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[deshabille]

Who: Mal & u
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Arslae, if there is any!
When: Right meow.

[Witness a grumpy captain making a face that's the vampire equivalent of a cat put in a bath. Mal is huffing and puffing along the outskirts of the nearest salt town, bundled up tight (all in black as usual, and please note that she does not have to huff or puff but is rather doing it for dramatic effect).]

So, question. What in the hell is a Christmas? Half of you keep talking about it like it's the beginning of a new universe and I'm a bit puzzled, because there's nothing like that where I'm from.

. . . Actually there really aren't holidays where I'm from, but where I'm from is shit so nevermind. Other places there's something sort of maybe similar, called Hogswatch, where a big man in a red suit rides around on a sledge pulled by hogs, obviously, and gives presents to the deserving children, ie the ones with rich parents, probably.

Explain, then. The person with the most entertaining explanation will get a prize.

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[droprate]

[ Sorry, they're not much for the video and voice options! Enjoy this very textual response to your cool video, Mal. ]

It's a beloved holiday, where parents lie to their children and tell them that a man will break into the house and leave gifts behind in exchange for food.

[deshabille]

[She will PERSEVERE IN HER COOL VIDEO-ING and. Grin a little at this response.]

So it's a barter transaction that doubles as bribery. Well played.

[droprate]

The legends also say that unless the child behaves throughout the year, they'll only get rocks instead of presents.

[ Doesn't it just sound weird when you put it like that... ]

[deshabille]

The legends sound deliciously stupid. Rocks are very useful.

[droprate]

Children aren't hoping for "useful," they just want something fun.

[ Chara you are a child. ]

[deshabille]

I never wanted fun when I was a child. I just wanted to punch things.

[droprate]

Sounds like someone would've gotten a bunch of coal.

[deshabille]

Yes, and then I would have lit a fire with it and been the most productive child.

And then punched someone again. Hurrah, I win Christmas.

[droprate]

[ They like her already, a little. ]

Why not light a fire and then push someone into it?

[deshabille]

Ooh, I could at that. So light a fire and find my least favorite person, push him in . . . get more coal, make the fire bigger. This is a good system!

[droprate]

I'll share my coal with you, if I get any.

[deshabille]

Do you think you will?

Does the Hogfather exist in space? Or the other one, the not-Hogfather.

[droprate]

Probably not. Since it wasn't really some guy, it was just kids' parents.

I wasn't expecting anything, anyway.

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[touchofrogue]

[Okay, the thing is? Despite... appearance to the contrary and very little reason back home, Rogue actually loves the holidays. She loves Christmas.

She also knows she's absolute crap at explaining things.

Quandary.]

...okay, so you're probably gonna get 'bout a zillion different answers from folks who love talkin' 'bout this, but I'll give ya my real brief two bits: It's a l'il bit of hope in a dark time of the year. It's a reason ta look forward ta somethin' in winter, when everythin' is dark and cold.

[deshabille]

. . . Why not just use candles.

[There are two kinds of people.]

[touchofrogue]

[Whatever, she'll roll with it.]

Mostly 'cause they're considered outdated, when I'm from. Not exactly very hopeful.

[theshabbiestofmen]

That's a bizarre twist on what I consider Christmas-- and I wonder if you're going to get varying answers, given we're all from different worlds. In any case: a big man in a red suit called Santa rides around in a sled pulled by reindeer and gives out presents to good children. There's a religious aspect rather separate from all that, but I won't go into it. You're awfully cynical, has anyone told you?

[deshabille]

Moi?

[SUCH AFFRONT]

[theshabbiestofmen]

You're not going to earn a present with that attitude.

[A LIE, he's already bought her present.]

[deshabille]

I wouldn't earn a present anyway. I'm thoroughly wicked, as you should well know.

[theshabbiestofmen]

I most certainly do not know such a thing, nor do I agree with it. You've been nothing but nice to me thus far; if you wish to have such a reputation, you ought to work a bit more on earning it.

[deshabille]

I shall throw you into a snowdrift.

[DECISIVE.]

[theshabbiestofmen]

I'll curse your eyebrows off.

[deshabille]

My eyebrows are intergalactic treasures, you wouldn't dare.

[theshabbiestofmen]

It's rather an easy spell, actually, I've done it to James and Sirius quite a few times.

[deshabille]

Yes, but you still wouldn't dare. Space would be grim without my eyebrows, Remus, you know that this is true.

[theshabbiestofmen]

I didn't say it wouldn't be grim. Undoubtedly we'd all suffer, I most of all for being the cause. But I stand firm in my threat.

[deshabille]

You are a very cruel young man, Remus Lupin.

[Wolfie McWolferton.]

[theshabbiestofmen]

Clever, I think you mean. I act only in self-defense.

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[experiencepoints]

As far as I know, it's a formerly-religious holiday about the birth of a demigod. I'm still fuzzy on the details myself.

[deshabille]

How can a holiday be formerly religious?

[experiencepoints]

No idea. Like I said, I don't know all the details.