Mmhm. A group of mercenaries hold a rich family hostage and only Santa is there to save the family and fuck everyone else up. [She chuckles.] Well, Santa and an 8 year old loose in an attic get the fuck them up. It's surprisingly heartwarming. [Much like Home Alone except with considerably more family dysfunction, violence and literal Christmas magic.]
Loki says he's much more responsible than he used to be but avoidance still sounds like our best case. [The family gossip and ridiculous stories Loki has fed her over the last few months is already thick to fill a book. Maybe when Dee is a little older and less likely to accidentally destroy a building.] Snake might like to spar with an actual god sometime though. Maybe that can be his Christmas present.
[She takes awkwardly wrapped box with care, turning it carefully in her hands with a soft expression and a small lump starts to form in her throat. It's a little silly, feeling a swell of emotion over getting a present, but the act of giving and receiving gifts is still has a few complicated feelings stirring up. She swallows and clears her throat, smiling warmly at Barry.] Thank you. Go ahead and tear away. It's what's inside that's important. [Not taking her own advice, Nina gingerly pulls at the tape to carefully unwrap her gift.
For Barry, once the wrapping paper is free from the top, the closed cardboard flaps fall open to reveal several items in the box. None of them are wrapped individually save for the stack of several video games - abut half of which are multiplayer- that are bound together with a thick red ribbon and tied with a bow.
Tucked in on one side of the game stack is a Christmas tree ornament. It's a flat and round slice of pale pine, hand-painted with a very simple sunset beach scene with a sky streaked with gradients of purple, orange and red.
On the opposite side is a small wall calendar. At a glance it looks fairly ordinary, the dates and months lining up with the coming year in their new home dimension, but the pictures on the upper half aren't the usual puppies in sweaters or movie posters you'd find if it had been picked up at a mall. They're photos of various locations with names like "The Vegas Quadrant", the familiar "Frizzle Plaza" and "Infinite Flags", "the Lena Horne Theatre" and then, a few pages later, a much more futuristic theater called the "Cosmic Curtain Company Theatre". There are twelve of them in total, one for each month, and all have small notes printed in Nina's hand with little fun facts about the locations.
The last gift is a plain, unsealed envelope that's been delicately placed on top of the video games. Written on the front, in Nina's looping cursive handwriting, are two sentences: Barry- We've seen enough tragedies. Let's switch genres. ♥]
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Loki says he's much more responsible than he used to be but avoidance still sounds like our best case. [The family gossip and ridiculous stories Loki has fed her over the last few months is already thick to fill a book. Maybe when Dee is a little older and less likely to accidentally destroy a building.] Snake might like to spar with an actual god sometime though. Maybe that can be his Christmas present.
[She takes awkwardly wrapped box with care, turning it carefully in her hands with a soft expression and a small lump starts to form in her throat. It's a little silly, feeling a swell of emotion over getting a present, but the act of giving and receiving gifts is still has a few complicated feelings stirring up. She swallows and clears her throat, smiling warmly at Barry.] Thank you. Go ahead and tear away. It's what's inside that's important. [Not taking her own advice, Nina gingerly pulls at the tape to carefully unwrap her gift.
For Barry, once the wrapping paper is free from the top, the closed cardboard flaps fall open to reveal several items in the box. None of them are wrapped individually save for the stack of several video games - abut half of which are multiplayer- that are bound together with a thick red ribbon and tied with a bow.
Tucked in on one side of the game stack is a Christmas tree ornament. It's a flat and round slice of pale pine, hand-painted with a very simple sunset beach scene with a sky streaked with gradients of purple, orange and red.
On the opposite side is a small wall calendar. At a glance it looks fairly ordinary, the dates and months lining up with the coming year in their new home dimension, but the pictures on the upper half aren't the usual puppies in sweaters or movie posters you'd find if it had been picked up at a mall. They're photos of various locations with names like "The Vegas Quadrant", the familiar "Frizzle Plaza" and "Infinite Flags", "the Lena Horne Theatre" and then, a few pages later, a much more futuristic theater called the "Cosmic Curtain Company Theatre". There are twelve of them in total, one for each month, and all have small notes printed in Nina's hand with little fun facts about the locations.
The last gift is a plain, unsealed envelope that's been delicately placed on top of the video games. Written on the front, in Nina's looping cursive handwriting, are two sentences: Barry- We've seen enough tragedies. Let's switch genres. ♥]