catch-all: marcoh.

[purities]

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w1 monday

[boxcar]

[ Looking at the stuff in the Morning...

Picking up a box and flipping the nametag on it. ]

Looks like everybody has one. This is for you.

[purities]

[looking at the whole christmas set up in confusion. the random gift isn't making it any less confusing.

squints.]

More trash, I bet. What's all this for?

[boxcar]

It is a winter holiday. We have something similar.

Fiend Nicholas leaves behind presents for penitent children. Although, this too is a nicer version of older traditions.

[purities]

Fiend Nicholas? [FIEND??] A nicer version, but not too nice with a name like that. Sounds like a story to keep misbehaving children in line.

[boxcar]

[ Fiend. The casual ass things I have to deal with in this canon. ]

It is.

[ And isn't that normal? He looks at Mizu like what's wrong with that, is yours different? ]

[purities]

[mizu looks back at him like i am from the 17th century and that is so wild shang]

Hah. And here we are with gifts. What does that make us?

[boxcar]

[ Shang how is the work on (looks at smudged writing on hand) saving Japan and getting a whole lot of revenge? ]

...Good candidates? Maybe it is encouragement and reward.

[purities]

[huffs... in a way that is almost a laugh but not quite.]

Like training a dog.

[boxcar]

That is one way to say it, sure.

What are kids sometimes if not a little bit like dogs?

[purities]

And just as likely to make a mess like one. [... thinks of the local teen population.] If not more.

[boxcar]

They probably would not chew apart a present box meant for them, at least?

[purities]

Yes, you'd hope so.

[boxcar]

You don't have much faith in them huh.

[purities]

Haven't given me much reason to have faith in them.

[boxcar]

That's fair.

[purities]

Maybe you should share that Fiend Nicholas story with them.

[boxcar]

[ He snorts a bit, maybe. ]

Maybe I will. It will scare them straight.

[purities]

Or at least make them behave with the expectation of getting something out of it.