[OPEN EVENT] Weekend Winter Wonderland

[wintershepherd]

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

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[backwordscompatible]

There was a giant rabbit walking around. Wearing pants.

That alone was enough to capture Zatanna's attention.

She watched him from afar at first, busying herself with the snowman she was in the process of creating. Out in the open, where there had been plenty of snow accumulation for her to work with. She'd made it as far as the torso, coming up to chest-level. Packing in as much of it as possible so it would hold. Her attention was too divided, however, between the gradual numbing of her fingers the longer she worked, and the anthropomorphic being ducking in and out of every store he could find. Looking completely lost. She remembered the feeling all too well.

"Lose something?" She finally called out to him over the top of her work-in-progress, carefully leaning atop it.

[springsforward]

Pants? Nah, no pants here, sheila. Maybe a few straps of leather around his paws, but definitely no pants. You only wish that he had pants on right now.

It wasn't that he didn't notice the girl watching him from over her snowman, but it's more that he was used to not being supposed to be seen. Being believed in, being seen, and supposed to seen by everyone were different things. Besides that, Bunny was more than just a little distracted with... Whatever he thought he was looking for.

At least until she addresses him. "Ah, now, you see..." He rubs the back of his neck, smiling slightly before hopping over to her. "Quite a few things around here, actually. The exit, my Warren... Maybe my marbles too. You haven't seen them, have you?"

[backwordscompatible]

She lightly tapped her chin at the pants-less, talking rabbit (because of course he could talk, too). Pretending to seriously consider the question.

"I think you might be able to find some marbles at one of the shops in Metal. 'fraid we're fresh out of exits and Warrens, though. Sorry."

[springsforward]

"Hey, one out of three isn't bad," He laughs a little, though he's obviously still a bit lost in this whole situation. Not to mention he's freezing his paws off in all this snow, so he doesn't exactly look like a comfortable fluffy bunny right now.

"What's with all the snow and attractions around here? Don't tell me it's all for me, celebrating my arrival to turtle jail."

[backwordscompatible]

"Apparently, Jack felt like giving us all a snow day. I'm not really complaining."

[springsforward]

"Of course it's Jack. When is something like this not Jack?" He rolls his eyes because- Hey wait a minute! "Wait, you mean Frost, right? Jack Frost is here?"

[backwordscompatible]

That wasn't a reaction she had been expecting; she'd been anticipating something along the lines of 'Jack Who?' In which case, 50-50 chance of the other person even believing her.

"You know him?"

[springsforward]

"Know him?" Bunny gives an amused laugh. "Missy, Jack Frost has been a pain in my backside for as long as I've known the gumby," He talks about Jack like he's a pain, of course, but the interest and hint of relief he's feeling now aren't as hidden in his tone as he'd like.

[backwordscompatible]

The pieces were starting to fall together. Large, talking rabbit. Complaining about the snow. Knows Jack.

Of course. Why hadn't she realized sooner?

"You're one of the Guardians, aren't you?" A smirk. She'd heard stor--and then she remembered one joke of theirs in particular, and almost burst out laughing on the spot. "What did he call you? E. Aster Bunnymund?"

[springsforward]

"That's me. I'm the Easter Bunny," And as ridiculous as that sounds, Bunnymund still says it convincingly and with pride that can't be ignored. Of course, some of that is kind of lost in how hard Zatanna starts laughing, and that, of course, makes the pooka nervous. She's apparently heard stories... Hopefully they were good ones.

"What have you heard?"

[backwordscompatible]

"Oh, a little of this, a little of that." She couldn't resist. She only wished Jack were here with her for this moment: "How's the Tooth Fairy?"

[springsforward]

Yeah, he doesn't buy that for a second, Zatanna, and he's crossing his arms over his chest. "Oh really?" Nope, not changing the subject that easily.

[backwordscompatible]

But it was true. Honest. She really did hear about him and the Tooth Fairy.

"That's not an answer."

[springsforward]

Uh huh, and that's just so funny, and surely Jack Frost only told her good things about them. Like he totally believes that.

"Tooth is just fine that last I saw her. She's probably back in the palace, working like always."

[backwordscompatible]

"You must miss her a lot."

[springsforward]

"Er, yeah, I guess I do," He shrugs a little, before adding. "I miss North and Sandy too, though," Because he's not so dense that he'd think there isn't more to what she's asking. "What're you on about?"

[backwordscompatible]

When he didn't take the bait, she signed in very visible disappointment. Oh, well. It could've been fun while it lasted, had there been anything to go on, but it looked like this route was a dead in.

"Nothing." She decided to switch tactics. "So, aside from the marbles and everything, what were you really looking for before? Because if you're aiming for a tour of the Turtle, that really wasn't the best way to go about it."

[springsforward]

Bunny's eyes narrow slightly as the girl looks disappointed, and he's definitely more than just a little bit lost. He didn't get what she was hinting at, though he's already assuming that he has Jack to blame for it. "Tooth and I aren't a thing, sheila, if that's what you're getting at."

[backwordscompatible]

"I never said you were," she replied back with all the innocent tone of somebody who had originally been implying just that. "In fact, I'm pretty sure we'd moved on from that topic already. You're the one who keeps bringing it up."

[springsforward]

"I don't think so," He crosses his arms over his chest and huffs a little, in something that wasn't exactly a mature expression. "More like you tried to change the subject unsuccessfully."

[backwordscompatible]

"It wouldn't've been unsuccessful if you would just let it go, already."

Gosh, Bunny. One would think you wanted to keep talking about Tooth.

[springsforward]

He's a rabbit, Zatanna, he sometimes can't help getting a bit anxious and hung up on certain things. Plus, why not have him dig his grave just a little deeper here?

"I'll let it go once I know why Jack, obviously, is going around implying it, and what he told you. It's not like I give her any special treatment over the others, I don't think?" And now he's trying to think back. "No, course not."

[backwordscompatible]

And there's a reason why she and Jack Frost ended up becoming inevitable best friends. This is that very reason.

"Are you sure about that? Because you don't sound so sure. You know, one of the first steps to solving your problem is admitting you have a problem." She managed to impress even herself with the restraint it took to keep her voice sounding (mostly) serious. "Besides, girls like a little mystery. It's part of the fun."

[springsforward]

If he thought one was bad, now he's getting it in stereo. For the moment though, Zatanna might just very well be outdoing his ol' frienemy.

"I don't have a problem," Seriously, he's not sick or anything. "And even if I did have a thing with Tooth, which I'm not saying I do, that wouldn't qualify as a problem either. Besides, she's the Tooth Fairy, and I'm the Easter Bunny. We have responsibilities," Ain't nobody got time for that. He really isn't good at defending himself from the surprise attack of a kid that knows more about him than he does about her.

[backwordscompatible]

Denial is totally a problem, Bunny.

"But Jack told me that even Guardians were allowed to have families of their own. There's nothing about that in the rulebook." Even if there was, screw the rules. "He said something about it helping to make you feel a little more...I don't know...normal, I guess."