Miracle on Luceti Street.

[lucetimods]

Who: Everybody! (Mostly.)
What: IT'S CHRISTMAS OR SOMETHING.
When: The 19th through the 25th. Feel free to backdate and forwarddate and everydate as you please.
Where: All over the village!
Summary: It's a wintertime jamboree. Go ice skating. Hand out gifts to those you love. (Or want to prank, as the case may be.) Deal with meddling, creepy elves. Kiss a lot of people. It'll be good. Except for the parts where it'll be awkward. But that's what we're here for, isn't it?
Rating: Anywhere from PG to R, I imagine. If you need to play out sexytimes, please either fade to black and take it elsewhere or CLEARLY mark the thread in the subject line. (The former is preferable, but not strictly necessary.)


This is your event catch-all log! Sorry it's a bit late in going up. All you really need to do is mention in your subject line what date(s) it is, so folks know if they're dealing with mistletoe or not. Feel free to set up multiple scenarios, of course. Also, as always, tag your characters!

Here is your event info, and feel free to continue asking questions there if necessary. Now go and make merry!

Comments

[immamartillo]

Yeah, but I thought you were just bein' stupid about it. You're really okay... How'd you do that?

[tomodachi]

[You get glared at for that "stupid" insult momentarily. He'd tell you, but...to be honest, he doesn't really trust that information with anyone; hell, Seto found out only because we accidentally let slip about it the last time we saw him in our world...but Seto is our best friend and we trust him with most things now.

Firo...well he doesn't get the feeling that Firo is someone he couldn't trust with that secret, but you still annoy us a little so it's more tempting to be annoyingly vague in return.]

I'm just special, that's all. [Which technically is true!]

[immamartillo]

"Special," yeah right. I'll give you "weird."

[The parallels to a friend of his seem so clear to Firo that he assumes Crow must be very lucky or very skilled at this kind of thing. The kid did say he walks on roofs all the time; he must have become accustomed to falls.]

[tomodachi]

[Wow it's not weird Firo. He folds his arms a bit smugly.]

Well maybe you're just jealous.

[immamartillo]

Jealous? Of what? I told you, I'm not dumb enough to make a habit of walkin' around on roofs.

[Except now that he's tried it he totally wants to do it again.]

[tomodachi]

[Pffthahaha]

Says the guy who was walkin' around on the roof with me just a minute ago. [And don't lie Firo we know you had fun. XD]

[immamartillo]

That was-!

[He growls and puts his hands on his hips.]

I-I told you, I was lookin' after you! That's the only reason!

[tomodachi]

Right...

[But Crow is still laughing at you about it Firo, you can't fool us!]

[immamartillo]

Oh, come on...

[He slouches to hide his embarrassed blush.]

So, um, anyway, where were you goin' when you ran into me? Anything important?

[tomodachi]

[He looks thoughtful for a second, but then he shrugs--he's actually kind of forgotten what he was doing before he got distracted hanging out with you.]

Not really, just looking around--there's a lot of new strange plants that have been hung up in different places, have you seen them?

[He's talking about the mistletoe that people have been getting caught under...]

[immamartillo]

Strange plants?

[The trees that surround the town are more than enough plants for Firo, so he's sure he would have noticed if even more sprang up. He's thinking of strange, exotic plants, so it takes him a moment to realize what Crow's talking about.]

You mean the mistletoe? I've seen a few around here. Weird, isn't it?

[tomodachi]

[Yeah, it kind of is. Also for some reason people keep getting stuck under them from what we've noticed while wandering around.]

Is that another thing that happens around "Christmas" or something? Weird plants like that suddenly showing up?

[immamartillo]

It never happened back home. Sometimes you'd get people puttin' 'em up in their houses, but not all over the place like here.

[tomodachi]

Why? What's the point of hanging them up?

[If it's just to kiss people that seems like a waste since friends do that all the time anyway...]

[immamartillo]

Well...

[And here Firo looks away; kissing in general is a topic he can hardly handle when he's with his friends, much less a kid he's still getting to know.]

It's, um... like a Christmas tradition.

[tomodachi]

[...What are you looking away for, is there something embarrassing about it?]

Why is it a "Christmas tradition" to hang weird plants around the place?

[immamartillo]

B-because... The tradition is that if you and somebody else wind up under one together, you have to, uh...

[Think, Firo, think! He can't bring himself to give the real tradition, but it's hard to think of something less offensive when he's already so flustered.]

...You have to shake hands. Like a greeting.

[tomodachi]

...Really? But that sounds so boring, though...

[FYI he may or may not be messing with you and already have some idea of what the tradition actually is, but it's funny to watch you getting flustered about it.]

[immamartillo]

[...Gosh darn it, Crow!]

Y-yeah! It's really boring, so you shouldn't do it.

[Firo doesn't even know that the Luceti mistletoe trap pairs of people; the idea of even coming close to such an experience terrifies him anyway.]

[tomodachi]

"Shouldn't do it", huh... [Firo you do realize by now that telling him he shouldn't do something makes him want to do it even more, right...]

...Heh, if you say so... [wait what that was rather easy--] I mean, there's probably way better things to be doing than something boring like that, right?

[You know like hanging out on roofs or bothering wolf gods I mean uh--]

[immamartillo]

[Unfortunately, Firo's so eager to get off the topic that he doesn't even think telling Crow not to do something will encourage him. He nods quickly.]

Yeah, there's lots of more fun things you could be doin' instead. Like the Battledome or somethin' like that.

[Something nice and safe.]

[tomodachi]

[He nods along in agreement--although it is true, the Battledome is supposedly very fun.]

Yeah, yeah...but... [A slight pause as if considering something, glancing upwards for a split-second above Firo before looking around.] Seto might be disappointed if we weren't keeping to these "Christmas traditions", even if some of them might be dull...

[immamartillo]

Seto?

[Oh, heck no. Without even thinking about it, his hand rises to where he keeps his knife in his jacket. Now that Crow's brought it up, he worries about what Seto might be doing right now, and why he isn't there looking out for him.]

If anybody touches him, I'll gut 'em like a god damn fish.

[tomodachi]

[...Wow Firo that's a little extreme. If Crow was anyone else, he probably would have asked what the hell is wrong with you or leaned away, but as it is, he just stares as if raising an eyebrow. Besides, he does sort of know the actual reasoning behind Firo's outburst--he'd be tempted to punch someone in the face if they kissed Seto too. We're the only one who kisses him as he's our best friend I mean uh But he keeps up the illusion of acting like he doesn't know about the kissing tradition.]

...Just for shaking hands with him? [folds his arms, giving Firo a look--despite his light tone, he's not really joking with what he says next] Maybe I should be concerned about my best friend being around a guy who stabs people over something like that...

[immamartillo]

[In his anger, Firo'd forgotten his lie. Now that Crow points it out, he realizes that his reaction seems over the top for something as normal as a "hand shake". A bit. He drops his hand and looks away.]

W-well...

[He can't rationalize it without telling Crow the truth (he doesn't realize that the kid already knows), so he doesn't try to explain. His indignation at the implication that his violent behavior could be detrimental to Seto distracts him, too.]

There's no reason to be concerned for that, I'm doin' it to protect him. You don't want him to be safe?