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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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[He drags a hand through his hair, sighing.]

That's... well then. It certainly... I'm not sure whether to congratulate you on doing so much on your own or be angry on your behalf.

300 years late for that, I think. But... appreciated, nonetheless, I guess. Whichever one you decide to feel, anyway.

Three hundred... Stars above you're young. It probably doesn't matter much since I... likely don't exist for you but if I'd known I'd have done what I could to help.

I'm well aware, thanks. [:|]

What... are you suppose to be, anyway? I mean, by the time I was, uh, made you were already pretty well into your job of being the boogeyman. At least in my world.

You could say I'm... management for a portion of the ecosystem so to speak. Specifically the animal kingdom, keeping track of population booms and extinction rates, evolutionary paths, food chains, that sort of thing. I did a large part of the creatures of Australia, and the Galapagos more recently.

I'm also the one to ah... take care of problems. Spirits that get too far out of line and have too large of a detrimental impact on the world as a whole, when they go mad and become too dangerous. Leading Wild Hunts when they're called for, that sort of thing.

[he pauses.]

I don't influence humanity directly, though I've spent a good deal of time with them now and again.

So... you're like Mother Nature but for animals only?

[That's new.]

Akito mentioned her as well.

[His tone shifts a bit, a note of something either angry or annoyed.]

I suppose thoug, yes. The seasonal, weather and plant spirits manage the rest more or less. We compare notes now and again and decide on directions but that's about it.

Sounds boring.

Boring was sitting alone in a prison for years on end.

Besides there's plenty of amusement to be hand, have you seen the platypus?

Yeah, I could see how that would be really boring. [And kind of horrifying. What did you do, Koz?]

Yes, I've seen the platypus. When spirits weren't on my case and humans too busy not seeing me, I got pretty well acquainted with the animals.

[He volunteered.]

I had fun with Australia after Aster built it.

Oh? Do you have any favorites?

I generally try to keep away from Australia unless it's winter over there.

[Hm. A favorite? That was tough, he's seen all kinds on his travels.]

After seeing North's reindeer, I think I got a new respect for them. But hoofed animals have always been a favorite of mine, I think. Hard to just pick one.

That's generally a wise idea.

[He's not saying there's a reason that most things that live there are deadly one way or another, but there is.]

Reindeer are pretty interesting, though I don't actually know who this North is you keep mentioning.

He's Santa Claus, basically. Unless you know his real name, Nicholas St. North?

[That gets the recognition.]

Ah! Yes, I've heard of him. Bandit, thief, cossack, good swordsman though. He had a horse last I knew though, and was living in Santoff Klausen after an... altercation with Sable.

Uh... he doesn't do those things anymore. But he's still a good swordsman. And living in the North Pole.

Why would anyone other than a polar bear live up there? It's not exactly hospitable.

How do you know him, if you don't mind me asking.

He made it hospitable, apparently. The Yetis, I'm sure, help him out though.

Everyone knows North by the time I'm around, that's why. But I guess I know him personally because I was recently made into a Guardian by the Man in the Moon.

...I see.

I suppose I shouldn't question Tsar Lunaoff's descisions, considering it likely means that the fearlings remain a threat. If you would like someone to tell you more about how to fight them and the Nightmare Men, I know a great deal.

Tsar Lunar.

[That much, Jack knew. But they all called him Man in the Moon, mainly because that's what the Man in the Moon preferred.]

Fearlings aren't much of a threat these days. There's Night Mares, but no Nightmare Men.

[Just a king that doesn't have much power anymore.]

Fearlings will always be a threat, until the last of them are snuffed out of existence instead of just trapped somewhere. We made that mistake before and it nearly destroyed the universe.

[Koz has opinions.]

That's why Manny made the Guardians. Trapping them obviously didn't help, so we're here to stop them.

[Besides, all the fearlings are basically in Pitch now, so it was simply a matter of keeping him in check.]

It's less a matter of stopping them and more a matter of killing them, there's no way I know of reversing being turned in to one. There's only one person who's kept... some sense of who they were after being attacked by them.

Overtime, Pitch wasn't just some kind consumed with fearlings and stuff though. The others haven't gone into detail but nowadays he's mostly here to fulfill the role of scaring kids and feeding on the fear. We were never tasked with killing him, really. Just keeping things in balance.

I'll give him that, since kids do need to be cautious and stuff. But it's a fine line and not very pleasant on both sides.

...I've still yet to quite figure out who this Pitch is that you keep talking about. I was referring to Sable, she is the one in control of the horde of them.

[He sighs.]

There's no need for children to suffer nightmares, the Tsar never had them.

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