recolle | open || ain't no party like a birthday party

WHO: Minako, Sakura, Ragna, and you!
WHERE: One of the arcade bars in the city.
WHEN: March 10th
WHAT: BIRTHDAY PARTY!
WARNINGS: None foreseen! Feel free to threadjack for Minako's Hot Potato Categories game.

[Welcome to the Emporium, an arcade bar that Minako and Sakura have decided to host their joint birthday party at! Come on in and have some fun playing games, eating junk food, and just hanging out with the birthday girls (and guy, if he decides to come).

There are, of course, the numerous arcade games that the place is known for, ranging from the old school 2v2 fighters to the shooting gallery kinds. But there are a smattering of other games as well, like DDR, darts, mini hoops, skeeball, and the pool table, too. There's also a wall of crane games in the back, with plenty of random and mostly cute prizes to win.

Make a stop by the purikura booth if you have time. Make some duck lips at the camera and then take the snaps home! (Or give them to the birthday girls for the memories.)

Oh, and be sure to exchange your money for tokens before you play all these games. The token machine seems kind of finicky, though. Maybe a strong (and hopefully discrete?) kick will help jumpstart it.

Walk to the dining area, and there'll be a feast waiting you! The arcade is providing a ton of pizza and wings, as well as alcohol, if you can show your ID. For dessert, there's the cake that Shuji made for the girls, as well as Minako's lemon tea cakes. Those are limited supply, though, so snag one before everyone eats it up.

Next to the dining area, there's a big sign that says "DUNK TANK OUTSIDE". Maybe take a look? Just be reaaaally sure you want to climb in before you do it, though. The towels provided by the arcade are pretty small.

And finally, if you need a break from the chaos, there's a couple of couches on the second floor. Take a load off and watch from above.]

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[She grins at him and pulls him into a hug. Sorry, she's in a very huggy mood today.]

I can't wait to see what it is. But right now: purikura!

[She tugs him into one of the booths and starts poking at the screen.]

Got any pose ideas for us?

[He's almost always in a huggy mood even if he's not the one initiating them, so this is a-okay with him! Birthday girl will get a big birthday hug and then he lets himself get dragged into purikura hell.

Of course, he immediately starts to situate himself at the best angle in front of the camera...]

Classic ones first, duh! Like this!

[Doing the stereotypical v-sign...]

Oh, my favorite.

[She grins and makes the v-sign with one hand, while doing bunny ears behind his head with the other.]

[Minako is A PUNK... And yet he doesn't stop her, even seeing it in the little screen.]

Hm... Somehow, bunny ears lose some charm points without the filter adding carrots and sparkles and stuff, too.

Oh, don't you worry, I'll be sure to draw some cute whiskers and a ruff on you during the decorating stage.

[She's an expert, she'll add so many charm point to his pictures.]

Next pose, go!

Good, good! I'll leave that up to you, then. Make sure that we're extra cute, okay?

[Cute in the way that only photobooths with their over the top stickers and filters can manage...]

Here, here--

[Next pose and he's holding one hand out toward her, shaped like half a heart!]

[Minako loves hearts?! She leans her body into it so she forms the other half, half of her hair on his head by virtue of how she's positioned.]

A redheaded Kashuu! Not bad, not bad~

[It's the best heart in the history of purikura hearts.]

Ooh, that is a good look. Red's always been my color, y'know? Maybe we should swap for a day.

[Somehow, Minako with brown-black hair seems much less suiting than him with red hair, though?!]

[It was the dominant gene in the Arisato fam, she probably wouldn't look too bad with it.]

If you're serious about that, I would definitely be willing to temporarily dye my hair.

[Time for the next pose! Duck face. Because of course duck face.]

[The fact that he is so ready and willing to do the duck face pose in this, the year of our lord 2018, is honestly a tragedy.]

Really? Geez, you must be feeling super adventurous lately.

[TATTOOS, DYES, what's next, Minako?!]

Just a little bit!

[You know, gotta live it up after having a memory of her past self's death.]

I gotta do it before I graduate and become an official boring adult, after all.

[A much healthier coping mechanism than his own...! Probably.

He smiles, and it's a little softer this time.]

Geez, you're gonna make me start feeling old, too. Can you believe we only have a few more years left until we're official nine-to-fivers?

[Is anyone actually expecting to grow up and live normal boring adult lives at this point, though? He's really not sure.]

[Probably not, but Minako will sure as heck try...]

Crazy, right? [Last pose is free pose, so she inflates her cheeks and raises her hands to poke them for a funny face. Once the flash goes off, she continues:] On the one hand, it's so normal that I can't wait for it to start. On the other, it's going to make dealing with Retrospec stuff really difficult. "Sorry boss, I couldn't make it into work because I had to fight a horde of monsters in an alternate dimension instead."

[Kashuu strikes an over-exaggerated Model Pose, on the other hand, before carrying on.]

Tell me about it! I already have enough trouble just getting off shifts at a cafe. How am I supposed to function when I'm a super famous designer that just keeps randomly disappearing? [A long, weary sigh...]

That's why I think it's a good idea for more of us to start up actual businesses, though.

[She puffs out her cheeks, this time in a bout of mild huffiness.]

I mean, yes, that sounds like a good idea, but it seems like a lot of work just to work around Retrospec at the same time.

Well, I'm definitely not gonna argue with that.

["Inconvenient" is about the nicest way he can describe their... everything, lately. Especially everything involving Retrospec.]

But what else are we gonna do?

[He's also not optimistic enough to think things will ever truly go back to "normal".]

Just work from home for the rest of our lives?

[That way they can set their own hours...and run off to fight monsters and visit other dimensions whenever they want.]

In a perfect world, I guess something like that could happen... But if it were a perfect world, we wouldn't be having these problems in the first place, huh?

[A SIGH... But he's not going to let this stop him from hopping over to the control panel outside so they can graffiti the heck out of their pictures.]

In a perfect world, everyone in the city would know about Retrospec so we don't have to keep secrets, and we could have some sort of compensation system for dealing with Retrospec incidents.

[She follows after him and hops into her seat. Ah, her favorite part of doing purikura. She cracks her knuckles and picks up the stylus.]

Okay, sixty seconds to do this. Let's go!

Let's not get too crazy, now.

[Though it's clear he's teasing, being a tiny bit of a punk as he is at heart.

He'll set that aside in favor of being the best 60-second decorator he can possibly be, either way.]

Ooh, they added a sticker option here? Nice, nice! The heart bow one is gonna look so cute on you--

And you are going to look really good with these devil horns on your head.

open || ain't no party like a birthday party

aaah kashuuu i've missed him

ive missed minako too aaaa!!

grips hands i gotta throw her to him more next month

YES SAME time for them to be troublemaking hooligans

yells softly yess maybe some quest shenanigans or something

omg id be down, theyd be hilarious questers

they will get shit done but also probably mess up at least two times along the way

hopefully not catastrophically at least

better pray for them

me 24/7 tbh

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