[IC] Overlow @ recolle

[youraffection]

Because Captcha is ridiculous.

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[youraffection]

[ Oh shit. Yosuke feels like he's watching a showdown. Who is this little kid? Obviously a douche...who spreads rumors around Redžos place, apparently. Yosuke's mouth forms an "O", glancing between "Santa", Jayden, and the parents.

Santa sure just threatened a kid.

WELP. ]

...Th-Thank you for visiting the North Pole!

[ Jayden looks properly horrified and Yosuke does his best to usher the kid back over to his parents. ]

I'm sure you'll be a very good boy until Christmas!

[ Because, apparently, he needs to be or else??

When Yosuke walks back, he's balking. He whispers harshly, ]

Dude!

[windowdressing]

What? [ He whispers back, equally sharply. ] That kid's a terror, he deserves it. The whole building should thank me.

[ And no one else seemed to be paying attention, so hey. No harm, no foul. ]

God, what time is it?

[ He cranes his neck to check the big festive clock over there near the start of the line, but... oh, that's not an actual clock, that's just a "Santa will return at ____" thing where someone moves the hands. Well, whatever, they have to be at least halfway through with this, right?

He decides he'll just go ahead and believe that rather than risk finding out it's only been fifteen minutes or something. He's already getting a headache from this wig and hat and all these high-pitched voices, he doesn't know if he could handle knowing there's another forty-five minutes of this crap ahead. He closes his eyes and rubs his forehead for a moment before looking back up to see who's up next.

...Where's their kid? ]

[youraffection]

Maybe, but Santa isn't supposed to be an asshole to kids, he just leaves them shitty presents.

[ At least he's fairly certain that's how it works. Fairly.

Though honestly, if he wants to fuck off, Yosuke could just change the sign so they could leave, he thinks. But would they get in trouble? ]

Santa!

[ Yosuke turns to the little girl who called out, bouncing happily on up. Oops, time to do his job. ]

Hello there, welcome to the North Pole!

[ Yosuke leans over to greet her. ]

Have you been a good girl this year?

[ She nods. ]

Mhm! And I brought Santa a present, too!

Oh really? Well, why don' yo go give it to him?

[ He'll step out of the way so that she can go see Santa herself. ]