#vermillion snow

[shiningtalons]

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Vermillion Snow: Midnight Neon

Designer's Reflection: Midnight Neon

Obtained: Welfare

Rarity: SSR

Attribute: Green/Fresh

Awakened Suit: Midnight Spotlight

Story - transcripts from Designer's Reflection

Chapter 1 - Wine Party Invitation

Chapter 2 - Assistant Experience

Chapter 3 - Unexpected Challenge

Chapter 4 - New Year's Eve

Story - summarized

Vermillion is decorating her dorm for the winter break when Chi Xiaoyu offers her a chance to take her place as Helz's assistant for the Designer's Cocktail this year. It's a huge opportunity to network with other designers and learn insider secrets. Naturally, Vermillion is excited to go.

A week before New Year's Eve, she and Helz land in Lodden Airport. Everything is still festive for Starsnow as they get ready for the conference at the hotel. It's hard work being an assistant, but Vermillion Snow takes careful notes and pays attention to the hottest designers.

One of them is Caroline, who works for a brand under Mercury Group. She prefers flashy, modernist styles, and she sees fashion only as a status marker. But worst of all, she berates her assistants for even things so small as a color palette she disagrees with.

Vermillion approaches an assistant that Caroline had just screamed at, and offers kind words and encouragement. Caroline hadn't gone far, and she scolds her as well.

Helz finds out about the incident, and he suggests that Vermillion Snow get three letters of recommendation so that she could attend the finale party as well and prove Caroline wrong with her own design. He signs the first letter, and Sonya (the carousel-dress girl) signs the second. A mysterious third designer signs the last letter.

By the start of the Cocktail's finale party, Vermillion has a dress styled and finished: fresh, simple, yet breathtakingly stunning. As soon as Caroline sees the dress, she falls into silence. It's clear that Vermillion Snow wins this challenge - even better, she wins best design at the party. In her speech, she thanks Helz and Sonya, as well as the third person "who inspired this design."

She figured out that Caroline sent the third recommendation letter. Caroline began as a lowly assistant as well, and while she still thought herself above the assistants, she wanted to give Vermillion a chance.

Bells ring in the New Year, and Vermillion Snow has emerged a more confident indie designer with contact cards from famous designers all across the continent.

Connections

-You first meet Sonya in her Reflection for Carnival Scene. Just like in her memories there, she has no character art here. The given reason in-game is that she is shy.

-Helz used to be an assistant, too, but in Morning Mist, his boss, Mr. Doge, was a lot more abusive than Caroline, going so far as to trigger eating disorders.

-Vermillion Snow may not design a lot of Apple clothes, but she is from Apple herself. She and her parents had to leave Apple during the revolutionary war, as explained in her memories in Flowery Silhouette.

-It's fitting that Vermillion would be Helz's assistant, since both are passionate about fashion and seek to reveal the true self, like when Helz designed the wedding pantsuit in Romantic Visit. And both of them earned praises and got contact cards from other famous designers.

-It's actually good that Chi Xiaoyu didn't go as Helz's assistant. While she loves designing, she doesn't like doing extra work... probably because she has bad memories of Jiang Xitong giving her lots of extra work in Early Summer Shower.

-You've seen Lodden before in Vol. 1 Chapter 6 with the auction and the Lodden's Night SSR gacha. Thankfully, no one gets hurt this time.

-Vermillion Snow and Helz land "seven days before New Year's Eve." That means they get into the airport on Christmas Eve, which makes sense with the Night of Twin Queens still performing at the theater. You've seen one queen's Reflection earlier this year in May (Erika) and a couple week's ago you met the other queen, Erinka.

Fun Facts

-This is Vermillion's only Apple-themed suit. All her other ones are Cloud-based, since she considers that country her home and inspiration.

-Chi Xiaoyu knows that Vermillion hates the name "Reddish," but she still calls her that to this day.

[ivefallenfor2andicantgetup]

The beginning of my headcanon memes-

I’ve decided that Vermillion Snow has ADHD and I’m not going back on that, so get ready for a LOT of stuff about that lol

[caitas-cooing]

Outfit where all the clothes were designed by Vermillion Snow because I like her sets, probably because my favorite colors are red and pink so I have that in common with her. She said herself that pink is red and white mixed together so that meant that her and Nikki were destined to be friends, so I think we'd get along great.

(this does have the same makeup exception as the Nikki post I made with this concept earlier, check the tags for that post if you want to see that)

[yagirlyacchan]

Chi Xiaoyu is //right there//

[vap0rwavedream]

Sn + animal/pet headcanons

growing up, Niki had a pet hamster named Bubbles

Marina’s favourite animals are actually rabbits. She’s always wanted one but never got one because she lived in the Ark for so long and because Aeon doesn’t think Marina is responsible enough for her own pet

Marina also compares Aeon to a turtle sometimes. “My Brother is like a turtle. He’s slow and boringgg. All he does is work in his lab all day. Not to mention turtles can live to be really old and Aeon is quite old”

Before the apple federation war, Loen and his family live on a small acreage outside a small town. While living there, they had a golden retriever puppy named Sal. The dog was quite literally, Loen’s best friend

Lolory has an old grey and white tabby cat named Storm

Vermillion Snow and Chi Xiaoyu’s school doesn’t allow any sort of pets or animals in the dorms, so they often go out to Cat cafes after classes to study and relax.

Chi Xiaoyu also takes Vermillion Snow to the Aquarium as a little date night on weekends

Yeeso has extremely bad fur allergies so you can’t have any fur pet of sorts but he was looking into buying a lizard or a snake because they don’t have fur (no shit) and also because he thought they looked badass

Modric has two ferrets named Captain and Perry

:)

[starphenie]

sketchbook stuff pt 2!

[nikki-item-challenge]

Item: Inky Bell

Designer: Vermillion Snow

"As the inky bell tinkles, there's laughter and melodies in the air."

[imaginationpromblems]

So I wanna talk about Loen’s reflection, which you can get in volume I chapter 3.

“It’s better to be a coward than to die”. Let it just sink in, war can do many things with you and this is just one mere example. This person was willing to be Pigeons slave then seeing/hearing innocent people die. This was after the announcement of Snownight and other young soldiers death or announced to be missing. In this chapter of the memory of the reflection, a lot of people of Westburg gave their opinions of this war. Uncle White, the father of Snownight wanted the soldiers to retreat because these young people shouldn’t be out there fighting in this war. “Just don’t send our children to hell already!…” - Uncle White.

A herder said “That’s silly. If we give up now, those sacrifices are in vein!” While I agree with this argument, that all those sacrifices will be in vein, it’s just NOT good for young people to go out there in war. They should be living their lives and not risk it in a war with so many dangerous battles. “But if the army keeps losing the enemy will bull their way” “The longer the battle drags on, the more people will die…” Which is all true in war, but here comes the next part.

“If we surrender, there will be no Apple Federation, will there?” If they had given up then and there, Apple will be drastically different then what we would have known it in year 0 or maybe even year 680. Consequences, that’s what’s gonna happen. Actions have consequences and in a war it’s one of the things you have to be cautious about. “I don’t think we should give up! If we are defeated those Pigeon people won’t let us off easy!” “Do you want your children to kneel down and polish their shoes in the future?!” If Apple would have surrendered then and there, the future would be like this (what the herder said). Let’s just say, the future would be sad and grey.

“It doesn’t matter to be a slave, it’s better than anything to have no war.” Now were going back to this passerby and why I wanted to make this in the first place. This person was willing to give up the Independence war and live the future life as Pigeons slave. It’s better than war and death.

“What was my father thinking when he went to the battlefield with those young warriors.” - Loen.

Timeskip, because I also want to talk about this, even though there’s a lot more to talk about the Independence war of Apple Federation.

We see here Loen and Reddish (Vermillion Snow) talking. Loen takes out a red cypress vine flower (which reminds me of that sr suit of Vermilion Snow) in her hair.

There is not really much to talk here, but I think it’s important to say it anyway. The fact that Reddish (Vermillion Snow) doesn’t know that her sister has passed away is really heartbreaking to be honest. (Notice: i haven’t read her reflections, so I don’t know if she does know or not. But is she does get told about it it’s still heartbreaking). Loen reassures Reddish, that the place they were going to will be beautiful (Cloud Empire). He says his final goodbye to the White family after this conversation. For people who don’t know, this is 13 year old Loen and Reddish was at least 8 years old in this reflection.

[eggsnatcheskneecaps]

[federalstyle]

Every time I bother to read the clothing descriptions, sometimes they reference the most messed up aspects of the story. Like, this design is literally a direct reference to how Vermillion Snow's sister, Snownight, died during the independence war. Yikes.

[shiningtalons]

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Vermillion Snow: Thoughts of Autumn

Awakened Suit: Thoughts of Autumn

You can find the original suit here.

[emutales]

[romancemedia]

Anime Siblings + Disapproving In-Law

[yagirlyacchan]

No heterosexual explanation for XiaoSnow