[OPEN] All a settlement of snow...

[wintershepherd]

Characters: Jack Frost & OPEN
Date: Catch-all for December threads
Location: Keeliai and Landfall at Bresilyk
Situation: General prompts are in the post, prior discussed starters to be set up shortly! Message me if you want me to add a specific starter for your character or just tag in with any scene.
Special Note: Jack will have Baby Tooth with him unless noted otherwise and her visibility follows the UPDATED!! belief guidelines as Jack's do.
Warnings/Rating: TBA in threads if needed.


[ A. LANDFALL LINKS ]
→ Snow Glitter Shenanigans
→ Chilling on the pier with bitty at Aihsohlow

[ B. WELCOME CENTER ]
As officially announced at the beginning of the month, Jack's commenced running a small welcome center located in central Keeliai for Foreigners arriving into the city. Today he can be found sitting cross-legged on the floor, sorting a pile of donated books from various vendors around the city. They're in various languages and the ones that are in kedanese are of a beginner level so that the basics of the language can be attempted. Baby Tooth is flitting nearby, checking a list of supplies that they'd compiled, thinking they'd need.

"I'm glad we got so many volunteers," Jack was in the middle of saying to the faerie. "Between here and the fishing store, it's going to be really busy." Baby Tooth fixed him with a dry, droll look as though to remind him which of the two of them was used to working 24/7 and he laughed. "Right, right... can you imagine if Tooth were here?"

[ C. DOWNTIME ]
When he does manage to find some free time, he surprisingly spends it... doing nothing. Or rather, soundly sleeping in a snowy bough of a park tree, feet propped up against the trunk, staff balanced lightly across his stomach, seemingly without a care in the world and utterly unbothered by the cold.

Comments

[snedronningen]

She watches in awe at his abilities, she may be able manipulate ice-- but she's never managed anything close to that. Jack was a force of nature, she had always just thought of herself as a girl gifted with magic... Even after turning summer to winter.

She gives Jack a smile, watching him flit around the sky with such ease, "I don't think I could ever manage anything quite that impressive."

She says on the balcony of an ice palace she created in just a few minutes, after discussing how she's created sentient beings.

[wintershepherd]

He alighted again on the ice balcony, shoulders rolling in a lighthearted shrug that matched his smile. "I don't know about that, current accommodations say otherwise. You could always learn something new, and sometimes you just discover things. Like the coldfire for me. But uh, maybe without the same circumstances."

[snedronningen]

She tilts her head towards him in question, "Circumstances? May I ask what those were?"

[wintershepherd]

"Not very good ones," Jack said, unwilling to go into the full story especially to someone new; it seemed unnecessarily heavy to place on someone who still had everything else to cope with that came with arrival here.

"I thought someone very important was gone for good." Then hurriedly Jack assured, "He's fine, he came back but... yeah. Wasn't a good couple of days."

[snedronningen]

She understands the hesitance. She certainly hadn't been too keen on revealing her own story... not the entirety of it.

"The important thing is that it's resolved now, and you're okay."

Really, maybe she shouldn't put so much faith in a person-- spirit, legend she just met, but it was nice to just have a normal conversation. No politics, no hiding, being herself. No ulterior motives.

Normalcy felt like the greatest thing that could have happened to her.

[wintershepherd]

Jack gestured around at the ice palace. "So... is this gonna be a permanent fixture? Once you're better settled in... I'll show you some places outside of the city, if you want. You can really cut loose out there-- I might even join you for the next construction site."