#white war

Whumptober Day 4 - Pushed

At A Distance, Spring Is Green - Ep. 2

Confession - Ep. 6

Handsome Siblings - Ep. 37

Hi! School: Love On - Ep. 19

Just Between Lovers - Ep. 10

Mood Indigo - Ep. 5

Skate Into Love - Ep. 34

The Devil Judge - Ep. 6

Vincenzo - Ep. 5

Artifacts belonging to Austro-Hungarian soldiers. On the left, a gas mask, hat and goggles worn in extremely bright snow to prevent blindness. On the right, a cross made from barbed wire.

During the Great War, an almost secondary war took place with soldiers fighting to determine who had control over parts of the Alps: Italy or the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Known as the White War, battles were waged high on icy peaks and barracks were cut into the bodies of glaciers.

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The worst part of winter, even worse than all the wet, cold and clammy weather, were Kouha’s working hours. From the late morning to afternoon most days, actually quite comfortable for the commoner, however not for Kouha. He called them “from dark to dark”.

Even when he got one of those rare glances out the window of their break room, it was all only dark and wet. The only bright spot in that was when the temperatures slowly rose again with spring, and … the complete opposite, a frost so deep that all the water for once froze and a white layer covered the town.

When Kouha left the mall that their shop was located in, he didn’t notice at first. The area right in front of the exit was cleaned, however after a few steps there was snow of the ground. For a good moment Kouha hesitated, stood there and scooped some of the snow around with his boots. For most of his teen years snow had been a double-edged sword for Kouha, but by now … It sounded stupid, but growing older made him wiser? It were only two or three years and yet his view changed to the point where he simply thought the snow was nice.

That was until something cold hit his chest, perfectly aimed to go past his opened coat and the scarf down to his sweater. Kouha might have grown older and calmed some down, but there was still his trademark glare as he looked up and that growl that would sometimes be enough to scare people off.

This person wouldn’t be scared off by neither a glare nor a growl, Kouha realized as he saw Judal. “This means war,” he noted, made a few step towards him and picked up some snow from a nearby car.

Whumptober Day 10 (Alt.) - Trapped

Andante - Ep. 1

Anti-Fraud League - Ep. 12

Can You Hear My Heart? - Ep. 29

Hunter - Ep. 1

Missing Nine - Ep. 4

Money Flower - Ep. 21

Ossan’s Love: Love Or Dead (2019)

Secret Garden - Ep. 19

White War - Ep. 7

During World War One, Italy fought the Austro-Hungarian Empire in hopes of gaining territory north of Italy. This was The White War, so named because of the amount of snow troops had to contend with fighting in the Adamellos. Soldiers carved dormitories inside literal glaciers and tunelled under the rocks. Only a third of the casualties in the White War were from combat - the rest were from avalanches, cold, diseases, falls, etc. Today, the glacier has melted and retreated 1.2 miles (2 km) revealing outposts literally frozen in time as well as the bodies of several soldiers.