Jack Frost

**Jack Frost** is a character from the story, *Father Frost, he also appears in some of Vasilisa and Ivan's stories*.

## Personality

Jack is a very childish and short-sighted individual, doing things like freezing lakes for fun and considering freezing the sea itself to get to his love Vasa.

He is very mischievous, stating that he likes making the frost on the lakes he freezes crack when people stand on it and using his powers of the wind to mess with travelers for his personal amusement.

Jack takes enormous pride in his work, often bragging about the beauty of his winters or the smoothness of his ice.

He can be very emotional, as he readily gushed about his crush on Vasa and was ready to break into tears after being rejected by Vasa later on.

## Synopsis

### Before Forever After

Jack was born with the start of winter and regularly died when spring would come. During that time he met Vasilisa, eldest child of the sea. The two fell in love, but as Jack would forget everything from his life with every spring that he died, he would forget that he'd already courted Vasa as well. Eventually Vasa couldn't take the constant dying and reviving of his lover anymore and started to avoid Jack. He tried to explain the situation to Jack properly several times, but Jack reacted badly to the rejection and lashed out.

At some point the Sky Sovereign Morevna asked Jack to hide the Iron Claws of Koshei beneath a lake.

### Forever After

After freezing yet another lake in preparation for his plan to freeze the sea to get to Vasa, Jack comes across a group of travelers, consisting of the hero Ivan, the Prince Charming Robin and the fairy Tank. He messed with them a little using his winds, then revealed himself to them. Ivan asked Jack to unfreeze the lake, as he needed to retrieve Koshei's Iron Claws from within it. Jack refused, as he saw no reason to undo his work.

Robin attempts to offer a trade, but Jack tells her he has no need for any earthly goods. When Ivan desperately pleads with him and tells him he needs the iron claws to reach his lover, Jack sympathizes with him over his own unhappy love life with Vasa. He makes a deal with the group, promising to take his frost off the lake if they arrange for a meeting between him and Vasa, by stealing Vasa's sea shroud and trapping him on land. They reluctantly agree, much to Jack's delight.

The plan is a success allowing Jack to approach Vasa, with Jack still unaware that he has met and gotten together with Vasa many times before. Vasa interrupted Jack's excited introductions and wearily told him that they had met before, expressing disappointment that Jack would stoop so low as to trap him on land to get his attention. Jack is shocked by this, as he cannot remember their previous meetings at all. To prove to him that they are simply not meant to be, Vasa makes Jack touch his hand. As Vasa is sea salt and sunlight, his mere touch hurts Jack, who is devastated after holding Vasa's hand nearly melts him. Jack pleads with Vasa, offering to carry the sea child with him into the sky, but Ivan intervenes, telling Jack that holding on too tightly like this will only poison and destroy what Vasa and him have and had and that if Jack truly loves Vasa he must let him go. Heartbroken, Jack flees the scene.

## References

 **Story**
 The Golden Key | • Tangle • Mossy •Mean Fairies •Mossy's Auntie •Grandma •Old Man of the Sea •Old Man of the Earth •Old Man of the Fire
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