[ Video/Action | Open ] Rosh Hashanah

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

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

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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. ]

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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.]

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[winn]

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.

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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.

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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?

action; what if I spell it differently every time?

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[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.

action; ttly legit tbh

[winn]

[ 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. ]

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[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.

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[winn]

[ 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?

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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.

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[winn]

[ he squeezes her shoulder ]

When's that?

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

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[winn]

We can make up our own holiday schedule, then?

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[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.]

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[winn]

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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You probably haven't had any reason to know. I didn't expect to ever be bringing it up. I guess I missed it more than I thought I did.

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I'm glad you did.

[ he kisses her cheek ]

I love knowing stuff about you. And knowing stuff, period. So what was it you said? It was Hebrew, right?

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[She smiles at the soft kiss.]

Leshana tovah. I was wishing everyone a good year.

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[winn]

Le-sha-na to-vah

[ he tries to repeat it, slowly. the sounds are foreign and strange, but hey, he's dedicated himself to learning sindarin, quenya, klingon...what's hebrew, right? ]

Leshana tovah, Kitty. [ his accent is thick, it'll take a while to get right. but points for trying? ]

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[Points and a kiss. Seriously, he gives her all kinds of warm feelings.] It is kind of like a toast the way I said it. You can also drop the le.

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[winn]

What does the 'le' mean?

[ full eager student mode: activated! ]

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To or for. [She finds it pretty cute that he wants to know. Not surprising though. She would too. They really have so much more in common that it might seem at first glance.]

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[winn]

Oh so it's like, hold up your wine glass, [ miming the action ] "to a good year!"?

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You got it. [While his arm is up she'll just take this opportunity to slip her arms around him and snuggle in close. Mmm, comfy. She could stay like this forever. Oooor until she realizes she just got another message. She reluctantly pulls back to look at her device. She takes a deep breath and types out a message before showing the screen to Winn.]

Kurt's going to hate this.