thefolder | Merry Christmas, Chosen...

Who: Venusmon, everyone
What: The giving of the D-Streams
Where: Terminal City, Roaming Park
When: December 25th, 2013, morning

At the stroke of midnight on December 25th, every Chosen and their partners fall asleep wherever they are, with nothing able to wake them. They won't stay there all night, however. Bright and early, as if turned on by a switch, the Chosen will awaken in their beds to find their Digivices missing. The individual Digimon -- those without rooms, brought in like the Chosen -- similarly fall into slumber or stasis, waking where the stand in the morning in the morning.

They will all wake up with a note in their rooms, written in beautiful script. "Come to Roaming Park," it says. There's some kind of noise outside. Something drawing everyone out. Noticeable first is the fall of snow, so far absent from Terminal Tokyo. It covers, among everything else, Roaming Park, where on a bench there sits a Venusmon, with a very large sack. Around her are tables full of all sorts of food, and Digimon there both partaking in it and setting up more. It's a whole feast, not spoiled by the weather, but enhanced by it.

[ooc: Below there will be a thread to interact with Venusmon, where she will answer some questions and give out the D-Streams. Every non-canon Digimon character will receive a D-Stream, whether they see her or not. At the end of the day, they will appear in the Chosen's hands. This can also be used to generally mingle with each other and enjoy the snow.]

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Sounds like Roze. Cam quietly hopes for her return, every day. She has to come back, right? It'll be just like Maya...right?

(He hopes it's not just like Maya. That didn't go well at all.)

Cam takes the packages with a surprised half-smile. Matching gifts? Really? ...Also seems like Roze. He misses the other girl something fierce now.

"Thanks. I, uhm...have something for her too. I got it before, ya know." He hands out a little bracelet, with roses, like her name. "Didn't really think to wrap it, but...hold on to it. For when you see her again."

They will see her again.

"Hm...yeah. I'll take care of it," Julie replies, reaching out and closing her hand around the bracelet, ignoring Musashi who looks away uncomfortably.

Evidently only one of the Digimon was handling this, let alone well, and she wasn't having any of Musashi's pity party.

Hope you guys like the gifts, man. Roze wracked her brain for the best things she could get everyone. She seeemd to really like the idea of givin' all this stuff to people. Guess it wasn't a big deal back home or somethin',"

"No. She didn't have friends back home. Not really. You lot were all she had. She wanted you to know she was listening and she cared. She should be here handing this out, not us-"

"Dude will you shut up already? I mean it. If you want this to be about her, then think about how she'd be mega pissed if you were a gloomy butt and made everyone feel weird, yeah?"

That shut him up, Musashi stopping before bowing his head by way of acknowledgement. Julie was trying not to fume, forcing a smile for Cam's sake. Things...were obviously strained for the two creatures.

The outburst surprises Cam, and he can't do much to keep it from his face. It shouldn't, honestly. They're taking this hard. He already knew how Musashi is coping - or rather, not coping - but Julie...

Cam's not even familiar with Roze's new partner. He swallows down his uncertainty, or at least he tries to.

"Julie," Cam starts with a murmur, "isn't that kinda harsh, uh... He's just... You're both taking this hard, so... Don't fight."

That's all he can manage.

Julie bared her teeth at the Kotemon before speaking to Cam, waiting until Musashi was out of immediate earshot.

"I ain't fightin'. He's...Man, you don't get it. He's just gonna sit around and mope or cry. At least if he's angry with me, he's too busy to do anything stupid," she muttered, glaring up at Cam before looking toward Musashi, expression softening a fraction.

It hardened immediately when the Kotemon looked up curiously, and he hurriedly ducked his head to avoid more angr from the Impmon.

"He needs to understand some stuff. He needs to be stronger on his own with or without her and he needs to stop bein' impractical. His obsession with her ain't gonna help anyone. They don't match. Or fit, y'know? He's moonin' over her all the time. I'm chopped liver. At least I'm stinkin' here and made of the same stuff. Sheesh. Whatever, look. He's my friend and I do what I gotta do. Better than him goin' off an eggin' himself."

"...He misses her," Cam says softly. He thinks of Maya, and his heart clenches. "Especially since he thinks he'll never see her again. He's allowed to be sad, Julie. It's nothing to do with you, it's...losing people's hard."

"Man. You don't get it at all." She snorted, shaking her head and thumbing over her shoulder. "He fancies himself in love with her. And that just won't work."

At that, Cam goes quiet. Yeah, he didn't get that. "Oh... You mean, like... Oh."

Quite honestly, he doesn't know what to say.

"Yeah. Like Oh," she muttered, rolling her eyes and propping a fist on her hip.

"So you can kinda see where the irritation is comin' from? I mean its bad enough I gotta deal with only just meetin' my Chosen while he's had her forever, then we lose her. But on top of all that, I gotta deal with his moonin' and bellyachin'."

It sounds a lot more like Maya now.

"...I'm sorry. I, it's hard, especially since he...thinks she won't come back. But you gotta... be patient with him. I'm sorry," he says again, quickly. "I don't know what to do."

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The digimon shrugged, waving a hand lightly and shaking her head.

"Forget about it, kid. Its the peril of having a personality and heart - sometimes they get all mixed up, yeah? Anyways...I guess its what keeps him digivolving, yeah? All that dang devotion and their affection for each other. Who knows. I didn't manage before she left so...maybe there's something there? Tch."

She shrugged again, waving him away with both hands.

"Anyways you got no business hangin' around here, yeah? You're supposed to go off and have fun. You take you and your girlfriend's gifts and make merry. Pretend Roze is here watchin' you. You better celebrate or else she'd make you have fun, hm?"

There's no talking to one who's grieving sometimes, and Cam knows that. In her own way, Julie's grieving too, grieving something. With a heavy sigh, Cam concedes, "Alright. I'll go give this to Maya. Thanks. ...I'll tell Roze that too, when I see her again."

Giving this positivity thing a try again.

Merry Christmas, Chosen...

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Bleh don't have color codes saved on this comp blehhhh

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