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CHARACTER SURVEY MEME OF DOOMNESS
Body and Appearance
1. Describe the character's height and build. Is he heavyset, thin, short, rangy?
Scarecrow.....Jack's a pretty reedy guy, a bit short for his frozen age, with a very thin frame to him. He's about as light as a scarecrow too, unnaturally so even with the slight frame considered, though this is mostly contributed by an effect of his ice magic.
2. How old is he?
Physically frozen at 18 for 300 years
3. Describe his posture. Does he carry himself well or does he slouch?
Generally very loose and casual for ease for movement; sometimes he can slide into the typical teenage slouch, but it's all pretty dependent on mood, really.
4. How is his health? Is he fit or out of shape? Any illnesses or conditions? Any physical disabilities?
Looks like he's been out in the cold way too long, but is actually pretty hale and hearty by winter spirit standards. It helps that his body's in a physical stasis maintained by his ice magic anyway, and while this lends some...rather alarmingly dead-like symptoms to the uninitiated (unnaturally cold, no pulse, optional breathing, complete stillness in unconsciousness), it does render him immune to typical disease and deceptively physically hardy. That twiggy frame can take hard impacts surprisingly well, and as an immortal spirit he cannot be killed by--and will always eventually recover from--pretty much any physical ailment or injury he receives, though some cases will take longer than others, and physical pain is still a thing. (This immortality is nerfed in Exit Void.)
That aside, high sensitivity to changes in the weather is an ailment that comes with the winter spirit status; it’s generally in Jack’s best interests to keep to cool climates and follow winter weather where it goes, as lingering for too long in anything warmer than a nippy early spring renders him increasingly weakened and tired, and prolonged exposure to very high temperatures will start deteriorating the ice magic keeping him together.
5. How does he move? Is he clumsy, graceful, tense, fluid?
Insanely fluid!! Movement comes extremely easily to Jack, and even his moments of clumsiness are usually intentional and pretty coordinated; he has an impossible center of balance that allows him to perch and walk on pretty much anything he can get his feet on, in sometimes outright physics-defying acrobatics. One reliable thing about Jack is that he’s constantly moving--he’s a high-energy seasonal spirit, and keeping still isn't exactly part of his job description. You’re bound to find him climbing all over the place, teetering on fences or the edges of tables or the top of his own staff, never staying in one exact spot for too long. If Jack isn't at least antsy during a conversation, there’s probably something wrong.
6. How attractive is this character physically? How does he perceive himself in the mirror?
Obligatory YMMV--but he does have a canon fangirl brigade in the form of a swooning gaggle of the Tooth Fairy’s mini-fairies. (......More because of his IRRESISTABLY GORGEOUS TEETH but. Details.) Jack is fairly easy on the eyes and somewhat endearing, in a youthful and rascally way that might beg a hair-ruffle or knuckle-sandwich out of sheer principle for some people. But Jack himself just doesn't think about his self-image at all most of the time, more out of a habit of never actually needing to care. Why be concerned about how you look when you’re invisible over half the time? He'll still get fairly self-conscious when he actually remembers that he is being seen by certain parties, though, or is viewed by someone new for the first time. He’s not at all beyond getting defensive if somebody starts dissing the hoodie or trousers tyvm!! And he does sometimes wish, on absentminded occasions, that he could have grown at least a few inches taller before his height was frozen.....
7. Describe his complexion. Dark, light, clear, scarred?
Pretty clear on first glance, though closer inspection would reveal a really light smattering of freckles on his cheeks and the back of his neck... Otherwise Jack's very pale, to the point that his lips are even a bit blue, in spitting resemblance of some kid fresh out of too much time spent in the woods on a winter evening. But he's still capable of paling even more or flushing in very small lilac-hued quantities, for all that the occasion's fairly rare.
8. Describe his hair: color, texture, style.
Short, messily windswept all day erryday, and pretty thickly laced with frost, though the whiteness makes it hard to tell on sight. It’d probably freeze a comb in place before said comb could even attempt to get any work done, which is why combs are totally overrated and why would you ever even bother. The fact that it's white came with his ascension to winter spirit status, though; if Jack were to ever lose the ice magic that resurrected him, his hair would revert to brown.
9. What color are his eyes?
Bright blue! As with his hair above, they used to be light brown.
10. Does the character have any other noteworthy features?
Well while we’re at it did I mention how he has TEETH AS CLEAN AND WHITE AS FRESH-FALLEN SNOW AND naw, not really
11. What are his chief tension centers?
The back of his neck, his wrists, and the balls of his feet.
12. What is the character's wardrobe like? Casual, dressy, utilitarian? Bright colors, pastels, neutrals? Is it varied, or does he have six of the same suit?
One could say that Jack’s fashion sense inclines in a distinctly hobo direction--but that would be generously assuming he invests enough thought in it to have a fashion sense at all. Spoilers: he doesn't. Who needs a thing like that when you're invisible for three hundred years!! etc. Generally Jack's always been a grab-em-as-you-go-if-it-looks-cool sort of guy; he puts a bit of effort towards refraining from outright stealing new clothing when he can help it, in favor of snagging stuff secondhand from throwaways or garage sales or whatever instead, where they won’t be missed. Due to physical stasis there's no real reason he even needs to change out of anything he wears, but Jack has still shifted styles over the years, and tends to follow trends as they cycle by; it started out as another little way to share something with humanity somehow, and the habit’s persisted since. At present Jack's wearing a well-worn blue hoodie and ragged pants, no shoes or shirt.
Anything he puts on is also guaranteed to acquire a light coating of frost about a minute after making contact with his skin.
13. Do his clothes fit well? Does he seem comfortable in them?
Yep! Seeing as comfort is one of the few frames of criteria he actually has for the clothing he picks out--if he can move around freely in it, then it works, and after about thirty years of wear his hoodie's been broken in quite nicely. For that matter he's always worn winter clothing even though he honestly has no need for sleeves or layers, simply because the places he frequents the most are always in the midst of cold weather and normal people tend to dress accordingly. Jack’s also especially fond of his pants, so much so that he hasn't tried to change them out for new ones in all the three hundred years he’s been around.
14. Does he dress the same on the job as he does in his free time? If not, what are the differences?
His job is his free time, seeing as free time technically is his job in a way...
15. You knew it was coming: Boxers, briefs or commando?
UUH IDK WHATEVER...COLONIAL UNDERWEAR MIGHT HAVE BEEN BACK IN THE DAY?? Do you want to google this, do you really...
Speech
1. What does this character's voice sound like? High-pitched, deep, hoarse?
Surprisingly low-pitched, as a matter of fact! Jack might be a bit easy to mistake for a preteen, but his voice most definitely denotes him as an adult, for all that it kind of weirdly contrasts aforesaid young appearance; Chris Pine pretty much stuck with his normal register when voicing Jack.
2. How does he normally speak? Loud, soft, fast, evenly? Does he talk easily, or does he hesitate?
Typically at a normal volume and an even nuance. Jack's usually got something to say about anything, so there's definitely a very easy and natural swing to his speech on a normal basis.
3. Does the character have a distinct accent or dialect? Any individual quirks of pronunciation? Any, like, you know, verbal tics?
He's got the informal teenaged manner of speaking down pat; Jack's pretty casual with his words, and will throw around 'gonna' or 'wanna' as easily as the next guy. More often than not there's going to be a touch of mild humor somewhere in there too, because he does so love to low-key snark at any opportunity. He also talks with his hands a lot, and generally just has a lot of expressive body language going on while speaking.
4. What language/s does he speak, and with how much fluency?
Actually I headcanon Jack can comprehend all modern human languages originating from his version of Earth, as something that just kind of comes with the spirit-status package, and as a result it's also not something Jack's ever had to actively invoke. He's aware foreign languages are a thing, but they've never presented a barrier to him before. As a general rule he defaults to good old American English, though!
5. Does he switch languages or dialects in certain situations?
He can automatically switch languages without any actual thought if it fits in the criteria above and happens to be needed. Otherwise there aren't any real changes to the way he talks at any given time, though when particularly emotional or angry Jack's certainly not above shouting and/or getting downright vicious with his sarcasm.
6. Is he a good impromptu speaker, or does he have to think about his words?
He usually rolls impromptu. Snark and witty quips come to him with a spur-of-the-moment ease, anyway. In fact, Jack tends to be impromptu even during occasions when he probably really shouldn't be; three hundred years holding one-sided conversations with indifferent air and deaf ears on a daily basis has given him a rather weak brain-to-mouth filter, and Jack's far more used to speaking his mind than not.
7. Is he eloquent or inarticulate? Under what circumstances might this change?
At his best he's pretty eloquent, actually! Though not by definition of fanciness or sophistication so much as a fluid ease with stringing thoughts together into remarks or jokes or, occasionally, surprisingly sincere nuggets. But that same 300-year habit of talking to nobody mentioned above has made interacting directly with others a bit of a tricky thing for Jack anyway; he's still learning the general rhythm and effort of thought involved in conversation that actually goes back and forth, and so he can still get slightly tripped-up or awkward in odd ways, for all that he tries his best to hide it.
Mental and Emotional
1. How intelligent is this character? Is he book-smart or street-smart?
Decently intelligent; hardly savant or even particularly clever in the conventional sense, but he can be as good at problem-solving as the next guy, and has a pretty robust creative streak courtesy of centuries spent improvising new ways to push nonbelief-boundaries and be able to play and second-handedly interact with children despite being unseen and intangible. Definitely more street-smart than book-smart, in that vein; Jack has the accumulated knowledge and general life-wisdom you'd expect of a three hundred year old geezer, for all that he doesn't look it, and this has lent itself to a perceptiveness of situations and the habits of people in general that he can tap into on occasion.
2. Does he think on his feet, or does he need time to deliberate?
On his feet! Over the course of his spirit-life Jack's developed a bad habit of not deliberating on things (for risk of thinking himself into a spiral of depression that'd be ungodly difficult to pull out of, as has happened a couple of times before), so most everything he does tends to be either spur-of-the-moment or improvised. Sometimes it works out well for him, and...sometimes it doesn't.
3. Describe the character's thought process. Is he more logical, or more intuitive? Idealistic or practical?
Jack's most definitely a creature of intuition and idealism. It's not that he doesn't see the occasional benefit of logic and practicality--because those things can certainly be necessary too--but by default Jack will listen to his gut and his heart first, and review his brain's opinion on the whole matter slightly later; it's just how he's always done things, and kind of ties in with his allergy to deliberation already listed above.
4. What kind of education has the character had?
Uuuuh...might have gotten in some reading and basic maths in his previous life, but early colonial education probably took a backseat to other things, and any of that knowledge passed alongside the rest of Jack's memories when he died; when he was raised from the lake pretty much all of that was a blank slate. However! He's taught himself how to read by sheer exposure over the span of the next three hundred years, learning words entirely by route of sound-vs-appearance (which hasn't given him the best spelling skills off the top of his head, but hey.) He's probably also picked up general math and even some science due to that same exposure factor--you hang around kids as long as he has, and griping over homework of all kinds is bound to be an almost daily thing.
5. What are his areas of expertise? What, if anything, is he interested in learning more about?
Fun and winter weather, in that order. He considers himself the leading authority on both these things, and maybe that's not entirely incorrect. By default Jack's a fairly curious guy, though; he's always open to learning about new things, as he comes across them.And getting this whole socializing thing down pat would be awesome, but well...
6. Is he an introvert or an extrovert?
Oh, such an extrovert. Such an extrovert. Almost desperately so, for most of his life, to the point that by now Jack takes the most happiness from the joy of those around him, and absolutely hates being completely by himself for any length of time, even if it's self-inflicted isolation. He basically lives off of people in both the figurative and somewhat-literal sense, and it shows.
7. Describe the character's temperament. Is he even-tempered or does he have mood swings? Cheerful or melancholy? Laid-back or driven?
Decently even-tempered and good-natured by default, as much by personal choice and preference as by general personality. Jack's a pretty cheerful guy anyway, on a normal basis, and can give off an impression of relaxation and ease with the best of them. Of course, this isn't to say that Jack's by any means immune to shifts in mood, and he is in possession of a sort of centuries-old melancholy, formed from the condensation of centuries-old loneliness, that runs as a sort of constant white noise in the backdrop of pretty much all his emotions whether he's aware of it or not. But Jack takes great pains to keep his own temperament under check as well as he can, because him slipping up can lead to very real consequences for the people around him. His mood directly influences the weather, and he could easily stir up a blizzard on a bad day at the drop of a hat if he let it fling around as such; it's a balance that somebody's got to keep, and he prefers to be happy far more than he does sad anyway.
8. How does he respond to new people or situations? Is he suspicious, relaxed, timid, enthusiastic?
Depends on the people and the situation! Jack takes a good bit of stock in first impressions. Most likely he'd be suspicious and wary first and foremost, if the encounter or situation is unexpected, and he'd stay that way until further external input pushes him one way or the other.
9. Is he more likely to act, or to react?
Act, if he can!
10. Which is his default: fight or flight?
Fight, always! Nobody can really accuse him for a lack of bravery, at least, whether it's necessarily a good idea or not....
11. Describe the character's sense of humor. Does he appreciate jokes? Puns? Gallows humor? Bathroom humor? Pranks?
Jack's sense of humor is robustly healthy and spreads over a pretty wide range of topics!! Because he loves humor, and laughter in general, especially if there's other people doing it alongside him. Practical jokes and pranks are his favorites, though he's certainly not above trolling or even the occasional pun. Just about everything is free game, if he thinks it'd be amusing for the occasion.
12. Does the character have any diagnosable mental disorders? If yes, how does he deal with them?
Oh, definitely. Considering he's been effectively alone and intangible to pretty much everyone around him for three hundred years, Jack's doubtless got some moderate cache of maybe-diagnosable mental problems at his disposal, though canon names none and I'm certainly not going to here. But all factors considered, he handles all of this far better than expected; Jack is still struggling with several aspects of what you'd consider normal communication and direct socialization, but the average guy wouldn't really know the extent in passing encounter.
13. What moments in this character's life have defined him as a person?
WELL IDK IT'S BEEN THREE HUNDRED YEARS TAKE YOUR PICK....but well ok let's try to do a laundry list at least:
14. What does he fear?
Once upon a time he was afraid he'd never be believed in, destined to be stuck with some perpetual life sentence of loneliness and silent moons forever. This is dispelled by now, with Jamie (and a slow trend of other children) starting to believe in him at last, alongside Jack finally getting something of a support system in the form of his fellow Guardians. Which goes on to reason that now he's most afraid of losing everything he's gained--of making a mistake bad enough to cost him the trust and support of his friends. This, alongside the potential of failing his duty as a Guardian somehow (and the theme of failure in general tbh) really eats away at him, in some insecure corner of thought that he tries to keep tucked away.
This aside, Jack's grown to be mildly phobic of other more minor things. He has a subconscious but constant need to keep at least some air under his heels at all times, tying into a distinct aversion to being ground-bound for too long in any form or fashion (the idea of falling with no way to support himself frightens him on a very base level he's unaware of); getting unexpectedly submerged in water, or being in the vicinity when someone else does, would also be enough to invoke some moderate panic--Jack can't drown, but the sensation that he ought to be is still unpleasant when it's a surprise, and the potential of anyone else drowning right under his umbrella of responsibility would be very not good.
15. What are his hopes or aspirations?
To eventually make a decently prominent mark in human folklore somehow, hopefully by virtue of his pool of believers. Otherwise, just being able to succeed at being a Guardian in general, and maintain the friendships he has.
16. What is something he doesn't want anyone to find out about him?
Well, there really isn't anything that Jack would completely refuse to talk about, if he were outright asked...though some subjects would be harder to pry out of him than others. His past life is kind of an odd and slightly awkward subject that he's still digesting himself, and the exact details of how he coped with the three hundred year stretch between getting raised from his lake and (finally) getting introduced properly to the Guardians is something that Jack might be especially sparse on.
Relationships
1. Describe this character's relationship with his parents.
Theeey've been. Dead. For a really long time. Jack never knew them (or knew he had them) post-lake raising until three hundred years after the fact, when he'd finally get his memories back. But even then the recollections are still super vague--the clearest one he's got is a snapshot moment of his mother telling him to be careful as he rolled off with his sister to try out their new ice skates......... Which leads to a pretty solid guess that Jack probably had a fairly stable and caring relationship with his parents, when he was human. His mother was probably more than a little exasperated and henpecking in trying to keep the prank-loving-bugger that was (and still is) Jack at least relatively in line, but overall things were quite fond and close-knit, and nowadays it's a muted impression of affection when Jack thinks back on them.
ASSUMING that we're talking biological parents here. On the other hand, it could also be argued that the Man in the Moon would also count as something of a parent to the current Jack Frost that we all know now, this being the guy that raised him from the lake (and the dead) in the first place. But things are more complicated on this front, as far as Jack's concerned. The Man in the Moon has spoken to him exactly once in all his three hundred years of existence--and that was to tell him his name fresh out of the lake, nothing more and nothing less. There are communication issues abounds. And yet, even during his most bitter span of lonely decades without answer that could surely be so easily had if the guy would just say something, Jack never could bring himself to entirely hate that pale face in the sky; it always wound back to the fact that moonlight had been the first thing to nudge the fear away, in the very first moment he'd woken up in the cold and dark of the water. He's held innumerable one-sided arguments with himself about the whole thing over the years--did he really care at all? Surely he must have, if he'd bothered to raise him at all on that first night...but why won't he say anything? Doesn't he speak to others? Doesn't he know how quiet it is down here otherwise, how hard it is when nobody can see you and you just don't know why? But he's so far up there in the sky...things get pretty small from up there, and the distance to the moon itself is unimaginably far. Jack just couldn't figure it out. And even now, there's still a lot of questions and a fair residue of three century's buried bitterness when it comes to the Man in the Moon as a topic...but if his very last line in the movie is anything to go by? Jack's view of the Man in the Moon has finally softened into something of an acceptance of the guy's enigmatic ways, at least, and that's how it stands for now.
2. Does the character have any siblings? What is/was their relationship like?
Yes! Once...upon a time....Jack had a little sister that was about four years old when he fell in the lake. But if the way they interacted right before the falling bit's any indication, she spent those four years under some pretty intense love and care and protectiveness on Jack's part. She always saw him as a guy enjoying fun too much for his own good and constantly playing tricks on people, but he could make her feel better about pretty much anything at the drop of a dime, and it's clear Jack's affection for her ran pretty much limitless--to the point that putting himself in danger (and paying the ultimate price for it) seemed to him of little consequence, as long as she'd be alright in the end. In fact, even after becoming a spirit and forgetting everything about his past life--including his sister--that brotherly habit of kind fondness for children would continue to persist in Jack, even without a sister to direct it at anymore, as an ingrained part of his character.
Now that he does remember her...Jack focuses on the happy thoughts. Acknowledging that he did manage to save her before he fell, that she made it out alright--and, from there, settling with the accepting hope that she lived a long and full life, and died happy in the end. Naturally, the fact that he never did get to see her grow up, never even knew she was around for the years after he woke up in the lake and could have seen her...is a point of melancholy-bordering-on-grief that he has yet to actually let himself sink into. But he knows that getting himself too worked up over that side of the matter would do him no help in the long run--there's nothing he can do about that now, after all.Even if he still can't remember her name.
3. Are there other blood relatives to whom he is close? Are there ones he can't stand?
It's possible he has super-distant descendants floating around somewhere in the world (and there's a popular fandom theory that Jamie might be one of them, which would make Jack his great-great-great-great-great-etc uncle or something....), but Jack has never been aware of any, be it before or after regaining his memories.
4. Are there other, unrelated people whom he considers part of his family? What are his relationships with them?
His fellow Guardians; all of them are very recently-acquired as far as actual friendship is concerned, but the four others already have a decently strong bond between them, and they've welcomed Jack into the fold. So things are still pretty new and tentative, for Jack--he's never actually had a support system like this before--but so far the experience has been far from a bad one, and he hopes that the companionship they have now can strengthen and last as time goes on.
5. Who is/was the character's best friend? How did they meet?
The Wind, actually! (Shut up it totally countsbecause otherwise he's never actually had a best friend before...) They 'met' about five seconds after Jack was raised from his lake, by means of a very enthusiastic greeting involving Jack getting tossed several hundred yards into the night sky and promptly plopped into some trees. It'd take Jack a few decades to really get the hang of working with Wind, but after that first terribad flight they became bros, and have been bros ever since.
6. Does he have other close friends?
He does now! In the form of the Guardians, as mentioned earlier, as well as Jamie Bennett, his first believer.
7. Does he make friends easily, or does he have trouble getting along with people?
Jack used to be really horrible at this, actually 8( For most of his spirit-life he had a super difficult time getting along with fellow spirits, due to equal parts his trouble-making nature and the social awkwardness that only ever increased alongside the growing stretches of isolation that would result from the repeated shunning. He'd often get into this endless cycle of mis-stepping some unspoken rule of conduct, getting defensive when called out for mis-stepping, and sinking into his habit of snide remarks and pranks as a result, after which point he'd either leave of his own volition or get (sometimes literally) chased off. This cycle was finally broken when the Guardians approached him and an alliance was eventually formed; it was Jack's very first experience with a genuine friendship, and altogether, friendship in general is still a very new and somewhat oblique concept to Jack, at least so far as developing it and maintaining it is concerned. He knows what it should be like and how it should be done, but he's never actually reached that stage of opportunity himself before, and he's at the tentative-prodding-with-a-stick and stumbling-ungracefully-along stage of things at the moment. Still, by default he really is a kind and good-natured guy when you get past the prickly trickster upfront, so the potential is certainly there! And he's got more motivation to work on it now than he ever has before.
8. Which does he consider more important: family or friends?
Well tbh his friends are his family, if we're gonna categorize these things...
9. Is the character single, married, divorced, widowed? Has he been married more than once?
lmao Single!
10. Is he currently in a romantic relationship with someone other than a spouse?
N/A
11. Who was his first crush? Who is his latest?
UUH WELL....maybe...the Tooth Fairy..........but it's nothing he's really let himself think about or pursue too much before. It all ties back into that isolation factor further above; Jack shut himself from the prospect of anything like the concept of a romantic relationship early on, under the belief that this sort of thing isn't for him and never will be for him--something he could surely never have.
12. What does he look for in a romantic partner?
As said above, he's not looking for one! .............But if he was, he'd probably work best with someone that understands who he is and why he's that way, knows about his flaws (both personal and social alike), but still has the patience and willingness to deal with it all and maybe even help with his learning process. Because this sort of thing would always be a work in progress, for someone like Jack, and he wouldn't want to burden that on someone unless he were positive they truly wouldn't mind it.
13. Does the character have children? Grandchildren? If yes, how does he relate to them? If no, does he want any?
Nope, nope, and not a possibility.
14. Does he have any rivals or enemies?
Yep! Jack and the Easter Bunny have held the centuries-long (mostly-)friendly rivalry that might be expected of two spirits guiding contrasting seasons; in the past it's sometimes almost slipped into outright animosity, but after the battle with Pitch and Jack's induction as a Guardian relations have relaxed a good deal between the both of them--though there's still plenty of bantering all around. That said, Jack actually has few outright enemies, at least as far as long-standing grudges might be concerned. He'll stand firm against anyone or anything that threatens children, though, as he did against Pitch Black over the course of the movie...though now Pitch is a non-entity as far as that status goes, and really, if the guy hadn't been so ridiculous about his idea of inundating the world with fear, they might have almost gotten along in another time...
15. What is the character's sexual orientation? Where does he fall on the Kinsey scale?
Technically nowhere on the scale, as Jack hasn't let himself give this any real thought. If he were ever to open himself back up to the idea of relationships as a possibility, though, he'd probably fall squarely on 3; gender wouldn't really be a particular issue as far as something like that goes, old as he is and being a spirit besides.
16. How does he feel about sex? How important is it to him?
He knows what it is, and he doesn't really have any sensibilities to offend concerning the topic (as long as there aren't children on the other end in some way), because he knows that it's a pretty prevalent thing. You just can't hang around humanity for three hundred years and not pick up on something like this, after all. Jack's never applied the concept to himself, though, much the same way he hasn't the idea of a relationship--so, it's not something he's ever indulged in (out of being kind of unable to indulge in it anyway, for a whole laundry list of reasons), and thusly it ranks pretty low on the importance scale at the moment.
17. What are his turn-ons? Turn-offs? Weird bedroom habits?
Id...k I need to get back to this sometime later.....
Beliefs
1. Do you know your character's astrological (zodiac of choice) sign? How well does he fit type?
Uuuh well nobody has any idea what month he might have actually been born on (and I headcanon he fell in the lake on Christmas day for a few ramshackle reasons, but there's no canon on that either); however, Sagittarius fits him pretty well, and does include the first day of winter in its jurisdiction, so yeah...!
2. Is this character religious, spiritual, both, or neither? How important are these elements in his life?
Idk spiritual...? Teeechnically neither, maybe--Jack is a spirit entity himself, so it's all kind of moot for him in that sense. It's pretty important in his life because it is his life...
3. Does this character have a personal code of morals or ethics? If so, how did that begin? What would it take to compromise it?
Yep! It's one that Jack has developed by himself, and holds to himself and everyone around him with an equal and stubborn old man's conviction. Most of it's pretty common sense and can easily be accommodated if you're a Decent Person, and Jack developed it unconsciously simply as a means of policing himself, over the course of the long three hundred years he spent gong it alone; starting out, it was a way to thumb his nose at those who thought him some kind of rogue spirit with no redeeming qualities ("see, he does have standards, and he even lives up to them!"), but eventually it became a way to give himself genuine direction in a lifetime of wandering, keep himself grounded in a world where he really could just fly about as he pleased. (If you don't take care of yourself, who else is going to?) So, as a result, Jack's very resolute about the lines he does draw, and will give no end of trouble to others that might cross them as well--his tolerance is pretty flat when it comes to these sorts of things, and it'd take some kind of ungodly persuasion for him to compromise it.
4. How does he regard beliefs that differ from his? Is he tolerant, intolerant, curious, indifferent?
The majority of the time he'll be more than tolerant! In that there'll be a due portion of respect paid to most any sort of belief; it's his own lifeblood, and so it's certainly not something he'd fault any other entity or concept for having too. Whether he'd be curious, dubious, or outright side-eyeing it after this initial baseline depends entirely on what that belief happens to be.
5. What prejudices does he hold? Are they irrational or does he have a good reason for them?
Uuuh well it's nothing super overt, but!! Jack has a deep-set distrust of science. It's....kind of illogical, yes--he knows science can be a good thing, and that science is pretty legitimate in its own right, explaining those particular mechanics of the world. But he still harbors a distinct distrust and dislike of the concept that's more reflexive than anything else--because, as a general rule, science automatically rejects everything that he and all the spirits in his world are on a fundamental level. Science is the leading cause for the decline of belief overall, the reason why the era in which all spirits once thrived is now long since waned and gone, and the world on the spirit side of things has become a lot emptier as a result. So it's not personal, but when a specific train of thought is literally your mortal enemy you kind of just can't help it 8( Fortunately this won't manifest too terribly often, and he won't necessarily horribly harass every scientist he runs into or something, but he'd be ten times leerier than most about relying on science in any overt form--needing to take a shot from a syringe or putting your life in the hands of a particularly complex piece of electronic machinery, etc....
Daily Life
1. What is the character's financial situation? Is he rich, poor, comfortable, in debt?
Nonexistent! Spirits don't need currency, what nonsense...
2. What is his social status? Has this changed over time, and if so, how has the change affected him?
Once upon a time he was a working member of a tiny North American colony in the early 1700s...his family was very poor, but back then everybody was; Jack was probably known as the prankster of the village, but that wasn't too detrimental, and things were still about as comfortable as could be managed back in the day. For the majority of his spirit-life, however, Jack was very much an outcast as far as spiritual circles of society were concerned--though maybe 'unknown' would be a more accurate way to put 'outcast'. For countless decades nobody had any idea who he even was, let alone the fact that he was the new decently powerful entity and catalyst for the winter season; he got mistaken for a mere sprite or a "weather phenom" far more times than Jack would enjoy recounting now, and finally getting some proper recognition from the Easter Bunny almost a century after the fact was almost something of a relief. After all, even if that recognition was the antagonistic sort, it went on to help spread the word about Jack Frost in the spirit circles--word setting him down as a mischievous prankster and troublemaker without a care in the world for anybody around him human or spirit alike, maybe, but any reputation was better than nothing.
The Guardians as a collective were fairly surprised when the Man in the Moon elected Jack for Guardianship.
But now he is a Guardian, and as a result Jack's status has taken a distinct hike upwards in the spirit world. High enough to finally give him a decent base of believers, ever-growing, and he's quite happy with that.
3. Where does he live? House, apartment, trailer? Is his home his castle or just a place to crash? What condition is it in? Does he share it with others?
There is a decently large lake, surrounded by trees, on the outskirt fringes of a little North American town called Burgess; during winter its surface is perpetually frozen to a startling thickness, and even during other seasons of the year the water is always bitingly cold. But it's good for skating on, and quite scenic during the chillier months.
Jack doesn't have any particular house or enclosure that he stays in, and roams all over the world on a daily basis, but he'll always return to his lake in Burgess at least once a year; even before regaining his past-life memories, he liked to keep it thoroughly iced, and was the place where he first saw the Moon besides--that's about as close to 'home' as anybody can get, really. Apart from its coldness it's about as nondescript as lakes get, but Jack is more than happy to share it with anybody that wants to enjoy it, children or adults alike.
4. Besides the basic necessities, what does he spend his money on?
N/A
5. What does he do for a living? Is he good at it? Does he enjoy it, or would he rather be doing something else?
Spreads fun and keeps track of the winter season!! He's very good at it, if he does say so himself. It's a pair of jobs that Jack took upon himself to do, and now that he's a Guardian too, he wouldn't be trading any of these things for anything else in the world.
6. What are his interests or hobbies? How does he spend his free time?
Facilitating the jobs above, basically--'hobby' and 'job' kind of bleeds together a lot, in this case. Jack roams the world and follows the winter season where it goes, and he takes enjoyment in that; he also loves icing windows and setting off snowball fights and helping kids reinforce snowmen and carving out surprise sledding rinks....he's adept at keeping himself occupied, he hates downtime.
Downtime means he's left to himself and his own devices.
7. What are his eating habits? Does he skip meals, eat out, drink alcohol, avoid certain foods?
Technically he doesn't need to eat at all! And so Jack doesn't, most of the time, because it doesn't do anything for him in the physical sense...though he'll still partake in small portions if he feels like it or he's curious enough.Might have abducted some poor unsuspecting pie slice off a window sill once or twice in the last handful of centuries..... With that said, he's pretty open to most any kind of food, if it tastes good or is at least interesting (he's always been highly entertained by spicy things); anything too salty is a big no, though, and stuff that's physically piping hot is kind of uncomfortable to consume, even if most things get chilled just by being in Jack's vicinity anyway. Alcohol is weird and something he's been pretty sparse about, even after three hundred years--he can drink it just fine, but the effects take forever to kick in because of the nature of his bloodflow (spoilers: it's almost nonexistent), so when they do it's in this huge and horrible saturation that completely knocks him over like two hours after the fact, and takes forever to sleep off. ...Yes, he's experimented with this in the past :|
Associations
Which of the following do you associate with the character, or which is his favorite:
1. Color? blue and white
2. Smell? dat crisp scentlessness you get from the wind on a snowy mountaintop
3. Time of day? crack of dawn
4. Season? HAHAHAHA
5. Book?
6. Music? most everything tbh, he's super fond of music....but he has a really soft spot for Christmas carols ok don't judge
7. Place? Burgess
8. Substance? iiice /laziest forever
9. Plant? he only knows pine trees and evergreens 8( but plants in general are pretty cool tbh, he'd like to learn more about flowers someday...
10. Animal? mountain bluebird
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1. Describe the character's height and build. Is he heavyset, thin, short, rangy?
Scarecrow.....Jack's a pretty reedy guy, a bit short for his frozen age, with a very thin frame to him. He's about as light as a scarecrow too, unnaturally so even with the slight frame considered, though this is mostly contributed by an effect of his ice magic.
2. How old is he?
Physically frozen at 18 for 300 years
3. Describe his posture. Does he carry himself well or does he slouch?
Generally very loose and casual for ease for movement; sometimes he can slide into the typical teenage slouch, but it's all pretty dependent on mood, really.
4. How is his health? Is he fit or out of shape? Any illnesses or conditions? Any physical disabilities?
Looks like he's been out in the cold way too long, but is actually pretty hale and hearty by winter spirit standards. It helps that his body's in a physical stasis maintained by his ice magic anyway, and while this lends some...rather alarmingly dead-like symptoms to the uninitiated (unnaturally cold, no pulse, optional breathing, complete stillness in unconsciousness), it does render him immune to typical disease and deceptively physically hardy. That twiggy frame can take hard impacts surprisingly well, and as an immortal spirit he cannot be killed by--and will always eventually recover from--pretty much any physical ailment or injury he receives, though some cases will take longer than others, and physical pain is still a thing. (This immortality is nerfed in Exit Void.)
That aside, high sensitivity to changes in the weather is an ailment that comes with the winter spirit status; it’s generally in Jack’s best interests to keep to cool climates and follow winter weather where it goes, as lingering for too long in anything warmer than a nippy early spring renders him increasingly weakened and tired, and prolonged exposure to very high temperatures will start deteriorating the ice magic keeping him together.
5. How does he move? Is he clumsy, graceful, tense, fluid?
Insanely fluid!! Movement comes extremely easily to Jack, and even his moments of clumsiness are usually intentional and pretty coordinated; he has an impossible center of balance that allows him to perch and walk on pretty much anything he can get his feet on, in sometimes outright physics-defying acrobatics. One reliable thing about Jack is that he’s constantly moving--he’s a high-energy seasonal spirit, and keeping still isn't exactly part of his job description. You’re bound to find him climbing all over the place, teetering on fences or the edges of tables or the top of his own staff, never staying in one exact spot for too long. If Jack isn't at least antsy during a conversation, there’s probably something wrong.
6. How attractive is this character physically? How does he perceive himself in the mirror?
Obligatory YMMV--but he does have a canon fangirl brigade in the form of a swooning gaggle of the Tooth Fairy’s mini-fairies. (......More because of his IRRESISTABLY GORGEOUS TEETH but. Details.) Jack is fairly easy on the eyes and somewhat endearing, in a youthful and rascally way that might beg a hair-ruffle or knuckle-sandwich out of sheer principle for some people. But Jack himself just doesn't think about his self-image at all most of the time, more out of a habit of never actually needing to care. Why be concerned about how you look when you’re invisible over half the time? He'll still get fairly self-conscious when he actually remembers that he is being seen by certain parties, though, or is viewed by someone new for the first time. He’s not at all beyond getting defensive if somebody starts dissing the hoodie or trousers tyvm!! And he does sometimes wish, on absentminded occasions, that he could have grown at least a few inches taller before his height was frozen.....
7. Describe his complexion. Dark, light, clear, scarred?
Pretty clear on first glance, though closer inspection would reveal a really light smattering of freckles on his cheeks and the back of his neck... Otherwise Jack's very pale, to the point that his lips are even a bit blue, in spitting resemblance of some kid fresh out of too much time spent in the woods on a winter evening. But he's still capable of paling even more or flushing in very small lilac-hued quantities, for all that the occasion's fairly rare.
8. Describe his hair: color, texture, style.
Short, messily windswept all day erryday, and pretty thickly laced with frost, though the whiteness makes it hard to tell on sight. It’d probably freeze a comb in place before said comb could even attempt to get any work done, which is why combs are totally overrated and why would you ever even bother. The fact that it's white came with his ascension to winter spirit status, though; if Jack were to ever lose the ice magic that resurrected him, his hair would revert to brown.
9. What color are his eyes?
Bright blue! As with his hair above, they used to be light brown.
10. Does the character have any other noteworthy features?
Well while we’re at it did I mention how he has TEETH AS CLEAN AND WHITE AS FRESH-FALLEN SNOW AND naw, not really
11. What are his chief tension centers?
The back of his neck, his wrists, and the balls of his feet.
12. What is the character's wardrobe like? Casual, dressy, utilitarian? Bright colors, pastels, neutrals? Is it varied, or does he have six of the same suit?
One could say that Jack’s fashion sense inclines in a distinctly hobo direction--but that would be generously assuming he invests enough thought in it to have a fashion sense at all. Spoilers: he doesn't. Who needs a thing like that when you're invisible for three hundred years!! etc. Generally Jack's always been a grab-em-as-you-go-if-it-looks-cool sort of guy; he puts a bit of effort towards refraining from outright stealing new clothing when he can help it, in favor of snagging stuff secondhand from throwaways or garage sales or whatever instead, where they won’t be missed. Due to physical stasis there's no real reason he even needs to change out of anything he wears, but Jack has still shifted styles over the years, and tends to follow trends as they cycle by; it started out as another little way to share something with humanity somehow, and the habit’s persisted since. At present Jack's wearing a well-worn blue hoodie and ragged pants, no shoes or shirt.
Anything he puts on is also guaranteed to acquire a light coating of frost about a minute after making contact with his skin.
13. Do his clothes fit well? Does he seem comfortable in them?
Yep! Seeing as comfort is one of the few frames of criteria he actually has for the clothing he picks out--if he can move around freely in it, then it works, and after about thirty years of wear his hoodie's been broken in quite nicely. For that matter he's always worn winter clothing even though he honestly has no need for sleeves or layers, simply because the places he frequents the most are always in the midst of cold weather and normal people tend to dress accordingly. Jack’s also especially fond of his pants, so much so that he hasn't tried to change them out for new ones in all the three hundred years he’s been around.
14. Does he dress the same on the job as he does in his free time? If not, what are the differences?
His job is his free time, seeing as free time technically is his job in a way...
15. You knew it was coming: Boxers, briefs or commando?
UUH IDK WHATEVER...COLONIAL UNDERWEAR MIGHT HAVE BEEN BACK IN THE DAY?? Do you want to google this, do you really...
Speech
1. What does this character's voice sound like? High-pitched, deep, hoarse?
Surprisingly low-pitched, as a matter of fact! Jack might be a bit easy to mistake for a preteen, but his voice most definitely denotes him as an adult, for all that it kind of weirdly contrasts aforesaid young appearance; Chris Pine pretty much stuck with his normal register when voicing Jack.
2. How does he normally speak? Loud, soft, fast, evenly? Does he talk easily, or does he hesitate?
Typically at a normal volume and an even nuance. Jack's usually got something to say about anything, so there's definitely a very easy and natural swing to his speech on a normal basis.
3. Does the character have a distinct accent or dialect? Any individual quirks of pronunciation? Any, like, you know, verbal tics?
He's got the informal teenaged manner of speaking down pat; Jack's pretty casual with his words, and will throw around 'gonna' or 'wanna' as easily as the next guy. More often than not there's going to be a touch of mild humor somewhere in there too, because he does so love to low-key snark at any opportunity. He also talks with his hands a lot, and generally just has a lot of expressive body language going on while speaking.
4. What language/s does he speak, and with how much fluency?
Actually I headcanon Jack can comprehend all modern human languages originating from his version of Earth, as something that just kind of comes with the spirit-status package, and as a result it's also not something Jack's ever had to actively invoke. He's aware foreign languages are a thing, but they've never presented a barrier to him before. As a general rule he defaults to good old American English, though!
5. Does he switch languages or dialects in certain situations?
He can automatically switch languages without any actual thought if it fits in the criteria above and happens to be needed. Otherwise there aren't any real changes to the way he talks at any given time, though when particularly emotional or angry Jack's certainly not above shouting and/or getting downright vicious with his sarcasm.
6. Is he a good impromptu speaker, or does he have to think about his words?
He usually rolls impromptu. Snark and witty quips come to him with a spur-of-the-moment ease, anyway. In fact, Jack tends to be impromptu even during occasions when he probably really shouldn't be; three hundred years holding one-sided conversations with indifferent air and deaf ears on a daily basis has given him a rather weak brain-to-mouth filter, and Jack's far more used to speaking his mind than not.
7. Is he eloquent or inarticulate? Under what circumstances might this change?
At his best he's pretty eloquent, actually! Though not by definition of fanciness or sophistication so much as a fluid ease with stringing thoughts together into remarks or jokes or, occasionally, surprisingly sincere nuggets. But that same 300-year habit of talking to nobody mentioned above has made interacting directly with others a bit of a tricky thing for Jack anyway; he's still learning the general rhythm and effort of thought involved in conversation that actually goes back and forth, and so he can still get slightly tripped-up or awkward in odd ways, for all that he tries his best to hide it.
Mental and Emotional
1. How intelligent is this character? Is he book-smart or street-smart?
Decently intelligent; hardly savant or even particularly clever in the conventional sense, but he can be as good at problem-solving as the next guy, and has a pretty robust creative streak courtesy of centuries spent improvising new ways to push nonbelief-boundaries and be able to play and second-handedly interact with children despite being unseen and intangible. Definitely more street-smart than book-smart, in that vein; Jack has the accumulated knowledge and general life-wisdom you'd expect of a three hundred year old geezer, for all that he doesn't look it, and this has lent itself to a perceptiveness of situations and the habits of people in general that he can tap into on occasion.
2. Does he think on his feet, or does he need time to deliberate?
On his feet! Over the course of his spirit-life Jack's developed a bad habit of not deliberating on things (for risk of thinking himself into a spiral of depression that'd be ungodly difficult to pull out of, as has happened a couple of times before), so most everything he does tends to be either spur-of-the-moment or improvised. Sometimes it works out well for him, and...sometimes it doesn't.
3. Describe the character's thought process. Is he more logical, or more intuitive? Idealistic or practical?
Jack's most definitely a creature of intuition and idealism. It's not that he doesn't see the occasional benefit of logic and practicality--because those things can certainly be necessary too--but by default Jack will listen to his gut and his heart first, and review his brain's opinion on the whole matter slightly later; it's just how he's always done things, and kind of ties in with his allergy to deliberation already listed above.
4. What kind of education has the character had?
Uuuuh...might have gotten in some reading and basic maths in his previous life, but early colonial education probably took a backseat to other things, and any of that knowledge passed alongside the rest of Jack's memories when he died; when he was raised from the lake pretty much all of that was a blank slate. However! He's taught himself how to read by sheer exposure over the span of the next three hundred years, learning words entirely by route of sound-vs-appearance (which hasn't given him the best spelling skills off the top of his head, but hey.) He's probably also picked up general math and even some science due to that same exposure factor--you hang around kids as long as he has, and griping over homework of all kinds is bound to be an almost daily thing.
5. What are his areas of expertise? What, if anything, is he interested in learning more about?
Fun and winter weather, in that order. He considers himself the leading authority on both these things, and maybe that's not entirely incorrect. By default Jack's a fairly curious guy, though; he's always open to learning about new things, as he comes across them.
6. Is he an introvert or an extrovert?
Oh, such an extrovert. Such an extrovert. Almost desperately so, for most of his life, to the point that by now Jack takes the most happiness from the joy of those around him, and absolutely hates being completely by himself for any length of time, even if it's self-inflicted isolation. He basically lives off of people in both the figurative and somewhat-literal sense, and it shows.
7. Describe the character's temperament. Is he even-tempered or does he have mood swings? Cheerful or melancholy? Laid-back or driven?
Decently even-tempered and good-natured by default, as much by personal choice and preference as by general personality. Jack's a pretty cheerful guy anyway, on a normal basis, and can give off an impression of relaxation and ease with the best of them. Of course, this isn't to say that Jack's by any means immune to shifts in mood, and he is in possession of a sort of centuries-old melancholy, formed from the condensation of centuries-old loneliness, that runs as a sort of constant white noise in the backdrop of pretty much all his emotions whether he's aware of it or not. But Jack takes great pains to keep his own temperament under check as well as he can, because him slipping up can lead to very real consequences for the people around him. His mood directly influences the weather, and he could easily stir up a blizzard on a bad day at the drop of a hat if he let it fling around as such; it's a balance that somebody's got to keep, and he prefers to be happy far more than he does sad anyway.
8. How does he respond to new people or situations? Is he suspicious, relaxed, timid, enthusiastic?
Depends on the people and the situation! Jack takes a good bit of stock in first impressions. Most likely he'd be suspicious and wary first and foremost, if the encounter or situation is unexpected, and he'd stay that way until further external input pushes him one way or the other.
9. Is he more likely to act, or to react?
Act, if he can!
10. Which is his default: fight or flight?
Fight, always! Nobody can really accuse him for a lack of bravery, at least, whether it's necessarily a good idea or not....
11. Describe the character's sense of humor. Does he appreciate jokes? Puns? Gallows humor? Bathroom humor? Pranks?
Jack's sense of humor is robustly healthy and spreads over a pretty wide range of topics!! Because he loves humor, and laughter in general, especially if there's other people doing it alongside him. Practical jokes and pranks are his favorites, though he's certainly not above trolling or even the occasional pun. Just about everything is free game, if he thinks it'd be amusing for the occasion.
12. Does the character have any diagnosable mental disorders? If yes, how does he deal with them?
Oh, definitely. Considering he's been effectively alone and intangible to pretty much everyone around him for three hundred years, Jack's doubtless got some moderate cache of maybe-diagnosable mental problems at his disposal, though canon names none and I'm certainly not going to here. But all factors considered, he handles all of this far better than expected; Jack is still struggling with several aspects of what you'd consider normal communication and direct socialization, but the average guy wouldn't really know the extent in passing encounter.
13. What moments in this character's life have defined him as a person?
WELL IDK IT'S BEEN THREE HUNDRED YEARS TAKE YOUR PICK....but well ok let's try to do a laundry list at least:
- Falling into the lake whilst saving his sister
- Waking up under the ice, and being raised from that lake under the comforting light of the moon...then realizing that nobody can see him or hear him at all pretty much directly afterwards
- VARIOUS ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FEW SPIRITS HE EVER DID RUN INTO OVER THE NEXT THREE CENTURIES, doubtlessly. First (re-)learning the cycle of the seasons, realizing there are apparently protocols to follow in the spirit society and promptly proceeding to break p. much all of them, etc. Probably got into a lot of fights and conflicts early on in his (second) life, which only deepened his isolation...
- Reaching out to kids and learning to play with them indirectly. It'd be the best and only salve for the loneliness that he'd ever find, and (obviously) this fact has clung to him ever since.
- Getting chosen as a Guardian!! And the whole throwdown with Pitch!!! And pretty much all the major points of the movie henceforth from there, up to and including: learning about Centers, indirectly learning about friendship, mustering up the willpower to smack down Pitch's temptations, GETTING HIS PREVIOUS MEMORIES BACK, finally obtaining a first believer in Jamie, and ultimately being inducted as a Guardian himself.
14. What does he fear?
Once upon a time he was afraid he'd never be believed in, destined to be stuck with some perpetual life sentence of loneliness and silent moons forever. This is dispelled by now, with Jamie (and a slow trend of other children) starting to believe in him at last, alongside Jack finally getting something of a support system in the form of his fellow Guardians. Which goes on to reason that now he's most afraid of losing everything he's gained--of making a mistake bad enough to cost him the trust and support of his friends. This, alongside the potential of failing his duty as a Guardian somehow (and the theme of failure in general tbh) really eats away at him, in some insecure corner of thought that he tries to keep tucked away.
This aside, Jack's grown to be mildly phobic of other more minor things. He has a subconscious but constant need to keep at least some air under his heels at all times, tying into a distinct aversion to being ground-bound for too long in any form or fashion (the idea of falling with no way to support himself frightens him on a very base level he's unaware of); getting unexpectedly submerged in water, or being in the vicinity when someone else does, would also be enough to invoke some moderate panic--Jack can't drown, but the sensation that he ought to be is still unpleasant when it's a surprise, and the potential of anyone else drowning right under his umbrella of responsibility would be very not good.
15. What are his hopes or aspirations?
To eventually make a decently prominent mark in human folklore somehow, hopefully by virtue of his pool of believers. Otherwise, just being able to succeed at being a Guardian in general, and maintain the friendships he has.
16. What is something he doesn't want anyone to find out about him?
Well, there really isn't anything that Jack would completely refuse to talk about, if he were outright asked...though some subjects would be harder to pry out of him than others. His past life is kind of an odd and slightly awkward subject that he's still digesting himself, and the exact details of how he coped with the three hundred year stretch between getting raised from his lake and (finally) getting introduced properly to the Guardians is something that Jack might be especially sparse on.
Relationships
1. Describe this character's relationship with his parents.
Theeey've been. Dead. For a really long time. Jack never knew them (or knew he had them) post-lake raising until three hundred years after the fact, when he'd finally get his memories back. But even then the recollections are still super vague--the clearest one he's got is a snapshot moment of his mother telling him to be careful as he rolled off with his sister to try out their new ice skates......... Which leads to a pretty solid guess that Jack probably had a fairly stable and caring relationship with his parents, when he was human. His mother was probably more than a little exasperated and henpecking in trying to keep the prank-loving-bugger that was (and still is) Jack at least relatively in line, but overall things were quite fond and close-knit, and nowadays it's a muted impression of affection when Jack thinks back on them.
ASSUMING that we're talking biological parents here. On the other hand, it could also be argued that the Man in the Moon would also count as something of a parent to the current Jack Frost that we all know now, this being the guy that raised him from the lake (and the dead) in the first place. But things are more complicated on this front, as far as Jack's concerned. The Man in the Moon has spoken to him exactly once in all his three hundred years of existence--and that was to tell him his name fresh out of the lake, nothing more and nothing less. There are communication issues abounds. And yet, even during his most bitter span of lonely decades without answer that could surely be so easily had if the guy would just say something, Jack never could bring himself to entirely hate that pale face in the sky; it always wound back to the fact that moonlight had been the first thing to nudge the fear away, in the very first moment he'd woken up in the cold and dark of the water. He's held innumerable one-sided arguments with himself about the whole thing over the years--did he really care at all? Surely he must have, if he'd bothered to raise him at all on that first night...but why won't he say anything? Doesn't he speak to others? Doesn't he know how quiet it is down here otherwise, how hard it is when nobody can see you and you just don't know why? But he's so far up there in the sky...things get pretty small from up there, and the distance to the moon itself is unimaginably far. Jack just couldn't figure it out. And even now, there's still a lot of questions and a fair residue of three century's buried bitterness when it comes to the Man in the Moon as a topic...but if his very last line in the movie is anything to go by? Jack's view of the Man in the Moon has finally softened into something of an acceptance of the guy's enigmatic ways, at least, and that's how it stands for now.
2. Does the character have any siblings? What is/was their relationship like?
Yes! Once...upon a time....Jack had a little sister that was about four years old when he fell in the lake. But if the way they interacted right before the falling bit's any indication, she spent those four years under some pretty intense love and care and protectiveness on Jack's part. She always saw him as a guy enjoying fun too much for his own good and constantly playing tricks on people, but he could make her feel better about pretty much anything at the drop of a dime, and it's clear Jack's affection for her ran pretty much limitless--to the point that putting himself in danger (and paying the ultimate price for it) seemed to him of little consequence, as long as she'd be alright in the end. In fact, even after becoming a spirit and forgetting everything about his past life--including his sister--that brotherly habit of kind fondness for children would continue to persist in Jack, even without a sister to direct it at anymore, as an ingrained part of his character.
Now that he does remember her...Jack focuses on the happy thoughts. Acknowledging that he did manage to save her before he fell, that she made it out alright--and, from there, settling with the accepting hope that she lived a long and full life, and died happy in the end. Naturally, the fact that he never did get to see her grow up, never even knew she was around for the years after he woke up in the lake and could have seen her...is a point of melancholy-bordering-on-grief that he has yet to actually let himself sink into. But he knows that getting himself too worked up over that side of the matter would do him no help in the long run--there's nothing he can do about that now, after all.
3. Are there other blood relatives to whom he is close? Are there ones he can't stand?
It's possible he has super-distant descendants floating around somewhere in the world (and there's a popular fandom theory that Jamie might be one of them, which would make Jack his great-great-great-great-great-etc uncle or something....), but Jack has never been aware of any, be it before or after regaining his memories.
4. Are there other, unrelated people whom he considers part of his family? What are his relationships with them?
His fellow Guardians; all of them are very recently-acquired as far as actual friendship is concerned, but the four others already have a decently strong bond between them, and they've welcomed Jack into the fold. So things are still pretty new and tentative, for Jack--he's never actually had a support system like this before--but so far the experience has been far from a bad one, and he hopes that the companionship they have now can strengthen and last as time goes on.
5. Who is/was the character's best friend? How did they meet?
The Wind, actually! (Shut up it totally counts
6. Does he have other close friends?
He does now! In the form of the Guardians, as mentioned earlier, as well as Jamie Bennett, his first believer.
7. Does he make friends easily, or does he have trouble getting along with people?
Jack used to be really horrible at this, actually 8( For most of his spirit-life he had a super difficult time getting along with fellow spirits, due to equal parts his trouble-making nature and the social awkwardness that only ever increased alongside the growing stretches of isolation that would result from the repeated shunning. He'd often get into this endless cycle of mis-stepping some unspoken rule of conduct, getting defensive when called out for mis-stepping, and sinking into his habit of snide remarks and pranks as a result, after which point he'd either leave of his own volition or get (sometimes literally) chased off. This cycle was finally broken when the Guardians approached him and an alliance was eventually formed; it was Jack's very first experience with a genuine friendship, and altogether, friendship in general is still a very new and somewhat oblique concept to Jack, at least so far as developing it and maintaining it is concerned. He knows what it should be like and how it should be done, but he's never actually reached that stage of opportunity himself before, and he's at the tentative-prodding-with-a-stick and stumbling-ungracefully-along stage of things at the moment. Still, by default he really is a kind and good-natured guy when you get past the prickly trickster upfront, so the potential is certainly there! And he's got more motivation to work on it now than he ever has before.
8. Which does he consider more important: family or friends?
Well tbh his friends are his family, if we're gonna categorize these things...
9. Is the character single, married, divorced, widowed? Has he been married more than once?
10. Is he currently in a romantic relationship with someone other than a spouse?
N/A
11. Who was his first crush? Who is his latest?
UUH WELL....maybe...the Tooth Fairy..........but it's nothing he's really let himself think about or pursue too much before. It all ties back into that isolation factor further above; Jack shut himself from the prospect of anything like the concept of a romantic relationship early on, under the belief that this sort of thing isn't for him and never will be for him--something he could surely never have.
12. What does he look for in a romantic partner?
As said above, he's not looking for one! .............But if he was, he'd probably work best with someone that understands who he is and why he's that way, knows about his flaws (both personal and social alike), but still has the patience and willingness to deal with it all and maybe even help with his learning process. Because this sort of thing would always be a work in progress, for someone like Jack, and he wouldn't want to burden that on someone unless he were positive they truly wouldn't mind it.
13. Does the character have children? Grandchildren? If yes, how does he relate to them? If no, does he want any?
Nope, nope, and not a possibility.
14. Does he have any rivals or enemies?
Yep! Jack and the Easter Bunny have held the centuries-long (mostly-)friendly rivalry that might be expected of two spirits guiding contrasting seasons; in the past it's sometimes almost slipped into outright animosity, but after the battle with Pitch and Jack's induction as a Guardian relations have relaxed a good deal between the both of them--though there's still plenty of bantering all around. That said, Jack actually has few outright enemies, at least as far as long-standing grudges might be concerned. He'll stand firm against anyone or anything that threatens children, though, as he did against Pitch Black over the course of the movie...though now Pitch is a non-entity as far as that status goes, and really, if the guy hadn't been so ridiculous about his idea of inundating the world with fear, they might have almost gotten along in another time...
15. What is the character's sexual orientation? Where does he fall on the Kinsey scale?
Technically nowhere on the scale, as Jack hasn't let himself give this any real thought. If he were ever to open himself back up to the idea of relationships as a possibility, though, he'd probably fall squarely on 3; gender wouldn't really be a particular issue as far as something like that goes, old as he is and being a spirit besides.
16. How does he feel about sex? How important is it to him?
He knows what it is, and he doesn't really have any sensibilities to offend concerning the topic (as long as there aren't children on the other end in some way), because he knows that it's a pretty prevalent thing. You just can't hang around humanity for three hundred years and not pick up on something like this, after all. Jack's never applied the concept to himself, though, much the same way he hasn't the idea of a relationship--so, it's not something he's ever indulged in (out of being kind of unable to indulge in it anyway, for a whole laundry list of reasons), and thusly it ranks pretty low on the importance scale at the moment.
17. What are his turn-ons? Turn-offs? Weird bedroom habits?
Id...k I need to get back to this sometime later.....
Beliefs
1. Do you know your character's astrological (zodiac of choice) sign? How well does he fit type?
Uuuh well nobody has any idea what month he might have actually been born on (and I headcanon he fell in the lake on Christmas day for a few ramshackle reasons, but there's no canon on that either); however, Sagittarius fits him pretty well, and does include the first day of winter in its jurisdiction, so yeah...!
2. Is this character religious, spiritual, both, or neither? How important are these elements in his life?
Idk spiritual...? Teeechnically neither, maybe--Jack is a spirit entity himself, so it's all kind of moot for him in that sense. It's pretty important in his life because it is his life...
3. Does this character have a personal code of morals or ethics? If so, how did that begin? What would it take to compromise it?
Yep! It's one that Jack has developed by himself, and holds to himself and everyone around him with an equal and stubborn old man's conviction. Most of it's pretty common sense and can easily be accommodated if you're a Decent Person, and Jack developed it unconsciously simply as a means of policing himself, over the course of the long three hundred years he spent gong it alone; starting out, it was a way to thumb his nose at those who thought him some kind of rogue spirit with no redeeming qualities ("see, he does have standards, and he even lives up to them!"), but eventually it became a way to give himself genuine direction in a lifetime of wandering, keep himself grounded in a world where he really could just fly about as he pleased. (If you don't take care of yourself, who else is going to?) So, as a result, Jack's very resolute about the lines he does draw, and will give no end of trouble to others that might cross them as well--his tolerance is pretty flat when it comes to these sorts of things, and it'd take some kind of ungodly persuasion for him to compromise it.
4. How does he regard beliefs that differ from his? Is he tolerant, intolerant, curious, indifferent?
The majority of the time he'll be more than tolerant! In that there'll be a due portion of respect paid to most any sort of belief; it's his own lifeblood, and so it's certainly not something he'd fault any other entity or concept for having too. Whether he'd be curious, dubious, or outright side-eyeing it after this initial baseline depends entirely on what that belief happens to be.
5. What prejudices does he hold? Are they irrational or does he have a good reason for them?
Uuuh well it's nothing super overt, but!! Jack has a deep-set distrust of science. It's....kind of illogical, yes--he knows science can be a good thing, and that science is pretty legitimate in its own right, explaining those particular mechanics of the world. But he still harbors a distinct distrust and dislike of the concept that's more reflexive than anything else--because, as a general rule, science automatically rejects everything that he and all the spirits in his world are on a fundamental level. Science is the leading cause for the decline of belief overall, the reason why the era in which all spirits once thrived is now long since waned and gone, and the world on the spirit side of things has become a lot emptier as a result. So it's not personal, but when a specific train of thought is literally your mortal enemy you kind of just can't help it 8( Fortunately this won't manifest too terribly often, and he won't necessarily horribly harass every scientist he runs into or something, but he'd be ten times leerier than most about relying on science in any overt form--needing to take a shot from a syringe or putting your life in the hands of a particularly complex piece of electronic machinery, etc....
Daily Life
1. What is the character's financial situation? Is he rich, poor, comfortable, in debt?
Nonexistent! Spirits don't need currency, what nonsense...
2. What is his social status? Has this changed over time, and if so, how has the change affected him?
Once upon a time he was a working member of a tiny North American colony in the early 1700s...his family was very poor, but back then everybody was; Jack was probably known as the prankster of the village, but that wasn't too detrimental, and things were still about as comfortable as could be managed back in the day. For the majority of his spirit-life, however, Jack was very much an outcast as far as spiritual circles of society were concerned--though maybe 'unknown' would be a more accurate way to put 'outcast'. For countless decades nobody had any idea who he even was, let alone the fact that he was the new decently powerful entity and catalyst for the winter season; he got mistaken for a mere sprite or a "weather phenom" far more times than Jack would enjoy recounting now, and finally getting some proper recognition from the Easter Bunny almost a century after the fact was almost something of a relief. After all, even if that recognition was the antagonistic sort, it went on to help spread the word about Jack Frost in the spirit circles--word setting him down as a mischievous prankster and troublemaker without a care in the world for anybody around him human or spirit alike, maybe, but any reputation was better than nothing.
The Guardians as a collective were fairly surprised when the Man in the Moon elected Jack for Guardianship.
But now he is a Guardian, and as a result Jack's status has taken a distinct hike upwards in the spirit world. High enough to finally give him a decent base of believers, ever-growing, and he's quite happy with that.
3. Where does he live? House, apartment, trailer? Is his home his castle or just a place to crash? What condition is it in? Does he share it with others?
There is a decently large lake, surrounded by trees, on the outskirt fringes of a little North American town called Burgess; during winter its surface is perpetually frozen to a startling thickness, and even during other seasons of the year the water is always bitingly cold. But it's good for skating on, and quite scenic during the chillier months.
Jack doesn't have any particular house or enclosure that he stays in, and roams all over the world on a daily basis, but he'll always return to his lake in Burgess at least once a year; even before regaining his past-life memories, he liked to keep it thoroughly iced, and was the place where he first saw the Moon besides--that's about as close to 'home' as anybody can get, really. Apart from its coldness it's about as nondescript as lakes get, but Jack is more than happy to share it with anybody that wants to enjoy it, children or adults alike.
4. Besides the basic necessities, what does he spend his money on?
N/A
5. What does he do for a living? Is he good at it? Does he enjoy it, or would he rather be doing something else?
Spreads fun and keeps track of the winter season!! He's very good at it, if he does say so himself. It's a pair of jobs that Jack took upon himself to do, and now that he's a Guardian too, he wouldn't be trading any of these things for anything else in the world.
6. What are his interests or hobbies? How does he spend his free time?
Facilitating the jobs above, basically--'hobby' and 'job' kind of bleeds together a lot, in this case. Jack roams the world and follows the winter season where it goes, and he takes enjoyment in that; he also loves icing windows and setting off snowball fights and helping kids reinforce snowmen and carving out surprise sledding rinks....he's adept at keeping himself occupied, he hates downtime.
Downtime means he's left to himself and his own devices.
7. What are his eating habits? Does he skip meals, eat out, drink alcohol, avoid certain foods?
Technically he doesn't need to eat at all! And so Jack doesn't, most of the time, because it doesn't do anything for him in the physical sense...though he'll still partake in small portions if he feels like it or he's curious enough.
Associations
Which of the following do you associate with the character, or which is his favorite:
1. Color? blue and white
2. Smell? dat crisp scentlessness you get from the wind on a snowy mountaintop
3. Time of day? crack of dawn
4. Season? HAHAHAHA
5. Book?
6. Music? most everything tbh, he's super fond of music....but he has a really soft spot for Christmas carols ok don't judge
7. Place? Burgess
8. Substance? iiice /laziest forever
9. Plant? he only knows pine trees and evergreens 8( but plants in general are pretty cool tbh, he'd like to learn more about flowers someday...
10. Animal? mountain bluebird
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