happy birthday to everyoneās favorite emo bird boy š„³ iām not in the halloween spirit too much this year but i have some headcanons to celebrate šš¤ all SFW and gender neutral!
hates when people sing happy birthday⦠halloween is a perfect opportunity to make everything spooky and dark. happy birthday can only be sung as a Gregorian chant, no exceptions
with that being said, dark shadow LOVES the holiday!!! they love to do matching costumes with tokoyami, who doesnāt admit it out loud but he secretly thinks itās adorable that dark shadow gets so in the spirit
dark shadowās favorite part is giving out candy to trick or treaters. he might scare some kids but to the ones who donāt run away, he makes sure to compliment them on their costumes and make them laugh/smile š„² dark shadow is baby
if you give tokoyami birthday gifts - it could be anything from a guitar to a cool rock you found outside - he will cherish it forever. just the fact that you thought of him is enough.
a random interaction I can totally see happening:
kaminari: happy BIRDday tokoyami! š
tokoyami: *sarcastically* haha, very funnyā¦
shouji: the years really do FLY byā¦
tokoyami: more bird puns?
jiro: here tokoyami, take this card as a TOUCAN of my appreciation š
sero: oh hawks! whereād you come from?
hawks: you know OWL always be around for my favorite intern!
tokoyami: iām your only internā¦
todoroki: i guess you exceed his exPECKtations
kuroriro: this must make you pretty EMUtional
tokoyami: iām leavingā¦
tokoyami: BEAKause you guys are annoying
bakugo: alright, alright, youāve all made your points⦠enough of the wise QUACKS
kirishima: bakubro you CRACK me up!
tokoyami: *gets up to leave*
deku: oh no, looks like heās MIGRATING away! š
everyone: *crickets chirping*
mina: ⦠well this is CAWkward
tokoyami: *sigh* why do i tolerate you people
tokoyami: *internally* I love these nerds so much⦠š„²
tokoyami totally dresses up for his birthday and probably hosts a party. heās usually something dark and cool, like a victorian-era vampire. but if you wanna do some kind of cute friend/couple costume, heās down!
potentially cute options: jack and sally from nightmare before christmas, sweeney todd and mrs. lovett, erik and christine from phantom of the opera (Iāve mentioned this before but I hc that he loves this movie/musical), jekyll and hyde, heās mostly into the spooky stuff so donāt be surprised if he turns down any comedic or overly cute costume ideas.
heās a sucker for romance on the low, so if you prepare some sort of date night for him he will die on the inside. a nice candlelit dinner with his favorite horror flicks afterwards is all it takes.
depending on how close you are to him, tokoyami might let down his walls and verbalize how grateful he is to have you in his life. he wonāt cry but he may get a little teary-eyed. he feels so loved and valued just from you remembering his birthday and taking the time to celebrate it with him.