Winter's Pocket Knife

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## Winter's Pocket Knife

### Owner

Winter
Edwin (formerly)

### Uses

Very useful in fights and serves as a mechanism for self-defense. It can draw a lot of blood and create deep wounds if enough pressure is applied. Can also slice through material such as rope.

**Winter's Pocket Knife** is a special pocket knife belonging to Winter. It previously belonged to her biological father, Edwin, up until she stole it.

## Appearance

The knife has a light brown handle and a brown button which makes a silver blade pop out if pressed. The knife is always sharp and cannot be worn down. Edwin's initials, EM, were imprinted on the bottom of the handle, though it has since been re-etched with WM for Winter's initials.

## History

### Season 1

#### *Meeting Winter*

When the girl confronts Evie and Mya, she points a pocket knife at them, threatening to murder them for trespassing. The more they argue with her, the more the blade inches closer. However, when Mya strikes a nerve asking if she even has parents, the girl lowers the knife and drops it on the ground, sinking to her knees and wailing about her lack of parents. It remains on the floor as she settles down, reveals her name to be Winter, and tells her backstory to the other two girls. In her backstory, she describes the moment her father used the knife to slit her wrist as punishment for being queer; in the ensuing scramble, she managed to steal it and claim it as her own. Evie passes her the knife, but she growls at her to not touch her things, and she apologizes. After Winter concludes her story, Mya says that she's a badass for owning a pocket knife.

#### *Stalker*

When someone knocks on the door of Winter's cabin, Winter draws her knife apprehensively, not knowing what kind of threat is lurking nearby. Upon realizing it is Aiden, however, she stows the knife away and demands what he wants. Later, during her confrontation with Daniela, Winter rests her hand close to the pocket which has her knife.

#### *Ex-Girlfriend*

In her dream recounting the night she was traumatized, Winter is scarred by her father, who uses his pocket knife to slit her wrist as punishment for being a "sin." In the ensuing scramble, she snatches it from him and stashes it in her pocket, though it leaves her no safer. When her girlfriend refuses to admit her reasoning for causing the whole fiasco, Winter prepares to draw her pocket knife. Later, after her mother is killed admiring her knife-wielding daughter, Winter, horrified, discovers that Daniela has killed her with her own knife. Throwing it, catching it, and stroking it, she then throws it at Winter's throat, and she wakes up just as it touches. Frightened, she grabs her knife and scans her cabin, but hides it upon realizing that Daniela is not actually there, though it doesn't stop her from recalling the nightmare. The next day, Evie wonders how she and Mya can approach Winter without her pulling her knife on them. That night, when she hears a noise in the Piney Woods, Winter draws her knife, and hearing Daniela, she hides in a bush. She soon confronts Daniela and holds her at knifepoint, shocking her, as she wasn't aware that Winter stole her father's knife. In their confrontation, Winter holds her knife close to her ex-girlfriend as she circles her, closing the gap between the blade and her neck, warning her to not make her be the bad guy and threatening to slit her throat. Daniela concedes, but gives a warning to Winter that what's between them is far from over, making her hold her knife close. After she leaves, she sleeps with it next to her head.

#### *Dancing in the Dark*

Mya tells Evie that no girl wielding a pocket knife is going to jump them inside Cracklog Manor.

#### *She's Plotting Something*

When Winter confronts a mysterious shadow figure in her cabin, she pulls her pocket knife and warns them that she is armed, though this doesn't faze them in the least, and they take a step closer to her. Retaliating in anger, Winter slices their wrist open, though the figure only relishes in the pain, revealing themselves to be a masochist. The next day, when Winter is absent from school, Mya points out that she has to be here, or police will search her cabin and take away her knife. Later, Winter asks Evie how they can escape their ropes, as her hands are tied so tight that she can't reach her pocket knife. Luckily, Mya comes to her rescue, wiggling free of her ropes and using her knife (with her permission) to cut her free. Relieved, Winter is handed her pocket knife back, and she uses it to free Evie. When Daniela pulls a steak knife on Winter, it is noted that the knife is ten times more powerful than Winter's knife is.

#### *The Party*

Daniela recalls Winter slicing into her life with her knife.

#### *Winter Storm Arising*

Daniela remembers how Winter did nothing as her father attacked her with his knife. Mya, looking on at the scene in horror, contrasts Winter from the knife-wielding person she once was. When Winter is pushed to her limits by Daniela, she charges at her with her pocket knife, but her ex kicks her hard enough in the stomach to send her flying into a wall. In the process, she accidentally lets go of the knife, causing it to slide up to Daniela's feet. Eagerly, she picks it up, delighted having a weapon at her disposal. She taunts her for bringing it despite the fact that she could have ended up in jail or gotten a gross misdemeanor for carrying an unconcealed weapon into a school building. She strokes the blade, horrifying Winter, who remembers the horrific nightmare in which she murdered her mother with it. Dropping close to her, Daniela threatens her before plunging the knife directly at her throat. However, before it impacts, Evie and Mya distract Winter by shouting at her, which makes her deflect the blade with her shoulder, saving her life. Daniela is slightly disappointed, but takes her bleeding shoulder as a reward, pricking her own finger with the knife blade and licking the blood clean off.

She tosses the pocket knife up, further tormenting Winter and ordering her to run away. After Evie catches Daniela's attention, the latter spits that she's armed with a weapon and is physically stronger than she is, convinced she won't win in a fight with her, but Evie goads her into fighting anyway. When she argues with Mya outside, Winter insists that she can't fight without her weapon, but Mya points out that she has everything she needs even without it to stop Daniela. Meanwhile, in the cafeteria, Daniela pins Evie to a table and puts the blade of Winter's knife to her throat, preparing to slit it, but before she can, Winter comes to her rescue. She subsequently fights an astonished Daniela, who is too dumbstruck to utilize the knife, and when Winter knocks her back, she catches it mid-air and stows it away in her pocket. Later, it is noted that Winter got special permissions from Rex to bring her knife to school, albeit concealed, and that she had to sign an NDA that prevented her from speaking about it or revealing it unless absolutely called for.

### Season 2

#### *Unbroken Love*

While walking toward Shetani's house, Winter notes that she has her knife on her, and it could draw more blood than most imagined. When she tells Amira that she can cut her collar off, she smiles, having forgotten about her girlfriend's pocket knife. Amira asks if she'd really do that, and Winter says she can at Pinelake Park tonight. That night, Winter uses the knife, and slices the collar cleanly into two.

#### *Rushing Roulette*

Winter uses her knife to cut Evie's restraints apart.

#### *The Attack*

After hearing some rustling in the bushes, Winter draws her pocket knife. Upon seeing the threat, a man, going for Amira, she jumps on him, pressing the blade into his throat and drawing blood. After being knocked away, Winter goes for him again, leaving deep cuts on his arm and neck and causing him to run away, not wanting to die to a young girl with a knife.

#### *Devil's Dungeon*

Winter, in a fit of intense rage, uses her pocket knife to slice off the rope part of Shetani's whip. She then leaps onto the latter, holding her at knifepoint and threatening to murder her if she doesn't confess that she tried disposing of Amira. She presses it deeper, just enough to draw a small bit of blood and finally making Shetani admit the entire truth. Once she is done, Winter retracts the blade and frees Evie and Mya.

#### *Your Pain is My Pleasure: Part 2*

Drawing her knife, Winter charges at Shetani, cutting her on her arm and neck. Later, she holds it in her hand as she glares at Amira's family with hatred and mistrust.

### Season 3

#### *Memories of the Past*

Winter recalls thinking it was over as the blade of her knife impacted her shoulder at the party.

#### *Welcome to Hollowleaf Mansion*

Winter takes out her pocket knife, slashing the air in front of Harlow and Ivanna. Later, Winter makes sure her pocket knife is on her as she walks toward Hollowleaf Mansion. During her argument with Winter, Mya recalls how her father scarred her with the knife she now owns. She promises to return home, even more so when Winter shows her the pocket knife.

#### *Rising Tensions*

As Mya becomes more ambitious, Winter quietly draws her pocket knife and hides it behind her back. Still hiding it, she demands that Ivanna confesses to drugging Mya. When Harlow gets extremely close to Daniela, Winter briefly flashes the knife as if she wants to cut Harlow open.

#### *The Dinner Party*

As Daniela reveals Harlow's attack on her, Winter grips the handle of her knife in her pocket.

#### *The Divide Between Us*

Winter accidentally pulls her knife out on Amira during a confrontation with her. Seeing how terrified she is, her gaze fixiated on the knife, Winter runs away in tears.

#### *Rise to Power*

When Mya seduces Evie, Winter nearly yanks her knife out of her pocket, but doesn't when Evie rejects Mya's advances. During the fiasco in the game room, Winter becomes enraged at the sight of Ivanna restraining Amira and leaps at her, pointing the knife at her throat. She demands for her to let Amira go, but Ivanna snorts, asking if she'd really kill her grandmother. Winter snaps that she has no grandmother and makes a cut in her throat, causing Ivanna to wince, and she releases Amira. After Mya singles out and attacks Evie, Winter pulls her up by her cape and points her pocket knife blade at her throat, warning her that she will remain in the dark forever if she remains the way she currently is. With her threat complete, she retracts the blade and backs off.

#### *Two Lives, Many Horrors*

Amira, worrying that Winter will draw her knife on her parents in her anger, quickly calms her and gets to sit back down. However, she soon grows aggressive again and leaves a hand near her pocket, making Daniela believe she will pull out her pocket knife. Later that night, when Mya invades the mansion, Winter doesn't recognize the "intruder" and pulls the knife out of her pocket, blade gleaming. She leaps onto her sister and points the blade at her throat, but takes it away upon realizing that she has just pinned Mya.

#### *Ultimatum*

During her confrontation with Ivanna, Winter pulls out her pocket knife and keeps it close as she argues. However, she conceals it after she is forced to concede to Ivanna in order to save Amira's life.

#### *Warbringer*

Winter pulls her pocket knife out on Ivanna, slashing into her blouse with the blade, causing hunks of fabric to fall to the ground. Enraged, she slams her granddaughter into a nearby tree, which causes the knife to fly into her hands. With a weapon in her possession, Ivanna is quick to target Amira, but instead, she leaves her and goes for Winter. She slices through her skin, and blood spills down to Winter's shirt. Amira screams at her to back off, slamming Ivanna into the ground. The knife goes flying again, but this time, Amira catches it and hands it back to Winter. The latter, anticipating Ivanna's next attack, flies up to her cheek and tears into it with the knife blade. Having had enough, Ivanna bashes Winter's head into the tree again, knocking her unconscious. Amira, desiring revenge, takes the pocket knife into her hand and fights with it. However, she soon loses the knife, which comes to rest close to Winter. When the girls prepare to fight Ivanna, Winter is noted to have her pocket knife back in her hand.

### *Winter's Tales*

#### *Dawn Will Bring Us Death*

Edwin holds a brown handle in his hands, confusing Winter, and he reveals to her that it's a pocket knife Saul gave him as a means of protecting her. Though she is slightly concerned, Winter shrugs it off and thanks him.

#### *Soulmates*

Winter notes that her father wouldn't draw his pocket knife on Lars.

#### *Betrayal of Blood*

As her father grows heated, Winter fears he'll pull his pocket knife on her. She fears the same thing again when he argues with her over going into the Piney Woods. Later, Winter is mortified when her father pulls his pocket knife on her, using it to cut into her wrist and brand her as a sinner. In a desperate attempt to escape him, she grabs the knife and stores it in her pocket, though she doesn't feel any more safer with it.

#### *Only in a Waking Dream*

Winter keeps the pocket knife in her possession, later examining its blood-stained blade. She draws it when approaching the cabin for the first time and ends up taking it with her to school, gripping it in her pocket as she argues with Rex. Upon awakening from a nightmare, Winter realizes that there is no bloody knife - it is safe in her pocket, and she reaches for it.

#### *Talking of the Axes*

Winter grips her pocket knife as she argues with Daniela, becoming aware of how much of a weapon it is the more her fear and paranoia over her ex grips her. Later, she fights imaginary shadows with her knife, effortlessly defeating them through her reflexes or with the blade of the knife alone.

#### *The Foxes and the Hounds*

Winter draws her knife as she traverses through the fog, but soon finds it's not needed. Later, she fights imaginary vultures and slices into them with her knife.

#### *Snowblind*

Winter grips her knife handle as she confronts Lars and his clique. Upon running away, she pulls it out in her cabin. Later, Winter readies her knife when she believes there's a stalker in the Piney Woods.

#### *Dance of a Thousand Eyes*

Winter feels her knife on her pocket and draws it on two strangers who invade her cabin, threatening them repeatedly for it. However, it falls to her side and later drops out of her hand after she is overcome by trauma. One of the girls soon compliments her for having the knife; when Winter later duels Daniela, she refuses to draw her knife on school grounds. In a nightmare, Winter sees Daniela killing her mother and attacking her with the pocket knife, and after being confronted by Daniela, she challenges her with her signature weapon.

#### *Return of Snowlight*

Winter draws her pocket knife when she confronts the strange silhouette in her cabin, then hides it once she delivers a blow. Later, she is restrained so hard by Daniela that she can't even reach her knife, but with Mya's help, she grabs it and cuts her free, then she uses it to cut Evie loose. During the party fiasco, Winter grabs her pocket knife and tries to attack Daniela with it, only to be knocked back into a wall. In the process, the knife sails to Daniela's boot, and now treating the weapon like her own, she uses it to stab Winter in the shoulder. She continues toying with it as she continues to torment Winter. Upon her return to the cafeteria, Winter notices Daniela attempting to slit Evie's throat with the knife, but she stops her and regains it once she kicks Daniela into a railing. She then stores it safely in her pocket. After her adoption into Mya's family, Winter has her father's initials on the knife replaced by her own, done with the help of Saul.

### *Two-Sided*

#### *The Broken Pieces*

As her mother asks her what happened, the memory of Winter's father using a pocket knife to scar Winter hits Daniela's mind, causing her to snap and run to her room.

#### *It's Murder*

Winter leaps out of a bush, pointing her knife at Daniela's throat. Later, Winter draws her knife, seeing an intruder in the cabin - Daniela - and cutting her on the arm, making her enjoy the pain. When fighting in her hideout, it is noted that Winter's knife is no match for Daniela's. During their final fight in the school cafeteria, Winter loses her knife, and it falls into the hands of her ex-girlfriend, who snickers in delight. Using it, Daniela attempts to stab her in the throat, but misses, instead getting her shoulder. She then pricks her own finger, sucking off the blood and celebrating now that her pain is gone.

#### *Aftermath*

Upon encountering Daniela, Winter holds her at knifepoint, demanding an explanation as to why she is here. However, when she admits that she hates herself for what she's done, Winter draws the knife back in confusion.

### *Little Miss Perfect*

Evie recalls how Winter had ambushed her and Mya with her pocket knife. Later, at the party, Winter loses her knife, and it ends up in Daniela's hands. Delighted, she prepares to kill Winter, but only stabs her shoulder instead of her throat. Evie leaps into the fray, warning her to put the knife down, or get a fight. Daniela refuses, and Evie fights her, though she is soon pinned against a table. Daniela prepares to cut her throat, but using all of her strength, she is shoved back into a brick pillar. However, Daniela soon pins Evie again, and puts Winter's knife to her throat, about to slit it in front of a crowd. Winter then distracts her, allowing Evie to escape. When recalling the fight with Shetani, Evie notes that Winter retaliated with her pocket knife.

### Specials

#### *The Guardian of Angels*

Winter draws her knife and jumps up to a cloaked stranger, threatening her to stay away from Mya. Later, she uses the knife to slice the ropes bounding Mya to a tree. When the stranger is revealed to be Evie, Winter reassures her that she isn't mad and enjoyed using her knife again.

## Trivia

* The knife originally belonged to Winter's father before she took it from him, and has his initials engraved in the bottom. It was given to him by Saul as a means of protecting her. His initials have since been re-engraved to be Winter's.
* Only four other characters have used the knife besides Winter after she claimed it - Mya in *She's Plotting Something*, Daniela in *Winter Storm Arising*, and Ivanna and Amira in *Warbringer*.