by Desmond » Mon Oct 30, 2017 6:13 am
Username: Desmond
Name: Elise
Gender: Female
Why it loves Candy Canes:
Elise loves candy canes because of the endless possibilities of flavors, between all of the different brands. The peppermint! The lemon! The grape! The cherry! All conveniently packaged in a little hook that can rest on her tail for neat storage, and without all of the hassle of rustling around for the freshest piece of food -- because candy canes are still edible a year or so after the fact (though they’re a little gooey… ah, well). Not to mention, as every kid is fully aware, the sugar!
With a child’s mind and body, Elise’s priorities are in the order of things she loves to things she says no and refuses to do or interact with. Getting more candy canes to eat tends to be the top of that list, and decorating with them is a pretty close second. She’s one of those who decorates their Christmas tree with candy, and her little four-footer will start off leaning with the weight of the colorful canes that all but smother the (thankfully manufactured) branches… granted, by the time the carolers start singing about the Twelve Days of Christmas, it’s about two-thirds bare, but it at least starts off magnificent, and that’s what counts when it’s a child’s tree, right? It tends to be completely bare before Christmas Eve, when she usually looks at it and feels bad - so she puts a reasonable amount back onto it… temporarily. Surely, she can spare, oh, a dozen or so for a night? It’s not like she’ll be munching through them in her sleep.
Outside of Christmas, though, the candy canes remain present. New Years has candy canes tied together in a fan formation, creating little firework-like “bursts”. Valentine’s Day is all about the sharing of to candy canes tied together to form a slightly lopsided (but all-delicious) ‘heart’. Easter? Time to break out the multicolor fruity flavors and put them in the Easter egg basket. Even Arbor Day is decorated with little groups of four canes, tied together into little weeping willow-like “trees”. There is a will, so by gosh golly darn, there’s going to be a way to work in candy canes into every holiday, so help her!
Christmas is a time for family… so it’s really no surprise that she has even worked out a memorial for the parents she never knew, while relishing her relationship with her adoptive father, Kanuni, and his always-there-but-we’re-not-”together” close friend, Tuari. The support she gets from the two is utterly amazing, but she can’t help but create little statues out of broken bits of candy canes and scraps other candy she collected just for this purpose, and wonder what her parents were like, who they were, and how they were separated.
It’s only when these little memorial statues inevitably fall apart after Christmas that she gives in and eats them. That’s what candy’s for, after all. And she wouldn’t trade her dads for the world.
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