In a world where they celebrate christmas in panem, would you have any Christmas headcanons for arwbftb au?
OH BOY DO I EVER. first of all sorry this took so long I have had a wild few weeks (months) at work and simply have done nothing but sleep and work but I have a lot of conversations on this website and I had EXTENSIVE conversation with @districtonekisses about this exact topic and so many of these come from our lil messages back and forth okay i'll put under a cut incase these get long!
This is obviously like a late ARWBFB like post war because I dont think pre war thats really something they'd have the option of celebrating. Glimmer and Cashmere and Finnick would be sold as Capitol Christmas gifts. It would be bad it would not be holly jolly.
Okay so Christmas as a concept is a D1 holiday. It is those D1 girls who go hard with the decorations. They Floor to Ceiling decorations. I think Cashmere is very white Christmas very glamor very white and silver sparkles not a lot of color. Glimmer I think has pastels mostly pinks and golds. It's giving like glamorous gingerbread house if that makes sense. But yes those D1 girlies they go hard and frankly they compete, if one has four trees the other has six. I think Cashmere has fake trees though because she hates the needles but Glimmer has real ones because she likes the size differences and the smell.
Glimmy looooves christmas. She loves it, it's absolutely her favorite holiday. She decorates so early and falls into actual depression when its time to take it all down again. It's just so cozy and comforting to her to live this so feely. In fact, some of the best sleep she gets all year is when there are multiple trees with soft white lights in her living room while she curls up on her couch.
Glimmer wins when she claims having Christmas celebrations at her house. Cashmere hosts a lovely, sophisticated Christmas Eve party. Glimmer wants the holiday itself. She wants the magic.
Cashmere is the best at gift giving.
It would make sense for it to be in D2 because they are in the mountains and have significant snow and cold weather EVERY year like clock work. D1 also gets that, but not to the same level of D2. That being said, if it were in D2, nothing would get done because Cato would see snow and a hill and he, Marvel, and arguably anyone else with half a brain cell would be sledding on plastic lids.
...they do it in d1 anyway. Someone gets a concussion or a broken wrist. Happy Holidays!
Clove doesn't like the cold weather, not only does it remind her of the games, but it absolutely hurts in a post war life. That being said, Clove has never had a good experience of holidays or birthdays. it was never her thing. Noone celebrated her ever, her grandmother certainly wasn't finding any joy in the world without her daughter. She is fine relinquishing it to Glimmer and just..going to D1.
That being said...Clove still has to cook. Glimmer has her over a day or two before where she like mass preps. She tried sending Marvel and Cato to do the grocery shopping once or twice. That ceased by the third time they came home with living lobster which wasnt on her list at all.
Cashmere tries to hire catering, this DEEPLY offends clove. She absolutely loves to Cook and more importantly she is cooking for her family and noone can do that better than her.
The wine drunk christmas eve party means noone wakes up until like..11 am on Christmas day.
Glimmer is big on the matching pajamas thing-- no one indulges her but Marvel and Cashmere. By extension they can rope Gloss in. Enobaria is a firm no, even to Cashmere's big sad eyes, which is a rarity.
The Christmas cookies go hard, likely imported from Peeta. Gloss gets physically sick from how many gingerbread houses he eats one year.
Cato LOVES Christmas, he is soo tis the season about it, him and Glimmer weirdly go mutually hard for this holiday.
Speaking of Glimmer, she enlists (requires) Marvel and Cato to put up her decorations on the tallest points of her house. She gives big sad teary looks and reminds them how sad she was in the war and they're like..okay glimmer yes glimmer anything for you glimmer.
As with most holidays, it highlights how important Clove is to these people who have become her family. It's a life she never would have imagined having as a little girl.
