It's the season of GIFTS GIFTS GIFTS

[indigo_league]

With Christmas scooting ever closer, it's time to start thinking about the real reason for the season and that is gifts. Yes, yes, joy to all, peace on earth etc etc, but deep down what we all want to do is tear some wrapping paper off boxes and be dazzled by the contents.

In order to keep things a bit organised, we'll be putting this up as a central gift-giving post, and it will feature three things.

★★ Arceus' gift As many of you long term players might already know, Arceus tends to drop a few gifts on the people he has brought here on Christmas day. And this year is no different! These gifts will be revealed on December the 25th, so please check back then to see what your character will be receiving. And yes, these gifts will go out to all. Arceus doesn't judge. Maybe he should, but he doesn't. ★★ Secret Santa Though these gifts won't officially be delivered until the 25th, this post will also feature a thread where you can post up the gifts your character has gotten their Secret Santa recipient. Feel free to start posting these up as soon as this post goes up (we are not going to make you wait) ★★ Your gifts And finally, your gifts! If your character is the kind to get their friends a bunch of things, feel free to use this post to distribute the offerings. Much easier than hitting up a bunch of inboxes! If you would rather distribute your characters' gifts individually in various inboxes, feel free to do so! This post is merely an option for people who'd like to keep things in one central location.

Now with that all out of the way, let us take a moment to wish you all a very Merry Christmas (or, at the very least, a nicely adequate Thursday if you don't celebrate). 2020 has been Quite the year, and I don't think any of us could've predicted it turning out this way. (Turns out none of us had 20-20 vision). But we've made it through and while the times are still somewhat uncertain and unforeseen, we nevertheless hope it will all be looking up from here on out for all of us.

We want to thank you all for being such lovely players and for having contributed to the game as you did! Thank you for ruining baseball, for coming to Sinnoh with us, for Prom being Prom yet again, for submitting so many badge requests and for slipping in every app that you did.

And onwards to 2021, another year for pokemon shenanigans and nonsense!

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[machismost]

Bakugou receives a pair of electric heated gloves, black with orange palms. He explains they're waterproof and have about eight hours of battery life before they need to be recharged. Also there's a simple, but cozy black scarf. The flame-decal sash he presents might raise a brow until Kirishima explains the nature of the Focus Band.

For Claudia, Kirishima has made a fair attempt at doing calligraphy of Claudia's name in kanji, which means there's about half a painting pad in a trash can in a hotel somewhere and ink fingerprints everywhere. Indeed, there are some inky fingerprints at the bottom corner of the finished page. The result is... passable to a native speaker and perhaps impressive for someone who has no idea what they're looking at. Kirishima's pretty proud of it. He also awkwardly explains he was told the Destiny Knot was good for breeders at the Holiday Market, but after learning Team Rocket was part of it, he's not so sure if it was a scam.

Jaskier is responsible for practically the other half of that poor painting pad as Kirishima has attempted to Rosetta Stone the same phrase in hirigana, katakana, and kanji. Literally it translates to: "Perseverance is also strength." And of course, should they be in Goldenrod during the Rocket incident or before winter ends, there's a free drink waiting for him and Geralt at the dive bar Kirishima works at ( served by an of-age bartender, of course, paid for by him ).

And while Kirishima would certainly like to send more gifts out to the people he's met and become friendly with, his budget is spent and it's been made more than clear he's not the best at baking. He will, however, be sending out well-wishes to their inboxes.

[rollstoseduce]

Art and ale, what else he could ask for? He loves it! ♥