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!

Comments

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?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[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.