#snowy song

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Mercury: Snowy Song

Designer’s Reflection: Snowy Song

Obtained: Christmas 2021 event

Rarity: SSR

Attribute: Green/Fresh

Awakened Suit: Frosty Song

Story - transcripts from Designer’s Reflection

Chapter 1 - Legend of Ice Lake

Chapter 2 - Safe Distance

Chapter 3 - Frost-Stone’s Arrival

Chapter 4 - Choice of Life or Death

Story - summarized

Content Warning: death

Bane is a half-elf who is proud of his heritage, but he always grew up uncertain. Did he fit in more with humans or elves? Why were half-elves so hated in Pigeon Capital? Could he really be accepted anywhere? The granny that cared for him at the orphanage assured him he was loved and cared for. She would tell stories of the Snow Elf that blessed everyone at Starsnow. She represented the elves’ love for humans.

As an adult, Bane still had questions. But he now worked for Duke Darrell, a high noble of pure elven blood. He had spotted Bane among a crowd of people, for half-elves have a particular scent. He told Bane he would give him the respect and dignity of an elf - all he had to do was complete a list of tasks for the duke.

Bane embarks on his latest quest: to oversee the mining of a rare ore by Lake Bovaly. He was to make sure the smugglers did their job and that no one else took the ore. Rumor has it that the mysterious ore is the legendary Frost-Stone, a gift left behind by the Snow Elf when she left Pigeon Forest.

Besides the smugglers’ group, there is Bane and a mysterious man named Issa, who also bears the scent of a half-elf. Bane tries talking to him, but Issa remains aloof. The two half-elves work together in the mine. Soon, the conversation switches to the topic of the missing half-elf prince from Pigeon Capital. Bane wonders if the boy was okay, and he muses if half-elves count as elves or humans.

Issa finally speaks up, saying that he doesn’t think half-elves are either, and that they may not find acceptance from either group. Before Bane can respond, the two of them notice a shift in the air: snowflakes fading in and out of existence, a chill that leaves them warm. They finally find the Frost-Stone!

Bane feels that Issa is going to run off with the stone that night, so when he leaves the tent, Bane follows close behind. Issa had started a fire by the smuggling leader’s tent. While everyone is distracted, Bane makes it to the Frost-Stone’s box first. It’s still there.

Issa arrives. Bane tries to stab him - he realizes it’s actually Mercury. He tries to tell Bane that Duke Darrell never liked or accepted him and was just using him for labor, never once willing to make Bane the equal of an elf. Bane is hurt to hear this, and he even thought it was true, but he still wants to hang onto the hope of being accepted finally.

Mercury says that no one can make him fit into elf or human civilization, that only Bane could make that decision for himself. He tries one more time to give Bane a chance to join him and change how half-elves are seen in Pigeon Kingdom.

Bane runs away with the stone - only to get shot by a mysterious person. The person berates Mercury for being too slow. As Bane lies dying in the snow, he could’ve sworn that Mercury was furious with the voice and sad about his death. How could someone as cold and distant as Mercury ever care for someone like Bane?

The last thing he hears is the soft voice of the Snow Elf, welcoming him back to the forest.

Connections

-Duke Darrell is the elf noble who died in Vol. 1, Chapter 10. Mercury barged into the funeral ceremony showing little respect for the late duke.

-While the Snow Elf is associated with the Ninir holiday Starsnow, it’s actually a part of Pigeon legends. Ninir sees elves as benevolent ones that can bless humans. This is why Mercury doesn’t believe in the Snow Elf, since he knows how vile the elves can be toward other elves, let alone humans.

-Lake Bovaly is a major location in Love Nikki. It’s a sacred place to the elves, and the Wood Elf Prince Chloris watches over it as one of his duties.

Fun Facts

-Two more kinds of elf are introduced in the game: Wood Elf and Snow Elf. The original elf types in the game are Light and Water.

-Mercury’s fake name Issa most likely comes from the Futhark rune “isa,” which represents winter, cold, and waiting.

-So far, Mercury and Bane are the only half-elves mentioned in the game, although there could be more.

-The Snow Elf is left ambiguous as to whether she exists or not. However, her final appearance in the Reflection makes her seem more like a god or spirit that watches over all.

[thewisestdino]

thrushpelt 16?

I'm scared

It feels like you don't care

Enlighten me, my dear

Why am I still here?

I don't mean to be complacent with the decisions you made But why?

[the-girl-not-next-door]

[snowy-bones]

"You will do anything and everything you will ever want to do! You'll soar above the stars one day! Look at you flying above one right now!"

[exile-arc]

it's meant to be the happy time of year - c!tommy + if we make it through december (phoebe bridgers cover)

❄️ / ❄️ / ❄️ / ❄️ / ❄️ / ❄️ / ❄️ / ❄️

[solardaartistperson]

THE ART HERE HELLO?????

[aclue-aclue]

Mo Snow from Blue's Clues & You!

Played by: Leslie Odom Jr.

[stealingpotatoes]

tagged by @its-kinda-snowy!!

Rules: shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people!

Renegade - Kavinsky

Messy in heaven - Venbee

Melody - Sigala

Motions - Cassia

Tek it - Cafuné

Temporary Love - The Brinks

Sublime - Slenderbodies

Afraid - No Wyrld

In the Dying of the Light - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

&burn - Billie Eilish

tagging: @highladyofdusk @nitewrighter @kishuszar @sphyrne @mysticalfg @yufiit @flightlesskiwi @constellation-skirmishes @astraldrake @vagorsol

[snowychicken]

[shiningdesignersreflections]

How Sad...

Mercury doesn’t believe that Snow Elves exist, but in his Reflection for Snowy Song, you’ll find out why he designed that suit anyway.

Warning: the next Reflection deals with death and some cruelty. It’s mainly in the last chapter, in case you want to prepare for it or skip it.

And this is the last Reflection of 2022. Sorry to end on a bittersweet note. Still, thanks for joining me on this journey once more :)

See you in the New Year, Shiny Designers!

[fluentisonus]

LOVE how the further into winter you get the way you can just feel the mystery & sense of liminality in the world increasing like. in your bones. you can just feel the year wearing thin around you & all the things that could make their way into the world in the long nights towards the end of it. like every day my chances of meeting a sinister faerie creature in the quiet woods after dark goes up

[the-girl-not-next-door]

[snowy-bones]

Memories from before The Fall are not easy. They quickly twist from the fond to the painful.

[silent-partner-412]

ok i get why people don’t like winter in stardew. most crops don’t grow, your animals won’t go outside, it’s inevitably a slower month than the rest of them. but i gotta be honest i fucking love the atmosphere in winter in this game. the whole valley turns glacial, the music is calm and mildly haunting, there’s just a twinge of sadness and melancholy to the whole thing, it’s such a perfectly romanticized version of how i imagine winter as a season and i fucking love it. the song the wind can be still comes on and i have endless chills, it’s phenomenal.

[inktheblot]

The rotation of Christmas music that plays in the store I work at includes the following:

Any version of “Last Christmas” you could think of and then some, EXCEPT Wham’s

Various people trying to come up with weird new verses to “Jingle Bells”

Joey Ramone’s cover of “What a Wonderful World”

This one cover of “Do You Want To Build a Snowman” that’s sung in like. That specific really breathy way that pop singers do Christmas songs sometimes y’know?

The song from the Victorious Christmas episode

Three songs from the Phineas and Ferb Christmas special

“I Have a Dream” by ABBA except not the ABBA version

- DO YOU REMEMBER THE 25TH NIGHT OF DECEMBER