Dreamnoblade one shots for funsies

Christmas colors

"I see you got dressed for the holidays." Dream said, popping up next to Techno.

"But of course." Techno spun around to show off his normal royal garb. "Red's the color of Christmas after all."

"Oh is it now." Dream quipped.

"Red decorations, red holly berries, Santa's outfit is red, white trim too."

"Yeah okay, but I'm pretty sure you're forgetting something."

"Hmm?"

"Green is the color of the season! Green wreaths, candied pears, elf hats!"

"Elf hats?" Techno chuckled.

"Shut up, you're just mad because I'm right!"

"What the heck are you talking about! Christmas is red, have you seen Rudolph? Or Mrs Clause!" He shouted.

"She's just a carbon copy of Santa and you know it, unlike Father Christmas, he wears green because he's not sponsored by coca cola!"

"Santa wore red long before that ad came out. Just because you're envious doesn't mean you can insult the concept of Christmas."

"Christmas doesn't have anything to do with red! Green's all that matters!"

"Really, well candy canes don't have any green anywhere and they're totally Christmas!"

"Christmas trees don't need red either, just slap a star on a pine and there you go!"

"I don't believe that for a second, a tree without any red at all just doesn't scream Christmas!" Dream responded just by glaring back, which always meant he had lost the argument. "Ha, told you."

For a few seconds there was silence, then like a haunted doll right after you turn around, he screamed. "MISTLETOE!!! And don't you dare confuse it with holly, that one has red berries with green leaves, but mistletoe has white berries and green leaves, no red, whatsoever, and it's so Christmas that no one ever mentions it outside the season other than like plant biologists or something I guess."

Techno stared at him while he rambled, completely frozen at the statement. "Mistletoe huh? I didn't know you treasured that part of Christmas." He said, sliding into a smirk.

"Wait, just because I said it doesn't mean..."

"No, you're right." Interrupted Techno. "Especially that point about holly, red and green make Christmas when they come together, that's what you were suggesting."

"Not like that!" Dream blushed. "But yeah, I never said red wasn't part of Christmas, it just can't do much on its own."

"I'm pretty sure you did say that at some point actually."

"Whatever, you know what I mean."

"Yeah, like red cranberries only look like Christmas when they're on a green tablecloth."

And when you have both red and green lights reflecting off of the snow."

"Or candles lit inside a window, one red,"

"And the other green." Dream finished, smiling warmly.

"It's almost like this whole argument was a metaphor for how the meaning of Christmas is for everyone to come together instead of arguing about things that ultimately don't matter."

"Stop pretending to be meta."

"Sorry. I guess now we can go back to what you said about mistletoe being oh so important to Christmas."

Blushing furiously, Dream snapped back. "Too bad we don't have any."

"That's why we should go looking for some, come on!" Techno grinned playfully.

Dream kicked and screamed, but still walked with Techno to find the coquettish frondescence.

[Concept and inspiration from the song "A Red and Green Christmas" by Miss Piggy and Wim T. Schippers]