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[realists]

[ simple text, straightforward and easy: ]

What are the birthday traditions on your home planets?

[ jyn hasn't celebrated a birthday in something like... fifteen years so to say she's out of practice would be a gross understatement. she tells herself this is cultural anthropology, her mother would be proud. TIME TO LEARN, time to attempt to live like a normal human being... ]

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[winscenario]

Weird, isn't it? Well, for us. Not that I've ever celebrated my birthday, but it's odd to think of any species that doesn't mark time in the same way.

Also I know you're dodging my question. But if you don't wanna share, that's alright. You could've just said so.

[realists]

I was born on the fifth day of the twelfth standard month on a planet that had twice as many days as a standard year and one season. It was nearly twenty two years after the Great ReSynchronization.

Now you know my birthday.

[ TIME IS MEANINGLESS WHEN CALENDARS DON'T MATCH ]

We met a couple weeks after my birthday.

[winscenario]

Yes, I do. That's quite a bit of math, I'll give you that. [ It pays off being a genius sometimes. ] The calendar here is pretty much the same as the one I was used to, back home. How difficult was it for you to adjust to it?

Thank you for telling me, by the way. My birthday is on the 4th day of the year.

[realists]

I don't think about it. Days are roughly the same length on most of the planets I spent a decent amount of time on so the arbitrary structure of months here wasn't very important.

[ time... is a construct. ]

I don't plan ahead so I don't need a calendar.

[winscenario]

I don't know. It could be. Sometimes I like to celebrate little things. But I get what you mean.

[ Time becomes something of a blur in deep space, too. Doesn't really matter which time of the year it is, or which day of the week, when they go months without setting foot on solid ground, or feeling actual sunlight on their faces. ]

[realists]

I've never had anything to celebrate.

[winscenario]

What about now?

[realists]

We'll see.