DE: Bah, Humbug, but that's too strong

[bjornwilde]

Sorry for the late DE, my mind still thinks it's Sunday since I have the day off!

So what do your pups want for the holiday they celebrate? Are there any special foods they associate with the day? How about traditions? How about yourselves?

Also, I will be getting up and leaving the house very early to perpetuate the Santa myth so can someone take the DE for tomorrow?

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[bjornwilde]

Ben is all about the latkes (which I really should try sometime). He also really loves spice cake and waffles for the traditional morning brunch at the Baxter Building.

I don't know that Jessica gets the season to be honest, she doesn't have family. There is Carol who I am sure includes her in festivities, but I'm not sure how much Carol celebrates.

No one else is speaking up so for myself, I aim more for Yule and so pour a bit of whiskey into a fire in honor of the sun. I love my Christmas waffles and sausages!

[sdelmonte]

As it happens, Knox used to always bring the latkes for the Life Support party. You send Ben into the bar this week with latkes, and I guarantee Knox will bring some as well.

[bjornwilde]

I'll just have to see what I can do. = ]

It will be Wednesday if I can manage anything though.

[crazyfurries]

*brofists for whiskey for the sun* Bless and forward that, my friend!

Tyler's been spending MOST of his Christmases in New York with Ray Stantz and the other Ghostbusters. The really big things generally don't happen until Jan 6 or 7th, which is generally when Ded Moroz and La Befana make their rounds. The Russian President Antonov generally makes it a point to at least send the kid something nice every year, cause y'know, you don't forget the kid who saved you from being cultist fodder. He tends to associate the holidays with needing to take more baths anyways, more so than the food.

[ever_lovin]

Brofist back at'cha. =)

I'm about to post Ben in the bar for slowtime, holiday fun if you are interested.

[sdelmonte]

As noted above, Knox is all about the latkes. And even knows about the alternate tradition of donuts for Hanukkah. His traditions also include managing to light a menorah at some point as well as having a small Christmas, being the son of an interfaith marriage. And celebrating the holidays twice, as his timeline runs two months faster than the Bar's. And, most importantly, spending Christmas with Rapunzel, as their first date was at a party on Christmas Eve. (For the record, even though Rapunzel's player hasn't been around for a while - and I miss seeing her around - Knox and Rapunzel are still going strong, six years later. Wow.)

Cy plays Santa at the local Boys and Girls Club, and probably elsewhere. For him, the day is all about giving. And not just to his friends, but to those who are where he once was, in a bad way and needing a light in the darkness. He misses his mother's Christmas ham, the one dish he doesn't ever try to replicate.

Kirk is from a largely post-religious society. He finds Bar Christmas charming, and never says no to gifts, but he views it the way an alien anthropologist might. (And that vision of a Victorian Christmas Picard had in Generations? Never happened.)

Howard, as I hope you have read in his meeting with the Ghosts, will celebrate this year in a rather downbeat way. But when the war ends, his holiday will turn into a very festive occasion, at least for a few years. The day he loves the most, though, is New Year's Eve. Come December 31, 1945, he will be back at the Waldorf. At some level, he misses the way family holidays were, but he has no illusions it will be that way again.

Gibbs is from a time when the holidays were not the extensive series of celebrations we know now. So for him, Christmas really has its religious meaning, despite how utterly irreligious he is.

Charlie likes to go to church and find the flaws in the sermons and ponder his agnosticism. He misses Father Mulcahy's services in the Bar.

And of course I am Jewish and celebrate Hanukkah in a fairly traditional manner, with menorah lighting and latkes and a bit of gift giving trying to get together with family. Christmas, not being my holiday, is a day I work as The Jewish Museum is open tomorrow - it's actually fun to sell tickets for one day a year. And we often have friends over for New Year's Eve and toast the coming year.

[spit_it_out]

Food - Gene loves pink wafers. Which, in the 70's, are still generally considered a Christmas treat. Also, mince pies (of course). And Christmas pudding. And trifle. All the (sweet) stuff he doesn't eat the rest of the year.

As for presents - the usual. Whiskey, socks, aftershave. He doesn't expect more than that. Standard fare for blokes in the 70's.


Bruce Wayne and Bruce Banner - neither have a whole lot of use for Christmas. And no traditions to speak of. I suspect Banner, in particular, will spend the day on his own and wishing it would all go away.

[souffle_girlek]

We are definitely open-presents-on-Christmas-Eve folk... except in the way we don't open them all, and there's stockings on Christmas morning.

Ace loves Christmas, but Christmas doesn't seem to love her - most likely there will be feral ghosts or guerrilla poinsettias or something.

Katya doesn't so much celebrate Christmas as she enjoys humans celebrating - so many people being so happy! If you've ever wondered why your cheery family gathering suddenly collapsed into furious fighting, it's because a nearby Light Other suddenly needed a power boost and got permission from their boss.

Balthazar doesn't celebrate Christmas as it is done modernly - it all seems so... gaudy.

Bones loves Christmas - back when he lived in Georgia Christmas was an event, with a ridiculously over-the-top tree and enough food to feed an army of elves and caroling (complete with alcohol) and cookies and mistletoe... on board ship, Christmas will either find him on a one-man mission (or however many he can drag along with him) to decorate the ship or morose and hiding in his quarters - depends on if he got a certain call earlier in the day.

Glorfindel does not celebrate Christmas, since it is really not a ME holiday. He does, however, celebrate the solstice - the stars are out the longest that night, and you'd better believe the elves stay up all night singing (and drinking, and dancing, and generally being elves) in honor of Elbereth.

Haymitch doesn't celebrate, because there is no winter holiday. He isn't at all sure what you-all are talking about, actually.

Oswin... Oswin likes Christmas. Handel's Messiah played at volume, elaborate Christmas cookies, colorful paper chains, the works. It's a bit more lonely though, knowing she won't be celebrating it with her family.
Bit more creepy, when she realizes how she celebrated the last one. She'll just... work on not thinking about that.

Shaz... used to love Christmas. This year, she's more decidedly lonely, because the family she thought was still there was part of the illusion, and most of her mates aren't in the bar. There's probably going to be a Christmas pint. Maybe more than one. We'll see.

[hey35andholding]

Clem wants a healthy Sam :/

Juliet wants peace. After the bumpy year she's had, that's pretty much her sole request for the year.

Dixie wants to spend an uninterrupted night with Brisco, one where he doesn't have to leave in the morning (and neither does she).

Pinkie wants ALL THE SWEET THINGS for Hearth's Warming Eve. And world peace for Gummy.