it’s one of the main rules of the ship: you better pull an all nighter the day before a crew mate’s birthday to ensure they have the greatest time ever. SO! sanji’s birthday rolls around. the crew gears up for a wild night. franky and luffy THROW sanji into bed and lock him in the room despite the cook’s yells of protest. “DONT WORRY WE’LL TAKE CARE OF THE KITCHEN!” franky hollers before dragging luffy to the kitchen. nami puts herself in charge of the baking process. she’s hunched over the counter, scrutinizing a cake recipe that robin had put together. god it’s a beastly cake but damn it they’ll make it as good as they can for their dear chef!! within minutes, she, robin, and luffy are covered in batter. zoro and chopper and usopp are in charge of the decorating. chopper’s on zoro’s shoulders, hanging up streamers while usopp stands next to zoro and wraps the fatigued swordsman in leftover streamers. franky sits in a corner and makes high tech crocs for sanji. brook is preparing a banger of a birthday song. he even got sanji a rockstar outfit!!! hours pass and the crew becomes so damn delusional, honestly just giggling messes. but they still press on with the preparations for SANJI!!! sanji, all the way in the other room, just lies there and stares at the ceiling, slightly frightened at all the yelling that’s happening. once morning comes, luffy and franky come back and pull sanji in the kitchen. everyone yells “HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANJI!” (yes, even zoro because nami stomped on his foot). good times. they all OD on cake