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[bjornwilde]

From minkhollow :
Let's talk birthdays! Have you picked a birthday for your character? How do you make that choice (PB/actor's birthday, just because you felt like it, something else entirely)?

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[minkhollow]

After I posed this question, I realised picking birthdays for most of my current roster is pretty much impossible. That said, I've never picked birthdays based on the actor/PB; it depends on what I feel like suits the character.

Claudia's birthday is March 11th because her sharing a birthday with Douglas Adams amuses the hell out of me. (Canon will possibly Joss me on this point, but canon's also still running on the delusion that she was 19 in season 1, which really does not fit the rest of the timeline.)

I gave Regulus a birthday in May (but I can't remember if it's the 8th or 9th or 18th...) (ETA: Or I can check the old journal! May 8th. Still works.) in the first game I played him in, just because that felt right, and that definitely stands here. I should figure out which one it is and maybe send him home for his birthday. XD I have no idea if JKR's tried setting a different date.

As for everyone else:

Apollo is a god. Your argument is invalid.

Imp's operating on a 13-month calendar that I don't feel like grappling with long enough to pick a birthday for him. I can't remember if I gave him one in the Disc RP or not.

Red's operating on a different calendar, I'm pretty sure, and if the OUaT show writers can't be arsed to MAKE A FREAKING MAP OF THE ENCHANTED FOREST, I doubt they'll ever explain the calendar either. As for Ruby, I haven't tried to give her a birthday; who knows if it was even a factor in the curse.

Cata and Sam are also operating on a different calendar (one that... still has something called Yuletide... but that's another matter). Further, for Sam it's canon that he has no idea when his birthday is, exact year included; his mother was too brain-addled to pass on the relevant information, and it's not like he could (or wanted to) ask his father. He's never bothered picking a day to mark as his birthday, I don't think.

[kd7sov]

I do wonder how long a map of an Enchanted Forest would remain valid. I mean, I don't know OUAT at all, but a lot of such places are internally variable.

[minkhollow]

I think OUaT's particular Enchanted Forest has more stable geography than, say, Wrede's Enchanted Forest. Mostly my frustration comes from the political end of things; you have like eight different kingdoms, no real idea of who rules what next to who else (which is why I say Red's so deep in the forest she has no idea who's claiming that bit) and no shape of how big the overall land is. Which gets important when you want to go from B to C and then double back to A, before sunset, WHILE STOPPING FOR PLOT-ADVANCING NAPS.
Got a little frustrating, that.

[bjornwilde]

And if things weren't confused enough, let's throw in another kingdom that seems to be China-like just out of the blue. Oh and ogres.