#loen

Awakened Suit: Moonbeam Dance

Designer's Reflection: Banquet Undercurrent

Obtained: Diamond Arena season 7

Rarity: UR

Attribute: Purple/Sexy

Awakened Suit: Moonbeam Dance

Story - transcripts from Designer's Reflection

Chapter 1 - Past and Future

Chapter 2 - Bitter Drink, Bitter Words

Chapter 3 - Zoey and Company

Chapter 4 - Hidden Rhythms

Chapter 5 - The Commander and the Men

Story - summarized

The war is over, and Apple is now a free country. But Loen is still shell-shocked from watching his comrades die. He resigns from the military against his family's wishes, and he seeks a life where he can protect others in a more peaceful way.

His first stop is Dewdrop Town, where Roja used to live. A town once untouched by war, is now desolate and bleak. He should be glad that the war is over, that his country won... Instead, he seeks a tavern and orders a few rounds of lemon gardenia fizz. He spots a rowdy group across the way, but otherwise the tavern is empty.

Loen drinks to numb the pain, but instead gets drunk. He breaks down, pleading for the memories to stop before passing out. When he awakes, the group is still at the tavern. They're foreigners from North, and their leader is a young woman.

She recognizes him as a soldier and offers him a place in her group. He insists that he doesn't want to fight battles ever again. She's intrigued, but she leaves him alone.

A few years later, Loen decides to join Savior, since its mission is to protect Miraland. His current mission is to attend a masquerade where the Apple military will announce the weapons provider they'll work with for the next year. And that group...

The Justiciars.

Loen recognizes their leader, Zoey. But shortly, the rival weapons provider, the Undercurrents, attack. Zoey insists that they need to fight with weapons, but Loen manages to take out several Undercurrent members without drawing a gun or sword.

Zoey is impressed, and she invites him one more time to join the Justiciars. He turns it down again, but they agree to meet up in the future.

Connections

-Loen likes to dance. Besides a ball gown, he's also designed a ballet outfit for Glittering Date. Also in that Reflection, he shows different examples of commissions he takes: bringing Serena's little brother, Mok, to visit her in Apple, and investigating a mysterious pen pal.

-The first time in-game we see Zoey crash a ball and then escape by helicopter was during the event Lodden's Night. It takes place before and during the events of Vol. 1, Ch. 6, when Nikki attends the auction to get Leonid's Manuscript. The night before the auction, there was a dance, and Zoey had two goals: eliminate Mercury as an opponent and steal vital info regarding the manuscript.

-Roja was one of the Pigeon soldiers that Loen befriended during the war, but as shown in Gleaming Vines, none of the soldiers in that troop knew he was from Apple until the day they all died. Roja's last wish was for Loen to deliver a pair of earrings to Sansa, and Loen took an extra step and designed what would have been her wedding dress.

-Loen's family is closely tied to the military. Not only was his grandfather a soldier and his father a general, but his cousin, Snownight, fought and died in the war for independence. He recounts in Snownight Hawk how he took care of Snownight's younger sister, Vermillion Snow, and convinced her to leave for Cloud to stay safe. After that, he joined the army at a young age.

-During one of his commissions, Loen visited Zither River, where he encountered a fox statue that asked him, "Why are you here? Where are you going?" His answer is clear and simple in Flame Fox: he wants to protect the simple pleasures and everyday beauty of the world. He'll fight when he has to, but he will always seek the peaceful route.

Fun Facts

-This is the only time Zoey is referred to as "Zoann." It's unclear if this is her full birth name or if she made it up.

-While creating the Index page for this post, I noticed that there were no eyelashes under the makeup section of the suit's pieces. After a bit more research, it turns out that most of the Diamond Arena suits don't have eyelash makeup. The only ones that do are Ophelia's Lightbringer's Ode, and Zoey's In the Name of Winter.