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[bentflame]

We've been getting gifts delivered to the palace all week now-- even more so than usual, because nobody is coming for a celebration themselves. It's mostly artwork or heirlooms; they're never personal, obviously. Yesterday we received an antique vase that looks good in the portrait hall, but other than that, nothing has been all that interesting or of note.

I'll be off-world, and I'll be going out to a spa with someone in the afternoon, but other than that I have nothing planned. It'll seem odd for my birthday to just be like any other day, especially since it's my sixteenth.

Is this what it's like for commoners?

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[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

More or less especially if one doesn't even care about celebrating their birthday.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Is that common?

[philoxidizes]

It depends.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

On?

[ofhopeandglory.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't really know, since I've never made a great deal of mine.

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS, you're right it's Ryan time!

[iknowucan]

You're birthday's soon?

Sometimes it really is just another day, but your sixteenth birthday is supposed to be special! You should have a party or something!

[philoxidizes]

How much you'd like to celebrate.

[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

It's a personal thing with me, but I've heard the older people get, the more they develop a similar outlook to you on such days.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

There isn't going a typical Fire Nation celebration at home this year, and that sort of thing isn't appropriate for Earth. I have no idea how people do it there.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

How would you know what my outlook is?

[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

Maybe because you more or less posted it in a journal entry.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

And I said that that seemed odd-- after all, turning sixteen is a big deal on my world. But it's not like it can be helped.

keywords win!

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Aren't you incredibly old?

THEY NEED TO BECOME BFF Y/Y

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

With the situation in my country, it isn't wise for me to make any more public appearances than necessary.

[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

I suppose it would be then, although it's the 18th birthday that's the big teenage birthday over here.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

What happens when you're eighteen?

[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

In my world at least, you get considered an adult by everyone else.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Oh right, I forgot some worlds have an actually age of adulthood.

Earth?

[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

Yes, one of the many versions of the planet.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I know, I've been there.

[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

Alright.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

What country?

[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

Tokyo, Japan.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Everyone's from Japan.

[digital-queen.livejournal.com]

Well, excuse me. No-one can help where they're born after all.