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[Everyone gets to see two familiar faces this time, with a couple of twists. Dick (the elder) is sitting down in the chair, wearing a bright red coat with white trim, a hat of the same color, and of course, a beard to match the whole thing. It’s pulled down, though, so you can see his face. And his wonderful assistant, Zatanna, is standing behind him, dressed up like the most beautiful elf there is. They’re both looking pretty happy about this.]

It’s getting cold out! And what does cold mean? Holiday fun, of course. So I, and my amazing elf assistant here, have decided that Santa Claus needs to come to the turtle. [See what he did there? See it? Okay, good.]

And so it is with pleasure that we let everyone know-- [He gets cut off as Zatanna leans forward, and he looks up at her.]

[The fifteen-year-old elf bends down until she's level with his ear, covering her mouth so she could whisper something secretively to him.]

Really?

[She nods, and offers a playful wink.] Trust me. I know a guy who knows the guy personally.

[Dick looks back at the screen, and his voice drops into a perfect, heavy Russian accent.] Is this better?

[She practically has to bite her tongue to keep from bursting out laughing. Impressive. She should've known.] It'll do.

[Dick grins.] I’d like to invite everyone to come over to the Wood sector, where we have a little holiday party going on.

[He stops, laughing and shaking his head. He has to drop the Russian accent.] Okay, I can’t keep that one up, but I tried! Anyway, we’ve got a small thing going on in a café in the Wood sector, with some cakes and gingerbread-ish things, and some hot drinks. And what would Santa be without his...

[He holds up a huge, red velvet-like bag.] Bag, yes! And it is filled with little odds and ends, so there are presents for all!

[Dick sets the bag down, and pulls the beard back up with a grin.] And to all, a good... day? Yeah, that still works. To all, a good day! Remember, café in the Wood sector, we’ll be here awhile!

[ooc: Action is absolutely welcome.]

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[Oh good, he is really not a fan of text. Dick isn't looking angry, though, just sad.]

I know you were. But you have to know when to quite with something, instead of pressing the issue, you know? This isn't really the time or place for it.

But I'm not the one you should be apologizing to, you know that, right?

You and Zee act like I'm supposed to know that Jack actually knew the guy. Instead of someone just being all 'noooo it's Christmas'. I was trying to give Spock the right answer. He's big on accuracy. If I knew that Jack knew him, I would've let Jack handle it. But Jack wasn't there, I think I soured Kon on the d-word, and Tim wouldn't say anything because he's paranoid.

I know who needs an apology. I'm not a toddler. And I'm not a total moron.

[It's only out of respect for Dick that he doesn't slam the feed closed.]

I can't speak for Zatanna on this, because I'm sure she's probably more scathing then I could ever be, but that's not what I'm talking about.

It doesn't matter if Jack knows him. It doesn't even matter that it was Jack who was talking. He said please stop, and yes, you did stop, but not after giving a parting shot. Why couldn't you just let it go after Jack actually gave you a reason to please stop? You kept on it when there wasn't a reason to.

[Dick really hopes that he understands, because he doesn't want him to take it wrong.]

Because his reason was stupid. His reason was what's true in my world isn't true in everyone's world, but Spock had asked about your world and that's pretty much the same thing.

Someone else's world can have a pink sky - nobody's gonna stop me if I say the sky back home is blue. Oranges could be sentient on another planet, but I'm still gonna say they're delicious and I wish I had one. If people don't say that it's a huge deal, how am I supposed to know? I'm not gonna listen just because somebody said so. Pfft. When do I do that? I stopped when Zatanna told me the reason.

The bottom line is I didn't know and I wouldn't have said it like that if I did and NONE of the people who complained were involved in the conversation. You need to back off.

Okay, let's go into the whole world deal, because that was another thing that really bugged me. I didn't think this one was something I needed to bring up, but all right.

You pulled a really douche-y move there, Bart. Spock did ask me about what's true in my world. He asked me, he didn't ask you, and frankly, saying that you're qualified to tell him because we live in the same world was just a plain terrible reason. Guess what? Santa Claus is real in our world. Doesn't matter if he's dead or not, he's a real thing.

Look, you can explain it however you want, and give excuses that might even make sense. But you made the wrong call. You hurt someone's feelings, you pissed some people off, and that's how life goes. Learn from it for next time, because it doesn't matter that this is about Santa Claus; it could be anything else.

I don't usually do this, but I think this conversation is pretty much over. [And for once in his life, Dick ends the feed first.]

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