Creepypasta Birthday Headcanons :D
No not the actual dates, but headcanons about how they’d celebrate.
Toby: Unfortunately, he doesn’t remember his birthday. For Slendermansion purposes, they all celebrate the day he arrived as if it was his birthday. The age they think he’s turning is often a rough estimate because Toby doesn’t remember that either. He sometimes gets small gifts from friends and the occasional happy birthday wish, but most of the time it’s nothing special. He honestly spends most of the time on this day wondering and dissociating, so others will often pull him into random tasks and shenanigans to keep his mind off things. If he’s lucky, Slender might not give him any tasks that he doesn’t enjoy.
Tim: He doesn’t like to celebrate, especially because most people call him old. (Which is ironic because they don’t do that to Brian nearly as much and Brian is older than him.) Most people don’t even know when his birthday is because he never tells them unless they’re really insistent. To him it’s just any other day. Those who know may say something, they may not, he doesn’t care. If it was up to him, he’d just relax and eat a good meal, but Slenderman doesn’t really give days off to his proxies for their birthdays.
Brian: The only reason he knows his birthday is because Tim told him. And like Tim, he doesn’t find his own birthday particularly exciting, but he does like celebrating the birthdays of others. (If Brian knows it’s your birthday, you can expect at least one odd gift to show up at your door. Often a printed photo of you he took when you had no idea with “happy birthday” written on it.) Outside of that, he doesn’t celebrate much and actually gets kind of flustered if people wish him happy birthday. He just isn’t sure what to do when he’s on the receiving end of it. He honestly doesn’t really feel like his birthday is even really his. It belongs to whoever he used to be. He’d rather celebrate the day he became a proxy as his birthday if anything. (Back in the day, he used to be quite the cheerful guy when it came to his birthdays though.)
Kate: Unfortunately, she’s another one who doesn’t celebrate. (The proxies are just losers like that.) She forgets half the time she even has a birthday. Her concept of time is just generally really bad. Tim and Brian definitely wish they could do more for her, but she doesn’t care either way.
Jeff: He hates birthdays in general because…y’know. The incident. Also most of the time growing up, his family didn’t do much for birthdays because they didn’t want to promote the sin of “self elevation.” It was always his dream to have a big birthday bash but that was crushed the second he actually went to one and the incident occurred. He doesn’t tell people his birthday and he doesn’t celebrate either. (Although sometimes the thought of having a day all to himself sounds so very appealing.)
Liu: He was in a similar situation to Jeff. His family didn’t do much for birthdays. But unlike Jeff, Liu never wanted a big party. His parents would normally actually pay attention to him on his birthday, and he’d get maybe one or two gifts, and that was enough for him. After Jeff tried to kill him, he stopped celebrating. He was just depressed for so long he couldn’t bring himself to care to celebrate. To this day he doesn’t do much other than reminisce about his past birthday’s when everything was okay. (It wasn’t ever okay, really, but his DID made him forget a lot of the worst of it.) In case you were wondering, Sully is generally indifferent to birthdays but he’s cautious of birthday parties because he knows that was what brought Jeff to his tipping point.
Nina: Finally someone who isn’t boring! Nina ADORES parties and of course her birthday is just another excuse to have one. It’s also an excuse to make everything revolve around her. She’s the type to say “it’s my birthday so you have to be nice to me.” Her birthday bashes are large, and honestly, she spends months planning and preparing them. Gifts are required from attendees, even if it’s something cheap and handmade. She does normally end up crying by the end because of something or other, but to her it’s worth it. (She’s not allowed to have them at the mansion if she’s going to invite outsiders though.)
Jane: She doesn’t celebrate anymore. Growing up, birthdays were always a very intimate thing. Her dad would make whatever she wanted for dinner and she’d help her mom bake her own cake and they’d finish off the night by singing happy birthday. Each year she got a special gift, something her parents always put a lot of thought into. Sometimes she’d have small sleepovers with friends on her birthday weekend, and those were always fun. She can’t bring herself to celebrate anymore because it upsets her too deeply. It’s just too much of a reminder of what was brutally taken from her. A lot of the time she’ll visit her parents’ graves on this day just so she can feel like they’re still with her.
Sally: Like Nina, Sally loves to celebrate her birthday. Although because she’s dead and she has been for a long time, she gets to put however many candles she wants on her cake. (To her it’s basically a game at this point. ‘How many candles can I fit on this thing before it all falls apart??’) She likes to dress up, be called the birthday princess, and generally just get spoiled. You CANNOT tell Sally no on her birthday, that’s HER day. No one is safe, not even Slenderman. If she asks nicely enough, Lazari might be allowed to come over or something.
BEN: BEN himself doesn’t have a birthday, nor does he celebrate any of his victims’s birthdays. He gets plenty of enjoyment out of adding birthday notifications to the residents’ phones whether they like it or not. His favorite thing is to cause mass confusion by telling everyone a person’s birthday, but giving each one of them a different date. (And none of them are the actual date.) He knows everyone’s birthdays too, so this is entirely intentional and calculated on his part. Sadly it works less and less as time goes on.
Clockwork: She doesn’t really celebrate birthdays either. Growing up she was neglected, and her own damn parents forgot her birthday. They often had to ask HER what day she was born on. They could scarcely even remember the year. If they remembered to get her a gift at all, it would often be something that she had utterly no interest in. (Think giving a 13 year old in her edgy phase a frilly pink dress and then saying ‘but pink is your favorite color!’ No mom, it isn’t, and it hasn’t been for 5 years now.) Birthdays were always a sore spot for Natalie because of this. All the other kids got parties and cool gifts, but her parents couldn’t even be bothered. So she doesn’t celebrate to this day. That being said, she has some good friends now who do like to throw her little surprise parties and give her gifts. (Like Toby, especially back when they were dating.) This genuinely means the world to her, even if she struggles to admit that. She doesn’t plan her own events or celebrations, but others do for her, and that’s what means the most.
(Eyeless) Jack: In my AU, he’s always been on the poorer side, so his birthdays have never been large. Most of the times it was small, with really only his family in attendance. Cousins, aunts, uncles, siblings, you get it. He’d get a few small gifts, have some homemade cake, and that was it. In college, his mother would write him letters for his birthday, but he was too busy studying to actually celebrate much. (And he didn’t really have friends to drag him out against his will.) In the mansion, aka the present, he doesn’t really like to celebrate. As you can imagine, those past memories of his birthdays are nostalgic in a way that hurts. He doesn’t want to overwrite those memories when they’re really all he has left. And a part of him also thinks creatures like him don’t deserve birthdays. They don’t deserve celebrations at all, really. Does that stop people like Toby from giving him handmade gifts and secretly taking him out on dates for “no special reason?” No. Jack knows what he’s doing, but he can’t bring himself to tell the guy off.
Slenderman: I would be remiss not to include him. Good ol’ Slenderman. Does he even have a birthday? I mean…there is a day he came into existence, but I doubt he was born. Also, I don’t think stuff like that matters to him. He’s a (likely) immortal entity living in the woods, human means of keeping time probably don’t matter to him outside of when he’s dealing with his proxies/other human matters. Even if he had a birthday, I don’t think he’d celebrate. Borrrring…
