Snow

* [The Butler from Ikebukuro]
* [Snow Lion's Discipline]
* [Snowdrop of Love]

## **Research Note**

A Lion Therian who is a gentleman and a butler, serving the master of the Ikebukuro Guild. He remains calm at all times and speaks politely to anyone he deals with. He respects people of kingly potential who show courage and wisdom. He insists on being the right hand man to such kings and extends endless praise to the strong and courageous, but he can be extremely cruel where cowards are concerned.

He has the strength to put and end to squabbles, the wisdom and courage to manage a Colosseum filled with ruffians, and healing abilities to treat the wounded. Thanks to him, even though many fierce battles take place at the Colosseum in Ikebukuro, not a single death has ever occurred. He Sacred Artifact takes the form of three Chakrams and he uses them to defeat the ill-mannered.

Snow's thoughts towards his master under the oath of serving by the side of a king are able to express the appropriate courage and wisdom in his heart for the one who could be a supreme ruler. As an expression of that respect and affect he sends his master a special something every year, but sometimes it seems he becomes anxious about whether this is becoming a burden upon them. All he seeks is to abide by the thoughts of wanting to support at the side of the king who continues to fight. Meanwhile, he is a severe person who has something similar to pity towards people who have given up on fighting or people who refuse to fight. The moment when someone beset by unfairness and unreasonableness but continues to fight and puts their life on display is the moment Snow's heart can be swayed. However, as someone who has commendably separated emotions from logic, the one ones who can see such subtleties of the heart would have to be someone very close to him.

## **Notes**

* Based from the Snow Lion, a celestial figure in Tibet as well as their national emblem.
* His Role is "Vassal" and his Rule is "Trinity."
* His charge skill, Ashtamangala, refers to the eight Yidam (manifestations of those who achieved enlightenment or Buddhahood). However, based on the shape of his Sacred Artifact, his would be more than likely one of the total eight, the Dharmachakra or Wheel of the Law.
* His Title Screen mentioning the "Three Thousand Realms", is a reference to certain buddhism ideals, Firstly, the ideal that there are ten conditions of life which each being experiences from moment to moment, the Ten Realms, and further than those, the ideal that, since each realm is contained in itself, and looking at them with the Ten Suchnesses which represent ten characteristics each one of the realms can be interpreted in, as well as passing them through the Three Realms of existence (desire, form and formlessness), means that at any given point in time there are, at least, 3000 different possibilities which can occur.
* Snow shares a loading screen with Claude, which in turn and possibly to the lion buttler's dismay, is very similar to Melusine's. where he has prepared Claude's meal, with his face arranged in the plate, and Claude is stating "Approved." (承)

## **Images**

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