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What if ice emperor but ice king flavored

Zane’s funny switch got damaged at some point so his emperor self is much more animated and unpredictable. When Vex tried to manipulate him after taking the throne Zane froze him for being a buzzkill

While not trying to genocide the residents of the nether realm he’s still generally cruel towards them and apathetic to their needs like “food” and “shelter. He freezes anyone who displeases him and uses their frozen bodies as interior decor

Humans are especially worthless to him, they’re so fragile but don’t even have a cool power like formlings

Has a fascination with ninja and is delighted to find out about Lloyd at first, even wants to meet him personally. But the more green boy insists he needs to stop playing snow dictator the less amusing he finds the situation

Randomly calls things by the ninja’s names, typically animals or ice creatures he’s created

Prone to angry outbursts and bouts of uncontrollable laughter. Bro thinks he’s the funniest thing since sliced bread

Boreal is more of a giant puppy to him, sort of his parallel to gunter

Body parts and smaller stuff like screws fall off all the time, to which he just puts it back on with some ice

AU where Dumbledore’s Army uses the Chamber of Secrets instead of the Room of Requirement

Ultimate security as Harry is the only one capable of opening it. 

Myrtle proudly spending her time acting as a guard/lookout. 

Later, Harry diligently teaching Ron, Hermione, and a few choice others, like Neville, how to mimic parseltongue so that they can open it too. 

Muggleborns experiencing vicious satisfaction that they’re using this chamber as a place of education and defense, reclaiming the very space Slytherin built to rid the school of their presence. 

Hermione methodically dismantling the basilisk’s corpse, covertly selling the priceless ingredients to potion masters, using the funds to continue their work - buying books and battle robes and new wands for those who can’t afford it. 

(Hermione saving a portion of those ingredients for her own research, straightening in triumph when she learns what basilisk venom does to horcruxes, knowing she has vials of it hidden up in her room). 

Harry reverently adding the Chamber of Secrets to the Marauder’s Map, proudly continuing his family’s work and reveling in the difference they’re making. 

These students - these kids - choosing to train in a dark, horrifying place that was never meant for them. Learning spells amongst shadows, growing stronger in inches of murky water, the smell of a decomposing corpse in their noses, memories of all that had happened here haunting them. They know this is what war is really like and it helps to push them forward.