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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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[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!

[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.]

[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?

[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.

[ahh hand-holding! she squeezes his hand and widens her smile.]

I was ambushed on my way here! But I persevered, don't worry!

[He squeezed back. Mitteny love holding was going on here. He gasped at "ambush" though.]

Oh, man, was it snow ninjas?? [He was mostly kidding, because this world wasn't cool enough to have literal snow ninjas. Even if he had just survived a trial in a demon castle, he knew that the world still wasn't cool enough to have literal snow ninjas.]

There was only one! I guess he could have been a ninja.

[Okay, now he's serious.] Was he dressed all in white?

Nope!

[terezi is the opposite of serious right now. that is to say, her answer is legit, but her mood is silly.]

Oh, then it must have just been some random sucker! I hope you didn't beat him up too hard, though.

Nah, I had mercy on him 'cause he smelled like chocolate.

[naturally.]

What have you been up to back here?

Haha, yumm.

Nothin' much, just waiting for you! I needed my backup before entering the house. The weird lady that invited me is a witch I guess??

Does she have majyyks, or just magic?

[because there is a totally a difference there, yes.]

Hey, this isn't going to turn into some kind of weird fight, is it?

I don't, uhm . . . [He scratches his head, unsure what the difference is, since he can't see the spelling.] What, between us? Why would we be fighting, Zizi? [If it was because she fell in love with a dude that smelled like chocolate, then by glob...!]

No, dummy, I mean between us and whoever's in the house. [DUH.] Because they're a witch or whatever?

[so many mixed signals here!! although maybe that is her fault for forgetting that she's not communicating in a text-based medium. it could happen to anybody!]

Oh, hah, I'm dumb. But . . . not gonna lie to ya, babe. [He puts one hand on her shoulder, clapping it bravely.] It just might. Witches be craaaazy.

Well...

[ok let's be real she drags it out a little just because she likes his hand on her shoulder.]

If it is a fight we can totally handle it!!

[He patiently sits through the drawn out "well", since he likes his hand on her shoulder, too. In fact, he puts his other hand on her other shoulder in strong, loving comradeship.]

I knew I could count on you! No amount of weirdness can compare to our power combined! [Beat, wait, did he say that wrong.]

I think that came out wrong, Finn.

[oops she's smiling.]

But that's probably true too!!