🎁 BIG OL' GIFT EXCHANGE MEME 🎁 get that holiday spirit

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1. comment with your character
2. reply to other people's characters with what your character will/would give them
3. make it IC or for OOC funsies idk im not the boss of you
4. happy holidays my dudes

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Illarion "wait you're giving gifts WHEN" Albireo | original

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The shrike gift-giving holiday is Generous Night, the last night of the year. Everyone starting six days early puts a crimp in Illarion's timeline!! So:

Late on Christmas day, everyone he knows by name gets a bundle of incense. It's tailored to specific preferences (where known); anyone he knows has a sharper-than-human sense of smell gets (an attempt at) a less noseblinding blend.

Then, on New Year's Eve, a piece of fresh fruit (apple or orange) and a handful of nuts in their shell, all wrapped in bright-colored cloth, shows up.

Everything's signed with his nickname (if he's been given one) or a weird little eye-over-feather symbol (if he hasn't).

if you don't know whether you're on the list: you are. he even bestows some of these on total strangers he happens across. happy holidays!!

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[There is no comparable festivity for Bigby, but he rather likes this concept. There is not much for him to give, except for what he makes -- so makes, he does.

Illarion receives a tiny package wrapped in cloth and twine, and inside is both a brass hair barrette, a key, and a note:]

If there is something I know with the struggles of lives like ours, it is feeling worthwhile. I would not wish for you to experience this.

For your hair, I thought perhaps this would stand boldly against it. I admire it so, if it is not strange for me to say. I found many little items no one else wanted, and remade them into something useful but eye catching for any bird.

The key is to one of my padlocks, so you know my trust in you.

- Bigby

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[bigby you're going to make HIM cry except he can't anymore

He binds up with his hair with the barrette immediately on receiving it and makes sure he's wearing it next they meet. The key takes pride of place with his icons and loyalty-tokens on their meteor-steel chain, to be worn close to his unbeating heart.]

[laminae]

Illarion will be getting a gift from Fern! Blodeuwedd will drop it off, and inside the poorly wrapped box are some Egyptian starcluster flower hair accessories in several different colours.

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He is definitely going to wear those on a rotating, outfit-coordinated basis. Especially whenever there's a chance he'll run into Fern (like when he's spending time at the orphanage).

[grandtheftperson]

A counter-orange!!!!

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DELICIOUS!!

[wannasmash]

Midoriya didn't know people were into xmas here either lmao. Those mushrooms will probably come with in-person Happy New Year wishes.

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Excellent--nothing like a personal touch on mushrooms.

[peripheries]

THE OLD MAN GETS BIRD SEED. Is it for him? His omen? Who knows.

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he's going to sit on their couch(????) slowly eating handfuls of it while Kaworu's in the room

ur welcome

(iskierka can have some too)

[peripheries]

WOW THANKS HE HATES IT. even more than your stinky incense.

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child he has 5+ centuries of trolling his offspring under his belt

you're gonna have to step up your game

[peripheries]

unfair advantage :(

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}:> how else is he supposed to keep up with your youthful energy & Absolute Terror field if not through treachery

[peripheries]

torture him with incense like you already do!!!

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that's for your own health!!!

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then why does it make him sneeze???? thats not healthy!!! checkmate atheists!!

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YEAH WELL YOU SNEEZE AT A LOT OF THINGS

anyway have some sheet music he found you that's not from Earth

[peripheries]

He came from a very sterile environment and everything is bothersome...

THANKS DAD OR WHATEVER.

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you're welcome son boy

[grice]

the tiniest pygmy falcon belonging to falco leaves illarion: bird biscuits (are they the kind you hang up for birds to eat? are they for your own consumption? that is for the giftee to decide) and a blessed charm, said to ward off negativity, made of bird bone and feathers!

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lbr he's definitely going to sample one of the bird biscuits out of an overabundance of curiosity, but hang the rest of them around proto-cryptid-town in the woods for avian friends to find.

the charm will be for the lintel of his door once he has one; one can never have enough charms on a house.