On the first episode of A Podcast of Candy, I promised the audience that on Wednesday, 12pm EST, I would drop intricate fanon lore for one Limón Longhalls. I am nothing if not a man of my word.
Lord and Lady Longhalls were minor noble folk in Fructera who lived near the shore of Pulp Bay. They oversaw a merchant town that drew in many a Meat Lander with foreign wares. When the ravening war struck, Lord Longhalls health had already begun to decline. The couple chose to seek political asylum in neighboring Candia. General Rococoa, having recognized the high intellect of Lady Longhalls struck a deal with the family. They would give up their Fructeran Lands and supply Candia with information in exchange for sanctuary. And so the war went, with the Longhalls recounting the bits of information that foreign merchants had let slip throughout the years. They were a rather small footnote in the war effort, overshadowed by Gustavo Uvano’s help, but instrumental nonetheless.
A little after the ratification of the concord, Lady Longhalls would birth a child but would sadly give her life to ensure his. Limón, he would be named, honoring his Fructerian past. Lord Longhalls would then overtake the care of his child. Though, his own health was still fragile and he would pass before Limón’s fifth saint’s day. Despite his short years as a guardian, Lord Longhalls would impart his accent, a rather uncommon mix of Meatlander vowels and Fructeran consonants due to his land’s frequent guests, onto his son. Upon his father’s death, House Rocks would take pity on Limón, and he would be brought up within their walls, and raised (rather surprisingly) by a changing cast of active Tartguard members. The guards would tell the young boy of his parents’ great feats. Limón, observant as his mother but worrisome like his father in his final days, would take these lessons to mean that he was also expected to be useful to the throne of Candia. Combined with the ridicule the Tartguard received from the royals, Limón became anxious to fit in.
At around age 7, Limón became embarrassed of his accent and overcompensated by mimicking the exaggerated and high pronunciations around him. It wasn’t enough to soothe his worries. By age 11, he had already begun to ask to be a squire under Sir Theobald. Much to his chagrin, he would not become a squire until age 17. Those years of waiting made him only worry more about how useful he was to the throne. He had begun to convince himself that he would never compare to his parents. His thoughts manifested in rather self-destructive ways. He worried that the whole of Castle Candy had wanted him to fail and make a fool of himself. It turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy of Limón trying to punish himself before others could confirm his own fears, and that is where we find him, in the first episode of A Crown of Candy.
