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Character Name: Jack Frost (originally Jackson Overland)
Canon: Rise of the Guardians
Canon Point: on Santa's sleigh on the way to Tooth Palace to deal with Pitch.
Background/History: Here.

Personality:
Most spirits don't begin as spirits, they begin as something else entirely. A human, an animal, an alien. Some part of the journey of their life eventually translates into them becoming spirits. Jack's journey began as a child, as an older brother who liked nothing more than to "play tricks" on his younger sister, though he loved his sister deeply. It was this love that lead to his death, in the end. He saved his sister's life and fell through the ice covered lake instead.

It is this ending that sets the tone for his new beginning. Jack died in ice and snow, and now he's never more comfortable than in the middle of a snow storm. He was a child when he died, and despite being a little over 300 years old at the start of the story, he's still mostly a child now as well. He's stuck in that mindset. Frozen.

He's a child, and at their core, children aren't heroes. Not really. They can be moody, self-centered, and more than a little ignorant of the bigger picture. Jack can be all of these and more. That doesn't mean he doesn't care about other people, particularly children, it just means that it takes a little more effort than most to get him serious about something. He just has to be shown the consequences.

Jack's biggest motivation has always been fun. He plays with kids constantly, despite them not see them, and he still manages to take some level of enjoyment out of their happiness and excitement. He understand children far better than the actual Guardians of Childhood because he's there constantly watching them, hoping that this time one of them actually see him.

Because Jack has been alone for a long time. For 300 years nobody has believed in Jack, which meant that the only interaction he could ever hope to expect was from other spirits. And the other spirits didn't like him very much. Jack is at the top of the naughty list, according to North, which is a strange thing to consider since Jack has never actually been cruel or malicious anyone.

His tricks and pranks are played for fun, not simply to be bad. Much like a child, Jack is really only trying to get attention. He manages to always make exactly the wrong sort of impression with other spirits however, and it viewed as a troublemaker and a bit of an outcast as a result.

On the surface, it would appear that none of this bothers him at all. He cracks jokes, he smiles in the face of derision. 300 years more or less alone has really taken it's toll on Jack though. He wants to be seen, he wants to be accepted, he questions why he was even made. Because he's never exactly been shown sympathy or concern before, however, he hides these thoughts and fears behind smiles and laughter.

Despite these dark thoughts, he never stops trying, never quite gives up.

At the point in his canon that Jack is taken from, he hasn't become a Guardian yet, hasn't even met Pitch. He's still looking for acceptance and acknowledgement. He'll cling to every conversation he can have, whether it's friendly or not, he'll be ecstatic at being seen. The idea of forming real relationships with people will mean everything to him, though he'll be more than a little uncertain about how to maintain these. He'll worry constantly about messing up.

And understandably, because there's a disconnect there, between Jack and other people. He doesn't remember his life before the ice. He doesn't remember being human, having a sister. Being accepted and being loved. For all that Jack knows, he was created from the ice and has had nothing be people ignoring, dismissing, or even hating him since his creation.

Jack is going to make mistakes. He may know what children like to do for fun, but that's pretty much the extent of his knowledge when it comes to other people. He has a lot to learn.

When he does manage to be accepted, though, Jack proves himself to be brave, loyal, and yeah, a little bit reckless. He genuinely cares about people, even if they don't necessarily care about him. Jack proves himself to be exceedingly protective of those he cares about, and once you actually manage to convince him to care about a topic, he'll throw everything he has into achieving it.

Because even if he isn't necessarily a Guardian yet, he was always meant to be. He has the potential, he just needs to be given the chance to develop it.

Abilities/Powers:

My body tells me no
But I won't quit
Cause I want more

As a spirit, Jack is stronger, faster, sturdier (it would be incredibly difficult/impossible to kill him), etc. than an ordinary human. As Jack Frost, he's also more flexible and... almost whispy, really. He moves a bit like a bird, light, quick, and sort of. Ignoring gravity quite a lot.

He doesn't need to eat or sleep, but he can, and he doesn't really feel the cold at all. Or, he does feel it, but it's pleasant to him instead. He walks around in snowstorms barefoot all say without any sort of ill effect. On the other hand, he probably doesn't do too well in extreme heat for extended periods of time.

Also while the Sheppard's crook he carries with him is primarily used as a focus for his magic, but during lulls he may hop up on top of it to perch. He's not to bad at using it to smack people around with either, for that matter.

Where it's snowing
All winter through
That's where I want to be
Snowball throwing
That's what I'll do

Jack is the embodiment of winter (or an embodiment, anyway). He controls, manipulates, and creates all that cold stuff that you have to bundle up to protect yourself from. This extends from frost spreading out naturally from wherever his skin touches (including his clothes), to using the wind to travel by, to even creating blizzards. Winter weather is his domain.

He hasn't been trained in anyway though, completely self taught. Which means that most of this magic is conducted through his crook, and that any damage to the crook could limit his abilities until he manages to fix it. This also means that extreme emotion from Jack can effect the weather as well, without his actually meaning to.

Although he's being taken from a point in his canon before he's actually discovered this, Jack is the spirit of fun. This is actually fairly obvious from the level of enjoyment he found in playing with kids even before they could see them. He can "encourage" people to have fun, influencing them slightly with magic through his snow.

This doesn't actually extend to any sort of mind control or coercion really, simply a way to lighten people's moods slightly, sort of like lowering their inhibitions in a good way. This is actually a conscious decision on his part though, not something that he feeds into his magic constantly.

Items/Weapons: His Sheppard's crook that helps him focus his power... and yeah that's it.

Sample Entry: Haven Testdrive

Sample Entry Two: Truth be told, Jack wasn't exactly upset to find himself in an unfamiliar town with no idea how he got there. It wasn't as if he'd actually been doing anything important, aside from tagging along with the Guardians until they came to their senses and shooed him away again. And every city was the same as the last, really. Or at least, every city that actually experienced Winter was the same as the last.

He would fly in for a bit, enjoy himself with a bit of sledding, start a bunch of snowball fights, "nip" a few noses (where had that phrase come from anyway? as far as jack recalled, he'd never been particularly interested in anybody's nose.), eventually get bored with the distinct lack of conversation, and move onto the next town.

This place had been a little different though. For one, Jack had no memory of flying here in the first place. He'd wondered once or twice whether he'd simply fallen out of Santa's sled while he was taking a nap, but figured he would have at least been a little sore from the journey down. That wasn't what had caught his attention the most about this place though, what made it so distinctly different from the towns back home.

People could see him here.

That, more than anything else, was why he admittedly found himself not bothering to think too hard on how he had found his way here. What did something like that matter when kids could talk to him, play with him. Why should he care?

Sure, bad things were happening here. He couldn't ignore that, wouldn't want to considering the kids. But at least if he was here, he could work to do something about it, right? Protect the kids, stop those bad things from happening to them. On paper it sounded a lot like something a Guardian would do, but that didn't mean that North had been right about him... did it?