My Neighbor Totoro

"You’ll find someone, and they’ll find you. Don’t give up. Just relax they’ll find you.”

留守居

❝ I was created to look after the forest, not to be loved. ❞

"And yet you met me? That was something? When I was young that something small Just find someone to be there to talk to a least. I learned that the hard way. All I ask. Spirit or not.”

留守居

❝ You brought me a different kind of companionship, Julius. You are in my heart as a member of a family that I have never had. I cannot leave this forest, I must wait for someone to find me. ❞

"Well for the factor that you being here alone in the woods with them is one thing but still not having someone is another and yes I do admit I do tend to worry but still its just one who knows to be alone for a long time I just know is all.”

留守居

❝ Julius, I am not a human, nor am I a spirit. I do not feel that type of loneliness. ❞

"Well you should find someone a least to be with. Alone is never a good thing you know that.”

留守居

❝ Oh Julius, you think so much like the people of this planet. As long as I have the forest, I am not alone. ❞

"Have I? I am pretty tall and a bit handsome so my love says."

留守居

❝ She would know better than I would, my friend. ❞

"Yes the same and one and only. It’s me Julius. Different face but me.”

留守居

❝ You have gotten tall, haven't you? ❞

alientas-blog

Tree Spirits - oil on canvas Based on Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke

#my forest #kodama

paekhirnfurz

#spirit of the forest

"Once, do you remember a little boy here ginger boy. Long ago. Abit trouble some? I kind of been here once before. Kind of well get abit trouble sometimes”

留守居

❝ Julius? My little friend? ❞

moonlight-kodama

#my forest #kodama

moon-heartbeat

#my forest

"Ah I just was in the area and decided to drop by and say hello to an old friend of mine and see how you we’re.”

留守居

❝ We have only met once before. ❞

"Far from here, way way far from here. It’s planet called Gallifery most don’t know of it. Mostly because its gone, it was around its hidden and in its in secret.”

留守居

❝ What brings you to my forest? ❞

"She’s rather a quiet one, a bit fragile at times. I think its another reason why father named her that.”

留守居

❝ Where do you come from? You do not smell of the Earth. ❞

"I can, she’ll love you. She loves to meet spirits to be honest. Her names Gwen if your curious, Gwen Maclean." He said in adjusting his hands out of his pockets when he touched his arm. He knew she wanted to see her then again the two knew each other for a long time. So it would be nice to have someone know her also.

❝ You love her, very much. ❞ ( It was not a question--it was a statement of fact, what she could sense in his heart. She had been able to read him like a book after they'd met but it had taken time. He was not of her planet, and she found herself stumped by him sometimes, even still. )

"It’s a name for an animal, everyone does it for animals from time to time. My sister is just cute for the names her names Rain.”

留守居

❝ Rain. Rain is a good name. I know that storms seem destructive to you but to me, and to my forest, they bring new life. ❞

"You could say that, its one that I’ve had for some time. She is kind, you’d like her actually." he said in a small smile in adjusting his hands into his own pockets after letting her sniff the rose that he gave her.

❝ Oh, you must bring her to meet me. ❞

( She smiled and her eyes studied his ring, curious. It was an ancient custom from his planet for both the man and woman to wear a ring for engagement, and she was pleased to see he'd kept to that tradition. She touched his arm, gently, as though he were her family. And in a way, she saw him as that. )