Jingle bell time is a swell time

[freshprints]

Who: Naegi (superordinary) and Kirigiri (freshprints)
Where: Goldenrod City!
When: December 24th!
Summary: Two protagonists. Fried chicken. Christmas Eve. Final destination.
Rating: G because this log will almost certainly consist of nothing but schmoop and dokis. And possibly murder, depending on if that comes up, but we're going for schmoop and dokis here.
Log:


Featuring art by the incomparable Miffy. o/

[The trouble with being both the SHSL Detective and an alumnus of murderschool is that when it gets right down to it, there's really no such thing as "taking a break and relaxing". True, it's the holiday season, and Kirigiri's probably entitled to a vacation. But even during the holidays, even amidst the gift-giving and good cheer and the near-inexplicable influx of hypnodeer, she never really gives in and just...embraces the spirit of the season. She's too used to standing outside and looking in, too set in her ways and her hard-broken habits to let go and drop her guard for very long. Even on Christmas, she's watching the people around her, working through the lingering mysteries of the new arrivals and the implications they have on her future, postulating theories and checking them for plausibility against the things she knows. It's a tedious mental exercise, but someone's got to do it. And this is her talent, after all.

Still, if there's ever been one person in the world who could get her to unwind even a little, it's Naegi, and now that they've made plans for a Christmas Eve...date...thing, she's going to honor them. Maybe it'll be nice, and they can just...be normal. For a night.

And maybe pigs will fly — but then again, there are at least two Munna in the house. Anything is possible in Johto.

So, it's Christmas Eve and here she is, staking out the master bedroom's private bathroom during a period while Celes is thankfully not occupying it, staring at herself in the mirror and trying her best not to spend too long debating whether or not her trainer class kimono is far too ridiculously formal for an occasion like this. It's the sort of concern that's almost painfully mundane, really.

And yet, after what they'd been through at school, the fact that such a painfully mundane concern is also her only concern at the moment is frankly almost a gift in itself.]

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[superordinary]

[ Naegi honestly prefers New Year's to Christmas, but there's something about the season that lifts the spirit and envelopes it in a certain warmth. It's contagious and not even the increased workload at his job at the Goldenrod department store is enough to pull him out of it. It's nice to have these warm, fuzzy feelings and reasons to celebrate and be merry as the year is drawing to an end; and what a year it's been. They have their own house (that currently looks tacky as hell because certain people overdecorated it) and they've made it a place to call their home despite the absurd amounts of hair on the furniture and people who don't quite get along for understandable reasons; they're students from murderschool, after all.

He's still not sure where his relationship with Kirigiri is heading, but he's made at least some progress by working up the courage to actually ask her out on a...date... thing oh who is he kidding it's definitely a date because spending time together on Christmas has romantic connotations. Here's hoping that he won't royally screw it up somehow.

Two boxes of fried chicken from Kanto Fried Fowl? Check. One Moomba to keep them warm and possibly ruin their date with drool? Check. Is he dressed and ready to head out? Check. Is he actually feeling ready for a romantic evening? ...Not really, but he's not going to call it off. He's going to do this thing.

Waiting for Kirigiri to come downstairs is probably the most difficult part of this. ]