Izanami's So Trying To Celebrate Her Birthday And Teach Her About The Joys Of Doing It.

Izanami's so trying to celebrate her birthday and teach her about the joys of doing it.

Man, phantomfield was right, writing for villains in any romantic context is not easy. I mean I already knew that but it gets so much harder with requests like these. At least she's hot.

-Technically Izanami was never born, being essentially a living Drive. The closest thing she has to a "birthday" is when she inhabited her physical body and manifested into the world.

-She had no idea why you seemed to take such interest in it, but did give you this date of April 22, as it was really the only answer she had. (the same day this comes out because it's my birthday, too. Living personification of death being born on Earth Day, how ironic.)

-Being her S/O, you only felt it appropriate to do something nice for her, however she may have felt about it, or more accurately lack of feelings on it.

-You set your alarm to wake up much earlier than normal so you can be up before Izanami, taking it upon yourself to make a nice breakfast for her. Normally there are people to do it for her, but you give them a little white lie and say you were taking over today per the Imperator's orders. No, it may not have been an order straight from her but she'd certainly never turn down a favor from you.

-The knock on your door and appetizing smell wake her from her slumber, telling you to come in before you present her with a breakfast in bed for her special day.

-She really doesn't understand why the day of her physical materialization was so important to you.it was a pointless celebration in her eyes, but if you're willing to pamper her like this she certainly won't complain, regardless of her understanding.

-You take the day to spoil her rotten in an attempt to teach her that birthdays are an important celebration to be had. You're much more stern with her than normal and tell her to not do a second of work, insisting that you do anything for her that she needs to ensure she's comfortable.

-You're really not sure what kind of gift you can possibly give her. She doesn't really have many, if any interests you know of and anything she wants she can just get herself. She is the Imperator Librarius, after all.

-You simply opt for acts of service. Any single complaint Izanami might have, you are quick to fix it and treat her to the best you can.

-She still may think celebrating a birthday is a waste of time, but if it means she can look forward to being spoiled by you on this day, maybe she can indulge in it, at least a little.

Request: For their birthdays, Futaba and Malina's S/O's get them the limited edition pack of the newest video game that they've had their eyes on.

-It was only natural the Phantom Thieves would start organizing a party for Futaba's special day. Nothing too big, of course, for her sake, but a big ol' celebration at Leblanc certainly wouldn't hurt.

-Futaba hadn't really told anyone about it yet since she didn't have the chance, but she was really looking forward to a specific game for a pretty long time, and of course she wanted the limited special edition.

-She did tell Sojiro, but it was too expensive for him and a waste of money in his eyes. And of course she couldn't rely on a bunch of high school students to be able to afford it.

-So it's a pretty big surprise when the gift she opens from you turns out to be the very thing she'd been wanting. You'd seen her look at it online when you visited her room and knew that'd be something nice to get for her birthday.

-It wasn't easy, mind you. You're a high school student with other responsibilities just like everyone else. But you wanted to treat her for her first birthday as your S/O.

-The look on her face and the way her eyes lit up was worth all the effort as she immediately ripped open the box and put on the helmet that came with the special edition. That thing was not coming off for the foreseeable future.

-Malina...isn't a particular fan of newer games. She has a very pessimistic view of the industry as a whole nowadays. Whether you agree with that sentiment is up to you.

-One day you took her to a game store since you needed to play into her interests to get her out of the house. And you'd rather not have to deal with a drunk demon causing chaos at the bar.

-She's mostly pretty disinterested, being the huge skeptic that she is. That is though until something manages to catch her eyes. A remake, specifically.

-An old Heroes game had apparently gotten a remake without her knowledge, and a limited edition with downloadable DLC for some extra loot and characters was currently being sold, and on limited quantity.

-Seeing that her birthday was coincidentally coming up in a couple days, you saw no reason not to get it for her. She honestly didn't expect you to do something like that for her of all people, but she does appreciate it (though she's most tsundere tsundere to ever tsundere so you won't be hearing that out loud.)

-The two of you promptly head home and boot up the game, spending the rest of the night playing it until sunrise. Whether or not that was your intention.

Headcanons/one-shots of Bullet and Kokonoe celebrating their S/o birthday.

Also happy belated birthday.

You KNOW these two never got proper, normal birthdays. Big yikes.

-Bullet...never had a traditional birthday that most people would want to have. Her mercenary group didn't really do that.

-She did however want to do something for yours when it eventually rolled around the first time since you started dating. However figuring out how to do this from nothing was easier said than done, especially someone of her...personality type.

-Gifts were supposed to be commonplace on birthdays so she figured that was as good a place to start as any. Problem is, she didn't really know kind of gift what was appropriate.

-After much deliberation and some asking around in a very...Bullet kind of way, she settles on a book relating to something you'd particularly shown a lot of interest in.

-She can't shake the feeling of awkwardness and nerves of giving you something, feeling the pressure now more than ever that she was actually doing it.

-You know full well Bullet really tried her best to do something nice for you despite not knowing what birthdays are typically like. You make your gratefulness as apparent as you can, making her let out a breath she didn't know she was holding in relief.

-You thought Bullet's birthday cluelessness was bad? Well at least she had people who cared about her to spend them with. Kokonoe on the other hand...yeah.

-You are not getting a party, you'd have better luck jumping into shark infested water with pork chops in your pants. Being the pragmatist she is, Kokonoe thinks all the hooplah to be a waste of time and money, she has far more important things to be doing.

-She's not cruel though, she's not going to ignore the day entirely. Like Bullet, she'll commemorate the day in a very...'her' way.

-She likely cooks up some kind of weird, never-before seen gadget just for you that she knows you can use in some way, for self defense, missions, or some miscellaneous use.

-Being a scientist, she's a very practical person. Whatever you get is something she knows for a fact you'll be using frequently, not some sentimental bullcrap that'll just collect dust somewhere in your house.

-If she's feeling nicer than usual, she'll also throw in some chocolates from her personal stash in there as well. Collecting the stuff is a hobby for her, one of the only ones she has so it's definitely guaranteed to be the good stuff.

-Once you're alone with her she'll present her gift to you and attempt to casually play it off, but her inexperience is obvious in both her body language and the subtle, soft coloration on her face. It's actually pretty cute, but don't point that out to her.

Bonus request

So, this was a request that was given to me in DMs. @chefskillet1 was the only person to miss the deadline for a request so I decided to give her a free request submission. She asked for HCs about how Izanami and Nine celebrate their S/O's birthday, but Izanami was already done in a previous post so Nine will be done here. This ask will take place after the Dark War before she dies since that feels more natural to me for this post.

-Nine is quite used to celebrating a birthday, she does it all the time for the people important to her like Celica and Trinity, she'll have no qualms doing it for an S/O as well.

-Even after the Dark War and losing a lot of her political power, she can still definitely do something for you. She'll be damned if she doesn't, she got way too close to losing you for comfort, she's fully intent on spoiling you

-She still has more than enough power to reserve an entire building in Ishana specifically for the celebration, getting Celica and the rest of the Heroes to help out, albeit with differing levels of enthusiasm.

-She can be a real slave driver at times, as everyone finds out in her efforts to make everything as perfect as possible. Terumi especially has it bad, though since he's still under the Mind Eater, he can't do much of anything to go against her.

-On the day of your birthday, Celica tells you to come to some place in Ishana you hadn't yet been to before. You hadn't really had time to wander since for the last 10 years you and everyone else were too busy trying to stop a giant ass nuclear hydra from ending the world. You had no reason to not at least see what she was up to.

-Much to your surprise, there's a whole ass party set up just for you, Nine, Celica and the rest of the Heroes having differing energies as they shouted "surprise!". Nine, Celica, Trinity, and Jubei were all quite enthusiastic, Valkenhayn not as much but still wanted to do his part, Terumi doing it rather begrudgingly, and Hakumen expectedly staying silent.

-Gifts of all kinds are laid out on the table nearby, it's pretty easy to tell who each one is from since no two people in this crowd are completely alike. Tea leaves from Valk that you've probably never seen before, a special magic charm from Celica imbued with some of her power, A shiny new katana from Jubei, a special staff handmade by Trinity to enhance your magic, the list goes on.

-Nine had something extra special for you, though, naturally. Her gift is a magic snowglobe of Ishana, shaking it while thinking about any particular part of your home will show your happiest memories there, however few and far between they may or may not be.

-The day you first met Nine and all your other friends, the day you two finally hooked up, your wedding if you're already married, the party of historical proportions when the Black Beast was finally slain, and many more you can revisit with this one contraption.

-Terumi couldn't be fucked to get you anything, so to make up for that Nine makes him do party tricks. Maximum embarrassment for the bastard and maximum amusement for the rest of you. Though he would never admit, even Hakumen couldn't help a scoff of amusement here and there, taking pleasure in the humiliation of the man who'd caused him so much suffering.

-Nine may be brash, aggressive, and hot-headed, but it's moments like these where you're reminded that she really does care about you, more than life itself. She'd go to hell and back to ensure you and her family are safe and sound.

Today's the day!

Alright bitches, if you've been around here for longer than a day you know today finally breaks my almost month long hiatus and all the birthday bash HCs are finally releasing!

At 10 a.m MST, roughly an hour from now, the HCs will start posting at 30 minute intervals until all of them are out, assuming the schedule feature works as intended. I barely managed to get all these things done in time, I was up writing at 11:40 p.m last night lmao.

So like the hedonistic attention whore that I am, happy birthday to me!

It is done

And that's that, folks! Every request planed to be fulfilled for the even is currently out!

My notifications have been booming all day with no end seemingly in sight. Thank you all so much for your patience during the down period and for giving me so much support. It really is more appreciated than you know.

Regularly scheduled requests will resume after today. I currently have 4 old ones in the inbox. For those four requesters, thank you for being so patient with me through such a huge delay, but this event was really important to me.

Good news for everyone else, though, once those last few requests are done the inbox will finally open back up, so keep an eye out for that!

And that has been Nova's Birthday Bash. Hope to keep any newcomers around in the future to see what comes next.