[Don't be silly, he was just taking a nap during the entire thing. And also several months before. And after. Possibly more.]
I see...so they go to bed on Christmas Eve fearing for their lives, and when they wake up in the morning, they exchange gifts with everyone else who survived.
[That makes sense! Humans have such short lifespans, after all, so for them to celebrate being able to live a little longer seems logical. There's something bothering Susanoo about certain gifts, though.]
...If exchanging gifts with one another is a celebration of life, does that mean the ones left under the tree are meant to honor those who Santa deemed unworthy, like a grave offering? As far as I can tell, they're opened the next day with the rest of them...
[Which is a relief, because it'd be irritating to have a bunch of unopened presents lying around. Especially the badly-wrapped ones.]
But since they weren't considered worthy, their gifts are given as sacrifices to the people who were allowed to live as an act of Santa's favor. Or perhaps they're the gifts that the unworthy had intended to give, and now, with no one to hand them out, they're just taken from the tree.
[So far, we've got a master assassin named Santa, hired by children to shank other children with candy canes while they sleep. He chooses his successor and hands off his name to the most wicked child he meets, and systematically rids the world of the people who he considers unworthy on one night of the year. Everyone considers this a time of joy and jubilation.
...Susanoo isn't exactly an expert on holidays but this one seems a little weird.]
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I see...so they go to bed on Christmas Eve fearing for their lives, and when they wake up in the morning, they exchange gifts with everyone else who survived.
[That makes sense! Humans have such short lifespans, after all, so for them to celebrate being able to live a little longer seems logical. There's something bothering Susanoo about certain gifts, though.]
...If exchanging gifts with one another is a celebration of life, does that mean the ones left under the tree are meant to honor those who Santa deemed unworthy, like a grave offering? As far as I can tell, they're opened the next day with the rest of them...
[Which is a relief, because it'd be irritating to have a bunch of unopened presents lying around. Especially the badly-wrapped ones.]
But since they weren't considered worthy, their gifts are given as sacrifices to the people who were allowed to live as an act of Santa's favor. Or perhaps they're the gifts that the unworthy had intended to give, and now, with no one to hand them out, they're just taken from the tree.
[So far, we've got a master assassin named Santa, hired by children to shank other children with candy canes while they sleep. He chooses his successor and hands off his name to the most wicked child he meets, and systematically rids the world of the people who he considers unworthy on one night of the year. Everyone considers this a time of joy and jubilation.
...Susanoo isn't exactly an expert on holidays but this one seems a little weird.]