#(Actually this year it was a chocolate hazlenut cake from an eastern european bakery I am quickly falling in love with.)

[wanderingandfound]

#for anyone curious— that day would be september 25th. a whole three months earlier :) #i think it would be cute if lovelace also decided to change the day her birthday is celebrated to the day of her funeral. when she came back #which would be may 11th :) #one could argue her new birthday should be the day she arrived on the hephaestus again #but i think her realization of ‘i am not who isabel lovelace SHOULD be. i’m who i AM’ is heavily related to that day and it would make sense #it’d just be cute to me if they both got new birthdays because they’re besties :) #i miss them so much i love having them occupy my brain again <3 (via OP)

just kiddiiiing i thought of the something of substance like five minutes after posting that hope is not lost :)

anyway. we know that doug eiffel had never liked sharing his birthday with christmas, on account of it often resulting in him being overshadowed by the holiday. and we also know that in the finale, he gets his memory erased, leaving him to question whether or not he still is doug eiffel.

we can assume that he learns about his previous aversion to his date of birth through listening to his logs, or if not, through minkowski or hera telling him about it. And knowing how much his past self hated having his birthday fall on december 25th, and knowing that without his memories, he is inadvertently yet undoubtably separated from that man… i think he, minkowski, hera, and lovelace agree that his “re-birthday” should be celebrated on the day of his sacrifice. the day that the new doug eiffel was born.