（ local english lit nerd understood that reference, and ichigo just groans in response. ）
Don't even start.
（ so far the pest hasn't done much but be annoying, chirping insults at him, but his patience is wearing thin. even tsubaki doesn't piss him off this much. ）
Anyway, you're the only American I know, so...
（ it's funny, you know? most people in japan don't celebrate christmas, at least not in the ways they do in the west. he and his sisters and dad usually just get a king's feast of kfc, close the clinic to everything except emergencies, and spend their time piled on futons watching cheesy old movies on the twenty-fourth.
but the tradition of christmas was one of those things chad missed from his time in mexico, and ichigo had gone out of his way to learn where those traditions intersected after one disastrous misstep wherein he'd asked chad what the hell the weird little figures he kept on his desk around the holidays were (spoiler warning: nativity scene).
which is what had given him the idea here.
so, when jonas opens the box he'll see a variety of little knick-knacks. a little poinsettia that's been strung with a popcorn garland, other assorted 'clearly handmade and/or acquired by rogue banditry' type stuff. decorations, clearly christmas themed — albeit, if selected by a guy who has clearly never taken the time to put a star atop the murdered corpse of a pine tree. ）
It's not like the days here correspond to anything back home, but it's cold as shit and that's good enough for me. Sorry we can't do Los Pastores or anything.
（ he just confidently assumes jonas will know what the hell that is because north america is clearly a monolith of culture, right? right. anything that important to chad has to be known by all, that's just how it works. ）
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Don't even start.
（ so far the pest hasn't done much but be annoying, chirping insults at him, but his patience is wearing thin. even tsubaki doesn't piss him off this much. ）
Anyway, you're the only American I know, so...
（ it's funny, you know? most people in japan don't celebrate christmas, at least not in the ways they do in the west. he and his sisters and dad usually just get a king's feast of kfc, close the clinic to everything except emergencies, and spend their time piled on futons watching cheesy old movies on the twenty-fourth.
but the tradition of christmas was one of those things chad missed from his time in mexico, and ichigo had gone out of his way to learn where those traditions intersected after one disastrous misstep wherein he'd asked chad what the hell the weird little figures he kept on his desk around the holidays were (spoiler warning: nativity scene).
which is what had given him the idea here.
so, when jonas opens the box he'll see a variety of little knick-knacks. a little poinsettia that's been strung with a popcorn garland, other assorted 'clearly handmade and/or acquired by rogue banditry' type stuff. decorations, clearly christmas themed — albeit, if selected by a guy who has clearly never taken the time to put a star atop the murdered corpse of a pine tree. ）
It's not like the days here correspond to anything back home, but it's cold as shit and that's good enough for me. Sorry we can't do Los Pastores or anything.
（ he just confidently assumes jonas will know what the hell that is because north america is clearly a monolith of culture, right? right. anything that important to chad has to be known by all, that's just how it works. ）