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PLAYER INFORMATION
Your name: Gil
Age: 24

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Jack Frost
Age: 17 at time of death and in appearance, 317 in actuality
Canon: Rise of the Guardians
Canon Point: End of the film
Species: Human in appearance, but he’s a guardian of children; a person chosen by the man in the moon as a human legend (and in Jack’s case a force of nature)
Gender: Male

Background: http://riseoftheguardians.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Frost

Jack was born in the New World, one of the first people to be born American, and despite what must have been a tricky childhood, didn’t just survive but thrived, lively and as energetic as a kid all the way into his late teens. It’s probably part of the reason why he got on so well with his much younger sister. One day, while ice-skating on the lake, he realised too late that the ice was too thin to hold them. But even though he was scared, he thought on his feet, turning things into a game to keep his sister from getting even more scared, helping her to hopscotch onto the thicker ice. In the process, though, he ended up on the thinner ice and fell through into the freezing water. He couldn’t survive that. But the Man in the Moon had seen what he’d done, and he was transformed, reborn that night as Jack Frost, but with no memories of his past life. Armed only with his new name and his newfound powers he was released into the world, only to find that in addition to this, no one could see him.

300 years later, finds a still upbeat Jack, but a very lonely one too. It is this Jack that the Man in the Moon finally calls upon to become a Guardian and finds lacking. Jack has no interest in becoming how he sees the others: isolated, trapped by rules and regulations. It’s only when Pitch attacks Tooth and he finally allows himself to get caught up, on the promise that if they find Pitch, they find the teeth – and the lost memories of his childhood.

However, in the effort to regain the children’s belief in the guardians, Jack finds what he’s been lacking in the last few years: friendship. He found himself falling in with them easily, especially Sandman whom he already knew a little from before, and he was heartbroken when he thought that he died. He even managed to reconcile with Bunny a little while they prepared for Easter. The impact wasn’t just one sided. He helped the guardians to realise that in their hard work protecting the children they had come to forget the most important thing: the children themselves.

That was when Pitch lured Jack away from the others using his memories as a lure, and managed to make it seem like he’d traded one of Toothiana’s fairies for his teeth and the memories that they contain. With Easter ruined in his absence, the other guardians took the failure out on Jack and he left them. Pitch found him and tried to convince him to join with him, but Jack refused. He’d rather that children believed in him than feared him. And so instead, Pitch traded Baby Tooth for Jack’s staff, what both of them thought was the source of his power, but refused to actually hand Baby Tooth over. Baby Tooth saved herself by biting Pitch, but Pitch broke Jack’s staff and knocked him into a crevice.

There Baby Tooth convinced him to watch his memories, and Jack finally learnt the truth about how he died. Revitalised, he focused his powers enough to mend his staff and leave. He made his way to the home of the last boy to believe in the guardians, just as his belief was waning and drew the Easter bunny in frost on his window. It worked, and more besides. Jamie became the first human to see Jack since he died.

Pitch wasn’t going to leave the last child, though, and he chased Jamie, Jack and the other guardians into town. It was then that Jamie reminded Jack of his sister, and Jack realised what his centre was, what it was that he was guardian of in children: fun. By turning defeating Pitch into a game, they managed to turn the tables on Pitch, helping the children to believe in them and forget about Pitch, until the children no longer feared or believed in him and Pitch became as invisible to them as Jack had been. With Pitch defeated, children’s belief in the guardians reborn, and Jack finally visible to them, he was ready to take the oath, and become the guardian of fun.

Appearance: Skinny and wiry, Jack looks like a boy who hasn’t stopped growing (which he hadn’t, before he died). His white hair is ruffled, but his brows are still darker, and if you look carefully you might see the traces of faded freckles on his cheeks. His eyes are a bright blue, and his teeth as white as fresh fallen snow.

Personality: Everyone knows that Jack Frost is a trickster, a mischievous imp who’ll nip your nose, and Jack himself couldn’t exactly deny that, though he might complain at being called an imp. When he was alive, he was full of life; climbing trees, tricking and pranking his sister and running around, and he lost none of his excitement for life as Jack Frost. He’s full of energy; literally bouncing off the walls at times, laughing as the snow and ice follows him. He darts from place to place, using the wind to carry him, flighty and to some extent childish as well, causing little pieces of mischief like freezing water fountains, drying clothes or bringing a blizzard to interrupt someone’s well planned Easter egg hunt. He’s still a teenager at heart, and he has no interest in rules and regulations – or shoes and paperwork, free as the wind and as untamed as a blizzard. He has the skill to turn even a life or death situation into a game, but he can also see the fun in small things: turning a slip on the snow into a sledge ride all over town, and the more uptight you are the more likely he is to throw a snowball at you.

However, three hundred years without being seen have taken their toll on him, and at times he can be melancholy. He doesn’t spend too much time feeling sorry for himself, but he wanted to know why: why he was there, why him, but the man in the moon never spoke to him again. This left unanswered questions, and invisible to the world, Jack had no one to turn to, no one to talk to about it. Pitch points out that Jack’s deepest fear is that no one will ever see him, and worse, that he’ll never know why.

At the end of the day, though, Jack is wise beyond his apparent age. He’s mature enough to reconcile with Bunny when the moment is right, and he knows to stay quiet and listen to Toothiana when she starts to realise that she misses seeing the children. He’s loyal, risking life and limb to try and save Sandman, and brave enough to stand up against a wave of Nightmares. When push comes to shove, even for all his wildness, even when the other guardians have pushed him away, he still won’t help Pitch for the sake of the children, preferring to remain invisible then have them be afraid of him, and he shows gentleness to Jamie at the end of the film when he reassures him that they will always be there, even if he can’t see them. He is a good man, even if he still looks like a boy, but he will always see the childish joy in things, and though his wild spirit was tamed a little by the other guardians and the humans that believe in him, he’ll still find time to nip your nose if it’ll make you laugh.

Powers/Abilities: In the film, Jack’s still learning what exactly he can do, but the basics of his magic boil down to being able to create ice. When he was first reborn as a guardian, he couldn’t control it at all, leaving thin ice patterns on everything that he touched, but as he experimented more, he was able to control this more. He can make the ice form specific pictures (for example, when he ‘draws’ Sandy on the window at North’s place), freeze the air and anything it touches (when he shatters the nightmares that Pitch sends to them after Sandy’s death) and create ice and snow (‘Who needs ammo?’).

As part of being the ‘guardian of fun’ he can also imbue snowflakes with magic to draw out people’s sense of fun, something that he uses on Jamie, Cupcake and Bunnymund in the film, so we know that it affects believers, non-believers and other guardians – and, in the case of Cupcake, can find it even if it’s buried completely to the outside world.

And, finally, he also has the ability to control the wind, using it as a form of transport, to the point where he can essentially fly. From the way that he balances on his staff, and that Tooth catches and carries him, I’d be inclined to say that he’s very light; light as a snowflake, which will make his life a pain in the arse in a world where he can’t control the wind like that.

For 300 years, Jack believed that his staff was the conduit for all of his powers, and that he couldn’t achieve anything without it. However, during the course of the film he learns that he can control his powers without it. For the purpose of this game, I’ll have him limited back to what he could do when he was first reborn.

Inventory: Bearing in mind he barely carries anything on himself as it is: his clothes and his staff.
Type Affinity: Water or wind.
Wand: His staff
Other:

(I just trolled through the Jack tag on tumblr to find a good gif, I think I need therapy now.)

SAMPLES
First Person:
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/632749.html?thread=414137517#cmt414137517
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/636218.html?thread=415867962#cmt415867962
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/636218.html?thread=419032890#cmt419032890

Third Person:
Up on the rooftops, Jack tapped his staff to the tiles and watched as silvery, delicate patterns spread over them, melting away almost instantly in the warm sunlight. He sighed then, but as he lowered his staff his fingers found the point where it had once been snapped, now held together by everlasting ice.

He’d just started to push the boundaries of what he thought he could do with his magic, and it’d been taken away from him. It was typical, wasn’t it? He finally found out his place in the world and then he was taken away from it. Still, no point in moping. Not when there was a whole city to explore, flying carpets to steal, and chaos to cause. The wind might not carry him in this place (yet), but that wasn’t going to stop him. It hadn’t stopped him from reaching the rooftop in the first place.

Reaching out with his staff again, this time he focused more, holding it tighter. Ice formed over the tiles again, this time thicker, slowly tracing a path down. A path that wasn’t intended for walking on. Jack grinned as he scooted over, and then with a whoop pushed himself down. There was a drop at the end, of course, but that didn’t bother him as he landed lightly on his feet and glanced back up at the ice that was still glistening in the sun. It probably wouldn’t last much longer, but it had lasted as long as he needed it, and that was good enough for him right now. He would get better, back to his old capabilities and then more besides, and then he would find a way out of here. Not that he wanted to get back to his duties, but he did want to get back to the children, and to his friends.

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