Happy Birthday Zori!

(Also happy anniversary of King Louis XVI getting guillotined!)

(fun fact, this was the first fun fact Zori told me about his b-day, once upon a time :melting_clock: years ago.)

I love you and appreciate all the fun and thoughtful moments we've shared with each other over the years. I hope the next year is much kinder to you than the past one has been.

Here's what the members of HGRPG have to say about Zori:

Fun and/or memorable moments you've had with zori:

• first and second games are very dear to my heart!!! and all the times zori has encouraged and helped me with my spanish and putting it into writing, thank u for supporting this gringa. also all the little vasco x ludo moments make me soft!!!
• The 80th! Glamour is still scared of Quest 😂
• honestly just any time shooting the breeze, whether over messages or on TC, Zori is both incredibly thoughtful and hilarious and chatting is always a delight
• you've been one of my longest most consistent friends on this site, even through all the highs and the many many lows. i love complaining about everything with u and just being shook 24/7 when it comes to u and ur stories LMAO. also will never forget that time someone wrote a site poem and ended it with "zori is sorry (not)" I STILL THINK ABOUT IT LOL (throwback to kneedles and charity dayz). also also that time I thought rum tum's new fc was still skylar astin because they LOOK SO DAMN SIMILAR???
• District eleven plotting!!
• hearing about Quest’s post-80th shenanigans always makes me smile 💞
• Vasco and Pierre moments! We need to crack on with more plotting with them for sure!
• every moment is a fun one with zori lbr
• Um, aligning in the 84th albeit briefly and just hanging out on various chat platforms and chatting all the time. Love zori soy matcha
• Just getting to know you a little better in the past year has been really nice. Also I hate you every time to pull the furby bullshit when I'm in general.
• late nights staying up and chatting about Izar lore

Favorite zori character:



Favorite quote from his writing:

• sorry im at work so i cant check site but im constantly thinking about uxue izar being dragged out of her house bc those scenes live in my head rent free so vividly. also the oneshot from her sister WHEW i love the izar lore!
• [insert some bamf Quest quote here]
• "Fuck being a bigger person and not wanting one or the other to die. I want Shy to win and I want his ass to come to district six so I can tell him that he’s not a fucking failure, and that I’m going to dry his ass out until he’s not a walking zombie. That he’s not stronger because of the trauma they put on his body. That the world doesn’t have his back, but there’s at least some of us that do. That the Shy I knew is in there somewhere and this tough guy routine ain’t going to fly with me.
  
  “GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!” I shout at the television as though maybe, whatever god is above, she can hear me and send the message across the universe and punch him square in the face with it.
  
  
  Just this once –
  
  
  Let him live, again.

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[li]“I feel like all my parts have started falling apart,” I gasp out. “I feel like, the harder I try the weaker I get. Like the world’s slipped right on by me, and now I’m just—it’s all just…” I take a breath and look over at Nekane. They could have me, they could tear me limb from limb. It would be a better ending than the fade into nothing. How could we keep living, thinking that this was just how it was supposed to be? [...] “This life is gonna be over soon; the stars last forever.”[/li]
[li]Honestly everything Olivia says but also Delroy: “ But more than that, he hoped that his voice won’t have gone wasted. If that took another life, or more, he’d have to bear the load. ”[/li]
[li]I am on mobile and am having a heck of a time accessing the site, but Zori’s writing is lovely and fun and always creative[/li]
[li]"The wetness in his shorts couldn’t distract him for too long. “Ho man, oh man…”
- Benat Izar, Bloodbath
Jk I HATE THIS[/li]
[li]His mother has been up for hours preparing a feast for the morning, the one-time of the year they have bacon, sweetbreads, eggs, and pancakes—a delicacy in this district—for breakfast. It is her gift to her children, a silent prayer that with this meal they will be protected from whatever comes. Benat skitters to a stop behind his mother, who turns a ladle over and over, busied with the consistency of the oatmeal. He wraps a pair of arms around her shoulders and rests his head upon her. For a moment he closes his eyes, squeezing her tight to let her know that he is thankful for all that’s been provided. It’s a quiet kind of love between the two of them; a boy set to become a man in the next year and begin working on his own plot of land.
- Benat Izar, Reaping Day
The quiet love in this is so wonderful.[/li][/ul]

After many trials and tribulations as mayor, Vasco finally gets to take a vacation! Where should he go?

• agentina!!! also the maldives. mans needs a cocktail on the beach!
• Home. I'm sure that's where he wants to be!
• I feel like he and Emma should go take a couple weeks in like late spring at a little seaside cabin somewhere. easy mornings, pretty evenings, a cozy kitchen, some sights you don't get to see much in Eleven, just a little time away from everything being [gestures broadly at Panem] Like That
• district thirteen LET'S START THE REVOLUTION
• THE HELL OUT OF PANEM
• The Bahamas. Does it still exist in Panem era? Who knows!
• District Eight!!
• a big ranch far removed from everything
• Go to the moon! Anywhere off the planet!!!!
• To HELL. No he deserves everything good in the world. (This is cheating but a nice open field with a big table and all of his family, past and present.)

Gifs!



in place of an actual gif please relay that in honor of Zori's ability to drop the most terrifying images I've ever seen into general I googled "cursed birthday gif" but all I got was a bunch of EXTREMELY cursed non-birthday gifs so I aborted the mission





Can you include something with gael for me. Im on mobile and a little under the weather

(Editor's note: )

Birthday wishes!

• HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZORI!!! i hope you have a wonderful day!
• Happy birthday, Zori!!! Hope it's a good day for you!
• happy birthday, Zori! thank you, as ever, for being you--for standing your ground about the important stuff, cracking excellent jokes, and asking interesting questions about lore. may this be an easy day with good food and much love, and may the year ahead treat you well <3
• happy birthday zori!! you already know how much i adore you and how highly i regard your writing and friendship. SO I'll just say that I hope you have an enjoyable day and stay safe and that 2021 is off to a above average start for u :brev:
• Happy birthday Zori! I love getting to write with you and I hope you’re having a wonderful day 💕
• Happy Borthday - wow that’s a type, thanks - TYPO. Thanks phone. Anyway happy borthday!!!! You’re the best. Thanks for making this site a fuller and more enjoyable place for being here! May your 2021 be less like 2020.
• Happy Birthday Zori! I hope your day is amazing, no matter how you celebrate it.
• happy happy birthday zori!! love and appreciate u always 🥰
• Happy birthday zori! Love you soy matcha!! Im so happy that we got close because ive been able to learn so much about you and how kind, funny, and brave you are. I hope you have the sickest of birthdays and safest too of course. Love you lots!!!!
• Zori! Happy birthday! I hope you have a wonderful day, and that this year brings you all the peace and fulfillment that you seek. Love you so much.

P.S. Bonus roast of a couple respondents' technological devices: