Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians)

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**Jackson Overland "Jack" Frost** is the main protagonist of 2012 DreamWorks animated film, *Rise of the Guardians* and a main character in *Guardians of Childhood* as **Nightlight**, the messenger of the Man in the Moon,

## Background

Jack Frost lived in the 1700s and had a mother and a sister. He used to have to much fun and never wanted to grow up. During a cold winter, Jack and his younger sister went to play outside and skate outside. However, during this incident, Jack'

s sister began crying to her brother that she was scared. However Jack told her instead they were going to have a little fun like they do everyday. In a stroke of luck, Jack was able to save his baby sister by throwing her to safety. However, Jack slipped through the ice, much to his sister's horror. During this time, the Man in the Moon watched and decided to resurrect Jack Frost as a guardian.

Sometime after being resurrected, Jack's first thing he saw was darkness and was scared until he rose out from the lake and saw the Moon and wasn't scared anymore. Jack saw a staff when gazing at his appearance. During this time, Jack's memories were gone, and he had no idea who he was in his former life. The moon provided Jack with a staff and only his name.

Jack used the staff and was excited for his newfound powers. During his new discoveries, Jack briefly lost control while flying. When he landed on a branch, Jack saw a village nearby and entered, trying to catch the attention of a boy who ran straight past him. No one could hear the boy, causing Jack to be lonely and desire to be seen by children.

Jack began starting fun with others, causing Snow days for children.

During one of his misadventures, Jack set off a blizzard on Easter Sunday in 1968, causing him to attract the wrath of the Easter Bunny, who developed a small grudge against Jack that would last for forty-four years.

## Personality

After years and years of isolation, Jack Frost became used to being alone, he was what you would call a loner. However, he did not like being unseen by children. Despite his desire to be seen, he did not stoop down to Pitch's level, choosing to be seen by children who want to believe in him, not children who fear him. Before Jack was even a guardian, Jack was happy with what he did by giving children what they began calling "Snow days" and beginning snowball fights, an early sign that Jack's job was being the Guardian of Fun.

Initially, Jack refused the role as a Guardian and doesn't take his it seriously, even stating that they wouldn't want him anyways because while they are all "hard work and deadlines" and he's "snowballs and fun times." However, because he saved his human, child sister when he was a human, Jack is proven to being a true guardian of childhood. North sees his Guardian potential within, as did the Man in the Moon, Tooth, Sandy, and eventually, Bunny. According to Pitch, his greatest fear is that the Guardians will never accept him as one of them and afraid that he will fly off with his memories once Jack has them.This is proven true when he accidentally misleads the Guardians to believing he traded away Baby Tooth with his own memories. Jack became hurt and left the Guardians, who didn't even bother to hear his side of the story.

## Physical Appearance

While Jack was a human, he used to have brown hair and warm, chocolate brown eyes. Jack also significantly had fair skin, and once wore a white v-neck shirt and brown vest, and his trousers and poncho were colored the same

After Jack was resurrected by the Man in the Moon as a spirit, he had white hair that looked like snow and his once brown eyes had become blue. Stuck at the age of fourteen to seventeen, Jack stays in his teenager form. He had begun wearing a blue hoody that had white, winter pattern, allegedly it was made by mice.

According to Tooth, his teeth are "white as freshly fallen snow." Jack is also barefoot, and has a magical staff shaped with a G. His fair skin had become paler. Tooth and her fairies were attracted to Jack by his looks, proving he has a charming and handsome.

## Powers and abilities

* **Winter Magic** - Being the spirit of winter, Jack Frost had complete power over winter.Jack is actually a very powerful individual.
	+ **Cryokinesis:** Jack had the ability to summon snow, ice, frost, and bolts of ice. However, throughout most of his times as Jack Frost, Jack learned that he could control his own power over magic. Jack was able to freeze over an oncoming storm of nightmares without him ever realizing it and used his powers to heal his staff.
	+ **Animation:** Jack is also able to do animation, to an extent. Jack is shown to make drawings from the ice he creates on a window and bring them to life. When Jamie was losing faith in the Guardians, Jack drew a bunny and was able to bring it to life as it jumped around and unleashed snow.
	+ **Ice Breath:** Due to being a spirit of Winter, Jack was able to breath out cool ice, which he blows on with a snowball that turns it into a blue color.
	+ **Cold Immunity**: Being the spirit of winter, Jack is not bothered by the cold.
	+ **Aerokinetic Flight:** Jack is able to fly by riding the wind. He flies by floating like a snowflake, and propels himself with wind to fly faster.
* **Fun Manipulation:** Jack was able to manipulate fun and spread it throughout the world because of his snowballs that can put people under fun influences, bringing it a person's inner fun.
* **Enhanced Agility**: Jack is incredibly lithe and nimble, able to move across rooftops or even weave through traffic with uncanny speed and agility. He is also a wild but swift flyer by being carried by the wind, 300 years of doing so making him a master at such.
* **Skilled Combatant**: Jack's battle style consists of Parkour and Kendo (which means "way of the sword"). He combines free-running with martial arts to make a unique battle style. With perfect timing and skills, Jack is also able to dodge an enemy's attack and instantly response by calculating his body and staff movements to be able deliver his own attack. He pays close attention to an enemy movements since a response that is too slow or fast may not be effective.
* **Belief Independence:** Unlike North, Tooth and Bunny whose powers greatly depend on being believed in, Jack seems to be able to operate at full-capacity while still having no believers himself, implying that should he become a figure as popular as them, which could have him as one of the most powerful spirits in their ranks. Nevertheless, He can't be seen, heard or felt by any mortal (with the exception of animals) unless they believe in him.
* **Immortality**: Like the Guardians, Jack is immortal and untouchable to anything that happens in time. He has been around for over 300 years, but he is forever trapped at the age of fourteen and can change his age as well at a certain point.

## Family

### Mary

Jack was extremely close to his younger sister, with them often playing together, such as skating and telling stories to one another. When they went ice skating, Jack calmed her down. Before she fell through the ice, Jack was able to save his sister, thus resulting in him being a guardian and why Manny chose Jack to be the next Guardian of Childhood.

When he remembered his sister, Jack was excited to know he had a sister and a mother before his times as Jack Frost.

## Friends and Allies

### Baby Tooth

Baby Tooth, unlike the other fairies, had a platonic relationship with Jack ever since he saved  her from  a Nightmare. He saw her as a companion and grew accustomed to her following him and Jack was rather protective of her.

### Toothiana

Main article: Frostbite Toothiana is one of Jack's love interests in the series. Whenever Jack is around Tooth, he his carefree nature vanishes. He wanted dedicated in helping her finding the teeth that Pitch stole from her. While he wanted to see who he was before he became Jack Frost, Jack was more obligated in helping her, as he said to her "We'll have you taken care of. And then it will be Pitch's turn." However, Tooth once thought that Jack had traded Baby Tooth for his teeth. However, when she saw Jack at Jamie's house she had forgotten that she could not fly because she was excited to see him again. After Pitch's defeat, they hugged, but quickly escaped from the embrace when Baby Tooth began "chastising" her.

## Trivia

* Jack is based on Jack Frost from Norse Mythology and winter folklore.
* Jack's signature color includes blue and white.
* Errol Flynn's Robin Hood and J.M Barrie's Peter Pan are listed among Jack Frost's inspiration for William Joyce when creating Jack for his series.
* Out of all his believers, Jack has a special connection towards Jamie Bennett even before he had become a Guardian.
	+ Some fans have theorized that Jamie is a descendant of Jack's sister, therefore, a descendant of Jack Frost himself, to an extent.
* Jack's age has been a debate in the fandom.
	+ According to William Joyce, Jack is stuck at the age of fourteen
	+ However, on some occasions, the creators of the film say Jack is frozen at the age of seventeen.
	+ An app states Jack is actually stuck at eighteen.
* For at least forty four years, Jack and Bunny had a rivalry with each other due to the blizzard of '68.