Morning Frost

Official Frost art by Saltmatey

**Morning Frost** is a tabaxi sorcerer in Once Upon a Witchlight. He is played by Derek.

## About Morning Frost

#### Appearance

Morning Frost is a tiger-tabaxi with orange fur striped with black markings. The pads of his hands and feet are covered with white fur as well as the bottom half of his muzzle. He typically wears a pair of grey ataman pants, forest green shoes with sage socks, and a long jade hooded robe with a darker green border and bright highlights on the shoulders and back, which previously belonged to his master. Around his waist he wears a sash decorated with a serpentine dragon.

#### Personality

Morning Frost meets every problem with a very logical, methodical approach, utilizing reason to solve issues rather than emotions or violence (OUAW Ep 0 - Patreon Exclusive Content). Due to his goal of mastering his emotions, Frost is comparatively more monotone in his speech and interactions with The Party and other characters. His humor comes off as dry and acerbic, at times, and he may not always understand innuendoes or when people hint at their current state of emotion (OUAW Ep 9 - When The Wagon's A Rockin').

His rigid upbringing in the Psionic Order instilled a polite etiquette within him. When meeting others for the first time, Frost is polite and gracious in his introductions. He is genuinely quizzical about people and places and is extremely considerate if he is aware of crossing a person's personal boundary. Knowing the power of one's word, Frost takes his pacts very seriously, with every intention of fulfilling it when the opportunity arises.

Even though Frost prides himself of his emotional control, this is not to say he is without emotions. When The Party discovers a mutilated and traumatized Lexi Potts just outside of the Witchlight Carnival (OUAW Ep 1 - Circus-To-Circus), Frost is seen attempting to comfort Lexi before laying her down to rest. He is visibly bereft by this needless loss of life, and resolute in finding who or what could cause such a violent act.

Frost is also a very capable adventurer, having traveled for a few years before meeting Gricko and the other party members. As a being of logic, Frost's pack contains many useful supplies most wouldn't think twice to pack such as balls of yarn to repair clothes, extra buttons, a ten-foot pole and magic beans. He is also extremely hygienic, hardly taking off his shoes. In extreme cases where he's done so, Frost has never remained barefoot for very long.

#### Magic

Frost's magic comes from the power of his mind, able to warp and bend reality to his will (see: Abilities). His training within the Psionic Order in Yulong grants him the powers of telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation and to render beings immobile. He is also able to mend items or clothes if all the pieces still exist. When needed, Frost also utilizes magical beans that grant him a boost to his psionic abilities.

## Background

Originating from the mountains of Yulong, Morning Frost's path of past, present and future is shrouded in mystery. Very few things have been revealed as of yet, but the known facts produce more questions than answers.

As revealed in the Hall of Illusions during the Witchlight Carnival, Frost was born into a simple life, appearing in the mirrors as a tabaxi cub wearing plain farm clothes (OUAW Ep 4 - Lose Your Illusion). Due to the Wild Fey magic afflicting The Party at the time, child Frost proved to be more of a spunky, precocious little scamp than his normal stoic self by purposely shoving Kremy and Gricko near a charmed statue of Iggwilv in her Tasha form, causing Gricko to laugh uncontrollably. In a later scene, we see The Party take on their mirrored teenage selves, with teenage Frost in a plain jade green *gi,* sans adornments. At this point, it is obvious that Frost has started his Psionic Order training having filled out more in his physique and eating well.

In OUAW Ep 0 - a Patreon-exclusive "cannon" episode, the audience gets a glimpse into a moment of Frost's life in between childhood and joining the Order. Kremy loses a bet to a satyr The Party meets at the outskirts of the Heartsblight Forest and steals their worst time and their best time as payment. When the satyr sets his sights upon Frost, this is where that memory is revealed. As a child, Frost is inducted into the Order, his mother weeping at the reality of never seeing her son again. Seeing his mother weep in dispair is ingrained deep in Frost's mind. This was the saddest moment of Frost's life. In the same scene, Frost's happiest time is also revealed. After passing his first Trial and being granted permission to go on his first pilgrimage, Frost proudly remembers his Master's approving smile at the progress he's made as a tabaxi mystic. Frost knows that this pilgrimage will lead him to where he is needed, relishing the opportunity to learn all he can along the way.

Armed with a sharp mind and a serene control of his emotions, Frost now travels the world on a pilgrimage of sorts, seeking to satisfy his curiosity of the world (OUAW Ep 0). His thirst for knowledge is only overshadowed by his want of emotional control. So much so in fact, that when bargaining for a magical scroll containing the numbers three and eight at Bauble & Trinket in Downfall, Frost gladly relinquishes an ounce of his Fear as payment, knowing full well it may be used against in him in the future (OUAW Ep 29 - TBD).

## Relationships

#### The Party

**Gricko Grimgrin**

**Kremy Lecroux**

**Gideon Coal**

#### Torbek

Hootsie

Twig

## Abilities

Morning Frost is a sorcerer-class character that draws inspiration from a custom Aberrant Mind subclass. In addition, Frost is played with the spell points variant rule versus spell slots. This is a homage to how Frost was played as an Unearthed Arcana Mystic in Call of the Feywild.

With that in mind, some spells and cantrips have been flavored for Psionic purposes rather than its original magical mechanic. For instance, the Message cantrip has been flavored as Frost's telepathy ability. Rather than whispering a message only the target can hear, Frost is able to establish a telepathic link to the target and can hold a conversation via mental link. The Mage Hand cantrip is flavored as Frost's telekinesis ability, an invisible force that moves objects with just a thought.

In battle, Frost is extremely powerful and can rationalize the best use of his energy and abilities. In the fight with a Witchlight-mutated Torbek (OUAW Ep 19 - Bump In The Night), Frost is able to psionically hold Torbek's spine and immobilize him via Hold Person spell. In another battle involving a powerful fire elemental known as The Master (or RagnaRoss, non-canonically), Frost demonstrates one of his stronger psionic abilities via Vortex Warp by teleporting The Master out of the Balloon Factory and into the swamps of Downfall surrounding it, effectively extinguishing the fiery being (OUAW Ep 25 - The One Where Fire Gets Purged).

## Quotes

* "Move it slower, Mr. Light." - Morning Frost to Mr. Light while attempting to catch a laser pointer.
* "The reality of this is quite tragic." - Morning Frost in reference to Gricko Grimgrin's fae curse to temporarily forget Hootsie.
* "My F\*\*king Legs" Morning Frost unluckily has his legs fused together by a fey curse(more than once).

## Trivia

* Frost's original design is based on Tony the Tiger, the mascot of Frosted Flakes. Originally his backstory involved a mentor named Kashi, and part of his personality included his belief that breakfast was the most important meal of the day. The references to cereal had gone largely unnoticed for over a year by the rest of the party, and by the stream viewer base.
* Frost's relationship with Mr. Light heavily implied that there is a mutual attraction between the two and Mr. Light greatly favors anything to do with Frost during the Witchlight Carnival.
* Frost never denies having a physical relationship with Mr. Light during the one-on-one conversation the two have. The party immediately assumes they were intimate after seeing an exhausted and frosting covered Frost upon retrieving him from Mr. Light and Mr. Witch's cart.
* Due to his training, he is sensitive to all of his senses including touch, taste, smell, sound, sight, and a sixth unnamed sense