Nova: It's Snow Season!

Nova: It's Snow Season is a short animatic holiday special episode made by Metta Rouge ad released on Youtube on December 24, 2020.

Synopsis
Nova wakes up on Verulia to see that it is snowing, meaning that Snow Season (the Verulian equivalent of Christmas) has officially begun. She runs downstairs to see Andromeda setting up a candelabra, and upon looking out at the street bustling with Verulians decorating for the snow season festivities, Nova runs outside to interract. She first finds Musca decorating a tree, and after Musca notices that Nova doesn't have a coat, xe gives her one as a gift.

Nova continues to run around, eventually running into the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux, debating over how they should set up a string of lights on a wall. After asking Nova for her input, she uses the Wand of Verulia to project a hologram of the lights in a star shape, saying that that's how they should shape them, and the twins agree. After running off again, Nova runs into Nix, and tries to drive him away with threats of the Star League teaching him the true meaning of Snow Season after he talks about how Verulia's current state was perfect for recruiting new members for his fleet. The two part ways with Nix telling Nova he'd "see her at sundown".

Sundown arrives, and all of Verulia is out on the streets, ready for festivities. Nova, however, is worried, knowing Nix would arrive shortly and, to her dismay, he does, Andromeda telling him he can't be there. However, upon remembering Aluesia (Nix's home planet) celebrates Snow Season due to centuries-old traditions, Andromeda tells Nova it's okay, and the two let Nix and his fleet hand out gifts to all the Verulians.

After this, Nix hands Nova a small box, inside being a small crocheted handkerchief reading "I Don't Hate You At This Very Moment.", Nova thinking it is "Thoughtful and to the point." The episode ends as Nova and Andromeda watch Cassiopeia magically begin the "Snowy Meteor Shower" using the power from the Scythe of Verulia.

Production Details
The short/episode was produced by Paxton Rivera as a solo project, the frames were drawn in the program "FireAlpaca", they were composed and edited and were rendered in Windows Movie Maker, and the audio was recorded and edited in Audacity.

Metta Rouge rovides the voices of

Nova

Andromeda

Musca

Castor

Pollux

Nix

in the special.

Trivia
Nova: It's Snow Season! Is the first "episode" of Nova to be released.

The episode was impulsive, and took a week to make, completely in Metta'spare time.

The episode was inspired by the result of Metto a an online friend discussing making a CGI animated OK KO Parody of Rankin Bass holiday films with characters such as Mikaya, Robbie, and Sara going on adventures in a "Fairly Odd Parents - Channel Chasers" type of scenario.