Being Jack Ryder’s roommate after he got kicked out of his old apartment for ‘rowdy behaviour’ certainly has its idiosyncrasies.
Most of which is due to his only mildly psychotic alter ego, The Creeper.
The others have to do with the man’s frankly insane obsession with barely toasted toast. It’s barely warm when he pulls it out of the toaster, and that's frankly far more disturbing than whatever the Creeper can think up.
Usually, the Creeper stays in Jack’s head during the day, and then leaps out the window four out of seven nights of the week to do whatever it is that the Creeper does.
Apparently, it’s ‘fight crime with pizzazz and the fervour only an insane person can muster’ but you’re sure he mostly just goes out to raid the bins of pastry shops like some sort of feral raccoon.
Tonight is one of Jack’s nights, but around near midnight, you’re woken up by a crash, and run out to see what’s going on.
Only to find the Creeper, in all his red scarved, green superhero style underwear, green-haired and weirdly yellow-skinned glory, trying to unlatch the window with the most manic expression you’ve ever seen.
It’s a little scary, until he finally manages to unlatch the window, jumps out… And sort of rolls around in the snow, giggling like he’s trying to do a bad Joker impression.
“Snow! Snow! Snow!” The Creeper chants, making a snow angel and jumping up to try and catch snowflakes on his tongue, only to turn back into a very cold, very annoyed Jack, who thankfully looks like an actual human being and is dressed as such.
He shivers all the way back to the door, slamming it shut and barely giving you a glance.
“Don’t you dare say a thing,” Jack grumbles, shaking like a leaf as he collapses on the couch.
He sneezes, and the Creeper decides that now is a great time to wrangle back control, but the Creeper sneezes too, and blinks at his hands.
His hands that are turning an alarming shade of frostbite™ red, as are his toes.
Well. You didn’t know the Creeper could get frostbite, but you suppose it can’t be avoided when you go out wearing nothing but a scarf and a modesty cloth in sub-zero temperatures.