Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock

[matini]

Who: Homestuck cast (sob too many to list)
Where: Somewhere in Goldenrod City that can handle all these chillens
When: Christmas Day
Summary: Christmas Shenanigans with any and all Homestucks!
Rating: C for Cute, M for the mouths of Striders because DANG, YOU GUYS. WASH YOUR MOUTHS.
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[shippingmath]

Summer is the warmest season. It lasts for a span of several months.

[viiru2alert]

Whatever. Those months were way on the far end of what I would tolerate normally.

But I guess I've just got to keep wearing jackets in the middle of summer.

[shippingmath]

Or, here's a truly radical suggestion, you might attempt this thing known as adapting.

[viiru2alert]

Bodies are going to do that one way or another.

[shippingmath]

Mentally, you have to adjust too. If you keep telling yourself it's way too cold, you'll feel way too cold.

[viiru2alert]

I'll stop telling myself it's way too cold when I don't wake up with my ass frozen off.

...Who nominated you official junior psychologist, anyhow?

[shippingmath]

At the risk of sounding like a pretentious tool, me. I've had years to study this shit.

[viiru2alert]

Why'd you have so much free time?

[shippingmath]

Because I didn't have school, or schoolfeeding, or any of that shit. Everything I learned I had to find out on my own.

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux smirks underneath the high collar of his jacket.]

I wouldn't mind that.

[shippingmath]

Eh. It's not bad.

[viiru2alert]

Never said it was. Schoolfeeding ended a few sweeps ago for me, but nothing of value was ever gained. [He cracked his knuckles.] So, what else did you teach yourself?

[shippingmath]

Whatever shit I could. Robots, mostly. History, some. Had to teach myself to swim, that was a thrill and a half. Swordfighting. Things like that.

[viiru2alert]

Now I feel inferior. All I ever learned was hacking.

[shippingmath]

Hacking's pretty damn cool. You get plenty of kudos for that, dude.

[viiru2alert]

Hmph. [Still, Sollux sounds a bit amused as he says this.] Well, it makes for a steady job as a Center technician, I guess. You got anything to do around here, or is it just fighting people for money?

[shippingmath]

I got a job at the Pokecenter when I got here. Sucks that I can only work part-time, but it's better than beating up little trainer kids for their pocket money.

[viiru2alert]

Oh yeah? What do you do?

[shippingmath]

Right now, Info Tech at the Pokecenter. Boring as fuck, though, I could literally do the file sorting in my sleep. I'll probably find something else in the next city.

[viiru2alert]

File sorting? Hate to be you. [His job is way more interesting! ...Okay, marginally more interesting. But at least it's not file sorting.] I'm with the Gear and Center technicians in there. Took some training for it while I was stranded in Goldenrod with KK and Vanitas. They might be here, actually.

[shippingmath]

Couldn't say, the names don't sound familiar. [He'll run into Karkat eventually, but he doesn't know Sollux's nickname for him.]

[viiru2alert]

One's short and shouty. One's a bit taller and shouty, except you can hide a pipe bomb in the girth of his hair.

[shippingmath]

Maybe I've seen them around. Short and shouty rings some bells.

[viiru2alert]

The shortest and shoutiest you can think of, that's him.