Happy birthday, Arc!!

[pogue]

thompson harvard - d2b - arc

Happy birthday, buddy! It's always a joy to see you in Slack and on the site, and your writing is always
a damn amazing thing to read. Hope the day treats you well my dude! Keep on keepin' on   -- Pogue

Your favorite memory of Arc!!

I'mso glad we did the retro games together! Writing that finale with you was so much fun and it was nice to actually get to know you a little bit! You're a fantastic writing partner and a really sweet bean (: -- Ele

getting to write with you in retro was 🥰 still miss baby september tbh -- Kaitlin

Arc! Our 1 v 1 will always be iconic in the 75th. My only regret is that we didn't get to be foolish in the finale together <3 -- Zori

ummm when we slayed waterworks in wizard101. kinda baddie -- Mattio

Arc explaining how to pronounce Walherich Cnáimhín -- Charade

Not HGRPG related but

when we were playing assassins wakongo survivor org and I was primrose and he was Kat and we had a guy named hayes on our tribe and we had this Hunger Games subplot going on. -- Emsrocks

Its always lovely having him in slack! He brightens up a room so to speak. Just an all around delight to have around. -- Nyte

chatting Panem history last spring! always love some lore also every time I accidentally ping him with "character arc" or something and he pops in with a react asldkshf -- WT

Hellion Mo, ofc :cuddly: -- Kay



Which of Arc's characters should enter the Games next?

sven sven sven HE'S SO MAD AND I WANNA SEE IT -- Ele

sven DUH -- Kaitlin

Give me that Rhodes in d11 please -- Zori

Lucas Laws-Teke -- Zoë

Preston Hope :Elmo: -- Kiah

Owen Summit-Tate x -- Mattio

Zac Fox!!! More d8!!!!! -- Dars

Hayk Shim -- Charade

Hayk Shim -- Emsrocks

Hayk Shim! Baby + Legacy -- Nyte

I want to say ABBYYYY but also I want Abby to be safe forever thanks (or if you want to step away from D12: maybe Andromeda?) -- WT

Hornet, such a badass name! -- Kay

Ares Lumiere!! -- fireflyz



Your favorite quote from Arc's writing!

"Appa could always find home - a light - in the barn, even if I was there or not. Appa liked it and it just became tradition for me to create a candle for them every two months. It kept my flame burning, it kept a kindling fire between the two of us that was unique and special.

And in this moment, my candle felt like it was nearing the end of it’s line. I was tired. So tired. I was the flame at the ceremonies of the church, trying to make it to the altar, but struggling so hard to stay alive. I wanted to be at the altar where all things became pure again. I felt so dirty. I couldn’t tell if the particles on my body were ash or sand, and I didn’t care to match the difference. I didn’t see one as long as I wasn’t the one becoming the ash."

Literally everything that you did with September was so beautiful but I particularly loved this candle concept. -- Ele

If I ever got into that goddamn arena, I don't care who I see. It's on sight.

I had to do for my dead family what September Yorgos could've never done for his alive family. -- Cass

okay so i’m mobile but. i still think about a lot during the 3rd retro when sept was talking to babe about ximena and family legacy and yeah that whole part of your post just. fucking fantastic -- Kaitlin

"And in this moment, my candle felt like it was nearing the end of it’s line. I was tired. So tired. I was the flame at the ceremonies of the church, trying to make it to the altar, but struggling so hard to stay alive. I wanted to be at the altar where all things became pure again. I felt so dirty. I couldn’t tell if the particles on my body were ash or sand, and I didn’t care to match the difference. I didn’t see one as long as I wasn’t the one becoming the ash." -- Zori

"If I ever got into that goddamn arena, I don't care who I see. It's on sight." -- Zoë

"He died because of me. I was the Leopard that killed my brother. He derived from God's path of good and bit into evil's apple. And now he doesn't exist. The nights after he died I couldn't stop thinking about how I was that leopard. Satan's snake sent from his depths of the dead to polymorph into my brother's killer. I was that leopard. I was that sword that did him oh so poorly. The weakness that controlled his body in his last moments, the plant that he fought. I was every single demon that he faced in the arena because I was his demon. I was hell while he was heaven." ~ Hell Mo -- Kiah

"I was named after Gran's killer, and I was told that I should feel honor for it. That the original Sven - September - was loved deeply by Ap'. Yet, somehow, that love was what caused Gran to end it all. If September's love for Ap' was so grand why didn't he try harder? Why was he so weak?" -Sven Katsaros -- Mattio

"But hope does, and that’s all he could have.

He couldn’t even look at the woman from ten in the eyes as her cut her down. The male even hesitated for a second. Though, Mac’s voice had clamored inside of his head like it had every night in the past.

{"just keep fighting"}


So, that’s what he had to do. He had to fight.

Head held down and sword in hand, he swung towards the woman who showed him peace." -- Charade

"I never thought I'd feel the same betrayal as I did the night before the reaping. Before all of this - the colosseum, the blood, the tears. The new title of killer under my belt" -september yorgos -- Nyte

"I carved a wax candle sitting on top of a taper like the candles I made for Appa in the past and painted it. I wanted to put every last ounce into this, because if this was my last time I'd ever see them, I wanted this to matter. To me. To them. To us. I painted the flames a light yellow, a small orange on top of it. This was no inferno that held us together like a fire welded metal, we were simply a candle. The small but imperative bright to the dark that people need to remind them that they weren't alone." -- WT

"Angel Mo." He gave a quick thought at the prospect of an alliance. "You know, I'm not really sure." A quick glance around the room at all of the options. "I've always thought fighting for 1 would be easier than fighting for 4."

”For a brief moment, I stood there. I bathed in that silence like a lizard on a rock or a horse on the farm. I gazed out at the three together, watching the girl on the ground lash up as their new opponent got near. In that moment, I thought that I could just stay here. Sit and watch it all go down until it came my turn to attack and become the winner. Go home without any more blood on my hands. However, I did not want fate to take me, I wanted to take fate. Using it to my hand to become the person they - the Capitol - wanted me so bad. That warrior who was ready to kill; that was what they wanted me to be. And to my family’s expense, I would. I don’t want to be the coaster, slide on by to the end to take the crown from someone’s head. I want to be the crown.” — Fireflyz



Send Arc some of that good ol' fashion birthday love!

Happy Birthday, Arc!! I hope you have a wonderful day filled with lots of fun and tasty cake!! -- Cass

Happy birthday lil guy!! I hope you'e had a wonderful day and I hope the next year is wonderful and full of learning and love for you! <3 <3 MERRY BIRTHDAY! -- Ele

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDON!!!!! u are so awesome 😎 stay lit fam xx -- Kaitlin

Happy Birthday Arc! -- Zori

happy birthday arc! hope life is treating u as well as it can in this hellyear and that i have a good day! <3-- Zoë

Happy birthday Arc! I hope you have a fantastic birthday! <3 -- Kiah

u know i love u sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo scream happy birthday. last year of teenagedom, you've got this king -- Mattio

happy birthday arc!!!!!!! -- Dars

Happy B-day! Hope its a good one! -- Charade

happy birthday arc! i hope it's a wonderful day because you definitely deserve it <3 -- Emsrocks

Happy birthday dude! Hope you have a good one. Wishing you all the best (: -- Nyte

happy birthday Arc! you're fantastic, and I hope you have an equally fantastic day and a good year ahead of you <3 -- WT

Happy birthday, Arc!! Hope it's a lot of fun! -- Kay

happy happy birthday, this is your birthday song, i hope it's a great year and you have many more great years - - Fireflyz

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

cass  gamemaker kelsier  gamemaker tallis 🧚🏽‍♂️kaitlin.  marguerite harvard d2a (zori)  ✨ zozo.  k!ah  mat  umber vivuus 12b 🥀 [dars]  charade  Knuckles  [nyte]  WT  Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]  fireflyz

[thompson harvard - d2b - arc]

i always forget that september was so loved and god i'm so glad that people stan him

anyway, thank you all so so much <33