#opulencechristmas

[celinecerberusarchive]

Celine left the present with one of the men at his work, both objects in the same forest green box, no card on top but rather a note written on the lid of the box once lifted in sharpie. Celine was not one for formalities but she had carefully wrapped the Snowflake Obsidian in leather - for protection and good instincts - making sure the gloves had been made of the same.

To protect your body and to protect your spirit. - Celine (@raffyperez)

Merry Christmas, Raffy!

[thebellamybarnesarchive]

Bellamy made sure to give Thad the gift for Bluebell when she dropped off her gifts for himself and Norma. Even if they didn't end up spending the actual day together, though she imaged they would, this meant she'd at least get it close to the day. Like a lot of her gifts this was wrapped in matte red paper with a golden ribbon tied around each one. A small card was attached with a little faerie on it in Christmas colours.

Merry Christmas, Bluebelle, I hope this adds a little flare to your wardrobe and can offer up some fun excuses to do things you might not otherwise. Xoxo, Bellamy. (@bluebell-tumbledove)

Merry Christmas, Bluebelle!

[thebellamybarnesarchive]

JC's gift was left for him outside of his apartment in a matte red gift bag that was probably larger than it needed to be but Bella had wrapped the baroque corset up in so much bubble wrap the container was ridiculously big. On top sat a little card with two bats hugging on it, no specific indication of Christmas to the thing.

Merry Christmas, beautiful vampire man! I hope you have a lovely day whoever you are with. I hope the new year treats us both a whole lot better than it did this year. Xoxo, Bellamy. (@duderosiers)

Merry Christmas, JC!

[thebellamybarnesarchive]

Bella had left Tony's Christmas gift in a red matte gift bag with his mother a few days before Christmas so he could open it up with the family. She wasn't sure if Tony's family knew how he knew Bellamy but it was obvious his Mother knew that they were friends so she didn't feel weird about leaving the bag with her. Inside was a bag of 'Boobie Gummies' and a gift card for Disney along with a Micky and Minnie mouse Christmas card that read...

Merry Christmas, Apple Pie! We will go to Disney this year, friendship trip. We will get cute Mickey ears embroidered with our names, go on all the rides and I will make sure we each get a suite of our own so you can flirt to your hearts content. Love you, Tony. Xoxo, Bella. (@tony-baxter)

Merry Christmas, Tony!

[thebellamybarnesarchive]

Bella had worked very hard fixing the upstairs of her old townhouse to meet what she had promised Nicky. He'd told her that the lower level she'd redone for him to potentially use as a private practice was too masculine, that he missed all of her pink flare to the place, and so Bella had promised when she redid the upstairs she would try and find a happy middle. This was Nicky's Christmas gift.

No, it was not nearly as pink as when it was purely Bella's home but Bella didn't want it to just feel like her place so she incorporated the same navy walls she had painted on the lower level but had purchased a pink velvet bed and pink velvet stools for the bathroom. She'd got a black clawfoot tub but the tap was a golden swan. She hoped when Nicky's family left the apartment and she got to take him to the townhouse to see it he would be happy with her work. (@nicholasbaudelaire)

Merry Christmas, Nick!

[thebellamybarnesarchive]

To Valentin's hotel two packages were delivered, one exceptionally large, actually as tall as the person who brought it to his door, wrapped in matte red paper and quite flat, while the second was in a smaller black matte box. There was no card with either item, Bella presuming it would not be a challenge for the man to determine who each gift was from.

The smaller of the gifts contained three sleek bottles with a matte white top and a clear bottom. In Irish they read 'Merciful Death' while in English the descriptor read 'blood of my love, my sweet merciful death, wrapped in poison, drink me whole.' The bottles were in fact some suggested to Bella by her manufacturer she had declined as they did not fit her style but when considering her gifts for Valentin had ordered just three, with the label made just for him. Each contained old Knappogue Castle twenty-one year old Irish whiskey and her blood.

The second gift however was one he would have found himself intimately familiar with upon pulling back the matte red wrapping. There were only three in this size and all three had once hung in the home he had shared with Bellamy. Photographs taken for the opening of Erzsebet's in the town he had taken her to after turning her. A life sized youthful vampire Bellamy bathed naked, black eyes and fangs exposed in a bath of blood that dripped like thick syrup over her twisted and exposed cream coloured form. Sharp black false nails clutched at her own throat, the vampire's gaze seeming to follow where ever one moved. (@valentin-stjohn)

Merry Christmas, Valentin!

[thebellamybarnesarchive]

"Oh it's for getting vitamin therapy, they like hook you up to an IV and infuse you with like a bunch of vitamins and stuff," Bellamy told Matty. It was perhaps a gift that overstepped - much like Layne's skincare - but Matty living off cigarettes and protein did concerns her, and besides, as he opened the second gift from Bella he would see the various silk screens featuring mushrooms for his pottery and hopefully that was personal enough to offset the first gift. (@matthewbaudelaire)

Merry Christmas, Matty!

[thebellamybarnesarchive]

Bella's gift to Layne, like all of the gifts she had wrapped in red matte paper with a golden boy on it. Like all gifts handed out in person it lacked a card but Bella insisted to Layne the finance planner was for her new work venture, and unfortunately, as Bella occasionally lacked tact, the skincare that said it was for 'boobs and belly' was clearly intended to held avoid stretchmarks. Bella not needing to verbalise this. (@laynebaudelaire)

Merry Christmas, Layne!