[Text because someone overdid the opera]

[justice_by_coma]

There's cake in the kitchen.
You can only eat it provided you wish Yoite-kun a Happy Birthday.
(NO EXCUSES!!!)

It's because of him that it's there in the first place, after all, so be grateful!
You can have as much as you like!
He's seventeen.

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[voice forever]

[whatsacliche]

Uh, happy birthday, Yoite? Does that work?

[TEXT FOREVER]

[justice_by_coma]

[...........]

Well I already have cake for you, Hudson-san, since I knew your intentions would be honorable and upright from the start!

[Oh such faith.]

And anyway, why would you be telling me? You should be telling Yoite-kun! I'm sure it would mean a lot to him!

[whatsacliche]

Awesome! Is it chocolate?

Oh, I guess I figured he'd see it on here or something. Where can I find him?

[justice_by_coma]

[Blink blink GASP.]
It's vanilla! Should it have been chocolate? You're probably right! I made him vanilla cake for Rokujo-kun's birthday, and he seemed to like it, so naturally I thought he'd like it.
I should have made something else!
I'll have to alter the icing immediately! You're right, Hudson-san! How could I not have seen it?!

Yoite-kun's probably hiding, but he should appear int he kitchen as soon as he finds out there's cake. That's what I've been hoping!

What if he shows up and I'm not ready?!

[whatsacliche]

Whoa, calm down. I was just asking, you don't have to change it. Geez.

[justice_by_coma]

Even if you were only asking, you're perfectly right! Why I let Yoite's loss of his sense of taste cloud my mind there is beyond me! Why should I assume he has any less desire for variety?!

Thank you, Hudson-san!

[whatsacliche]

[Wait, he can't taste?] Don't-- go to too much trouble, man. He'll like it either way because you made it, you know?

Unless he's a hugely dicky friend.

Gay icons and super dramatic HTML fail. Man, I'm such a winner. XD

[justice_by_coma]

[He can't taste. He can barely see. Gau has to hold on faith that he can still smell, which is why he goes to such trouble to make things not only look fantastic, but smell wonderful for Yoite. And the texture of the cake is extremely important to him, too. But that's just the nature of what's happening to him, and he'd debate whether or not he might be able to make Finn understand the price of Yoite's fearful killing abilities.

Or for that matter that the super scrawny emo guy in winterwear has killing abilities at all.]

But to impose on Yoite-kun's desires for variety just simply out of my own laziness would be unthinkable! To continue to make cakes with strong vanilla scents must be tiring for him.

A dark chocolate frosting with almond extract for accentation and body would really be perfect! Or maybe ginger shavings. He might be able to feel that. What do you think?

I won't forget to tell him what a help you were, Hudson-san!

[You have no idea the dirty irony to that particular wording in regards to Yoite. The last bit there

[whatsacliche]

I-- I mean, I get it, but I still think any decent person isn't going to be too picky about something you made just to be nice, you know? And it's his birthday so-- so he should just be happy in general, I think.

[justice_by_coma]

[Incredulous face. You've thrown him for a moment.]

Why would you think

Don't you know

[A pause as he deletes both of those starters, and realizes how he should be asking.]

You've never met Yoite-kun, have you?
I don't think he's ever happy. Especially about his birthday.

You haven't met him, right? You'd know otherwise.
He's always saying things about how he's "not really alive" or how he "wants to be erased". (It's really depressing, actually.)

It's not like I think he's happy about this. I'm trying to convince him more than anything that it's alright to enjoy something like this(?)

If that makes sense.
I don't know if there's a term for it in America (someone who's obsessed with death?) that's just how Yoite-kun is.

It's sickening, really! He esteems the lives of his comrades, and still doesn't want to be alive! I do what I can, but it's really stupid. It's not like he didn't know what would happen to him.

...Finn should never work on a suicide hotline

[whatsacliche]

I think that's goth. Or emo.

Or just...depressed. You might want to have him talk to Miss P, man. That sounds kinda...scary.

But cake should help, I think.

XDD Just not when it comes to hermaphroditic emo ninjas, I think. (Canon calls him emo.)

[justice_by_coma]

"Goth" is used as a term in America, too? I knew it was an english borrowing phrase, but I wasn't sure. That might be it.

I don't think it's depression, even if he has plenty of reason, probably. It's probably hard considering the way he's dying. Losing all five senses, drying up, and turning into dust has a really unsavory flavor to it for a teenager, but it's different because he chose this.

I think it might help, making him food I mean. He eats so much. (More than you, even, Hudson-san. You at least take normal-sized mouthfuls.)

I don't think there's anyone he could talk to about it. he doesn't like to talk. He was saying something about finding a priest (?) earlier, but he wouldn't say anything more. If he would confide in me, then maybe I could help more, but it's all I can do to cook for him, take in his clothes, and try to get him to Rokujo-kun so he won't die.

(I'm sorry I'm burdening you with all this! Yoite-kun's situation is just bizzare all around, though.)

[whatsacliche]

It's, uh, not a burden. I just watched this, um, thing on the Discovery Health Channel once about depression. It was really sad but I was sick with the chicken pox and I couldn't get to the remote.

Uh, anyway.

It just sounded similar and they said you should talk to people about it, but I don't know him, so. Just a heads-up, I guess.

[justice_by_coma]

[Consideration. And what's the Discovery Channel? Like a big canal in America?]

I don't think so. Yoite-kun doesn't really like to talk. (He only really gives me responses to direct questions.)

If it would work it would definitely be worth a try, but I don't think I could make him tell me anything. He just doesn't do that unless he thinks he has to.

[whatsacliche]

Oh...

[Hmm...]

Does he play sports? Or video games? Um. Sometimes guys have an easier time talking if they're throwing a ball around or something.

[justice_by_coma]

[Ngh. Gau winces, trying to find a delicate way to put this.]

I know he still likes baseball (in theory anyway) but I've never seen him play it, so I don't know if he likes to watch it or actually do more.

Mostly he just kills people.