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[emet_sulk]

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[emet_sulk]

If you intend this as a Starlight gift then don't expect anything in return. I have better things to do than think of new gifts every turn of the year.

[apshot]

The fuck is "Starlight?"

[emet_sulk]

A yearly celebration during the sixth umbral moon. I believe you call it 'December'.

Why you call it 'december' when it is the twelfth month eludes me.

[apshot]

It did used to be the tenth month. Like some fuckers decided about a couple thousand years ago to changed. Don't know why. Don't care.

[ Bakugou might be more of a bookworm than anyone might really guess okay? ]

What I'm getting here is that you're celebrating what, exactly? Some kind of solstice?

[ Using that terminology probably isn't helping with that... ]

[emet_sulk]

[ An interesting little fact. He's somewhat curious but not enough to ask after it. ]

It isn't my people's celebration. No, I understand it takes place on the coldest nights of the year but it does not celebrate the solstice. 'Twas a tradition which began centuries ago during the beginnings of the war between the people of Ishgard and the dragons. Children who were left homeless by dragon attacks on their homes would be taken in secretly by knights and sheltered in the barracks.

Some years later, those selfsame children would dress in the red uniforms of those knights and hand out gifts to other children in the hope of spreading the same generosity and kindness.

[apshot]

[ Well that had started out a little dark. But that's kind of how most things go, right? Grim and unpleasant beginnings made brighter or whatever?

Though before this a war between people and dragons would have been laughable. Now Bakugou is just taking that in stride and accepting it as fact. ]

Well shit. That's a lot more wholesome than what I had thought.

Seriously. What he actual fuck.

[emet_sulk]

What did you think it was? A celebration of conquest?

[apshot]

[ Well no, he doesn't. Not since the old man had said this isn't "his" holiday. ]

Cheesy is what I was going for. Commercialized.

[emet_sulk]

Unlike the merchants of Ul'dah, the Ishgardians are a pious, god-fearing sort. They are generous and predisposed to charity...within their own.

That may be somewhat unkind to say now I suppose. They only recently emerged from their fortress of a city.

[apshot]

[ Within their own, huh? So they aren't really all that generous is what Katsuki is thinking. ]

Again, a bunch of places that don't really mean anything to me.

But I get it, I guess. Christmas is a jumble of shit thrown together. It doesn't even remotely originate in my country, but whatever. Still ended up as a popular holiday and an excuse for couples and families to be together.

[emet_sulk]

What are the origins of your 'Christmas' then? I can describe Ishgard for you in return. A city of knights and dragons...surely a bombastic boy like you would enjoy tales of it?

[apshot]

Sounds more like Deku's sort of shit. Not mine.

[ It's his too. He's interested. ]

In my country it was introduced like it has been to every single one that isn't European. Through some evangelical guy came preaching his religion. So it's been an off and on again thing for maybe the last several hundred years? Then I don't know. Successful ad campaign for fried chicken suddenly made it popular. Now it's this big old holiday for couples and eating an excess amount of fried chicken. You have to order that shit a month in advance.

I think other countries focus on the gift giving and singing shit? There's a lot about some mythical guy that flies around the world in a single night and delivers coal to bad kids and gifts to good ones.

[emet_sulk]

[ Good thing Bakugou can't see the look of utter 'wtf' on his face. ]

You are telling me that your country, specifically, celebrates a religious holiday as a time to eat copious amounts of fried meat?

[apshot]

I guess when you put it like that it sounds really fucking dumb.

Which it is.

[emet_sulk]

I take it your countrymen have forgotten the festival's traditional, religious roots then.

Well, so long as they are happy it matters not I suppose. Have you ever received coal during this time?

[ It doesn't sound like a joke coming from him but it absolutely is. Just a tiny one. ]

[apshot]

If you wanna get technical and shit, it's not my country's religion. At least it didn't originate in Japan.

[ BUT HEY WAIT A MINUTE ]

THE FUCK YOU TRYING TO SAY ABOUT COAL

[emet_sulk]

Nothing at all. Only...your foul mouth would suggest that at some point you must have received coal from this elusive man of myth, no?

[ :') ]

[apshot]

Maybe I would have. If I actually believed that the fucker was real.

Spoilers? I don't.

[emet_sulk]

Oh? In my world, there is a philanthropist who dresses as the Saint to deliver gifts. Does no-one do the same in your country or is that one of the religious practices you eschewed?

[apshot]

No? I mean he's not real. It's just a tale parents tell their brats and then they grow out of it.

[emet_sulk]

How disappointing. Where I'm from, a wealthy philanthropist makes a point of playing the role of the Saint each year and visiting the children of Eorzea. 'Tis quite charming to observe.

[apshot]

Must be really something if you're "charmed" by the whole thing.

[ Kinda finding that funny! ]

[emet_sulk]

He oft roams about the land near naked as his nameday you see. 'Tis one of the few times he dons an outfit.

[apshot]

Near

Naked







What

[emet_sulk]

Naked as his nameday.

Sadly I had not the time to follow his exploits. I have a feeling 'twould have provided entertainment to last a few decades.