#warmest snake in klein...

[fisheito]

A while back you made a post talking about yakumo and his sensitivity to temperature and I haven't stopped thinking about it. imagine when winter comes around and yakumo becomes progressively sluggish, usually staying in the kitchen and not leaving for hours, always making something near the stove to feel a little warmth from the flames or from a little taste of the things he's making (soup probably), or him picking up the habit of bundling himself up and staying in the library to read and nap. maybe when it starts getting even colder he barely leaves his room because its too uncomfortably cold for him, and if he does he's probably looking for eiden to help him warm up, but if eidens not around he gets antsy and looks for somebody else in the mansion, but he's too shy to ask and looks at whoever with his wet eyes so they know he's cold and wants a cuddle

*inhales deeply* ah yes. you understand. you envision it all so clearly. rightly so. gEt in the wAy, everybody, snake burrito walking the halls very very slowly!!!!!!! (i was about to say get OUT of the way but that would probably make yakumo colder so why not do him a favour and collide with him on your way to another room)

[rist-ix]

What were your favourite cartoons to watch when you were a kid?

The obvious aside, I was in LOVE with a German-French show called Der Kleine Prinz (“The little prince”) based on Saint-Exupéry's novel with the very same name. It would air on the German kids' channel every day, without fail, at 7 pm, and since the 20 minute episodes were two-parters, I absolutely could not bear missing one, or I’d never know how the plot of the episode resolves. Woe is me pre-internet.

Seriously though, I cannot describe the hold this had on little me. This is pretty much the only show I can think of that can be describes as “magical girl for boys”, the costumes and character designs were STUNNING and don’t get me started on the world building for each planet. The little prince's German voice was the softest, warmest and most trustworthy voice IN EXISTENCE, and the magical chimes that came every time he transformed still bring tears to my eyes.

The plot is pretty simple, basically he and his snarky animal companion, Fox, travel the universe chasing the Snake, who ALSO had an amazing voice and design, to foil his evil machinations. I am now noticing that the Snake also had a bit of an obsessive villain crush on the Rose, who the Little Prince writes letters to each episodes and who had to stay behind on his home planet due to being, well. Rooted to the spot. I am now realizing this may be a pattern for me. But that really wasn’t the focus here.

Anyway, the story, safe for that very weird finale, was so. Good. Very slow and nuanced, treating each character with care and understanding, even though most of them never appear beyond their two episodes. The story arcs were always closed, no open ends, but never felt meaningless. And even though every one of them had a different plot with different points of focus and different flaws to overcome, they were incredibly consistent in their messages of growth, compassion and forgiveness. The Snake was a very thinly veiled devil-metaphor I think, befriending characters at their lowest point or using their greatest fears, and helping/controlling them to reach their ends while dooming their planets in the process. Until the Little Prince arrives and begins his work to figure out what the problem is and how to defeat the Snake here, before it moves on to the next world.