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[seasaltkey]

[Roxas pops up on the network, a green and yellow scarf around his neck with his Dedenne peeking out of his coat. Neither will complain about the cold. This is a first for both of them. The backdrop is clearly Ecruteak.]

So when's it supposed to start snowing again? Does anyone know?

[Vivi squeaks the same question. He wants to play in more snow!]

Oh yeah... do they have a Pokémon Santa here? It's Christmas this month, and I've never seen a Santa before other than the weird ones that are ringing bells. And if it's a person instead, isn't Santa supposed to ride around on a sled pulled by reindeer? Stantler are like reindeer, so I guess he'd have those here... how does he deliver all those presents in one night? Is there more than one Santa?

[These are pressing questions, people. Please enlighten the blond and his tiny squeak.]

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[doitrockapella]

Why, yes, Virginia — of course there's a Santa Claus.

And someone usually hands out miraculous gifts around this time of year, so frankly attributing it to him is as good a guess as any other.

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[seasaltkey]

Virginia?

Why are they miraculous?

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[doitrockapella]

In 1897, a girl named Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, asking whether or not there was such a thing as Santa Claus. That was the editor's reply, among other things.

Have you ever seen an oddly-colored Pokemon? One that's differently-patterned than the typical ones of its species.

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[monge]

[OH HEY, something he actually knows the answer to.


...Sort of.]

Santa can deliver his presents in one night because he gets helpers to hand out presents for him in different towns, zura. I know because I was picked last year to help, zura~

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[seasaltkey]

You got to help Santa? Is he really a fat guy in a red suit and a big white beard?

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[monge]

...I don't know, I didn't actually get to meet him, zura.

[He was kinda on the other side of the world delivering presents.]

But he looked just like that in the pictures of the book we got, zura! We even had to wear the suit and beards ourselves to make it authentic, zura.

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[ratherbelocky]

We got one Santa here in Goldenrod, you know.

[You know, the one entertaining kids at the Department Store. Totally Santa.]

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[seasaltkey]

I saw that one! But he was huge... and kind of intimidating. All of the other ones are shorter guys who look like they use pillows to look fat.

[North as Santa.......... why.]

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[ratherbelocky]

Aw, come on, man, he's the nicest guy I know. Like a big, cuddly Christmas teddy bear.

[--who could slice a guy in half with a repeating laser rifle, but details.]

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[adai]

[????????

As someone who has literally never heard of Christmas before, Rossiu is incredibly lost. You'd think he'd go research what's going on or something, but apparently not.]

...Why would you want Stantlers to pull a sled? Wouldn't Gogoats be more useful?

[SORRY, ROXAS]

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[seasaltkey]

Because they look like reindeer? Gogoats don't. And I don't think Gogoats know how to fly like reindeer...

[ROXAS, NO. Normal reindeer don't fly.]

[adai]

...I don't think Stantlers are Flying-types... How would they be able to fly? They don't have wings.

[someone needs to introduce this kid to a golurk]

[a_sin_for_him]

This world has magical sentient creatures that live in harmony with humans and is overseen by Godlike versions of said creatures. I'd imagine they have a far different legend tradition when it comes to staving off the sorrow and darkness of winter.

In my world, they used to burn non-deciduous foliage and rub themselves with oil from a poisonous plant. That's before religion and holidays were abandoned, of course. Something about the man who pulls the sun in his sled, and how he won't fly the sun across the sky otherwise...

[seasaltkey]

[That's... rather bleak. Was Christmas a holiday because of sorrow and darkness?

And why? What's a 'religion'?]

That's... weird. Why would they believe something like that? I thought the sun rose on it's own everyday.

[a_sin_for_him]

You can say that easily, with your knowledge and understanding of natural laws.

Imagine being a primitive human, one who barely understands his own existence, let alone why a moving fire in the sky makes day or sometimes the sky gets angry and shouts and weeps. Ancient peoples had to explain these things somehow, without science or the capacity to understand intricate, unseen connections between phenomena. So it all became magic and gods and things to be appeased or entreated to with celebration and ceremony.

In winter, the darkness can last for longer than the light. Nothing grows. It's difficult to travel. Imagine not understanding why, and only knowing that for some reason, the day waits longer and longer to come, and you grow colder and more frightened. I imagine it must have been comforting, to think it was some godly man in charge of it, and that as long as you burned things and sang, he'd bring back the normal day.

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[faintwaves]

There is definitely a Pokemon Santa. PokeSanta is how I got Comet for Christmas last year!

[Meaning her shiny Staryu, who concurs this with a "hyah!"]

Maybe it's magic?

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[seasaltkey]

[IT'S A SHINY.]

What do you think will happen this year?

[He nods. That's his guess.]

It's gotta be.

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[in4apounding]

...What's a Santa?

[Hi, my name is Penny and I'm from a world with an as-yet-undefined holiday tradition.]

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[seasaltkey]

[Roxas still asks himself that sometimes, and he knows who Santa is, just not what.]

Santa is a big guy in red clothes and a white beard who brings presents to people on Christmas. The guys in the stores with the bells are supposed to look like him, but I don't think Sana actually rings bells. Wouldn't that let everyone know he was coming?

[baremyfangs]

Whenever it bloody feels like it. (Someone is in a bad mood, sorry Roxas.) Who's Santa?

[seasaltkey]

[Whoa.] R-Right...

[He'll explain it without trying to make Fang angrier?]

Santa is a magical guy who brings presents to nice people who haven't done any naughty things all year. The naughty ones get coal. Or that's what a book said. He's the reason we have Christmas.

[No, it's not. But that's beside the point.]

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[ladywithnovoice]

I've never really heard of Santa before. I feel like I'm learning a lot more about holidays this year than the last.

Maybe by January, we'll have some decent snow.

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[seasaltkey]

Really? There's a Santa where I'm from. [If Sora's memories are correct.] But I've only seen the ones in the stores around Goldenrod and Ecruteak. They're not real ones. Just dressed like him.

Do you like snow?

[islandshore]

Actually, there were flying Sawsbuck last year. Not exactly Stantler, but close enough, right?

[He fidgets with a Pokéball, tossing it up and down.]

Downside's that we couldn't keep them.

[seasaltkey]

[That sounds so cool... this kid is in awe.]

Do you think there'll be some this year?

[Stop trying to look cool, Riku.]

If they belonged to Santa, I can see why.