[Voice]

[supercilious]

...What's Christmas?

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[heresygrenade]

It's a celebration of the birth of Christ the savior.

Haven't got a clue why everyone's banging on about fucking Santa Claus and presents. Behold my desperate despair for humanity.

[voice]

[supercilious]

Consider it beholden.

I've never heard of anything like it before.

[heresygrenade]

How did you manage that?

[supercilious]

My father does not particularly care for it all, though we have acknowledged the supposed birth of Christ once or twice before. Never so close to midwinter, and never as a celebration.

[a_royal_flush]

It's a special day where you spend time with your family and get presents, but it's more of a serious western holiday.

[voice]

[supercilious]

None of my family are here.

[voice]

[a_royal_flush]

Hmm I guess that none of our families are here, huh? [there's a slight sheepish laugh] then we'll just have to celebrate it all together! No one should spend Christmas alone!

[voice]

[supercilious]

Why is it different to spending any other time alone?

[voice | TL;DR INCOMING i'm so sorry]

[doctorate]

'S a largely western holiday, generally celebrated some time around the winter solstice by humans -- although somewhere in the 60th century, it becomes moderately popular in a few other systems as humanity branched out and colonized new planets. I think the eggnog really helped, there.

Anyway! It's a Christian holiday meant to commemorate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, though it's not exclusively Christian. By the 20th century on Earth, it becomes a primarily commercial affair, with one Father Christmas (or Saint Nicholas, or Kris Kringle, or Santa Claus, however one might know him) shimmying down your chimney and leaving behind that top-of-the-line bicycle you've been wanting all year. It persists in the same way for much of the rest of its existence

[voice]

[supercilious]

Good lord, you're a walking library, it's worse than Geoffrey of Mormouth when he gets going. So basically what I can draw for this is that I shouldn't bother about it, as none of this applies to me at all.

[voice]

[doctorate]

Yep, that's me: a walking, talking, devastatingly handsome encyclopedia.

But still, the message of peace on Earth and being kind and decent to your fellow man -- that's at least something to take away from this, yeah? Granted, that should be something that one ought to take into consideration on a daily basis, but it tends to be particularly stressed around Christmastime.

[voice]

[supercilious]

Well, definitely talking.

Indeed, I don't particular see why a desire for peace should be limited to one time of year. And as I'm always kind and decent to my fellow man, one might even say in perpetuity, I'm still not feeling as though it's relevant.

Voice;

[baroqueworked]

It is an annoyance.

Voice;

[supercilious]

Yes, I'm beginning to gather that much.

Voice;

[baroqueworked]

I would focus your attention on more prominent issues at the time instead of wasting it trying to figure out the workings of a mundane holiday tradition.

Voice;

[supercilious]

I enjoy how whenever I talk over these things someone accuses me of doing nothing but. Honestly, it's a passing question, and we're all damned lucky it's not some suspicious Druidic solstice ritual.

[the2nd_kira]

Really?

You don't know what it is?!

[supercilious]

Is it truly so surprising?

[the2nd_kira]

Maybe it shouldn't be since Arthur is from another world...

...but Misa is surprised.

[supercilious]

Well, it's the truth. It's all right, I don't really think I've been missing much.