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[veggie_vamp]

 Hiii everyone! This is Draculaura! Normally I'd deadblog with a video, but I'm at work. Can you believe they're making me work on a holiday AND my birthday??? SO MEAN. :( But I'm gunna celebrate my birthday anyway! Bought myself some REALLY cute eggs, can't wait until they all hatch!!! Maybe we'll have the same b-day???

BUT!!! That's what I'm here to say! It's my birthday! I'm 1,601 years old! I feel so mature now! And it's also the big V-day! Where I'm from, the two are connected! See, this guy I used to date, Valentine, made the holiday for me!

Yeah I know he named it after himself, I didn't know he was a jerk until wayyy later X_X

ANYWAY!!! I wanted to know, since you guys are from different places, how did Valentine's day get invented for you??? Did it have to do with a vampire named Valentine who broke girls hearts after stealing them? Or is there a REALLY GOOD story there? Tell me so I can read on my break!!!

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[soundmind]

Uh

Okay I'll try to make this clear, but the belief systems behind it have been extinct for a long time so it might be muddled.

There's not one person named Valentine, but several people. Some were killed for their beliefs and made into saints. Later on G. Chaucer started writing poetry about love on the feast of Saint Valentine's day, and somehow that snowballed into everyone giving each other cards and making up these stories about Valentine that weren't really true, like he was a crusader for love or something like that. Nobody actually knows what the real Saint Valentine was like or how it all ended up being about love.

I hope he wasn't like the guy you're talking about. I don't *think* those saints were vampires anyway, but it's hard to tell if nobody then could keep their information straight.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. Happy birthday!

[veggie_vamp]

Wow, that's kind of interesting!!! I think the crusader for love thing would have been really cool!!!

And thank you!!!

[soundmind]

I guess, but I don't really know what love would need defending from?

[There was also the St. Valentine's Massacre...however, that's something she would feel really awful telling 'Laura about, especially on her birthday.]

Unless he's beating down guys like the one you mentioned, then I can get behind that.

[But somehow there's no problem with violence against crappy boys, okay Maka.]

Anyway, where'd you end up since we last talked? I'll try to send something over for you today, Draculaura.

[veggie_vamp]

I'm in Goldenrod! It's the best EVER! So many cool places to fang out and shop until you drop!!!

[soundmind]

Cool, I'm glad you made it! I'll have to think of something really creative then if you're shopping and fanging around there.

[To drive her batty might be an appropriate pun to use but...that implies bad?? And she wants to do good?? Language is weird.]

[veggie_vamp]

We could find a new hairstyle together!!!

[soundmind]

[There's a generous pause before Maka responds, the question in her mind repeating: how do I say 'I don't like my hair being touched' in a nice way?

Eventually she decides not to dramatize it, it's Draculaura's birthday after all.]

Sure, I don't see why not. It was my birthday last month too, so we can treat it like an overdue girls' day out.

[veggie_vamp]

Oh My Ghoul IT WAS??? WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING???

[soundmind]

I don't really like making a big deal out of it.

Also my friend was falling asleep while trying to bake a cake, so I had to make sure he was okay.

[veggie_vamp]

Awwww, that was so sweet of him!!!

[soundmind]

Yeah, it was, but I wish he hadn't tried it while he was tired.