#permafrost

Takes place after season 11, everything is the same as in the show with the exception of the Ice Emperor’s conscience living in Zane’s head and Zane can give him control of their body (kinda like split personality disorder mixed with possession)

They can have conversations with each other in their head and have different opinions about things, Zane is more of a pacifist who sees violence as a last resort while the Ice Emperor jumps to violence and fear tactics to achieve his goals. However, they both agree that P.I.X.A.L is the most perfect woman they’ve ever seen and both adore her. Zane sees his girlfriend as the love of his life while the Ice Emperor sees P.I.X.A.L as the woman that he will make into his future Empress. (Zane is more adoring and considerate towards P.I.X.A.L, and the Ice Emperor is more possessive and demanding towards P.I.X.A.L, seeing her as something to take for himself.)

Zane tries to keep it a secret at first but during an instance where Zane lets the Ice Emperor have control of their shared body for some enrichment, P.I.X.A.L comes to talk to Zane and gets pinned against a wall by the Ice Emperor who is acting a lot more creepy than Zane and commands P.I.X.A.L to become the Ice Empress and rule by his side. Zane takes control back of the body, immediately scolds the Ice Emperor, and then has to explain the situation to P.I.X.A.L.

P.I.X.A.L is shocked at this revelation but reassures Zane that he won’t have to go through this alone and will stay by his side. (Much to the relief of Zane and the excitement of the Ice Emperor)

So the rest of the original show and dragon’s rising is the same as canon except Zane and the Ice Emperor share a body. P.I.X.A.L and the Ice Emperor slowly have more interactions and through trial and error, the Ice Emperor learns how to appropriately and respectfully behave towards P.I.X.A.L. And so P.I.X.A.L continues to date Zane while eventually also starting to simultaneously date the Ice Emperor. Zane uses the pet name “My Love” for P.I.X.A.L while the Ice Emperor uses the pet name “My Empress” for P.I.X.A.L.

Eventually the rest of the team finds out and are horrified but P.I.X.A.L and Zane promise that they’ve got the Ice Emperor under control (most of the time at least).

During the episode: Return of the Ice Emperor, Zane is unconscious, thus the Ice Emperor has full and unrestricted control of Zane’s body. P.I.X.A.L rescues him and on the bus, he still makes the comment about tossing them in the dungeon, but he only makes the comment towards Ronin, Ultraviolet, Killow, and Fugi Dove. When P.I.X.A.L tells her father to ignore him and that he needs repair, the Ice Emperor tries to pull the “you are my future Empress and you will obey me” card but one sharp glare from P.I.X.A.L shuts him up. The crystal zombie virus suppresses both Zane and the Ice Emperor.

After Crystalized but before the Merge, P.I.X.A.L and Zane get married and P.I.X.A.L includes the Ice Emperor in her vows as well, legally marrying Zane while also non-legally marrying the Ice Emperor.

During Dragon’s Rising, Zane is still depressed about P.I.X.A.L being missing, but is more aggressive due to the Ice Emperor not caring about the missions or stopping the Mergequakes and just wants to find “his Empress”.

When P.I.X.A.L is found in season three, and Rampton makes the comment about P.I.X.A.L being his property because he stole her fair and square, the Ice Emperor reply’s with “you dare to take the Ice Emperor’s bride, foolish mortal?!”

The Forbidden Five can sense the evil in Zane and try to recruit the Ice Emperor but the Ice Emperor shuts them down saying that “the Titanium Ninja might work with a team, but the Ice Emperor works alone.”

In season four, Zane’s dragon form is more icy.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. I can’t decide between the two names I came up with for the AU.

The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops. But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot, at least by Arctic standards. Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the vault flooded as permafrost melted, though the seeds weren’t impacted.

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some pixane/permafrost doodles based on a previous post :) (here)