🎉 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

[mermaidcursed]

Is it luck if it's people acting with intent?

( if anything his attempt at annoyance only seems to make her laugh. with pure optimism and naivety, she looks up at komaeda with a smile for a moment before reaching up to gently squish his cheeks briefly. )

I'm sure it's going to be okay. So please, just let people care about you, okay?

[commences]

Luck is built off that same intent, didn't you know?

( even with her squishing his cheeks, he figures it wouldn't be so bad to explain it to her. ) It just happens because it feels like it, that's why I know something will happen soon.

( he pauses, leaning his head into her left hand as he smiles. )

If you all died tomorrow, I wouldn't be surprised.

[mermaidcursed]

I think I understand... ( with what she knows about the near and far shore, and the flow of time... but she doesn't think she likes relying on it. especially when she's trying so hard to fight it. )

No, I don't think anything like that would happen. But if something bad does happen, doesn't that mean it's important to enjoy the good while you can?

[commences]

I'm not upset when the bad happens either, because there's always something good at the end.

( especially with what's going on here, he raises a hand to lightly place his index finger in the center of nene's head. his touch is cold, pale, sickly eyes stare into her own while speaking: )

If you don't accept the strokes of good luck, you can prevent it a little longer. ( that's not true, but if you see everything as the bad, the good will have to become stronger. ) I'll accept this good luck for you, Yashiro-san, but when the bad comes... I do hope you can properly see me through it.