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[swordedpast]

If only this were a meme, I would include a picture here of a kitten covered in Christmas lights or something. Alas, this is not a meme. It's just a question that might be useful.

What are your characters getting people for Christmas?

Picking out characters' gifts is a whole lot less stressful than picking out real ones, so let's all talk about who's getting what here. If necessary, mention any details on how they'll be given!

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[swordedpast]

Archer's gift list is as follows.

Calvin, after an unfortunate incident in which Archer offered to "put in a good word" with Santa: A foam disc launcher, with coal surrounding it in the box and a note that "Santa agreed to compromise." Archer will deny being involved in this if anyone else brings it up.
Laura: A box of homemade gingerbread cookies. He'll deny them being homemade if asked.
Roxy: This tea set and a sampler of teas.
Dirk: This plush robot, decked out in a pair of oversized shades just like Dirk's. The shades are too big for the robot, but the right size for Dirk, and while they're not a special brand name or anything, they're inexplicably resilient to damage.
Minako: These headphones, which don't appear to be an expensive variety, but for some reason are very resilient to damage and work remarkably well.
Rin: Three pairs of stockings in ridiculous patterns. A pair of these hairclips (along with a flustered sappy comment about not all jewels being sharp and cold).

[xxii_thefool]

Shinjiro: A set of good-quality cookware.
Archer: A red apron, its upper chest hand-embroidered with a white cross which is actually a white sword which is actually one white sword and nine red-on-red ones.
Rin: This jewelry box (complete with lock and key).
Ned: A hand-knitted red scarf, and homemade dog biscuits for Digby.
Mordin, Kanaya, Bradbury, Sanji, and Julian all get homemade gingersnaps.

[hellionated]

Julian will be surprised by that, he won't be expecting anything! Mina continues to be far nicer than he deserves tbh

[gandere]

list here for Archer, Minako, Kanaya, Saber, and Bradbury.

I honestly have no idea how she's going to deliver a couple of those, but I'll find a way. Probably by making Archer do it.

[gandere]

aw minako knows her all too well ;w;

she won't know what to do geez

[gandere]

she is going to wear those stockings around JUST to screw with him COUNTER TROLL

[governorkang]

Kenzi is getting a bottle of very expensive vodka and a gift certificate for one of her favorite pizza places. Kang's got a few others that he's somewhat fond of, but he doesn't know them all that well yet.

[waiting]

Bradbury would be pretty surprised, but grateful! :') He didn't get her anything, which he'll feel bad about, but he might drop a bottle of homemade eggnog her way the day after Christmas.

[waiting]

THOSE ARE ADORABLE AS HELL oh my god he's going to be embarrassed as hell he didn't get her anything so (just like Minako) she gets a bottle of homemade (non-alcoholic) eggnog and gruff but very obviously pleased as hell thanks. :')

[necronomicod]

Feferi is getting...

Karkat: A necklace with a little crab on it she got at the museum.
Aradia: A human adventuring hat.
Tavros: Water wings so he can come swimming with her.
Nepeta: Catnip.
Kanaya: Plenty of fabric. It's all in tyrian purple and jade green.
Terezi: A set of crayons. She's replaced some of the weirder colors with extra reds.
Vriska: Food for her spider. She doesn't know what spiders actually eat so it's really just some worms and goldfish.
Gamzee: A City-themed bicycle horn she saw in a store.
Eridan: She just like, left a few nice and particularly shiny shells in his part of the ocean.

John: Mustache/nose glasses for extra prankster gambit.
Jade: Dog biscuits.
Rose: A book from the romance section she pulled at random off the shelves. (Spoiler: It's 50 Shades of Grey. She has no idea it's inappropriate)
Roxy: More catnip.
Jake: A human adventuring hat that matches Aradia's.
Dirk: A little stuffed seagull because it reminded her of his hair.
Nill: A brush for her wings. She doesn't know if wings are supposed to be brushed but thought it sounded nice. She guesses you could use it for your hair or something or whatever.

Pickles: Drumsticks.
Spider-man: A nice and fluffy towel.

Others: She's interacted with a BUNCH of other people out of her canon, and I don't remember them off the top of my head, so if you'd like to know what Feferi is getting YOU, please comment here and I'll tell ya!

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Kat, on the other hand, has no idea what Christmas is and is probably buying everyone she knows sweets and stuffed animals. Raven is getting both. Bradbury is getting a hotdog because she feels bad about eating his.

[notadartboard]

Let's see...

Alastair is getting nothing for no one. He might offer to go flying with Slipstream but other than that, he doesn't feel close enough to anyone else to exchange gifts. This year is his hating on Christmas year.

He will, however, be opening Dancitron even on the holidays and offering no cover and drink specials for Imports.

Kotetsu is getting Helena the super-exotic shampoo she wanted, and maybe a gift cert for a spa treatment or something, to thank her for being best boss ever. Other than that, he's not really close to many people yet - and doesn't want to offend his troll friends who don't do Christmas. Wild Tiger may send Aradia something but god I don't even know what - he's clueless as to what she would want. Any guys who want to go out drinking with him (Thomas, Bradbury, Clint??) will get a round on him, though.

Sanji knows the deal, though, and he's going as all-out as he can. Most of his lady-friends (Rikku, Jessica, Angelica, Rapunzel, Nill, Rachel, Diana, Scathach, Bobbi, and Jesse at the very least) will get baked goods tailored to their individual tastes as best as he can remember them. Male acquaintances get nothing but his quiet respect. ;) Callie gets all of his attention this year: pearl and diamond earrings, a beautiful and razor-sharp katana in a black and red saya, and a booking for a weekend away at a spa resort to be pampered, date to be determined by how badly she needs it.

[notadartboard]

ooo gingersnaps! He loves tasting other people's baking so he will love and adore.

[crab]

karkat isn't getting anyone anything because he doesn't understand christmas yet.
he mostly just thinks it's dumb. what a scrooge.

[crab]

he will call her a bunch of names for going along with the dumb human holiday and tell her jewelry is stupid but he will wear it anyway, tucked down under his sweater. secretly, he just feels bad because he didn't think to get anyone else anything.

[necronomicod]

Oh Karkat, you feel so aggressively.

[waiting]

Mitch gets a pair of black leather gloves and a small bag of civet coffee. "Shitty coffee for a shitty boss. Now quit bitching at me about being cold all the time."

Abby gets a wingnecklace. "I don't know if this is your kind of thing, but it reminded me of you. Hope you like it."

Ben Grimm gets an Air Force Hoodie. "Merry Christmas, fly boy."

Zatanna gets a big bottle of homemade (alcoholic) eggnog and scarf. "Please don't pull any tricks with this one."

April gets a bottle of fizzy rose champagne! "Don't drink it in the office, all right?"

Larsa gets a hawk-shaped kite! "I don't know if you've ever flown one of these before, but if not, I'll teach you when the weather clears up."

James Bond and John Watson each get bottles of mid-quality scotch! No notes; he'll just hand it over to them with a shit-eating grin. :]

Terry is getting an old but fuctional Walkman and  a box of 70s tapes to go with it. "It's old, but it should still work. Sorry, I couldn't shell out for an MP3 player."

Aaaand he's making a lot of eggnog (alcoholic for the adults, non-alcoholic for the kiddies) which he'll be giving bottles of to Kate Kane, Hank McCoy, Diana, Red Alert, Jane Vasko, Callie, Madison, Damian, KITT and anyone who gives him stuff that he didn't think to give anything to!

[culver]

"Male acquaintances get nothing but his quiet respect. ;)"
ilu sanji

[culver]

GEMMA:
Angie: Some excellent purple sunglasses and a cashmere scarf.
Pietro: Non-argyle socks and woodcarving tools for making marionettes (sorry Angie).
Matt: Well she did get him something for the office but well ): So instead she’s gotten him some pajamas for his stay at NOHoPE. Also visits and poetry readings.

MOLLY:
All of her friends got Grumpy Cat Christmas cards.
Zatanna: A cute little locket and a nice bottle of wine.
Sherlock: A SCARF. And also a nice button-down shirt and some... detective tools...
John: A gift card for a Starbucks or something and a nice jumper.
Irene: A good bottle of wine and a voucher for lunch at a little café in Manhattan.
Peter: A new lab coat!!
Wally: Also a new lab coat!!
The Doctor: A new blazer!!

SCATHACH:
Jack: A gun-cleaning set and tickets to a play/opera that she thinks he might like.
Max: Fingerless leather gloves, and she will forge a weapon of Max’s choice for her.
Scatty isn’t good at gifts so all of her other CR got gift cards to various places she thinks they’d like around the City (spoiler: they might not be accurate at all). Don’t ask how long it took her to figure out how to get gift cards.

RIKKU:
Everybody got little mechanical animals that she thought suited them best (or she just wanted to make):
Max: Hummingbird
Sanji:Kangaroo
Handsome Jack: Fox
Kat (even though she just met you): A CAT LOL.
Jess: Rabbit
Tony: A komodo dragon
Julian: Flying squirrel
I can’t talk about Santo’s gift.


NILL:
Rose: Lolita outfit.
Roxy: These shoes.
Sanji: Homemade cookies and a silver cigarette case.
Kate: Underarmor (so she doesn’t get cold on patrol), and little bat-earrings.
Kenzi: This stuffed animal.
Finn: A copy of The Call of the Wild, and this list of books with a note saying that she’ll get him whichever two others he wants.
Calvin: Christmas cookies and a meticulously sewn superhero cape with “SM” for Stupendous Man embroidered on the back (she worked so hard on this ok).
Larsa: A leather-bound journal.
Jess: This scarf.
Astral: Some supplies for taking care of his cockatoo.
Abby: A note saying that she will help decorate for her wedding as well as help her look at dresses, and a gift card for a shoe store so she can get some kick ass shoes for that dress.
Jaime: A nice blue blazer jacket.
Damian: A sword cleaning set and a note saying that she would like to go on another road trip with him, he just needs to choose where.
Jason Todd: A pair of nice leather gloves.
Shinji: A new messenger bag.
Tavros: A brown sweater-vest and homemade cookies.
Aradia: This necklace.
Feferi: A sea monkey kit.
Jake: A movie night kit, complete with his own copy of The Princess Bride, popcorn, some candy, other movie-related things, and a gift card to a local cinema.
Jade: A pair of nice, fuzzy socks and a cute headband.
Davesprite: This hoodie, this dock, and she’s going to make them these for dinner one day.
John: A waterproof jacket to wear while he’s flying.
Kanaya: A pair of gloves in jade and also a note saying that she’ll take Kanaya shopping for fabric or clothing, whichever she’d prefer.
Vriska: A spider wallet in blue and a novelty pirate hat.
Terezi: A boatload of multicolored chalk and also a picture of one of the stained glass windows in the church that Nill drew, colored, and framed so she can... lick it... as much as she wants...
Karkat: Homemade cookies (with a note that he should share with Gamzee since she didn’t know what to get him) and a slightly lumpy grey and red scarf that she knitted herself.
And after doing this I realized that everyone is getting homemade cookies.

[redlooksgood]

Evan, Bradbury, Jack: An entire six pack of Westvleteren XII. Don't ask how she got it. Also don't ask how she's getting it to Jack.

Her Masked Ladies: On various roofs will be a sprig of mistletoe and candy cane. They'll know it's for them ~.^

[daft_old_man]

Zatanna: Continuing the tradition of cat themed Christmas sweaters
Molly: Build a Bunny complete with outfit
Ned: A sweater like Zatanna's, but instead of cats there are pies.

[futureleader]

If you're close CR with Quentin... you know that thing that you wanted but you didn't get and no one else got you?

u r welcome. /telepaths and stuff

[culver]

THOSE CATS LOOK A LITTLE DEMONIC
omg molly will love her gift

[erewhile]

from Kate

BUCKY: fancy whiskey & lol baseball cookies.
CAROL: a coffee mug & cat bookends.
CROSS: fancy wine.
DAMIAN: video game. Probably like Call of Duty: Black Ops...
FELICIA: coral cuff & fancy French wine.
HELENA: a designer bag & fancy Italian wine.
MATT: wow nothing you jerk.
NED: fancy sweet gift basket.
NILL: clothes!! Iola can decide on what exactly Nill would have liked. And a puppy she rescued but Iola already knows this!!
QUENTIN: video game.

from Gil

DIANA, NATASHA, SUE and ZATANNA get flowers. u_u

[culver]

PUPPY

[zazz]

oh man i b'awwwed in real life
he will hit so many surfaces rhythmically with those sticks
thanks :')