IC HOLIDAY GIFT EXCHANGE MEME

[indigo_events]

We know this time of year is a time of giving to others, and we also know how fun it is to give gifts to each other in-game! So, to keep from cluttering up inboxes, feel free to drop in a comment with what your character is giving their friends for the holidays!

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Shit let's be Satan... I mean Santa.

[uber_marionettist]

Carly Nagisa is receiving her commissioned caravan... or rather, she receives an email telling her that it's ready to go. On a different continent.

However, she also receives

1x Makeup Bag
1x Lens Case

Which, lest she misconstrue the gesture, are accompanied by a note that reads

Don't get caught.

There are also a trio of small, strange costumes, clearly intended for her Mimikyu: Eevee, Meowth, and Riolu. True to form, he's flawlessly replicated the jagged mouth and floppy character that normally distinguish a Mimikyu's disguise.

It's not clear whether this is related to the other gifts or not.

As for the caravan... if she actually goes to check it out, she'll discover that it does contain her choice of amenities and is within the size and weight limitations of a Gogoat's pulling power, but some of the decisions that she left to Dirk's discretion have indeed been decided on by Dirk Strider. The whole thing has a colour scheme of white, green, and purple. Which isn't as tastefully chosen as it could be. Or perhaps it's just been chosen by someone with very different taste. Whichever. Hopefully she wanted cushions of plush, felted lime green fabric on the seating.

At least it's comfy.



Jane Crocker's doorstop is occupied by a heavy dollhouse.

Four stories high with multiple bedrooms, it also comes with a very large kitchen, a small homey dining room, another more impressive dining room for entertaining, an office, a living room, bathrooms... it's an extremely simplified version of a house Dirk remembers but she does not.

The attention to detail would be impressive from someone less notoriously obsessive than Dirk. Doors have functioning hinges, opening the miniature oven reveals a miniature cake in miniature pans, the tiny cabinets have tiny (and yet distinctly spoon shaped) handles. A fireplace that he fireproofed in case she wants to use some wood scraps to start a tiny fire, which is the kind of slightly insane logic and overpreparation that only Dirk is prone to.

Even the mirrors hung on the walls are made of actual mirrored glass, and the portrait over the fireplace is hand drawn, a particularly Dirkian rendition of Jane's doll's face (more on that in a moment). If she spends enough time poking around, she might find that this portrait actually comes off, and behind it is a tiny handwritten note and another mirror. This one has a pair of triangular shades painted on it. The note reads

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who's the realest of them all?

It's not entirely clear whether Dirk intends this to mean he's actually the answer to the mirror's riddle or just the magic mirror.

Of course, it comes with dolls, all dressed in clothes. And by some miracle, Dirk successfully resisted the urge to make them anatomically correct. There are four dolls in total: Jane, Dinah, John, and Acorn. However, Dinah and Acorn are not actually tiny Pokedolls. They're basically Pokemon gijinkas. The Manthro Chaps of Pokemon. Dinah is dressed a lot like a magical girl. Acorn is really muscular. There are abs drawn on him. So that's kind of weird. Or very normal. I guess.

He's also taken pains to make Jane's doll look like this Jane and not the one from his timeline. If you want to read into that.

All of the dolls are jointed--their arms move at the shoulder and elbow, and bend at the waist, although when they do, their knees also bend. They can be "locked" like this to keep them sitting. This also means they can't bend over without being on their hands and knees... but how often is she going to need that?



John Egbert's gift comes in a bag, inside which is a note, two copies of the TM Rain Dance, and something wrapped in an orange towel, which turns out to be a Damp Rock. The note clarifies some of it: bluntly put, he saw John battle at the Aether headquarters, and he left a lot of room for improvement. Dirk goes on to detail what a Damp Rock does (extends the length of Rain Dance), what Rain Dance does (makes it rain), and why that's good for John specifically (weakening fire attacks for his Gogoat's benefit, increasing Hurricane's accuracy for his Dragonite, and so on.) There is an aside mentioning the existence of Zebstrika, just as an example in case John wants to take further advantage of the rain and use Thunder.

And that's it. No additional commentary about... anything, which honestly might be a gift in itself.