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[slightoverkill]

[Mihawk is currently standing to the side of the main crossroad near the Good Spirits Bar, absently looking around and watching people fuss about their way what with the holiday spirit and such.]

Does anyone happen to have an estimate of how long will this glittery, colorful, over the top... celebration is going to last?

[Because he's seriously considering hitting the forest for a while until you people and your lights and trees and holiday cheer are done making him vaguely ill. And given how disgruntled he sounds, you can totally tell by his tone alone.

Congratulations, Luceti, you have a Grinch among your ranks.]

Comments

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

Oh, of course. Remiss of me, how could I forget.

[If it's sarcasm you want to match, he'll be very glad to entertain you.]

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

I guess the trick is to just bear it. I don't grin.

What do you have against it? [The words may seem confrontational, but given her own opinion, they're probably not meant to be.]

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

I am fairly certain the grin is optional, when it comes to bearing with something.

[He certainly doesn't grin and bear anything. After a moment, there's a cranky sigh.]

I dislike crowds.

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

The crowds don't really get thick until December hits. Except for Black Friday.

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

Oh, joy.

[The furthest thing from joyful, it is him. He encapsulates the anti-joy. We're talking quantium levels of unjoyfulness right now.]

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

I wonder if it gets that bad here. From what everyone says, things are pretty different.

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

Regardless of circumstance, people, in my experience, remain people.

[Whether that is a good thing or not, however, is entirely up for debate.]

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

I'm not arguing that. But if most of these people have never heard of the holiday they're supposed to be trampling the stores over, then it might not happen.

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

Some need only the barest excuse to go on celebrating though, even if they don't understand the significance of something.

[Assuming it has any significance in the first place. People just like parties, he supposes.]

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

I guess we'll see. When I can't get home because I'm caught up in a parade route on the way, I'll start to worry about it. [This has actually happened to her before. She forgot it was Homecoming.]

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

...aren't parade routes public knowledge?

[You know, so people can go see the parade? How do you get caught in one?]

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

Probably. But they're not the sort of thing I keep in my head. [She'd completely forgotten the date. Why bother with Homecoming anyway?] I don't exactly have much school spirit.

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

If you find something annoying, I would think keeping it in mind in order to avoid it as much as possible would be the sensible thing to do.

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

I'll take that under advisement for next year.

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

[And then something occurs to him, which he's been trying not to think about much.]

How long have you been here?

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

It's been a month. I didn't really think I'd end up sort of missing back home.

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

It is not an unreasonable reaction.

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

I'm not sure it's reasonable when there's not really anything to miss.

[Guilt:] Except my family. Sometimes.

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

Familiarity, in itself, is worth missing, even if there isn't a specific thing you would assign it to.

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

So what I'm missing is just my comfortable rut? That's very reassuring. [The dry tone suggests these implications are not, in fact, reassuring at all.]

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

Whether it is reassuring or not, if you cannot recognize the source of your nostalgia, then it is probably true.

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

Maybe. For now, my sister's actually here, so I guess I'm looking after her first.

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

You don't sound terribly enthused about the prospect.

[Then again, Daria. When does Daria sound enthused about anything? Not that Mihawk would know. It's not like he's Mr. Emoting, either.]

[Voice]

[mysicksadlife]

Let's just call it too much of a good thing. [One way to put it, at least. More precisely, they still handle each other best in small doses. Luceti doses? Not small.]

[Voice]

[slightoverkill]

Ah, yes. I am entirely familiar with the concept.

[His entire cast, said the man who lives in a deserted island with only mandrills for company. 8)]