What deadly sin would you apply to each frost kid?
I think a few of these are going to be a surprise! Trust me!
“…a desire to be more important than others, failing to acknowledge the good work of others, and excessive love of self…”
Jill not being in wrath seems silly, doesn’t it? Hear me out. Anger is a fundamental part of who Jillian is but it is not the basis through which she interacts with the world, there are many times she would rather not be angry at all, wishes in fact that the people around her would stop being so incompetent and insufferable so that she did not have to be so angry. Which is where her sin of Pride comes in: they say if you want a job done right you ought to do it yourself. Jill would not be so angry all the time if she did not believe her way to be the best. She thrives in the cutthroat world of culinary arts because it’s laughable to think that she would weigh herself down with teamwork.
Jane wasn’t born with the immense sense of self satisfaction that she has now, you could say she was groomed into it. Because of her disability, she was treated as though she needed to be protected, as though she was always going to achieve less, that it was alright and that this was a privilege she should appreciate in such a high achieving family. She defined these benevolently ablest expectations and believes that it should be possible for anyone else to do the same. After all, look at the den of dragons she was up against. She is willing to help those who wish to learn, to better themselves, but they have to prove it to her standards. She’s metaphorically pulled the ladder from up under her.
“…similar to jealousy…discontent towards someone’s traits, status, abilities, or rewards. The difference is the envious also desire the entity and covet it.”
The desire to be someone that they aren’t consumes both of these Frost children’s lives but no ones life is more ravaged by envy than Jolyne. Her discontent has made it so that lying is her first nature and going through the motions of her incredible talent for the law is her second. She’s blind to the fact that all snowpeople pretty much look the same. She’s blind to the fact that anything about herself might be very enviable. Her power would be ranked amongst the most beloved and coveted in their society, but she would never notice that. Joy is more effortlessly beautiful, James’ power is a true extension of himself, Janleigh’s hair frames her face better, Jane is the skinniest snow woman of all. Those are things she notices.
Joel’s envy is much more passive. It doesn’t lead him to hate himself, it doesn’t consume his every thought. In fact, he’s much too embarrassed to express it at all. Leviathan hangs around his shoulders and weighs him down, stopping him from realizing that he will never have the normal life he wants. He will never have even a semblance of it if he does not make an effort towards building the life he wants. Joel has also yet to realize that everything he wants from a normal human life could be his right at home. To quote his bio because I feel it’s apt here, “Math is easier than emotions, you can solve an equation in a few different ways but there is only one right answer.” Joel wants both what he doesn’t have and only what he’s got.
“…in its purest form, presents with self-destructiveness, violence, and hate that may provoke feuds…”
John is the quiet wrath, the seething and malding that makes you grip the skin of your palm until your knuckles turn white. They say that wherever you go, there you are. John is constantly facing a world that doesn’t mold itself to his standards or concern itself with his expectations, a filthy classless world. At home there is order and he’ll do whatever it takes to preserve it. Threats through gritted teeth will become his fists through your teeth if you push him far enough. And he’s such a stand up guy that would be your fault now wouldn’t it? John’s wrath thrives on plausible deniability. In some ways the gendered expectations of anger are switched between him and his sister. But with John, if you’ve truly incurred his wrath you might not have any time to get away.
Josephine is the loud wrath. Frustration tears born of out of righteous indignation and the disbelief that someone could treat you so badly. She loves to feel helpful and is sometimes very blind to the fact that she’s actively making a situation worse, but she tried her best! Shouldn’t that be enough? Whether or not her fits of rage are justified it can’t be said that Josephine is one to bottle up her emotions. As she’s gotten older and become less of a crybaby her wrath has morphed in to an entirely different form: using physical violence to solve what she perceives to be emotional violence committed against herself and those she cares about. It doesn’t help that being the first girl in the family means these feelings are often validated.
“…sometimes defined as physical laziness …sloth has also been defined as a failure to do things that one should do.”
If any kid could be the physical embodiment of their singular sin it would be him, the fact that he has has hobbies and –later on– a career baffles everyone who’s ever met Jeremy. He doesn’t entirely lack ambition as I’ve just mentioned, but it is in part because of his profound laziness that his seeming lack of a special ability compared to the rest of his family didn’t lead him to becoming a total cliche. His worst possible act of sloth however, is his relationship with his little sister. He allowed her to follow him around as he worked with the occult, attempting to summon the dark forces to do everything he’s too lazy to do. Never offering her guidance. Then once they are grown and their lives diverge from one another he doesn’t offer her comfort. Taking her feelings in to account and making a change is work. Jeremy would much rather continue on the path of least resistance he’s spent his whole life traveling down.
It is ironic that the sloth of these two are so tied up within one another. Jasmine’s sloth, though, is one that many of us may be able to relate to. She feels deeply for the plight of humans and wishes so that they would be free from the pain her family inflicts upon them, but her disgust is so strong that she’s all bark and no bite. Compassion fatigue one might call it. When the carnage gets too much she holes herself in her greenhouse and cares for her plants or smokes away her braincells with her older brother. Indulging in creature comforts that many humans will never get to experience again. Wallowing in moral judgement is so much easier than pushing back against people who are more passionate in their evil than you are in your humanity. Though she may be the only Frost that can truly escape their sin.
“…is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs, especially with respect to material wealth.”
Janet’s greed absolutely cannot be understated, the smell of fresh money could bring her out of a fainting spell like smelling salts. There is the seed of a good person, somewhere deep down inside of her, but the devil on her shoulder keeps stepping on that persons head to grasp at dangling jewels. Janet’s love and morals can be bought, but her greed is not just for money. Standing up for others does reflect a genuine sense of justice that she feels inside, but it’s also an exceedingly easy way to get attention. Positive or negative. Just as she sometimes doesn’t know why she’s acting on an impulse, Janet wonders sometimes if she really cares about something or just wants to be a contrarian.
Jeanette was born in to an incredibly old, old money family, an ancient and noble lineage. She would have more money from her inheritance alone, as one of 25, than she could never spend in one lifetime. But her greed is not for money. It is for the birth right promised to every person that shares her lineage, the information that these connections could bring her. Being so privileged and a mutant means the world is already endless and magical, but she chooses to believe that there is always more out there for her to discover. Things neither the human world nor the world of the supernatural can comprehend, not yet at least. She will make the discovery and she will so generously choose to share it in due time. But first...
“…the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.”
Whether it be through embodying the sin or tempting weak wills to the sin, James —as the ultimate embodiment of evil— could go under any sin here. Which is exactly my point. Nothing is ever enough for James. Schemes that challenge his genius mind, stretch his capability for manipulation, take up months of his life…all because entirely ruining the life of his meal makes them taste that much sweeter when he swallows them whole. Literally. His over-indulgence is that of evil itself. In our world the consumption of human flesh is the ultimate taboo. James becomes a starved animal in its presence, his own flesh contributing to a gluttonous cycle in any human he wishes to control. His very blood is an addictive substance.
Putting Justin in Lust seems like it would be an immediate no brainer, but you would be incorrect. Sex here is not the object of Justin’s intense desire but as something he knows he can always get. A sea of women whose faces and names he probably doesn’t remember. He’s not seeing them as individuals but single use consumables. The true Gluttony of it all comes when one considers that after a while he really can’t be enjoying it as much as one would think he does. Not every woman in the world is great at sex. At a certain point it becomes pure consumption. Time he could have spent making genuine connections, finding fulfillment in others, or being true to himself wasted on pick up artistry. For a quick fuck. Just because he can.
“…the intense desire of money, fame, or power…a sudden, powerful, almost overwhelming desire of something you know is bad for you.”
Journey’s true desire is that for a place in the world, her sin of Lust is everything that she’s willing to enable to achieve it. Her enhanced memory is a matter of science at the end of the day, not magic, she has to choose to forget some things for her literal and figurative mental health. It’s something special entirely her own that makes her incredibly useful to her family members. It is a given that they’re always going to love her, but she’s willing to keep their truth and take it on as her own to guarantee it. It’s her way of showing her love in return. Unlike many others on this list, her comes from a genuine place of love. But as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Jasper may have been conceived as a clone of his father, but he is his own man who is fully capable of carving out his own path in the world. However, if there is one avenue in which Jasper is his father, it would be his lust. Losing oneself in sfm animations and taboo manga is only separated from going to the strip club and ordering a skin flick in era, both – for the frost men at least –involve a fear of other people‘s choices. A fear of rejection. It’s one of the sins that most easily escalates, mutates as its subject becomes desensitized and needs more stimulation. More validation from an outside source. It’s motivated by the twin flames of insecurity and entitlement.
Those remaining without explanation:
