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[Here we have Beastboy broadcasting from his new apartment in the Hope District. It actually looks pretty tidy which is surprising to anyone who knows Beastboy and how messy he can be. Rita is in the backround fiddling with her keyboard and Chili is sitting on the sofa sipping a cup of tea]

HEY THERE DUDES!

[The noise startles Chili and she almost fumbles her tea, shooting a glare at Beastboy and shuffling to the side trying to get off camera.]

So according to my little calender here you know what today is?!

[Rita pipes up from her side of the screen]

Sunday?

[Beastboy rolls his eyes, Chili smirks]

No dude! It's December 1st! And that means Christmas is just 24 short days away! Hope you've started shopping!

But the marketplace was mostly destroyed. And what are you shopping for?

Presents!

[Beastboy pulls on a rope and some decorations fall from the ceiling including a wreath, some colorful lights, a Santa hat on Rita, an Elf hat on Chili and a whiteboard that Beastboy has drawn some Christmas images on]

For those of you who don't know, in my world we have this EPIC holiday called "Christmas!" It happens every December 25th and you take the whole day to party, spend time with friends and family, give each other gifts and eat lots of yummy food!

Oh that sounds nice.

It sure is! We can play games and tell stories and there's all kinds of great traditions! Like Santa Claus!

Santa who?

Santa is this super powered dude who can travel across space and time and delivers gifts to all the good little boys and girls around the world! To thank him you leave out a palate of milk and cookies and he puts gifts in your stockings and under your tree!

He puts gifts in our socks?

What tree?

Oh boy...you guys have no idea do you!?

[He's gesturing wildly at the board]

See you hang up stockings on your wall, over a fireplace if you have one. Then Santa comes and puts little gifts in them. And you also put up a tree in your home. Most people use fake ones because it's less messy.

What kind of tree?

Well...usually pine but any kind will do. Then you decorate it to look all pretty and if you buy presents for other people you can wrap them up and put them under the tree too!

Sounds expensive.

[Beastboy wags a finger]

Christmas is all about giving! You give to those less fortunate, you give to those you love! Sure you can get lots of awesome gifties from those who love you...but you get like this super warm and fuzzy feeling inside from being nice to other people because it's Christmas...and then you can go back to being a jerk for the rest of the year.

I don't think I understand...

That's OK! If any of you have any holiday traditions from back home for this cold time of year I wanna hear about them! Maybe we can all do them and have some fun! If you have any questions about Christmas I'll be happy to help! It's my favorite time of the year!

I still don't know how you're going to buy any gifts with the main market trashed.

If I have to make candy canes and eggnog from scratch I will!

Whatnog?

[Transmission ends]

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... That, I'm definitely not sure I know.

It... Has something to do with that comedy group, right? I can't remember their name right now.

That's the one. I started singing it and I guess she didn't like my fake accent because she launched me off the roof of Titans Tower.

You know, if I didn't know you're supposed to be able to turn into animals, I'd be might disturbed to hear you say that so casually.

That's part of the fun dude~

I imagine. Kinda hard for it to get old, isn't it?

That's right!

It may be corny, and outdated animation, but sometimes you just want that simple classic feel.

Not that I'd really know what outdated animation is by now.

Trust me dude, when you get to the future it's gonna be like technology is magical~

Sadly, I don't think I'll that into technology in my future, but I'll take your word for it.

But that's the thing dude! Unless you plan on like...going off the grid and living in the wild? Technology is gonna come to you.

Quick question, what is the most advanced piece of portable music playing you have back home?

Uh... A portable CD player, I think? It was 1997 back home.

And honestly, living off the grid sounds fairly right. I mean, I'm not living in the wild, but... Yeah, off the grid. Magic doesn't mix well with most technology. Plus, it's supposed to be hidden, magic.

[Holds up his T-communicator, a little round device about as wide around as a baseball and about an inch thick]

In the 2000s we have devices like this, or even smaller? That can hold like...hundreds and thousands of CDs worth of music.

And they cost like...as much as a video game.

I'm all for keeping secrets and keeping people safe...it just sounds weird to me. In my world people know magic exists and we just go about our business. Some people can do it, some people can't. No big.

Yeah well... Long, weird, complicated story with stupidity on both sides.

Also, too much magic in the air breaks electronic stuff. Forgot to say that. So we can't have any of that at school.

Aw dude! That sucks!

So you guys don't even get to have video games?!

Most wizards don't even know what a telephone is, let alone a videogame.

Whoa...

...how do you get anything done man!?

...oh right. Magic. Duh.

And owls.

...OK, I'll bite.

What do the owls do?

We don't have a postal service. We just send our mail on owls.

Really?

Then what do you guys do about like...large packages and stuff? I mean...I know alot of owls. But not any owls that can carry the same amount of stuff a postal truck can.

There's magic to make stuff lighter or smaller, but if it's really too much for owls, we have ways of travelling long distances pretty quick.

Much as I don't like them.

Dude I hear that. When Raven teleports us places it gives me this cold tingly feeling all over.

What happens when Wizards do it?

[He holds up his palms parallel and slowly begins bringing them closer together until they touch.] Like being squeezed into disappearing and then reappearing. There's another way other than apparating (that's whay we call teleporting), but it's still not very good, if you ask me.

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