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[lapidarius]

"This is Kakyoin Noriaki. Please leave a message, I'll contact you as soon as I can."

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[lapidarius]

[He had to admit, there was something very surreal about this. For most of his life things like this didn't go ignored, but celebrations were very quiet and understated in the Kakyoin household. (That was just how it went with a family of generally reserved people.) But the past three birthdays stuck in his mind for a number of reasons, each of them with vivid details]

[His seventeenth birthday had been with his parents, spent planning a short vacation to Cairo partially for his father's research. His mother had wanted to go back to a point on the Nile; she'd seemed to enjoy the view of it at night. Kakyoin himself had agreed with that; he used to think Egypt at night was a sight to behold. But the less said about the events that came in the following weeks, the better.]

[His eighteenth had been better if unexpected; he'd spent it in Spiral, made a cake for himself and the three others that lived there at the time. Diarmuid had given him a jar of cherries by sheer coincidence--he still wondered if the ribbon tied around it had been the city itself at work somehow. But other than the small number of them living in the school, he'd been--he'd felt completely alone.]

[His nineteenth...]

[A lot had happened in a year, hadn't it? He had a place here, with both his closest friends from home and so many more he'd been lucky enough to meet here. He had friends. Friends that cared enough to go to all this trouble, to give him something genuinely thoughtful and-]

[...hm. His vision had gone blurry for a second or two, and Kakyoin hurriedly swiped the back of his hand across his eyes to fix that.]

[Eventually, mid-morning or early afternoon of the 26th he'd make his way down to the kitchen, because yes he absolutely wanted that cake. And also:]

polnareff?

thanks

[silvercrusader]

yeah
of course

[He lets that stay there for a moment, sweet and genuine, before adding:]

did you like the HAND ILLUSTRATED CARD
personally i think that was the best gift of them all

[lapidarius]

I did, actually. My opinion as an amateur artist is that your skills need some work, but the sentiment was there.

[silvercrusader]

if jojo and i ever write a sequel to our comic book we're definitely getting you to illustrate
or me
with guidance by you

[lapidarius]

Anything to provide Kishibe some healthy competition, of course.

[silvercrusader]

he has experience but we have HEART
ive seen enough sports movies to know were gonna be the winners
actually no well probably lose but we'll all have learned something by the end of it

maybe how to color in comic books

[lapidarius]

I'm sure the three of us can work out something passable, at the absolute least.

[silvercrusader]

something AWARD WINNING
the jp polnareff award of excellence
hey did the skirt fit by the way
she asked for size and i just kind of
gestured

[lapidarius]

It does, yes.

[his hip to waist ratio is insane have you seen this kid]

It's great, I really like it.

[silvercrusader]

GOOD
almost asked you but then i thought i'd have to explain and presents suck if you know what they are in advance so "half of mine" worked out

anyway im not saying you have to wear it in front of me but
you could
or should
whichever

[lapidarius]

I just might. But you're not getting any advance warning when I do.

[silvercrusader]

oh no seeing your bare legs
god help me



hey
so

[There's a pause, noticeable and a little too long, and then:]

so bruno taught me how to do that wing shit on eyeliner
actually jotaro started it but he didnt know much

[lapidarius]

I'll have you know my legs are fantastic, thank you very much.

Did he? I've never worn it before.

[silvercrusader]

[He keeps gearing himself up for these big explosions of reaction, but maybe he's just projecting. It's not as Kakyoin is known for screeching.]

its wet as hell ill tell you that much
i dont know how bruno does it all the time
i mean i kind of forgot after a while but that didnt help because then i rubbed my eyes and suddenly i got a whole new Look

[lapidarius]

[No, Polnareff, that's all you and Joseph.]

What, it doesn't dry after a while? That sounds unnecessarily troublesome.

[silvercrusader]

i mean i guess probably it does after like
an hour
or something
i dont know i just remember being really aware of it

[lapidarius]

Because you weren't used to it. I'm sure if you wore it more often you wouldn't even notice. But as I said, I've never worn it so I wouldn't know.

We actually did talk about this once--Jotaro, Giorno, and myself. It was just after Holly got here, we were asking Giorno how to cover up my scars if we needed to.

...It all sounded like a lot of trouble so I just went back to wearing sunglasses for a while.

GOD all these icons are killin me

[silvercrusader]

theyre pretty great scars, you know
i mean
i'm just saying
you look badass

[Which sounds clumsy, but he means it. Scars are a way to prove to the world that you're a warrior, a fighter, someone who took on the world and survived. Kakyoin ought to be proud of them, even if the fight in question wasn't exactly an example of heroism. He's a hero in most cases; it averages out.]

muhuhu

[lapidarius]

I appreciate it, Polnareff, but I'm not insecure about them. It was for Holly's sake that we hid them for a while, not mine.

[silvercrusader]

o well never mind fuck it i take the compliment back
that birthday card was enough niceness for one day

[lapidarius]

How incredibly hurtful of you. And here I was hoping you'd follow with a comment on my elegant good looks.

[silvercrusader]

"oooh kakyoin if it weren't for jotaro you and your legs would be all mine"

something like that?

[lapidarius]

Now, let's not push it too far. You're a little older than my preferred age range, you know.

[silvercrusader]

i mean NORMALLY youre a little too young
but now it's only 2 1/2 years between us
its fate

[lapidarius]

You know that's kind of weird when you put it like that

I'm going to have to go back to being a second year in high school after this, how the hell am I going to do that if I'm twenty or something?