Festivities

[historiology]

Type: Video
Sender ID: historiology (Sorey)
To: Public
Subject: Holidays?
Warnings: N/A? He's just excited and curious

[Someone is excited and seems to be getting into the spirit, dressing up with one of the hats for the celebrations as he uses the phone. Look, Nimona, he figured this out and has totally got this now! Really.]

Hey! Did you guys all hear about the celebration coming up? That Frostsinger? With the sleigh and presents? That sounds neat. I want to help figure presents and ride in a sleigh too! I mean, This is just from what I am gathering from talking to the locals? The decorations and stuff. But it seems like fun so I want to help if I can. I guess there wasn't so much of that sort of thing back home or at least that we had a big deal like this back in Elysia. Did you guys all have something like this too? The presents and decorations and all?

Comments

audio;

[theturksway]

Sure, we had a few different winter celebrations back where we're from. Some of the traditions were kinda similar, I guess, and some silly superstitions, too.

permatext

[vermilloci]

It seems like such a fun little tradition!

We have something like it, too, in Orience, called Starry Night. We decorate wreaths and garlands with ornaments that resemble the stars, and when the whole town pitches in, it's like standing among them! We make ornaments in the shapes of the Eidolons' constellations and then hang them up as hiiiiigh as we can on trees, and if it's a clear winter night, we all go out stargazing! Complete with a mug of hot cocoa, blankets, and cozy fires nearby, of course. Gifts are given, too.

Sleighs aren't a part of our tradition, though. What's going to be pulling it here? Dolphins?

Text; sender: dragoonoflight

[dragoonoflight]

It's definitely different from what I'm used to, I'm not familiar with the sleigh or presents, but we do have a winter religious holiday around this time of year.

Often there are feasts and parties and a small gift exchange, nothing too extravagant, as well as preparing a meal in honour of Greagor. The décor is of course, dragon-themed, and it's good luck if you can spot a wyvern.

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[ricebird]

[Oh no... Sorey is being adorable right now, Kotori actually has to keep herself from giggling too hard.]

Yeah, there are things like that in my world. Back home there's Christmas; it's a bigger deal in other countries, but in mine it's more of a casual thing to give presents, have small parties... and you know, go on dates, if you have someone special like that.

[Which, from her muttering that last bit and blushing, she clearly never has. ANYWAY.]

New Year's is more important in my culture. We get together with our families, even travel to them if we need to, eat special foods like mochi or toshikoshi soba or different kinds of osechi, visit the shrine at midnight for the bell-ringing if you're religious, and staying up to watch the first sunrise. Oh, and kids get money from their relatives, and we send postcards to friends and family too!

[Although Kotori's New Years have usually been quiet for most of her life. Her mother Megumi's parents both died when Kotori was still young, and after the divorce she doesn't see much of her father or his side of the family, although she still gets New Year's money.]

video; un: paradisea

[empyrean_mirror]

There's not much of a winter like this in Sumeru, but I've heard they have celebrations like that in some other countries. And during the Saberuz festival, people traditionally used to hand out candies and gifts to children, in honor of Lord Kusanali's birthday...

[Kaveh pauses, and smiles almost wistfully.] It's fallen out of tradition for a long time but, from what I'd heard, she'd like a celebration like this one with the Frostsinger very much, too.

text / un; Enterprise

[lucky_e]

Something like this. Just replace the Frostsinger with a figure called Santa Claus, who delivers presents to everyone. The decorations are also kind of different as well, along with a couple of other things.