wintershepherd: (windswept)
Jack Frost ([personal profile] wintershepherd) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-03-07 08:05 pm

[OPEN EVENT] Weekend Winter Wonderland

Characters: All?
Date: March 8th-11th
Location: All of Keeliai
Situation: It's been a stressful month thus far for a lot of people, but Jack is determined to Make All The Happy and decides he needs to get back to his wintery roots by giving the city a proper snowing.
Warnings/Rating: People high on snow glitter?
NOTES: Actionspam OR prose, whatever is preferred! (Settings were just easier to prose.) Make your own thread headers if none of these suit! ♥



Jack had spent the last three hours balanced motionlessly on the top of a flagpole, head tilted back as he listened to the wind and the sound of the city below. Where is Winter? it asked. I'm here! the spirit replied, but he knew it didn't mean his physical presence. He'd had too much on his mind and too much in his heart and in that sense he had indeed been absent these last few weeks.

Eyes closed and thoughtlessly trusting, he tipped forward into open air, letting the wind catch him and hurl him upward into the misty cloud cover that scudded across the stars tonight. At his touch they thickened, fat and pale grey against the indigo backdrop and Jack swirled them up, the motions so ingrained in him they felt just like breathing. In the small hours of the morning snowflakes began to fall on the sleeping city, specks at first but then quickly becoming heavier.

Now with a fresh canvas to work with, Jack was really in his element. He could never have done something like this back home, not anywhere in his world. It would have been too strange, too inexplicable, drawn too much attention. But here on the turtle, things were different. There wasn't really a semblance of normal and Jack poured his imagination and heart into the things he wanted most to share, and from the snow rose gleaming swirls of snow and blue light, forming things of exceptional detail and delight.

By the time the sun rose, a solid three feet of the snow had blanketed the city, glistening and crisp and Jack went rocketing down the streets, rapping on doors and windows to leave spirals of frost on every surface.

"Whooohoo! Snow day! Get up sleepyheads, everyone come out and play!"


THREAD STARTERS
Ice Skating | Snowball Battle | Sledding Hill | Ice Cityscapes | Kids Playground | OOC Plot Post
virginprice: (peering that a way)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Did they not? [He carefully doesn't side-eye Jehan's clothes.] What did he attempt to dress you in?
poeticverses: (Looking Back)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey, dark green pants, white shirt, and a dark grey waistcoat with orange flowers embroidered on it totally match his light grey coat.

He doesn't have enough clothing to dress as poorly as he usually did in Paris]


His waistcoats were...unique and not at all suited for anyone other than himself most of the time. Very interesting patterns.
virginprice: (neck curve)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I see. It is often the case that clothing for one will not suit another at all. [This is why Delaunay always got them personal tailoring.] But I am sure he meant it kindly.
poeticverses: (Speaking)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
To be quite honest, I was never entirely certain of that. Either he was offering to help stop the jibes from the others or he was mocking me.

[But he obviously doesn't mind the mocking, since his tone is fond]
virginprice: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Then it does not seem too ungentle a form of mockery, at least.

[It's hard to tell with other people's friends! He's only had one of his own before.]
poeticverses: (Mes Amis de l'ABC)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, we all mocked each other, except Enjolras. He's always been a bit too serious for that.

[Jehan laughs a bit]

Didn't stop us, of course, when the situation allowed for it, but generally it was always Joly or Bossuet or someone else we targeted.
virginprice: (neck curve)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds... enjoyable. I have never had a large group of friends before- there was my foster-sister Phedre, and then her guard Joscelin, but no one else save Delaunay's circle.

[They weren't exactly his friends.]
poeticverses: (Encouraging)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Jehan smiles]

I am certain you can find a place in Les Amis, Alcuin, as long as you do not mind talk of republics, and should that bother you I would be honored to consider you a friend.
virginprice: (sweet smile)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Alcuin flushes and ducks his head a little. That's sweet.]

I do not mind it at all. It's very interesting- and quite educational... and I am glad to be your friend, even beyond that.
poeticverses: (I Will Shoot)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Jehan starts to say something but a shiver cuts him off]

Agh, forgive me. Even years spent in Paris haven't done a thing for my ability to handle the cold.
virginprice: (peering that a way)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps we can find something hot to drink. Surely there must be mulled wine? It seems nigh a holiday out here...

[He is feeling quite chilly himself. Retreating to a wineshop sounds like an excellent plan.]
poeticverses: (Contemplating Poetry)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
If there isn't any to be found in the shops, I will make some of my own. That sounds wonderful.
virginprice: (inhale)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
And I will help, though I've never made it before. It cannot be hard, can it?
poeticverses: (Drink With Me)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Wine, spices, a pot, and a stove. A drunk man could make it. A drunk man has made it.
virginprice: (knowing)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Many of them have, I am sure. [Yes, it sounds easy enough- and delicious.] Shall we make the attempt or brave the wineshops to see if they have it?
poeticverses: (Speaking)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
I need to buy the spices, or something local that works just as well. Let us check the wineshops, just to be certain. They might be able to direct me to the spices we need even if they aren't selling mulled wine.
virginprice: (breathless)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
It would be a waste if they were not- with such weather, it would be popular.
poeticverses: (What Are You Guys Doing?)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
One would think, although I have heard something called a "drinking age" that might deter them from selling it? I'm not entirely sure, the concept is a bit odd and I do not understand the mechanics.
virginprice: (peering that a way)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
What, truly? How old must one be? [That's ridiculous. He's never heard of such a thing.]
poeticverses: (Suddenly Masculine)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't the faintest idea. I can understand reprimanding a young child for drinking wine or spirits, but there are boys of fifteen saying that it is illegal for them to drink in their homelands. Ill-advised, perhaps, depending on the boy, but illegal?
virginprice: (wary)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
I am close to giving up on understanding the laws of other lands. Dorian and Henry tell me that love between men was illegal in their land! [He's mildly outraged by that.]

This is not so offensive, but it is certainly foolish.
poeticverses: (Do Not Mess With Me)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, England still has--or had, I don't know if they do anymore--laws against sodomy. France was unique in that it did not.

[But moving on]

I fear the future, for all it's progress and improvements on the world I left, has gotten absurd if there is a law dictating how old one must be to drink.
virginprice: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I suppose I shall be glad that at least my country's near-cousin had some sense. [He is actually rather incensed by this.]

And yes... yes, there is some measure of absurdity in that. Should that not be trusted to parents and to their own judgment? Why should the law become involved at all?
poeticverses: (Looking Back)

[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-08 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Jehan can tell and is trying to get back to stupid drinking laws]

I can see why you would not want a band of fifteen or sixteen year old boys deciding when they are old enough to drink, but unless they cause harm to anyone but themselves I don't understand why the law would want to involve itself. There are more important things to deal with, surely.
virginprice: (knowing)

[personal profile] virginprice 2013-03-08 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[He will allow the subject to be changed.]

One would think. Perhaps they fear the foolish behaviour that might result? But that makes little sense either. Drunken revelry is hardly a danger to society, only to its eardrums.

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