Tree Lighting Ceremony

Jacob had shown no small amount of gratitude toward Yumi when she agreed to let Chiru stay on the island after Yumi's departure back to Japan. Realistically, Chiru could have made the decision herself as she was of age, but Yumi often preferred to have a tight handle on things as per her usual nature. Now Jacob and Chiru has a few more days to spend together before they had to separate again, a thought that killed Jacob inside. At least he would spending the next few days with his daughter during the holiday season. He would make the most of the time because he was unsure of how long it would be before he could see her in person again.

"This place is still so amazing, dad. Snow? Isn't this place supposed to be a tropical island?"

"I'd chalk this up to weather magic or something, angel. Something to make the event more festive."

Father and daughter walked among the crowd gathered in the park, enjoying the sights and smells of the holiday season. They were dressed warmly, with Jacob more so than Chiru. Jacob had grown used to the tropical weather of Manta Carlos, so the lower temperatures affected him more and he was decked out in hat and gloves. Chiru was okay enough to allow fashion to take over, and she had a wonderful jacket/scarf combo that Jacob envied.

He bought them each a cup of cocoa to sip as they admired the lighting of the tree together. Part of him hoped that it was would make up for the many other Christmases he had missed in person with Chiru.

"I wonder where they had to fly this thing in from. I'm certain pine trees don't grow here."

"Probably a magic tree. You think it talks or something?"

Brash Lambarg

Artesia didnt like all these ridiculous christmas decorations and silly nonsense. It was dumb. WHY WHERE PEOPLE PUTTING TREES IN THEIR HOUSES! THATS WHERE BIRDS AND SQUIRRELS AND OTHER SMALL ANIMALS LIVE!!! They would pay when Karma struck back and the Squirrels rose up and took over the island, Artesia was ready for that, she was a huntress and had many Squirrel arrows, no one else was ready

BAHK HAMBOOG!

Artesia had prepared her christmas ornament, she decided to participate in the event so that she could look cooler, and then maybe Yoka Sake would want to marry her. Artesias ornament was a skull in a glass ball, it was defiantly a real skull, and not one that she bought from hot topic.



BAA HAGBURGER!!!

She gave a mean "snarky" expression as she hung it up, it was the best ornament because it was a cool skeleton, its name was Jeffry, did any of the other ornaments have names? Probably not.

BAAAAAAA BAAAAAAAAA BLACKSHEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!

Artesia stepped over to the drink table and made herself some of the tea that they had prepared specifically for elves because they where the master dominant race of the world, at least thats what her mom told her, but it didnt taste like tea at all! It tasted like chocolate! This was dumb!

BAA HUMBOOGER!

Queen watched in awe as the giant tree was lit up. Her adoptive mother had Christmas back at home with her own tree, but it was never one this big. Her golden eyes watched as a few people began putting ornaments on the tree, then she looked down to the bauble in the grasp of her talons. She had brought it from home.

She approached the tree in mid-flight, gazing for a place to put her ornament. Swiftly, she decided to fly a bit towards a higher portion of the tree since she could fly, and left the lower portion untouched for those who couldn't fly. She found a branch she liked and placed her tacky-coloured bauble upon it, promtply flying backwards to get a good look at it afterwards.


After satisfied with the placement of her bauble, she then flew to one of the tables with drinks set upon them and rested upon its edge. She stared at the various drinks, trying to decide whether or not it would be safe for her to drink one, as an owl.

@Thoth

The snow had started to fall a few months after his arrival. Of course Ulrich knew of snow; there had been countless times that he'd watch it fall from just underneath the surface, far out at sea. And then there was marine snow, an arguably more useful but more disgusting version of regular snow deep underneath the water. Dead things fell from the surface and fed what small things lived in the abysses.

But watching it on the surface was a bit different. He'd never in his life come up onto land during the wintertime; his rare visits were always during the summer. But now he was being dragged through throngs of humans on a mission to see a deity or something.

Well, not a deity. A tree. A tree that these humans seemed to worship every year during their wintertime, alongside a fat man in a red suit.

Humans were fucking weird.

Ulrich stared at the brightly lit tree, cocking his head slightly to one side as Nicolas explained briefly. "Christmas? So what is this all about? I take it that it's an important tradition to you humans."

@Thoth

Ulrich didn't take his eyes off the tree the entire time Nicolas was explaining it to him. Instead, his eyes traveled from one point to another, taking in all the decorations and lights. It looked like some sort of bioluminescent creature, and he would've almost mistaken it as such if they were underwater.

"Hm..." A vague sound of acknowledgement before he finally took his eyes off the tree, scanning the people that had come to gather and hang their ornaments up instead. "We used to have holidays. None quite like this, but it doesn't matter much anymore." Perpetual war had a tendency to do that.

He did remember certain 'holidays' from when he was just a hatchling, though. Or rather, he remembered holidays from when his ancestors were just hatchlings. He was born three generations into the war, but his species had a certain degree of genetic memory that passed down.

Ah, fond memories.

"Do you celebrate this?"