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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Prezzies from Chloe

[hellablue]

ford - a nice, cozy woven turtleneck and a gift basket full of Fight Club samples with stylized baggies for each variant of persim as well as a nice sized jar of gloom juice + a christmas card with a picture of her and munchies

steven - this stupidly oversized mug. also a full set of office supplies, including a day planner, a calendar and a pen enscribed with "bossdude". The day planner is a deep purple, almost black color. Each page on the calendar is hand drawn and each month features a colored drawing of a different ghost pokemon. The style of each is almost cartoony, with a flare for making them look more macabre, her coloring styles favoring a neon, almost watercolor quality to them to give them a pop. There is no note, she kept trying to write one but they all sounded too schmoopy and she chickened out.

jolyne - a gift card to the nearest Pokemon equiv of Hot-Topic, with a fancy stylized Christmas card that opens up to reveal an intricate sketch of a middle finger and a quick "merry chrysler". Because she wanted to do something nice, but also get back at you for insulting her favorite store that one time.

kirishima - he is getting a big box and the first item he notices will be a fake butcher knife, which looks suspiciously like an old halloween prop. Also inside the box is enough red hair dye to last at least five or six future touch ups... and maybe a blue one slipped in there, too, just in case you decide to be cool and mix it up one day.

[machismost]

Wow... Kirishima is so curious about the knife. Most people would be afraid, probably, or at least threatened by its message, but most people are not someone who has been a literal shield-based superhero in their lives. Kirishima has to poke at the tip and run the same finger along the edge to test how hard he is or how dull this edge is. The message is still a bit of a mystery even when he finds the answer to the tactile inquiry...

It's a belated thing, because Kirishima didn't expect a gift from Chloe and frankly he needed to put in a few more hours at his job as to not get murdered by his 'accountant' of a friend. Before the new year rolls in, though, there's a Pidgey with a package for her.

Inside, there's a Munchlax-themed beanie where it looks like the Munchlax is nomming the top of one's head, complete with delightfullly pronounced, woven ears and hanging 'fangs'. There's also a very chonky Everstone. Knife/scissors meets rock???

[hellablue]

Oh I completely forgot to even add context to that hahah. It's Chloe's way of a throwback to when they first met and it looked like a murder scene in the bathroom! She felt it would compliment the hair dye pretty nicely.

And she totally digs her present! She's always in the market for cool beanies and stones!

[machismost]

I figured! Kirishima's a lil slower on the uptake, but he'll puzzle it out eventually. It was very clever - too clever for him to appreciate at first flush, though he did get an immediate kick out of the hair dye. Of course he really is thankful for that and it's going to be put to good use. We'll see about that blue...