3rd floor Common Room, Thursday evening

[heromaniac]

Since the island was apparently heading into massive Christmas mood and totally insistent that she wear the elf costume no matter how many times she'd changed during the day, Momoko decided to do some practice Christmas baking in the common room. Finding a recipe online for Christmas cookies wasn't hard to do, and the ingredients were all there,

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[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime was torn between blushing at his own embarrassing clothing and blushing (for a different reason) at Momoko's elf costume. He tried to cover that with an amused snort. "Yeah, I could have lost any ability to bake cookies."

Wait...

That was still possible, wasn't it?

[heromaniac]

"And here I was thinking more like you could be wearing a reindeer outfit! And your nose would blink like that one in the song?" Momoko grinned and reached for a clean mixing bowl.

[weldedtomyspine]

"That would be... worse. Yes." He started to reach out and poke Momoko, but then hesitated when he realized he'd be poking at her bare ribs. Skin...

Then he just looked awkward with his finger just pointing vaguely at her.

[heromaniac]

"See? Totally could be worse!" Momoko nodded with a cheerful grin as she set the bowl on the counter and tried to clear a little room. "I wonder if you'd be teal? Like the other deer here. That would be kind of cute! Not that a reindeer isn't cute, too. Ok! What's the first step on the recipe?" She turned to him and then raised an eyebrow. "Uhm, what are you pointing at?"

[onlysmokesnics]

"...do I smell cookies?" Hayley asked, following her nose into the common room. She was not dressed as an elf. She wore a white shirt with suspenders and and jeans.

[heromaniac]

"Hiiii Hayley!" Momoko bounced a bit to get noticed and waved. "We're trying! I burned a bunch and now I've got help!" She pointed at the blue elf who was hopefully somewhere in the room. "Looks like you totally escaped being a Christmas elf today. Congratulations!"

[onlysmokesnics]

"...I had to escape from it?" Hayley said, tilting her head. "I would've, if someone told me where they were getting them from!"

[heromaniac]

Momoko shrugged. "I have no idea! I woke up with mine on. And every time I changed to something else, I somehow ended up with this back on!" She waved a hand at her costume. "Totally weird! So how was your day, if you weren't an elf?"

[lordofthecats]

Yes, there had been an elf costume earlier in the day, but Lion-o had managed to ditch it in favor of his usual clothes. The bells on the shoes had driven him crazy.

He popped his head into the common room to see who was there. "Hey Momoko! You will not believe what happened to me at work this week," he shouted.

[heromaniac]

"Hey Lion-o! What happened?" Momoko turned happily at the sound of Lion-o's voice but pouted when she saw him. "Aw! You didn't get an elf costume either? I was totally wondering what you'd look like!"

[lordofthecats]

"I did get an elf costume, but I made Snarf wear it," said Lion-o with a smirk. "Anyway, Professor Deadpool came into the diner yesterday, and... and he sang to me. It was weird."

[heromaniac]

"You got yours to stay off? Mine kept coming back all day, so I just decided to go ahead and wear it. Was yours cute? I totally have to see it if Mr Snarf is wearing one." She grinned, evilly, then shook her head. "So, wait. Professor Deadpool sang to you? Why?"

[blondecanary]

Dinah followed her nose, accompanied by a ching-ching, ching-ching sound of all the bells on her elf costume and shoes. "Is there cooking? Can I help?" She grinned at Momoko. "Love the hat."

[heromaniac]

"Ahh Dinah! So cute! Lucky! I totally want bells, too, though!" Momoko laughed and gave her own hat's poofy-ball-thingie a tap. it made no noise. "See? No cute bells. You can totally help us! The more the merrier, which is totally perfect for Christmas cookies! Both the Merry and the More!"

[blondecanary]

"I'm just glad my shoes aren't too pointy. And you should see the hat the angel at the church was wearing today. It lit up and played 'Joy to the World'," Dinah said, bouncing over with another bell-chime. "I kind of love this side of Fandom, you know? Ooo, what should I do, spread the frosting?"

[heromaniac]

Ah! Momoko was totally envious of her bells, now.

"No way! A hat with lights and music? That sounds so cool!" She grinned. "Sure! Frost away! It is kind of fun when this stuff happens, but I just hope we don't get invaded by giant evil gingerbread men with licorice mustaches or something to make up for it."

[tasenburn]

That pissed off bundle of blonde huddled into a corner of a couch would be Elle Bishop in a friggin' elf outfit. What the hell? It couldn't even be a Slutty Elf outfit, because at least that would've been amusing and she could've used it to her benefit. No, this made her look like a mall reject.

Say hi at your own risk.

[onlysmokesnics]

Hayley rarely thought of the risks. But she did wander over to smile at her friend.

"It suits your eyes," she said, actually meaning it.

[tasenburn]

"If you were anybody else, I'd smack you for saying that," Elle grumbled, still managing to be grouchy even in the face of Hayley's overwhelming cheerfulness. "But I like you, so it's okay. I guess."

[onlysmokesnics]

"Awwww," Hayley said. "You got magicked into the outfit too, huh?" She gave her friend a sympathetic look. "I'm sorry."