for someone who loves their OCs so much I almost never talk about them (probably because I'm too busy obsessing over you-know-which-movie) and I suddenly got back into the swing of my story Warlock Enterprise, and since it's the Christmas season, I thought I'd share a few ides for what the Duchaeses and the rest of the characters do to celebrate the holidays
- you know that song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"? that definitely happened in the Duchaes household. Richard and Denise are definitely the type to dress up as Santa and the Mrs on Christmas Eve and make out in the middle of the night after putting the presents under the tree, and Kalisha is definitely the type to stay up in her room until midnight and then creep downstairs too see if Santa is there.
- when she sees her mom kissing "Santa", Kalisha rushes back up the stairs and tries to wake up her dad, who she thinks is still sleeping in the master bedroom. unfortunately, Richard is a heavy sleeper anyway, so when she doesn't hear anything, she proceeds to make as much noise as possible to wake him up. instead, she wakes up Mason, whose room is on the complete opposite side of the house. when he finds out what's going on, he just rolls his eyes and tells her to go back to sleep. (he knows damn well that it's their dad that their mom is kissing)
- then on Christmas morning she blurts out that Mommy was kissing Santa Claus, because she thinks Daddy should know. thinking some serious drama is about to happen, she is quite surprised when Richard smiles and says "well why wouldn't she have? I'd have kissed him too if I saw him" with a wink.
- Mason's old enough to know that Santa isn't real, but pretends that he still believes in order to not upset Kalisha.
- he's also the one that gets her the presents that are to be marked "from Santa". he's a good big brother like that.
- Amy doesn't actually get into Christmas all that much, to Mason's surprise. she was heavily influenced by her irreligious mother, who believes that a holiday is just another day, and told Amy that if she wanted to celebrate a holiday, she'd have to do it herself.
- though she has experienced a day of Hanukkah with her friend Maureen, who is Jewish and damn proud of it. she even knows how to play Dreidel, even if only somewhat.
- Mason likes to use his magic to decorate inside of the house, and hates the idea of doing it by hand.
- he also makes the best paper snowflakes with his magic
- Richard and Denise love to listen to oldie Christmas songs from like the 40's, which drive Mason mad and causes him to go up to his room and drown it out with some Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- he also likes to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas during the season, but has to do it by himself in his room since it scares Kalisha
- Richard and Denise NEVER get tired of Elf. they watch it like 20 times every December and pretty much know the whole thing by heart.
- so when they found out that Amy had never seen Elf, they literally dragged her over to their house and practically forced her to sit down on the couch and watch it with them.
- she ends up loving it, and Mason can't help but laugh at her ridiculousness.
- everyone is touched when Amy goes through the effort of getting everyone a present, eve though she doesn't technically celebrate anything. it just seems like a nice gesture and when they find out all that she's been through, it really warms their hearts.