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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.
futilecycle: (It went by like dusk to dawn)

For Howard

[personal profile] futilecycle 2014-01-10 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
The Doctor hesitantly wandered onto the floor, discouraged by the dozens of decorative boxes lining the common room. He was now certain package he had brought for Howard would be lost or overlooked in the sea of the Capitol's fake generosity. Sigma had not wished to give him the present in person, and had planned on leaving it on a table where the boy could eventually find it...

With no other choice, Sigma leaves Howard's gift at his door and quickly turns to leave. Inside is a hand-stitched velveteen rabbit that the Doctor had spent many painstaking nights on. It was a plush crafted with love, and so if it turned out that Howard hated his gift, Sigma had a heart that was easily broken and did not wish to know...
iselldrugstothecommunity: (Basic - Well damn.)

Re: For Howard

[personal profile] iselldrugstothecommunity 2014-01-14 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Howard doesn't know who gave him the rabbit, but he suspects it might be Sigma - and if it isn't, that it's a cruel joke arranged by the Capitol to make him feel small and childish. For a while, after he's tucked it away in his room, he just glares at it, hoping it'll make sense to him. Wishing he didn't want to hold it.

Howard eventually throws it over the edge of his bed onto a pile of laundry salvaged from a dumpster. He intends to ignore it.

When he wakes up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, though, drenched in sweat and shaking, he finds the rabbit again, and curls around it. His spine makes a little C, and the rabbit's head nestles in the crook of his neck, the hollow carved out by his jutting collarbone.

He sleeps better, after that.