Winter's Box

"I'm not there yet!"
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## Winter's Box

### Uses

Winter uses this box to store her personal photos and to keep them secret from strangers.

**Winter's Box** is a box belonging to Winter that stores her personal photos.

## Appearance

The box is small and dark brown. The clamps on the front and top are gray-brown and have faded gold buttons while the clamps are the side are the same color, just with silver buttons. The box latch is silver, and underneath, Winter's initials are engraved in another shade of silver. The box contains various silver etchings on the top, front, and sides, mostly in patterns of leaves or plants.

## History

### Season 1

#### *Prologue*

Winter, unnamed, runs into her cabin and finds her box safe, which relieves her.

#### *Meeting Winter*

While investigating the cabin, Mya notices a box with the initials of WM engraved on them, wondering if it belongs to the girl she and Evie saw earlier. Before she can open it, Evie stops her, warning her that they shouldn't be prying into private contents, and she puts it back on the shelf. However, the girl has noticed their every move and confronts them, irate and desiring to murder them. The two manage to calm her down and convince her that they aren't malicious, which allows her to open up to them. Later, the girl, revealed to be named Winter, grabs her box and heads outside, holding it close to her and vowing to tell Evie and Mya her secrets someday.

#### *Stalker*

Winter briefly glances at her box, knowing she'll have to tell Evie and Mya what's inside in the future. After dealing with Aiden and returning to her cabin, she looks at her box and then back to her friends.

#### *Ex-Girlfriend*

After waking from a disturbing nightmare, Winter grabs her box, opens it, and picks up a photo of her and Daniela in happier times, a sole tear falling onto it. Later, she picks up the box and rewards Evie and Mya with the opportunity of seeing what's inside - ten photographs of her most treasured memories - including the photo with her and Daniela.

#### *She's Plotting Something*

Mya lifts up Winter's box in a search to find clues tied to her disappearance, but she doesn't find anything and sets it back down.

### Season 2

#### *Rushing Roulette*

Winter sees Mya bound in the corner of her cabin near the place where her box is located.

### *Winter's Tales*

#### *Dawn Will Bring Us Death*

Winter sees a plain box in the arts and crafts section at Tuesday Morning, which she points out to her mother, and she snatches it. She mentions that she will need it for a project, refusing to specify to Winter, and she wonders what she's planning. Later, Saul gives Winter the box at the hospital, now decorated with silver markings, as a gift for her - originally intended to be her tenth birthday present. Winter cherishes it, especially when she realizes that the markings reference Varien, her favorite artist. She thanks her mother, and she encourages her to embrace the box's magic. Winter shows the box to her father, who loves it. After Lorelei's death, Winter thinks of the box and holds it at home, scraping the markings until she falls asleep. Upon the conclusion of Lorelei's funeral, Winter returns home, holding the box and thinking about how it and the necklace were her mother's last gifts to her, breaking into tears. Her father joins her, commenting that the box is very beautiful, and distraught, Winter squeezes it. She keeps it in her lap, staring at it and pondering about how it represents her. Edwin soon grabs the box and places it beside him. In the months following Edwin and Winter's healing process, they decide to split photographs of memories, with the major ones going in Winter's box. She later adds the picture of her and Edwin at Rye Lake and her cutting her hair to it.

#### *Soulmates*

Pulling the box out from underneath her bed, Winter opens it and pulls out the Christmas photograph, reflecting about her mother's death and how she never got to meet Daniela. At that moment, Daniela walks in and joins her friend, concerned for her well-being but not prying about the box or the memories stored in it. Eventually, Winter shares her mother's death with her. Later, Winter notes to put the photo Daniela took of her into her box.

#### *Betrayal of Blood*

Winter stores the ninth photo of her and Daniela in her box. Later, Winter packs her box in her backpack, knowing that she'd never forgive herself if she left it in the hands of her crazed father.

#### *Only in a Waking Dream*

Winter's box rests in her cabin, and it is noted that Winter herself does not have the strength yet to bear the memories it has inside.

#### *The Foxes and the Hounds*

Winter contemplates looking in the memories of her box, but refuses no matter how hard she tries, too overcome with trauma.

#### *Snowblind*

Finally resolving to face her memories, Winter pulls them out of her box, names them, puts them back in, and carries her box out. In the Piney Woods and at Pinelake Park, she visualizes each memory. Later, she worries for her box, but finds that it is safe.

#### *Dance of a Thousand Eyes*

Winter pulls one of her memories out of her box and places it back on the shelf. Not long after, she hears two strangers with her box in the cabin and charges at them, though by then they have put it down. Later, Winter picks up her box to console herself; when she prepares to tell Evie and Mya that Daniela is her ex, she picks the box up again.

#### *Return of Snowlight*

Winter packs up her box and takes it home with her.

## Trivia

* The box originated from Tuesday Morning and was originally a plain box, but later decorated with silver etchings by Saul, the neighbor of the McCormick family, as it was supposed to be Lorelei's present for Winter for her tenth birthday. However, realizing that she was going to die of pneumonia in the hospital and wouldn't live to see her tenth birthday, Lorelei had it given to Winter early.
* The etchings on the box are notably a reference to American musician, composer, and producer Varien, who Winter is a canon fan of. Most of the patterns on the box are references to his old logo used from 2014 to 2016 while the circle and triangle patterns reference his 2015 song *Aether and Light*.
	+ Winter is aware that they reference *Aether and Light* and loves the box heavily because of it - mostly since it demonstrates that her mother knew just how much she loved Varien.
* The patterns on the box's sides portray a blizzard or snowstorm.