Oh the weather outside is frightful...

[boundlesslight.livejournal.com]

☀THE WARM AND TOASTY MEME☀
The situation: It is dreadfully cold. Think 'ice cave where all those slash fics are set'.
The goal: Keep each other warm tonight!

☀ STEP ONE: Comment with your characters. One comment for each character.
☀ STEP TWO: Other people reply to your characters.
☀ STEP THREE: Both participants are aware that they should/must keep nice and warm. To do that, you need to bundle up nice and closely, however grudgingly. No, killing your threadmate and cuddling the body doesn't count.
☀ STEP FOUR: Keep 'em warm! Hot cocoa, hot coffee, hot tea, hot mustard, or other suitably warming beverages will be provided if you cooperate.
☀ STEP FIVE: Lulz ensue!

((Basically just a winter-themed cuddle meme, with evil ideas from Shae and Col. Add some cuddle urges in the air if your characters won't otherwise cooperate but you want them to.))

Comments

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Aww crap! My pages are frozen together!

[The book is lying helpless and feeble in a pile of snow and ice.]

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara is pretty observant when it comes to looking at snow and ice, and upon seeing an all too familiar book here, she picked it up immediately, bringing him to shelter.

"Are you feeling all right, Overlord Zetta?" She was already heating up some water to thaw him out.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I was the most badass freakin' Overlord in the cosmos," Zetta said, his tone a mixture of shock, wonder, and despair. "I had fire for hair, for Magog's sake. Now look at me. Lying flat in a snow pile. Where did I go wrong?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara shook her head. "You became a book. Now hold still."

She carefully started to pour the hot water over him. "Also, people need to learn how to take of literature better. Sorry that you were just left like that."

And she's off to get a towel.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"WAAAAAAAAAGH!"

Cold book plus hot water equals one startled yell. The tome quivered with suprise and shock for a moment, then flapped open and shut. "Ha! I can open again!"

But he can't stand up.

Crap.

"Uh, I guess next time I go out into a snow storm, I need to pick a minion wearing more clothing to carry me."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara raised an eyebrow. "Don't tell me you had that poor minion out here with barely any clothes! I swear, you come from as perverted a world as Negi!"

She rubbed him down with the towel, tutting and picking him up. "Feeling better now, Overlord?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"That's how female warriors dress! I don't control Netherworld fashion!" the book sputtered. "Besides... they are DEMONS, you know. When your world starts using belts as bras I'll sure they'll let you offer opinions on the matter."

He's got some of his bluster back, so he must be feeling better, right? "You've got a pretty strong maternal instinct, don't you?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara snickered. "I'll bet not, but you sure don't seem to mind it either, Mr. perverted Overlord." She was just teasing now, as the only time she remembered him being quite that way was when he was drunk, and even then it was that girl minion that had gotten handsy. Talk about inappropriate.

She shrugged. "I had to take care of my brother and a lot of the village children when the men went to war against the Fire nation. I didn't have a choice. Besides, mom was gone, someone had to do it."

She didn't mention she a) liked it and B) was used to it by now.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hey, my cleric wears robes and you don't see me demanding she strip," Zetta grumbled. "I've gotten an unfair reputation! I haven't even had a CHANCE to do anything perverted since I got stuck as a book! It's no damn fair."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"Thanks goodness," she said, rolling her eyes and starting to dry him down. "But what do you mean you haven't had the chance yet? That means you've been thinking about doing it!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Who would I do it WITH?" Zetta countered. "There's barely anyone of a sensible age on this ship that's worth my time."

He submitted to the drying with all the dignity and grace of a wet, unhappy cat who just wants it over with, now, pleaaaaase.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara scoffed. "I'm sure there has to be a few demons or vampires that are of age. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure it'll be kind of hard to get someone to be with a book that talks about himself all the time."

Yes, she's joking, mostly.

"Can you drink hot chocolate?" she asked him.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Uh, there's Nanashi... Alessa looks like a little girl... aaaaand that's all I know about. Um, maybe Nura, but somehow I don't see THAT happening any time soon."

Zetta tried to think about it some more, and for the hundredth time came to the obvious conclusion: he was pretty much surrounded by adolescent girls.

"Hot... chocolate?" He eyed Katara as if she were insane for suggesting this. "Wouldn't it melt?"

[starbolts]

[Starfire gasped, sweeping up the poor book.]

Are you harmed? Here, we will melt the ice. '[Somehow. She has to be able to build a fire somewhere.]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Harmed? A little snow and ice can't stop the Overlord!

The very... very... very cold Overlord... Holy crap. I've been to the Ymrheim Ice Fields and it wasn't this cold! What the hell kind of weather is this?!

[starbolts]

A blizzard. I fear we will sustain more damage if we do not escape.

[Where should they go? Ah---there. She calls up her powers, blasting a snow cave out of the side of the mountain and rushing them in.]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Good idea, but, uh, won't you get cold if you're not moving?

[Not to mention he's still pretty icy]

[starbolts]

I will move, do not worry.

[Zooming around to start a fire now. There---some scraps from the wilderness and a torn piece of her shirt should help. One blast gets the glowing warmth started. She positions him close enough to warm, but not in any danger of burning.]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

You can start fires with that?

That's actually pretty impressive. I thought they were just generic bolts of energy.

[starbolts]

It is solar energy. If I apply it to a small area and intensify the heat, it will ignite the material.

[She creeps closer to it, curled into a ball for warmth.] Are you defrosting?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Solar energy?

That is so like you. And... I guess it explains the name, too.

Huh.

[The book seemed seriously stunned by this revelation, a blinding flash of the painfully obvious]

Oh -- yeah. [A little flopping, and the book broke open in a shower of frost, then promptly fell over] DAMMIT!

[starbolts]

Starfire laughed, looking quite pleased with herself. It was cold, yes, but she could still hold her own---oh no!

It only took her a second to leap over to Zetta and set him upright. Maybe it would work better if she held him? She tries just that.

"Where have your minions gone?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Damn minion dropped me in the first place," Zetta grumbled. "UnInvited herself. I guess when you wear a belt as a bra, you get cold quicker... Hey, this is warm."

Zetta, living the dream of fanboys everywhere.

[starbolts]

"I would have invited her inside as well," she frowned, adjusting the book comfortably. Starfire shrugged.

"My people have higher body temperatures than humans. We feel chill more easily, but we can also provide warmth."

And be oblivious to how close certain Overlords are to their bodies, others would observe, but she was most concerned with keeping everyone safe at the moment.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Netherworlds have a ton of different temperatures," Zetta said. "Bitter cold to volcano-warm. We demons aren't normally bothered by it... but being a tome kind of sucks."

The bookwas warming up rapidly -- more than one would expect from a simple object.