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[tuffguy]

WHO: Ann, Bolin, Lance, Mako
WHERE: Casa de Lou
WHEN: Christmas
WHAT: ChristmasA
WARNINGS: Christmas



[ Christmas time has finally arrived and things are popping at Mako and Bolin’s apartment! Both Mako and Bolin managed to get Christmas off from their jobs, which just means that they can celebrate together like they used to. And if their celebrations happen to involve some extra people? That makes it even better!

Of course Mako invited Ann over, and Bolin invited his friend Lance over.

Bolin, of course, took it upon himself to decorate their apartment for the season. Even if it’s minimal, Bolin can’t stand for there to be nothing in the apartment that shouts out what time of year it is.



So, welcome to the Casa de Lou Christmas Special, Ann and Lance! We have good food courtesy of Mako and good entertainment courtesy of Bolin’s game, music, and DVD collection. Eat, drink, be merry and have a good time! ]

Comments

[browbeater]

[good food... as long as you only care about texture at least. Taste being gone has kind of ruined Christmas. THANKS RECOLLE. but hey, man, at least there's bread to enjoy?

that's something, right?]

[tuffguy]

You know, even if our sense of taste hasn't completely come back yet, I, for one, am glad we can at least taste bread again.

[ bolin somehow manages to say this around a mouthful of bread ]

[browbeater]

[that's gross, bro.

So, Mako tells him, in Chinese]

Don't talk with your mouth full.

[tuffguy]

[ squints at mako

makes a point to take a big bite out of a piece of bread

and speaks back in Chinese ]

The bread is delicious.

[browbeater]

[seriously, in front of his girlfriend and everything, Bolin? This is how you wanna go?]

Who taught you manners? Come on, Bo.

[tuffguy]

[ she's been around long enough to know this is how the bros go ]

Same people who taught you.

[ and then he opens his mouth and stops, thinks for a moment and speaks in English ]

You know I hate it when you do this.

[browbeater]

Do what?

[and he's happy to pass on the first comment.

since he's not sure if Bo means their parents or their foster family]

[tuffguy]

This!

[ switching back to Chinese and gestures between the both of them ]

Correcting me in Chinese!

[browbeater]

You should have practiced more.

[is he switching back to english? that's a negative.]

[tuffguy]

I practiced enough, you... you...

Mango!

[ did he just pull out the first fruit he could think of as an insult?




maybe ]

[browbeater]

[honestly, he looks a little confused at that

because

it doesn't make sense]

... What?

[tuffguy]

[ squints at mako

then says it again, but with a different tone on the insult part ]

I practiced enough, you mango.

[browbeater]

[oh, he. actually meant that?]

So you don't know any actual insults.

[tuffguy]

It's not like they teach insults in the first year.

[browbeater]

That's like rule number one on things you look up on your own though, bro. You can't tell me you've practiced enough and then call me a mango and expect it to make sense.

And I bet if I'd said all of that in Mandarin, you wouldn't have understood it.

[tuffguy]

A makeshift insult is still an insult.

[ but he squints at Mako when he switches back to Mandarin ]

--And I don't even think I could understand what you just said, but I'm pretty sure it was something about me not understanding Mandarin.

[browbeater]

Yeah, basically.

Do you really think mom and dad taught me: [THERE'S A LIST OF CURSE WORDS IN MANDARIN HERE, GASP].

... Except [THIS MILD CURSE]. That one I definitely learned from Dad.

[tuffguy]

[ bolin is silent for a long moment ]

[tuffguy]

[ and then he busts out laughing ]

Oh oh, you gotta tell me when you learned that word from Dad.

[browbeater]

Oh, right. I think you were too little for this? Anyway, dad had just bought this really nice pen? Or maybe Grandma sent it to him, I can't remember.

[tuffguy]

Yeah, yeah, go on--

[tuffguy]

[ Bolin is fiddling around with the small entertainment center that's set up in the living room. He's pulling various cases out and holding them up for everyone to see. ]

Alright, so we could start off with 'Death Intense' or 'Romance, In Fact' or 'Gremlins', or watch an actual Christmas movie!

Orrrr.... [ he sets those aside and pulls out a Rock Band microphone ] We could skip straight to karaoke!

[ladytakamaki]

Ooh, why don't we watch an actual Christmas movie first? How about 'Elf'? That's supposed to be a funny one.

[swags]

Yeah, Bo- listen to the pretty lady. 'Elf' or bust, man.

[Lance plops down on the couch. He'd rather watch some kinda romantic comedy or action-packed comedy...but he's a man who loves to please the ~ladies~]

[tuffguy]

Elf it is!

[ so bolin quickly takes the dvd and pops it in before plopping down next to lance his brother from another mother ]