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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
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[personal profile] apologiesmyking 2013-03-12 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaldur doesn't require moisture that often to sustain himself, but the feel of the water as it melts against his skin is soothing. Colder than rain, but not as cold as the bottom of the ocean.]

It is enjoyable, yes...Arthur. [He is still getting used to not calling him by his former title.] I did not take the time to explore and observe surface-dwellers and their winter activities before.
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[personal profile] relentlesstide 2013-03-12 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Arthur generally requires less hydration than other Atlanteans as well, due to his half human heritage and royal Atlantean bloodline, but it's still nicer when it's damper, more comfortable. There's always the danger of dehydrating when the humidity is low.] Neither had I. Mera and I thought we should try a few things, while we're here. [Who knows when things will go to hell and they won't have a chance again?]

Apparently putting blades on your feet and sliding around ice is 'fun'.
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[personal profile] apologiesmyking 2013-03-12 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Humans have skin that is easily damaged by the cold. [Kaldur has seen this more than once when saving people from the sea they thought they could tame.]

Some do have quite a talent for it, but the shoes do look...restricting. [As most human forms of footwear do. Kaldur is still surprised that Arthur even bothers to wear them.]
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[personal profile] relentlesstide 2013-03-13 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's harder adapt to the chill when the temperature up on the surface changes so much. It's much more constant in Atlantis. [Not that he's ever really felt it much. Still, when he was an older child, his father sometimes sent him out to bring in the crab pots in the winter instead of taking them in himself.]

I will give you that. Still, Mera wanted to try this whole skating thing, and I can't say no to her.
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[personal profile] apologiesmyking 2013-03-15 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I hope the Queen is enjoying the novelty. [Since she at least is still considered royalty of Atlantis, Kaldur does not feel as awkward calling her that.] Have you seen the other changes that have taken place? There are ice sculptures all over the city.
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[personal profile] relentlesstide 2013-03-16 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure about the novelty, but it's been nice to have a day for us for a change. Much... has happened the last few years, that has left very little time for each other. [Mera has basically run Poseidonis for years, with or without Arthur. She's more than earned the title of Queen.] I haven't seen the sculptures yet, are any of them very interesting?
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[personal profile] apologiesmyking 2013-03-26 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no doubt that you more than deserve this time to spend together. [He thinks of how busy things have been in his own world. The world Arthur is from appears to be even more chaotic.]

The sculptures are...interesting. They resemble landmarks of Earth. I have not seen all of them before, but many of them I do recognize.
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[personal profile] relentlesstide 2013-04-02 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, you can't exactly be busy when you're dead... Unless briefly being a Black Lantern counts.]

A taste of home for the humans, I guess. Maybe I'll go see them later. I never really cared much for sight-seeing on land, though.

How have things been? I know some of your teammates are here.
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[personal profile] apologiesmyking 2013-04-03 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Things have been...as good as they could be, I believe, given the current situation. I am happy to be here with my teammates, even if it would be better that we could all return to our own worlds.

[Meaning he does not like leaving his teammates alone.] After Kid Flash's arrival, I wonder if others of us will arrive as well, but we shall deal with that as the time comes.

And you...Arthur?
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[personal profile] relentlesstide 2013-04-14 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
It's... very possible. There was only one Atlantean here for quite some time, and then three more of us show up very close together. There are several Leaguers. Perhaps it draws people in on patterns. [He doesn't dare to hope that maybe he'll see one of his sons again, even if it's here.]

Things are as well as they can be. I'm alive, I have my wife, I have the chance to get to know you... There is very little I can ask for, besides a way back to Atlantis.