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[schrodingersghost]

[Danny hated the entire Christmas season. That hadn't changed.

But last year he'd made a promise to give it a try this year. To try and keep from ruining anyone else's enjoyment of the season.

You know what really wasn't helping with that? Christmas decorations. Everywhere. 

And they kept reappearing. He'd already taken five trashbags full of decorations out of his apartment, and they kept showing up again.]

Somebody please tell me there's a non-Christmas place to hang out. I mean, we've got a huge area here. There's gotta be at least one place where all this Christmas stuff hasn't gotten. RIght?

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Re: Koishi has to respond to this xD

[youfool]

Can't stop giggling. Not for anything.

"Well spoken, Koishi. Truly there's no truer truism: it is not good to live in hell."

[koishi_komeiji]

"I... Don't understand." Koishi looked a bit baffled. "What's so funny? Why are you laughing? I wan't to know the joke too."

[youfool]

"Hah, well the humor is lost upon explanation, but if you insist.

Christmas and hell have...very different moral dimensions. Very, very different. As different as their temperatures; the one being a wintry holiday and the other being an unquenchable lake of fire, where I imagine they don't celebrate very much.

The contrast was irresistible, forgive me."

[koishi_komeiji]

"Oh..." There was a long pause. "Different moral dimensions? Isn't the purpose of hell to punish those who were wicked? Once the punishment is over though the yama will send them somewhere else. So..." She frowned, very confused.

"Also, old hell is cold. So their temperatures are the same..."

[youfool]

"Hmm. Your hell and the one I'm familiar with have a few differing details, especially with 'yama', whatever those are. There's something ironically funny about hell offered as an alternative to wholesome holiday healthiness. In the end, that really is the only decision to make, isn't it? Good cheer or misery. Holidays or unholy-days. Hope in the cold, or the gnashing of teeth in the fire. Christmas or hell. Scrooge was certainly threatened with as much. I wonder if your sister ever reads Dickens?"

[koishi_komeiji]

"Oh! A yama is one of the kings of the afterlife. When a human dies a shinigami ferries their soul to the other side of the sanzu and then they are taken before the yama to be judged. Then they are sent to be reborn somewhere like as an animal or as a human or somewhere else entirely. Like the Celestial Plain or the Netherworld... or Hell."

Koishi looked thoughtful. "I met a yama once. The YamaXanadu, actually. She was very nice to me, but also very serious. It must be a really tiresome job."

[youfool]

"...Huh. That must be trying, both for the judge and the judged. It can't be a pleasant job. But how exhausting, to be wrung in that Buddhist-like wheel of reincarnation. In my world it was strictly 'one and done', with only a small handful of exceptions among the resurrected."

[koishi_komeiji]

"Tiresome?" She sounded confused. "I'm not sure what you mean. Humans are so short lived it would be cruel to only give them one chance to live. And this way they can start anew every time so they don't grow bored with life... Unless they choose t become youkai or gods or something. But then they also cease being human. Same goes for animals."

[youfool]

"Oh, I don't know about that. Most exciting things happen only once. A single, shimmering chance. Like a dicey bet; all or nothing. Isn't that romantic? Besides, no one alive ever really gets bored with life. I'm afraid we're all hopelessly addicted to life, especially in Everglade's case."

[koishi_komeiji]

"That... seems needlessly idealistic. Life can grow very tiresome. Even for youkai who were designed to live for hundreds or even thousands of years. It doesn't necessarily mean that we want to die. Nothing in its right mind would want that. That's silly. Merely that humans get to restart now and again."