{ video } | Yule be Home for Christmas - w/ #TeamTARDIS

[attackbrows]

[ The brain video feed turns on, revealing a very charming and handsome young man sitting in front of the camera wearing a pair of sunglasses. Where’d he get those glasses from? Ray-Ban could never!

It looks like he’s sitting in one of the residential rooms that appear to be somewhat polished, save for the packaged meat sitting behind one bed. ]

Well? Come on, then! And maybe don’t look so cross, you know, show them a little holiday spirit! Should we get you the hat? We should get you the hat —

Shut it! I know what I’m doing.

[ An exasperated sigh can be heard to the side that sounds eerily Clara-esque. ]

And what’s all that about?! Why am I the one delivering this? Just get flappy bird to do it! Why can’t we send them an e-mail? Or one of those carrier pigeons?

What pigeons, Doctor?

Hold on a tick — did we get pigeons in our item drop? That’d be brilliant, eh? We’d hardly need these communications devices, oh! Oh, I could show Alina —

No! Now, stop it! You’re distracting yourself.

[ In a few moments, the Doctor (the cute one) is looking off to the side with his eyes slightly squinted. ]

Read. The… Yes! Yes! I know!

[ The Doctor (the incredibly smooth and sexy one) starts sifting through a short stack of index cards in his hands. ]

Hello. This is the Doctor. You know? The incredibly tall and sauve one. Not the old, crinkly man who is currently reading this messa--

[ His eyes immediately shoot up to show his predecessor the meanest of mugs.

There’s an audible “Ow!” heard offscreen, followed by Clara reaching over to grab that first card. You can clearly see the internal struggle the Doctor (the one who is serving Einstein meets Beethoven realness) is going through. Like a child being tasked to wash the dishes or having to kiss their granny. ]

These past few months have been incredibly difficult and tiresome, but I assure you all are doing a brilliant job. This is the part where you give them a thumbs up and a smile.

[ ...Skipping that part. ]

Given that we’ve spent over 500-some odd hours together on this station, me, Clara and the old bat who looks like a grey dusty tumbleweed reading this messa—

[ Tossing that away! ]

—Would like to invite you all to celebrate Christmas with us. For all of my non-Earth friends, it is a special holiday most humans like to spend together. There will be plenty of food and fizzy drinks to go around. There will also be tree-mendous decorations. Stop for laughter. [ … ] I snow hope you will all able to join us.

I love you all from my head to my mistletoe.

[ After all that is read, the Doctor promptly reaches for a brick and clutches it against his chest and lets out a sigh of relief. From somewhere off-camera, there’s a series of claps, maybe applause? Maybe a fly somehow made it onto the station? (No it’s definitely applause, joined with a ‘See that wasn’t so hard now, was it?’) ]

Doctor!

Can I have my crisps now?

[ ooc note: threadhopping is a go!

color key: clara = orange, the doctor (11) = blue, the doctor (12) = purple ]

[ ooc update: You can find the Christmas Party log HERE!!! ]

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Video | d.johnson (anyone can respond <3)

[morethan084]

[What the hell did she just witness?]

...Your both named the Doctor?

[That's her takeaway from this right now.]

[bossily]

They're the same person. Technically speaking.

[Yeah, Daisy. You must have missed the power point presentation. Clara will have to dig it up for you.]

video ; un: the.doctor

[lateness]

Daisy, hello!

If you could so kindly refer to this network post, archived. Did that work? Last time I tried to send someone a jiff, they wound up with seventy-five boxes of pizza.

[ It was a pizza meme, and the TARDIS can have such a silly sense of humour. :c ]

ATT: LINK

video; un: kovacs

[kovach]

[ enjoy the most what the fuck stare right now. ]

You're all fucking high.

[ he says as he smokes up a cigarette, very much wanting to be the high one right now.

and in case it wasn't clear: ] I ain't going to that.

[bossily]

[Enjoy this long stare, Kovacs. Said stare gets more pleading the longer it goes on.]

Why not?

video ; un: the.doctor

[lateness]

Yes! But just because we're on a station in space and not on Earth doesn't mean we can't still have a party, eh?

[ ... sorry, that's the kinda 'bleeping high' you mean — right? ]

Ah, you say that now, but the lure of gingerbread and Christmas crackers is simply too impossible to resist.

Well. Once I figure out how to make gingerbread.

video / un: starkov

[peasant]

But I can't give you your gift if you don't go. Those are the rules.

[ welcome to team guilt trip hours, kovacs. ]

video; un: doctor.disco

[attackbrows]

Allow me to correct that statement for you:

That beautiful man on the neural screen just convinced me to go to the holiday party. Even though it wasn’t his doing.

[If he has to suffer from Christmas cheer, so do you.]

audio; un: megatron

[flickerandfade]

"Christmas" sounds diverting enough. I'm not sure my presence would add to the festivities, however.

[bossily]

Of course it would. Christmas is for everyone that wants to celebrate.

( video | un: jaguar )

[scarcastically]

I guess even aliens go commercial. You couldn't even come up with a cool space holiday? Make up your own?

It had to be Christmas?

[bossily]

I think we're all aliens while we're here, actually. But the Doctor loves Christmas. He loves it more than just about anyone, I wager.

audio | un: silent

[callada]

You must have holidays of your own too, right? Other than the Earth ones.

audio; un: doctor.disco

[attackbrows]

[Don’t even get him started on Gallifreyan holidays…]

Too many to count. But that’ll be too large of a logistical nightmare for both you and me to deal with.

video / un: starkov

[peasant]

[ have an amused, incredulous quirk of her brow. that was ... a special sort of spectacle, but she's incredibly endeared. ]

Did you want a messenger pigeon for Christmas, Doctor? Imagine the mess that would make.

[ but, while they're on the subject: ]

If the three of you have gift requests, now would be the perfect time to make them.

[bossily]

Please don't encourage him by getting him an actual bird.

[She's smiling and close to laughter though. So she's definitely imagining the Doctor with a pigeon.]

text | un; lanxichen

[calmness]

What part of the body is the mistletoe?

text; un: the.doctor

[lateness]

ah and that's the joke you see

from my head to

my mistle

toe

voice; un: clarke

[romancekiller]

Christmas is another Earth holiday? It seems like there are a lot of those. [she has vaguely heard of it but from what she is learning so far it's no wonder the ark never really bothered to celebrate anything outside of unity day]

[bossily]

There's more Earth holidays than I can keep track of really. What sort of holidays are there where you're from?

audio; un: mccoy

[homeostatic]

So what time, exactly, is this hootenanny kicking off?

[bossily]

[Aw. He used the word hootenanny.]

I have a feeling one of the Doctors will be celebrating all day.

[The bowtied one, obviously. Which means feel free to stop by whenever.]

Voice. un: Kirigan

[cruelyethuman]

Why are we celebrating earth holidays.

[bossily]

The Doctor loves Christmas. [Yeah, that's the only explanation she's got.]

If you'd like to celebrate something from your home, I'd love to take part.

audio. un: barnes.

[starer]

How do you put up with them?

[Which 'you' he's talking to is anybody's guess.]

[bossily]

I've taken a shining to whiskey.

[she definitely assumes he's talking to her]

audio (un: major.yzak.jule)

[coordination]

[ This is the loudest groan at those god damned puns. ]

audio — un: the.doctor ;

[lateness]

Are you quite all right? D'you need a Doctor?

[ Ha-hah, get it?

Except, no, really, if you need a doctor for those groans, you won't find any help here. ]

video; un: navigator

[droide]

[ Have one confused (and slightly annoyed) droid. ]

Exactly how many fete days does Earth even have, that you lot apparently decide to celebrate them all?

video ; un: the.doctor

[lateness]

Ah, I wouldn't know! I'm just here for Christmas.

video; un: kozuki.oden

[hannyas]

[ yamato, currently sitting on the floor of the training room and sipping a (very large) cup of tea, seems thoroughly entertained by this particular post — did they get all of it? no, not at all! but the chaos of the people in it is rather welcoming, so they're beaming as they respond, ]

Food and drinks sounds wonderful! But who is this Christmas we're celebrating?

video ; un: the.doctor

[lateness]

I really ought to leave this to Clara to answer, she's the actual Earth human in our little group.

[ Said fondly of course, because humans are brilliant creatures, some of his favourites. ]

The whole holiday revolves around a load of religious and mythical nonsense, some of it quite interesting, some of it — ah, not so much. Some of it real! Some of it also not so much.

Really, I suppose these days it's about celebrating getting together and making each other happy through the spirit of generosity, which is something I think we could all celebrate having spent all this time with each other so far, eh?

text; @samsa

[anthropophagite]

I'm a bit surprised so many people celebrate Christmas. [ he is from japan, Christmas is usually for couples... and little kids ]

text; un: the.doctor

[lateness]

it's really rather wonderful isn't it?

[ Buddy, you're in luck (???) because the Doctor really is just a little kid trapped in a 1,200 year old life. ]

so many humans having kept this tradition in some way or another, whatever it might mean to them

Video. un: newt

[groupiedrifter]

Okay, but when am I getting a mistletoe kiss from all three of you simultaneously?

It's on the bucket list I just made up.

[bossily]

All three of us at the same time? How would that even be possible?

un: song | voice

[spoilers]

I think that went well.

[bossily]

About as well as can be expected.