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[hexappeal]

WHO: Sort of open. This is for of Themyscira-Zatara Family & friends.
WHERE: Diana and Zee's place and elsewhere.
WHEN: Throughout December.
WARNINGS: Enough of them.
SUMMARY: Cute winter holiday stuff. Please specify in the subject line if your threads are open or closed (and if they are closed, to which people).
FORMAT: Whatever you feel like.


[Come December first, Zatanna's already done a number on the house. Mostly in that she has finally relinquished her death-grip on the spooky Halloween mansion that it had been for Halloween (that had morphed into Thankschilling Day).

By the eighth, she has given up on normalcy and forced snow upon the house itself and the front and backyards; it is natural and cold and wet to the touch. More importantly, it's clean. It doesn't melt much or get sloshy and muddy. The forest she'd created for Halloween remains, though not overgrown. The air is sweet with the smell of pine, but not thickly so. She's cleared it out a little, made it easier to navigate. There is now plenty of room for building snow people and snow forts, in addition to the occasional snowball fight.

The inside of the house no longer (quite as) spooky. The fireplace in the living room seems to permanently be full of logs and remains lit even when no one is home. Halfway through the month, a pine tree also appears, growing through some dimensional wormhole so it remains real without having to cut one down. The dining room has a warm glow from candles and wall sconces and the kitchen seems to always have some wonderful smell wafting from it.

There is a fat orange Persian walking around, dressed as a reindeer. It doesn't seem perturbed by its costume and appears quite content, although trying to curl up and sleep almost anywhere in between desired pettings. Hermes has become more mellowed out since Halloween (and much larger, too) and only wears antlers on his head. Teekl and Gabranth declined to join the festivities.

This holiday season is going to be good. Or, hopefully at least much better than last year's.]



► OPEN: COOKIES FOR ME, COOKIES FOR FREE (ZATANNA).
► CLOSED: VESPER & ZATANNA.
► OPEN: ROASTING MARSHMALLOWS (APRIL).
► OPEN: AWKWARD SOCIALIZATION (GIL).
► OPEN: EXTREME MANLINESS CHALLENGE (JAMES)!!!
► OPEN: S'NO PROBLEM (TEREZI).
► OPEN: CUTE CHRISTMAS SWEATER PART II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO (MOLLY).
► OPEN: HOW DO I SECRET IDENTITY? LOL (WALLY).
► OPEN: PRETTY MUCH JUST A FUN-HATER (MITCH).
► OPEN: SNEAKY SANTA (HAN).
► OPEN: A LOT LESS OF A FUN-HATER, APPARENTLY (BRADBURY).
► OPEN: THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR PIE (NED).

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open;

[ecphrasis]

[Molly loves Christmas. For the entirety of December, she is in a constant state of Christmas cheer. The season is about giving and loving and being happy, and those are things at which Molly excels.

She's arrived at Zatanna's sometime during her month of celebration, store-bought cookies in tow as well as gifts that I have not yet decided upon but won't be opened until Christmas anyway. She grins as she enters, immediately heading to the kitchen to drop off the food and then see who she can see.]

[doubleoohbaby]

The axe helps. [Like he can deny that.

He appreciates the space he's been given, but he's also glad for the company now. As much as he doesn't mind being inside the house with the rest of them, sometimes James just needs some alone time to clear his head by way of killing or destroying stuff really well.]

[rhombus]

[Finn was busy making what looked suspiciously like a snowdog in the backyard as he was waiting for Zizi to show up. Why he wandered all the way back there when he knew she would be coming from the front, who knew, he got distracted easily. He might be fairly easy to spot smell, wearing a red-orange, super puffy coat and a blue, wooly scarf around his face.]

[rhombus]

[Finn was just arriving!! Though for some reason he was toddling out of the woods, all bundled up in a poofy coat and scarf, instead of coming in through the front like a normal person. He paused for a moment when he noticed a dude with an axe, which sometimes wasn't a good thing, but then he recognized the guy after a moment.]

Hey!!

[somethinglawful]

[eventually terezi wanders to the back, after she's had some snow battles and such in the front. her cheeks are glowing with a teal blush from getting pelted with snowballs and she's wearing a bright grin as she finally catches a whiff of the person she's been looking for.

she could be sneaky, but she's also pretty cold and a little tired, so instead she just yells:]

Finn!

[doubleoohbaby]

[His nice, overly priced waxed coat suddenly has an extra addition of a snow as he gets caught in the arm by the latest missile.

Oh. Oh, so that's how she wants to play. :|

No remorse, man. Gotta keep moving. He circles around, throwing another snowball from behind then diving into a sideways roll to try and avoid any counters. He's like an action hero or something...]

[somethinglawful]

[that's what you get for playing with kids, yo! at any rate, terezi is unbothered by the fact that she's pelted again, this time from the back. in fact she's laughing as she spins around, her cane disappearing into thin air as she stores it in her sylladex before firing off two snowballs one after the other in james' general direction, or at least where he was a few seconds ago.

she heads that way, too, only stumbling a little as she tries to pick him out of his surroundings by scent alone.]

[rhombus]

[He had been so bundled up he hadn't heard any of the snowball fights. Plus, snow sculpting required great concentration, of course. He was just putting on an ear when she shouted, surprising him and making him break half the dog's face with his hand by accident as he yelped.]

[somethinglawful]

[terezi laughs at him like the awesome girlfriend she is! finn's such a doofus.

she comes closer, so she can try and make out what he's doing. it's not as easy as it sounds because the snow all blurs together in her nose.]

Did I surprise you, Fiiiinn?

[rhombus]

[He likes it like that, baby.

He turned around, sighing out the surprising and pushing his big scarf down from his ears to hear better. Yet he's still wearing his hat. How does that make sense? Well, whatever. He stood up and went over to her to hold her hand, teehee.]

Yeah! It took you awhile to get here, did you get lost? Maybe I shoulda given better smell directions.

[hexappeal]

You can keep it, if you'd like.

[She inches a bit closer and pockets her hands to help keep them toasty (with any luck).] So, I was thinking... [She trails off with a hopeful little smile. Honestly, Zee and thinking and bringing up that she was thinking? Probably trouble. Especially if she's tilting her head all cute-like when she reveals it.]

[hexappeal]

[Zatanna had noticed the girl out front only because Hermes kept looking out the window and would occasionally whine. Larsa and Klarion were off wherever, so all he had for company at the moment were the cats and Zatanna, all of which were engrossed in their own things. She barely shifts the drapes to take a peek before recognizing her as that girl from the ghost hunting video (Finn's little girlfriend, right? How cute!).

She suits up and heads out the front door, container of hot chocolate in tow. Zee doesn't make it to the sidewalk before she announces herself.] Hey, there. [She gives it a few seconds before continuing up beside her.] Terezi, right?

[centralsgreatest]

[ Unfortunately for everyone involved, Wally is still trying to keep up the secret identity thing. He wanders the party in full costume, often popping up in unexpected parts of the house to say hi. He jumps a little when she spots Molly from across the room, but in a second the moment has passed and he speeds to her side to snatch a cookie and pop it in his mouth. ]

Hey, these are really good! [ He says, with his mouth still full. ]

Open!!!

[centralsgreatest]

[ Wally has yet to figure out the irrelevance of secret identities in the City. And so he arrives in full costume and never takes off his mask.

Most of these people know the Flash anyway, right? Right. Totally. ]

OPEN

[viced]

[ Yes, Zee, he'll come, if just for a little bit. The Mayor doesn't really know why the fuck he's showing up here, other than the fact that Zee will be mad if he doesn't, so he shows up, but that doesn't mean he knows what to do with all the extra people. In fact, he kind of hovers around like the kind of awkward person who isn't sure what to do.

Despite the fact that he's been here plenty of times, it doesn't mean he really gets what he should be doing right about now. Christmas isn't his holiday, ok. ]

[foreshadower]

[ Why is he here, oh yeah, he just walked into the room at just this time, right out of nowhere, suddenly, he's there, in the kitchen.

With that kind of self-satisfied smile on his face, enjoying getting to walk in, and not even giving much of a thought as to if there would be other people in the room.

He slid out of the wall, like a pool of shadow that just appeared, and then grew into a man. }

[foreshadower]

[ Hello Wally. It doesn't matter whether he wears the costume or not, but the Shade just knows everyone anyway, and he's sliding through a wall out of nowhere to a Flashy position just because he hasn't been bothered by a speedster in a while, and there's no Jay, so he needs to amuse himself somehow.

So a retired supervillain approaches a superhero with a grin that looks just a bit too dark on his face, like he has a secret. ]

Why Flash, what a surprise.

[aggressiveapathy]

Find your own.

[April didn't even glance up at the sound, just assumed whoever it was was out to steal her delicious, hard won (not really) marshmellow goodness.]

Or pay the toll.

[aggressiveapathy]

Figures. The witch lady knows the magic words.

[It is the phone that gets sacrificed, slipping into her pocket so she can take the offered beverage with a tiny, but still pleased, quirk of her lips.]

[doubleoohbaby]

[The coffee gets a sip, although he's soon lowering that and the axes as those dreaded few words emerge. Thinking. Great. This is either going to be awful or... awful.]

Hmm? [It's about all he can muster up, mildly suspicious as he side-eyes get, making sure to put the axe down and away from himself, just in case.]

[doubleoohbaby]

[It might not bed the best idea to emerge from the woodland shouting at James while he's got an axe, but thankfully he looks before he swings. With a jerk of his head towards the newcomer, he quickly takes note of the whole... being a small kid type person. One he recognises.]

Oh, it's you. [Another heft up and swing down of the axe.]

[doubleoohbaby]

[Just missed, although he swears one brushed his boot as he'd rolled off. Kid's damn quick, especially if she is actually blind.

He doesn't back off as she approaches closer, if only because a closer target for him merely means a lot easier to hit, although he's showing mercy for just a second or two.] You know, if you're struggling to hit me, we could always just leave it and say I won... [Taunting!]

[centralsgreatest]

Shade.

[ He takes a moment to think of a good line. ]

You're not looking very festive.

[ A swing and a miss. ]

[doubleoohbaby]

[What fortuitous circumstances that Mitch should show up when James is around!

James is, naturally, walking around with an alcoholic beverage in hand (spiced cider, just to keep it festive) and out of his suit, but then again a lack of a suit isn't entirely unusual when he's dossing around at Zee's.

James emerges from some random room just slightly behind Mitch, approaches and offers up a hearty back slap that's mostly just for dickish purposes.]

To what do we owe the pleasure?

[foreshadower]

[ He neatly slides the sunglasses into his breast pocket, offering the Flash a somewhat courteous nod at the attempt at a banal line. Ah, he was more than happy he had retired so he didn't have to spout off terrible one liners anymore. ]

Indeed not. Forgive me, but I've found that black truly is my color.