Request (Pokemon): Dawn And May's S/O's Surprise Them With Not Only A Birthday Cake, But A Necklace That

Request (Pokemon): Dawn and May's S/O's surprise them with not only a birthday cake, but a necklace that has a picture of thier starter Pokemon.

Gonna be honest, their personalities feel pretty samey even in the anime so sorry if this ends up feeling repetitive. Also I'm writing this at 11 pm-12 am.

Dawn

-Dawn had been practicing extra hard lately to improve her Pokemon Contest game. after a recent loss to a rather high ranked Contest Star and some encouragement from you, it fueled the fire in her to improve.

-On one hand you were a bit concerned for her health, but on the other you were still proud of what she was managing to do. So you decided to acknowledge that hard work (and hopefully get her to chillax a little) by doing something for her birthday that was coming up.

-You were thinking of potentially making a cake yourself, but you then remembered an ice cream place you went to a while back on one of your dates that had good reviews for their cakes as well, so you decided to give one of those a try. Something else was in order though, not just a cake. Then as soon as you thought about it, an idea hit you.

-Despite your moderate worry, Dawn's hard work does in fact pay off. There's a contest on her birthday and the performance she and her team give is nothing less than dazzling, easy winning over the crowd.

-You of course watch in person but after the show's over you text her to meet at your place. Once she arrives, she's met with her friends and family throwing a surprise party for her with a rather large cake. She half doubts the ability for everyone to eat it all even with so many of them.

-Presents and congratulations are given out liberally, all of which she of course treasures. However the most special one is from her beloved S/O. A locket keychain with a picture she'd taken herself the first day she got Piplup from Professor Rowan. One she'd treasure for the rest of her days.

May

-May had recently gotten into battling on the side. She thought that by practicing her moves in battles, she could improve her Pokemon coordinating skills.

-She certainly wasn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, but she still had a long way to go before she reached her goal. Whatever that even was.

-Soon her birthday starts rolling around and despite being rough around the edges, she'd made some real progress. You wanted to commemorate that somehow.

-Cake was obviously mandatory. Nothing too big, you wanted a more close, intimate day out together. You decided making it yourself would help enhance that feeling. It's tough if you've never done it before, but you manage to get a decent end result.

-A gift would be necessary, too. Recently you'd come across a place that makes custom lockets that you could give them a picture to use, and you knew the perfect one. A picture you'd printed from your phone of her precious Torchic.

-It thankfully all goes well. You two spend a nice sunset in the park together sitting and talking about anything and everything as both your Pokemon play around together.

-The cake might not be the greatest ever made, but somehow food jus tastes better when eating with someone you love. Of course, the adorable Torchic necklace was metaphorical icing on it.

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.

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.

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.

Persona 5 Strikers request: After a long day of work, Ichinose's S/O surprises her at her lab to give her a birthday present-A locket that has a picture of Ichinose, Sophie, and the S/O in it.

Hey this ain't a bad idea. A lot of character development would be needed though before she's anywhere near ready for a relationship.

(She kinda fine tho, ngl. Not my gif.)

-Ichinose probably never celebrated her birthday before. She never saw the point when she had far more important things to do.

-That was however until she'd made Sophia, and then later down the line met you. Despite everything, both of you still cared for her, seeing her as your family. She could never understand why, no matter how much she really did appreciate the thought.

-It eventually reached you that her birthday was here now, and she hadn't told you about it. And she'd already gone off to work for the day. You sort of expected it, as disappointed as you were.

-But you weren't going to let that deter you, you wanted to do something, even if this wasn't the type of girlfriend to like a huge party or go out drinking with her 10+ friends.

-Frankly, she didn't really do...much of anything outside of working and spending time with you and So- wait...

-Lightbulb.

-It really is the perfect gift idea for her. a locket with a picture of all three of you in it that Ichinose can carry around and look at whenever she's just not having a good day.

-She's quite taken aback she'd practically never gotten anything for her birthday before, even if it was somewhat her fault. She doesn't quite understand the meaning at first but she knows it'd be rude to not accept it.

-It's only a couple days later when she realizes. She's pulling an all-nighter and her work is beating her down. Almost naturally, she finds herself opening up the locket and gazing at the picture of herself, you, and Sophia.

-It...actually managed to make her smile. A real one.

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.