Somewhere around 2/28 to 3/1

[tookashirototheknee]

I would like everyone to join me in wishing a very happy birthday to Liminal Space's best six-and-a-half year old, Takashi Shirogane!

Happy birthday, dude. If I could make things, I'd make you a cake.

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[triggerhappytraitor]

...Leap year?

[vrepit_no]

Yes. Thank you.

[tookashirototheknee]

Yeah. I swear everything he does is Extra. Even when he was born.

[He teases out of love. Really.]

[vrepit_no]

I'm twenty six.

[tookashirototheknee]

No, you're six.

[claudiometer]

You cradle robber, you.

[tookashirototheknee]

Yeah, yeah. Just can't help myself.

[starshaper]

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAP--- BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

[vrepit_no]

[....Okay, he was not expecting something so wholesome and pure.]

Ah... Thank you! I appreciate it.

[rustyhonesty]

Uh... what?

[Guess who has no idea what a Leap Year is.]

[tookashirototheknee]

Oh, right. You wouldn't know Leap Year. The way the calendar works back at home, every four years we have to add a day to the year, because of how the earth orbits the sun. Shiro was born on that day, so technically, he only has a birthday every four years.

[vrepit_no]

...Twenty six. I'm twenty six. It's a weird thing to keep the calendar in line, it doesn't actually mean anything except that people get to make jokes every year.

[reallymean]

...Do all humans get that tall that quickly?

[There's muzzy puzzlement in Allura's mental voice. This must be some sort of human joke.]

You're welcome to use the kitchen in the Castle, if you'd like. There should be...food.

[Of some sort. She's just going to go back to sleep now and hope nothing burns down.]

[tookashirototheknee]

Oh, er, no. Shiro was born on Leap Day, which is a day that's added to Earth's calendar every four years, because Earth's orbit is just a tiny bit longer than the calendar allows.

So technically, Shiro's birthday is only once every four years.

[vrepit_no]

[Oh dear sweet stars and planets. Gentle. Yeah.]

...Go back to sleep, Princess. We'll explain when you wake up.

[loyalrebel]

....you must count time very differently in the future.

[vrepit_no]

....Just. Ignore it, honestly.

[For the love of space, ignore it.]

[tookashirototheknee]

Oh, not exactly. Every four years we have to add an extra day in the calendar or it gets out of sync with Earth's orbit.

[... Matt, you're talking to Middle Ages Man.]

Otherwise, in like a hundred years, March would end up in the middle of winter or something.

[bite_the_hand]

...And I thought it was bad that you have to be eighteen to be treated like an adult in most worlds. How do people born on this Leap thing manage to get anything done?

[Eren heard the explanations of what a Leap Year is. But he's also now under the impression that Shiro really is "officially" six and is legally treated as such.]

[claudiometer]

Usually by marking their birthday to either side of the 29th, in years when the date doesn't exist. Chronological age is more important than actual celebrated birthdays for legal purposes.

[vrepit_no]

Wh-- Oh geeze. No, they know I'm really twenty-six, I swear. Matt's just doing the annual joke run, Eren, I promise.

[otomechapilot]

Wow it sure is a good thing I have all this chocolate cake and cheesecake, what's a fourth birthday on the pile?

Though I hope you don't mind six candles on your slice, even if it's just Matt being a derp about February 29th.

[vrepit_no]

...You have chocolate cake? Like. Actual? Chocolate cake?

[Focus, Shirogane.]

No, seriously, it's not a big deal. I probably shouldn't be surprised that we have birthday candles in liminal space, but here I am.

[insidegalra]

Six-- How... I know humans don't mature that fa--

[And there's a significant pause where he listens in.] Ah. Earth's time keeping sounds very inefficient.

Regardless, congratulations Shiro, on both counts. You as well, Matt.

[vrepit_no]

It's...yeah. Thanks, Thace. I swear we were going to tell people after I managed a real proposal. There are just rituals for that and I want to get them right.

[It makes sense, he swears.]