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|image =Birthdays are Made for Memories - pdf screenshot.jpg | |image = Birthdays are Made for Memories - pdf screenshot.jpg | ||
|series = ''[[10,000 Dawns (series)|10,000 Dawns]]''-related stories featuring [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]] elements | |series = ''[[10,000 Dawns (series)|10,000 Dawns]]''-related stories featuring [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]] elements | ||
|main character = [[Graelyn Scythes]], [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] | |main character = [[Graelyn Scythes]], [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] | ||
|featuring = Auteur | |featuring = Auteur | ||
|featuring2 = Aesculapius | |featuring2 = Aesculapius{{!}}Aesc | ||
|enemy = [[ | |enemy = [[Elliott Jo Jordan]] | ||
|writer = [[James Wylder]] | |writer = [[James Wylder]] | ||
|publisher = Arcbeatle Press | |publisher = Arcbeatle Press | ||
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'''''Birthdays are Made for Memories''''' was a special ''[[10,000 Dawns (series)|10,000 Dawns]]'' story written by [[James Wylder]] to commemorate the fifth [[anniversary]] of the series. It was the sixth story to feature the use of licenced elements from both ''10,000 Dawns'' and the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]]. | '''''Birthdays are Made for Memories''''' was a special ''[[10,000 Dawns (series)|10,000 Dawns]]'' story written by [[James Wylder]] to commemorate the fifth [[anniversary]] of the series. It was the sixth story to feature the use of licenced elements from both ''10,000 Dawns'' and the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]]. Unlike the prior run of crossovers between ''10,000 Dawns'' and the DWU, it was not part of ''[[The Outer Universe Collection]]''; however, as an anniversary special, it tied in with their events among others, hence the appearances by DWU characters. | ||
These elements included the character of [[Auteur]], originating in ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'', and a mention of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s daughter [[Miranda Dawkins]]. | |||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
''to be | While on a mission for [[Dawn (organisation)|Dawn]], [[Graelyn Scythes]] and [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] have wound up stranded in a universe currently going through a [[pandemic]]; losing her [[Crystalline incision portal|crystal dust]] in a precipice before she could ''immediately'' teleport, Graelyn now poses a contamination risk, forcing her to quarantine herself for a while in this universe before she's allowed to go home. This span of time, to her annoyance, happens to cover her [[birthday]]. Having never really had a fully happy birthday in her entire life, Graelyn, now in a better place than she'd ever been before, had been looking forward to getting to have a party with all the friends she's made in her travels across the realities. Hearing her complaints, Archimedes decides to help and begins secretly setting something up. | ||
A more active sort of trouble then threatens to rear its head with the appearance at the door of an angry man who introduces himself as [[Elliott Jo Jordan]], once Graelyn's competitor for the vacant position of intern at [[Project Atlantis]] where Graelyn got her first brush with [[the Multiverse]] and started her life of adventures. Having learned of said life of adventures, Jordan, consumed with jealously at the thought that it should all have been his, made a deal with [[Dusk (organisation)|Dusk]] to travel the multiverse. Having finally tracked Graelyn and Archimedes down, he has recovered the bag of crystal dust, and is about to make some megalomaniacal demand when Arch simply swipes the bag out of his hands before he can react, before throwing him out of the house and shutting the door. | |||
With that little incident over and done with, Archimedes presents Graelyn with a tablet and explains that, although interuniversal WiFi isn't good enough for live video calls, he's asked all of Graelyn's friends to send her short video messages with their birthday wishes. Graelyn is elated at how many she gets, which include [[Lady Aesculapius]] (plus her [[companion]]s [[Blanche Combine]] and [[Jason Jackson]]), [[president]] of [[Mars#Other realities|Mars]] [[Zhang Han]] (and her daughter [[Odyssia]]), [[Alice MacLeod|Alice "Songbird" MacLeod]] of the [[World Revolutionary Council]] (specifically the first version of her Graelyn ever met), [[Shona (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Shona]] (as well as [[Ashlyn Oswin]], [[the Tourist]], [[Pathway]] and [[Miranda (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Miranda]]), an [[Graelyn Scythes#Other realities|alternative Graelyn]], [[Auteur]] (now a skinless skeleton-man with a fairly shaky grasp on the boundary between fiction and reality), lawyer [[James Morrel]] (who treats the video as more of a targeted ad for his legal services than a heartfelt personal message), the aloof "[[Chess Mistress Hex]]" alias [[Ariadne Moore]], and finally a dinosaur-riding [[Kinan Jans]] (and the rest of [[Dawn (organisation)|Dawn]]). | |||
Just as Graelyn is thanking Arch for all of this, one final message comes in, a more recent, more business-like one from Kinan Jans and [[Backgammon Jenny]]. They've learned of the Elliott Jo Jordan fiasco and, though they congratulate Graelyn for resolving the situation and recovering her portal-creating dust, they warn her that, since she and Arch made contact with an unprotected person who'd been heaven-knows-where in the infected universe, they quarantine clock must be reset to zero. Graelyn takes this incident in good spirit, noting that she ''had'' been thinking her birthday was going suspiciously well, and she and Arch decide to try cooking a birthday meal together (albeit only for Graelyn's benefit, given that Archimedes doesn't eat normal food). | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[ | * [[Lady Aesculapius]] | ||
* [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] | * [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] | ||
* [[Auteur]] | * [[Auteur]] | ||
* | * [[Cornelia Carthage]] | ||
* [[Blanche Combine]] | * [[Blanche Combine]] | ||
* [[Zhang Han]] | * [[Zhang Han]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Chess Mistress Hex]] | ||
* [[Jason Jackson]] | |||
* [[Kinan Jans]] | |||
* [[Backgammon Jenny]] | |||
* [[Elliott Jo Jordan]] | |||
* [[Alice MacLeod]] | * [[Alice MacLeod]] | ||
* [[James Morrel]] | |||
* [[Odyssia]] | |||
* [[Ashlyn Oswin]] | |||
* [[Graelyn Scythes]] | |||
** [[Graelyn Scythes#Other realities|"President of the physics club" Graelyn Scythes]] | |||
* [[Shona (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Shona]] | |||
* [[The Tourist]] | * [[The Tourist]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* | * [[Graelyn Scythes]] claims that she's "never had a good birthday", with every year bringing such hurdles as "unexpected breakups, or familial abuse, or gaslighting". | ||
* [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] spent a portion of his life alone on [[Ahnerabe Station]]. | |||
* [[Blanche Combine]] looks identical to [[Graelyn Scythes]] but with white hair. She "tried to kill [Graelyn] a few times" in the past before redeeming herself. | |||
* [[Lady Aesculapius]]'s [[companion]] [[Jason Jackson]] wears a shurt identifying him as [[Asexuality|ace]]. | |||
* Lady Aesc mentions her friend [[Virginia Stens-6]]. | |||
* [[Zhang Han]]'s [[Zhang Han's wife|wife]] is not available to take part in the video message. | |||
* "Popular exports" from the version of [[Mars#Other realities|Mars]] governed by [[Zhang Han]] include "four varieties of [[olive]]s". | |||
* [[Alice MacLeod]]'s fellow revolutionaries include [[Jack O'Conner|Jack]], [[Treyvon]], [[Yi]], [[Chantelle (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Chantelle]] and [[Shona (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Shona]]. | |||
* [[Auteur]] refers to [[Graelyn Scythes]] as his [[daughter]]. | |||
* [[Kinan Jans]] dresses up as [[Sesshomaru]] from ''[[Inu Yasha]]'' to call back to one of Kinan and Graelyn's favourite shared memories, "when [they] went trick-or-treating in [[Nightmoore]]". | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
''to | * As it served as a five-year anniversary for the overall ''[[10,000 Dawns (series)|10,000 Dawns]]'' franchise, this story includes callbacks to many past stories in the stories, not just the [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]] [[crossover]]s. These include several callbacks to the original ''10,000 Dawns'' webnovel, as well as cameos by the recurring casts of two of the subseries spun off from the core of the series: ''[[Lady Aesculapius: Series 1|Lady Aesculapius]]'' and ''The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns''. Indeed, in a metafictional joke, Aesc refers to herself and her companions as "[Graelyn's] most successful spin-off". | ||
== Continuity == | |||
* [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] reminds Graelyn of that "one time" she got "turned into a baby" and "had to redo [her] entire [childhood]", which occurred in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|White Canvas (novel)}}. Due to this event, Graelyn no longer knows how old she technically is. | |||
* When introducing [[Miranda (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Miranda]] to [[Graelyn Scythes]], [[Shona (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Shona]] clarifies that she isn't "[Graelyn's] Miranda", referencing [[Miranda Dawkins]], whom Graelyn encountered in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|White Canvas (novel)}}. | |||
* [[Auteur]] appears not as [[The Goddess of Gendar|the younger female incarnation]] from [[PROSE]]: ''[[White Canvas (novel)|White Canvas]]'', but [[Godfather Auteur|the skeletal version]] imprisoned under guard by [[Father (The Story So Far...)|Father]] and [[Mother (The Story So Far...)|Mother]], who are name-dropped. He is currently obsessed with the story of [[Dracula]], placing his part in the story around the events of [[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)|A Bloody (And Public) Domaine}}. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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