them—including one boy holding a white cat who may or may not look a little out of his element.

his voice is soft, but as the cake and the small collection of people he's managed to gather come into view, norton offers a smile. )

Happy birthday.

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01.) ♡

( so... how will you greet the birthday boy? tag-ins will be assumed to be for komaeda, unless otherwise indicated! )

Comments

[contrarily]

Huh, really?

( ... oh, yeah. the longer she thinks about it, the more she realizes that there IS only a piano in the music room, which also doubles for the survival club. well... )

I'm sure someone can bang something out on a piano tho, right? ( like neil the rat. )

[closewithnewintown]

[she gives a vague shrug] I know I can't. That was always Pixel's instrument... Can you play anything?

[contrarily]

Uhh... ( well. she had some rhythm classes, when she became an idol, mostly to be able to keep up. some basic chords on basic instruments, but nothing too complicated. she never paid attention to that stuff, anyway. ) I can sing and dance, but that's pretty much it.

[closewithnewintown]

That's not just an "it!" Singing and dancing is really cool. I used to sing and dance all the time back home, but there's... It's harder without music, y'know? [where is the full band that sometimes plays whenever she wants a musical number. it's unfair for her to not have that anymore.]

[contrarily]

... yeah, I know. It totally sucks when you don't have any background music! ( so she can't be blamed for wanting some?! but also, she just misses music in general... who knew living without spotify would be this terrible. ) Well, I haven't done it in a long while, anyway, so I'm probably rusty, but still. Wish they'd give us something.