#/ fun fact i apparently wrote this on my phone at 2:59am this morning

[eiiskonigin]

No one's ever actually asked me about it, so I'm taking the initiative on this one.

Q: WHY DID YOU NAME WINTER'S SWORD EDELWEISS?

First things first, the sword needed a name, and if RT won't give me one then god damn it, I will take it upon myself. Initially, when I found out that Weiss' rapier was named after a flower ( Myrten Asters, or Aster ericoides 'Erlkönig' ) I kind of knew I wanted to name Winter's something to do with a flower. I liked the idea of another shared naming convention, although I never put much thought about which sister started it -- or if it had been in place for longer than the two sisters.

So, I bounced around a couple different flower names, but kept coming back to edelweiss. I felt a little weird using something that had Weiss' name in it, but I grew to like the idea that Winter had named the sword in honor of her sister, in order to keep her near her in times of struggle.

Edelweiss, literally translated, means "noble white," which also tied into a lot of the imagery I use for Winter -- that being the way she holds herself, those noble airs she never quite lets go of.

On a subtler note, edelweiss flowers represent a promise of devotion, which also felt fitting of a woman who so fully devotes herself to a cause.