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Oh the weather outside is frightful...

☀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.))

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"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?"

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.

"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."

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?"

"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?"

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.

"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."

"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!"

"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.

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.

"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?"

Katara was NOT expecting to know the names of some of the people he mentioned, but at the very least she heard enough about some of them to discuss.

"Well, Nanashi is sort of hard to place, when it comes to who she's attracted to," Katara admitted. "That Alessa, I heard she has someone, but I don't know who since I don't know much about her. As for Nura, well...she's pretty active. You might have a shot, I'm not sure."

She looked confused. "I don't think so. It's liquid."

"Liquid chocolate?"

He's still pretty baffled by the very idea.

"And, yeah, you see the discerning demon doesn't have a lot of choices on the ship."

"Yes, Katara said, and to demonstrate, she poured a bit down Zetta's "mouth."

She shrugged. "At least you know what that feeling is like. I'm still starting to understand all of that, honestly. It's very complicated."

"Hey! That's GOOD!"

Zetta's eyes lit up like rarely before as he licked his lips.

"...what feeling, lust? That's pretty instinctive. You just... do what comes naturally, it tends to be right."

"I thought so too," Katara said, smacking her own lips. "It's nice and frothy and tastes really good going down."

Here, Katara blushed. "Well that's...I mean, I guess, but its not like you ever would know when it's the right time to do such a thing, or how to even talk about it. It's so...private, you know?"

"Yeah, you humans get that all complicated with love, and romance, and stuff, don't you?" Zetta made an exaggerated face. "Not for us demons! We don't do 'love' and all that! Not for us. Hell, living alone is best!"

He'll say it repeatedly to make sure there's no misunderstanding here. No room for doubt! None!

Katara sighed. Yes, she should have known better than to even mention something like this to the Overlord. Chances were that he'd simply brush it off as something human, and when it came to this kind of thing she simply needed to get an honest opinion about what she was doing.

"I don't think I'd like living alone too much," she commented. "I like company."

"Well, THAT particular sort of feeling is a me thing, not a demon thing... well, maybe a powerful demon thing." Zetta was attempting to articulate concepts that required a modicum of thought, so forgive him his difficulty in doing so. "When you're in the top leagues -- or on top of the top leagues," he interjected smugly, "everyone is either so much weaker than you, or a rival. I can still be on social terms with, say, Pram the Oracle, or Micky, but if they knew what kind of mess I was in right now, they'd be breaking down the door to try and beat... me....."

Zetta trailed off, looking downright alarmed. A new and shocking thought had occurred to him: WOULD they?

Katara wasn't quite sure what the Overlord was talking about at this point, although she was getting bits and pieces of it.She could see, however, that he was quietly internalizing something, and whatever it was seemed to have shaken him up a little bit. She looked over, a little concerned.

"I'm sure they would be trying to beat you. You are an Overlord still, right?"

"Hyaa ha ha ha ha! And they'd fail!" Of course they'd be trying to take him down! Pram might watch in amusement rather than participating, but everyone else -- how could they resist what they'd surely think was a helpless target!

"That's the rule of the Netherworlds! The strong survive and the weak fall! And no one's stronger than Zetta!"

Emotional growth -- AVERTED!

She would have put her face in her hands if she could right now. Ah well...it was just as well. Thinking about what he said and being thoughtful about his place didn't fit Overlord Zetta anyway. He was too...wily?

"How's Ruffnut doing?"

"Awesome. Those new lightning powers are kickass." And she's got a friend, Zetta didn't mention, because he wasn't entirely certain if that was a good thing. Still, there's unquestioned pride in his voice as he continues. "She is the best apprentice I've ever had."

"Lightning?!" That did throw Katara for a loop. Not that she minded that Ruffnut could do that, but was that something that she just was able to do, or was it something she acquired on the ship? "Did you teach her that? Huh."

She grinned. "Oh, I saw that enthusiasm in her when we first met. She's pretty amazing!"

"Matt did. After that whole anger virus thing, he described that sort of thing and it sounded like something she could handle." Zetta knew, after all, that Ruffnut didn't have too much torque in the gears in her head. Not that he cared, or that it mattered for his purposes; after all, brains were clearly not a requirement for "strongest Overlord in the cosmos".

"There aren't many humans that'd make a good demon, but she's one."

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