betel_geuse
08 October 2014 @ 01:01 am
[Video: Locked from Dracula]

Betelgeuse appeared on the vid screen. He wasn't smiling and his brows were furrowed in thought. After a moment he cleared his throat and spoke.]

"I don't think I've made many enemies here. Leastways, I haven't been aiming to and that's gotta count for something. Look, some of you know that I have kind of a problem with my real name, including not being able to say it, m'self. So, for personal reasons, if you're one of those that does know my actual name...could you kinda keep it to yourself for a spell? There are certain people I'd just rather they didn't know it, not just yet, okay?

I mean, sure sure, someone's name doesn't seem like such a big thing to know, but it's like that fame thing. Too many people learn a guy's name and suddenly he can't walk down the street, without getting mobbed and wolf called, and whatnot! It's just a hassle and I don't want to deal with that right now. I appreciate it."
 
 
♕ WEISS SCHNEE
08 October 2014 @ 01:26 am
Attention everyone: I'm sure that since we're all from different worlds, at least half of the people here haven't heard of Halloween so I took the liberty of creating a brief breakdown on the basics of the holiday from any of the books I found in the library, since I assume those are the ones that Genessia and the associated cities's version is based on.

Halloween is a holiday during which the barriers between the world of the living and the world of the dead are supposedly overlapped. It looked like there were a few other holidays with similar ideas, too, but this one is October 31st. It's based on an ancient festival that was held with bonfires, as fires were thought to attract the spirits to one location instead of raising the dead to wreak havoc on people's livelihoods, and is accompanied by people wearing costumes and masks to mimic spirits and monsters. Wearing the costumes helps them feel welcome, calmed, and appeased so they don't go and destroy everything.

I've found these stories in multiple books, as well as information about it becoming a more popular holiday in which people still wear costumes, though not only spirits and monsters so much as just about anything that is different from what they are. Also, on the night of Halloween, it's popular practice to either attend parties or go house to house asking people for candy handouts which seems ridiculous to me, but if it's tradition then it's tradition.

Pumpkin-carving is also a tradition for the holiday, and I think it replaced the bon-fires since people usually light a candle inside of them and it lights up the face that you make on the pumpkin.

Regardless of whether the reason for it is legitimate or not, it sounds like fun and it certainly won't hurt as a precaution against the dead coming back to haunt us. I for one plan on participating, and not just because there's a contest and I want to go to the ball.


[ But that is a lot of it. ]