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[bjornwilde]

 Merry Christmas eve all...well, to those that celebrate it. Do your pups? And those that don't do they have something similar?

Ok, I'm going back to bed.

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[minkhollow]

Supposedly the Six Lands have Yule, but I don't know what happens for that other than lighted trees. Thanks, canon.

Claudia loves her some Christmas!

Apollo thinks the whole thing's amusing but has more invested in the winter solstice proper.

Imp doesn't mind Hogswatch.

Regulus could do without all the formal parties the season's wrapped up in.

I have no idea if the Enchanted Forest even has a Winter Holiday.

Woolly will go to Christmas parties if it's Warehouse people. Otherwise: sorry, wrong holiday.

[damncompass]

There is an entire episode of Warehouse dedicated to Joshua and Christmas. He currently has post-mistletoe-stress-disorder. Just don't talk to him about mistletoe.

Helena has endured many a Christmas party at her brother's hands. She'll be glad to have something much more low-key this year.

Fantine doesn't really do much for Christmas. She never had the chance.

Valentine celebrates Christmas, but it's totally commercial and presents. Religion's outlawed.

And as for Mark.....

Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes,
Here she lies, no one knew her worth,
The late, great daughter of Mother Earth,
On this night when we celebrate the birth,
In that Little Town of Bethelehem,
We raise our glass,
You bet your ass to......

LA VIE BOHEME!

In other words... yes. He celebrates it. He also celebrates Hanukkah.

[1stwitness]

Gavroche wants to invite Fantine for a House of Arch Christmas this year.

[damncompass]

'nawwwwww. She'd probably go, to, if for no reason other than the novelty of actually having a Christmas.

[1stwitness]

Then consider her invited, if you want.

[bjornwilde]

Jessica Drew: Celebrates "winter holiday" in a secular fashion. She's just as happy to celebrate Hanukkah as Christmas or Yule.

Val von Doom: For her, it's likely a hodge-podge of how we celebrate Christmas in the states and whatever Latverian customs exist.

Hank McCoy: Celebrates Christmas in a very Norman Rockwell way but also sees it a personal holiday celebrating Sir Issac Newton.

Thalia Grace: She's more into the solstice and her birthday.

Andrea Nash: Canon has never said whether CHristmas is a thing anymore in her world. Given how mob belief can fuel magic, I expect there are seasonal elves.

Anton Gorodetsky: Christmas is making a come back to Moscow, in fact it seems they celebrate two Christmases (25 Dec and 07 Jan). Second Christmas seems to be the big one for family. I think being an Other, Anton is more into New Years.

Quinlan Vos: Lives in space and so doesn't really deal with seasonal holidays. I imagine he's not above planning trips to planets that have celebrations to surprise his family though.

Brimstone: No clue if the Chimera celebrate anything like Christmas but I am sure they have some sort of Winter holiday.

Mulan: Coming from a pseudo-Chinese culture, I am sure Mulan does not celebrate anything like Christmas but does celebrate New Years.

[sdelmonte]

Knox celebrates it in a somewhat secular way, getting a tree and having fun but not really feeling much connection to it as a religious event. (As he gets older, and his mun seeps into him more, he gets a bit more Jewish each year.) It's also his anniversary with Rapunzel. I think they got together eight years ago, which is amazing.

Cy loves the day. He always dresses as Santa at the local Boys' and Girl's Club, and organizes the Titans' feast (for a team where two of the members aren't from Earth and one thinks the day is about getting the newest video games). It's always a lot of fun. And if the mood strikes him, he even goes to church.

Howard likes the day, but is sure something is missing, as he isn't close with his family now. There are parties and balls and dinners, and usually a quiet night with whichever starlet or heiress he's dating at the moment. And he has little interest in the religious aspects.

Gibbs barely celebrates. The modern concept of a sentimental family celebration didn't exist yet in his day, and the UK was still trying find its way between Catholic mass and Puritan rejection of the day. But if you bring him food or gifts, he will be glad to keep them.

Kirk doesn't celebrate. I suspect that Christmas and most holidays still endure, but Kirk is a deist at best.

And Charlie longs for there to be a church service so he can, to steal from Joss' comment about Mal, "be angry at God for not existing." Even though Charlie is an agnostic.

[bjornwilde]

And now I am wishing we still had a Father Mulcahy for Charlie to debate talk with. = ]

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy celebrates Christmas in a secular manner like the majority of Brits born in the UK, and Diwali, as do his wife and kids even though between them they have varying religious beliefs at the age they are old enough.

Wellington and Gohan celebrate secular Christmas.

Carlotta, Almanzo and Will Parker celebrate Christmas in a Christian manner.

Shufti celebrates all non-religious American holidays and combines Christmas and Hogswatch.

Vyvyan will celebrate anything if it comes with food or free stuff.

Father Christmas does not celebrate Christmas, because it's basically work.

[death_gone_mad]

The canonicity of holiday events is up in the air. But! Humans did not evolve or pop up out of the ground in Gielinor. First Guthix, then maybe Tumeken and Saradomin, brought humans over from the human realm, which the game devs are claiming is not Earth. In fact, Saradomin is an ascended human from the human realm. Why he did not stay and conquer/save the human realm is anyone's guess, but the most likely reason is that he wanted power and he knew where to get it, and it wasn't the human realm. Onto the semi-canon and wild mass guessing concerning Christmas...

This year's Christmas celebrations reveal that Saradomin brought over Christmas and its traditional celebrations, and not only to Gielinor, but also to the Icyenic homeworld. There is nothing about Jesus included in these celebrations, only Santa Claus and Christmas trees and snow and presents. I thought that maybe Guthix brought over Iron Age humans to populate Gielinor, but this stuff about Christmas makes me think that Saradomin came from the grimdark future of humanity where somehow Christmas still exists and Saradomin is the big blue God-Emperor of Mankind gone authoritarian and powercrazy (well, more authoritarian and powercrazy). Still has a Messiah complex, though.

Someone is playing silly buggers with the timey-wimey stuff.

I don't think Amascut participates, save for accidental bonfires and such. She's not friendly with Saradomin. Her alter-egos may celebrate, though.

Fairy Fixit? Who knows. Guthix was anti-religion, so he didn't bring over human holidays and certainly did not introduce them to the fairies, but the concept might have made it's way to Zanaris.

Evil Chicken might have killed the Easter Bunny. Ummm.

Now to get back to my WAAAAAAAAAGH!