If you don't know what it is, it's an audio drama that takes place the early summer of 2010(so some time around last evolution) and stars the 02 kids as Daisuke suggest they spend their summer together and they all have to decide where they want to go(they do this in a karaoke bar and i think that is a very important piece of information)
I just love it so much because it shows that even with how busy they are all, the 02 kids all still make time for each other. They all accept Daisuke's idea to hang out and already make plans to free their summer to they can see each other. You can see how their characters have changed over the years, but they still bicker with each other just like they used too. It shows how close the 02 are and how they will always be partners with each other.
Here's a youtube video with Japanese audio and English Subtitles, and I recommend you watch it if you love 02 because they are perfect in this. If you don't want to watch it, here is a translation by digi.lab.blog, and the youtube video uses this translation so they'll be the same.
Also, this CD drama doesn't take itself seriously and maybe the characterizations aren't perfect, but I don't care because this is canon in my heart
The most interesting thing about your character is not their wound. It's what they built on top of the wound to survive it.
The wound is backstory. The structure they built on top , the habits, the walls, the jokes they make to change the subject, the way they leave before they can be left, that's character. So don't show me the wound. Show me the architecture.
The reader will figure out what's underneath. That's the part that makes them feel clever. Let them have it.
Last but not least, here is Farosh! I really wanted to draw her in stormy weather so I could draw her with lightning and play around with the colors! I am so happy with how she turned out and the the whole set as well. Hope you folks like it!
"Some ailments cannot be cured by goodwill alone — we all know that, living on this land as we do. But his passion really can melt the snow that has settled in people's hearts."
— Odette
◆ Name: Alyosha
◆ Title: Swift-Striding Hound
◆ Winter Hunter
◆ Vision: Electro
◆ Constellation: Canis Borzoides
Ask anyone in Sretomorozsk about Alyosha, and you'll find most folk are more than happy to share a few stories about the lad:
"He's an exceptional hunter. Got a nose as keen as any of his hounds! And he can actually track down rabbits in this miserable weather."
"More than that! If you ever saw him raise that rifle of his, you'd swear he belonged to the Armory Palace."
"Oh, pull the other one! Why on earth would someone from the Armory Palace live all the way out here? Just think of the distance..."
"I'm not making it up! I literally watched him pull someone right out of a monster's clutches. BOOM! Before I could even cover my ears, the beast staggered and crashed to the ground..."
By all accounts, everyone agrees he's a fine lad: earnest, brave, and kindhearted...
But wait. You haven't forgotten how merciless Snezhnaya's snowfields can be, have you?
One walk into the frost is all it takes to understand how precious warmth truly is. The wind is cruel, a file grinding down everything it touches. The boundless snow pours out its unyielding malice upon the world, and worse still, it demands the heat and very lives of the living as payment for crossing it.
If there were any other way, no one would choose to stay in this freezing hell.
But Alyosha steps into the freezing wild time and time again, staking his life to bring home food, and to bring home hope.
He raises his rifle, pointing it at the prey in front of him.
Though his true enemy will always be the bitter frost itself.