#gretel
Day 2: Life on the Farm
I LOVED Grand Bazaar. I picked it for today’s theme, because I miss farming with the windmills! I find them so charming, compared to makers. (Unrelated: the jump mechanic was also really fun - let me launch the protagonist over entire rivers again.)
In 2008, when I was playing GrB a ton, I really wanted to draw a picture like this. I would try over and over in my sketchbook, but it just…would not work.
@ranchstoryblog is hosting this event and day 1 was a blast!
To: Santa Claus
This year too I’ll be leaving candy under your pillow the night of Christmas Eve.
What should I make this year?
Please make a request.
Please tell me anything you want.
To: Santa Claus
I knew you liked sweet sweets.
I knew you’d say so.
I know anything and everything about you.
To: Santa Claus
The usual present you always give me is fine.
I don’t need anything other than that.
If it’s you, you’ll know even if I don’t tell you, right?
To: Santa Claus
Hug me again this year.
Please pat my head, hold my hand, talk to me lots.
You’re Santa Claus just for me.
Right, big brother?
[OO/XX]
I heard from Gretel that when they were lost in the forest, her brother tore off pieces of bread and left them as a guide. I see, that’s a great idea!
[OO/XX]
And so that’s why I made the Automatic Bread-Tearing Machine!
This will automatically tear up the bread!
I’ll give it to her the next time I see her.
[OO/XX]
… She gave me an awfully disgusted look.
But I convinced her that it would be easier on her brother’s hands if she took it and she accepted it.
Thank goodness, thank goodness!
[OO/XX]
Snow told me that the Bread-Tearing Machine had been torn apart and strewn all over the place, abandoned.
I was shocked.
Did they really want to tear off the bread themselves?
Lv.1 file name: gretel_001.wav
start time 00:00:00 end time 00:03:33
I’m not a useless person.
It’s just that my power wasn’t recognized by the people around me.
Remember what happens when I get serious.
Lv.2 file name: gretel_002.wav
start time 00:05:13 end time 00:05:57
P r a i s e me.
Praise me.
N o t i c e me.
Make me think it’s o k a y for me to be here.
Lv.3 file name: gretel_003.wav
start time 03:16:41 end time 04:17:11
H o n e s t l y , I was afraid of f a i l i n g if I took something s e r i o u s l y .
I was a f r a i d of facing my l i m i t s as a p e r s o n .
Lv.4 file name: gretel_004.wav
start time 44:44:44 end time 49:49:49
S o I r a n a w a y , l o o k e d d o w n o n o t h e r s , a n d l i v e d c l i n g i n g t o t h e d e l u s i o n t h a t I w a s s o m e o n e w h o c o u l d d o i t .
W h a t ’ s w r o n g w i t h t h a t ?
I t ’ s n o t j u s t m e d o i n g i t .