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WINTER HOLIDAY ❤ 2023 CMO

WOW a whole year has gone by already and it's already time for another WINTER SEASON THEMED CMO!!!! obviously you can use this for other winter holidays from other cultures but i'm doing christmas and fantasy christmas because i morph into an elf on the shelf at exactly midnight on november 1st like a werewolf curse

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 characters! 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 | Winter Festival Meme | Baby, It's Cold Outside Meme | Happy Holidays Meme | Rain Meme | Body Heat Meme | Family Meme

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bakingsoda

[liedol]

[ Are senpais supposed to give presents for Christmas? Ai's not sure - none of the girls in B-Komachi had ever done it, apart from the year Kyun had gotten really into baking and loaded them all up with cookies. She only ever really bothers with gifts for the twins and then Saitou and Miyako but it strikes her as she's shopping that it feels a bit mean to leave Kana out.

So she gives it a shot. She can't get anything fancy — it's kind of terrifying to have an adult press something like that onto you, right? — but she's caught Aqua and Kana reading the same books enough times to guess their shared taste and Ruby and Memcho manage to help her pick out something she hasn't read.

She waits until everyone else is out and it's just Kana in the office (that's less embarrasing, right?) before she pokes her head in quite casually, the messily wrapped gift hidden behind her back. Hoshino Ai is a master of stealth and subtlety. ]

Oh, Kana-chan! It's just you today?

[bakingsoda]

Ah...

[ Kana should have expected this. After all, this was the Strawberry Productions office, one where any of their staff members, idol or otherwise could wind up coming and going.

But she finds herself feeling a little awkward in Ai's presence, especially given that it is very much just the two of them. ]

Yeah, it's just me. I just dropped by to check in on some things with Miyako-san, especially since it's getting close to Christmas.

[liedol]

Aah, isn't it just? I'm glad they eased off the gachikoi for you three... it used to be we were going nonstop all through Christmas, since it's the most romantic time of the year... it's the sort of time fans want to feel like they're not alone, you know?

[ Truth be told, she hadn't minded it — not then and not now, even in hindsight. She might have mixed feelings about everything to do with her time in B-Komachi but that she can never regret. If she'd been able to reach out and make someone's lonely days just a little brighter, how could that ever be something she regrets? ]

Have you at least got a little free time for Christmas, though? Or do you have plans?

[bakingsoda]

Honestly. Well, I'm sure some idols don't mind the gachikoi, but I'm certainly not one of them. If they don't want to feel alone, they can go watch something on Youtube with some fried chicken or something. Idols are people, too.

[ ...

She does look at Ai with a bit of curiosity when she brings up if she's free or not. ]

I don't really have any plans for Christmas. Why?

[liedol]

Well...

[ She casts around for an excuse and realizes as she does so that she's really only trying to drag this out because she's embarrassed and apprehensive. What if Kana's embarrassed? What if she hates it? What if getting a gift from Ai is the last thing she wants?

The only way to find out is to actually get it over with, of course. So with her smile turning a little sheepish, she pulls out the brightly wrapped gift from behind her back for Kana to see. ]

I guess I was hoping you'd have enough time for this?

[bakingsoda]

Huh?

[ She's just caught completely off guard when she sees the gift. Sure, sometimes people would try to get her stuff, but most of that was for B-Komachi. Not really her.

Even her mother hadn't gotten her a gift in a very, very long time. ]

You really didn't have to...

[liedol]

Oh come on, I couldn't just leave you out, could I? What kind of a senpai would I be if I did that?

[ Is this a senpai thing? It feels a little easier to make out like it is rather than admitting the truth: that she's heard exactly enough things about Kana's family situation in little bits and scraps through the grapevine that there's no way she could pass on at least trying to make this time of year a little less lonely.

That's what idols are for, right? ]

I just thought I should get you something to open too.

[bakingsoda]

. . . Well. Ruby is your daughter. And Memcho is Memcho.

[ There's literally no other way to describe her. She's just simply like that. ]

Do you mind if I open it now?

[liedol]

[ it says something about the b-komachi state of affairs that the youtuber is the most normal person in the group, huh ]

Mm, go ahead! Ah, actually I was kind of hoping you would...

[ She fiddles nervously with a lock of her hair, for lack of anything else to do with her hands. ]

I asked Ruby and Memcho to help me pick it out but if it's not the right one, I can change it for you!

[bakingsoda]

Okay. Let's see what this is, then...

[ She's going to open it. But she's very much being delicate about it, not trying to tear it too much. ]

[liedol]

[ It's a glossy hardback book, complete with dustcover and fancy bookmark, centered specifically around mysteries and bizarre occurrences from all around the globe. The focus seems to be on solving them or at least providing reasonable explanations, with a whole lot of research and associated trivia. It's pretty chunky!

Ai fidgets a bit as she watches her open it — it's the sort of thing she'd thought about buying Aqua and according to Ruby, he and Kana were always gravitating towards the same books so... it should be fine, right? ]

Is that the right one...? I was really trying not to get you one you already had, ahah...

[bakingsoda]

[ She's quiet and wide-eyed for a couple of moments as she takes the book out of its packaging, fingers lingering on the cover for a few moments before smiling fondly. ]

It is. Thank you.

[liedol]

Ah, really? [ It's almost a little sad how relieved she looks... ] Phew...! They're not the kind of books I read so I didn't know what would be good. Oh, but—

[ She puts up both hands almost a little apologetically — so this is what it looks like when a so-called invincible girl's off her game. ]

Don't feel like you have to keep it if it's really no good! I can change it for something else — I just wanted to get you a present, that's all.

[bakingsoda]

Well, I'll let the book be the judge of whether its quality is good or not.

[ Although trash novels do have some merit in terms of entertainment value... ]