4th ♫ | a cold wind that gets in your bones

[unit31]

LABRYS ☆ CALL ME OUT POST

A perma open RP/call me out post for Labrys!

This is a post for any and every version of Labrys I've played, so you're free to ask for any established CR or AUs - or just go with straight canon! If you don't voice a particular preference, I'll default to either whatever gameverse we were in together, or canon.

Just plonk a character in a comment down below, give me a scenario and let's do some RPing!

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[nippy]

[ every time he's been mistakenly hopeful in the past, it had been a short-lived thing; someone that seemed to make eye contact with him, that just happened to say something with such timing that he could think they were responding to him. over the years, the bright flare he had felt when he thought a child had seen him had been smothered, barely anything more these days than an uptick in his heartrate. a blazing fire of hope just couldn't sustain itself after being extinguished so many times. it hurt less if he didn't have as far to fall.

but this isn't a mistake. this isn't a mistake, she keeps responding and looking right at him, it can't be a mistake (and if it is then he's going to hide himself away in a cave for a week and somebody is going to get one hell of a blizzard) and that spark of hope catches aflame, roars inside of his chest, alive and burning, so old that it feels new all over again—

Jack closes the gap to her in the most unnecessary way possible: the wind tosses him high up into the air and then drops him, leaving him to glide down and land right in front of the window. the landing is light and silent as if he weighs nothing at all, and he bounces on the balls of his feet like a child, bubbling with glee and excitement. ]

You're talking to me! You're talking to me, and you actually— you see me! [ his laughter is a little bit hysterical. ] Oh, man. What is happening here? How is this even possible? I mean - a teenager? Not even St. North can bag those! And why here, why now? I've never...

[ he had drifted off into some conversation with himself, a habit too old to ever shake, but his attention snaps back to Labrys. ]

Do you... even know who I am?

[ it's not said with any sort of arrogance. if anything, he seems... nervous. ]

[unit31]

[ she dances a few steps back from the window in surprise, and her confusion is written all over her face -- she even lets out a yelp which isn't exactly the most dignified response. but, really, how else is she expected to react to this?

she stammers out a response without really putting any thought into the words coming out of her mouth and it, understandably, ends up a bit less put together than she would've liked ]

Of course I-- you-- you're right there! You're right in front a' me! What, didya think ya just blended into the snow or somethin'?!

Wh--who the heck are you s'pposed to be, anyway?!

[nippy]

[ something stutters in his heart. the flame dies out, just a little. she isn't a believer. oh, being seen is more incredible than he could ever express, precious and wonderful, he feels absolutely dizzy with how happy he is right now, and at the same time he is so scared of losing it that the Boogeyman can probably feel it on the other side of the world—

and yet. and yet, there is a hollowness in it. a hole that he has been desperately trying to fill, and he knows, knows clearer than he has ever known anything, that this is not enough for it. the loneliness can be soothed by company. but the very core of what he is longs for the pure, unquestioning belief of a child.

that is not for now. at the moment, all he has to do is seize this chance before it can get away from him. ]

Jack Frost! My name is Jack Frost - do you know the song? Ah, it's more of a thing over in the West, I guess... I'm like a winter spirit? I don't really get it myself.

[ he shrugs and refocuses, wringing his hands around his wooden staff. how can he explain this? kids don't need an explanation, they just believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. for them, he would only need to say Jack Frost is real. but now he has to explain... what he is, and how he works. those are things he doesn't even know himself. ]

Listen, the deal is: you shouldn't be able to see me. People don't see me! Not unless they believe in me, at least, and I don't have any believers yet, but I'm working on that, I swear. And yet— here you are! Seeing me! A teenager who doesn't even know who I am! How are you doing that?

[unit31]

Oh... oh!

[ and suddenly her expression brightens a little with understanding and she nods. She doesn't know exactly what he's talking about, but she understands enough about spirits and yokai and otherworldly beings that she understands instantly what he's trying to convey. ]

Like, a yuki-onna! Somethin' like that! But, man, I always figured yuki-onna were just... girls. S'right there in the name, y'know? But you definitely ain't a girl...

[ she leans out the window even more, straining to get a better look at him. he doesn't look what she'd imagine a winter spirit to be. she would've thought chiseled features, a haughty expression but... he just looks like a kid. her age, maybe a little older or younger. ]

I ain't doin' anythin', though! I'm just... lookin' at ya. I mean, you're right there! What else am I gonna see?