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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] sophos 2013-04-13 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
The Greek city-state system is considered to be part of antiquity and the cradle of western civilization on Earth; the ancient Greeks lost power as other empires - particularly the Romans - rose around them. The cities were sacked and conquered, Athens included. The Romans adapted many of the Greek gods into their own pantheon, but Ancient Greek civilization did essentially fall upon the Roman rise to power. The people remained, of course, and continued living in these cities, but the Greek status as a powerhouse was no longer considered.

Athens as a place still exists today, but it's a modern city, and the same goes for Greece as a country. Modern Greeks differ from their antique counterparts, but that's how time and world evolution works - cities change. The gods aren't really worshipped as they once were. Most people consider them only stories and myths.

[Look, Soranik, you keep asking ok.]
Edited 2013-04-13 07:06 (UTC)
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[personal profile] onefouroneseven 2013-04-15 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's something about the most that catches her attention, but she's too busy absorbing the information to say much. ]

I see. [ A beat. ] I wonder if it would not have been best for my planet if we had been broken up into smaller countries rather than cling to the idea of a unified planet even after civil war.

[ It's not her call to make, however. She refuses to touch politics with a ten foot pole. ]
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-04-16 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
It depends. Smaller sovereign states can have conflict between them on their own, and there are plenty of cases where civil war has broken out even in those.

It's tricky business, picking up after a war. [She sure sounds like she's speaking from experience.] But it's all circumstantial. Sometimes a return to normalcy - a unified planet - could be a comfort.
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[personal profile] onefouroneseven 2013-04-18 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
I am not sure anyone on my planet knows what constitutes as 'normal' anymore. [ Soranik thought she did, but life quickly informed her she was wrong. ] But you sound as if you know this firsthand as well.

[ OKAY FINE SHE HAS TO ASK. ]
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-04-18 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to mention normal can easily change. [A pause.] I do.

[Except she didn't have much time in the picking up pieces part before something new started. She's not entirely sure the best method for that herself because of it.]
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[personal profile] onefouroneseven 2013-04-19 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
That too.

[ Her expression is an encouraging one to try and get Annabeth to extrapolate without directly asking for an explanation. ]
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-04-20 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[She frowns a little, because there's no way she misunderstands the look on Soranik's face.] There was a war back home. It ended about six months before I was pulled here.

[AND ANOTHER STARTED IN THAT TIME but w/e.]
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[personal profile] onefouroneseven 2013-04-21 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. [ There's not much she can say to that, not really. ] There was a war back in my universe as well - between the Corps and Sinestro's forces. And another one brewing - the War of Light. But it's simply referred to as Blackest Night.

[ You know, so it matches the oath she hasn't heard yet. ]
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-04-23 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
That sucks. [Understatement of the century, though there's again understanding in her tone, with regards to more wars brewing. But she's not particularly inclined to talk about her own situation at the moment, so she doesn't really ask for more.]
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[personal profile] onefouroneseven 2013-04-23 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll find I cannot argue that.

[ Even if she'd put it differently. ]
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-04-24 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Not sure anyone would.

[And then Annabeth continues rambling about the various pieces of the Acropolis as a change in subject??]