Fates are rather vague things. We can't write them to much detail of course, because if we did, wouldn't we become omnipotent gods who could control everyone's life; even the life of MiM? Wait; now that I think of it, MiM doesn't really have a fate. He can't just die, right?

A fate is just like a template for a person's life.
It has the basic essential information, such as the year they were born in, their gender, family background, whether they'll have kids or not and so on and so forth. But it doesn't control their personality, their favourite colour, whether they'll TP the grumpy old lady's house on Halloween night. That's up to their soul to complete. Think of it as a colouring book, with fate being the printed lines and your soul being the colour that fills it.

Jackson Overland requested to change his sister's fate in exchange for his life. It was a noble thing to do, really, to choose not to sacrifice others. So I (recklessly) took matters into my own hands, and rewrote his fate so that he could become Jack Frost, and later, to become a Guardian. He was suited to the job , with his fun loving personality and all. He doesn't need to be just treated as a lesson for future generations of children to always check whether the ice is thick enough, he can be the one who ensures that. Taadaa! It's a foolproof plan; don't you think so?

I thought so too, for a good 301 years, until today.

There must be the same amount of despair created for every good thing that happens. That's the most basic rule of everything in life. Even I reminded Jack of that before I rewrote his fate.
But why. Why was I so caught up until I forgot to consider the implications of making Jack a Guardian?

"You were the one who started this, so this will be your problem to solve." Atropos said with disdain. "Make your decision by tonight, or we'll do it for you."

"Kill a Guardian." they said. "Kill off a Guardian to make room and space for the one you created. Balance the joy of getting a new guardian with removing an existing one."

Oh how did I get into this mess. How could I be so stupid.

I watched as they lighted up the candles and gathered in a circle, mourning the loss of Sandman. I didn't ask for this, I didn't want this to happen. But I had to.
North was out of the question. He had the sleigh and everything. Tooth needed to be there for Jack's memories. And Bunny? They needed all the firepower they could get. Sandman, he was the one that was truly at a disadvantage. Having his own craft manipulated and turned against him, what a horrible tragedy.

When you have the power to control things that I can, you can't personally take the blame of your mistakes cause you're far too important to lose. You'll have to bring forward your punishment on to someone else.

I wasn't expecting Sandy to reappear just like that out of the Nightmare Sand.
But I guess that it was the purity of Jamie and his friends that cleansed the black sand, causing it to return to its original form.

I was happy for all of them, seeing that they're all back together. But I'm still wondering, if killing Sandy wasn't a bad thing, seeing that he came back with more power than ever,then wouldn't I have to create more despair to balance out the more good that I have created?

Hi! So I'm sorry for the really short, lackluster chapter and the long time it took me to upload this but I really had a lot of things going on this week and not enough inspiration :
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