Sixth Flake [video]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Elsa looks a lot more subdued than usual - especially compared to her last video - when she begins recording, staring out the window of the little apartment she and Anna had begun renting for their stay in Goldenrod. It's snowing, this time with no help from her, and she's just watching the flakes drift lazily past.]

I know this may sound like an odd question, but... how do you go about celebrating things you haven't really acknowledged in a very long time? Birthdays, holidays, things like that... It feels strange to just go ahead and do it and act like the lack of celebrations in years past never happened. Wrong, almost, to completely dismiss such a long amount of time like that.

It seems rather difficult to make a special event even more special. Does that make sense at all?

[She's not even thinking about her own upcoming birthday (on the 21st!) at all. But Christmas is coming up... the first Christmas in thirteen years that the sisters will be spending together. She wants Anna's first real Christmas since she was five to be perfect, or at least as perfect as Elsa can make it. She just... has no idea how to do that.]

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[defyingfrigidity]

That.... is a very good question.

[ONE THAT'S KIND OF HARD TO FIGURE OUT AN ANSWER TO...]

Well, certain holidays are for celebrating the birth of an important person in religion or history. Other times they're celebrated because of an important event that happened on a certain day. So figuring out a day to celebrate for those holidays is easy.

For others.... I suppose some holidays start off as simple celebrations in small villages, where those in charge set up a date. And when it becomes popular outside of that area, nobody ever bothers to change the date.

[garbagechild]

Man... Humans are weird.

_{[Wrath knows all about the significance of birthdays-- given that his own is probably the most important day in his entire life (and... unlife? Death? HIS EXISTENCE DOESN'T REALLY MAKE SENSE), but all this other stuff? WEIRD!]}

[defyingfrigidity]

[Talking as if he isn't human.... Elsa probably would've questioned this, but after spending so much time around such colorful people here in Johto, she's sort of just. Learned to roll with it.]

I agree, we can be pretty strange sometimes. But that's what makes people so interesting, I think.

[garbagechild]

_{[Yeah, you KIND OF GET USED TO IT AFTER AWHILE in Johto. As much as Wrath desperately wants to be human, he still hasn't quite grasped the enormity of the 'No, literally everyone becomes a human when they come here' thing.]}

Well I didn't say it wasn't interesting.

You humans do a lot of interesting stuff.

Like put soap on your teeth at night with those little sticks.

_{[HE TRIED TO DO IT TOO, but apparently you aren't supposed to use the kind from the hand dispensers, even though it looks pretty much the same. :T]}

[defyingfrigidity]

... You know, that does sound very odd when you say it like that.

But do you not do that? How else do you keep your teeth clean?

[garbagechild]

_{[At that, Wrath stares at poor Elsa like she just asked him what color the sky was.]}

Um, I have a tongue.

<sub>[Like, duh. That's all you need, obviously!]

[But no, seriously, this child has never brushed his teeth once in his life. ... Admittedly, things like him don't really need to, but...]</sub>