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[Jack Frost comes on the feed, looking only slightly confused as he tries to make sure it's working. It's been awhile and he generally doesn't handle electronics, shhh.]

O-kay, hopefully, this is working. Didn't really use this much last I was here--

[He had his staff held under his arm but now that the comm seems to be working, he holds it with one hand so he could let his staff rest naturally on his shoulder.]

Hey, everyone. Guess I'm back. [He shrugs, not totally okay with it but clearly going to roll with it since he already had his initial shock from before.] Been a few months but I guess I'm still needed and, assuming I still get to be seen by everyone, here I am.

Uh, if anyone doesn't know who I am or are new, I'm Jack Frost. Yes, that Jack Frost, and I was here once before for a few weeks. Got sent back home though and now I'm here. Again.

So, uh, yeah. Hi. Did I miss anything?

[A beat.]

No one gets to call dibs on me this time. [He still doesn't really know what that means.]

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Hello, Jack!

I don't mean to sound rude, but I think I'm from a very different place than many people here, so I don't know your name. But if I should, I'd like to.

[Probably a story there.]

My name is Kubo. I'm a storyteller.

[And he's itching to ask about leaving and coming back but Jack already asked a question!]

I can tell you the stories of some of the things that have happened while you were gone. But I probably also missed some things you did.

Hi Jack. Nice to see you again. Please refrain from leaving ice patches on the floor this time. I've only got the one leg, I'd rather not break it.

[The grin on Hiccup's face shows he's kidding, if only mostly.]

Nice to meet you, Kubo. Don't worry about not knowing my name, especially if you're from a place where I'm not there. [Although that is totally not cool. Snow days are the best!] Well, you didn't miss much while I was here, kiddo. You'll probably be filling me in on a lot more.

Aw, c'mon, sliding on ice is always fun!

[Jack won't make random patches of ice, he's not freaking out this time!]

I'll make it an actual slide this time, way more fun.

Hmm, well.

I should probably let someone who was on the captured team tell you about Murderworld. It's . . . about as bad as it sounds, but I wasn't there, so I can't tell the story.

But speaking of telling stories, some people have been showing recordings from that mission, but they're still not telling full stories. It's giving people the wrong idea about some Legionnaires.

[This really gets him angry, too, this insistence on telling whatever scrap of the story they can get their hands on, with no regard for context or right.]

There's a machine they have, too, that they're going to look back in time with and show our stories from home, but I don't think they're going to do it right. If they're going to do it anything like how they've been showing people what happened on Murderworld, they'll show only the parts that make people look their worst.

I don't think that's right. Usually I tell short stories from back home in the cafeteria each day, but earlier I told my whole story, so that they couldn't tell it in pieces. My friend Dave recorded it, so I can share it as it ought to be told. I want to help others in the Legion do the same.

That's about all that's happened since I got here! Oh, but we went camping, too. That was a lot of fun.

[And some of them got chased around by some wild beasts, but hey everybody made it back ok! More ok than Murderworld, anyhow.]

[His face says it all.]

M...Murderworld?

[He's not sure he wants to know the story. But when he hears about people showing only partial recordings of what happened, along with possibly showing other people's pasts, or part of it, he worries a little himself. Any of his various tricks and what happened on Easter could easily be misconstrued.]

So, what, these reporters just want a good story on us and are willing to damage the image of us by showing things out of context? Any reason why they're doing this now?

[He shakes his head but smiles.]

Camping is always fun. But I might be biased, I'm a winter spirit so being outdoors is what I do.

You're not that that Jack Frost, though. I'm not getting that immediate "kill me" reaction I get from Martin Short.

[ He's teasing, though, and laughing to himself about it. ]

So what's this about calling dibs? I wasn't here for the first time - I'm kind of jealous nobody called dibs on me.

The fact that there's a murderous version of me on TV always annoyed me for obvious reasons and is so much worse than kids not knowing who I am.

[He shakes his head, clearly annoyed but not at all mad at the guy for bringing it up. Still, he smiles in reaponse to the laugh and shrugs.]

Someone called dibs on me the first time around, they explained it but I never quite got it. We'll see what happens, I guess. If any of the other Guardians show up, pretty sure people are gonna call dibs on them.

Are we talking about two different movies? Cause Short's interpretation was a dick, all right, but I don't think he actually killed anybody. It was a kid's movie.

[ If he'd known about the horror movie versions, Robbie wouldn't have even opened the subject up for discussion. ]

I've got so many questions I'm never going to get to the original questions. Like, who are the Guardians? And what rock are people living under if they've never heard of Jack Frost? You've got your own line in "The Christmas Song," and it's one of the only lines people remember. It always gets mumbly after nose.

I thought the kid's one had Michael Keaton? There are a lot more of these movies than I thought...

[They're all equally inaccurate in his eyes regardless, so it doesn't bother him too much. Except maybe that claymation one, that Jack Frost just looked ridiculous.]

I'm "just an expression" [complete with air quotes here] to those who do know me, others just...don't, I guess.

[It hurts, but he tries not to let it get to him, he's had 300 years to deal with it, after all. But he grins next and answering about the Guardians.]

The Guardians are the ones you'd know as Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, the Sandman, and the Tooth Fairy. We're all real.

Nah, that's the creepy "heartwarming" -

[ He actually does the air quotes gesture. ]

One where the dead father comes back as a snowman and melts to death in front of his already once-traumatized family. That one didn't have anything to do with the Jack Frost legends - they kind of just borrowed the name. You should've sued them.

[ It's weird, but Robbie is unquestioning in the face of, what he considers, the spirit of winter. Completely normal, when you're from a world where Thor and Hercules are walking down 35th any given day.

Santa Claus et al, on the other hand, make him a little skeptical. His eyebrows creep up. ]

I'm guessing your idea of Sandman doesn't enjoy robbing banks and punching Spidey, or else Santa's standards have taken a dive.

[Kubo looks troubled, giving a half-story like this.]

Maybe I should tell you the basics. I don't know, though. It doesn't feel right to tell someone else's story when I don't have permission.

[Telling his mother and father's stories is different, the permission feeling implicit.]

I don't even know THEIR story - the reporters, I guess they're called. They only said they were going to do it, not why.

[Kubo takes the smile, happy to run with an upswing in the mood.]

A winter spirit? I've never met a winter spirit before. I don't even know any winter spirit stories. Is that why your name is Frost? Where do winter spirits come from? I'd really like to hear your story, if you'd like to tell it. I could help, if you'd like.

[He takes his shamisen off his back, plucking a few notes that cause his paper to fly out of his pack, folding into elaborate snowflake shapes that look too complex for traditional origami. One would swear scissors were involved. Kubo continues playing a wintry tune, making the snowflakes dance about.]

Then don't worry about it, they'll tell me when they want to.

[He gives the kid a reassuring smile but then it widens at all the questions and he laughs. He stops and looks in awe at the origami snowflakes, the music was beautiful too. It'd been awhile since he heard something on the shamisen. He should visit Japan one of these days, or when he goes home.]

I definitely need to see this in person, Kubo, where are you? I'll tell you my story.

dibs

I tend to be invisible or else I'd have sued them when they did the creepy cartoons but uhhhh, no, Sandy isn't like that at all. [Although the little guy could throw one mean punch.] Just the guy who puts you to sleep and gives you good dreams. He'd never harm a child or anything.

North isn't really the leader of the group, although we generally meet up at his place to talk and stuff. Did you know the yetis made all the toys? Totally found that one out when I became a Guardian.

Aw, c'mon, man. Or lady. Can't really tell here, although it was a woman last time.

[Kubo brightens. He's much more a fan of talking in-person, but this seems to be the way a lot of people more familiar with this place are comfortable communicating. It's always nice when someone else suggests meeting.]

I'm on the Habitat deck! There's a big mountain by the sea, with a house on the top. I'm in the meadow at the foot of the mountain.

doesnt matter im just fucking with you anyway
i dont actually want what i can only assume is a human popsicle on my dick
that is if you are in fact the personification of winter and not just a bizarrely younger and more attractive version of the villain from that one christmas movie

That is SO not what my mind went to when it came to 'dibs', thanks.

I'm not really the personification of winter, just the shepherd of winter, if that makes any sense. There's more than one evil Jack Frost movie, I'd like to think none of them exist, thank you.

Edited 2016-11-30 03:07 (UTC)

You got it.

[It takes him longer than he'd like to reach the meadow at the foot of the mountain, he can't fly anymore with the Wind and he doesn't have the suit with the nifty flight rings right now. But, eventually, he makes it and waves to the kid.]

Hey there, Kubo.

what else could it mean
also whatever you wanna call it you did a shitty job
i didnt see snow for the first thirteen years of my life
feelin severely neglected right now like wow
how are those decisions even made
hey how about we bring some wintery goodness out to the american southwest huh
haha no fuck texas
texas gets to roast in its own personal hell for all eternity

Sorry, kiddo, that's not how weather works and I'd like to not get on the bad side of Mother Nature. I will grieve on your behalf because no one should miss a good snowball fight or snow day.

then what do you actually do if not deciding who gets to enjoy said snow like some lofty king doling out pardons and death sentences

Having fun, I guess. Going to other countries where winter is supposed to happen in areas where snow is supposed to happen, making people slip and slide, freezing some outdoor laundry... I dunno, it's not really any one thing. Until recently, I was just trying my best to get kids to actually realize I exist so they could actually see me.

[The kid was sitting with his shamisen, surrounded by paper folding and unfolding itself in wintery shapes - mostly snow-covered trees and mountains, icebergs and snowflakes, natural things without any holiday to influence it. Kubo bounced to his feet when Jack arrived, whipping off a quick half-bow of polite greeting. The paper fluttered to the ground around him without music to keep it up.]

Hello, Jack Frost! It's nice to meet you.

[He picked his shamisen up again and played a few notes to unfold his paper and pull it all back in a neat pile.]

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