Do you think Frosty the snowman comes alive with magic that comes from Santa Claus? Or Jack Frost? Or other?
imo I think Jack Frost (bc his name is literally Frosty) but then I just picture Martin Short as Jack Frost bringing a snowman to life and either he is really lonely OR MY FAVORITE THEORY Frosty the snowman is part of some greater evil plan to take down Christmas that Jack Frost is working on. Just imagine… Frosty has to keep getting melted/dehatted like the Winter Soldier when he’s brain wiped/on ice because he keeps making friends with neighborhood kids and iT’S HOLDING UP THE MISSION, YOU DIRTY SNOWCONE.
Ninjago s11 AU the guards are sentient and can think for themselves, Zane AND Vex just have some bodily control over them so that’s how he makes them attack and stuff.
They realize like 40 yrs into Zane’s ruling that the Ice Emperors not really the one in control of everything but instead it’s Vex, then they realize that Vex doesn’t allow the Ice.E to leave the palace without him and even that’s rare. So the guards come up with this idea for a coup, and then they suddenly decide to actually do it when Grimfax joins them.
So they start their plan off by befriending the Ice.E so they have his trust, while doing it they realize that the real REAL bad guy is Vex. So they decide to take him away form there. Then one night they barge into the throne room dragging him up and when he goes “the hell u doin’?” they’d go all like “Vex is totes planning a coup so we’re taking u someplace safe”. So they leave the castle with him, while walking they throw away his armor, expect the staff because it’s stuck to his hand.
Vex, when he realizes what happened, is of course mad. And icing on top of the cake is that every ice samurai that went had been an alive one, so he only had ice zombie samurais left, a.k.a. Blizzard Sword Masters and Blizzard archers. So Vex starts chasing them with the ice zombies while the samurai run away with Grimfax’s lead while protecting the Ice.E, who still doesn’t realize that he’s Zane. During their travels Zane starts to bleed through the Ice.E, this of course confuses the samurai who get him to open up. They kinda go “shit” when they realize that he’s amnesiadic, so while they travel they try all kinds of way to bring his memories back.
At one point they end up at the ice fishers village, the villagers are of course scared of them but when they explain their situation to them they kinda understand but don’t trust them. When Sorla learns that the Ice.E has no memory of his past she offers to help, he agrees and the ceremony begins.
It’s around the fire, with everyone from the village and the samurai there watching by the walls, or through the windows. Then it goes through kind of a montage of sound and flashes of events in the fire, some notable ones are about his father and the fact that he was a good guy. Also the fact of his brothers and sister (the ninja) existing.
Zane ends up befriending the villagers and he and the samurai end up staying there, but nothing good can last long. So Vex shows up, while the samurai (still iced) are fighting the ice zombies the Ice.E is having a mental breakdown. When Vex shows up to the place he’s panicking in he goes onto this tangent how only he can be trusted and he’ll make sure that the Ice.E’ll be alright, the Ice.E doesn’t really answer because panic. So Vex has two ice zombies escort him out, then he drags him into the middle of the lake and shouts something about the Ice.E being on his side and that they should just surrender.
But guess what, the Ice.E wans’t panicking for no reason. No, he was having wivid flashbacks and getting his memories back. So Zane just fucking explodes with ice, sending Vex of to the side, destroying the ice zombies and freeing the samurai while destroying the scepter. Basically freeing the realm in the process. Everyone’s of course confused as fuck, but they quickly contain Vex before he can scamper away.
So then they kinda gather around a crying Zane, having no idea what to do. But fun times! Zane’s gone back to the point when he was just a few years old, so he snaps out of the crying confused as to where he is and asking about his dad. He consistently gets his memories back one by one, so that’s not a thing they have to worry about. Grimfax is put back into rule and all is well, and Vex is executed because fuck him. Zane ends up living with the samurai, with them getting attached to him. He keeps boreal, but he’s now more like a giant guard dog that really loves petting.
So then he spends the next 20 years gaining back memories and bonding with the samurai, then the ninja come. They still take super long to get to the castle, but this time it’s because of ice birds, wolves some off road trips to magical tea trees and a montage of Kai getting his powers back. He leaves on a god note, even though the samurai are all in tears and many of them are totally not feeling like their kid is leaving home. No, they totally aren’t. Grimfax especially, somebody’s just cutting onions and he has allergies. Nothing more.
Finding a man dressed in blues passed out in the snow wasn’t what Dr. Julien thought would happen today, but he wasn’t complaining.
He was just happy that the man was alive, though sick.
As Dr. Julien walked across the snowy ground he thought of his life, living in the forest didn’t really make him the most sociable person in Ninjago. But at least he had his son, some people just lived alone secluded never interacting with people once in their entire lives.
He rarely went to the village a little ways off the forest, only going when he needed supplies. Be it mechanical or organic.
As he sped past a clearing, knowing that they were not an ideal place to be in case of sleeping treehorns, he saw something on the ground. It looked like a person. His heart practically leap up his throat, what should he do. Help the figure and possibly die because of treehorns, or move on forward and have the person's death weigh on his mind.
Julien sprinted into the clearing, silently cursing himself and his compassion. As he reached the figure he turned them around, what greeted him was a fairly old looking face with a white beard and bushy eyebrows. White frozen and wet hair framed the face, the man was breathing.
Dr. Julien shook the man, hoping that he wouldn’t upset some internal injury that the man might have. His panic dissolved slightly when the man groaned, his eyes twitched a little then finally opened. They immediately snapped to Dr. Julien, who flinched back at their intensity. This man had clearly been a warrior at some point in his life, or still might be.
“Where am I?” The man asked.
“How do you not- oh sorry, I mean. You’re in the Birchwood forest”, Dr. Julien answered.
The man opened his mouth to say something, only to devolve into a coughing fit. Dr. Julien’s hands hovered over the man, clearly not sure what to do. As the man finished Dr. Julien heard something that filled him with dread, a treehorn’s roar. And it was very close, just right outside of the clearing.
“C’mon, c’mon we have to go!” Dr. Julien shouted as quietly as possible, the mans face showed his confusion clearly but he let Dr. Julien pull him and throw his hand over his shoulder. As Dr. Julien practically dragged the man out of the clearing the lone treehorn walked into it, this obviously shocked the stranger because he stumbled and let out a grunt when it came into view. But now at least the man understood why Dr. Julien was going at the speed he was, so he joined in the best he could in his weakened state.
The pair made good time to the tree lab, sometimes having to hide behind trees when a lone treehorn or a group of them went past. When they finally got to the door the stranger was clearly out of breath, and having small coughing fits all the while. Dr. Julien laid him next to the door and pushed it. It clicked and opened up, letting cold air into the home. Dr. Julien helped the man back up again, and walked into the tree. He pulled the door shut behind himself.
“Father, are you back?” Dr. Julien heard his sons voice com from the bottom.
“Yes, yes I’m here. And we have a guest”, Dr. Julien answered back. He could feel the strangers gaze on him, clearly confused as to why a father would isolate himself and his son in the middle of a forest.
The pair traversed down the spiraling stairs, Dr. Julien mentally chasatizing himself for not adding railings to the stairs. As they neared the floor Dr. Julien could see his son staring at him on the bed, a book clasped in his hands.
A clear nervousness was visible in the boys movements, his hands gripping the book tightly while his eyes followed the two men down the stairs, “Zane my boy, could you fetch a towel and some cold water please?”
The young droid noded and leapt off the bed towards the kitchen side of the tree, Dr. Julien and the stranger finally got off the stairs and Dr. Julien straight away turned towards his bed. He dumped the stranger on it, not even paying attention to the fact that he still had his boots on. The man tried to get up as Zane came over with a bucket filled with cold water and a small hand towel, Dr. Julien just pushed the man down, “You’re clearly not okay, let me help you.”
The stranger looked conflicted, but after going through another coughing fit he let up, “Fine.”
Dr. Julien smiled at the man, and reached up to feel his forehead, “That’s odd, you’re still pretty cold even though you’re showing clear signs of a high fever”, He frowned, “Son, could you fetch me the thermometer quickly?”
Zane nodded and quickly went over to the cabinet where they kept their non daily possessions, he thrifeled through the cabinet a little bit then emerged with a small stick. He quickly gave it to Dr. Julien, then hopped onto the table to watch. Dr. Julien offered the thermometer to the man lying on his bed, the man looked at it then sighed and picked it up. The stranger put it into his mout, next followed a bit of uncomfortable silence.
The thermometer beeped and the stranger took it out giving it to Dr. Julien, the brunettes eyebrows scrunched together in confusion. The numbers clearly showed a mild cold but the man had been passed out in the forest not even twenty minutes ago, “What, this doesn’t even make sense?”
The stranger bit his lip then sighed, “That’s because I’m not exactly normal”, The man raised his hand, and to Dr. Julien’s and Zane’s bafflement frost started covering it, “I have power over ice, and it somewhat affects my body temperature as well.”
Dr. Julien couldn’t believe his eyes, he had heard stories of people with control over nature fighting in the war but he hadn’t ever entertained the idea of it being true. But here it was, in his home on his bed was laying a man with control over ice.
“Well, that might make this a little harder”, Dr, Julien smiled while gulping.
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It was later in the day after Dr. Julien stumbled upon the man out in the forest, the man had passed out not soon after showing them his power, leaving Dr. Julien and his son to take care of him.
Zane was currently outside chopping wood for the fireplace, and Dr. Julien was tinkering with the insides of a robot he called The Juggernaut when he heard the man groan from the bed. He quickly stood up and went over, but not before taking a bowlful of broth prepared by Zane with him. As he sat next to the ice elemental, the man opened his eyes. Dr. Julien picked up the towel on the man's head, twisted it and hanged it next to the bed to dry then wet another one and placed it on the man's head, “Afternoon.”
The man groaned back in greeting, squinting his eyes up at Dr. Julien, “Kinda expected to wake up dumped in the snow somewhere, to be honest.”
Dr. Julien raised a brow at that, “Why would we throw you out?”
“Haven’t really had the best interactions with people who learned about my... ability”, the man told.
Dr. Julien frowned a little, “Well no need to worry about that while you’re here, we aren’t exactly the most normal people either.”
The man chuckled, “Yeah, a man living with his son in the woods. Only surrounded by enormous tree monster things. Guess that isn’t the most normal thing in the world.”
Dr. Julien chuckled a little at the man’s wording, “You never told me your name.”
“Oh, well I haven’t used it for a while now. So just call me Ice”, The man -Ice- told.
“Well, Ice, you’re welcome to stay as long as you want.”
Dr. Julien smiled at the odd man sitting in front of him, the man named Ice smiled back tiredly.
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Dr. Julien stared at the retreating back of the blue clad man calling himself Ice, he had stayed with them till the next morning. Dr. Julien had tried to get the man to stay longer, worried over the fact that he was very sick just the day before. But the man had declined the offer, stating that he had to be somewhere.
An odd thing was the interest that the man had taken in his son, spending a quite a lot of time talking with the him. At one point Dr. Julien had to leave the tree for a moment, and when he came back he walked in on Zane gushing about some ice magic the man did. When Dr. Julien asked the man about it he had simply stated, “It’s a secret.”
The man had even taught a recipe to the two of them, Dr. Julien had gotten the hang of it faster than Zane did.
The man continued on forward as the father and son watched him go.
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It was odd, to not feel the magic of ice flow through his veins anymore.
As he stood in the desert sand, he felt the wind blow at his face. He would die here, just like the many before him had. But his would be intentional, unlike the unlucky ones lost wandering the desert eventually dying here. No, he would be intentional.
He had passed the mantel onward, and he knew that he wasn’t needed anymore. He had seen it in the night and spirit smoke, Ninjago would be in good hands from here on out. The new generation would be better than them.
The former elemental master of ice lied down in the desert sand and closed his eyes, a smile on his face. Knowing that he had fulfilled his purpose in life.
