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07: Shipper's Paradise [video]

[The feed opens to Saori in the newbie apartment lobby. Say, when did the ceiling have hanging bundles of green? Saori looks baffled. ]

My dear gods... When did... How...

Does anyone know why there's so much mistletoe here?! This is overkill and screaming "it's a trap." One is just enough, geeze.

Uh listen, if you're not okay with being kissed, you might want to walk through here one by one. Basically, if you're beneath one of these with someone, you have to kiss them.
[OOC note: feel free to interact with others! ]

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...What's mistletoe?

[Yes, he did just ask that...]

[She frowns.]

How come so many people don't know about mistletoe... It's a plant, see? When you're under it, you gotta kiss someone. It's the rules.

[Duo huffs and looks up at the mistletoe.]

That seems dumb.

[But still, she says it's the rules, and while Duo doesn't necessarily obey all the rules, this one doesn't seem so bad. With another huff he leans over and kisses Sophia on the cheek, just as she had done him.]

There. S'okay now?

[She stands bright and proud, grinning.] Mmhm! It's all done now, there we go!

Sophia, you seem really happy about such a little thing.

'Cause it's a Christmas tradition! [She beams. She hasn't had anything Christmas-related in a long time.]

[Duo can’t help but tilt his head some to the side in confusion. But hey, she’s not yelling at him, so he’s counting it as a win. He stands with Sophia, still keeping some distance from Commandramon.]

We didn’t have of this stuff at the Church. Or before I lived at the Church. This is the first time I’ve heard of it.

That's weird. [She crosses her arms.] There was always mistletoe at Christmas.

I use to live with gang of other kids, in this old building the adults tore down. [A shrug.] We didn't care about all that stuff.

Oh. Sounds kinda like some things back home. Some people there didn't care about it either, but mommy said it's nice to feel...normal.

Well it was kinda normal for us. Not having it. And in the Church, it was different. I mean, ya don't go kissin' people in a church. [A pause.] I don't think.

[Correction:] Mommies and daddies get married in churches.

[Oh, well, that's news to him. He's pretty sure no one got married at the church he lived in.]

I don't have a mom or dad, so I don't know about all that stuff.

[It's not said with sadness. He actually sounds like he's just spouting off facts he read in a book.]

Oh. No one decided to be yours?

[That's just what happens. When your mommy and daddy die, you get new ones. Well, sometimes.]

Well, I had Solo for a looooooong time. But he was just a bit older than me. Then Sister and Father...they let me stay at the Church when everyone else got adopted.

But you didn't get adopted. [Sophia sounds sad. It sounds like Duo had his own family sort of, but no one decided to be his parents.]

[Another shrug.]

I had Sister and Father. They took care of me.

You had a father...but you said there weren't any parents back home.

He's not my dad. He's a priest. You know. Priests get called 'Father' and nuns get called 'Sister'. They weren't my parents. That's just what they're called by everyone.

[It makes sense to him, anyway.]

That's weird.

[Sophia so astutely responds.]

But I guess it's okay. My mommy's not my original mommy, so you can call people from church Father.

S'not weird. Just part of the way the church works. All this religious stuff. Been like that since before people lived on the colonies.

[See? Not weird.]

If your mom's not your real mom, does that mean you were adopted?

[Sophia doesn't know what colonies are, but Duo's just asked about her, so she guesses she should answer, shouldn't she?]

I guess so. But that doesn't mean she's not my mommy. The adults said you need papers to get adopted, but we don't have any of that stuff anymore.

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