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[ Video/Action | Open ] Rosh Hashanah

Who: Kitty Pryde and YOU!
Broadcast: Video, open
Action: Iskaulit, feel free to run into her
When: Nowish!

[Kitty is on screen looking much more feminine than last time.]

Does anyone have any apples or honey or anything close to either from the last stop? I was...just thinking about it today. [Softer.] Not that I even know how to tell when sundown is in space.

[But she knows it's close to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, but nailing down a date would take calculating she can't do based on a moon that's not even here. She's not really a religious person and has some definite issues with god especially after everything she's been through back home, but the traditions remind her of better times when she was young with her family. She didn't think about it much in the last place because they didn't run off of a calendar she was familiar with, but here it brings back memories.]

Anyway, I'd trade for some if you do. We'll work something out.

Leshana tovah. [She's wishing people a good year in Hebrew, but she doesn't bother explaining the meaning.]

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[ in the moment, he would always go with her. being desired, loved, it was too tempting to pass on. but on his own, sometimes, he would worry. they've settled into a more comfortable pace now, and he's secure enough in her love to be able to say something - like, say, the children talk - needs to wait. ]

Did he accept, did you meet? [ he tries to keep his voice neutral, not sure if this is going to be a good thing or a bad one. ]

We're still texting back and forth on it. But he did mention he might make challah bread too.

That's like the - braided - thing, right?

[ he feels so out of his element here. atroma, how about at least allowing some wikiaccess? he hates being so ignorant of something he's now realizing - matters. ]

[He got it right! She's also no expert here.]

Yeah, that's right. Mom didn't bake much, but we did get them sometimes from a local bakery.

[ so relieved, it's like he just got a question right on a test. but it's too early to relax, because the next question may come at any time and no one told him it was happening and he never prepared for it and this is so stressful!! ]

What else did you used to do? [ she usually likes it when he asks questions about her family, right, so maybe he can cover up his ignorance here. ]

Big meal. It wasn't a huge thing. There wasn't much family around. Only my grandfather came over from Poland before the war. [And the others never made it out.] Oh, and not kosher. You've probably noticed I don't keep that. [She wouldn't have been able to in Apocalypse's America anyway. But she didn't try before that either.]

Yeah, I don't know exactly what kosher means, but I'm pretty sure 'no bacon' goes somewhere in there.

Yes, that's how I know it's tragic and wrong. [Kidding. Her opinion on bacon isn't that strong. She just doesn't think god would be that worried about what people eat.]

[ he smiles ]

Are there other things you do adhere to? [ he kinda thought they shared the same mindset when it came to religion, but he failed to consider family traditions.

it's a mystery why. ]

Adhere? No, I mean... I'm not religious. I'm just Jewish?

Okay, I can see where that wouldn't make sense.

No, it does, it's like - it's a cultural thing, right? Like I like having a Christmas tree. [ but not much of anything else. ]

You do? [She doesn't sound surprised. But she is making a note because she'll want him to have one.] But yeah, like that.

[She smiles a little.] Do you have anything else you adhere to? [Using his word.]

They're pretty.

[ he shrugs. and back home, he's got all sorts of nerdy decorations to hang on them. it's fun.

she gets a I see what you did there smile, as he shakes his head. ]

Do Christmas gifts with friends count? Cuz I do that.

They have a certain indoors turned outdoors charm. [Smiling at him.] So, get a gift for my guy in a few months. Got it.

We did the usual kind of Hannakah stuff too. Candles. Little gifts. Gelt. Food. Always food.

You don't have to.

[ he nudges her. ]

Hey, food's always good. Anything in particular? Besides the honey apples... [ nodding ] Hanukkah's the one that's around Christmas, right?

[She was planning to get him something for that before this came up. Well, maybe not planning as in there are actual plans, but it was always going to happen.] Yep. I mean, it can land at different times like Easter, but it's generally around then.

Mm, food. There's usually a brisket or sometimes salmon. Some years we had both so Dad could call it Surf and Turf Hanukkah. Potato latkes with applesauce, noodle kugel, usually some vegetables in casserole form and salads in marshmallow form because we were in the midwest. Oh! And the donuts. Can't forget the donuts. They're just the holes with cinnamon and sugar on them. After listing all these foods I'm going to be really disappointed if our next stop is largely food free.

Edited 2016-10-09 14:52 (UTC)

[ sneaky sneaky girlfriend. she'll be getting a gift too, of course. ]

Mmhm, that sounds good, I'm totally on the lets celebrate Hanukkah express. [ even if he doesn't know what kugel is and he's still not into the meaty options. anything that's got potatoes in it already sounds good, and donuts? come on. ]

[She better get eight! Kidding, kidding. If she tells him that he is going to get more carried away than he normally would. She can only cry at so many touching, heartfelt gifts.]

We can always make it Chrisukkah or Hanumas or something.

[ plus it's right before her second birthday, and then there's valentine's after that, and he may seem like he has infinite ideas and time to execute them in but it's really just a carefully maintained illusion.

He laughs. ]

Perfect. What other holidays are there?

There are lots of other Jewish holidays. [She smiles at him.] Yom Kippur's the next. It's the biggest, but also about atonement and more religious than the others. We observed it some, but not exactly one of the warm fuzzy ones. [She isn't interested in observing it now.]

Passover is the other big one we'd do things for. More food. We basically skipped all the fasting holidays. [Or the fasting part anyway.]

Um, and Yom HaShoah. It's the Holocaust Memorial Day. We always lit a candle for my great aunt, Chava. She died in Auschwitz.

[ he squeezes her shoulder ]

When's that?

Late April. Like most Jewish holidays it doesn't land on a fixed date.

We can make up our own holiday schedule, then?

[She leans in to kiss him.] Is this weird for you? Not that you're acting weird, but you never would. [Because you're impossibly sweet and thoughtful.]

Being this ignorant's weird for me, it doesn't happen a lot.

[ okay yeah he's ignorant of things that don't exist on his earth but those are different. there are definitely jewish people back home, he's just...never learned about their holidays. ]

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