Ice Crown

The Ice Crown is an item from Adventure Time that is featured in AniCity, introduced in Season 3. Hidden in a verible kingdom of Ice for nearly a hundred years, it is one of the ten items the main heroes were tasked with retrieving it before the forces of evil found it. The young Ghost hero Danny Phantom was allowed to keep the crown following these events to aid in his & his friends' protection of their home, but only for serious situations due to its effects on his mind.

## History

### Pre-Series

Sometime in Earth's past (possibly several decades, maybe more), a massive mutagenic bomb was dropped to Earth. A man who had fallen under the crown's influence, one Simon Petrikov, used its power to create a vortex that caught the bomb and froze it mid-flight; though thankfully his young friend Marceline managed to move him out of the way before it crushed him. With this last act, Simon created an enormous fortress of ice pillars to keep the bomb in place and hidden from anything that might trigger its explosion. But more importantly, Simon also used this as a chance to finally distance himself from the crown's control and hid the crown inside the newly-formed kingdom from anyone who might be corrupted by it like he nearly was.

## Abilities

The Ice Crown is shown to possess immense magical properties. It was created with magic jewels as the source of the object's power, and phantasmal circuitry to have it bond with its first wearer and grant their deepest desire: for Gunther's wish, he became like his master Urgence Evergreen and as such, whomsoever wore the crown afterwards was bestowed powers over ice and snow. Most commonly, it is used to freeze objects or beings in blocks of ice. Living beings encapsulated in ice are totally immobilized and this freezing stops all life functions. It can also be used to manipulate already-existing ice and snow, animating these substances according to the user's will. Experienced users can even form golems out of ice and snow. Users can create or summon blizzards and hailstorms. They can also generate freezing winds or blow cold air.

#### **Side Effects**

Along with the great power that the crown grants, the usage of the crown also comes with a great number of side effects. The most prominent of these is how it alters the user's mental state. Initially, the crown has an addictive effect that creates a desire to wear it more and more often. However, the danger of using the crown and the subsequent powers it bestows is evident as the wearer becomes more and more "weird" after each successive use. Though the rate at which the crown deteriorates its wearer's sanity was proportional to how much resistance each one possessed, as Danny's strong sense of will and connection to his world, allowing him to retain his sanity for long enough.

There also come physical effects, such as the wearer's skin turns blue (most likely a physical change of the wearer's body temperature lowering to about 30° C), their nose growing long and pointed, and their hair turning white and lengthening.

## Notes

The Crown's history in this series is mainly based off of its history in Farmworld (the alternate universe where Finn has the normal cartoon eyes and pointy nose), where Simon/The Ice King managed to stop the bomb that caused Earth to become the Land of Ooo in that series. And while that event does happen in this series' timeline, it's slightly altered than how it happened in that world too, so that Simon wasn't crushed underneath the bomb.

Danny being the main user of the crown in this series is meant to be sort of a replacement for the ice powers he gained in the third season of his home series without any involvement from the Realm of the Far Frozen and the... controversial implications that applies to the rest of the Ghost Zone.