Winter's Old Residence

"I'm not there yet!"
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## General Information

### Residents

Lorelei (formerly)
Edwin (formerly)
Winter (formerly)

## Media Information

### Appears

*The Adventures of Evie and Mya*
*Winter's Tales*

**Winter's Old Residence** is the former home of the McCormick family. Winter lived here until she ran away following her father's brutal attack on her.

## Appearance

Winter's old residence is small, one-story, and constructed of gray-and-yellow brick. The roof is a gable roof and low-hanging, while the windows are neat and contain worn, painted windowsills. The front of the house is adorned with two trees that arch over a winding sidewalk, and at the front of the house are sets of bushes.

The living room, which also functions as a game room, has gray-green sofas that are in a triangular shape and two dark-wooded tables, one holding a DVD player. There is a TV mounted on the wall. Against the wall are two bookshelves filled to the brim with books, and in a corner is a beach chair used by Lorelei to read her magazines and catalogs. The far left of the living room has a fireplace with three Stars of David on top, representing the McCormick family, and the far right has a desk with chairs with a cat clock mounted on the wall.

The kitchen is quaint and has a wide open gap in the wall filled with a wire and Winter's personal pictures before she relegated them to her box. The dining table is polished and made of oak wood, covered by a tablecloth and a vase holding Pacific bleeding hearts, Lorelei's favorite flowers.

Winter's bedroom is composed of sage-green walls, later replaced with a more tomboyish blue, orange, and brown color scheme, a low-hanging bed with a white mattress and a fuzzy pink-and-blue blanket, topped with pink pillows and Winter's plushies. Lorelei and Edwin's bedroom, as well as the bathroom, are decorated with beach accents, and the backyard has an herb garden tended to by Lorelei.

## History

### Season 1

#### *Meeting Winter*

Winter notes that she ran away from home after breaking up with her ex-girlfriend and getting scarred by her father.

#### *Ex-Girlfriend*

In Winter's nightmare, she relives the night she came out to her father in her old house - leading to her packing her things and running away from the place she used to call home altogether. Her home life is further showcased later in the ten photos she shares with Evie and Mya.

#### *She's Plotting Something*

Daniela accuses Winter of doing nothing to stop the traumatic night in her old home.

#### *Winter Storm Arising*

Daniela retells a twisted version of what happened the night of her and Winter's breakup to the partygoers.

### Season 3

#### *Memories of the Past*

Winter recalls running away from her old home after being scarred.

### *Winter's Tales*

#### *Birth of Snowlight*

Winter feels melancholy when remembering her old house, mentioning some tenents of its design and recalling memories she spent in and outside of it. Later, she goes into detail on the house's appearance, detailing the living room, kitchen, bedrooms, bathroom, and garden. Soon, Winter transitions into her first memories from the house - her first word, the first moment she walked, and other moments where her curiosity led her to incidents in the garage, kitchen, and front yard, most of which resulting in slight injuries. When she is older, she gets to travel out of the house more, including on an ill-fated trip to see the Mariners at Safeco Field that ends in a blowout. When they return home, Lorelei scoffs at Edwin that she told him it "wasn't good sportsball." A year later, when Winter is five, she and her parents embark on a trip to Heartbeat Point in California and leave the house temporarily.

#### *Choosing Paths*

Lorelei interrupts Edwin and Winter as they play in the latter's bedroom, revealing a letter. Upon reading it in the living room, it invites them to a family reunion, which they eventually head off to. However, it ends in disaster, and Winter is taken home, where she is consoled in her bedroom by her mother, who soon tucks her in. Later, in the living room, Winter learns of school and grows nervous as well as excited. When describing Christmas memories, Winter mentions what she and her family would do in the house, such as food making, gift giving, and list preparing. In a later memory, Winter is forced to abandon her folly to watch *The Fox and the Hound* to go to synagogue for the first time.

#### *Transformations*

Winter mentions receiving religion lessons in the house. Later, she notes her constant retreats to her bedroom due to her parents' fighting. Upon discovering Varien, she spends hours listening to his discography in her bedroom, where she also looks at his pictures online; he later comes out as trans with feminine pronouns, and her appearance drives Winter into studying her own body repeatedly in the bathroom. She soons questioning if she is transgender herself, continuing to study her body in the bathroom and doing research on transgender and other LGBT+ subjects in her bedroom, away from her parents' sightlines. Eventually, after waking up from a dream in her bedroom, she realizes she is a lesbian and whispers it with conviction the next time she enters the bathroom. After listening to *Ghost Spores*, Winter heads to the living room to gain insight on the song, but flees when her father turns her insistence into an argument that Varien shouldn't be her idol. There, she dreams herself into the worlds of *The Ancient & Arcane* for a few minutes before returning to reality. In the winter season, Winter sees a Rihanna hairstyle on TV and approaches her mother in her bedroom when her father is out of the house, persuading her to cut her hair to match the singer's, and she does so in the bathroom. Upon Edwin's return, he sees Winter's new look in the hallway and is horrified, but is convinced to accept his daughter's new style as a Hanukkah blessing.

#### *Dawn Will Bring Us Death*

With Edwin's acceptance of Winter's new hairstyle, tensions in the house die down heavily. When winter comes, her mother shelters in the house, making the most of what she has from its interior. She develops severe lupus flareups and is limited, often spending time in the living room while Winter and Edwin work in the other rooms. When Winter makes her resolve to devote time to her mother, they engage in fun activities inside and outside the house. In the height of spring, Winter finds herself staying inside due to the rain, watching movies and TV with her mother. When it's not raining, she helps her with her garden in the backyard. However, a yellowjacket sting briefly deters her from heading back outside, and she seeks comfort from the inside of the house. With some persuasion from her mother, she heads outside and learns that not every animal will be antagonistic toward her. In the summer, Lorelei and Winter return home one day to find Edwin talking to one of his brothers over the phone about the worsening health of his mother, and they comfort him through his decision to be there for her in her final days.

Winter and Lorelei struggle through the temporary loss of Edwin in the house, but are overjoyed when he returns. When fall comes around, the family is extra careful due to the rise in sicknesses, though this does not stop the entire family from falling ill. Lorelei also becomes sick and nearly has her airway cut off, leading to her being rushed to the hospital. In the days without her in the house, Winter notes that it is not the same without her. Upon Lorelei's death, Winter and Edwin are distraught and return home for a bleak environment, which feels gray and empty without her presence. The next morning, Winter and her father struggle to cope with the household environment, but Winter reluctantly pushes through to get through school. After her mother's funeral, she and her father have a heart-to-heart in her bedroom and begin to repair their bond, spending their time together in and out of the house. Later, when her father is out of the house, Winter ends up cutting her hair in the bathroom and gets accepted by Edwin when he comes back.

#### *Soulmates*

Edwin continues to tend to the house and garden. Later, Winter and Daniela have playdates at the house, and Daniela loves the home for its cottage-like atmosphere. She especially likes Winter's bedroom because of its tomboyish atmosphere, and she and Winter meet under her father's duvet to share secrets and swap stories. When Winter and Daniela agree to have a sleepover at the former's place, Winter and her father spend hours organizing the house. Daniela soon arrives, and she and Winter hang out in the bedroom as the day continually transitions into night. While Daniela is out the room to change into her PJs, Winter somberly reflects about her mother not being able to meet her best friend. Daniela walks in on her, and the two have a heart-to-heart over the lack of one parent in their lives. The rest of the sleepover goes by without a hitch, and Winter and Daniela wake up the next morning, having breakfast in the kitchen. Later, Winter gets picked up from her house by Rex in order to be taken to an immersive art experience, as her father is too busy to take her. Some time afterward, Winter gets relationship advice from her father in the kitchen. A little later, Winter learns from her father that Daniela is coming over for another sleepover at the house. When she arrives, they watch Alan Watts documentaries, run around, and play games. They soon come to sit outside in the yard and profess their feelings for each other, cuddling before Edwin calls them back inside.

#### *Betrayal of Blood*

Winter and Daniela hang out in the house on the last weekend before fifth grade. Later, in Winter's bedroom, Daniela learns from her partner that she doesn't want to come out to her father and agrees to give her time to think things through, snuggling with her. Later, Daniela arrives at the McCormick house for a sleepover to celebrate Winter's eleventh birthday, and they hang out in her room, with Winter being gifted a sweater. The sleepover goes by peacefully. In February, the entire house is thrown in turmoil when Edwin gets laid off from his job, leaving him and Winter both fearing that they'll be evicted and forced to leave, and both become sleepless at night. Edwin's aggression elevates, and feeling unsafe in her own house, Winter flees to the Piney Woods with Daniela. Things come to a head when Winter returns home, only for the pine scent on her to reveal to her father that she's been in the woods. They get into a heated fight, but realizing that he is threatening Winter, Edwin apologizes and has a heart-to-heart with her in her bedroom, which soothes her but leaves her with many unanswered questions.

In the summer, the girls lock themselves in their rooms at home to watch television and movies. On the night of their anniversary, Winter and Daniela lay together in the backyard before being called inside. After arriving home from school, Winter takes a nap on the sofa, tuning out her father's wish to get Starbucks. In November, Winter and Daniela have another sleepover at the McCormick house, which goes according to plan until Daniela outs Winter to her father, leading to her being disowned, scarred, and permanently traumatized. Edwin orders Winter to leave within ten minutes, threatening to kill her otherwise, and she packs everything she can up before disowning Daniela and running away, never turning back to the place she used to call home.

#### *Only in a Waking Dream*

Winter runs away from her home, never turning back but thinking of the memories back in it frequently. Later, she has a nightmare where her father attacks her in the house, waking up after Daniela nearly kicks her.

#### *The Foxes and the Hounds*

Winter briefly remembers running away from home.

#### *Snowblind*

Winter notes that she hasn't felt this depressed since she ran away from home. She also visualizes some aspects of her home when she faces her memories.

#### *Dance of a Thousand Eyes*

Winter relives the memory of her botched coming out in her house.

### *Two-Sided*

#### *The Broken Pieces*

Daniela peacefully sits on the sofa in Winter's house with her father. After causing Winter to run away, bloodied and scarred for her life, she is assaulted by her crazed and homophobic father, and is threatened to never come back. Traumatized, Daniela obliges and runs away in horror.

### *Little Miss Perfect*

Winter, after hearing that Evie's mother tiger parents her, reassures her that she relates, and Evie knows that she is thinking about her biological father - who scarred her and spurred her to run away from home.

## Residents

* Lorelei (formerly)
* Edwin (formerly)
* Winter (formerly)

## Trivia

* Av, when writing out the description of Winter's house, decided to "essentially" make it the house of her maternal grandmother, who died in September 2022. Much of its features are the exact same as it, minus the backyard, which has a garden in place of the pool her grandmother had.
* Some of the house's furnishings were bought by Lorelei from Tuesday Morning.
	+ The Pineshadow location would later close, and the entire chain would end up folding in 2023 just a few weeks after Av wrote it into *Winter's Tales*, which she finds hilarious.