Wednesday Afternoon Assembly, Wednesday, December 9, 2020

[sith_happened]

Today the students were meeting Anakin in front of Portalocity. "I am your special guest speaker today," he said, "and so I am going to provide an introduction to this festive winter season. The best way I can think of is to, frankly, not be on this island. We need to go to the heart of the action."

He looked decidedly unthrilled. "We're going to a mall."

In 1993.

"In a slightly different timeline," he added. "We will first help out packing up baskets for the holidays for people who are food insecure--" Anakin remembered too well what that felt like, "--and then we will be going to a mall to shop for gifts--credits will be provided--for moddable children at the shelter. And you can stand in line and meet Santa."

That red-coated weirdo.

"I am here to answer any questions."

Yes, ask the guy from another galaxy about this holiday. It'll go well!

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Arrive and Mingle

[sith_happened]

Outside the Portalocity office. How novel!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

Buying gifts for children with someone else's money was definitely an activity Wei Wuxian could get behind, but he was still a little unclear on the local traditions. "Who's Santa?"

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[bookbeltof_love]

"He's a big, fat man in red and white who spends all year watching us to judge if we're good or bad," Nina explained. "And then, like, if you've been good on December 25th, you'll have presents from him!!!!!!!!!!"

She considered that.

"He's like a really weird twist on the radio squirrels?????? Only instead of drunk notes all year it's presents once a year!!!!!!!!"

See, the thing was, Nina had read all the books about him and knew he wasn't real in most world but... he could be real here and that was his M.O.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

"What happens if you're bad? And, uh, what counts as bad?" Wei Wuxian asked. Raising an army of human puppets probably counted as bad, huh.

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[white_oleander]

Could it really be called an assembly if it was more of a field trip?

Well, they were aseembling for it, so that was enough to satisfy Astrid's own particular brand of pendantry. She liked the idea of helping at the food bank more than the idea of the mall, though, and wondered if the kids would also like having their portraits drawn or something.

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[x_discospider_x]

There was definitely a selfish part of Troy that felt it was unfair that a kid who never got to have Christmas presents was now buying Christmas presents for kids who also didn't get Christmas presents, and if that meant that he could get away with maybe sneaking in a Christmas present for himself in there...

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[howareyanow]

On the one hand, Wayne didn't much care fer kids.

On the other hand, this was fer the charitables, and he was always in support of the charitables.

So overall, he couldn't help but approve of this particular assembly, even if he was mostly just hoping he didn't have to actually deal with the kids too much in the meantime...

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Can we, like, do shopping for other people too???????????" Nina asked, because why not multi-task?

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[sith_happened]

"If you have time after you've gotten something for your youngling, then yes," Anakin said.

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina's eyes were serious even as she smiled.

"I would never neglect my youngling," she promised.

She wouldn't. Nina had too many years of being that child that got nothing to do anything but go all out for the child she was given.

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[sith_happened]

"I have every faith in you," Anakin said with a genuine smile. "I thought this would be a task uniquely suited to the students of Fandom."

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[snowdroplace]

"Oh, how sweet," Elli murmured, delighted at the idea of buying for disadvantaged children even if she was a little confused about the holiday.