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[warpstriking]

Who: Noctis and you
When: August 30th
Where: Yun'Ashia
What: It's someone's 21st birthday...
Warnings/Notes: Just a nerd, fisher, king trying to have a quiet cake day (and none of his closest friends letting that happen)

1. Just a Quiet Day...
2. Distraction of Flight (closed to Regis)
3. The Setup
4. Surprise Party!

Comments

[spaceforged]

[He nods and scans the kitchen with a glance. It's such a foreign world to him. But he admires the work Ignis has put into it.]

From how I've always understood most birthday parties to work thefts in the kitchen was part of it.

[He wouldn't really know. He was raised by his grandfather. His lips twitch at the corners and finally curl up into an amused smile.]

Or at least the part most people attempt. I'm assuming no one has been successful.

[regalblaze]

[Usually, Ignis kitchen is impeccably clean. Right now, it has things strewn around, a small notebook with recipes laying on the counter. He was debating on doing cake decorations but making glaze look like a night sky won over.]

There have been snags here and there, [Ignis smiles with a shake of his head and then stirs the glaze he'll be using on that three-story cake next to him.]

I just don't want glaze ruined before I put it on the cake. It is a bit tedious to make it.

[spaceforged]

[He pushes away from the wall and cautiously treads inside the kitchen. It looks a bit of a mess but that reminds him of hanger bays and times he's hung out in the kitchen while Hunk cooked. This isn't the same but he settles in an out of the way spot that's decent for observing.]

What exactly are you going for if you don't mind the question?

[regalblaze]

It will be a three-story, wildberry cream cake.

[That should cover all the guests attending the party, right? It's not too much. Not as extravagant that he would go after if their circumstances were different.]

It will have a mirror glaze for decoration in the colors of the night sky.

[The obvious inspiration coming from Noctis' name.]

[spaceforged]

The night sky. [He echoes, his eyes widening with a faint spark of excitement. A mirror glaze of the night sky. There's a faint hint of longing in his voice. Enough it's easy to hear it.]

How...could you tell me how that's possible in a glaze?

[regalblaze]

[Ignis just smiles and takes out several bowls and starts filling them in with different colored glazes- light blue, dark blue, light purple, dark purple, white and black.]

Rather than tell you, I can show you?

[He places the biggest part of the cake- the first out of three-story cake, the bottom one- on the decorating rack, lifted above the pan which will catch the glaze as he pours it over.

He picks up the black glaze first and pours it over the cake, letting it slide over the top and the edges slowly. Then he adds deep blue that mixes in quite nicely, covering even more of the cake. One by one, Ignis adds colors, letting them swirl around each other, making waves and beautiful lines. Once he's done, the cake fully glazed, he picks some of the white glaze on the brush and sprinkles it all over the cake. Stars anyone?]

sorry family stuff happened. we're good now

[spaceforged]

[He shifts his weight to make himself more comfortable and pays rapt attention. Whatever he expected it wasn't this. He drifts a little closer but still out of the way.]

...reminds me of a puddle after it rains. [The ones on the edge of the hangar with the oil slick. All swirling colors and designs. He blinks as the colors make lines and that...reminds him of what he once thought stardust was like. Space isn't like that. Not all the time.]

I see. So, it's letting the colors naturally mix based on the movement-

[He's always been about math. He's mathing this out in his head.]

\o/

[regalblaze]

[Working with glaze is tasking because it needs to be right temperature but he wouldn't dare to do anything less for Noct's birthday. He keeps adding on colors until they are all perfectly covering every inch of the cake in a wonderful pattern. It probably doesn't replicate the space that correctly, but it's pretty similar to the skies they see in Eos. He adds a bit of a shimmer on the glossy glaze for a starry look and then steps back.]

Now, I need to let this cool and decorate the rest of the cake then stack them. [He rubs his chin in thought-] I hope this will be enough for all the guests.

/o/

[spaceforged]

I definitely think you have more than enough. [He remarks as he draws back to let Ignis get that better view. It gives him a moment take in the new pattern. It does look like a night sky. It reminds him of Earth. He supposes the two are not that far apart.]

And if anything else is needed, there's always making another run for supplies.

[regalblaze]

Well, the only thing left is assembling the cake.

[The cake that probably as heavy as a pile of bricks. A delicious pile of bricks.]

It is supposed to go in the garden, near the fireworks.