Third Floor Common Room; Saturday Evening [12/28].

[howareyanow]

Wayne fucking loved Christmas, there was no doubt about that, and, by the time he'd finished with everything back at the farm, there was hardly any time left before Christmas, and it didn't make a whole lot of sense to go back to school for maybe two whole fucking classes and then go right on back to Letterkenny for Christmas, so he'd pert'near decided to just stay put for a while. But now that Christmas and Boxing Day was out of the way, it looked like he was heading on back finally.

And straight into an Impromptu (but not really, since he'd been planning it, just didn't tell anyone) Belated Christmas Party.

Look. He had gifts for everyone, you see, and giving out gifts during a Christmas party was tradition, and everyone knew how Wayne felt about tradition. Even if it was December 28th. But fuck all if Fandom ever really cared about things like proper dates and reality and what-have-you in the first place.

He may have even sent out a few messages. He may have also sent squirrels out to alert people, feeling like a real fuckin' Disney princess over here, and then he got things set up, which mostly just involved food and stuff for Christmas drinks (classy ones, though, gotta keep it classy until midnight, when it would be time for the Three Wisemen), Christmas movies on rotation on the TV, and Wayne, set off to the side in an armchair with a small little Christmas tree sitting on a table beside him (because a tree was tradition), ready to dole out gifts.

He made sure the first gift went out to Prompto, though, because while he really didn't care too much for the weird skid kid, he was still a friend and Nina's brother now, apparentleh, so he got a gift, and an important one for the night, too. Prompto was no Bonnie McMurray, but he was a good photographer, so Wayne could entrust in him a disposable camera to keep all the memories of the night.

If the guy would ever stop gushing over the fact that Wayne had even gotten him anything and was giving him such an important task, to the point where Wayne just had to interrupt with a very firm, "Well, pitter-patter," and told Prompto to just send the next person over already.

It probably wouldn't be the best fucking Christmas ever, but it was still probably going to be a pretty darn good one.

[[ impromptu (but not really because I've been mostly planning this for weeks now) belated christmas party OCD is on the way up! Let's get at 'er! Up stupid early because I have to be at work stupid early, and a little SP more'n likeleh because of said stupid work, buuuuut I haaaaad to have Wayne do his Christmas gift thing! ]]

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Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

Wayne actually sent out texts (and squirrels and Prompto), so you know it must have been a pretty big deal to him, even if he'd be spending most of the party over by the little tree with his gifts, like a flannel-clad, beardless Santa of a sorts.

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Honestly, even if the camera that Wayne had gotten him was just some chintzy little disposable one that felt like a toy compared to his usual camera, Prompto was just so pleased that Wayne had even gotten him something (he was preeeettttttty sure that dude lowkey hated him or something) that he was going to take his job as Bonnie McMurray photo-taker and present-wrangler very seriously, which meant he was spending a good deal of the party just bopping around, snapping shots and making sure no one fell through the gift-giving cracks.

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine had gotten a squirrel, and was she ever relieved to not be kidnapped into doing radio or something right now. And hey, a belated party could be interesting, so she could come to check things out.

She wasn't really a Christmas party and your holidays were confusing but why not.

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Heeeeey, Sabine!" Prompto greeted her with a grin and a sufficient amount of bounce, before holding up the disposable camera that Wayne had gotten him. "Say 'Wookiee!'"

Look. He was taking his job as Bonnie McMurray as Party Photography very seriously, okay? He couldn't let the Waynester down!

No, really, he couldn't. He was, like, constantly on thin ice with that dude, it seemed.

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Wookiee," Sabine said obligingly, because she was used to this by now. "It's going to be that kind of party, huh?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[thishouseishaunted]

Longest night was, like, an entire week ago, and as far as Mae was concerned they should all be hibernating from now through to the new year. But the squirrels were very insistent about getting her out of her little bed cocoon, so here she was.

If she couldn't be hibernating, a Wayne party was probably the next best thing anyway.

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Heeeeey, Mae!" Prompto greeted her with a grin, and very pointedly decided to not talk about how the sun thankfully did come up after the Longest Night because he wanted to just sort of ignore that the Longest Night (and his reaction to it) had ever existed in the first place.

Which meant Pictures!

Hey, he was taking his assignment very seriously, and that disposable camera Wayne had gotten him was now being aimed straight for Mae.

"Say 'Wookiee'!"

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Merry belated holidays," Sabine greeted her.

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Far be it for Tisarwat to miss a party if she could help it, especially since Prompto had said that she was one of the people Wayne had told him to tell should come if he saw her, because apparently he had a present for her.

Which wasn't really too surprising, considering, but it was very thoughtful of him, and, if Tisarwat were the gambling type, she'd easily put money down on it being something related to gloves or tea, but, then again, it didn't take much for anyone who spent time with a Radchaai to figure that out.

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[bookbeltof_love]

“Ohmygod, like, I know the text said but you’re really throwing a party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

So sue Nina, she was surprised!

[And on the most SP of SPs today!]

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

"It's Christmas!" Wayne shouted at her from his Santa throne by the little tree. "...belated. It's Tradition! And you don't fuck with tradition!"

And he fucking loved Christmas, Nina, okay?

Re: Arrive and Mingle - 12/28.

[unusual_sith]

Well, Lana was pleased to be invited, and still curious about Christmas, so why not?

Food and Drinks - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

The boozahol on display is everything you'd need to make yerself some Christmasy type drinks, as well as the traditional Puppers, but the fare is typical Fandom party stuff that Wayne could get on short notice, pizza and Chinese take-out, mostleh, plus a ridiculous amount of Christmas cookies, because, look, people in Letterkenny liked to bake their Christmas cookies and there was no way Wayne could eat all of those himself, or even between him and Katy.

There were also three bottles of whiskey--American, Irish, and Canadian rye--that weren't to touched until midnight, so just try'n keep it classy until then.

Get Gifts from Wayne - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

Again, he's sitting over by the little tree like some beardless Santa in red and green plaid, ready to dole out gifts because it was tradition, so just come on up and see what you got.

[[ canonically, Wayne gets gifts for literally everyone at the party, even people he hates, because TRADITION, so seriously, come one, come all, challenge me to think of Wayne might get someone he's besties with as well as someone he's talked to maybe twice]]

Re: Get Gifts from Wayne - 12/28.

[thishouseishaunted]

"Did you cut the tree down yourself?"

It seemed like the sort of thing he'd do.

Re: Get Gifts from Wayne - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

Well, now Wayne was wishing he had, as he turned his head and looked at the tree as if to confirm which one Mae was talking about it.

"I just got it fer half-off at the T&C," he said, which didn't sound nearly as rugged or impressive, but it was much more truthful, and then he looked back at Mae and nodded.

"Mae," he said," how are ya now?"

Re: Get Gifts from Wayne - 12/28.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Welcome back," Sabine told him, not really expecting a present but appreciating the party anyway.

Re: Get Gifts from Wayne - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

Well, expectin' it or not, there was definitely a present in there fer Sabine either way! He'd just get to it after the requisite polite greeting and subsequent banter.

"S'good to be back!" said Wayne, and, wouldn't you know it? He actually did mean it, too. Maybe that was just the trick to Fandom. Take a good long break from it every once in a while, and it turns out you'd be willin' and rarin' to get right back into it before too long.

Then he nodded. "Sabine. How are ya now?"

Re: Get Gifts from Wayne - 12/28.

[unusual_sith]

"Hello, Wayne." Lana smiled. "Thank you for inviting me. I got you something, since it's a tradition."

She had brought Wayne some food from home she hoped he'd enjoy - blue milk, purple eggs, and peppered sleen.

Re: Get Gifts from Wayne - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

"Lana!" Wayne greeted her with that unique brusqueness that meant a sort of cheerfulness for him. "Thank you for coming. That's awfully kind of you."

He said that now, of course, not knowing yet what it is, but it would be what he deserved, really, considering the book she'd be receiving from him soon enough.

And the cow, which he thought was hilarious enough that it'd gotten a sensible chuckle out of him when he'd hunted it down.

"Way'ya go," he said, as he fished out the plaid-wrapped presents for her and handed them over with a nod. "Merry Christmas, Lana."

Three Wise Men - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

If you've made it this far, at midnight, it's time to celebrate the Three Wise Men, with a shot of Irish whiskey, followed by a shot of American whiskey, followed by a shot of Canadian rye. It's tradition!

...now let's all have a spit.

Re: Three Wise Men - 12/28.

[hashtag_chocobro]

How Prompto managed to get through all three of those when he was already realizing this was a bad, bad decision before he even threw back the first one was anyone's guess, but he was thinking he did not like this Tradition nearly as much as the presents.

"Oh, gods, is it supposed to burn like that?" he managed to cough out at the end, rubbing his chest a little.

Why couldn't they just stick to the beer with the cute doggo on it??

Re: Three Wise Men - 12/28.

[unusual_sith]

"What's the difference between these?" Lana asked. "Just where they're from?"

Re: Three Wise Men - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

"Fer the most part," Wayne offered, with the squint and the drawl that usually came with him rattling off some encyclopedic knowledge of one thing or another. "Although, with these, they're also made from different things. Like the American whiskey....that's corn. And the Irish whiskey? ....well, that's barleh. And the Canadian rye...well, that one you can prob'ly guess."

There was another slight pause before he offered up, just in case, "It's rye."

OOC - 12/28.

[howareyanow]

I DID NOT FORGET ABOUT WAYNE. I was just waiting for good timing to post thing, and since I had NEW CANON for him drop yesterday, I'd say now's a pretty good time!

I've also been looking forward to doing Wayne's Christmas thing pretty much since I apped him.

Again, a little SP from me for a bit due to work, blarg, but yay for Letterkenny Christmas!