Christmas Crossover 2020: The Re-Reckoning

***Christmas Crossover 2020: The Re-Reckoning*** (also shortened to *Christmas Crossover 2020* or *2020 Christmas Crossover*) is a crossover story written by Kitmo. The story began development on December 10, 2020 and was officially finished on July 25, 2021. It has 55 pages in total and a word count of 28,387. It is the seventh Christmas Crossover story and the fourth one that Kitmo actually finished writing.

## Synopsis

Following the events of *Christmas Crossover 2017: My Darling Crossover*, the Marching Peregrines and Exclamationpoint dimensions are overrun by characters from the roleplay universe whose realities have been destroyed. Because their presence in these universes threatens to erase their source material from those realities, it's up to the characters who remember those characters the best (along with resident magic men Icey and Parrot) to create new dimensions for them to inhabit.

## Plot

The story begins with Fledge, Chickadee, Hawk, Stork, and Heron playing *Dungeons and Dragons* in the Gomez family basement (with Alb watching). After Hawk makes the rash decision to beat up a doorman, the group agrees to visit their local 7-Eleven for a late-night snack run. While there, they witness Meiko arguing with a 7-Eleven employee about Virginia's law against the purchase of alcohol after midnight while Oliver tries to apologize for her behavior. The group leaves after the employee threatens to call the cops, and after D&D Night comes to a close, Stork confides in Heron that he recognized the two characters from a WEBTOON comic called *Megurine Lunacy*. Everyone from the group discusses this encounter at school the next day until Parrot interjects to claim that the characters they saw at 7-Eleven actually hailed from the Vocaloid Universe, at which point Chickadee tells him to shut up and he leaves. Everyone bitches her out for it (especially Egret) before band begins. After parade practice that afternoon, Egret, Puffin, Alb, and Penny visit the same 7-Eleven before hanging out that evening (with Dove driving them) and Egret recognizes the cashier as N from RPTE. He attempts to deny it and the characters are suspicious, but after they scatter to get snacks and return to the counter, N is gone.

Meanwhile, in the *!* Dimension, Hermoine (using the alias Hera Griffin) yells that she hacked into York's (who is calling himself Harlem Giovanna) email account and found hentai. However, this is a misunderstanding and Erin interrupts their argument to inform Hermione that *JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken* is not hentai and point out that their yelling is making Tammy mad. They knock it off and Erin attempts to talk to York about *JoJo*, but she aborts the mission after he admits that he's only seen *Vento Aureo*. She returns to her lunch table to complain about part-skippers before yet *another* incident takes place--this time between Fay (Mathilde) and Alerick (Aldrich). Alerick attempts to bully her and Lew about their nationalities, but Enre stands up to him and encourages Fay to kick his ass (which she does, along with Toru, who shows up and tries to break up the fight). Tammy fumes in her seat about all of the new, annoying transfer kids and Erin remarks on how strangely familiar they are. It cuts to the group in Mr. Brooks' class, where two new students are introduced to them: Gary Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Won Reasley. This is strange, but the group doesn't have time to discuss it before they're called into an assembly in the auditorium. Junko Enoshima is here as a representative from Hope's Peak High School (a school that no one has heard of) and using Naegi and Hinata's testimonies, she tries to encourage them all to apply (with the added bonus of receiving an invite code for her OnlyFans account). School is then let out for the day, and the group begins to walk home, but Erin questions if they're just ignoring the fact that *Harry Potter* and *Danganronpa* are apparently real now. Her friends have no idea what she's talking about, and Erin insists that because Icey isn't at school that day, he must have something to do with it. Jonah expresses doubt toward her claims--both to Erin's face and with Tammy--but Tammy sticks up for her despite not knowing about the fandoms she's referencing. Erin catches them talking behind her back and Tammy plays it off by claiming that she was asking permission to come over to Erin's house that afternoon.

Suddenly, Erin spots a group of upperclassmen--Katina Eklof, Cami Glass, and Belita Lott--walking together and decides to confront them about their fictional origins despite Melanie's claims that doing so would be cringe. Kitty disappears after realizing that she has bushido club practice, leaving Erin, Tammy, Jonah, Melanie, and Kathy to confront the fictional characters. On their way over, Erin points out that despite being new, all of these students already seem to know each other fairly well--almost as if they came from the same place (being *Harry Potter*). Melanie accuses her of making up *Harry Potter* because she doesn't know what it is, and Erin is scandalized because *Harry Potter* was the fandom over which she and Melanie first bonded. Setting this aside, they approach the group to see that Cami is whining to Katina about their fake names, expressing distaste for her friend's new alias "Kaja". Katina, calling her "Cambria", attempts to calm her down, but Cami is throwing too much of a fit to listen. Erin and friends interrupt their conversation as Erin questions if they're students from Hogwarts. Belita and Cami deny this, and Katina suggests that they may have mistaken them for someone else. Erin denies this and directly accuses them of being Katina Eklof, Cami Glass, and Belita Lott. She goes on to claim that "Harlem Giovanna" and "Mathilde" are also *Harry Potter* characters and questions 1) how they got there and 2) whether it has anything to do with Icey. Cami begins to cry at this interrogation and Jonah steps in to put an end to the conversation, claiming that Erin went too far. Erin is hurt by the idea that Jonah doesn't believe her, but at her cousin's urging, she quietly apologizes to the characters and leaves them alone. Melanie begins to tease Erin about what just happened when Tammy jumps in to defend her and promises that they're going to get to the bottom of this by combining Erin's weeby knowledge and her skills as a member of the debate team. That said, Tammy takes Erin by the hand and takes her away from Melanie and Kathy, with Jonah trailing after them. Once the others are gone, Kathy questions why Melanie was "lying" earlier. Melanie deflects the question and says that she hates the feeling that Erin is trying to trick her again because she doesn't want to get laughed at for having fallen for it. Kathy exclaims that there's nothing wrong with being laughed at so long as everyone's laughing together. Melanie, thinking about this, asks Kathy if they can hang out that afternoon.

The day after the previous incident in Pinedale, Allen is suffering from a Karen encounter at Food Lion before a second customer shows up begins stacking many, many packs of Dasani-brand water bottles onto the conveyor belt. Allen tries to tell him that he doesn't have to put them all on the line, and Cress finally reveals himself in order to confirm that he's buying 9 32-packs of Dasani water bottles. Allen tries to make small talk, assuming that this guy is pretty alright, and it's explained that Cress (instead of making a shopping list composed of many different items) only ever goes to the grocery store in order to buy a single item in bulk because he doesn't like wandering around looking for things. Suddenly, the lights go out and Luka Megurine arrives to announce that she's taking over this Food Lion and leading a military force across town in order to defeat Miku (who conquered their local Walmart). Allen removes his Food Lion polo before he can get enlisted into Luka's armed forces and ignores Cress's claims that Luka has become his boss after defeating his old boss in single combat and choosing not to listen to her could get him into trouble. The boys properly introduce themselves now (with both of them making fun of each others' names) and Allen offers to help Cress sneak out of the Food Lion through the back entrance because he seems cool. Cress says that he doesn't have much of a choice and agrees. The two attempt to sneak through the cleaning goods aisle while Luka yells over the intercom for her newfound army of simps to root out the deserters and just as they're about to be caught, Allen and Cress arm themselves with a Swiffer Wet-Jet and a broom (respectively) and fight their way out of the supermarket off-screen. They exchange Snapchat information before they part ways at the end of their bonding experience escaping from Luka's military dictatorship, but because they're both too shy and awkward to say anything to the other after their adventure, they don't stay in touch.

Later that same day, Fledge is working at Burger King when Jacket and co. arrive and Jacket, after donning a Burger King crown, announces that he's the Burger King and requests free Nuggets. Fledge tiredly points out that the nuggets are still in the fryer and Jacket, confusing the chicken nuggets for golden Nuggets from Pokemon, questions why he's frying gold (and he doesn't know what a chicken is). Fledge then assumes that this is Magpie playing a trick on him and begs Jacket to leave him alone because he just got this job and he doesn't want to deal with any shenanigans. Cheren interrupts in order to scold Jacket for requesting free food and points out that their nuggets are food, and then the chicken nugget/golden Nugget joke keeps going (and Bianca asks why their entire segment is centered around this stupid joke). Bianca *also* admits that she ate all of the ice in the soda machine and falls onto the ground due to E. coli poisoning. Fledge attempts to kick them all out, but before he can, Epiphany volunteers to buy all of their *Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time* toys (despite the fact that this is an American Burger King in December 2017) and Fledge agrees because all of the Pinedale fundies would probably complain about those toys anyway. Then, after the RPTE group leaves, Walmart Miku shows up and Fledge immediately accuses her of being Magpie and tells him to fuck off. Magpie tears off the costume and vows that he'll be back.

Sparrow and his Evil Anime Dad are across town at Big Al's Mattress Store (which just opened) so Sparrow can redecorate his bedroom and his dad can appraise Big Al's craftmanship. Sparrow wanders around for a while before encountering SeeU curled up on a mattress and mistaking her for Finch. SeeU wakes up and asks if he needs any help, at which point Sparrow immediately puts the moves on her and says that her name (written as "Siyu" on her nametag) is beautiful. She exclaims that it's Korean and of course, Sparrow says that he's half-Korean himself. SeeU responds by spouting off a Korean copypasta and Sparrow, realizing that he's fucked up, repeats whatever few words he can remember seeing in K-Pop discussions online. Sparrow gives her his name before Matsudappoiyo (called "Souta") wanders over and asks SeeU where Big Al is because Yuki and Nana are back "...again". SeeU expresses concern because Yuki and Nana are children, but Matsudappoiyo points out that they didn't have anywhere else to go and says that they shouldn't talk about this in front of a customer. Big Al then arrives in the flesh to tell Matsudappoiyo off for "objectifying women on the clock", and SeeU cheerfully introduces Sparrow to the store owner. Big Al finds him suspicious and after wondering whether he's a fellow (former) Vocaloid/Utau, Matsudappoiyo points out that he's just called SeeU and Matsudappoiyo by their real names and insists that they kick him out before he can spread the word. SeeU cries out that they shouldn't hurt him and Sparrow's dad conveniently shows up to question what's going on. Big Al accuses Sparrow of flirting with SeeU and Mr. Devereaux attempts to buy Big Al off, claiming that the poor quality of his furniture means he must be desperate for money. Big Al is offended and punches him through the entire store, which makes Sparrow panic because everyone starts discussing how powerful Big Al's punches are. SeeU is distraught and questions how Big Al could do such a thing while Matsudoppioyo (taking this lightly) says that no matter what Big Al claims, he just punched a customer. Big Al says that Mr. Devereaux was no ordinary customer, and he's proven right as the lights shut off and Mr. Devereaux (surrounded by a menacing purple aura) walks through the wreckage of the furniture store and congratulates Big Al for his strength. Then the two engage in an anime-style fistfight as Matsudappoiyo escorts SeeU away and claims that in this universe, Big Al's strength is totally unmatched. Sparrow decides to leave the store before his father can manipulate Big Al's nature by using him as a human shield.

Lark is working at the gift shop on the mountain when Epsio bursts through the door and gets way too excited about their *Yuri on Ice* plushies, after which the rest of the genderbent RPTE crew enters the store (with Sharon saying that Epsio's the reason why they have slope passes). M follows Bianco through the coat aisle and throws a bunch of expensive coats on the ground for him to pick up and put back, but he points out that a shop like this wouldn't be selling clothes from those brands. M ignores him and pours juice on a coat to ruin it, and Bianco begs M to stop before Gucci sues them. M tells him to imagine how pissed Gucci will be when they see how many coats he's bled on, and when Bianco points out that he's not bleeding, blood starts gushing from his shoulder to ruin all of the coats. Meanwhile, Sharon complains while Cardigan pours hot chocolate directly into her bag and Lark kicks them all out of the store. They all leave as Cardigan nonchalantly points out that Bianco is bleeding to death, but Sharon doesn't care because "he's immortal" (and Bianco argues that that was retconned). It's revealed then that they left Epsio behind in the store, and Lark starts a conversation with him about *Yuri on Ice*.

Erin and Tammy do research on *Harry Potter* and *Danganronpa* in Erin's living room, researching all of the characters they already know of and attempting to find the characters that they haven't seen yet. There isn't anything on the internet about either franchise as fictional properties, and as hard as Erin tries, she can't find any record of the characters she remembers online. Erin's phone vibrates and she checks her messages, before expressing surprise at the fact that her profile picture on Vexer (chibi L with a strawberry) was deleted. Erin is concerned because they haven't heard anything about *Death Note* being involved with this, and as Jonah attempts to tell Erin that she's wrong about all of this, Erin points out that the Wammy House is across the street from her house. Jonah tries to claim that the house has always been there, but Erin continues watching them out of her window despite her cousin's objections. She watches as Mello (using his adult design) and Near have an argument and Matt unsuccessfully attempts to calm them down and as she's questioning why her L profile picture would disappear if L's already dead in this continuity, she gasps as she watches L emerge from the orphanage and make an attempt at resolving their conflict. Mello continues being pissed and eventually draws a gun on Near after Near throws a Ramiel action figure at his eye, at which point Jonah herds them away from the window and starts to call the police. However, before Jonah can input the number, Erin realizes that there's already a police car in the driveway and they hear a knock at the door. Erin opens the door to see Light Yagami in a police officer's uniform responding to the call they hadn't made yet, and she slams the door in his face as he begins to ask questions about the situation. Tammy freaks out because Erin just shut the door on a police officer, but Erin insists that she did the right thing because Kira is at their front door. Jonah mixes up that Kira with the other one and Erin corrects her, telling her that *JoJo* is fine if she can still make *JoJo* references.

Tammy finally sighs and asks Erin to step away from this situation because she's worried that she'll get hurt, and Erin replies that while she understands why Tammy's saying that and she can't just drop the issue, she respects the way Tammy feels and agrees to give it some distance...by calling Icey and asking for his help. Jonah says that he hasn't answered her texts all day and as Erin's using this as further evidence that it's suspicious, Icey suddenly appears at the top of their stairs with blood around his eyes and trailing from his mouth and falls all the way down. Jonah runs to him and asks if he's okay, and as everyone crowds around him and Erin guesses that the "very bad" thing that he says is happening has something to do with the fictional characters in their town. Icey confirms her suspicions and explains that he attempted to check in with the Outer Ring Dimensions after losing touch with his liaisons, but in doing so, he almost willed himself out of existence because the dimensions were entirely gone. He goes on to say that while these characters are fictional in their reality, they exist in separate dimensions in which they're not fictional--the characters in *!* only think that they're fictional because those they're given small windows into those realities through books, anime, and what have you. Because theirs is now the only dimension in which they exist (albeit as fictional characters) they were forced to flee to their dimension when their original dimensions were destroyed, meaning that the fictional properties that once housed them are being unwritten from *!*'s canon. At the same time, these characters are carrying over rules from their original dimensions into theirs, rules which fundamentally change the canon of their dimension in order to include fantasy creations such as Hope's Peak High School, magic spells, and the Death Note, and the inclusion of these new rules is affecting the already-existing rules in order to make everything "goofier". Icey finally reveals why he's here: independent dimensions can only be created by groups including more than one co-conspirator, and besides himself, only Erin, the person with the strongest attachment with those properties, is able to remember them because they make up such a vital part of her character. Hence, he enlists her help in rewriting the rules of these characters' realities in order to make them new dimensions that he can move them into so they won't corrupt *!*.

Something similar is happening in the *Marching Peregrines* Dimension, where Fledge and Stork cut class together in order to follow the instructions of a strange note asking them to go to a particular practice room during second lunch. Upon entering the room, they discover that everyone who saw the characters at the 7-Eleven the previous Thursday night/Friday is assembled in the dark. Parrot then reveals himself to be the one responsible for gathering them here and announces that they'll be starting their cult meeting now. Alb attempts to leave, but Puffin stops him and Chickadee reluctantly agrees that she doesn't have anything better to do. Parrot brings up the strange occurrences that have happened in their dimension over the last couple of days and the group discusses them at length, with Heron adding that Bianco lost his hat and began smashing someone over the head with a ski pole while Owl was giving them skiing lessons, and Parrot confirms for Egret that all of these events were connected. He explains that they'll forget about these people ever existing if they don't make an effort to chronicle their lives and misadventures, so he encourages them to write down every detail they can about the strange people invading their town (which they call "tourists") so they won't disappear from their memories. Parrot retrieves notebooks from his bag and asks them to split into three groups so they can describe the characters that will exist in the new realities they're making. Stork, Hawk, and Chickadee create the groundwork for the new Vocaloid Dimension, Fledge, Egret, and Puffin do the same for RPTE, and Heron, Albatross, and Penny work on the genderbent RPTE group before Parrot volunteers to hang onto the notebooks and suggests that they should meet up once a week in order to update the notebooks with new ideas and updates so the universes don't leave their memories. Everyone is invigorated by this idea because they had fun putting these notebooks together, and after making a group chat to discuss this topic, they all leave to attend their final classes of the day.

Parrot stays behind in the practice room and opens a line of communication with Icey in order to tell him that he created the groundwork for the three dimensions. Icey opens a FaceTime-esque portal to discuss this with him and thanks him for taking care of this task on such short notice--especially since the characters his dimension had to work with were a lot more chaotic than the tourists in *!* were. Parrot tells him that it's okay because he had fun putting everything together and he's happy that he could spend time with them since they usually ignore him or call him weird. Icey nonchalantly says that while they both possess powers like these, they'll always be outcasts who never truly belong...except when they're together, Parrot cheerfully points out. Icey agrees and looks over the canons, but he questions why the canons don't have any details about the characters' home universes. Parrot answers that he didn't want to introduce the idea of alternate dimensions to his beloved classmates because all of this reality warping stuff isn't canon to their dimension, to which Icey argues that because Parrot (someone with powers over reality) exists in their world, it *has* to be canon to *Marching Peregrines*. If Parrot's universe has a chance of crossing over in future Christmas specials--an event which is known to cause a lot of turmoil every year--his classmates deserve to know about this stuff before something reality-breaking occurs. Parrot admits that he's not ready to tell them yet because, besides him, the MP Dimension is normal--he believes that the only reason why his classmates have to deal with any of this Christmas Crossover nonsense is because he himself is a tourist who showed up and rewrote the rules so he would belong. Icey finally caves in and allows Parrot to continue without telling them anything, ensuring that he'll change the content of the journals to include information that Parrot's classmates couldn't have known without having information about the original dimensions and change reality so they don't remember a world without those edits. Parrot excitedly thanks Icey for saving him from having to tell his classmates, but Icey forces him to promise that he'll tell them someday...but not now, because Christmas Eve (and Icey's birthday) is tomorrow.

All of the characters in the Outer Ring Dimensions live their lives ignorant of the fact that they were ever displaced in the first place. Harry visits the Room of Requirement during their Christmas holiday to find the First Years playing *Super Smash Bros. Brawl* on Ron's Wii and, disappointed to know that everyone has something better to do than hang out with them, runs off with Ron to see what Fred and George are up to, leaving Hermione to go study with York, Fiammetta, and Katina. Meiko drunkenly drives Oliver, Rin, and Kaito through the city (with Kaito complaining that she didn't stop at Dairy Queen like she promised) until she crashes into Big Al's Mattress Store as usual. Big Al tries to make Meiko pay for the repairs, but Matsudappoiyo accuses him of enjoying rebuilding the store every time something bad happens to it, which he denies. Miku then drives into the store on a Miku-themed motorcycle and chides them for moping around on Christmas Eve before Luka pops out of Meiko's trunk and attempts to attach her with a wrench. Big Al punches her across town and they celebrate Christmas in the mattress store yet again.

Jacket finally arrives home with the rest of his housemates after what is presented as a long vacation and Pichu makes a surprise reappearance that Jacket takes issue with because he's weak and he's already been replaced. N appears to Justicetakle N for his bad behavior and Cheren complains that he can't set his bags down because Jacket's crumpled body is in the way. Bianca enters the house as if she's never been there before and Cress appears to tell Cheren to stay hydrated as he's about to head upstairs to rest, but Jacket tells him to get out since he "kicked [his] ass ten years ago". Epiphany complains that the water and electricity for the house were cut off while they were gone and Jacket wants to kick her out too before Cheren reminds her that she's always been here and leaves. N tries to express his happiness in having a personalized dimension again, but he can't finish speaking before Jacket bitchslaps him into oblivion. The same thing happens at Cardigan's house, which Cardigan takes exception to since she thinks Jacket is annoying. Sharon correctly points out that Jacket is her before Epsio bursts out of the attic, revealing that he'd been locked in there since they left and that all of his stuff is molding in Sharon's shower. Bianco calls Cardigan cruel as he enters the house and heads towards the kitchen, to which Cardigan admits that she just likes it when everyone pays attention to her. Bianco is dragged into a hell dimension by M (who was hiding in the oven) as Cardigan smiles ruefully at her confession. Mello can't relax on Christmas morning at the Wammy House because he's antsy about the ongoing Kira investigation and complains about this to L, who reminds him that they need more evidence before they can arrest Light for being Kira. Mello questions why they don't march up to Light's front door and get evidence while he's distracted with Christmas, but L's able to talk him down by explaining that they're giving Light's family the gift of keeping him for his final Christmas--because with Mello's passion behind the case, their days with him are surely numbered. Mello is still annoyed, but he agrees to work with everyone else to "win this game".

Everyone at Capital Junior High School takes note of the fact that Icey is hanging out with Erin and her friends more often than usual when Winter Break ends (and that Melanie is suddenly getting along with Erin and Tammy again), and as she's walking home from school with Tammy, Icey stops Erin and thanks her for making him feel like he belongs in *!* and helping him understand why it takes more than one person to make a full-fledged universe. Tammy tries to dismiss him after this, but he goes on to tell her that Erin is lucky to have a friend as loyal as her. Erin comes to the conclusion that, beyond the reality warping stuff, Icey is a normal person just like anyone else in town and not some impossibly cool mythical creature like she used to believe. Meanwhile, Icey returns to his family home and delivers the notebooks that he created with Erin to Bryony, who stores them on a shelf with some number of other realities that Icey and his family members have created in the past. Upon returning from break, Magpie is incredibly jealous of the characters who met with Parrot in the practice room because he's not part of an exclusive "cult" that they refuse to tell him about and they refuse to tell him about the realities that they're discussing before band. He marches out of the room announcing that he's going to make his *own* cult when he can't find Parrot and harass him into inviting him to a cult meeting, and it's revealed that Parrot is loitering out in the hallway smiling to himself because his classmates are still discussing the dimensions they (unwittingly) created together. He's then alerted to the presence of Rotto Tsukiyama behind him in the hallway and despite the fact that Rotto is attempting to intimidate him, he greets the OC cheerfully and asks him to step back so he won't be within All Apologies' range anymore. Rotto, shocked, questions how Parrot knows about All Apologies and Parrot explains that he read the story from which Rotto hails and adds that although it's not obvious, Rotto should back off because Parrot's a lot stronger than him. Rotto questions who the hell he is and Parrot briefly introduces himself before shoving Rotto into the open paint closet and closing the door behind him (all using an unseen power). Parrot casually remarks that he guesses Stands are canon to the *Marching Peregrines* Dimension and decides that he'll talk to Icey about it after school.

## Characters

#### Major Characters

* Icey Birdwell
* Jonah Blackwell
* Erin Finley
* Wilhelm "Fledge" Fledgling, Jr.
* Tiffany Gomez
* Alistair Gomez
* Wesley Hawk
* Emily Middleton
* Gary Ortega
* Parrot
* Piper Puffin
* Greyson Pulasky
* Tamiko "Tammy" Stuart
* Penny Williams

#### Minor Characters

* Allen Adams
* Big Al
* Enre Amerson
* Epona Amy
* Toru Anson
* Bianca
* Bianco
* Bryony Birdwell
* Mr. Brooks
* Cardigan
* Cheren
* Cress
* Tommy Davis
* Katina Eklof
* Junko Enoshima
* Epiphany
* Epsio
* Helen Finch
* Camille "Cami" Glass
* Hermione Granger
* Miku Hatsune
* Hajime Hinata
* IA
* Lindsey Chamsae Devereaux III
* Jacket
* Rin Kagamine
* Kaito
* L
* Belita Lott
* M
* Matsudappoiyo
* Matt
* Luka Megurine
* Meiko
* Mello
* Margaret Morgensen
* Lewis "Lew" Musick
* N
* Makoto Naegi
* Near
* Mr. Nogan
* Katrina "Kitty" Nolan
* Oliver
* Alerick Orr
* Melanie Owens
* Ms. Paisley
* Kathy Pena
* Pichu
* Fay Pope
* Harry Potter
* York Romero
* SeeU
* Sharon
* Joey Sharp
* Sparrow's Evil Anime Dad
* Rotto Tsukiyama
* Lark Wangmann
* Ron Weasley
* Marcus White
* Janet Wolfe
* Light Yagami

#### Mentioned

* Evie Alden
* Mortimer Bennett
* Maverick Daugherty
* Fiammetta Romero
* Seamus Finnegan
* Len Kagamine
* Draco Malfoy
* Dove Middleton
* Owen Molina
* Eoin Phoenix
* Shelly
* Holland Trees
* Fred and George Weasley

## Locations

* Marching Peregrines Dimension
	+ Pinedale High School
	+ Food Lion
	+ Burger King
	+ Big Al's Mattress Store
	+ Unnamed Massanutten stand-in
* *!* Dimension
	+ Capital Junior High School
	+ Erin's House
	+ Wammy House
	+ Icey's House
* HPRP Dimension
	+ Room of Requirement
* Vocaloid Dimension
	+ Big Al's Mattress Store
* RPTE Dimension
	+ Jacket's House
	+ Cardigan's House
* *Death Note* Dimension
	+ Wammy House

## Trivia

* This is the first Christmas Crossover to include *!* and its characters.
* This is also Sparrow's Evil Anime Dad's first physical and speaking appearance in anything.
* The characters' rewriting of the canons for the Outer Ring Dimensions was originally going to take the form of a *Holland Trees*-esque fanfiction for each dimension that was very obviously written by the characters in those groups, but this was cut for time (and because it would take way too much thought).
* There was a segment cut very early on into development in which Kaito robbed a Dairy Queen. It was removed because 1) none of the Machiperi characters would have any reason to be at a Dairy Queen, especially since 2) this story takes place in the middle of December, who's getting ice cream in the middle of December??
* Finch *was* going to appear in the mattress store originally, but because I couldn't figure out how she'd contribute to my already-existing mattress store plans, I cut her out of that scene.
* This story confirms that Epsio is a DIO simp and he totally wasted all of his money on a body pillow, a full bedspread, and everything. Somebody posted that exact sort of picture to one of the *JoJo* subreddits but I can't find it so now I'm sad.
* The match of *Brawl* between the first years would be impossible, not just because we'd both be playing as two characters at the same time, but because our characters are shown fighting one another (Janet is fighting Joey and Marcus is fighting Tommy).
* This fic marks the first time in a very, very long time that Pichu (Jacket's starter Pokémon) was ever relevant.

#### References

* Stork remarks that *Megurine Lunacy*'s fandom is dead because it's been on hiatus for three years. This is the same amount of time between this Christmas special and the previous Christmas special.
* I didn't know at the time of writing it, but there's actually a Celeste execution skip for the *Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc* speedrun.
* Alerick calls Fay "Ramona Flowers" while he's bullying her. While you'd probably expect some deeper *Scott Pilgrim* reference here, the literally only thing that his insult is drawing on is the fact that the comic series takes place in Canada.
* Hinata wants to get mimosas after the assembly because haha funny orange juice.
* All of the potential titles that Not-Hope's Peak is willing to give the students (Ultimate Hothead, Ultimate Emo, Ultimate Emo) are titles that were used in *XTREME GRANDPA DANGLEHOPPERS*.
* Keebo makes a surprise appearance during the assembly despite not being a well-established roleplay character, but even more mysteriously, this cameo appearance was originally reserved for the man, the myth, the legend himself, Kaito Momota, Luminary of the Stars.
* Belita accidentally saying "No I'm aren't" is a reference to my favorite *Futurama* line of all time.
* Of course, the Sega Dreamcast line is a reference to *Inferno Cop*.
* There are already a lot of straight up and down *JoJo* references, but the one I'm least proud of is the fact that Melanie's insistent "*right?*"s after Jonah makes Erin leave Katina, Cami, and Belita alone are a stupid reference to Cheap Trick from Part 4, who is annoying as shit and I hate him.
* You'd probably expect me to know which anime girl with short blue hair Allen mistook Cress for, but because I legitimately don't know her name and I don't know where she's from, I don't know how to start looking for her. But trust me, her hair is like the exact same as Cress's.
* Yes, I actually sat down and calculated how much Cress's water would cost.
* The Christmas cosh that Luka uses to knock out the Karen at Food Lion is a reference to *Light and Dark: The Adventures of Dark Yagami* because of course it is.
* It's completely obvious, but the Luka conquers a Food Lion/Miku conquers a Walmart concept has its roots in the very sarcastic "Eridan conquers a Walmart" idea I came up with in high school.
* I hate the fact that *bruno takes his goons to walmart* forced me to address the Food Lion, the Walmart, *and* the Burger King as their *"*local" establishments.
* I don't speak Japanese so I don't know if it came across well enough, but the Japanese that Magpie speaks at Burger King is supposed to translate to "Um, I'm sorry, is this our local Burger King?"
* Sparrow's dad is DIO. Sorry I don't make the rules, I just write them down and enforce them. (...does that make Sparrow Giorno, or do we need a second buff father for that to work?)
* The Korean that SeeU speaks at Sparrow is someone's Korean translation of the Navy SEALs copypasta.
* The windbreaker of an unknown brand that M ruins with Epsio's weeb tears is one of Jotaro's jackets from Part 4. Unlike Diamond, the Windbreaker wasn't Unbreakable.
* The app that Erin cites, Vexer, is from a project I'm still working on that you don't know about. It's basically just LINE chat or something like that.
* Erin's deleted profile picture is the same picture that SonicXKimmy173 used to use.
* The gun that Mello draws on Near for no good reason is the exact same gun that he has in the manga/anime. I did my fucking research.
* The room that the cult members meet up in is the exact same one that the Brass Cult used to meet in!
* lol hey you found the stupid doppio thing i put in
* Icey saying that he'll become the Birthday King tomorrow keeps in line with the canon established in *Final Story*: when a Birdwell has a birthday, they get to wear a crown and a special sash that says "Birthday King" (yes, even Chandler).
* Mello got chocolate guns because he likes chocolate and guns, but that's also a really stupid *South Park* reference.
* On the topic of the fake names used throughout the fic:
	+ York's name, Harlem Giovanna, is easy to pin down: Harlem is a neighborhood in New York, and he picked the last name Giovanna because he's a Part 5 stan.
	+ Fay's name, Mathilde, is borrowed from Mattie of *Genderswapped Nations* fame. Her full name was first revealed to be Mathilde Williams in *Genderswapped Nations: The Rebootmix* (2015).
	+ Harry changed his name to Gary Radcliffe because Gary rhymes with Harry and Radcliffe is Daniel Radcliffe's last name. Duh.
	+ Along with being a joke about his intelligence, Ron's shitty fake name of Won Reasley is also a reference to the character Voah Nogan in the same universe--further cemented by his appearance seconds after Ron introduces himself as such.
	+ SeeU's name, Siyu, is just the Romanization of SeeU.
	+ Matsudappoiyo's name, Souta, is the given name listed for him on the UTAU Wiki.
	+ Hera Griffin, Aldrich, Kaja, and Cambria are just *Genderswapped Nations*-tier counterpart names that borrow either the sound or the first few letters of the original names.