Close-up of Winter's talons holding a crescent-shaped brush carved from an animal bone. Text: WINTER: I brought you something. Here. ICICLE: What… WINTER: Do you remember it? ICICLE: My old brush…? WINTER: When we were little, you would always use it to brush your spines before father took you hunting. I thought maybe you could use a small piece of home right now, so I went to the house and grabbed it before getting chased out of the capital. ICICLE: A whole lot of good a brush is going to do me in a dirty cell. ...

A shot from behind Winter who is talking to Icicle calmly. Icicle listens to him while holding the brush and examining it. Text: ICICLE: Why are you doing this? WINTER: Because you are my clutch sister. and maybe this is stupid, but I care about you. In all those years I grew up in that terrible house, mother and father always hated me. But I thought maybe the three of us--you, Hailstorm, and me--maybe we could come out of this not hating each other.

A shot from inside the prison cell, looking out at Winter with a large doorway behind him. At the far end of the doorway, a small silhouette of a guard shouts out towards him. Winter turns his head towards the noise. Icicle frowns and touches the cell bars. Text: ICEWING GUARD: That's about all the time I can give you, Prince Winter. Please leave! If anyone finds you here, I'm going to be in trouble! WINTER: Goodbye, Icicle. I'm sorry this is how it all happened.

Close-up of Icicle, clutching the brush and holding it to her face as if trying to comfort herself. She looks somber and sad. The same close-up as before, but with the lights snuffed out and dark. Icicle closes her eyes. Text: ICICLE: ... Live a good life for me, brother.

I wanted to write a closing scene for Winter and Icicle's storyline. I've felt that the two of them never really got the closure they needed.

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A reprise of the shot with the bars dividing the scene in half. Icicle has averted her head as she is fed up with Winter's intrusion. Winter is looking off to the side, uncomfortable. Text: ICICLE: Leave me. I tire of talking to you. WINTER: There is something else I wanted to tell you. ICICLE: Whatever you have to say, I am not interested. WINTER: This is about father. ...he is dead.

Winter speaks again, still not looking very sure of himself. Icicle has turned back around and is clutching the bars tightly, her expression looking startled. Text: ICICLE: WHAT?? How?? WINTER: I don't know how much of what has been going on made its way to you. I see you're wearing one of Qibli's earrings so you know about the Animus plague at least. Darkstalker is real, and he came back. There was a battle between our people and the Nightwings, and father died in it. ICICLE: And Hailstorm? What about him?? WINTER: He is alive. Mother is with him right now, they are at the palace. She blames me for what happened and publicly denounced me as a traitor. I've been banished and so I'm currently on my way out of the country. This is my last stop. I wanted to see you one more time. ICICLE: … …

A close-up of Winter's face in shadow, looking troubled, pleading, and sad. Text: WINTER: So just this one time, Icicle. I beg you. Can we drop the hostility? I don't want the last conversation we ever get to have be spent tearing each other's throats out.

A close-up of Icicle, mirroring the prior close-up of Winter. She looks resigned and calm. A hooped earring with a tear-drop attachment hangs from her ear. Text: ICICLE: ... ... All right.

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A shot from behind Icicle looking towards the bars. Winter is standing behind them, well-illuminated, talking. Icicle observes him from the shadows in barely-restrained irritation. Text: WINTER: I'm not trying to moralize. Everything you chose to do makes sense to me. But I also don't think Scarlet would have ever let Hailstorm go. No matter what you, me, or any of us did. She was too cruel for that; I learned that when I met her myself. ICICLE: Oh, of course! You've spent a few days with her and suddenly you are the expert! That's you! Winter the Scarlet expert! You think you know ANYTHING about what Scarlet is like!?! You didn't have that deranged shrew living in your head for MONTHS!

Icicle is in the center of this shot, darkened. Her limbs are drawn toward herself and she looks upset. The background is dark, with two enormous, malicious-looking yellow eyeballs affixing their gaze to the dragon princess. Text: ICICLE: You didn't spend every night waiting, fearing she would seek you out again… Seeing her gaunt, decaying face leering at you out of the darkness under your eyelids… Jeering. Taunting. Telling me all the things she was going to do to HIM if I didn't do what she said… And you DARE stand there and lecture me about what she is really like… as if you know her better than I do.

Text: WINTER: Wait, but… she contacted you while you were at Jade Mountain, didn't she? She wouldn't have been in your head for more than a week or so? ICICLE: Of course YOU would think that! No, she has been in my head since long before that. It first started a few weeks after the war ended. Did you think I begged Queen Glacier to send me to that rotten mountain hole because I WANTED to live in a dirty underground dump and cuddle up to the people who just a while ago were trying to kill us!?! I only did that because Scarlet ordered me to! I hated every wretched minute of it!

Winter and Icicle talk through the bars. Winter looks remorseful and somber, while Icicle is seething with indignation. Text: WINTER: I'm sorry Icicle. I had no idea. ICICLE: Of course you didn't! You NEVER have any idea! I'd like to be as carefree as you, running around with my head wedged up my own backside! Content to be the screw-up and never having to live up to anyone's expectations! WINTER: Is that what you think my life is like!??! (sighs) All right, whatever, we don't have time. I'm not in the mood to fight with you, Icicle. ICICLE: Well, that is too bad! I guess you shouldn't have come here then!

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Princess Icicle of the Icewings is lying down, shrowded in darkness. Her head is turned away and her eyes are closed. Two shadowed, bar-like objects are framing her in the foreground. Text: INT. An Ice Kingdom Prison; time unknown > ICEWING GUARD, PRINCESS ICICLE ICEWING GUARD: (talking to someone outside) Yes, she's in here. ... A few minutes, that's all I can give you.

The same scene as before, except now it is illuminated. Icicle is inside a prison cell, the bars casting shadows onto her face and body, as well as the wall behind her. She opens her eyes, looking in the direction of the bars. Her face and body are smudged with grime. Text: ICICLE: You. ...

The prison cell bars divide this scene in half. On the right, wrought in deep shadows is Icicle, lying on the floor and looking up at her visitor with irritation. On the left, bathed in light from a globe in the corner stands Prince Winter, who is looking at Icicle through the bars. Text: WINTER: ... ... ICICLE: What do YOU want? Did you come to gloat? About how, after all these years, the silver child rots in a hole while the eternal screw-up triumphs? Or how much kinder and nobler you were when you rescued Hailstorm after I messed everything up? WINTER: I came here to see how you are doing. ICICLE: I'm in a prison cell, you idiot! How do you THINK I'm doing!?!

A close-up of Icicle yelling and baring her fangs. Text: ICICLE: They locked me up in this disgusting ditch for killing ONE Nightwing! After I was almost murdered TWICE! And what for?? Being a soldier in the war!?! And that Mudwing, the one who tried to do that to me? SHE gets to walk free!?! HOW is that just?? How many of OUR people has SHE killed?? Does THAT not count for anything!?! WINTER: I'm not blaming you for what you thought you had to do. ICICLE: (snorts derisively) "THOUGHT" I had to do??

"A Good Life"
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Another skit I did for the blog featuring Winter and Icicle.

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I've noticed that the preview omits sections in the middle. There are four story posts in total (16 images).

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Some lost icewing princess

With winter turning gn out, I felt like redrawing one a scene of it, Icicle absolutely miserable and desperated, no sleep...

Like a true high school student 💪

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