Winter Starters

Winter Starters

Various winter starters that have nothing to do with holidays.

“I’m done with winter.”

“Snow? More like frozen evil…”

“Oh, it’s snowing again?”

“That’s not snow, that’s hail.”

“SNOW BALL FIGHT!!”

“Don’t touch my snow man!”

“I’m building a snow fort, wanna help?”

“Let’s go ice skating, it’ll be fun!”

“Are you sure the lake is frozen?”

“Gah! The snow got in my shoes!”

“It’s not that cold is it?”

“Wait… You’re not going out wearing just that are you?”

“Please bundle up, I’m cold looking at you.”

“I’m wearing a sweater, over a sweater, over a long sleeves shirt. That’s how cold I am.”

“Here, use my scarf/gloves/hat.”

“Give me your hands, I’ll warm them up.”

“It’s not just below freezing, it’s below zero.”

“Let’s stay inside today.”

“Doesn’t this look lovely?”

“There’s no better way to spend a cold day than under all my blankets with a book or twelve.”

“My plans? To stay inside and stay warm.”

“Snow day? More like movie day.”

“My car won’t start…”

“Stuck? Let me help.”

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND ALL THE BEST FOR THE NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FOLLOWERS! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! <3 ALSO I COULD ONLY USE THIS ICON BECAUSE BELIEVE IT OR NOT THERE’S PRACTICALLY NO OTHER PURE HAPPY ICONS FOR LUNARRE, JUST CRAZY HAPPY ICONS XD NOT VERY FESTIVE XD

timidplum:

Well that was a confirmation he didn’t want to hear. But that was just his luck now wasn’t it? Clenching his jaw he soon tried to relax.

Nothing to get too tensed about yet. For one thing this one wasn’t mindlessly attacking him. Though his comment on what he did wasn’t one he wanted to answer.

And yet Plum answered.

“Why should I enjoy it. For one thing I’m a merchant. I can’t sell a thing with bloodied hands….The other is that I want to try-” but wasn’t it useless? he’s already a monster. “- to maintain my humanity.”

Laughable

A merchant hellion? What a laugh. The same hellion who killed also sold trinkets to the lovely folk of Glenwood? A kid wedged between the life of a human and the life of a beast.

Lunarre shook his head. He spoke, and with each word he took a step closer to Plum.

“’That so? Well then, take some advice from a hellion who’s accepted reality. You’re wastin’ your time. Try what you want, all that ugliness inside you will eat ya up and make you what you are, whether you like it or not. The more you struggle, the worse it is. But no matter what, the end result’s the same. The pain’s less if you just let it happen.”

Now Lunarre was inches away from Plum’s face, hunched and smiling wide.

“Trust me on that.”

Jesus this was dark. Never expected to hear something like this from Lunarre. I was struck by the immediate assumption that it was Simone was the one saying this, though it is clearly Lunarre because he is the focus of the panel and his lips are parted in speech.

It struck me - because family is Lunarre’s fixation, the thing he loathes. His next words (“Family, how disgusting” etc.) and the rest of his bitter dialogue tell us as much.

This speech sounded like something Simone would say. This made me think - did Simone further entrench Lunarre in darkness with her own views? Did she impart her own nihilistic worldview onto an already bitter and vengeful individual? It would certainly go a ways to explaining how and why Lunarre suddenly ended up at SImone’s side, working alongside her under Heldalf for his own ends.

If this is true, then could Simone be responsible for driving an angered Lunarre to malevolence before the start of the story? Was it she who had him become a hellion? Or did Lunarre seek her out, or come across her, and hearing that she could give him power - something Lunarre craved back then - willingly heed her words or do her bidding so that he might attain that power (as in, become a hellion)?

If Lunarre didn’t meet Simone before he went rogue, then it make sense that Simone would have approached and recruited Lunarre some time after the confrontation in Ladylake between him and Our Heroes. What did she reel him in with? Promise of more power? Promise of a definitive plan to destroy the people and things Lunarre hated?

Back to the speech itself, it appears Lunarre is regurgitating Simone’s beliefs in order to justify - or validate - his current state of loneliness. The idea of family still rankles him, and causes him immense pain, but he repeats Simone’s nihilistic ramblings because it momentarily hardens his heart against the pain. He doesn’t enjoy what he says - the mad grin he usually wears is replaced by a darkly solemn expression, as if he’s trying to convince himself.

I GREATLY look forward to where the manga takes my favourite fox boy!!

“My plans? To stay inside and stay warm.”

[Crawls out from his hole] “Ugh. I beat you to it. Been sleepin’ in here since the first snow started fallin’.Get in.”

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“Yep!” He grinned as he slipped his hands into his pockets.”Same old, same old and nothing new at all learned with what I want to know.” It was a shame really, but it was nothing new for him.

“I take things have been the same for you?”

Lunarre frowned. He hated that blasé attitude. He couldn’t understand - how could a life that mattered be so careless? It occurred to Lunarre that Kimuri’s life may not even matter to him at all. Kimuri may well be another fool like him, who believed the contrary once, but now knew better.

But was it better? It couldn’t be denied. At some point or other, Kimuri’s life began to matter to Lunarre. The feeling like a cold finger slipping down his spine shook the hellion.

Did that make Kimuri the fool, and Lunarre the deceiver? As he was now, could Lunarre accept it as anything but?

Was Lunarre deceiving himself all over again?

Once again, for a moment, Lunarre cursed the day he locked eyes with the seraph he called Gramps.

“You’re basically admitting it’s pointless,” the hellion muttered. “But you still keep on going. You wanna die that badly?”

He sighed. 

“I can’t say it has,” Lunarre said, kicking a stone. “And that’s partly your fault. I oughta make you take responsibility, as my elder.” A sardonic sneer crossed his lips. “How about it, Gramps? You stop your crazy dreaming and I’ll quit the whole hellion thing. Good deal, right?”