Daily Entertainment Hallowe'en Edition!

[damncompass]

Happy Hallowe'en everyone!

On this day of trick and treats, spooks and spectres, candy and children, I present you this spooky Entertainment of the Day:

All Hallows' Eve! Does your character celebrate Hallowe'en? Have they ever? If their world doesn't have it, would/do they like the concept?

And as a bonus: Anyone have an awesome Milli-Hallowe'en story?

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[camwyn]

Gordon- Was never really very big on Halloween, but with the Combine gone people are reviving celebrations wherever they can. He and the family will be coming in wearing costumes today. Since there is a large contingent of Mexican resistance members at the Greenbrier, Halloween will be followed by Day of the Dead celebrations as well.

Shephard- Liked Halloween as a kid, wasn't really big on it during high school, has come to consider it the holiday of What The Hell, Bar rather than anything at home. This year is not likely to change that to any great degree.

Stacker Pentecost - Does not celebrate Halloween, thinks the whole thing's rather weird and probably more American than anything to do with the original celebrations of Samhain. May have marked Halloween a few times during Mako's childhood if Mako got swept up enough in the holiday by the American children around her, but that's it. If trick-or-treaters find him, they get money rather than candy.

Ellen - They don't do Halloween in the Capital Wasteland, and they didn't do it in Vault 101, either. October 31st is the Day of the Black Rains in her world, the day the fallout from the Great War started raining down from the sky in earnest, plus now that she's in the Brotherhood it falls in the middle of Exodus observations.

Santo - Doesn't really pay much attention to Halloween. All Saints' Day/All Souls' Day/ Dia de los Muertos are much more important to him, and he will be marking those days.

Medic: Does not care about the holiday one way or the other.

Varric: Wrong world, wrong culture, wrong calendar, wrong reference, wrong everything.

Mordin: Studied several different human holidays relating to the dead and the cycle of rebirth and Things Going Horribly Wrong therewith. Gets a kick out of handing out candy to people who don't expect him to be aware of human holidays. Sometimes wears cat ears or very bad masks if he's around humans on the day in question.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark loves Halloween, but - as indicated by his entrance post today - it's not Halloween for him. It's mid-July, and thanks to an alien invasion, he's just graduated from high school. So no costume today, just graduation robes (which are made of polyester, itch, and have that weird shiny texture, so they have that in common with a costume).

[sdelmonte]

Kirk only knows of the day because of the bar. Though TOS did a (rather cheezy) Halloween episode.

Knox isn't big on Halloween because it has long been a night of mayhem in Gotham. MilliHalloween is okay, though.

Gibbs thinks it's some sort of Catholic feast and wants nothing to do with it, being a good (lapsed) Anglican. And it's creepy in the Bar.

Howard is from a time when Halloween was mainly a kids' holiday, though there always seems to be some sort of charity ball to attend in some sort of costume.

Charlie is okay with it, but always thinks about how the pagan day became the Christian day which became a cross between Mardi Gras and a standard issue American advertising day. He's not someone you want to invite to your party.

And Cyborg loves it to bits. If I had the time to manage it, and if there weren't a party, he'd be running his annual Halloween Horror Hoedown movie marathon.

PS: Will be sending Howard and Cy to the party when I get home. Whenever that is. Lousy stinking workday.

[genarti]

Enjolras: wrong culture, though certainly he understands carnival holidays. In general, such festivities are on the long list entitled Sure, Have Fun With That, I'll Be Over Here With Polite Incomprehension And A Political Pamphlet.

Thor: even wronger culture, but he totally loves carnival holidays! And candy! Silly costumes he doesn't care either way about, but he's not averse. He will love the concept when he learns about it. (Which may or may not be this year -- I'd like to toss him into the bar, but this week I am very strapped for time.)

Clare: is sort of in Enjolras's corner here, but with MUCH VASTER INCOMPREHENSION. Enjolras totally understands society, he just isn't entirely sure why his friends find that kind of thing fun; Clare doesn't really understand how you human or how you fun.

Trowa: works for a circus, so masks and excited children are nothing really new. I suspect his sister Cathy LOVES the holiday, though, and drags him along to whatever she's doing -- a party or giving out candy to kids or whatever -- and he placidly lets himself be dragged. The circus might have a particular show, too. It also undoubtedly depends on where they are in the world, and whether it's somewhere that celebrates it. Left to his own devices Trowa wouldn't mark the holiday, but that's nothing new with him.

River: loves it! Bar's always been nice about the costumes she gives her, and you get to be silly and social and impish and also there's candy. NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS BAD. I can't remember what we millicanoned about whether anyone in Fireflyverse celebrates Halloween except via Milliways, though.

Regan: ...again, uh, I can't remember what we millicanoned about Fireflyverse, and she would be less sanguine about involuntary costuming than River is. But she'd roll with it, so long as she didn't hate the costume, and she generally likes this kind of carnival silliness holiday, so.

[neverbelievedintheend]

If you wanna just tag around with Thor today, I put Pentecost in Heimdall's armor for great linefacing?

[genarti]

...oh my god, that's RIGHT. I somehow forgot you were planning to do that.

YOU BET. I have evening plans, so I will probably not manage more than a lunchtime tag or two before it has to hit slowtime, if that's okay? But ahahaha.

[neverbelievedintheend]

Fine by me! I am a flexible sort and can deal with slowtimes as needed.

[souffle_girlek]

Ace: The world she lives in now does, and she takes a somewhat unholy glee strutting around town in cat ears and cheetah print.

Katya: It is more of a church holiday in Russia, but it is still a day the humans and the Others tend to have a bit more interaction. If Katya had to do patrols on that day, she usually ended it muttering about the Sheer Idiocy of people and that the very next twit who hired a witch to do ANYTHING was going to get smacked into the middle of next week. In Skellig's world, Halloween is a very weird night, sets up some odd vibes, and makes her all kinds of twitchy.

William: There is a church holiday/feast day, but on board ship it's just another day.

Glorfindel: Has no idea what you're talking about.

Haymitch: There's no Halloween - but there is a holiday where people dress up in odd costumes, and there's an emphasis on fear and horror - it's in July, and called the Hunger Games.

Balthazar: There's Halloween, though really he stays out of it entirely - he has nothing he wants to say to the dead, his world is odd enough without extra spookiness, and he has no kid to go mine for candy. He does like the cheap chocolate the next day though. >.>

Clara: Yep, there's Halloween, she spent last year following her two charges around making sure they didn't get into too much trouble. She also tried to make a pumpkin souffle. It... yeah. Badness.

Oswin: Has no idea what you're talking about.

Bones: They have Halloween, but it isn't really celebrated on board ship. Their lives are odd enough. Bar likes dressing him up as a cowboy though.

[a1enzo]

Enzo's world doesn't have it, but he enjoys it very much.

[leeshajoy]

Alyx mostly knows about Halloween through various Milliways costuming--she and her dad didn't really have the means or the inclination to celebrate it while she was growing up. As Cam mentioned above, though, she and the Greenbrier residents are working on reviving the holiday.

Ponies don't celebrate Halloween, but they do celebrate Nightmare Night, on which Nightmare Moon is said to come down from the moon to devour any pony she sees. On that night, ponies wear disguises to hide from her, and bribe her with candy to make her go away. So it basically is Halloween but with a slightly different mythological origin.

Vanellope has a fellow racer whose whole schtick is based around Halloween candy, so she has at least a passing familiarity with the holiday.

The cat from Coraline is a black cat, and canonically is well-versed in ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. He may not celebrate Halloween, but he's sure as hell aware of it.

And personally? Seven years ago today was when I brought a certain blue sprite into Milliways for the first time. Happy Milliversary to me!

[whatisastiles]

Who has two thumbs and loves candy? THIS GUY.

I'm trying to convince Scott to dress up as Tracy Jordan in Werewolf Bar Mitzvah. Because it would be freaking hilarious, right?

[street_sparrow]

It doesn't have to be voluntary. :D

[gavin62truck]

Tommy had to have dressed up as a firefighter at some point during his childhood. I think he would've run the gamut of typical boys' costumes throughout the 1960s and '70s: a cowboy (possibly several times), Batman (also possibly several times), a Yankees baseball player, a G.I. Joe-type soldier, and maybe a couple of classic movie monsters like Frankenstein or the Werewolf. During his teen years, I'm definitely sure that he was more focused on egging and TP'ing houses.

As an adult, I can't imagine a Halloween going by without stupid scary pranks happening in the firehouse. And as a frequently absent father, especially later in his kids' lives, he probably didn't get to go trick-or-treating with them a whole lot.

[death_gone_mad]

This question is sort of up in the air since Jagex is trying to retroactivly say Christmas and Easter and Halloween and Thanksgiving were never celebrated in Gielinor. Because such holidays don't fit in with the lore and Gielinor is not Earth and uh...

:D

I am just going to abuse scale theory and say that they are, but it isn't always something big and noticeable.

Amascut takes Halloween celebrations as a personal insult... so, no, she doesn't like it.

Fairy Fixit lives on Gielinor's moon. They don't get trick-or-treaters up there often but it is fun to pop down to the planet and peoplewatch on those days. Yes, I said days.

[ceitfianna]

Will has two different associations with Halloween, Milliways where it means costumes and home where its more connected to the Church and harvest.

Charles enjoyed dressing up as a boy, there's an odd safety sometimes in a mask where you're allowed to be odd and strange. As he's grown older, Halloween means parties and sometimes costumes but its not one of his favorites. I feel like there's more to this for him but I don't know all the details yet.

Sameth doesn't have Halloween in his world so its more of a Bar holiday for him and he considers it an odd one.

William is from a time and place where Halloween isn't much of a thing, but he does have fun with it in Bar.

Moist is from a world without Halloween but I feel like there's a Discworld equivalent I'm blanking on. He grew up around monsters so he finds that part weird and he wears masks and costumes as part of his work, so its not that different for him.

Jane only knows Halloween through Milliways as she knows more the Church holidays and she does like getting into various outfits. Its a chance to try on other possibilities.

Demeter has mixed feelings on Halloween, Samhain and all the others. She loves the harvest feasts but doesn't like all the reminders of death and darkness, they make her miss Kore.

Tumnus doesn't understand Halloween, all he knows is that one year he was human and it was odd.

The Pirate King enjoys Halloween, its a chance to be even more himself.