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prank #42 | video BACKDATED TO 5/19

[The feed turns on to a view of what is clearly the inside of a clothing store, judging by all the colorful display racks scattered about. From somewhere off screen, there are two male voices.]

I still can't believe you picked that. It's like exactly the same thing Rose put you in. You have to admit you're basically just fueling that fire. Making it roar high and shit. She'll remind you. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Are you blind or do you just need to take your shades off for a minute? This is nothing like that lacy Goth Lollipop or whatever it's called style that Rose put me in. It's much simpler! Do you see any frills on this? I sure don't.

Point is, similar dress style. I warned you. All I'm saying.

Wrong. But whatever we are both ready so let's do this. Casey, camera please!

[There's a squeak from the Lopunny operating the camera as the frame shifts, revealing two teenage boys wearing things that clearly came off racks not meant for them. This is exactly what you wanted to see today, right? Boys in dresses? Of course it was.]

[To the left stands Dave, whose hair is still as brightly pink and as in need of a trim as it was a week ago. It falls past his ears, and has been swept to the left side of his face. He's wearing a long, dark red dress which covers his chest but leaves his shoulders bare. When he moves just right, you can see a slit up the side. All in all, it pretty much neutralizes the harder lines of his body and proving two things. One: Dave can actually pull of androgynous pretty damn well. And two: he takes after his mom more than anybody probably thought.]

[Next to him stands John, and it's one of those moments where you can really tell just how short the kid actually is. Because Dave has a good half a foot on him and somehow the contrast between John's stockier frame and Dave's lankier one only exaggerates this difference. His dress is a simple light blue pinafore dress that falls to his knees. Under the dress is a long-sleeved, white dress shirt with a baby doll collar tied together with a dark blue ribbon. He's managed to (somewhat) tame his hair, adorning it with a light blue headband to match the dress.]

So here's the deal. John seems to think he pulls this off better. We all know he's way wrong.

I think you mean "we all know John is way right." Fixed it for you.

Spoilers: You're totally wrong.

It's astounding, how wrong you are about everything today. Just wow, I did not know it was possible for one person to be so wrong, so many times, in such a short period.

[Before Dave gets a chance to retort or either of them gets the chance to explicitly say what the point of all this was, the feed ends. But surely the point got across: who makes a better girl?]

((ooc: probably goes without saying, but red is Dave and blue is John. Responses will come from both.))

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Act? So you mean this isn't going to get added to your usual outfits...?

[She looks so sad, John.]

[...Tenten are you being serious rightnow or are you trolling.]

...no. No it's not. In fact, I daresay I have met my quota of dress-wearing for the year already. I think twice is plenty.

[We just don't know.]

I thought you and Dave were showing everyone your new favorite outfits, though! You guys look so cute together...

[Squint.]

Have you been talking to Rose recently?

[Because he's having he strangest sense of sort-of-deja-vu right now.]

Rose? No...

[Is that a faint smile threatening to tug up the corners of her lips as she tries to pout...?]

Really? Because I could have sworn for a second that your hair turned blonde when you said that. Or actually, I guess I should say it looked lime green, my bad. In either case, it was just the goshdarn weirdest thing!

[Please Tenten. Please for the love of god do not start letting Rose infect you with her evil ways.]

You know, I think me and Rose could get along, though...

Oh I'm almost certain you would. And that's what scares me.

[Dave, if you're listening to this it really might be time to consider running somewhere far away. Like...Mt. Silver. John's thinking it might be time to adopt the mountain hermit lifestyle.]

Like...serious case of the heebie jeebies over here at the prospect of this friendship. I can feel my life ending already.

Don't say that...

[Okay, she loses it and starts laughing.]

Either way, there's no denying that you guys look pretty good in your dresses. So don't throw them out, you hear?

Pfffttt, sorry but I have no intention of actually buying this! I still have the dress Rose forced me into when I was a coma in January... I really think that's all my wardrobe needs as far as dresses go.

[Even if he wanted to get rid of it, he couldn't. Rose would know.]

Also, for the record I was joking about the heebie jeebies thing. Mostly. You and Rose would actually probably get along really well and I think she could really use some more female friends.

[She's basically stuck with these two dorks all the time. The poor girl.]

That's so sad! When's your birthday?

[Not like she's going to buy it for him or anything. Definitely not.]

Anyway, next time I see her post around, I'll definitely drop in and say hello! It'd be nice to have a girls' get-together.

It was in April, remember? The thirteenth. [Remember, Tenten? It was the day Jade left and you sent him a bento box.]Or was that a trick question to keep me on my toes? Hehe. Though that does remind me that I don't know yours yet!

[Tenten don't buy him a dress for his birthday, you'll kill the poor boy of embarrassment...]

Hehe. Yeah, with Jade gone she doesn't really have a chance to have those much anymore. So she'd probably like that.

Oh! Right, I'm sorry I forgot! Mine was March 9th, I'm not surprised you missed it. I mean, I spent that birthday in a panic that there were going to be Rockets coming out of every bush.

What other gift-giving holidays do you guys celebrate?

Heheh, it's okay it happens to the best of us.

[John chuckles.]

But other than birthdays, Christmas is really the other big gift-giving holiday where I am from. And to a lesser degree, Easter and Valentine's Day. Oh, And Mother's Day and Father's Day, though those really only apply to people who are parents, as the names suggest.

Oh, I know Valentine's Day, and White Day, but not those other ones. I mean, we'll give gifts sometimes around New Year's, and Hinamatsuri can be an excuse for giving gifts. What's Easter and Christmas, though?

What's Hinamatsuri? And White Day is the one that's like... Japanese reverse Valentine's Day or something, right?

[Sort... of? Not really?]

But okay: Easter and Christmas. They are both religious holidays in my world, or at least that's how they began. Lots of people still observe them for religious reasons but in modern times they have both become pretty commercialized so even people who aren't particularly religious still celebrate them. And since I am one of those people who isn't, and since Christianity doesn't even seem to be really relevant in this I won't really get into explaining that part of it.

The date of Easter changes every year, but it's always on a Sunday in either March or April. Like I said, this isn't really a specifically present-giving holiday but people will sometimes give their kids Easter baskets full of candy or small toys. And sometimes they will put candy in these little plastic eggs, [He approximates the size of an Easter egg with his hands.] and then hide the eggs outside. Typically in their yards, but it could be any relatively set and confined outdoor space. Like a park or something. Anyway, supposedly the Easter bunny is the one who hid the eggs and it's the kids' jobs to find them. It's a game that I imagine is probably more fun to play with a group instead of by yourself. So you can race to see who finds the most eggs. I wouldn't know though, since I was raised an only child and didn't really have any friends in my neighborhood. And don't ask me why it's a bunny I really just don't know what a bunny has to do with eggs.

And that's basically Easter in an eggshell.

Christmas, on the other hand, is celebrated on the 25th of December and that date never changes. However the "Christmas Season" typically lasts for weeks leading up to the actual day. It's sort of a family and friends centric holiday. Christmas Day one of the few days a year where schools are closed and nobody has to go to work, so people go out of their way to visit family members and friends that they normally wouldn't have the time to. What you all do together varies depending on your family, like my dad and I used to do a lot of baking together when I was little. [The gingerbread villages were quite the sight. (yes, villages. Dad Egbert didn't screw around with one dinky little gingerbread house, no sir.)]

And on the actual DAY of Christmas, you exchange gifts. Like Easter though, there's a kid-centric sort of tradition that goes along with this too. As you get older though, you realize it's not actually true. See there's this figure named Santa Claus, who is basically this jolly old fat guy in a red suit who lives in the North Pole. He spends all year monitoring children's behavior and if you are a good kid, he gives you presents. And if you are bad, he gives you a lump of coal. So basically it's like child bribery and really the presents come from your parents because Santa Claus isn't actually a real person, he's just kind of like... a figurehead I guess?

So yeah. Basically it's just a holiday to spend time with the people you care for and do nice things together and for each other. Make sense?

[Whoa... let her take in all of that before she goes on about her own holidays.]

So... Easter. Eggs from bunnies and candy. Right. It does sound like useful training, though, making the kids work to find their stuff. We've had to do scavenger hunts and stuff like that, except our stuff would be guarded and trapped before we could get to it. And it usually wasn't candy, either.

And Christmas... it sounds kind of like our end of the year winter festival that we hold, except it's not so much a thing for kids as it is a holiday for like... couples, I guess. The holiday that's for family is Shougatsu, New Year's? And that's around the same time of year.

It's kind of weird that you have this guy who's supposed to give you presents though. I mean, why would you teach a bunch of kids to trust some strange figure who just comes around once a year to maybe give you things? I mean, I'd probably want to teach my kids to set traps to catch whoever would try to break into my house.

Okay, but before I forget, Hinamatsuri and White Day. Hinamatsuri is always right before my birthday, March 3rd. It's a girls' festival, where you dress up nice and put up tiers of all these little dolls for the holiday, make special food, that kind of thing. The dolls are dressed like daimyo and attendants and all of that.

And the White Day is basically a month after Valentine's Day. If a girl gives a guy chocolates or something for Valentine's, on White Day, a guy's supposed to give all the girls who've given him something a gift in return. It's kind of nice, I guess, but I never bothered to make anything for Valentine's, so obviously I never got anything for White Day. Besides, that one's only a couple days after my birthday too, so it's not a big deal.

[A shrug! And those are some of her holidays~]

Haha, yeah it's kind of weird when you put it that way. But at least parents typically teach their kids that people breaking into the house is bad and you shouldn't let strangers in most of the time. Jolly old bearded fat men in red suits are okay, but only provided they come down the chimney and it's just on that one specific night.

We do New Year's too but it's... not really much of a holiday to be honest? More like a "yay! it's a new year! Let's make a bunch of promises to better ourselves in the upcoming year that we all know we're going to break within a week." type of deal. An excuse for adults to get drunk and party.

Yeah, okay I was right about White Day then. It's only something I have heard mentioned in passing really. Both genders do things for Valentine's Day in America, not just girls. Though it is somewhat thought of as a more girly holiday. Hinamatsuri is a completely new one on me though! We don't have anything like that stateside. I don't know if maybe other countries do. Since it sounds like your world has some commonalities with Japan in my world.

So basically make sure not to have the fire lit when this Santa guy shows up, is that right? That'd kind of ruin the holiday a little bit.

Oh, for us, we try to stay up as late as we can, until sunrise. For New Year's, I mean. Something about how it's supposed to bring good luck for the new year, but you just have to hope you're not on a mission or something. In that case, I usually would fight Neji and Lee for last watch so I could be the one to see the sunrise.

But yeah, next year, if we're still both around, let's celebrate Valentine's and White Day! It'll be fun. And maybe I can try to set up Hinamatsuri, it's kind of nice. As long as you don't mind dolls, sometimes they can be a little on the creepy side.

But Japan, Shiraishi-san has mentioned Japan to me before. Maybe I'll ask him about his traditions next time I talk to him, and report back!

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