compnetwork | [TEXT] ☾ second phrase: what is christmas

good evening Hinoto-Ri. the oddity of the recent weather aside, i do hope you've been well!

i have a question to ask you; well several questions to be honest. a holiday celebrated by humans is coming up soon, correct? it's called christmas and you're supposed to buy gifts for your friends and loved ones and... put them under a tree. i'm not entirely sure why.

[At least, that's what he thinks it is about. The general gist of it; anyway hey, a chance to show he cares about ~~Minato and Minako~~ people and give them presents for the fun of it. But he needs to make absolutely sure he selects the right gifts! Which he has no experience shopping for. :D]

so, what would someone who enjoys music, spending time with their friends, and eating large amounts of food want for christmas? or someone who is loud, enjoys karaoke and talking about himself like as a present? i would appreciate input from others.

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ryoji what do you think they would like?

[C'mon older self, you've grown up and spent some time as a teenager with them, surely you know about to shop for protags on the holidays. Maybe he should get Ekikichi a bottle of hair gel.

Pharos is also facing the dilemma of not... having any money at all to buy presents with, being a kid who does not have a job! Even if he figures out which things he should get for them. Woe. And if he asks the Arisatos for money, that kinda defeats the purpose of buying them presents to begin with... And no, this post isn't locked from either of them btw. ]

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that makes sense.

time inevitably changes a great deal of things, doesn't it? to the point where it's hard to recognize them.

Yes. People tend to forget the origins of things as time goes by. It's really quite remarkable they things that get changed into as well.

indeed. sometimes they just repeat the motions and replace the meaning behind it with something utterly different.

it is quite remarkable, what becomes of things after enough time passes.

Yes, it really is. Especially on the Disc, they were quite creative there.

the Disc? your universe of origin, i take it.

so how do they apply this creativity in that world?

Yes, the Discworld.

The usual ways, stories, magic, words, holidays, creating things, causing trouble. Everything they touch it seems.

Life is fascinating to observe.

why is it called the Discworld?

[... Oh, he likes you now. Someone shares his view of the miracle that is life.]

it is! there's another something new and it's always in a state of change. peoples' sorrows and their happiness, entwined together - it's never something you can call boring to observe.

Because it is a flat circular world that sits on the back of four elephants that rest on top a turtle that flies through space. Hence, the Discworld.

That's another thing that's always astonished me about life. They live in a universe filled with so much wonder, and yet they manage to create boredom.

Most remarkable.

yes, it is strange! a incredible feat; an average human could live the span of a dozen full lifetimes and yet never see more than a small portion of what the universe has to offer. nothing is stopping them if they chose to do anything they please, no matter how stupid or reckless.

and somehow they pull off being bored of it.

i don't quite understand why.

Neither do I. Perhaps someday in the future I will understand it.