Daily Entertainment: Holiday Edition!

[damncompass]

In honour of St Nicholas Day, I bring you a festive Daily Entertainment!

Holidays! What holiday (if any) do your characters celebrate in the winter season? Do they really get into it, or are they reluctant celebrants?

ETA: Holy potatoes, that was the wrong link. Sorry! Nothing to see about the CT Legislative Committees here! *facepalm*

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[road_to_calvary]

All mine have Christmas for a winter holiday. And as I'm about to run out of the door for a weekend away, this'll be consise.

Gene: chucks himself into it wholeheartedly, especially the drinking-and-food side of it.

Bruce Banner: spends it alone.

Bruce Wayne: has Bruce Wayne social duties to see to, and then puts on a big rubber suit and tries to stop other people's Christmas's being spoiled.

Jean Valjean: spends Christmas itself quietly, and very modestly, with his daughter - the whole season in general is given over to giving poor people money, and food, and clothes to get through the winter. Like the rest of the year, only more so due to it being cold.

Javert: works through the whole thing. The days are all the same, to him.

[a1enzo]

Enzo celebrates Christmas because Dani and her family celebrate Christmas. He has absolutely no investment in the religious aspects, but very much enjoys the secular/festive aspects. (Unlike his mun, who will be wearing headphones for the entire month…)

[1stwitness]

Ichabod Crane (Sleepy Hollow) - used to celebrate Christmas and enjoy it, but this year I suspect his feelings will be much like Thanksgiving - ("If I can't be with my wife, why must I be subjected to constant reminders that I'm -" *cuts himself off because he doesn't want to hurt Abbie by saying 'alone'*). And then spending the entire time either on his own or with Abbie, hoping for a visionary visit from Katrina, and drinking rum.

Giovanni Bruni (Casanova movie) - Catholic Christmas

Richard Sharpe (Sharpe) - Doesn't really bother, or perhaps he does for the children's sake, but if he did it would be Christmas.

Harry Callahan (Young Wizards) - Massive family Christmas with all available relatives and these days probably random extraterrestrial waifs and strays.

Nancy (Doctor Who: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) - Does her very best to give her gang of waifs a proper Christmas.

Jonathan Levinson (Buffy) - Jewish, but not really observant. He doesn't have much contact with his parents and as far as I know Andrew isn't Jewish, so he's lapsed on Hanukkah.

Michael Carpenter (The Dresden Files) - Ahahahaha. Christmas is taken very, very seriously in the Carpenter household, and with all those kids is probably a major operation.

Roshaun (Young Wizards) - Not from Earth, and there's no indication of what if anything his people celebrate. Or if they have a winter as such.

James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean) - Used to do Christmas in the way everyone else did. Now it doesn't really matter.

Gavroche (Les Miserables originally, now Neverwhere-verse/Milliways native) - Big Christmas party in the House of Arch. People may be invited.

[damncompass]

Joshua has always seen Christmas as a Thing You Do. Claud was more the one who wanted everything perfect, and he did what he could to go along with that. (up to and including going halfway across the country for a piano and surprise father for Claudia's Not So Perfect Christmas Ideas) Just, please don't threaten the boy with mistletoe. He's had enough.

... oh, god. that would be a terrible idea.

Moving on, Helena doesn't really give two drips about Christmas now that Christina's gone. She's used to the lavish Victorian parties (think Scrooge's nephew in Christmas Carol), but really she'd just rather let the season pass.

Fantine has never really -had- a Christmas per se. Just watching everyone else be merry stings a bit.

Valentine ... I've never actually thought much about holidays in the Enderverse. Maybe? I doubt it's as big of a thing, though.

And half of my apped character's canon famously takes place on Christmas.

[kd7sov]

Hmmm. Well, let's start with the one there's canon for, shall we?

Fluttershy has Hearth's Warming Eve, and millicanonically Lunastice. I don't imagine she's super into the latter; it's no Nightmare Night or anything, but I feel like she's there mostly for the fireworks rather than the festivities or the food. I don't get a very good read re: her and HWE.

Felix could, if he wanted, be part of whatever wintery holidays are celebrated wherever he happens to be. The only one I've pinned down at all is Prox's solstitial thing, where he once set the town on fire. He is, generally, not a merry man festive fellow.

For Kain I have no clue about the what, but I can see him going to elaborate lengths for whatever equivalent to Secret Santa they have. All the while giving no external clue whatsoever.

[gavin62truck]

Given that Tommy's family is split up, he probably doesn't care much for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year's. He'd most likely be working anyway, but let's not talk about fireworks accidents and turkey and Christmas tree fires. However, I think any time he spends with the guys at the firehouse is meaningful to him during the holidays because they're the family he sees every day. Lou would probably cook something special for everyone if they have to work, and I imagine there'd be an abundance of filthy gag gifts.

[lady_bols]

Alex Drake adores Christmas, but without her daughter, any celebration is lessened. When she was alive, it was big tree, whole house decorated, dinner on Christmas Eve, wassail for carolers, big ceremonial opening of presents, big dinner, and more wassail for carolers. Without Molly, it's become a much more subdued affair, when she's not being dragged off to Manchester to help Gene's mum cook. And post canon, I'm not even sure how that's going to work, so... :/

John Silver is secretly ridiculously sentimental about Christmas. He loves cooking for his men, dolts that they are. Even before he lost his leg, it was a time to openly show generosity and not be thought weak for it.

La Fée Verte aka Vert likes the holidays, because there is inevitably lots of drinking. And wherever there are people drinking, not just absinthe, she tends to congregate. She prefers New Years celebrations, though. More inspiration to dole out. And more madness.

Sherlock doesn't quite understand why people feel so passionately about Christmas. It's one of the few times a year he's forced to act like a grown man and deal with social obligations. He's not one to fret over gifts, unless it's someone really close to him. (And then, he'll fret himself into a froth and decide it's not worth the headache, and not buy them anything. Instead, he'll ask Mrs. Hudson's advice.)

Vlad I'm unsure of. I've never put big gothic monster in the context of Yule celebrations. I imagine the hunting of the Christmas boar was great fun. And then there was all the drinking...

Olga rather dreads the holidays, because inevitably the Dark Others come out to feed on all the angst. And the Light Others feed on the happiness, which makes her stomach turn just as much.

Earl adores Christmas, not just for the obvious reasons. He loves watching the spirit of the season touch people. He loves the magic of it.

[minkhollow]

Cata and Sam: Technically Yule is a thing in their world, but I don't think either of them has much invested in it, and the book doesn't really delve into what most of the world's religious trappings mean, so. I've also Millicanoned that the anniversary of the epic final battle/Mizzamir's death is somewhere around US Thanksgiving calendar-wise. Both of them do something small to mark that, and Sam does his best to avoid large parties.

Claudia: Loves her some Christmas! But has learned her lesson about decorating with Artifacts (really, Joshua, she promises).

Apollo: Has more invested in the solstice than Christmas, that's for sure.

Imp: I don't think Hogswatch was a big part of his life until after he left Llamedos, oddly enough. And now he doesn't really have anyone to celebrate with.

Regulus: Tends to endure the big pureblood Christmas dos more so than actually enjoy them, but going to the fancy parties is part of moving in that society. He's used to it. But sometimes he just wants to have a smaller thing with like. Just Narcissa, and anyone else who happens to come into his life that he's not tolerating for appearances' sake. People he actually likes.

Red: I have no fucking clue what the Enchanted Forest does holidays-wise. (Ruby is probably a big fan of Christmas.)

Woolly: Hanukkah, naturally. The Warehouse probably had a generic-winter-holidays-but-everyone-else-called-it-Christmas party, which he went to as a means of spending time with the work!family.

[not_my_sandbox]

Sometimes when Jagex is feeling particularly secular and wants to enforce a canon that makes sense, it is just the Wintumber Festival, but the playerbase is too "Rarr rarr war on Christmas; where's mah traditions where's mah nostalgia????!!!" usually, so Amascut, Fairy Fixit, and Evil Chicken all know about Christmas. Also about Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving.

Amascut is sort of reluctant about it. Evil Chicken uses it to cause mischief, I think. Fairy Fixit... hmmm... I am guessing she has to work extra hours on Christmas, as the other fairies do as well. Lot of people travel on that day and many do it by teleportation; and as for the other fairies, everyone expects snow on Christmas, so they better deliver. Well, not the Kharidian desert except maybe the highlands, but yeah.

[sdelmonte]

The only pup I have who doesn't celebrate XMas is Kirk. It's still around (or else that scene in Generations with Picard imagining a Victorian holiday is even dumber), but I think for the most part people in Starfleet ignore religious days. Everyone else observes in some fashion. Gibbs less the the others, and Charlie by pestering a priest, but they all have that day.

Knox is alone is celebrating Hanukkah in any fashion, and that usually consists of lighting the menorah once or twice and eating latkes.

New Year's Day, conversely, is a day that Kirk probably celebrates more than most of my other pups. in Gotham, Knox spends the night avoiding the hordes of drunks and waiting for the first crime spree of the year. Cyborg and Charlie see the night as a time to fight crime, along the same lines. Cy really hates drunk drivers, to boot. And in Gibbs's day, New Year's Day was still making its way from March to January.

But for Kirk, the turn of the old calendar is still a time to drink a toast. And Howard Stark no doubt is at the most fashionable party in LA.

[aberration]

Elle celebrates Christmas, in that she likes candy canes and gave X a gift.

Asami and Katara come from Avatarverse where the major winter holiday is the Winter Solstice. Which ... I made up is celebrated in both the Fire Nation and Water Tribes. The Water Tribes is definitely canon given that the Southern Water Tribe celebrates it in LoK, but I decided it would be a holiday in the Fire Nation, as well, though obviously secondary to the Summer Solstice. (It didn't seem to be a big deal in the Earth Kingdom, other than its connections to the Spirit World, and I'd imagine the Earth Kingdom and Air Nomads would prefer the equinoxes.) But for Asami, the large Fire Nation and Water Tribe presence in Republic City means it's also a holiday there, and her experience it is largely in Fire Nation street fairs, where there's a lot of grilled meat and dumplings and (as I co-opted from Chinese New Year) oranges. Though the reason the Fire Nation celebrates it is that it marks the point when the days start getting longer again.

For the Water Tribes, it's the most important festival of the year. By Korra's time it's pretty huge in the South again, but when Katara was growing up, there were no major festivities, and at best there was some extra food (or extra indulgence with food) and maybe a few activities, as well as the relative assurance that there would be no raids, as the Fire Nation troops would be observing the solstice, too. And obviously it's important to note that the North and South would be celebrating the Winter Solstice at different times of year.

Leslie loooooves Christmas. As in she dresses up as an elf and gives all her friends and co-workers perfect, thoughtful gifts and says they're from Santa. And one time her friends and co-workers made her a gingerbread version of her office and it was the most amazing thing ever.

For Manny, Christmas is apparently celebrated in the Land of the Dead, though like with Day of the Dead he's not... great with holidays where he won't be working. And his last Christmas involved punching someone in the face because even he had had waaaay too much to drink. Though the Land of the Dead is also entirely flat, so it's not clear how weather patterns or seasons would happen, anyway.

There's no Christmas in post-apocalyptic land Ooo, but Marceline's friends have a day in winter where they wear big sweaters and drink cocoa and eat candy and watch movies on BMO, to commemorate that time when they did that before, though that time the sweaters and cocoa weren't because it was winter, but because the Ice King was attacking them.

Hiccup and those on Berk celebrate some Viking-Christmas-stand-in called Snoggletog, but I'm pretty sure it involved fake Yak eggnog and I thiiiink (okay it's been a while since I watched this) leaving out their hats for gifts, and that it happened to coincide with the dragon breeding season.

[ceitfianna]

Will enjoys Christmas, it was one of the few points of true abundance for him growing up, feasts for many and Nottingham feels happy for a time. For him it means family, going to Mass and feeling connected to all of Nottingham and now Milliways.

Charles is mixed on Christmas, his mother liked to do a proper English Christmas as much as she could, but during the '40s it was smaller. Its one of those times when people hug more and show their love, so its one of his favorite holidays when these big houses he grew up in were more filled. I can see him annoying Raven with how into it he gets.

Sameth doesn't celebrate Christmas since he's from another world but there is the Frost Festival which is a big deal and his birthday is in the winter. He enjoys but less so now that he has to dance the Bird of Dawning.

William likes Christmas but its complicated for him as well, celebrating Christmas is a reminder of how poor his family is and his father not being there. Its tough for him also because his own religious feelings aren't simple, he wants to make his mother and brother smile but church feels hollow for him.

Moist grew up with Hogswatch which is Disc's version of Christmas and its a holiday Uberwald does very well with lots of warm food and drinks. His grandparents and parents doted on him, so he enjoyed it and now he always tries to be in a prosperous place for it.

Jane enjoys Christmas, the celebrations in her time are still fairly small but as her father is a vicar, they are all kept busy. Lots of parties to attend, organizing things for the church, she enjoys it.

Tumnus treasures Christmas because its always been a bright spot in the Winter but its also when Aslan returned.

The Pirate King loves Christmas, Ruth does lots of cooking and the ship is full of fun.

[bjornwilde]

Jess adores Christmas and throws herself into it all the way (I don't care if nothing on the page supports this). Silly hats, terrible sweaters, egg nog, the works. She does this since having friends and team mates to celebrate with almost makes her feel normal. Or what she imagines normal is anyway. She does keep a watch out for hovering robotic mistletoe though.

Given how Norman Rockwell-esk Hank is in my head, he definitely is into Christmas; even more so now that he's met some fellow mutants.

Canon hasn't shown what sort of winter holidays the Enchanted Forest celebrates so I don't know about Mulan. If we go by the psuedo-China she seems to come from, I would say she celebrates the Dongzhi Festival. Since she has no family, given my head canon for her, she tends to use the holiday to honor her ancestors and recommit herself to her chosen path.