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[electro_kinetic]

There is a Noriko coming into the bar today, wet and cold and faintly eugh-feeling as she sets down the bag from over her shoulder, contents clinking gently. It's raining and near freezing out there, though the abundance of tiny lights on everything makes it a bit more cheerful, or at least shinier.

So in the thankfully dry bar she's sitting with a bowl of ramen and very hot tea, and is lazily twirling a sugar snowflake from her fingers via the ribbon hanging loop. Once she's warm, feel free to bother her; she'll be in the middle of making a sort of wreath, a gift for a friend. She's pretty damn good at wrapping boxes fast, and efficiently, though she doesn't do it the way most westerners are accustomed to putting paper around boxes. But, hey, she's approachable enough.

[ brought to you by a mun who is having to gift-wrap a lot of boxes ]

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[says_the_booyah]

"Hey, Noriko." Cy enters the bar wearing a Santa hat. 'Tis the season, after all.

[electro_kinetic]

"...What do you have on your head?" she asks, looking up. "Playing mechanical Santa?"

[says_the_booyah]

"Never seen a cyborg play Santa?" He's tempted to take the hat off, but leaves it. "I do it every year for local charities."

[electro_kinetic]

"Not unless you count Tony Stark and photoshop," she says, shaking her head. "I don't do Christmas, so the whole tradition of Santa is sort of lost on me."

[says_the_booyah]

"Not Christian. Got it." Why should she be? "You should try explaining it to an alien. Starfire loves Christmas and can't wrap her mind around any of it."

[electro_kinetic]

"Hey, I will totally get behind helping people put up trees and lights and shit. But as far as the religious part goes...you lose me."

[says_the_booyah]

"Not sure how much I believe either. But Santa Claus isn't really about that. I think.

"I mean, apparently he's real and all. And missing." That was the weirdest bulletin board post ever.

[electro_kinetic]

"Well, sure, real in some world. Not sure about mine," she says. "Given mine seems to be full of way too many malicious dickheads, I'm not sure Santa would survive."

[says_the_booyah]

"But doesn't he have super powers? Flying reindeer, fitting down chimneys, being everywhere at midnight?" He's joking. For the most part.

[electro_kinetic]

"Dude, you're asking the wrong girl," she says, eyebrows raising.

[says_the_booyah]

"But you still do the gift thing.

"That's cool." Gifts don't need a holiday.

[electro_kinetic]

"I do for some people," she says. "If they celebrate Christmas, why not? I mean, there's nothing saying you shouldn't give presents at the year end celebration in Shinto, but it's just not a common thing."

[says_the_booyah]

"What do you do for the end of the year in Shinto? I know New Year's is a big deal." Or at least he thinks it is.

[electro_kinetic]

"Clean my room, build the year-shelf, put out stuff. Offerings and such, you know? Sake, rice cakes, decorations that make the place pretty, inviting for the toshigami."

[says_the_booyah]

"Toshigami?" His knowledge of Japan extends to manga, anime and one trip to Tokyo.