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hi again everyone!
so ive learned a bit about valentines day
and in doing so ive found its celebrated differently in different places? :o
and also in some places like japan
theres a corresponding holiday called white day!

so anyway my question today is do you celebrate valentines
and if so how
just out of curiosity
with absolutely no ulterior motive whatsoever

also exactly how many human holidays are there because so far there have been rather a lot of them my goodness
its almost like theres a holiday for every month
and there are at least five ways to celebrate each one
i think i need a chart

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Enjoying it while you can, huh? Well- hope you have fun then.

[She blinks at the question, and then quirks her mouth slightly in amusement.]

My last boyfriend was using this weird mind-glow thing to try and control his ex and steal her back from her boyfriend, who was my ex from college. They fought, my boyfriend exploded into roughly seven million dollars worth of change.

[She's completely serious, but she just... shrugs.]

Not really a big loss.

Yep! I like all the parties and holidays. It's lively?

[ Hmmm. Aradia finds that a bit weird, but not as weird as she should, probably. It seems more or less reasonable to her, which is...probably a sign of how weird their respective homes are. ]

A cute girl like you definitely deserves something better than that! [ She's pretty sure Envy is cute, as humans go. How does one judge alien beauty? ]

Really? How many holidays do yo know about?

[Thank goodness for weirdo canons, honestly, because Envy doesn't find a bit of it all that strange. Just kind of annoying.]

Aww- that's sweet kiddo. Don't worry, I'm not too worried about it. All things considered, I think a break from relationships will do me good.

[Presumably she's a limit-breaker in SP-verse, but hey, alien standards man.]

So far...Christmas, Hanukkah, Valentine's, Legumitines, and Easter!

[ One of those things is not like the others. ]

I think this place is really great for friendships, anyway - and those are important, too. So you can focus on those!

Legu...what?

[She'll say, geez.]

Yeah, I guess I can do that.

[Lord knows she hasn't had 'friends' for a long time.]

Hiyoko told me about it! Apparently they don't celebrate Valentines in her world. Instead they give out beans? On the third? Because birds rule the world, I think.

[ ...she talks to interesting people. ]

I think you're doing great at that!!

That doesn't sound like any holiday I've ever heard of- and I've heard of a lot.

[It sure seems like it.]

...what, seriously?

I hadn't heard of it either! I think just the fact that so many people are from so many different worlds means...well, there's enough going on to confuse just about everyone! But I'm working on it.

Sure! I like talking to you; you're interesting and smart!

Well, I guess there are probably a bunch of holidays that you guys have back on Alternia that we've never heard of, huh?

Well- that's something I haven't heard in a while.

Gosh, probably! I mean, we don't as a species have as many holidays as humans seem to, but 12th perigree's eve and things aren't holidays you have. Although there are sort of equivalents!

Really? Why's that?

Like what equivalents?

Haven't really had time to make much in the way of 'friends' the last few years.

Quadrant Appreciation Day is kind of like Valentine's day, and 12th Perigree's Eve seems a bit like Christmas - they're just...much less party and celebration worthy, I suppose? Or rather we're just not that celebratory a species. I'm not sure which is true!

Oh, because of your job?

Quadrant...? What's that? [A pause, an then-] And at least you have something like Christmas. A planet with no holiday for arbitrary gift-giving wouldn't be much fun.

[She's not all too serious about that, though she stops and considers Aradia's question for a moment.]

For the most part.

[Can't really be too nice as a diva and it's so hard Aradia. It's hard and nobody understands.]

Oh, trolls have four types of romance instead of the one that humans have. And I guess not! Although exchanging gifts was a bit rare, all things considered.

Well, you have time now! Although I do know there's some sort of idol show on Sundays...

Four? Geez, how the heck do you keep track of that kind of stuff? --wait, why was giving gifts rare? You guys have some weird aversion to presents or something?

So I do. Guess I should work on that whole 'socializing' thing, huh?

[A pause, and-]

Idol show?

Not really, it's just - well, we all lived pretty far apart? So maybe it was just my experience. But we also didn't celebrate things as much as humans seem to do, you know?

Yep! It usually plays on Sundays, over the gears.

Oh- I got ya. That does put a damper on gift-giving, if nothing else.

Guess that's one more thing to look into. This place sure is a lot more complicated than I remember.

I think that's because there are so many people from so many other worlds - and this isn't just a game! I mean, it's a world. There are people who grew up here, and who have their own lives, which a game might not show.

Guess you've got a point on that one. Well, it sure does make things interesting at least- if nothing's the way I think it's going to be, then I don't know what to expect.

Always did like diving head-first into the unknown.

I've never really had the chance to dive into something so unknown. Exploring my homeland ages ago, maybe, but...well, I always knew what would happen, or what needed to happen, until I came here.

It's nice.

Knew what needed to happen? How's that?

[It sounds pretty weird. And a little boring.]

But yeah- sometimes the best thing is not knowing what's coming next.

I was the Maid of Time. And the spirits of the dead talked to me. So...I was responsible for making sure that what had to happen did, in fact, happen. If it didn't, our timeline would and did become a "doomed" timeline, where we were all fated to die.

'Maid of Time' sounds kind of important on its own- but geez, talking to the dead, too? You're pretty chipper for that kind of girl, aren't you?

...but geez. That sounds like a lot to be responsible for.

Maybe! But I guess I'm just very happy to be alive again. It's nice! And I missed being able to feel things. It was hard to feel things when I was dead - at least, I had feelings, but they weren't the same thing at all.

Okay, you're definitely way more chipper than you should be about 90 percent of that, I'll tell you right now. Are you always so optimistic?

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