sixth snowball ❅ voice (both courts; backdated to the 18th)

[winterwork]

[There's only a soft voice that rises, familiar to some but less cheerful than it's normally known to be.]

So this world is kind of in a crappy place right now, isn't it? [A sigh is heard along with a pause, but he continues.] It's not gonna be safe out there. For anybody. So if you don't feel safe, let me know and I'll find you. I'll make sure you're out of the way. Somehow.

[Another pause as he struggles to speak. This whole month, this entire war, it's too much of a mess.]

I'm not gonna let any of you die, okay?



PRIVATE VOICE MESSAGE TO; ariadne, hiccup, lancer, korra, mako, jon.

Merida's asleep, by the way. Just like I was. I don't know the details of it, but if it's anything like my case, she'll be asleep for an entire week. Except she ...

[He swallows hard, remembering his three hundred year hiatus.]

There's no telling how long it'll be on her side. It could be a day, it could be twenty years, I don't know. So just ... make sure to give her some support when she wakes up, okay? Trust me. She's gonna need it.

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[individualist]

What is your job?

[winterwork]

Guardian of Fun. I'm thinking of getting a card and laminating it for purposes like these.

[individualist]

[You know how they say there's a first time for everything? Well, in her case, she thought that no longer applied considering her age.

But no.

This is it.

Guardian of Fun.

What the hell.]

...you're serious?

[winterwork]

Well, I'm not the Guardian of Serious. But yes, it's a thing.

[individualist]

...so is this like, self-appointed?

[winterwork]

No, it's not self-appointed. I don't just run around making up names about myself. [Okay, that's half true. Winter Spirit was all his own doing.]

They signed me up. Well, Man on the Moon did. Kind of threw me into the job.

[individualist]

Hm...

[Well.

Moon avatars...sure. She seriously doubts it's actually the man on the moon and more some demon or avatar going by that because multiversal beings think their rules apply to everything, but y'know, why not??? She'll roll with it.]

What's your name?

[winterwork]

[At least Jack is well aware that the Man on the Moon that made him who he is isn't the same one elsewhere at all. He'd comes to terms with that when the moon came down here and he'd learned they definitely weren't one and the same.]

Jack Frost. The name kind of gives it away. How about you, stranger?

[individualist]

[She'll give her name in a second, because--!]

...Jack Frost?

No, c'mon. Jack Frost is way smaller! Cute little blue hat, boots, chubby...like a snowman!

[Like so. FAKER.

She actually does believe him, it's just more likely someone wouldn't believe him right off the bat, so acting accordingly.]

[winterwork]

Oh no.

[Not another one. Yukari had thought the same thing and now he's rolling his eyes at the idea.]

Look, that little fat guy's an imposter. Jack Frost is not a snowman. Trust me, I'm the real deal.

[individualist]

He is not! Everyone knows the jack brothers are the real deal. They're like...super famous!

I mean, not in a legitimate way or anything, but as far as demons go.

[winterwork]

Really? Took three hundred years for people to catch on that I was around and the snowmen guys are famous?

[No, he's not bitter or anything.]

[individualist]

Sounds to me like they aren't the imposters here then!

Besides, they're not all snowmen. Pyro Jack's the jack-o-lantern spirit, so he's a little pumpkin with a wizard hat, and Jack Ripper's a 19th century serial killer who was actually a demon, which is why noone ever caught him.

[One of these things is not like the other.]

[winterwork]

How is any of that believable? I'm a fun teenage spirit that just throws snowballs for entertainment and you prefer to believe in some rabid pumpkin killers.

[Seriously, the things in other worlds were ridiculous.]

[individualist]

Haha! Aw, c'mon, I'm just messing with you. ...I mean the Jack Brothers are totally real and all, but I don't doubt you're probably a Jack Frost too.

[Oh, and-]

Hikaru by the way. My name, since you asked.

[winterwork]

[Pout.] The messer becomes the messee, huh? You're quite the jokester there, Hikaru.

[individualist]

Well, everyone's being all serious, I thought you could use a break.

[That or "like I do with everyone else my behavior's tailored towards building trust in whatever way I think will work."

But the half-lie sounds nicer.]

I mean it is war and all, but- well, you know.

[winterwork]

[The comment surprises him but ultimately makes him smile.]

Heh. You're right. Better to laugh and joke, especially now more than ever. Glad to see someone gets it.

[individualist]

What I'm here for.

Anyway, good luck rescuing out there. I'd offer to help, but I'd be of no use to you.

[Due to being completely unwilling whoops.]