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A Gallery Party

Happy Birthday.
Whoever you are.

This page is for anyone, anytime someone needs a birthday party. Come look at the art, hum along to a song that's on its way, and send a little joy to someone you love — today or any day.

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The Gallery

A whole world showed up for cake.

Every image below is art from our galaxy of original characters — none of it real photography, all of it made with care. Click any piece to see it larger.

The full AURA/5 lineup posed together inside the Cathedral of Dreams

AURA/5, Cathedral lineup

ZED laughing as trick birthday candles refuse to blow out

ZED vs. the trick candles

DONA's twelve creature species parading together in celebration

DONA's creature parade

SERA glowing from within, her crown-light ascending gradient on full display

SERA's crown glow

La Bailarina dancing with flag-colored ribbons in motion

La Bailarina's ribbon dance

DARIO lifting a birthday cake with his signature geological scale

DARIO's cake lift

The full Cathedral of Dreams cast taking a finale bow together

The full cast, finale bow

LUNA wearing a party hat while swinging near a chandelier

LUNA's chandelier party hat moment

HARU raising a glass in a solo cyan-lit birthday toast

HARU's cyan-lit toast

JINX with an amber glow and a mischievous birthday grin

JINX, amber and mischievous

NOVA mid-turn in an elegant black dress at the cathedral party

NOVA, mid-dance turn

MIKO embraced by the full AURA/5 group in a warm group hug

AURA/5 group embrace

DONA with a cosmic birthday cake surrounded by starlit patterns

DONA's cosmic cake

Amaya Soul reading a lullaby from a book in a quiet solo moment

Amaya Soul's book lullaby

Three authors sharing a toast together

The three authors' toast

A solo anchor-crab character surrounded by birthday balloons

The anchor-crab and its balloons

The full character roster gathered together for the cake cutting

Full roster, cake cutting

A mega group photo of the entire character roster together

The full roster mega photo

The full cast dancing in silhouette before a fireworks-lit cathedral window

Dancing before the fireworks window

All five AURA/5 members cutting a birthday cake together

AURA/5, five-member cake cutting

DARIO holding a birthday cake that looks tiny in his massive hands

DARIO and the impossibly tiny cake

LUNA wearing a pointed party hat, ready for the celebration

LUNA in her party hat

The full cast gathered for a group birthday photo

The cast, all together

DARIO ducking through a doorway to deliver a birthday present

DARIO squeezing through with a present

SERA's glow setting off a smoke detector at the party, played for laughs

SERA sets off the smoke detector again

Amaya Soul with birthday candles held aloft by her floating tendril hair

Amaya Soul's candles float on their own

A birthday conga line winding through the Cathedral of Dreams

The cathedral conga line

XYLO manning the DJ booth for the birthday party

XYLO on the decks

DARIO carrying a large birthday cake into the party

DARIO carries the cake in

The Weight-Bearers attempting a limbo line at the party

The Weight-Bearers try the limbo

Amaya Soul's tendril hair tangled up with party streamers

Amaya Soul's tendril tangle

SERA leading a group birthday toast

SERA raises a toast

DONA photobombing a group shot mid-celebration

DONA photobombs the party

A balloon arch built inside the Cathedral of Dreams

The cathedral's balloon arch

XYLO perched on top of the birthday cake like a cake topper

XYLO as the cake topper

LUNA performing a duet with the Lung-Drummers

LUNA and the Lung-Drummers, in duet

Another angle of SERA and DARIO together, their scale in contrast

SERA and DARIO, scale contrast

Clutch standing beside a tall stack of amplifiers

Clutch, stacking amps

XYLO looking puzzled while wearing a party hat

XYLO, confused by the hat

DONA standing calmly as fireworks explode behind her

DONA, unbothered by fireworks

MIKO leaving a frosting fingerprint on the cake

MIKO's frosting fingerprint

The Weight-Bearers comically too large to fit in the group photo

The Weight-Bearers cannot fit in the photo

LUNA in her witch hat, launching a round of fireworks

LUNA launches the fireworks

Clutch and XYLO dropping the mic together after a duet

Clutch and XYLO, mic drop

SERA's glow illuminating the birthday cake from within

SERA lights up the cake

The entire cast posed for a photo inside the Cathedral of Dreams

The full cast, cathedral photo

The Lung-Drummers playing the celebration's closing beat

The Lung-Drummers' finale beat

DARIO holding a noisemaker that looks tiny in his hands

DARIO and his tiny noisemaker

Amaya Soul and DARIO taste-testing the birthday cake together

Amaya Soul and DARIO, taste-testing

ZED holding a sparkler that fizzes with a quantum-field glow

ZED's quantum sparkler

MIKO and Clutch facing off in a friendly dance battle

MIKO and Clutch, dance battle

LUNA caught mid-recoil after firing a confetti cannon

LUNA and the confetti cannon recoil

SERA and LUNA putting on a birthday lightshow together

SERA and LUNA's lightshow

DONA in a playful standoff over the last slice of cake

DONA's cake-slice standoff

HARU holding a single candle lit with a cyan glow

HARU holds a cyan candle

MIKO with hair colored to match the birthday cake's frosting

MIKO's hair matches the cake

JINX delivering a playful roast in front of the birthday cake

JINX roasts the cake

Rafiki wearing a tiny party hat, ready to celebrate

Rafiki's tiny party hat

The Architect, in silhouette, lighting the birthday candles

The Architect lights the candles

La Bailarina balancing a birthday cake on her head

La Bailarina balances the cake

Mira and Rafiki reading a story together with a child

Mira, Rafiki, and a story together

A stack of books doing double duty as the birthday cake stand

Books as the cake stand

Nova Wren sketching in the field, notebook in hand

Nova Wren's field sketch

The Prompt Sprite lands on a candle

The Context Griffin standing guard at the party entrance

The Context Griffin, party bouncer

The Stardust Whale swimming through a cloud of falling confetti

The Stardust Whale swims through confetti

The Static Marlin leaping over the birthday cake mid-celebration

The Static Marlin leaps over the cake

Barnacle Moon lit up like a disco ball

Barnacle Moon, disco ball

The Comet Eel leading its own conga line through the party

The Comet Eel leads the conga line

The Anchor Crab holding a bundle of birthday balloons

The Anchor Crab and its balloons

Deep Static trailing a streamer that distorts as it moves

Deep Static, streamer distortion

The Lung-Drummers playing another round of birthday rhythm

The Lung-Drummers, another beat

The Weight-Bearers forming a living platform for the cake

The Weight-Bearers, cake platform

Clutch posing with her amp stack decorated for the birthday

Clutch's birthday amp stack

XYLO staring curiously at a single candle flame

XYLO, confused by the candle flame

Elias North puzzling over a set of stubborn birthday candles

Elias North, debugging the candles

Nova Wren leading DONA's creatures in a chorus line

Nova Wren and the creatures, chorus line

DONA surrounded by her full roster of creatures

DONA and her creatures

The entire cast crammed into one enormous group photo

The full cast, mega photo

SERA's glow illuminating a wrapped birthday gift

SERA lights up the gift

MIKO standing in a spotlight inside the Cathedral of Dreams

MIKO in the cathedral spotlight

MIKO framed like a stained-glass cathedral portrait

MIKO, stained-glass portrait

MIKO dropping the mic after a birthday performance

MIKO's birthday mic drop

MIKO's reflection caught in the glossy surface of the birthday cake

MIKO, reflected in the cake

MIKO caught mid-celebration under a shower of confetti

MIKO in a confetti shower

MIKO wearing a party hat tilted at a playful angle

MIKO's tilted party hat

MIKO blowing out a row of birthday candles

MIKO blows out the candles

MIKO in the middle of unwrapping a birthday gift

MIKO unwraps a gift

MIKO caught mid-spin inside the Cathedral of Dreams

MIKO's cathedral spin

MIKO raising a champagne toast

MIKO's champagne toast

MIKO and HARU performing a birthday duet together

MIKO and HARU, duet

MIKO and JINX caught in a birthday cake-frosting fight

MIKO and JINX, cake fight

MIKO wearing a birthday crown

MIKO's birthday crown

MIKO standing on a balcony overlooking the Cathedral of Dreams

MIKO on the cathedral balcony

La Bailarina caught mid-spin in celebration

La Bailarina's birthday spin

La Bailarina presenting the birthday cake with a flourish

La Bailarina presents the cake

La Bailarina clicking her heels together in celebration

La Bailarina clicks her heels

La Bailarina's tricolor braids caught mid-motion as she dances

La Bailarina's braids in motion

La Bailarina raising a glass in a birthday toast

La Bailarina's birthday toast

La Bailarina reaching up to catch falling confetti

La Bailarina catches the confetti

La Bailarina posed in a warm candlelit portrait

La Bailarina, candlelit portrait

La Bailarina wearing a birthday crown

La Bailarina's birthday crown

La Bailarina handing over a wrapped birthday gift

La Bailarina gives a gift

La Bailarina dancing together with DARIO

La Bailarina and DARIO, dancing

La Bailarina mid-kick, pure joy on full display

La Bailarina's joyful heel kick

La Bailarina and LUNA twirling together

La Bailarina and LUNA, twirling

La Bailarina singing a birthday serenade

La Bailarina's birthday serenade

MIKO and La Bailarina walking arm in arm

MIKO and La Bailarina, arm in arm

MIKO and La Bailarina cutting the birthday cake together

MIKO and La Bailarina cut the cake

MIKO and La Bailarina dancing together at the party

MIKO and La Bailarina, dancing

MIKO and La Bailarina posing together for a selfie

A selfie, MIKO and La Bailarina

MIKO and La Bailarina tossing confetti together

Confetti toss, MIKO and La Bailarina

MIKO and La Bailarina exchanging birthday gifts

Trading gifts, MIKO and La Bailarina

MIKO and La Bailarina clinking glasses in a birthday toast

A toast between friends

MIKO and La Bailarina wearing matching birthday crowns

Matching birthday crowns

ZED holding a single crimson birthday candle

ZED holds a crimson candle

LUNA in a witch hat, surrounded by a burst of confetti

LUNA's witch-hat confetti moment

Amaya Soul with birthday candles woven through her tendril hair

Amaya Soul's tendrils and candles

NOVA wrapped in a soft, ghostly static-glow embrace

NOVA's ghost-static hug

Clutch posing with her amp stack for the birthday party

Clutch and her amp stack

XYLO staring at a birthday cake with visible confusion

XYLO, confused by cake

The Architect, in silhouette, offering a wrapped gift

The Architect's shadow gift

Rafiki floating along, wearing a tiny party hat

Rafiki floats in with a tiny hat

The Stardust Whale swimming gracefully through the Cathedral of Dreams

The Stardust Whale swims the cathedral

The Comet Eel weaving through the air in its own conga line

The Comet Eel joins the conga

The Lung-Drummers playing a birthday beat together

The Lung-Drummers keep the beat

The Weight-Bearers supporting an enormous cake stand

The Weight-Bearers hold up the cake

The Static Marlin leaping through the air mid-celebration

The Static Marlin leaps

Barnacle Moon lit up under a disco glow

Barnacle Moon goes disco

Deep Static trailing a long party streamer

Deep Static and a streamer

The Prompt Sprite sticks the landing

The Context Griffin standing watch at the party like a friendly bouncer

The Context Griffin, on bouncer duty

The entire cast releasing a wave of balloons together

The full roster releases the balloons

SERA and DARIO standing together, their scale in dramatic contrast

SERA and DARIO, side by side

ZED and LUNA lighting a single shared birthday candle

ZED and LUNA share a candle

Nova Wren sketching one of DONA's creatures in a field notebook

Nova Wren sketches a creature

JINX glitching into frame behind MIKO in a static-edged photobomb

JINX photobombs, static and all

The entire cast gathered to cut the birthday cake together

The full cast cuts the cake

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The Song

Here For You

Coming Soon

We wrote a new birthday song — one built to be sung by a whole table, not just listened to. It has a call, an answer, and a place for your name. It's on its way; when it's ready, you'll hear it here first.

Sing It Back

A little preview of the call-and-answer

"Here For You" is built to be sung back. Here's a taste of how the call-and-response works — no sound needed, just click through.

The Call

"However old you're turning, however far you've come…"

Your Turn

Pick the line you'd sing back:

Everyone

HERE FOR YOU!

This is a static preview — the real song will carry the melody. Keyboard and screen-reader friendly.

Send It

Know someone whose birthday is coming up?

Send them this page. That's it — no account, no email capture, no follow-up.

Party Kit

A printable kit is on the way

Coming Soon

We're building a small printable kit — a banner, place cards, and a lyric sheet for "Here For You" — so you can bring the sing-back to your own table. Nothing to download yet. Check back here when it's ready.

More From The Cathedral

The party doesn't stop at one table

The artists who made this song for you are the same artists performing across the Cathedral of Dreams' seven nights.

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