#sorry everyone I am a fluent yappanese speaker

[hygienic-soap-dispenser]

As a certified Baby of the Family™, it is comforting to see a character like Iceland since I can relate to his experiences and how confusing, almost contradictory, it can be to grow up with much older siblings.

Your older family members will dote on you and adore you but also ignore and dismiss you. You can feel so loved and yet so alone at the same time since no one can relate to what you're feeling at your specific age. You can feel so special and yet lack special connections. Sometimes, you envy siblings close in age since they just seem to get each other in a way you don't. Siblings can feel like second (cooler) parents, and that has its good and bad. There is so much love... but at an inherent distance.

I feel that Ice is someone who grew up lonely yet felt special, that there's something unique to him and his loneliness. He feels loved by his family, but there will always be a gap, physically and emotionally. And that's okay!! Because... he has friends!! Friends who are similar in age, friends who, because of this, understand and support each other.

Because of this and how he grew up, I fully believe that Ice is a certified Ride or Die friend: if someone needs him, he'll be there. A friend is broke? Ask Norway for cash. Despite his own introverted nature, Ice loves to be around people who know and understand him as an adult and not a kid, and he cherishes them. And despite seeming "cold" to others, his heart melts when others send him memes or texts like "This made me think of you" or "How are you?" They make Ice feel that they have chosen to see and accept him fully, as he is right now, and not what he was.