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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2013-12-23 12:01 pm

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Who| Everyone, pretty much. Particularly Secret Santa people and those Creuntus is fucking with.
What| Holiday times!
Where| The Tribute Training center
When| The whole week, but Creuntus' gifts arrive today.
Warnings/Notes| none atm. Please add any in thread headers. Also, for secret santa, if you are the giver start a thread with your giftee's name (unless you two have worked something else out between you). You can use the District threads below, or choose a different setting of your own.

Every floor public space is dripping with holiday decorations.

The decorations are themed, ridiculously so. Every surface is covered, and a table sits proudly full of holiday treats and spirits, kept stocked constantly by the avoxes. Cheerful music plays softly throughout the whole building, though luckily for everyone the Capitol doesn't really know what Christmas carols are.

Those with secret santa's have a cheery, passive-aggressive note reminding them not to disappoint anyone and ruin their holiday.

Those that have expressed a want for some object from home will find a box on their bed sometime during the day, with a merry holiday greeting from Cruentus. Inside they will find the object of their desire, or something similar, crafted from their words.

In blown glass. Pretty, decorative, utterly useless.

Bert's guns, Punchy's goggles, Sigma's music box, Maximus' leg, Mindy's knife, Terezi's dragon cane...on and on, as many gifts as Creuntus could find out. Those that were with them when they were pulled are more perfect replicas, those that they have just described obviously have an artistic touch to them.

Re: District Seven

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2013-12-27 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It was about a half-hour before Homura finally returned to her room. Madoka was in her arms, though the moment they entered, the kitten's eyes dilated at the sight before it.

Homura, meanwhile, seemed less impressed.

"Harley."
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Re: District Seven

[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2013-12-27 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Merry Christmas!" She cheered throwing her hands in the air and setting free some paper confetti that would no doubt also catch Madoka's attention.

"Secret Santa's come to visit!" She declared gesturing to the basket of sweets. "If you don't like it I'll get you something else."

Re: District Seven

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2013-12-28 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Those eyes dilated a bit more. Even if Homura was playing it cool, it was clear Madoka was loving it.

"I was told there was a reason Secret Santa was 'secret'." Homura quietly let the kitten go on the bed. "But, I would have figured it was you."

She quietly bowed to Harley, regardless, before going to look at the sweets herself. Madoka, meanwhile, hobbled to the nearest toy, batting at it curiously.
Edited 2013-12-28 20:50 (UTC)
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Re: District Seven

[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2013-12-29 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aw don't even worry about it!" She laughed cheerfully.

"It's all in the spirit of the season. I didn't know what kind of sweets you liked so I just got a variety." she explained. "But the pop rocks symbolize you going kaboom...because they insisted. And poprocks are wonderful."

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[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-02 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Homura stared.

"They forgot the pepsi, didn't they?"
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[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-04 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah, that was my fault." She sighed tilting her head "You don't strike me as a messy sticky kind of girl. But if you want I can go grab some!" There was a hopeful smirk because after all Harley loved a sticky mess.

Re: District Seven

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-04 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Its all right. I don't drink it anyhow," Homura replied, shrugging. "Its not my taste."
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[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-05 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"What's your drink of choice?" Harley probed hoping to inch her way into more familiarity with the girl. "Juice? Tea? Whiskey?"

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[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-05 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Just tea," Homura replied. "Or coffee. It doesn't matter."
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[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-07 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
Coffee it is! Because that's what Harley knows how to make better.

"What sort of stuff did you used to do for Christmas back home?" She probed bringing Homura the caffeinated drink not to long after.

Re: District Seven

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-26 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nothing." Homura's response was quick and blunt. "Not for a very long time. I don't have family I celebrate with, I do not believe in Santa so I do not get presents from him, and I do not...have a significant other that I could spend time with."

Her last Christmas - the last before she began her eternal March and April - had been in the hospital, alone, before her surgeries. Given nothing and fed hospital food. It felt like it had happened in another lifetime. In a way, it had.

"I plan on getting a fried chicken bucket, maybe. But that's it."
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Re: District Seven

[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-26 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Harley gasped as if Homura had said something horrific. The look on Harley's face was of anguish and suffering.

"But you're just a kid! Christmas was MADE for kids. No little girl should be lonely on Christmas." Though Harley brushed right over the fact that Homura had never said she was lonely.

"Well this year's different! You got a gift, and you've got a friend!" She declared. "I'll even pay for dinner. Your favorite food, no price is too high!"

Re: District Seven

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-27 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
She hadn't. She, of course, was, but she would never admit out loud. Not to Harley, or anyone else in the Capitol, at least.

"I don't want my favorite food. I would only want a proper Christmas dinner. Fried chicken, salad, chocolate cake, and wine."
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Re: District Seven

[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-27 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's a proper Christmas dinner?" Harley looked puzzled and tilted her head, then shrugged.

"Well it sounds delicious, and I want you to be happy so you can have all of it! You deserve it I think. And if I have to PERSONALLY coach the Capitol cook into how to make fried chicken I will!"

Because it was not an item she'd seen much of with the Capitol's usual leaning for more experimental and showy culinary creations.

Re: District Seven

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-28 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course." Homura looked at Harley. "You're American, right? Don't Americans also have Christmas dinners like that, from Colonel Sanders?"
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[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-28 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Her lips curled with amusement and she rocked on her heels "Well , traditionally it's ham or Turkey, but lately more people go out for Chinese food based on this old movie everyone loves." She explained. Then she brought up a finger to add "I'm Jewish so we have a whole nother menu at my house. Maybe I'll make some for you sometime."

Re: District Seven

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-28 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
"...Really."

Homura stared at Harley for a moment, flipping her hair.

"Turkey, huh. Unusual."
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Re: District Seven

[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-29 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Americans are almost always unusual. I mean...we like to say Japan is weird because of some of the crazy stuff you guys do that we see on the internet? But there's no stranger place then the good ole U.S of A."
Edited 2014-01-29 22:29 (UTC)

Re: District Seven

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-30 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a silence.

"I'm not surprised."
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[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-30 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That tickled Harley's funny bone and she giggled delightedly.

"Anyone ever tell you that you're a great straight man?" She commented and then added "What's one of the weirdest things you've seen living in Japan?"

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-30 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
At this, there is a hard look from Homura, who considered, before she replied.

"There is very little that I've seen, that I can consider strange to my existence anymore." At this, she turned away. "Perhaps I'm just not that interesting. Or not much shocks me anymore. So, I have to say that nothing is weird to me."
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[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-30 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Harley looked blank for a moment then grinned.

"Impressive! You're like a Super High School Level of Straight man then. You could deliver jokes so dry they'd dehydrate the crowd!" She declared gleefully.

"I think that's probably why I like you so much. You're different!" She reasoned. "There's no one else in the Capitol like you and that makes you wonderful."

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-01-31 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Different, maybe. She heard it all the time. But wonderful?

"I'm not worthy of those kind of compliments...Ms. Quinzell."
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[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2014-01-31 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"And why the heck not?" Harley pouted her lip out in a stern face and then broke into a smile.

"They're my compliments to give, and I calls things how I see them. I may be crazy but I'm not blind. So maybe you can't see what makes you wonderful but I do."

[personal profile] iflipmyhair 2014-02-03 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
The silence coming from Homura was so tense, so tight, at those words, that it could simply snap with a single tug. Even when she responded, quickly, curtly, there was a tenseness about them. As if Homura was quite close to simply breaking down then and there, and taking out all of her impotent, useless, stupid rage at Harley, for reasons unknown and imperceptible to the other woman.

It was only by Homura's indomitable will but was it so if just those words could hurt? that she held back, and simply gave an abrupt bow.

"Thank you, for your gifts. Please excuse me, but I need to go change."

With that, she abruptly turned and went towards the bathroom door at near light-speed, grabbing something Madoka, as well as something cloth-like - who knew what it was, she didn't care at this point - on her way, just before slamming the door, hard.
Edited 2014-02-03 04:50 (UTC)

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