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APPLICATIONS - UNSCREENED ( CLOSED )
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Minimum holders can be located and brought to a school known as 'Facultas', which is basically the in-series equivalent of the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters. At Facultas is where these kids learn to activate and harness their powers, and here is when we see Birthday at his youngest.
He is, in short, a dead man walking. An (unidentified) illness plagues him when he's just a kid, and while there isn't a whole lot known about it (or a whole lot of information given to the viewers, thank you Hamatora) what is made clear is that it is 1) very, very deadly, and 2) totally incurable. The thing about kids like Birthday, however, is that they really don't like being told they're going to die and there's nothing that can be done to fix it. It's when he's at his worst that he catches wind of another minimum user at Facultas, who has a very creepy ability to accurately predict if someone's knocking on death's door. Naturally, Birthday seeks him out, gets his death sentence, and reacts in an appropriately childish manner. Birthday bets the other young minimum holder, Ratio, that he won't die, and if he manages to survive an operation he's slated to have (one that is supposed to be able to repair damage done by the illness, as well as revert its effects to some degree), then Ratio will be the one to die. A very sound thing to say, of course.
Surprise of surprises, though, Birthday manages to live through the operation! It's said that he pretty much struggled for his life the entire time, but came out on top regardless! Birthday then proceeds to laugh at Ratio and then tells him that his image of being a grim reaper is dead because the prediction he made didn't come true. They are then best friends for the rest of their lives.
Some point around this time (or maybe after? Timelines, what are those??) Birthday drops out of Facultas, with his health being listed as the reason. After that, not much is known about what he does up until agreeing to use his powers as a Minimum Holder to do P.I. work with Ratio as his partner. They join up with another friend of theirs from the school, a boy named Nice (yes all of them have terrible names and I'm sorry for this), who has started an agency called 'Hamatora' with a few other cast members. From here on out, things stay pretty quiet for the duo, probably with some jobs here and there, though their main income seems to come from the fact that Ratio has an actual real adult job like a responsible person might. Birthday, meanwhile, spends a lot of his time gaining funds through fairly childish schemes (fortune telling, serving as a phone charging station, etc.) and it's pretty stupid.
Things start to get pretty serious toward the end of the first season, wherein Minimum Holders who use their powers for selfish reasons begin to cause an uproar in the city, both Minimum Holders and normal people begin to feel oppressed by the other side, butt heads, cause riots, and generally create a lot of havoc and chaos. It's a huge mess. All of it leads up to a certain event which triggers a sleeping power within one of the members of the group, the effects of which aren't shown until the second season. A few months after the initial riots calm down, we rejoin the cast to find them out doing what they do, fighting bad guys, taking on absurd odd-jobs, only this time... After excessive use of their Minimum abilities, the Holders begin to show a wide range of terrible side-effects. Birthday in specific finds himself with the uncontrollable urge to consume more and more electricity, and later reveals that his health has also deteriorated as a result. It's pretty tragic.
Birthday ends up hospitalized, and very quickly succumbing to the illness once more. The city is once again in a state of rioting and chaos, and in an attempt to 'equalize' the population, all Minimums have been nullified thanks to the same power that was causing them to go haywire in the first place - notably lost is a Minimum that is said to be able to heal anyone of any illness, which a few sources had been hunting down to try and find for Birthday.
After a bit of quasi-divine intervention, however, Minimums are restored to their Holders, enabling the Healing Minimum Holder to be located and brought to the hospitalized Birthday. The bad guy's in jail, and all's well that ends well. It's pretty sappy.
Appearance: Look at this idiot.
No canon height/weight are given, but a good estimate would likely be 5'8" (174) and 130 lbs (59kg). He's a pretty scrawny looking guy, even compared to this dude (who probably can't even afford to feed himself properly most of the time).
Personality:
Super flashy, loud, and thrill seeking are probably the most apt ways to describe Birthday. Many times throughout the course of the series, he's seen pulling some ridiculous stunt, making a spectacle of himself, or generally just trying to find any nugget of fun that can be extracted from a situation. Truly the sort of person who lives every day to it's fullest, and the motivations behind those actions are made extremely clear very early on in the story. Being an incredibly ill child has given Birthday an almost urgent sense of living each day to its maximum. While he had been granted a temporary fix that's carried his health through many, many years, Birthday knows that a relapse is always looming overhead and is very likely an inevitability. As such, he wants to have as much fun with the time that he has, enjoying days with his companions and making some sort of impact on the world around him.
This does not mean that he's a person who is resigned to his fate, however. Far from it, in fact, and even as a kid was hell bent on showing just how worthless 'fate' as a concept was. Upon seeking out a young Ratio, who was able to accurately predict imminent death in those around him who had failing health (Birthday included), used the encounter and prediction as an excuse to show the world what-for. After what is noted as a tooth and nail struggle to survive a risky surgery, Birthday obviously comes out on top of the fight for his own life. He then uses his determination to keep the prediction of his own death as wrong as he possibly can, and continues to cling to life with as much tenacity as possible.
Many of his actions come off as rather callous and uncaring, or downright selfish. Examples of this behavior range in intensity from stashing food in his partner's car without letting him know (and completely against his wishes), accepting to take on a high risk job because he'd get to spend time at an onsen and that's too cool to pass up, and even hiding the fact that he was slowly dying in order to spend some more time having fun with his friends. Again, a lot of his motivations simply boil down to wanting to enjoy the time he has, and inspecting some of his other actions show that he isn't really as selfish as he may come off as. He'll drop everything in order to help a friend who is in trouble, and do anything he can in order to bring safety to the people he cares about (such as, say, biting into a bunch of live wires in order to create a huge electricity surge that serves as a signal to where someone's being held captive like wtf Birthday). That said, he's far from selfless as a person, and mostly does seem to enjoy causing mischief for the sake of it with no real reasoning behind it.
At his core, Birthday is a very passionate individual who cares very deeply for those in his life. His will to live is fueled almost entirely by the feeling that his own survival is the only thing that keeps Ratio going, and as such does everything in his power to keep his failing health under wraps so as not to worry his partner. Upon hearing that a different friend of theirs goes missing, pretty much everything is dropped without a second thought in order to find her. The well being of those around him is a very important thing for Birthday, even if it isn't very clear when seeing his normal behavior.