(OPEN) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

[symmetrophile]

Who: Villa residents and all visitors.
When: December 25th
Where: The Villa
Style: Whatever you like!
Status: Open!


[Hey, guess what?

IT'S CHRISTMAS! Which means Villa residents will be trading gift-wrapped presents and enjoying a delicious holiday feast prepared by a very hard-working Rin Okumura, so be sure to thank him!

The threads below are meant for mingling, the exchanging of gifts and other holiday activities!]

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[darkasnight]

[It really is bad manners to sit on the table and pig out on all the food Rin made, but you know Night gives no fucks. Especially when he's in this form.

Hope no one minds a few stray cat hairs near their food.]

[pierrotdemonique]

[ Hope you don't mind a few stray dog hairs too. But no, he's not eating right now. Must keep that girlish figure and all. He's just quietly watching... and judging you. ]

Why am I not surprised...?

[heartandsoul]

[Well that's what the food's there for, to pig out on. So don't mind her pushing more food over to him.]

You can sure put away a lot even in that form, huh?

[snagglefang]

[Rolling himself in sparkly garland and tinsel, don't mind him. He's in a very good mood, feeding off of everyone else's holiday cheer and what not. Thanks to Jade the collar around his neck enables him to talk to others outside of telepathy, so that's pretty fucking exciting.]

[spiria]

Kurooooo! Hi, buddy!

[ Hiiiii little buddy! Auntie Kohaku is here! And she's plopping down right next to him and watching him roll around with a big smile. She then pulls out a cat toy and waves it around in front of him. ]

Will this do as a Christmas Present? I have a few other things you might like, too.

[force_a_change]

[Hopefully the Villa folks won't mind a very unique kind of gift for Christmas, thanks to the coral.

That being a soaking wet teenaged girl with a knife wandering the halls and maybe walking in on folks in one of the more common living areas.]

[heartandsoul]

[Hark! Who goes there?

Maka sees that familiar face walk by and immediately stops what she's doing to follow after the other girl.]

Asakura!

[Hope you don't mind being hugged while she's full of the Christmas spirit, buddy.]

[symmetrophile]

[Let's play a game, Asakura.

It's called 'How soon can you notice a shinigami stalking your every sodden footstep?', because that's totally a thing that is happening, and the very moment Kid is noticed will be the moment he points sternly at the floor, and offers--

A towel.

How thoughtful.]

Excuse me, but do be so kind as to put that away and dry off. You're tracking water everywhere.

[Priorities.]

[has_too_many_moles]

Talk about x-mas presents- Yukio had just waken up from his rather impromptu coma with not only the new additions of those large Fennec fox ears and tail but also the presents that lined his bed.

".... How long have I been out?" Yukio murmured as he rubbed his eyes tiredly.

[diehardreaper]

"It's a bloody Christmas miracle, that's what it is." he replied, all grins as he leaned against the doorframe. Ronald stood there, arms folded across his chest and what seemed to be a blue striped scarf draped over his shoulders. "Been out for a bit now. Prolly a week or so. Had Rin ready to bite his arm off from worrying over you." the reaper sighed as he jammed his hands back in his pockets.

His eyes wandered however, just the slightest bit to the room and its occupant. The ears make him double take though but he decides against saying anything. After all, he just woke up. It wouldn't be right worrying him right off the bat. "Welcome back, Yukio. The city just wasn't the same without you." he finally says, all grins as he extends a hand to the boy.

[keepsthefire]

"Yukio!"

Presents be damned, Yukio was going to get glomped. A few things might have gotten crushed on the way, but Rin didn't care.

"'bout time! I was startin' to think you were gonna miss everything!"

[spacecase]

[Meanwhile this dog girl that's presently not a dog girl but is still silly and ecstatic about things is surveying the presents.

Gosh there's a lot, and some for her even? Wow, so many warm fuzzy feelings she might explode.

But mostly she's eager for people to open the presents from her.]

[snagglefang]

Jaaaaadeeee!! [Have a very excited cat bounding up to you and on your shoulder to nose your cheek.] Thank you so much for the present!

[symmetrophile]

[See Death the Kid.

See him strongly resist the urge to reorganize every last one of those presents under the tree. So far, he's done a superb job resisting the siren call of tidying up a haphazard pile of gift-wrapped boxes, even if this has necessitated a quick retreat to his own room to bask in its symmetry a moment or two.

Always under the guise of having forgotten something.

In any case, visitors are liable to run into him in the hallway on his way back, in the vicinity of the tree, or while joining everyone else in the holiday feast.]

[heartandsoul]

[And guess what, Kid, it's incredibly distracting.]

Hey, Kid, what are you doing?

[darkasnight]

[Try not to step on the cat that's walking in between your legs.]

Meow! [Idly wonders if Kid has seen his other form yet... Hm.]

[openminded]

[ And here we have an awkward-looking hooded figure sitting on a couch somewhere. She hadn't celebrated Christmas in years. Then again, she hadn't been alive in years, either. This Christmas was special, though, because she was with her sons.

And then, her children would be another year older in another couple of days.

Still, she couldn't deny that she was a little awkward around so many people she wasn't familiar with. Yuri was ordinarily pretty social, but wouldn't anyone be awkward if they had been dead for the past sixteen years and then, suddenly alive? ]

bumped back to before Yukio wakes up

[keepsthefire]

[To say it was awkward would have been an understatement. Hell, it was still hard to believe, but there she was, the woman he had never gotten to meet until sixteen years after her death, in a city under the sea in another world entirely. As if his life couldn't get any more science fiction.

There was still some lingering shock from what he had found out that day, but even if some part of him longed to deny it just to avoid the emotions it was going to all bring, he knew he also had no way to deny it either. She told the same story Yukio had given him after getting those memories from Satan (albeit in much more detail) and there were just too many things that added up. Two plus two did indeed equal four, and even Rin wasn't dumb enough to ignore all the signs that were right there in front of him.

It didn't make it any less strange, though, and fuck if he didn't know how to deal with it. At all. Between that and the apparent curse of ill luck for the week that had resulted in things like his tail being closed in doors, perfectly fine equipment malfunctioning and otherwise fine clothing tearing without prompting, Rin's mood had utterly plummeted. And right before the holidays, too.

Thankfully any desire to be driven by anger was kept at bay, and while he had been quieter than usual (and noticeably down, at least to those that knew him) he was managing to keep himself in check. He wasn't about to ruin anyone else's Christmas just because he couldn't figure out to handle something like that.

It didn't make being around Yuri any easier, though. Half the time he didn't know what to say. He still hadn't figured out if calling her Mom was even okay, or if he even felt okay doing it.

The whole situation was too damn surreal.

But she was a guest, and he wasn't about to ignore her, either. After a bit of hovering around behind her awkward and uncertain, he finally moved up beside her, rubbing hands on the front of his blue apron nervously.]

H... hey. Uhm. You gettin' enough food? There's plenty for everyone...

[heartandsoul]

[Despite how big (but not too big) the Villa is, Maka always knows exactly who belongs there and who doesn't. It's just something one gains from being a house owner.

Well, that and sensing the hum of souls at all times helps too.

So seeing an unfamiliar (yet somehow very very familiar) woman causes her to pause and tilt her head.]

Hello. Can I help you?

[pierrotdemonique]

[ And here. Have more awkward. There are no hints as to Mephisto knowing who she is right off the bat. Far from it, really. If he does, he's not showing any hints whatsoever. ]

A wallflower at such a lively occasion? Perish the thought.

[ There's a smirk Yuri probably has never seen in a day and an age directed right at her. ]

[keepsthefire]

[Nothing quite takes the wind out of your sails like finding out that the dead mother you've never met before is alive and well in the weird underwater city you've been living in for the past year.

And a couple of days of particularly bad luck hasn't exactly helped.

Residents of the Villa - the ones that know him well enough anyway - may find that their tailed companion might be a little... off, even as his favorite holiday approaches. Thankfully most of his anger has been directed at various inanimate objects that seem to keep breaking around him, and for the most part he's avoided yelling or snapping at other people. But he's far from his usual talkative self, and even his smiles look forced.

He hasn't stopped cooking, though, so chances are if he's not in the living room or his bedroom he's back in the kitchen. Food, at least, was a good distraction, and there was more than enough people to eat whatever he put out.]

(ooc note: Rin's curse is bad luck for the week, so if you want to contribute to it, keep it to things like stepping on his tail, knocking doors in to his face, etc. Mostly harmless but annoying.)

[symmetrophile]

[So, Rin.

Tell us your thoughts on coming back to your room at some point to find this asshole hanging out there, just waiting for you, after thoughtlessly dropping the biggest bombshell a few days ago?

Because Kid's here, hands folded behind his back, stock-still and staring straight at the door, as if he'd just been expecting Rin to arrive.

The problem with surprises is when it's a reaper, they tend to be kind of unpleasant ones.]

...

[heartandsoul]

[You know what this seems like a good time for?

A hug/cheek kiss combo from Maka.

She wanted to wait until he wasn't busy as hell so she wouldn't risk irritating him or getting in his way, so this is one of the moments where he's in the living room.]

Hey, Merry Christmas, Rin.

[Sure, that's her arm looped around his, but what's that wrapping around his tail suddenly? Maka doesn't seem to notice it, but if he looks back...it's a very fuzzy demon's tail now tangled up in his.]

[spiria]

[ She had noticed the change in Rin's demeanor, but she hadn't had a chance to really go over to him and see what was up between all of the excitement. Now that she had an opportunity, she wasn't going to waste it.

She found him in the kitchen, and, in true big sister fashion, she was hovering behind him and watching him cook whatever it was he was cooking. ]

What'cha makin'?

[ don't jump, dude. ]

BON GIFTING THREAD

[secondcoolest]

[ He got gifts for everyone and by god he is going to hand them out, pony body or no pony body! ]

[heartandsoul]

[Right so don't mind it if you accidentally get whapped by her tail as she walks by, Bon, she's still getting used to the thing.

But it does work a little like a radar for finding people if you stretch it!!!]

Oh--hey, Bon, Merry Christmas.

[...Presents. Shit, he probably can't really hold anything with those hooves, can he?]

Uhhh...I have a present here for you somewhere, do you need help opening it?