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{{wikipediainfo}}'''Christmas''' was a winter celebration which existed in many universes. It happened in late December and involved the giving of presents. | {{wikipediainfo}}'''Christmas''' was a winter celebration which existed in many universes. It happened in late December and involved the giving of presents. It spread out over at least two days: '''Christmas Eve''', and then '''Christmas Day''' proper. | ||
In worlds where he existed, | == Nature == | ||
In worlds where he existed, the present-giving was handled by [[Santa Claus]], though he was not essential to the process: ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') Christmas shopping for presents to give to one's loved ones was equally common. [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|One version]] of Jenny Everywhere, for example, liked to do her shopping at [[Ms Amelia]]'s shop every year for this purpose. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') One was also expected to send out Christmas cards. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Merry Christmas Everywhere (comic story)|Merry Christmas Everywhere]]'') | |||
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In 2021, [[CS-NA]] went on a quest across dimensions to try and learn the “Meaning of Christmas” so that he could organise the best possible Christmas party for the Crew. In parallel with this, [[Pythagoras-858]] and [[Juliet-178]] found themselves on an adventure involving Norse deities. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | In 2021, [[CS-NA]] went on a quest across dimensions to try and learn the “Meaning of Christmas” so that he could organise the best possible Christmas party for the Crew. In parallel with this, [[Pythagoras-858]] and [[Juliet-178]] found themselves on an adventure involving Norse deities. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | ||
One one occasion, in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]], at half past one in the morning on the night between [[Christmas Eve]] and [[Christmas Day]], a sleeping [[Professor Awesome#Kim and Jenny's neighbour|Professor Awesome]] was woken up by [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]], who talked him into joining her on the roof. Quickly getting dressed in his day clothes — complete with labcoat and “essential gadgetry” including “both [[robo-spider]]s and the [[stochastic photon homogenizer]]” — he followed her to the said roof, where she explained that she wanted to watch “the flyover”. The Professor slowly realised that she meant “[[Santa Claus#In Kim and Professor Awesome's world|the bringer of presents… the lurker at chimneys… the eater of a billion cookies]]”; Jenny, appearing to treat him as incontrovertibly real, advised Eric not to say the name out loud, though she told him that she had borrowed an “[[Amulet of Unheeding]]” from [[Steven Lucas|Steve]] and [[Thoth (Morning After)|Thoth]] just in case. | |||
Before they could see anything, however, Jenny was hit in the face by a large snowball coming from nowhere in particular, and they were then knocked down by a sudden gust of wind. When they got up again, there were contrails suddenly criss-crossing the sky, as though hundreds of aircrafts — ''or just one, moving extremely fast'' — had passed over the city in the blink of an eye. Melodramatically angry, Jenny started waving a fist in the air and shouting up at the sky: “You just wait! I know [[Jenny Cornelius|who’s]] driving the fat man this year!” — but she got no reply, and Eric calmed her down by calling her attention to the two large, scarlet-wraped presents with their name on them that were suddenly lying on a parapet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Watch the Skies (short story)|Watch the Skies]]'') | |||
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[[Category:Holidays]] | [[Category:Holidays]] | ||
