Video 3: Someone's Got a New Toy

[justanexpression]

[When the feed turns on, it's immediately obvious that Jack is excited about something. He's practically bouncing, and if he had his powers, he'd definitely be in the air by now. Instead, he has to settle for grinning at the feed.]

Okay. This? This is the best thing ever!

[He turns the gear around to find Phil the Seel looking surprisingly smug for a Seel.]

Okay, Phil. Let's go. Show 'em your new trick.

[Even off-camera, the excitement in Jack's voice is obvious. And contagious, from the sound Phil makes as he shifts to face a large tree that has apparently been used for target practice this morning. As he concentrates, a block of ice starts to form just in front of his horn before he launches it at the tree where it shatters spectacularly. Somebody is learning Ice Shard, apparently.

Jack comes back in the shot with a whoop. You can almost see the gears turning as Jack thinks of all the things he can do with Phil's new talents.]

How awesome is that? He'll be making snowballs in no time.



((OOC: In case you're lame clueless unused to Pokemon like I am, Phil's Ice Shard is similar to the Mamoswine's here. Less powerful, obviously, but he's still learning.))

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[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[Blake doesn't look impressed.]

So your seal's an ice machine. What's so great about that? There's one of those in the hotel lobby.

[video]

[justanexpression]

[Harshing Jack's groove? That is the opposite of cool. No pun intended. This time.]

He's not an ice machine. Well, okay, he is. But he's an awesome ice machine, and since I can't do it here, I can get him to do it for me.

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[Blake is a professional harsher of everything.]

[He gets that look from teenage brats a lot.]

There's nothing wrong with it. It can fill up a cooler for you.

Can't do what here?

[video]

[justanexpression]

[He gestures in the vague direction of the tree and all the melted ice.]

Make ice. Well, snow, mostly, but I could do ice and frost, too. Except I can't do any of that here.

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[What is this kid talking about?]

The level of technology doesn't make any damn sense, but there's freezers all over the place. You can get all the ice you want.

[video]

[justanexpression]

[The same thing all the other people with superpowers have been talking about, of course. He's going to have to believe one of them, eventually.

For now, watch as Jack attempts a great feat of eye-rolling such as can only be achieved by a teenager.]

I don't mean just HAVING ice. I mean MAKING it. [He wiggles his fingers at the screen.] I was a winter spirit. Jack Frost? Ring any bells?

[Except no, of course it won't, because it never does. Sigh.]

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[Watch him.]

[Another goddamn bratty teenager, just what he needs.]

[That actually knocks Blake speechless for a second.]

[It doesn't last long.]

Jack Frost. We're into fairy tales now? How hard are we scraping the bottom of the barrel for crazy?

And I'm Mother fucking Goose.

[video]

[justanexpression]

Yeah, no, you're really not. [He'd sort of met her once, just in passing. She seemed nice enough and not at all like this guy.]

Anyway, I prefer the term 'mythical being' but I guess fairy tale works.

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[It's Blake's turn to be an eye-rolling ass.] You caught me.

What is it with all you teenagers and calling yourselves all this crazy bullshit? Do you have that much time on your hands? Whatever happened to just playing baseball or something?

[video]

[justanexpression]

Snowballs don't really do that great as baseballs. [Duh.]

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

[throws his hands up] Fine. You're a magical snow elf from that shitty song they play in malls around Christmas. Good fucking luck with that.

Re: [video]

[justanexpression]

Hey! Who said I was an elf?!

[If he'd ever met North's elves, he'd know that that was a serious insult.]

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

You did! Or a fairy tale creature or something. What difference does it make? It's all made-up bullshit.

[video]

[justanexpression]

It's only a huge difference. [Again, duh.]

Look. I'm me, okay, which is... well, was... a winter spirit. I'm not an elf. Elves are small. [He held his hands about a foot apart, accounting for the hat.] And pretty much stupid. But they're definitely not made up.

[huff] This is why adults are lame. You all fail at believing in anything worth believing in.

[video]

[lieutenantantichrist]

Fake is fake. Doesn't matter what kind.

Funny thing. I've never seen one.

Nobody needs elves and Jack Frost and other crap once they're out of grade school. You shoud've grown out of it by now.

[video]

[justanexpression]

[He looks away, frown growing as the man's disbelief stomps over a few too many old sore spots.]

You don't grow out of being you. And you're never gonna see anything if you're determined not to.

[He cuts the feed with another huff.]