GIFTS. Yeah that's right.

[jonny_talbain]

Gold: Breakfast in bed some time before the holiday to be sure he gets it done before Gold visits Johto, if he's going to visit Johto for the holiday. Full English complete with bacon, sausage, eggs baked beans, fried tomatoes toast and chips. As in fries. But this is an English Breakfast so we'll call them chips.

Cammy: A second hand DVD set of Monty Python's flying circus. Good British comedy.

Eli: A book about Longquan - Dragon Fist style martial arts.

Evve: An everstone pendant. It's small and modest with a very functional chain and clasp over anything ornate, but it took a while to find. He's not sure hoiw much good it will do curbing those painful almost evolutions. But he tried.

Riwane: He went to the record store and asked the oddest looking guy there what kind of music the young people were into nowadays because he has No Clue. So, you get some CDs with the latest and greatest (Subjectively speaking.) music of your generation. He also went to great pains to buy and set up a small aquarium in your dorm, complete with a few colorful little fish and some plants. A little bit of the life aquatic you love so much to look at during your days there. He also found a little plush animal. It's a Dodongo. It reminded him of your first shared hunt so he got you that as well. The most amazing thing about these gifts? None of them are second hand HOLY COW.

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[idowhatilike]

[ Evve couldn't stand feeling this way. This was way more emotion and commitment to it than she was used to. Sure, the old Eevee was a loyal friend when she actually decided you were one, but she moved on so often it was rare she had to deal with said friends more than once a year in such close encounters. She was unsure of what to do with it all.

That said, she had to nip at his words before she just wound up frustrated. ]

You make it very easy to be cheap, Jon. Best gift you can give me, frankly. Here's a teaser for next year: I may or may not send a reminder of what your gift has done for me. "Year 29: Still an Eevee. Nothing to report. Happy Holidays."

[jonny_talbain]

Frankly, the fact you thought to send a card would be nice, no matter what it said on the inside.

[And he meant it. Much like her, he wasn't used to having 'friends' as they were called. He had Riwane to thank almost entirely for his newfound ability to give a shit about almost anyone but himself. There had been precisely three others before her and since her... well, the circle was widening a bit. Learning to trust had been a hard road.]

Besides. Sending it by post is still... what? Fifty cents or whatever. More expensive than an email.

[idowhatilike]

[ Evve relaxed her fingers along her cheek, drumming them thoughtfully. ]

This is very true... Perhaps one of those obnoxious e-cards with the dancing elves and low-quality cycle of Christmas music would be best. I can't have you spoiled, can I?

[jonny_talbain]

Ah... I'd probably not open it. Those things always make me think they're... whatsit... you know...

[He clicked his fingers a few times trying to remember the technical jargon.]

Oh. Spam.

[idowhatilike]

[ She snorted. ]

Look at you! The computer whiz. I'll come to you instead of the cross hedgehog I must work with from now on when something goes awry on it.

[ Her fingers have been spending their idle time dancing along the pendent, as if to let it go would be to release it into the ether, never to be seen again. A small idea is blossoming inside the back of her mind, but at the same time, it remains just that: an idea. It wasn't about to be a plan or anything. To let herself be... happy for once.

It was all still an incredible risk to take. So she will be stamping a big-ass NOPE ]

[jonny_talbain]

Hah - I'd sooner not. I've very little interest in computers in general, let alone those that don't work right. Technology more complicated than the two slice toaster can go jump, says I.

[He really had no interest in technology period. But you really couldn't escape it in this world.]