Two Rivers Isle eat popcorn in the morning, pancakes in the night

What was your home like, Iseul? they couldn’t help but wonder.

Since she seemed amiable enough but a little guarded—although perhaps the slight language barrier was only lending that impression—Totoro decided to share something about themself in the hopes it made Iseul feel more comfortable talking about herself. They smiled at her across the water.

I was raised in a found family myself, though my mother was from a very large clan of blood relatives called the Blackthorns. She loved them, she said, but she wanted to find her own place in the world. So I was raised by a group of women who were not related to us by blood, though we were no less bonded for it.