[Video/Open Commentlog] - present distribution

[mister_10_below]

[Bobby's grinning at his journal, wearing a Christmas sweater and looking pretty pleased about it.]

Giant octopus Santa was definitely not something I was ever expecting, but I'll take it if it comes with daylight. Thanks for the sweater, Octosanta?

Is everyone okay?

[And he does mean everyone, though he's also just gone general because the

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[spellsdeadwrong]

[permavideo! \o/]

Is that who that was?

[In spite of himself, Asuka looks amused.]

What's an ok-to-san-ta?

[mister_10_below]

[permavideo as well!]

[Bobby grins back.]

That's who I think it was supposed to be, anyway.

[Then he laughs slightly.]

Oh, that was just me being kind of a dork. Octopus plus Santa equals Octosanta!

[spellsdeadwrong]

[Oh Bobby. It's like you've forgotten how much you have to explain to your bro!]

Right, I guessed that part.

[After all, he'd said octopus and Santa earlier! However...]

But what's an ok-to-pusss? Or a san-ta?

[mister_10_below]

[...yeah he kind of did. Oops.]

Oh, right! No water probably means no octopi. Um. An octopus is this creature that lives in the ocean. It has eight legs. Well, actually they're not so much legs as they are tentacles, and it uses them to like, swim around and grab dinner and stuff.

[That's a super scientific explanation right there.]

Santa is a fictional character in my world. Once a year during winter, on a night called Christmas Eve, he brings presents to all of the children who have been good during the year.

[spellsdeadwrong]

[That’s okay. Asuka finds it more amusing than anything else! He likes that Bobby’s not talking down to him like a lot of people try to.

His explanation of an octopus sounds -weird-. But so does everything else, these days! He’s more interested in this Santa figure.]

What about the kids that’ve been bad? They have to sit and listen to all the “good” kids bragging?

And why’d he choose that night? Or did they name it after he started doing it?

...what’s winter?

[mister_10_below]

[Bobby's more than happy to keep on talking about Santa rather than octopi. That's pretty much the extent of his knowledge on them, except that they can like, camouflage and are supposed to be really smart and stuff.]

Pretty much! There's also a story that they get coal instead of presents.

Supposedly he chose that night because it was one of the holiest nights, since that's the night when a really important religious figure was born. So that's why usually only people who follow that religion celebrate Christmas, but it's really popular in my world.

[And then there's the whole 'Jesus was really born in spring and way been when that date was just chosen because it corresponded with a pagan holiday, but Bobby doesn't want to get into that.]

Winter is a season in my world! That's when it gets really cold, and sometimes snow falls.

[spellsdeadwrong]

So this Santa figure is supposed to be religious?

[Oh, you've gotten Asuka's attention now. Religion is so important to him you have no idea. And he finds this Interesting, with a capital I!]

You know the days your gods were born? [That's a new notion to him. He's never considered when the Maiden first came into being!] They didn't just... always exist?

[And you know what? He's going to actually pull a face at Bobby's explanation of what winter is. More cold and more of that weird snow stuff? No thank -you-! He'll stick with Desuya's seasons, okay.]

...I don't think I'd like winter very much.

[mister_10_below]

Yup. Originally he was, anyway, but now he's just sort of a 'Christmas' figure. A lot of people like him, even ones that aren't particularly religious. There's still Christmas mass and stuff, though, so it's pretty big for religion.

[He considers that question for a moment.]

Well, he wasn't a god, exactly. He was the son of a god. So a really long time ago, he was born, lived for awhile as a carpenter while spreading the word of his father, and then eventually sacrificed himself to save people from sin. So I guess he's kind of a god now.

[Bobby laughs at his face.]

But it's fun! There's ice skating and sledding, and the snowmen don't actually throw snowballs at you unless I'm behind it.

[spellsdeadwrong]

["Even the ones that aren't particularly religious" why would you not be religious what sort of tomfoolery is that.

Asuka's not touching that one. This isn't Desuya, after all.]

So he lived alongside everybody else? ...that's weird.

[Instead of the usual disdain, his dismissal sounds more doubtful than anything else. It -is- weird, though, it's -weird- to imagine the Maiden or her brother Death living alongside all the people of Desuya. Building stuff. It's -odd-.

Asuka lifts an eyebrow at Bobby's words, grinning.]

Is that a confession I hear?

[mister_10_below]

[Bobby doesn't think it's weird at all! Possibly because he's one of those not very religious ones. But he's absently religious, does that count?]

Yeah, I guess it kind of is. But it was a really long time ago. Like, thousands of years. So maybe things were different back then. But a lot of the religions have that, stories of the gods walking among mortals for a brief time.

[And then he grins at Asuka's question.]

I'm not confirming or denying anything.