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[inlovewithwords]

Is your character's calendar Standard Earth or different? Are there atypical holidays they celebrate?

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[configuration_birdwatcher]

Bastion and Thurlow use the Earth calendar, albeit some 180 years apart from each other. New holidays have been created in both universes; in Overwatch's late 2070s there's at least one festival celebrating the end of the Omnic Crisis, and Fallen London has a bunch of weird versions of Western holidays. Valentine's Day becoming the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, for instance, which is still more or less about love but its imagery centers on a really weird Neath plant.

Wilson previously used the Earth calendar but in the Constant a season is like a month long so now he has to keep track of both calendar years (how many days he's been there) and meteorological years (how long he has before it starts snowing or raining frogs or getting hot enough to start wildfires). Don't Starve Together has what's basically renamed versions of Halloween and Christmas and a DS-creature-themed Lunar New Year when it's that time IRL, with no particular requirement that it be the correct season in-game but in story these do seem to be intended to take place in autumn, winter, and early spring respectively.

Aradia and Cirava use the Alternian calendar. It has a few holidays that parallel Earth ones to a degree, like 12th Perigee's Eve, but their year is slightly more than twice as long as an Earth year. And since their sun is so intense and trolls avoid it by being nocturnal, lowbloods talk about "dark season" and "dim season" instead of referring to that time of the year by temperature, although highbloods use words like "autumn" instead.

[bjornwilde]

Jessica, Danny, and Viv follow a calendar much like ours. I'd imagine there are Marvel specific holidays or the like.

Ahsoka and Sabine follow the galactic standard calendar of the Star Wars galaxy, though Sabine also would follow the Mandalorian calendar for holidays.

Tybalt loosely follows the Earth standard calendar but celebrates the four big holidays of Fae; Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, and Autumn Equinox.

I have no clue with Dog.

As to personal holidays they'd follow...there have to be some but I have enough trouble trying to find time for threading that trying to plan out the holidays and observing them is just not in my cards.

[skyhigh_seance]

As far as I can tell UA runs on an Earth with fairly standard holidays. Klaus also celebrates a 'day I escaped from the hellscape that was my childhood', but he usually misses it by like a week because of a high or a really bad crash. WHEE.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's calendar is fairly typically Standard Earth, although there is the recurring problem that Digimon's writers don't seem to understand how time works. Most of the holidays he celebrates are fairly typical modern day Japan holidays, with the exception being Odaiba Memorial Day, which marks the Battle of Odaiba.

The Digital World doesn't seem to have a cohesive calendar, nor does it have any holidays. It doesn't even have seasons, so in a way, what time of year it is is immaterial anyway.

[archmagetrust]

Azeroth has quite a few Earth adjacent holidays though the actual year length has been poorly defined. Expansions last for the players for two to three years generally but in canon most take place over a year. So it can be tricky to figure out when things are happening season wise, and are often ignored. Lots of handwaving.

The fun part of Azeroth holidays is they tend to be tied to one or two races who bring their culture to the rest of the world. They're heavily inspired by Earth holidays, not a surprise since they were introduced as content for players to have something to do.

Brewfest is probably the most atypical one. It's a dwarven holiday/festival that celebrates alcohol in all its forms. Ale was featured prominently when it was just dwarves and gnomes, but now that all the races partake wines and liqueurs have their place too. And because it's Azeroth sometimes the ale comes to life as an alemental (get it, get it?) and has to get the crap beat out of it.

That latter bit's probably not canon. Probably. Alementals do exist, though...