Luca the Snowmobster (song)

"Luca the Snowmobster" is a song off the Every Ape and His Brother album Winter Horrorland, serving as a loosely-canon origin story for Luca "the Snowmobster" Ricci in The Horrorday Gang.

History
Every December, stores in Michigan overplay some of the same Christmas tunes ad nauseum. At the Grand Ledge Meijer store, this led to the receiving crew in the 2010s deeming December "torture month." To make the dreaded season more tolerable, a sympathetic Dozerfleet founder drafted new lyrics to several songs, creating enough parodies to fill an entire album - Winter Horrorland, which replaced cringe secular Christmas tunes with Krampusnacht parodies inspired in part by the 2015 Michael Doughtery film Krampus.

Just as the tunes about Santa were replaced with tunes about Krampus, "Frosty the Snowman" was parodied. The titular snowman from that song was replaced with his dark and perverted counterpart, Luca, for the sake of thematic consistency on the album. So just as Krampus is an evil Santa and Jerry an evil Rudolph, Luca became an evil Frosty.

The song's first draft was made in late 2017; but the final version was published to Dozerfleet's official blog in May of 2021.

Story
Luca gets his hands on an M16, and goes on a rampaging crime spree in a small town. No one is able to stop him. He finally decides it's time to leave, and successfully escapes town in a stolen helicopter. He threatens to return to the town at some unspecified future date, and murder everyone in town.

Special emphasis is placed on how he says "some day," changing the meaning from Frosty's benevolent wishful thinking, to a threat; one implying preoccupation with conspiracy to a future crime, bordering on a solid vow to carry out his threat.

Revisions
Luca trafficking drugs was a last-minute change. It would make little sense for him to want to help Krampus murder child traffickers if he were one himself, as in the original version. The new one makes his actions more consistent with those of a typical mob boss. In the original draft, he traffics the children who tried to befriend him. This implies him being put in a similar situation as Frosty. But unlike Frosty, who plays the tropes straight; Luca brutally subverts the tropes by betraying the kids and making them suffer.

Given who Luca is in the Cataclsmic Gerosha 2018 timeline for The Horrorday Gang, however, the need to make him more of an anti-hero, rather than an outright villain, necessitated that some changes be made to his origin story away from the rough draft.