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nextgen_holiday ([info]nextgen_holiday) wrote in [info]marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-10-31 13:20:00


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Entry tags:alex bowmaster, antaeus, anya stark, buck rogers, crosshairs, hajime, holiday, iron dragon, jenny woolverton, kalypso, kayura yagyu, mason jeffries, misha loganovich, nicholas salem, sylvia mccoy, tsunami, vincent vernard

All Hallow's Eve
All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween as it has been come to be called, is a popular holiday with children and adults alike. It is a holiday that had its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain or Summer's End. Samhain celebrated the end of the "lighter half" of the year and the beginning of the "darker half".

On this evening the barriers between this world and the Otherworld were believed to be thin and the spirits, good and bad, of the dead could pass through. The spirits of the family's ancestors were welcomed in while evil and bad spirits were warded off by the wearing of masks and costumes. The costumes and masks disguised one as a harmful spirit and avoided harm from others.

It was also a harvest celebration and time to take stock of food stores for the winter. Livestock were slaughtered and the meat prepared for storage. It was the final harvest of the year and the crops were then stored for the winter. Celebrations included bonfires and tales of the family's ancestors.

It was a celebration of the dead and of the harvest.

Today we dress up in scary and not so scary costumes and masks and go door to door for candy or attend costume parties. It is a night for revelry, pranks and fun.



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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-02 03:02 am UTC (link)
Sylvie had been all dressed up with no place to go: an awesome pink poodle skirt, and no trick-or-treaters to appreciate it. They just weren't a heavy treating neighborhood.

...That's what childhood husbands were for.

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-02 03:15 am UTC (link)
Misha was settled into his usual spot in the rec room, ready to run the worst horror movie he could find. No one seemed to be doing much tonight, and it was a school night, too.

He grinned at Sylvie when she made an appearance. "You're looking spiffy, honey."

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-02 03:24 am UTC (link)
"Thanks. Am I interrupting?"

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-02 03:52 am UTC (link)
"Never." He gave her a disbelieving look. "And you'd never think you were. What's up?"

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-02 03:58 am UTC (link)
"Hey, there's a protocol to these things, Misha. I have to make sure I'm not interrupting something before I ask you to get me out of here."

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-02 04:10 am UTC (link)
"Ah...it's escape the lady is wanting..." He grinned. "Was there some place in particular or did you just want out?"

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-02 04:20 am UTC (link)
"No set scheme. Just want to go somewhere."

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-02 04:22 am UTC (link)
He used the remote to shut down the television. "Animal, vegetable or mineral?"

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-02 04:25 am UTC (link)
"Somewhere I can cut a wonderfully incongruous figure and we can do something amusing and have a few non-vodka drinks?"

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-02 04:34 am UTC (link)
He rose from the sofa and stretched. "The night time flight over the city is out then. No one can admire your outfit from up there, and because I'd have to bundle you up for it. We could catch movie in the village, or go shoot some pool."

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-02 04:36 am UTC (link)
"Oooh, looking wonderfully incongruous and winning at something. Sounds perfect!"

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-02 04:42 am UTC (link)
His Sylvie-to-Misha dictionary said POOL!

"Okay, but no sharking. We want to walk out of the bar, not run for Darlene." He shook a finger at her. "You rambunctious kid."

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-02 04:48 am UTC (link)
"Of course. Besides, you know I've always identified more with the cephalopods than with the sharks anyway." She wriggled all 20 fingers slightly.

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-02 04:20 pm UTC (link)
That was worthy of a laugh. "Is it just us or does anybody else want to escape too?"

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-02 08:03 pm UTC (link)
"No one else has expressed an interest."

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-03 07:09 am UTC (link)
"Then we ride again, honey." He patted his pockets. "I left my keys upstairs. I'll run up and grab them and a jacket. Need anything while I'm up there?"

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-03 07:40 pm UTC (link)
"I'm good," says Sylvie.

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-05 05:24 am UTC (link)
With keys, jacket, and Sylvie riding shotgun, they were soon settled into a table at local bar with an assortment of costumed patrons, the beer flowing, and the pool tables heating up.

He got a good look at the players while they waited their turn for one. "No challenging anybody to a game unless you intend to play fair."

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-05 05:27 am UTC (link)
"I'll be good," Sylvie promises, upper right hand raised affirmingly.

"Blonde catgirl on your three's looking at you," she adds quietly with a grin.

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-05 05:35 am UTC (link)
"In this day and age, she could just as well be checking /you/ out," he said, grinning. "How's that cousin of yours getting along at the mansion?"

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-05 05:37 am UTC (link)
She giggled. "Point conceded, but statistically, probably still you."

"He's...he's trying!" Sylvie said perkily. "I have got to give him that! He's doing things like... eating lunch like reasonable person, from time to time."

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-05 06:01 am UTC (link)
"I don't know if it would ruin his mood to know he isn't the worst case the mansion's ever seen," Misha commented. "But trying is half the battle. Doesn't everybody eat lunch? Is he missing meals for some reason?" In Misha's world, people shouldn't be going hungry for any reason, the main reason his account at the local pizza place was abused regularly by his friends.

"I'm swearing off girls for awhile. Gotta let my luck recover before I try dating again."

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-05 06:06 am UTC (link)
"His research is Far Too Important for plebian matters like lunch," Sylvie drawls in an RP English Accent. "Boy simultaneously wants to change the world for the better now and doesn't feel that anything anyone's done to change anything for the better so far has worked."

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[info]mishaloganovich
2011-11-05 06:11 am UTC (link)
"Oh, one of /those/." He rolled his eyes good-naturedly. "I guess it depends on what exactly he thinks will make the world a better place. Probably not the same thing that other people think, right?"

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[info]quadrimanial
2011-11-05 06:24 am UTC (link)
"I'm not sure even he knows. He knows it's something different from his side of the family's way of going at it, though, so I'm trying to just be grateful there."

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(no subject) - [info]quadrimanial, 2011-11-05 06:48 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]quadrimanial, 2011-11-05 11:14 pm UTC
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