Season's Treatings mini-challenge

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Do you love receiving or writing end of year holiday stories? Are you prompting a snowed in Hanukkah celebration or an Australian New Year's beach party? Season's Treatings may be for you!

This mini-challenge is all about December and January holidays, traditions, and cultural celebrations big and small and all over the globe--and perhaps some fantasy worlds, who knows. If you want to prompt it, someone may want to write it.

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Arden St. Ives: Christmas at Kinlochbervie

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AO3 Name: Gammarus
Letter Link (if applicable): https://amphipodgirl.dreamwidth.org/956.html
Holiday(s) Requested: Christmas
Fandom and character(s): Ardens St. Ives - Alexis Hall; Arden and Caspian (and Arden's family)

Prompts: Caspian hasn't really been part of a family since his dad died when he was 14, and even then he lived in London and his family had money, so he's probably never cut down a live Christmas tree or made ornaments by hand. Arden's family isn't wealthy at all and lives in a very small town in a remote part of Scotland, but they are fiercely loving and loyal. These constrasts suggest a lot of fic possibilities, from funny to tender.

I think there are some interesting possibilities areound gift-giving. What can Ardy's not-welathy family give to a man who can afford anything money can buy? Probably Iris sews or knitts something. Do Hazel and Rabbie write a jingle for him? Is there something related to chess that Rabbie could give? And what can Caspian get for them that's truly personal and not just insanely expensive?

There's lots of comic potential in poor gift choices and Caspian being comically inept (or frighteningly efficient) at holiday tasks and unfamiliar customs. On the other hand, there's a lot of room for feeling -- Caspian being touched by the warmth of Ardy's family and realizing that they like him for himself as well as in his capacity as Arden's partner.

If you choose to have Ellery there, I can imagine Hazel giving her a well-deserved and highly effective talking-to.

If you want to take it to a slightly heavier place, i think Iris and Caspian might connect around being abuse survivors.

Those are just some ideas; please feel free to write the fic according to your own imaginings of a Kinlochbervie Christmas.