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[As per usual, though you can't see Jack will be getting a video of nothing other than the scenery outside of Poseidon, those you can, will see him, of course! Text below follows soon after, even if he does want to say something but this wasn't really for the people who already knew him.]

Probably should have expected all the new faces but I really didn't. New timeline, new faces, gotta keep remembering that. In any case, I'm numero tres on the Spirit That Needs to be Believed In list. I'm Jack Frost.

[A pause in the typing...]

Yes, that Jack Frost. No, my parents weren't being weird or anything. The name I had before I became Jack Frost doesn't have much in common other than my first name. I know I'm not as popular as Tooth or North... er, Santa to you guys. But I really do exist and contrary to what some people say, no I'm not an invisible mutant kid with ice powers. I don't have the X-Gene, nor does it actually occur on my version of Earth. I'm just your common nature spirit that happens to be the one bringing Winter to you guys and working double time lately because of global warming.

But I doubt you want to hear me rant about that. If anything else, I would really appreciate it if you guys put aside your disbelief and actually believe in Tooth, Akito, and I. I know it seems simple, since I am here typing this all out but it's not as simple as you think. You really have to truly believe I'm Jack Frost, I'm the Spirit of Winter who nips at your nose. Tooth is the Tooth Fairy who leaves behind goodies after taking the tooth/teeth you left under your pillow, and Akito is a Wind Spirit, responsible for keeping the winds in check. It really shouldn't be that hard but some of you guys are surprisingly stubborn than most adults.

And adults are unknown territory. Especially for me. I usually deal with kids, after all. Guardian of Fun and responsible for all those awesome snow days that have been existing for a few hundred years now, thank you very much. But seriously, just bear with me. I'm not... used to trying to make adults believe in me. Since you got all that science and logic getting in the way of actually seeing what's, literally, right in front of you.

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Astronomically poor decision making, I guess. We are talking about something that happened almost two-hundred years before I was born. Someone decided total war was a great idea.

Because total war is totally a great idea in the history of ideas.

I accept no culpability. From what I understand of the world that was, my ancestors probably weren't doing so great at the time. My thing at home was decontamination.

Wasn't blaming you. Just being sarcastic, sorry.

No worries. I'm just kinda tired of the reaction. Apparently in most worlds people turn up from they had the sense not to blow up everything ever.

Anyway. You're a magic thingy who makes winter happen? I've got that right?

Sure... I'm a magic... thingy.

[NOT AMUSED.]

How am I supposed to get it if I don't pin down the context? Your world isn't the same as mine. I'm barely following as it is.

I... honestly don't know. Most people have a general concept of who Santa is. Or that people used to believe in Gods and Goddesses and nature spirits and whatnot.

Um... I guess just think of it like this. All the things that science explains? Chemicals and gravity and... stuff? Well, instead of just that, there's also magical beings doing the work too.

We don't really negate what science revealed, just sort of... help it along. I guess?

[IS HE DOING IT RIGHT?]

Oh, is it like a religion thing? Because those are all really ridiculous at home. It's not like I ever believed that nonsense. I mean, people worship Oasis, but it's just there because a guy got exposed to a weird strain of the FEV virus and has a mutagenically enhanced tree growing out of him. Pretty nice guy, but not magic.

[She's just never run into anything but a few ridiculous cults and her dad's thin Christianity, which always just struck her as his way of donning widow's weeds. She just assumed it was fake, the fault of lost hope and a bunch of drugs. But if that's what he is, only real, at least she can kind of link that to an existing psychological framework.]

Uh... sort of. I just don't require worship. If that makes any sense? Just you knowing I exist and that I am who I say I am.

Nah, I'd suck at that anyway. I'm just pretty sure I got this now.

[It's like if the wonky stuff that came out of the crazy people were true. Kinda like a Grognak the Barbarian comic. It's just a story about seasonal spirits instead of sacred swamps or universes inside atoms released by bombs. She can work with that.]

...so does that mean you can see me?

[A valid question since it seemed like she was understand what it took to see him. Of course, the question was, did she actually believe or not. He knew there was a line to cross with most adults into putting aside what they knew and just... trusted what they saw. Pepper's words were true but it wouldn't ever stop Jack from trying.

Not while he was on Verdana, anyway. Whenever he goes back, he would go back to rely on kids since those are the ones who needed him the most. On Verdana, it was the adults and teens, it seemed. Well, not so much as needed as he was there to help. But he just didn't want to be the invisible kid. It was like the middle ground of no one knowing he existed and seeing him.

It sucked.]

[She's a very cynical, scientitifically-minded person, and while she's still technically a teenager, she's very emphatically an adult in most ways. But she's also had her understanding of the world revolutionized more than once, and she dealt with her abrupt loss of innocence by holding onto a few aspects of childhood such that she's more enthusiastic about toys and adventure stories than she was when she actually was a child. She has to intellectualize her way there, but she gets there.]

Yup.

[He grinned immediately, the smile reaching his eyes.]

That's awesome, I'm glad.

There, see? Explain things and you're fine.

[She was quite amused to see that he looked about Todd's age, or even less, and was kind of a cutie-pie in general, even more by her standards than in general. Apparently, spirits looked like kids from prewar advertisements.]

Now you're cooking with science.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work for everyone.

Hmm. Well, need to work on that. But honestly, once I get my head around it it's a pretty cool idea. Could have used you at home in a big way.

I'm trying but some people are just really stubborn.

Maybe you should make posters.

I don't think posters would work. I can't draw and you can't take a photo of me.

Mm, true. I'm sure someone could draw you, but that doesn't exactly prove anything. Still, you could flier the city a bit, explain the whole deal so people can just read when they get around to it. ...Not that that would be too different from the network. I dunno, I just always wanted to leaflet something.

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