#Ignore my fingies. Still got Ace flag fingernails from Edinburgh pride adsjfdsf

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Prev just to clarify, I'm not saying he lives with them in Comet in Moominland! Sorry lol that was very easily misconstrued. In CIM he hasn't met them yet and gets invited back to Moominvalley for the first time after the comet passes, we don't see anything of what it's like for him settling down in the valley. You aren't misremembering haha

What I'm referring to is 1 - the illustrations Tove Jansson drew of a map of Moominvalley and Moominhouse, (which I have studied MUCH too closely because I made a Sims 4 replica years ago) which show that Moomin's room has two beds in it and is called "Snufkin's and Moomintroll's room" in the version printed in FFM (collectors edition), and 2 - at the beginning of FFM, Snufkin and Moomintroll talk to one another before going into hibernation together, and then in the last chapter Snufkin explains his fernweh to Moomin and suggests his plan of leaving for the winter for the first time - which by Moominsummer Madness has become their routine ^^

Tl;dr, it's something you have to extrapolate about the time BETWEEN books rather than from the previous book itself :)

I wanted to check it wasn't me misremembering, so I went and reviewed my copy of FFM and snapped some pics for ya since I had it out anyway

Love the trope of "Snufkin coming back late to the valley and Moomin attentively waiting for him" that Moominsummer Madness and the adaptations inspired by that aspect of that story have given us in the Moomin community, but I do feel sad that because of its popularity and the interpretation of this 'cold/tsundere Snufkin' who's aloof and off doing his own thing that so many people accept from that and The Spring Tune, so few explore the alternative.

The year that Snufkin arrives early, and the Moomins aren't awake yet. There's so much opportunity there! So many different ways it could go!

Does he set up his tent and wait? Go and spend the last few days with Too-Ticky? Let himself in to Moominhouse and go to sleep in his bed? (Drives me crazy that non-book readers have no way of knowing that pre-Finn Family Moomintroll he hibernated WITH the Moomins and he HAS A BED IN MOOMIN'S ROOM for when it's too cold or dangerous out for the tent. Grrr biting chewing gnawing) Does he quietly start prepping the house for when they do wake so that their spring workload is reduced? Does he wake Moomin up himself?

There are ways that all those events could make sense for his character, and I want to see themmm T-T