52nd ♫ | the first star in the sky is even brighter out tonight

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FESTIVE SEROTONIN ❤ 2020 CMO

A mingle/meme/CMO/WHATEVER post for pumping our brains full of that CHRISTMAS SEROTONIN!!! Or other appropriate winter holidays from other cultures obvs I'm just gonna do christmas and fantasy christmas because i'm depressed and need some holly jolly goodness

As well as prompts, this post can also be used for IC gift giving! Feel free to just tap my toplevels for a gift-giving starter if that's what you want.

Feel free to also use this as a meme/mingle/CMO or whatever for your own gang! Include prompts or don't, I ain't the boss of you.

POTENTIALLY HANDY PROMPTS:

RP Scenario Generator | Mistletoe Meme | Seasonal Greetings Meme | Winter Wonderland Meme | Body Heat Meme | Family Meme

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Rin Asunaro | Shelter

[beautifulisolation]

[ IF ANYONE DESERVES A NICE CHRISTMAS, IT'S RIN ]

Brynhilde Pendragon | OC

[draconite]

[ LET HER CONSUME HOLIDAY FOODS ]

leans across your table with a beautiful blue bastard: hey

[shivada]

[There's a festival happening in Mond, and it's attracted travelers from far and wide. It's Kaeya's job to keep an eye out on the festivities to make sure nothing untoward is going on, which is why he's mainly outside to begin with. But also? Who doesn't love a festival? And while- yes- there had been more than their share of trouble lately with things like dragons and nasty folk causing trouble beyond the usual petty crimes, even the knights deserved a break.

Yes, even the Knights of Favonious whom Kaeya could already hear Diluc critisizing for being incompetent. He also knew the saying "all work and no play", so. Kaeya is going to take advantage of the break in awful things happening for like, a second, thank you.

Namely...the fact that a pond just outside of the gates to the city had been iced over was largely due to Kaeya using his Vision. It's plenty cold to keep it frozen, but he's here juuust to make sure it doesn't thin through while people are having fun skating over the surface. Just as he's making another cursory sweep, he gets a sudden premonition that Something's Coming...

He happens to put his arms out just as Bryn comes hurtling his way from some direction across the ice, catching her easily.]

Easy there, miss. Had I not been here, you would be six feet in a snowbank by now.

u get a surprise grown up bryn cos she has the better icon spread

[pyriscence]

[ Bryn hasn't passed through Mond in a while – last time she was here, it was summer and everything was very pastoral and pretty, as you'd expect. The town had a nice atmosphere and the food had been delicious and... well, okay, she mostly remembered the food but she thinks it's entirely fair given that it was sticky honey roast. She's an easy girl to please.

So when she's traipsing her way back across Teyvat in the rear-end of winter, she remembers all the comforting, piping hot food of Mondstadt and thinks... you know what... the best part of being an adventurer is deciding when you get to take ridiculous detours for food purposes.

The festivities are a surprise, though. Bryn's never really had the opportunity to take part in winter celebrations so she takes to all of them like a duck to water. After all, what's the fun of travelling if you don't take part in the customs of the places you pass through? Sure, maybe she's getting a little too into it and maybe she's ice skating a little haphazardly and maybe she just came perilously close to absolutely taking the poor eyepatch guy out but hey. Who's complaining.

With Kaeya having saved her dignity for now, Bryn just gives him a cheery smile. ]

Oh, but wouldn't you say that's all part of the fun? The whole point of playing around in the snow is to get right in there, wouldn't you say?

[shivada]

[Yeah, you might want to be careful aound the poor eyepatch guy. How do you think he got his eyepatch in the first place?

He lets Bryn go once he's certain she's regained her balance, and immediately he's reminded of a certain someone he knows. Someone who is probably in the thick of the festivities herself, avoiding her duties incidentally or not...]

Oh, of course. Though I would wager there is a difference between doing it purposefully and getting trapped.

[The snow around here can be deceptively deep. One wrong step without snowshoes and suddenly you're neck deep in the stuff. Ah well. Kaeya considers himself lucky to not have witnessed any snow based incidences, yet.]

It is good to see you enjoying yourself. It means we knights are doing our job.

[pyriscence]

[ Single Functional Eyeball Solidarity ]

Even getting stuck could be fun in its own way though, wouldn't you say? Certainly not in the moment, but getting into that sort of trouble is precisely the sort of thing adventures and fond memories are made of!

[ If you're thinking she sounds like a reckless dumbass......... you'd be right. ]

Just who are the knights here in this city, anyway? I'm really just passing through so I wouldn't know anything about this region at all.

Yuri | Doki Doki Literature Club

[impurifies]

[ honestly yuri deserves a nice christmas too jesus why do i play so many tragic girls ]

Honoka Kousaka | Love Live!

[korekara]

[ Balance CRAU also available for if u want Candlenights goofery with me ]

Rei Hatada | Crystar

[phantasmagorial]

[ Can Cry CRAU also available! DON'T ASK HOW THAT WORKS I JUST WANT NICE THINGS FOR REI ]

Stella Roselaid | OC

[prismatically]

[ i apologize in advance for how HOLLY FUCKING JOLLY!!!!!! she's gonna be ]

Ruu Wakasa | School-Live!

[schoollifecub]

[ this is pretty much exclusively here for the Airlocked gang LMAO

Comes in babey and Teen Space Lesbian editions ]

Yuuri Wakasa | School-Live!

[serrata]

[ Otayori canonpoint available on request, AS WELL AS AIRLOCKED CRAU... AS USUAL ]

Sophie Summerhelm | OC

[summerbloom]

[ HEXAPATH DOESN'T HAVE A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS BUT WATCH ME NOT CARE ]

[liveofftheland]

[You know what's great about being back home after saving the world? Marie has a wood-burning oven in her cabin. Sophie gets to come in to the smell of pepper cookies baking as Marie brushes a fruitcake with another layer of rum.]

Oh, hey, Sophie. You're home again?

[summerbloom]

[ It's not quite snowing yet, but things are chilly enough that Sophie's had to bundle up for her trip back. She's been making visits to some of the people she knows need a little extra help getting through the darker, colder months – she might not be a doctor like Alice, but sometimes a kind word and the right blend of herbs can work miracles in their own way. ]

Oh, Miss Marie, that smells amazing!

[ She's all pink in the face from the cold but her smile is bright and warm. ]

You've made so much...!

[liveofftheland]

Making. We made a lot of friends in the past year and some, didn't we?

[At least as many as they made upset inkeepers wondering where their chess pieces went.]

So I'm making stuff that travels well. It's a cold time of year, after all, and they'll need it. And hey, Solstice feast day's coming up, isn't it?

[summerbloom]

Oh, you're still working?

[ That's all Sophie needs to hear for her to start shedding her many poofy outer layers and finding somewhere to put her bags out of the way, at least for now. ]

Then I'll help! Just let me know what you need an extra pair of hands for and I'll get right to it!

Erina Estival | OC

[zweihandler]

[ she's just here for the snacks ]

[in4apounding]

Erina!

[Do either of them have any frame of reference for Christmas or winter holidays in general. Do such things exist where they are currently.]

[Whatever, it's cold and snowy outside, and wherever they are there's at least one person who's been spreading the good word of Christmas or Candlenights or Winter's Crest or the fantasy/sci-fi festival of your choice.]

I've brought you a gift. It's traditional!

[This is almost certainly not any kind of secret, even if Penny thinks it is. But at least the wrapping job on the box she's presenting is nice.]

[zweihandler]

[ What Erina thinks in her head: something like "aww, damn, Penny got me a gift, she bought me a thing when she didn't have to, that's thoughtful and cute. Penny's cute."

What Erina actually says out loud, with her hell mouth: ]

Oh shit, free stuff. [ God motherfucking damn it, Erina. She takes the present and gives it an eyeball. ] ... thanks. You, uh, didn't have to get me anything, so it's cool you did. Am I good to open it?

[in4apounding]

I wanted to! And it seemed like an important part of the holiday ritual.

[She needs to Do This Right, is she doing it?]

And of course! I want to see what you think of it.

['It' is kind of a big package, actually. And once Erina is through the immaculately crisp wrapping, it will be revealed as a slightly ridiculously-tactical glitter cannon, complete with laser sight and several refills.]

[zweihandler]

[ Permission thus given, Erina absolutely shreds this thing open and for lack of anywhere else to put the paper she sort of... crams it into her pocket to find a trash can later. At least she's not littering...

Once she's shelled the present, she turns it over in her hands, taking a few moments to work out what it is, but then her whole face lights up. ]

Oh, shit! [ Again, sounding genuinely delighted: ] Oh, shit! Penny, is this a fucking glitter cannon?!

[gorira]

[ Chitoge's never really been a social butterfly at parties. Granted, the ones she's used to are a fair bit more on the hoity-toity side — sumptuous galas with decadent hors d'oeuvres, where everyone and their mother is dressed to the nines (on the mafia's dime, of course). By comparison, tonight's holiday get-together seems decisively low-key; a festive little shindig with plenty of hot cocoa and decorated gingerbread cookies to go around. A couple of logs burning in the fireplace, carols on the speakers, It's A Wonderful Life muted on the flat-screen. An excuse for everyone in the room to whip out the most ludicrous sweater they could pull from the back of their closets.

It's...well, it's cozy. You won't hear a "bah-humbug" from Chitoge's lips, at least; she's all for letting everyone rock around the Christmas tree in a new old-fashioned way (whatever the heck that means). She's even done her best to look the part, with her own utterly horrendous pullover, fresh off the back of a rack at Kohl's. It's a bit of a change of pace, getting to see everyone mingling and giggling under the red and green string lights...

Still, for all the warmth and holiday cheer in the room, Chitoge seems pretty content to enjoy it from a distance. She doesn't seem uncomfortable, really, but it's a bit of a lonely sight to catch the stray blonde parked under the stockings by the chimney. As boisterous as she can be, she's a textbook wallflower at the end of the day, but she at least seems content to take slow sips from a mug very-much-overfilled with whipped cream and marshmallows.

Maybe she's just keeping a watchful eye over it. You never know when you might encounter a chocolate thief, after all. ]

[zweihandler]

[ Today's party is almost obnoxiously holly jolly. It's cheerful enough and cozy enough that against all odds, even Erina can't find anything to complain about, even in jest. Of course, given that they let her go all out with her extremely subtle sweater for this year, she feels like it's all she can do to keep her trap shut and let the holiday cheer go on unabated.

And honestly? It's nice. It's her first Christmas with just friends as opposed to family and it's kind of weird and fun and she's not really used to it yet. So when she sees Chitoge wallflowering, it's a perfect excuse to detach from the Christmas throng and unceremoniously plop herself down on the floor right next to Chitoge. ]

Hey. I can't believe I'm about to say this but I genuinely think your sweater might be more godawful than mine.

[gorira]

Estival, I'm so touched! Oh, that might just be the best damn compliment I've gotten all night!

[ Chitoge tries to ham up a few sniffles and squeeze out a tear, just to sell herself a bit. An actress she most certainly is not-- ]

But I think, for once, you might have me beat this time. How am I supposed to compete with the world's biggest fruit cake herself? Especially when you're in season...

[ Though, Chitoge does set her drink down to run her fingers down the sleeve of Erina's ridiculous top, as if to check something... ]

Mine's definitely itchier, though. I'm suffering in style here...