HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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[Visitors to the Velvet Room are in for an unusual sight.

Gorb balloons. Streamers. Banners that not only read, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GORO AKECHI! but also...

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FRIENDSHIP!

This particular banner has cutesy illustrations of a normal Akechi and Falcon. Yes, really.

There are multiple, multi-layered cakes. One is an angel food cake, decorated to resemble Robin Hood. Then there's another cake, fashioned after Loki, with lovingly decorated dazzle camouflage frosting. Inside is a heavenly red velvet.

Lastly, there's a purely chocolate delight, patterned after Hereward.

There are even little Gorb cupcakes, designed to look like the myriad Akechis resident in the Velvet Room. Fresh brewed coffee and Jazz Jin mocktails await those who seek a beverage, and there's even some curry. How thoughtful!

So... care to mingle?]

Comments

[unit_8910_wolf]

Oh, great he really is staring at him like that. Does he not find him threatening- walking around with his eyes concealed behind a solid mask and a rugged scar running like he just recently escaped the jaws of death.

Then again...with a place like this, you are bound not to hold much of a candle to things.

Raising a brow at the offered hand, Zenkichi paused before taking it in his own. "Call me Wolf..or I guess in a place like this you would probably run into junior here, huh?"

"Zenkichi Hasegawa."

[fledglingcrow]

"Yeah, I think that name is taken," he laughed smiling at him. He had a nice handshake. that's something his mom told him was important. It told more than people did. If they were business people, if they only were there to impress. There was a lot to read in a hand shake.

He seemed to be hiding his face, not that it would scare him with Ken's scars becoming more and more showing. He was just a pleasant boy wasn't he Zenkichi? "Are you very new here?"

[unit_8910_wolf]

"Eh, we have come up with a little truce," he shrugged, maybe. "Can't really mistake me for an Akechi now, can we?"

There was barely any resemblance between him and the younger boy who held as much spite to power up a whole city...if he couldn't already do it, given his powers.

Well, whatever it is, the kid seemed to be a veteran so Zenkichi eased up, noting his handshake. Kids here and their insistence of having iced tea and coffee like a grown up adult was almost endearing; but it didn't exactly help when he's seen why the lot of them acted that way.

He won't rain down on this kid's parade though.

He tilts his head at the question. "Hm? Do I look that out of place?" he set the plate of desserts down for now- grasping a cupcake in his hand. "I have been here for a while. Since December I believe? I did make a post on the network about it- that sure took a whole turn."

"Happy birthday, by the way," he adds a little awkwardly. "Not sure if you are tired from hearing about it or just that its way too late for me to address it- but you know, better late then never."

[fledglingcrow]

"You don't look that out of place, there's a lot of strange people here." He was just the most adult person he's seen. Or talked to. He was the only one with facial hair. He wondered if he would grow any like that when he got older.

He smiled. "Thank you, it's just nice to be told it." There wasn't much at home that made his birthdays special. Just his mom and Ren. This party was a huge step up, they never had parties they were too poor.

"What's special about you? Do you have a cool backstory?"

[unit_8910_wolf]

"Yeah?" He smiles at the boy's appreciation. Welp, as long as he isn't being awkward then he can still get along with others here then. Better than nothing.

Though what this Akechi says next makes him freeze up a bit. "Backstory? What is this- a comic book?"

[fledglingcrow]

"Well, some people here are murderers, or dragons, or things like that. You look like you have a good story before coming here. So I wanna know about it."

[unit_8910_wolf]

Zenkichi's sighs- looking like he's aged a decade simply from hearing that.

"You kids and the way you simply say things like that...still, it's nostalgic." Reminds him of the kids he and others in the colony used to look after.

He scratches his cheek awkwardly before crossing his arms to his chest, clearing his throat. "Well, you already know my name. I am from year 2038 working as an Anti-Shadow suppression weapon, the Unhuman series specifically serving the Kirijo Group."

Still up for debate at this point.

"Alright- that probably made no sense to you, huh? Throw your questions, I will see what I can answer."

[fledglingcrow]

"You are like Falcon, and you work under the evil people. I have that much." He nodded. "You seem more Human than Falcon though."

[unit_8910_wolf]

"Yeah?" Zenkichi sardonically smiled at his comment at the mention of evil people.

Well that would make him just as evil then, would it not?

"What gave it away?"

[fledglingcrow]

"Not sure, you just don't seem to have the uncanny valley effect that Falcon does." He shrugged.

[unit_8910_wolf]

Hm, interesting. Zenkichi was so used to cybernetics that feeling hadn't washed over him.

"Ah well, you would probably be in the minority then," he admits with a sheepish rub on the back of his neck. "But still...thanks, I guess?"

"What about you? What's your story?"

[fledglingcrow]

He hummed. "My mom and I don't live in a very popular area," also known as rich, "there's people who want to hurt her, and me for extension. I'm used to danger. I guess that's really it."

[unit_8910_wolf]

That wasn't...concerning in the least. For sure.

Zenkichi, for obvious reasons, perked his attention to what he said. "What kind of people?"

[fledglingcrow]

He looked him over. "My father's people." He was an adult, which meant he could see through cracks easily enough. He hadn't gotten perfect about fooling them.