happy december, encore!
‘Tis the season for whichever holiday you prefer, and the joy is in the air! To celebrate, we’re going to bring back an old favorite RP tradition: Secret Santa! However, we’ll be doing it a little differently this year: instead of matching everyone up at random, you get to pick who your gifts go to!
Why? Because not only will it be less work for everyone involved to put out a list of who’s getting involved and then figuring out pairs, but it’s actually a really great chance to connect some characters. In years’ past, we’ve had Secret Santa lead to friendships, hookups, and more, so start thinking about who your characters might have their eye on—whether it be someone they really want to be friends with but don’t know how to start a conversation, someone they have a crush on, someone they want to hook up with...whoever you want to get talking!
How? Go through your characters as well as everyone else’s (links to stats and muse pages will be provided at the end of this post) and figure out who could be in any way interested in someone else. Do they have common interests? Go to the same places but don’t really interact? Both have kids who could go on playdates? (Kids can get presents too, by the way!) Just see them on Tumblr and think “I’d like to get to know this person”? However they may know them, think up some gifts and post them on the dash (preferably tagged with #encoresecretsanta so we have something to follow) along with any kind of a note that can start a conversation, maybe even with some reasons as to why your character wants to get to know their recipient. Do this with as many characters, to as many characters, as you’d like! There are no limits on how many people you can use, how many times a character can gift to someone else, etc. Even if a character doesn’t live in the same location, you can say the gift was mailed. And if your character wants to gift back, go right ahead!
When? So that we don’t have to stress about deadlines, feel free to do this throughout the whole month of December. This gives everyone time to think and come up with presents at their leisure, so gift whenever the mood strikes!
This should be a fun way to get some new connections going and to get into the holiday spirit. Happy gifting!