Editing Snowdrop (section)

==Abilities==
She can transform into a regular opossum pup and back into a human girl at will, both forms will be of roughly equivalent age. As a companion on the Trail, her gift was that she could deceive the Wolf and bring a second item (along with the single item Avery was allowed to bring.)<ref name=":0" /> Further as a companion of the path she has keen senses that synergize those naturally granted to her as an opossum.<ref>Having keen senses was essential to be a good guide of the Forest Ribbon Trail, and it wasn’t possible to survive in the wild if you couldn’t be alert and ready when something happened. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/12 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.x]]</ref> Thus she's the only being yet shown who can behold [[Miss]] directly,<ref>Miss bent down, until her face and head were at a level with the kid’s She reached up to wipe at a smudge of dirt and fix the kid’s hair.<br><br>Everything hidden from those present, except for the kid. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/14 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.1]]</ref> though that may be due to their similar natures. Her sight seems to be for looking through and around things more then anything.<ref>Avery closed her eyes, then opened them again. Not for her Sight, but for Snowdrop’s. She saw a world that was a bit shuffled. If she looked at the stack of napkins in the nearby teahouse, she could see glimpses of the second and third napkins in the stack.<br><br>Her sight didn’t travel in straight lines, and she could see more of what was around corners. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/27 Excerpt] from [[One After Another 10.1]]</ref> Further she can identify what realms someone traveled through by smell.<ref>Avery reached through the familiar bond and drew on Snowdrop’s additional senses.  She inhaled- and got a whiff of a whole lot of unwashed people and general ass-and-bus smells.  She wrinkled her nose.
But she could also smell something that was like… like the smells that came out after a heavy rain in the city.  But not quite.  Something else.<br><br>“Tears?  Sadness?  But also rain… Oh.”<br><br>“You’re on the wrong track,” Snowdrop said.<br><br>“Ruins practice.  Gotcha,” Avery said.  “And the practice Odis uses smells like that?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/14 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref> As shown above her outfits continually change, she can even detach some shirts so others can wear them.<ref>- [[Vanishing Points 8.6]]</ref>

* Goblin affinity - Learned secrets from goblins like how to travel through the [[Warrens]].<ref name="OL3.8">“I can keep running, I’m tough, I’m made for this-” Snowdrop huffed.<br><br>Verona reached down and took the girl’s hand.<br><br>Snowdrop became a possum pup, clinging to Verona’s wrist.<br>[...]<br>Gashwad kept skipping ahead. He was lying in wait now.<br><br>“How’s he moving like that!?” Lucy called out.<br><br>“There’s little paths and tunnels, if you’re tuned into the Warrens,” Avery said. “The place goblins come from. Snowdrop showed me some. Gash- gash seems to know most of them!” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/08 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.8]]</ref> Knows their ins and outs and gets along with them fairly easily, is being groomed for the role of Sage by Toadswallow.{{cite}}
*Spirit Interaction - An Opossom spirit herself Snowdrop can easily touch spirits<ref>“Uhh!” Verona called out.<br><br>There was a woman with tattoos, but her hair and tattoos were canary yellow, her skin a smokey black-purple.  Her eyes were unblinking and surrounded with folds and wrinkles that made it hard to tell where the points of the iris, the eyelashes, and the natural folds of eyelid were.  She moved with a good speed, striding toward Avery.<br><br>Avery held up the hockey, stick, ready.<br><br>It was ''Snowdrop'' who came running, tackling the woman.<br><br>“It’s not a spirit!” Snowdrop called out.  “It’s super smart, it’s really rare too!  I’m gonna die!  I can’t do this, auuuugh!”<br><br>The encounter was brief and ended with Snowdrop’s hands and face spattered in that smokey black-purple with specks of bright yellow. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/14 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.6]]</ref> and can communicate with more complex spirits.<ref>“One more done,” Lucy said.  “I think?  If you like it?”<br><br>The spirit flowed from the bottle to the bit of trunk with the round burrow hole in it.  [[Nyeh|A man’s face with a very pronounced chin and brow peered out, looking around suspiciously.]]  He stuck his ‘head’ out a bit further and began moving his lips like he was lecturing them, but no sound came out.  His head had no solidity to it besides the face, and was instead a blur of red smoke.<br><br>“Do you speak spirit, Snow?” Avery asked.<br><br>“Nope,” Snowdrop replied.<br><br>“Is that a no?” Lucy asked.  “Does he not like it?”<br><br>The spirit made a grumpy face and then settled back in the hole in the log that was framed with stones, done up in layers and made to resemble a house with rooms.  Small trees in pots framed it.  His lips moved again.<br><br>“He hates it and he won’t agree to anything, but he’s trying to be nice,” Snowdrop said.<br><br>“We good to go, then?”<br><br>“Nope.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/05/25 Excerpt] from [[Dash to Pieces 11.8]]</ref>
* Connection with Avery - As a boon companion she gained much from Avery, molding herself to her in the process.{{cite}} While snowdrop has developed on her own since this download was the basis for this development. Since becoming a familiar they've been able to pass traits,<ref>“You have to follow our rules.  One from each of us,” Gas Mask said.<br><br>“Snowdrop and I are a matched set.  Practitioner and familiar.”<br><br>“Sure.  Doesn’t matter.  This’ll be fun.”<br>[...]<br>The girl with the button eyes ducked into her room, then hurled a wooden block at the boy.  It bounced off the goggle part of the gas mask.  She mumbled something with a mix of humming sounds.<br>[...]<br>Button-Eyes mumbled.<br><br>“Can you understand?” Snowdrop asked, quiet.<br><br>“Not her.”<br><br>Snowdrop pushed a sense into Avery.<br><br>“-allowed to leave.  We’d get in trouble,” Button-Eyes mumbled. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/03/06 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.10]]</ref><!--trapped in thea's realm snowdrop gave Avery "everything" the next chapter showed Avery clinging to the ceiling easily--> sensations and emotions between them, notably their ability to communicate isn't seriously hampered by distance.<ref>“I did want to ask.  The phone call.  How?”<br><br>“Oh, I gave Snowdrop the key to break into the house if nobody’s around.  She used the phone, made opossum noises.”<br><br>“That’s a good bond to a familiar, to communicate on that level at a distance.”<br><br>“Yeah.  She’s super.  She’ll meet us at the usual place, I guess?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.z]]</ref> As is usual for familiars the bond lets her slip many of the restrictions Others have.<ref>“A lady without something in her pocket is ''lacking'',” he told her.  “Disappointed in her times of need.”<br><br>“Didn’t have anything, yeah,” Snowdrop told him.<br><br>“More than the rope.”<br><br>“I carry a lot of stuff, usually.”<br><br>He put a hand on her arm.  “You’ve got more of the Kelly girl in you now, am I right?”<br><br>Snowdrop looked at him.  “Nah.  She’s not giving me anything right now.”<br><br>“Then, my dear, you can carry more shit.  So ''carry more''.  Be ready.”<br>[...]<br>Toadswallow glanced at the opossum girl.  “She’ll probably tell you.  You loaned her a lot of your Self, Avery?”<br><br>“Through our bond.  It’s a bit sloppy, though.  But I thought it would be better if she was strong.”<br><br>“It’s good.  But you’ll heal slower if you keep doing that.”<br><br>“I’d rather have a healthy Snowdrop,” Avery said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/04/17 Excerpt] from [[One After Another 10.e]]</ref><!--  https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/fall-out-14-4/
“Still sounds bad,” Snowdrop said.  “But I’ve never nearly died of exposure or anything, so I don’t have strong opinions on that.”

“I guess you get the boons too, now, huh?  Since we’re partnered with you as my familiar?”

“I don’t think that’s how it works.”

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https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/14/left-in-the-dust-16-2/
She came out of the water with a bit of air.  A few running footsteps and a bit of a slide brought her out onto the coarse sand.

“Bwah,” Snowdrop sputtered.

“Come on,” Avery encouraged Snow.  “You want to run or do you want to be carried?”

“Carry me,” Snowdrop replied.  “I want to let those apple pies settle.”

“Heyyy, good for you.”

“It’s one of the less annoying things I got from you.”

Avery messed up Snow’s hair.  Snow wrestled with her a moment, and Avery came dangerously close to falling ass-first into wet mud in ten degree weather.  She ''did'' get the ankle of her jeans and one shoe wet.

“I lost that one,” Snowdrop told her.

“Come on.  Let’s get back.  I’m looking forward to this.”

She hurried home, Snowdrop following a bit behind.  As they got close to the house, they parted ways, Snowdrop turning into an opossum with plans to scale up to her usual hangout spot on the patio.  Avery let herself into the house and jogged up to her room, passing the second floor apartment.  “Hi mom!  Bye mom!”

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**The familiar bound has yoked the two together both benefiting from the growth of the other,<ref>“Hey Snow, are you leveling up?” Verona asked.<br><br>“No,” Snowdrop said.  “Don’t think so.”<br><br>“Goblin sage stuff, promenade,” Avery said.  “And as I grow, she does too.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.1]]</ref> after completing the ritual Snowdrop's clothes became more complex for example she started wearing Headphones.<ref>[[One After Another 10.e]]</ref>
===Weaknesses===
Although her lies can catch enemies off guard, they're involuntary, even when trying to communicate with allies.<ref name=":0" /> Like most Others, she can seemingly be blocked by ritual [[circle]]s.<ref>[Niccolete] glanced back at the kid, who was staring at the scene, then drew a diagram around the model, warding it off so the kid couldn’t mess with it. To be safe. The kid poked a few times at the barrier. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/ Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]</ref>

While capable of taking human form it seems to have been extrapolated from her native opossum abilities, thus she lacks a human's intrinsic stamina,<ref name="OL3.8"/> and can't really throw things well.<ref>Snowdrop picked up a striped sock and held it up. Verona raised her hands to catch.<br><br>They were a matter of feet apart and Snowdrop’s throw was still insufficient, the sock landing at Verona’s feet.<br><br>“Not a strength, huh Snow?” Verona asked.<br><br>“I don’t know, opossums are supposed to be really good at throwing. We have the muscles for it,” Snowdrop replied, handing Avery more shirts and folded socks. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/30 Excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.6]]</ref> Thus she can not take full advantage of all the 'Avery Download' gave her.<ref name=AD/>