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[geassreceived]

[ ZZZZZZZT! ] ... o, ow. I always forget about that...

[ little "mew" in the background; he replies with a gentle "shhh" sound ]

Ah... well, it's almost New Years, isn't it? I suppose the year date doesn't really have meaning here.

Does anyone celebrate New Years as a major holiday, here? I'm more familiar with it than Christmas, to be honest.

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[one_is_hikaru]

We do~ We're trying to plan a traditional Japanese New Year, in fact. But so far all we have down is a production of Kouhaku Uta Gassen.

[geassreceived]

Really? That sounds great.

If we can find any rice, I can try and help with the mochi.

[one_is_hikaru]

That'd be great if you could find some. It'd be nice to eat sukiyaki, too - or toshikoshi soba. I guess we could manage sukiyaki, though - the poor man's feast. You could manage sukiyaki anywhere.

I wish there was a shrine here, too; now that we're eighteen, we could go to the shrine at midnight to see the New Year in. Buu.

[crippledroyalty]

Will you be coming to the music festival?

[geassreceived]

I'm afraid I haven't heard anything about it. What's going on?

[crippledroyalty]

I think they called it 'Kouhaku Uta Gassen'...the boys are on the White Team and the girls are on the Red Team, and people will vote for the team with the performances they liked best. It's going to be in the high school.

[And she's performing, but that's part of the surprise~]

[geassreceived]

Ahh, Hikaru mentioned that. I haven't seen one of those in years.

Would you like to go see it?

[suckmycannon]

New Year's Eve is pretty much the holiday to celebrate where I'm from. New Years Day isn't usually all that major, aside from it also being National Hangover Day. You can't have one without the other, really.

[geassreceived]

Really? What sort of celebrations happen on New Year's Eve?

Aside from the drinking, I mean.

[suckmycannon]

Pft, some would object that there's nothing else aside from the drinking. But really, anything and everything can go down on New Year's Eve. Heck, you don't know what celebrating the New Year is like unless you go to New York. Times Square is where it's all at my boy, but describing it doesn't do it justice. You've gotta see it with your own eyes.

[geassreceived]

[ blinking ]

"Times Square"? What's that?

[rosebridled]

Mm? You found a cat?

[geassreceived]

She... was my Christmas present. Her name is Anna.

[rosebridled]

How nice. They make such good presents, don't they?

[geassreceived]

Yeah, she did. She's so tiny. [ hee ]

[voice]

[libertyfuckyeah]

I usually drink and set off fireworks while I count down for the new year!

SO THIS YEAR I'M GONNA DRINK AND BLOW STUFF UP!

[voice]

[geassreceived]

... that's not a good idea.