Soooo all of Mau's trusted CR gets kind of the same template for their area -- it's outside, it has a vantage point from which they can see a wider view of the heart, and it has running water in it. The outside part is just that that's where Mau is most comfortable, so that's where he places the people he's most comfortable being around. The vantage point is a trust thing; if you get one, it means he's not being careful about which parts of himself he shares with you. And the running water is affection -- it's how he's nourishing the relationship between himself and his friends, it's a symbol of his wish to help them and take care of them!
Edmund's area has some unique things about it; his clearing is new and didn't wear itself into being through a long accumulation of shared experience -- it was basically clear-cut into existence. It's sort of prepped to grow anything, but who knows what is actually going to be installed there.
The water is fast and shallow but sourced from a true spring... if you climbed past the plateau to the top of the mountain you could clear the spring and make it a river. Genuine, very rapid but undeveloped affection is what is going on here.
The vantage point actually has to be climbed to -- this is not the case in most of Mau's close CR's areas. That's because Mau already HAS shared the wider view of his heart with most of his CR. Edmund's welcome to it, the path is glaringly obviously there (nobody said it was safe) but he gets to be the one to decide how much he wants to see.
ALSO NOTE that this area is hidden in thick jungle because Mau himself has no idea what is going on with Edmund, just that it's quickly changing and full of weirdly exhilarating and intense feelings -- hence the breeze and also the heat.
Oh, and the butterflies are Mau's conscious awareness and curiosity about all this. They're there, but they're not being symbolized by anything very smart or hardy 8')
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Edmund's area has some unique things about it; his clearing is new and didn't wear itself into being through a long accumulation of shared experience -- it was basically clear-cut into existence. It's sort of prepped to grow anything, but who knows what is actually going to be installed there.
The water is fast and shallow but sourced from a true spring... if you climbed past the plateau to the top of the mountain you could clear the spring and make it a river. Genuine, very rapid but undeveloped affection is what is going on here.
The vantage point actually has to be climbed to -- this is not the case in most of Mau's close CR's areas. That's because Mau already HAS shared the wider view of his heart with most of his CR. Edmund's welcome to it, the path is glaringly obviously there (nobody said it was safe) but he gets to be the one to decide how much he wants to see.
ALSO NOTE that this area is hidden in thick jungle because Mau himself has no idea what is going on with Edmund, just that it's quickly changing and full of weirdly exhilarating and intense feelings -- hence the breeze and also the heat.
Oh, and the butterflies are Mau's conscious awareness and curiosity about all this. They're there, but they're not being symbolized by anything very smart or hardy 8')
MY HAMHANDED SYMBOLISM TO YOU.
Now.
Relationship meme me.