text | @kestrel

[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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text: scavenger.rey

[talentedscavenger]

Wouldn't know. It was another day.

But, I heard in some place cake is involved.

[realists]

[ she feels u, rey. ]

I've heard cake, as well.

text; thunderer

[worldsaway]

Traditionally, you start to forget about it after your 500th birthday and then everyone else forgets as well.

[realists]

[ sir pls. ]

Subtract 474 and tell me how you celebrated that birthday.

[worldsaway]

I was given a very powerful weapon and told to use it wisely.

Do they like weapons? We might be onto something.

[talentedscavenger]

[ They can do something low key...and it doesn’t have to involve a birthday celebration if Jyn doesn’t want it to. ]

Do you want cake? They make them in chocolate flavors.

Or just have chocolate.

[realists]

I like your style but there isn't a particular birthday approaching.

Just curious and tired of thinking about illness and death.

[realists]

It's not my birthday, that's already passed. I'm just curious.

Have you had one of Taako's cupcakes? We still have one in the fridge if you want it.

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[talentedscavenger]

[ Rey opts to make the message private.]

Anything Taako makes is amazing, but you hold onto it. Thanks though.

So why the question about birthday’s?

audio un:pnwsalex

[11calls]

Normally back home it's a fair amount of drinking, some sort of party or celebration and cake or whatever you'd like.

[ text | un: drn0167 ]

[sentiences]

My partner goes drinking.

I think it's a birthday gift when he manages to win a bar fight.

text: frankenstein

[jolting]

Depends on the age and the culture. I say celebrate it however you want, or don't celebrate it at all.

un: yri

[sentence]

A few presents from your loved ones. Maybe a slice of cake, but what's more important is being good the whole year. You don't make friends who'd celebrate with you if you're an ass.

[realists]

[ how dare you audio at her, alex, jyn doesn't want to speak to people like an adult. not like she isn't doing voice to text already, she supposes she can take off the to text part. she sounds british and tired. ]

That seems to be a common tradition. Cake and party.

[realists]

Maybe he needs to learn how to fight better.

You could gift him lessons.

[realists]

Why does everyone think it's my birthday?

I want to know what your traditions are. IN GENERAL.

[realists]

[ idk she's an ass and it's part of her appeal. ]

No one is good for a whole year.

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[realists]

Maybe I like learning about other cultures. We can't planet hop here so this was the next best thing I could think of.

[ it's so boring being in the same place. ]

[jolting]

Like I said, it depends. Some people throw big parties and some people are more simple. Growing up, mine was more the big party tradition. I didn't really like it that much.

[sentence]

No one also spills all the details of their life, either. Just good enough works.

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[talentedscavenger]

Since when?

But...you get used to staying in one place. Though, I do miss flying.

[11calls]

Yeah. There's a lot of us here from earth and the same time period so it makes sense.

So, when's your birthday?

[sentiences]

I'm afraid he'd have to be around for that.

And I'm not sure that's something I want to encourage.

un: TheStrandInstitute

[nobasisinfact]

It's dependant on the person.

In some cases, religion, personal preference or family traditions play a deciding factor. Other times it can be dictated by those around you or what is currently the societal norm.

Yourself?

[realists]

I didn't stay on planets very long usually, not long enough to adapt to birthday traditions. I did witness a few from afar.

There's a tradition on one planet that the person whose birthday it is buys everyone in the bar a round of drinks. That might have been the owners way to get more credits but I never saw anyone complain.