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The Winter Festival Meme

Brrr! It may be (literally) freezing outside, but that doesn't mean you have to stay cooped up indoors. In fact, with the beauty of the fallen snow, the many holiday celebrations, and the myriad activities one can only do in cold weather... many might consider winter to be the most fun and romantic time of the year!

1. illuminations
Who doesn't love a light show? Decorative strings of lights dazzle when they adorn houses, trees, or festive sculptures.

2. hot drinks
Wassail, cider, cocoa, mulled wine... 'tis the season to indulge in something warming from the inside out!

3. winter sports
Whether you're a snowboarder or a skiier, festival competitions are your time to shine! Or perhaps you prefer something more low-key, like sledding or ice skating on a frozen pond with a friend?

4. snow art
Do you wanna build a snowman? Your imagination (and the temperature sensitivity of your materials) is the limit when it comes to snow angels, ice sculptures, and snow sculptures!

5. snowball fight!
The age-old tradition of pummeling your friends with icy cold projectiles!

6. holiday market
Keep your fingers warm with a hot drink while you get your shop on!

7. Santa's village
Wait - those aren't real elves, are they?

8. new year
Put on your sequined best and wait for the ball to drop at this year's New Year's Eve bash!

9. hatsumode
Don't forget to wish for good luck at your first shrine visit of the new year.

10. wildcard
Anything goes!

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[OTA gen, anything more serious 20+ OTA. Castmates (especially JINUS and her girl), crosscanon, crossmedium, assumed CR, AUs, OCs etc all always welcome.]

[I'm very tempted to offer this lady to help Rumi deal with the whole Complicated Identity Feelings thing, tho I'm not sure how best to set it up... maybe Huntrix on tour after the Golden Honmoon, she encounters Zenko while hunting between shows, and then Hiroe meets her as her human self at a new years/hatsumode/something?]

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[Someone take him for hot drinks and maybe ice skating?]

[Aymeric is no stranger to people lurking at the edge of a gathering. The seed of concern that he feels on first glance doesn't take root; the lingerer's body language does't speak of ill-intent. If anything, they're the nervous one.]

[Well, that won't do. Not for this time of year, when warmth is meant to be spread - to be shared.]

[He orders two hot peppermint hot chocolate (with whipped cream, of course). Under a gentle, fluffy snowfall, he approaches the figure, shoulders relaxed and expression in a gentle smile. He stops a few steps away, not wanting to encroach too much.]

Begging your pardon, but might I offer you a drink? It will help you keep warm.

[Let me know if you want anything changed! And don't worry about being canon-blind lol. Do we want to assume this is a jamjar/characters-sucked-from-different-worlds situation?]

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neat! yea it can be a JJ

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for @quillstains

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Jesus, it's colder than a witch's tit.

[ Can't they like, postpone things like this due to the weather? If there was a snowstorm, they certainly would, so Freddie's not sure why a windchill of negative one degree, singular one, negative, is not enough for whoever's arranged for all of the stalls and tiny roped-in Christmas tree farms filling up Central Park tonight. He's wearing leather gloves to keep the skin on the backs of his hands from getting absolutely flayed by the wind, but even still, they throb in the pockets of his long wool peacoat with the ache of the cold.

He scans the paved path continually as the two of them walk astride; he stands just close enough as to allow the loose fabric of the upper arm of his coat to brush Matt's, hopefully a little orientation from a companion over less even ground than he usually navigates. Which— ]

Hey, hey, watch out, black ice.

[ He's not sure if the sweep of Matt's cane in front of them can pick up slipperiness—hopefully he's not being patronizing, but also, having slipped and busted his ass a couple of weeks ago, he does not wish the same upon a friend. One of the only friends he hangs out with, to be more specific. Whatever that says about the state of his social life. ]

Edited 2026-01-05 18:01 (UTC)