"This peanut butter bark is... really, really good," Braelyn muttered softly to the Kidden in her lap, who made the sweetest sound in response as it began bouncing around somewhat. Braelyn began to blink down at the creature, her head canting to the side somewhat. "Uh... what? You want some? Well... I guess a little tiny bit can't hurt, right?" she asked no one in particular as she broke off a small piece of the treat, offering it to the creature.
When her gaze lifted, she paused, her brows lifting. Just across the way was another booth, with toys similar to the plush she had already won--however much, much bigger. "Oh... I... want it," she breathed, tying up the back of bark to slip it in her bag, before picking the Kidden up once more, carrying it along as she headed towards the booth, and in turn, towards her next prize.
Hailey and Malachi hadn't stuck around to answer the question, though Hailey would have loved to agree to the army idea... Make enough to take over the school and rid them of homework! But those thoughts were long gone after they had come back to give their gifts. Hailey was thrilled when Nikora accepted the gift, beaming a big, toothy grin. "You're welcome!" she chimed, but it wasn't entirely modest sounding of her. She gave a look as the other two darted off this time, coming back with a bracelet for each of them! "Oh yay! Thank you, Niko!" Her eyes glowing bright with her excitement as she slipped the bracelet onto her wrist, opposite the one she always worn from Malachi. She admired it quite happily... until Charmstar mentioned something shiny. "SHINY?! .... Oooooooooo!" she said, staring at the wisp as if enchanted by it.
Malachi had blushed at being thanked for the gift. Before he could say anything in return, more than likely being 'you don't have to thank me for it', the other two had disappeared and reappeared like he and Hailey had! When the bracelet was offered to him in return, he blushed a bit more. He'd never been given a gift from anyone except for Hailey and his mom. Shy smile on his face, he happily accepted it, sliding it onto his wrist along with the bracelet Hailey had given him during the Haunted Hallows. "Th--thank you, Charmstar. This is my first non-mom and non-Hailey gift." and he gave a brighter smile, feeling really happy right then. Of course his attentions were drawn to a little Salamander that had began to crawl up his leg. He laughed after looking down to see it. "Ahahhaha... that tickles!"
Her bestie's laughing pulled her attentions to him once more, causing her to inch closer to see the critter attached to him now. "Hmmmm..." she muttered to herself, deciding to get herself a hot chocolate while debating being jealous or not.
Hailey's reaction made him wonder what she was thinking... and her getting hot chocolate also made him thirsty, but there was a plant he didn't have yet! Careful not to shake the little salamander loose, he leaned over and stretched out his arms, grabbing up the potted plant with a big smile. Holding it close he looked at everyone. "So what do we do now?"
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Hailey 12.11.15
12.01.15 12.02.15 12.03.15 12.04.15 12.05.15 Gave her trinket to Malachi 12.06.15 12.07.15 Giving her candycanes to Malachi 12.08.15 12.09.15 12.10.15 Trinket gifted to Nikora
Malachi 12.11.15
12.01.15 12.02.15 12.03.15 12.04.15 12.05.15 12.06.15 12.07.15 12.08.15 12.09.15 Giving his plushie to Hailey 12.10.15 Trinket gifted to Charmstar
Even though Dodger was on a mission to meet up with his girlfriend again, there were so many distracting things going on at the festival. It took all the poor guy's willpower not to stop at every candy stand and game booth. Though he did see this place with awesome, glowing bulb necklaces! Grinning excitedly, he rushed over to the person running the stand. "Oh oh oh! Dude, please, can I have that purple one?!" His full paws made it difficult for him to really do much, but when they grabbed up the necklace and held it out, he bent his head down and slipped it on through the hoop of string or whatever it was made of. "Thank you, dude! So much appreciation!" giving a grin and a wink, the Grimm went back to hunt down his lady in the bustling crowd.
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SpuddyZombie Giving this to Eileen when he meets up with her again
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12.01.15 12.02.15 12.03.15 12.04.15 12.05.15 12.06.15 12.07.15 Gifting his prizes to his girlfriend~ 12.08.15 12.09.15 Trinket going to Eileen in my post tomorrow 12.10.15
Bobbi had taken the chance to put xyr new familiars in the temporary daycare that some juniors and seniors had opened during the festivities. Though they were amusing company, Bobbi wanted to just have a little quiet, no biting fingers time. Though xe still wasn't certain what exactly xe was going to do now. But then, out of the corner of xyr eye, the Litch noticed a little stand with small green buds growing out of brightly colored pots. They all looked hand-painted. Did the students here paint them? Walking over, xe carefully scooped a color pot in xyr hands, inspecting it some. Hmmmm... Well, there was something said once that xe heard before about keeping plants alive and animals alive. Not that Bobbi could quite remember how it was said. That being thought, the Litch decided xe would take the plant home as well... and though xe really didn't care much to have another, a grey vespercat plush was offered up as well. Bowing xyr head, Bobbi accepted it and thought about the small army of grey cat plushies that was beginning to form.
Cimara sat down to enjoy some hot coco, he was a bit tired and just wanted a break for a little while. After walking about for a while now. Cimara didn't mind the imp joining him for hot coco, he didn't try to shoo her away.
Camrine smiled, glad she had not hurt the fey. "I'm glad I didn't hurt you or your plant" she said warmly. "Well if your lost, I can show you around, I've been at this school for a long time" she said cheerfully. Then Cam watched him carefully tuck his plant away in his stocking, thinking he was very gentle with the plant which was nice. "Oh sorry, me too.. I'm Camrine nice to meet you as well Fig" Cam then turned to a near by booth with balloons and darts, then she turned to Fig and asked "Do you want to try this game too??" she asked curiously..
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Glykeria just wandered about, decided not to claim a trinket today, she was having bad luck with games lately. She sighed and sat down next to Cimara. She smiled at him silently watching him drink his hot coco, then got up to get one for herself. Then quietly drank hot coco with the geist demon.
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Aeon nodded "Yes I've always been so focused on my music even since I was a freshling. I've hardly ever had the time to practice my fly." She rubbed the back of her head. "So I can't fly very far, when I do attempt to fly." Aeon laughed "I guess we are both clueless about familiars at this point then, maybe we can ask your brother before we try putting our familiars in the same room"
Coco giggled so happy to have found her friend. "Do you want to try and find your friend, before we go looking for a teacher??" Coco asked not minding if they went to find someone else first, as long as she was with Milo she knew she would be alright.
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Gwen stood in front of one of those knock down the bottle games, that were often so hard to win. Gwen stood there for a while doing math in her head, for how to best knock them all down, before she threw the ball. Then she smiled when she chose the purple vesper cat plushie, this was just for her not for research.
"A lot of Enoch students really like science! I want to be a Doctor when I grow up! So I was told it would be the perfect house for me!" While she did want to be a Doctor, she also enjoyed sports. Honestly she might have fit in with a house whee the students were a little more active and less bookish. But she didn't really mind, she was able to find friends outside of her House through her classes and things!
"Do you like being in Arkham?" As they talked someone slipped some little clip bell earrings into her stocking.
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Eilwen figured she probably had a good idea about how they were made, after all she was interesting in models and what it took to build various things. She flipped the little snowglobe around to look at the bottom, it looked like she could see where it was sealed to the glass along the side.
"I bet the fill the glass with the water and bit of fake-snow and then the little figure is attached to the base and cover the glass like a stopper? Maybe. We could look it up sometime!" In fact she probably would look it up at some point. It might be cute to make home made snowglobes! She could get little models to put inside of them!
Free books? Nilima knew that if her Mom was here now she would definitely encourage her to pick on up. Of course, she didn't need her mom to tell her to pick on up when the booth attendant was basically shoving one right in her face. She didn't even really have time to consider the different options. One was placed in her hands and then she shuffled off to see what else she could find in the festival. As she wandered around, an adorable little fennekit came running up to her. It was really cute, was it lost?
"Hey there you, you're so cute." Nilima pat the little fennekit on it's head and it seemed quite happy to follow her around.
Jezebeth was still having quite the good time with the little caroling group. The song were fun and cheery, and she enjoyed being able to sing along with them. She had to admit this was probably the biggest festival the school had had since she'd been awakened as a stone here. Ava had really gone all out with the Daydreams visiting. As she sang someone slipped some more candy canes into her little stocking.
It really seemed like everyone who was anyone had shown up for this festival. Ava had really outdone herself with the various games and prizes that were out and about. Although, it seemed like just about anything that could be won could also be found somewhere for free. Maybe the Headmistress had gotten a little too excited when she had been making plans. She must have planned for a lot of Daydreams to come for to Below for the celebration, but it seemed like the crowd was still mostly made up of Nightmare. She caught sight of the occasional Daydream though. They had been told a little bit about the Daydreams, enough that she could at least identify the races as they wandered around.
Iris was making his way around the festival, mostly minding his own business, But pausing here and there to admire the lights and other decorations. Everything was so pretty! He was almost sad that eventually the decorations would be taken down. At least he'd get to enjoy them while they were here!
He eventually came across a fun looking dart game. He picked up on of the darts and tossed them at the different colored balloons. He popped one on his first try! Earning him a giant stuffed kidden plushie. It was super cute and purple! He loved purple!
After the hot cocoa disaster Winterbloom decided to check out other parts of the festival. She was curious to see if Nightmares celebrated the Solstice differently from Daydreams. Well, to tell the truth they were radically different from how Dryads celebrated. The Solstice was a time of meditation for them and rest. This...was certainly not relaxing. It was fun though and she was the one that wanted to travel Below. So she was trying to celebrate in their fashion. Despite the fact she was hiding a good number of yawns.
Bo had never wished for true parents, but over the past year he couldn't help but wonder if life—and school in particular—might have been easier if he'd had some. Surely one of them would have been a nerd or something, always eager to show their son a fun way to do math or how to appreciate reading or some other brainy thing. Both sounded like utter crap to him in this reality. At least he could recognize that all of that might have helped.
As it was, the geist had problems paying attention and studying. He did far better at festive events like this, and as if proving that, Bo already had a stocking and a mug of tea in hand before he had even been there five minutes.
After months of self-imposed isolation that had sent the grimm into an uncharacteristic bout of depression, Ayuu's caretakers had finally convinced zem to try a little socializing. Ze craved a pack, but shyness and fear kept zem from doing more than hanging out online when ze wasn't in class.
So far this party was understandably terrifying.
Ayuu inched along at the edge of the crowd, zir stocking clasped in shaking claws. Someone handed zem a beautiful glowing trinket which served to placate zir rattling nerves, at least for a moment.
Shef had avoided Asphodel and its surrounding area since he had graduated, choosing to travel once he he was free of formal schooling to acquire greater knowledge on his own. Having recently accepted a teaching position at the Academy, the hybrid had reluctantly returned. It was time to take the next step in his life, even if it meant moving back closer to his overbearing parents. He was almost certain they hadn't yet heard of his return. When they did, he wouldn't be able to avoid the confrontation.
He took a deep breath. For now he wouldn't think of that. He would simply take his stocking and questionable novel and enjoy some time alone.
The tone of the day had become undeniably depressing now. There was nothing quite like talking about home and missing it to put a damper on an otherwise wonderful day...Maybe the sleepover Teo was proposing would mollify that. He could only hope. "You've gotta teach me that, Prometheus," he murmured. Then he brightened. "Actually, maybe both of you could teach us that? Since it sounds like you know how to cook, Ustule, even if you don't have the recipes. Maybe we could stage a hostile takeover of Teo's mom's kitchen." He grinned wickedly. Oh, this would be so much fun! He accepted a book from one of the attendants and tucked it under his arm. Dark alchemy, huh? Sounded like fun! He looked over to his friends.
Ustule sniffed and smiled at all three of them, even if Teo couldn't see it. "Thank you," she whispered. "Very mahch. I appreciate it." She put a hand on Teo's shoulder, and was surprised when he replied with a hug. She blinked, then slowly, carefully, as if unsure of herself, patted him on the back. "I do not know how much longer I could go on weethout friends like all of you--" She froze as something slid onto her head. She reached up, slowly, carefully, arm frozen with dread.
Antlers.
Red, white, crunching--
No.
She pulled them off of her head and stuffed them into her stocking. Her whole body was shaking. No, no, no, no, no... "I heve...to go...please, Teo...let us know eef we can visit...?"
Without further ado, she turned and ran.
Teo was glad that Ustule accepted his hug. He had been afraid that she might not. "I think taking over the kitchen would be fun. We could try out some of Prometheus's family recipes. They're probably the perfect thing for the Solstice." Teo accepted a bundle of candy canes and what felt like a large, fluffy tear drop with a face. Okay? What was it? And more importantly, why was Ustule upset? "O-okay. Um, don't forget to ask your caretak--Oh, okay."
He listened to her run off, then turned to Perigor. "What just happened?"
Perigor shrugged. "Someone handed her reindeer antlers. I think she doesn't like reindeer..."
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Well, frigging finally, they managed to win that dumb plush. He shook his head at the way the bird clung onto the plush with all of its might. "Well, at least we won the plush." Bath would have clapped her on the back, but...no. He would not have appreciated such a violation of his personal space. He had no reason to assume that she would. The game mistress handed him a snowglobe, which he glanced at quickly. Then he looked at it more closely. The...the Academy. Huh. His new home... Hurriedly he hid it in his stocking. He...well...he liked it...he loved his new home, but...
"Alright, Mytrax. Good luck with that thing. Hey, maybe I'll see you again later, huh? Happy Solstice." He waved her good-bye and continued on.
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I am SO sorry about how late I've been--this weekend wasn't good for me, either!
Quilo looked over at the sock that Ella was making and smiled. Pink! He just hoped that Ganymede didn't try to steal it. He was...um, complicated. Like a folded, layered cake. Or possibly an onion. And one of those layers was pure nas--um, was a bit of underlying aggression. Thank goodness he didn't live in the same dorm as Ella anymore! Quilo busied himself grabbing a yellow and white argyle sock and attaching googly eyes to it. He smiled. Yes, this was good! He added a shock of blue hair to the top, turning it to and fro. "What do you think, Ella?"
Quilo was startled when someone handed him a stuffed animal. Oh, okay? Um, not what he expected? He smiled and pulled the pretty bracelet off of the arm of the animal. He did like the color blue...not as much as yellow, but he definitely liked it.
Awww, Oriset liked loud. Well, to some extent. She liked structured loudness. Loudness with a purpose. This was, admittedly, more like a cacophony. Okay, so the Nightmares knew how to party--that was comforting. Ori didn't think she'd much like it if this place turned out to be like her parents' place. She'd much rather it be like her grandparents' or her aunt's. "Nothing wrong with celebration, I guess," Ori said. She plucked a mug of hot cocoa from a passing vendor and took a sip. "Oh, my name's Oriset." She stuck out one clawed hand. "Maybe you could show me around, ... ?" This girl looked nice. Probably shy, but hey, that didn't mean she couldn't be fun to hang around...? Ori needed friends, and this looked like a good place to start.
Huh. Okay, so Foras had given up very quickly. Maybe a little suspiciously, but...there was no point in looking a gift horse in the mouth, right? "I hope you and Alioth have fun," he told Foras. "It was nice meeting both of you. Happy Solstice." With that, his arm looped once again around Ganymede's, he followed the Geist's lead. Especially when yet another plush came their way. He snatched it out of the air and tucked it under his arm. "I agree. Let's go there. I think the far side of the book booth is in the lee of the cannon. There will be...objects in our way if someone should try to fire at us." Well, people, mostly, but that was a Ganymede thing to say, Chries felt. He didn't want to be like that.
He accepted a bundle of pink candy canes from a passerby and guided Gany over to the book stall. He looked over the books, mentally shrugging--they didn't like like his taste. Eh.
Xeno was disappointed that there weren't any easy rules. It figured--he had to figure things out for himself. Darnit, weren't teachers supposed to teach them stuff?! "I guess I'll have to learn myself, then..."
Then again, he wasn't interacting with Corben right now as a teacher, was he? He was interacting with him as a...well, a prospective future stepfather. Or would it be proper father? Did stepfathers count as stepfathers if the original father was an adopted father? Or did adoption nullify all steps? Ugh. This was way too complicated. At least naming his Kidden would be easy. He had a theme with naming things--he named them after figures from the big book of mythology the landlady owned. He'd read it several times now. "I think...for a name...Persephone. Yes, Persephone." Xeno reached down and scratched the kidden's ears. It bleated and nuzzled his hand. Now was not the time to point out to Xeno that this was not a nanny goat.
So Corben had met Leif in the same way? Xeno tilted his head. "When did Leif start trusting you?" That sounded like an interesting story. And one that could answer some questions. Xeno picked up a bag of peppermint bark and opened it up to munch on it.
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Oo, hot cocoa? That was just too tempting to resist! Wyrdda followed the younger Grimm to the source of the marvelous scent. Taking a mug of the refreshing brew and letting its warmth sink into her fingers, she smiled at Kanda. Ah, that was the stuff! She set the mug down on a bench so that she could sign, 'Oh, my goodness! That is an adorable fox! I'll have to get one of my own!' She added an eyebrow waggle. 'I'm glad to hear that your father is learning sign. Are you teaching him? Or are you learning together?' Wyrdda glanced down briefly. Yes, the Fennekit was still following her. Good. She didn't want to lose it already!
Someone handed Wyrdda a plushie. She blinked at it, then offered it to Kanda. 'Would you like it?' she signed as best she could with one hand.
Was it just zem, or had a sudden rush of new orange trinkets arrived since zey'd been there last. Well...that just meant that zey would have to stay here longer, didn't it? It wasn't enough that there was more jewelry and such on display, either--there were more candies, it seemed. Zalir smiled. Oh, this was going to be good.
Something hit zem in the side of the head. Zalir squeaked and looked around. A stuffed seal? What had just happened? Zey sighed and stuffed it in zeir bag. Zey would just have to figure it out later...in the meantime, while zey were looking at the ground, zey had noticed a glowing orange necklace. Zey snatched it up and inspected it. It wasn't too badly dirty. Just a little rub on zeir jeans, and it was as good as new. Zey hung it around zeir neck and continued on.
A purple cat! Perfect! It wonderfully matched his stocking. But he was more than a little surprised when another plushie came whizzing through the air at their shoulder. Ved yelped and threw himself to the ground. A junior nearby blinked in confusion at him, reached down to grab the plushie, and handed it to him. "Would you like some help up?"
"Yes, please!" Vederat gasped. He gratefully took their hand in his as they hauled him up. "What was that?" he asked.
The junior shrugged. "No idea. It's been happening all over the place this afternoon, though." They handed him a glowing purple necklace and ruffled his hair. "Happy solstice, kiddo."
"Happy Solstice to you, too! Thank you!" Two plushies? Could this day get any better?
Okay, so now things were going more smoothly. Kuni had stopped by his new dorm to drop off his plants, then returned to the fray that was the festival. Unfortunately, it seemed that "fray" was the correct way to describe it. No sooner had he stepped foot back on the festival grounds than something soft hit him--hard--on the side of he head. Ears ringing and leaves complaining about being folded, Kuni turned in the direction of the flying object. "Who srew zat?! Who did zat?! Own up! You could hurt someone doing zat, vhy vould you do zat, in ze name of ze Oak Lady!! You should be ashamed of yourself, you should jump in a river und drown yourself! I could have been hurt!"
People nearby giggled at him. He glared. When they showed no reaction but to laugh harder, he reached down to grab the object. Fuming, he glared at it. A stuffed goat--of the type called a "kidden." Cute, hashtag sarcasm. He jammed it in his bag and continued along his way. Someone tapped him on the shoulder. "Vhat do you vant?!"
They flinched. "Um...would you like some peppermint bark...?" They held up a bag of candy like a shield.
Kuni blinked. "Um...sure...sank you." He took it. "Um...happy solstice. Or vhatever." Without waiting for their reply, he continued on. He was going to figure out who was throwing those if it was the last thing he--!!
Odessa giggled and wrapped her boa around her before gently poking Kara's tiger plush. "It's cute!" She exclaimed and point off toward another plushie booth. "Maybe we can find some more? With all these events we're sure to have a room full." She hardly waited for Kara's reply before lifting her feet to move toward the booth at near full speed.
"Oh look! Candy canes!" Kiessi lifted a hand to point, tugging on their mother's shirt with the other before scrambling toward the candies. Picking a bundle up to show Tambre, "Do you think we could hang them on the tree?"
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Gave her trinket to Malachi
Trinket gifted to Nikora
Giving his plushie to Hailey
Trinket gifted to Charmstar
Cimara sat down to enjoy some hot coco, he was a bit tired and just wanted a break for a little while. After walking about for a while now. Cimara didn't mind the imp joining him for hot coco, he didn't try to shoo her away.
Camrine smiled, glad she had not hurt the fey. "I'm glad I didn't hurt you or your plant" she said warmly. "Well if your lost, I can show you around, I've been at this school for a long time" she said cheerfully. Then Cam watched him carefully tuck his plant away in his stocking, thinking he was very gentle with the plant which was nice. "Oh sorry, me too.. I'm Camrine nice to meet you as well Fig" Cam then turned to a near by booth with balloons and darts, then she turned to Fig and asked "Do you want to try this game too??" she asked curiously..
Glykeria just wandered about, decided not to claim a trinket today, she was having bad luck with games lately. She sighed and sat down next to Cimara. She smiled at him silently watching him drink his hot coco, then got up to get one for herself. Then quietly drank hot coco with the geist demon.
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Coco giggled so happy to have found her friend. "Do you want to try and find your friend, before we go looking for a teacher??" Coco asked not minding if they went to find someone else first, as long as she was with Milo she knew she would be alright. 
Gwen stood in front of one of those knock down the bottle games, that were often so hard to win. Gwen stood there for a while doing math in her head, for how to best knock them all down, before she threw the ball. Then she smiled when she chose the purple vesper cat plushie, this was just for her not for research. 
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