"What is it something like Solar Flare? Keep it to one word or people will probably end up abbreviating it."

Iggy giggled and shook his head in response, "Nope! It's not Solar Flare, though, that would be a cool name. Close though!" Aiden was certainly in the right ball park.

At the coming snowball, Ignacio shielded his face from another mouth shot and laughed more.

"You're going to tell me whether or not I want to know, aren't you."

"Nope! I give you two more chances, then I'm going to tell you!"

Well, at least he wasn't going for the most obvious. It was still probably something really blunt and tactless, though. "So, what, if I don't guess then you won't tell me?? And then maybe they'd stop all this weirdness.

...

Except then he'd have to go back into the heat. Ugh. "Glowing Solar Weirdo." That was one. "Or Sunspot." Which made him think of a stereotypical pet dog. A mutt with patches of colour. Which had nothing to do with Iggy, except maybe the stereotypical sunniness. "Or Sunny. But people would just think that was your legal name."

"Nope, nope, and nope. It does involve the Sun, though!"

Iggy chuckled at all of the tries. They were all solid (except for the first one) and decided to give him a couple of hints."

"Think Sun god, but not the obvious ones like Apollo or Sol," and here was the second hint, "also think the Southwestern Hemisphere."

"If it didn't involve the sun, you'd have to be a lot more subtle," Aiden muttered, and lobbed another snowball at Iggy. Even if he seemed to go out of his way to make sure that he got hit in the mouth. See? Weird. Tons of proof that Iggy was weird. "Apollo's a sun god?" Also know as mythology wasn't Aiden's strong suit.

"I really don't know, Iggy. And I'm starting to think I won't recognize it even when you do get around to telling me."

>> "If it didn't involve the sun, you'd have to be a lot more subtle,"

Iggy was about to say something snarky to Aiden until a snow ball came hurling at him. "Hey!" The teenager then giggled and threw a baseball sized of multicolored light at Aiden.

>> "Apollo's a sun god?"

"Who's Apollo?! You don't know who Apollo is?!" Ignacio couldn't believe this! "He's one of the most famous Greek gods ever!" Iggy threw another ball of light at Aiden as punishment.

>> "I really don't know, Iggy. And I'm starting to think I won't recognize it even when you do get around to telling me."

With an eye roll, Ignacio decided to tell him, "since the hints aren't working, I will have to tell you," he cleared his throat and spoke, "It's Tontiuah, the Aztec god of the Sun and Tollan. Look it up when your frosty-grump face gets a chance."

Iggy's aim wasn't bad, but Aiden had been training for all sorts of 'combat' for years, and he'd have to be faster, more predictive, and altogether more subtle. He might also have a better chance of hitting Aiden if they weren't in so much snow... and if Aiden weren't looking to risk splitting himself apart by getting hit by a projectile of uncertain properties. Iggy clearly didn't consider it dangerous, but there was a psychological component to the secondary shift (or, rather, it was mostly psychological).

"I've heard the name. I just don't do a lot of mythology stuff." Especially old European mythology. Honestly, right now the first thing creeping to mind at 'Apollo' was 'Apollonius.' Which... did also reference sun. Sort of. In a weird pollinating butterfly robot angel way. ANYWAY.

Iggy's next shot came a little closer to where Aiden was heading, and he rolled sideways to avoid it, briefly vanishing in a rush of snow fluffed up from the ground. Out of the flurries flew a practiced-blind shot. Aiden's eyes didn't exactly work better in snow than anyone else's; he was just usually up against people with significantly less camouflage that himself. "Sounds impressive, but like I said..."

...

"Frosty grump face?"

Ignacio scoffed and put his hand up to Aiden for him to stop talking. There was no explaining himself out of that one. "And I bet you don't know who Zeus is either, huh?" He teased as he let his hand drop to his side.

"Yes, Frosty grump face. That's your codename." And that was that. The teenager turned to look at the ground with what looked to be a pout on his face. "...I can make myself look like him." He mumbled underneath his breath, but loud enough for Aiden to hear.

Aiden sighed and sort of just looked at Iggy. "I'm not an idiot. Zeus is another god. The top god for that.. group of deities." Slightly better than just claiming to know him, but probably not enough to convince Iggy. "And basically every other one around was either his kid or he slept with them." It was that or try to figure out what he remembered about something or someone springing forth from his forehead, okay? Now it was really time to change the subject.

"Too long," he said automatically, "And unprofessional. Besides, you'll have to beat 'Ai' for comm speed and clarity."

Uh. Had the topic change gone into awkward territory or something? Aiden at least had enough experience with crushing awkwardness to potentially recognize maybe symptoms of it in others, but that in no way meant he had any fricking clue what to do about it. Uuummmmm. Er. Well. "Hey, if you have a clear code name, go for it."

He sucked at reassuring other people. So much.

>> "I'm not an idiot. Zeus is another god. The top god for that.. group of deities."

"The Olympians, Aiden!" Ignacio huffed and folded his arms over his chest and pouted more. Does Aiden live under a frosted rock or something? Then Iggy remembered that Aiden spent a year in Alakada, but still! He had to learn about them in school at some point. "...Humph, at least you know a little something." He mumbled underneath his breath.

Iggy fought for a second, "Frost." He deadpanned.

He was going to "go for it". "...I will!"

Olympians? He probably shouldn't voice his hesitation, though, or Iggy would get all flustered and frustrated again. "Mythology really wasn't big when I was in high school, okay. And it's been a few years since I've had anything to do with it."

...

...

"Sam can make frost, but I don't actually push the temperature much below freezing when I work. Just cold enough to snow. This cold is all from the Danger Room." Not that Frost was actually bad as a code name. It just felt... like it wasn't quite the right fit. It implied a different sort of cold association, he supposed. He did snow. But Snow was a really bad code name option. Too short and simple, and too likely to come up in conversation. Potentially distracting.

Hm. He hadn't really put much thought into this in... a long while. When had he settled into not having a formal, fitting code name?

Ignacio playfully rolled his eyes at Aiden and placed his hands on his waist. "Yeah, yeah. Excuses, excuses."

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So, Aiden didn't like the code names that Iggy was giving him? That was fair, he guessed, but he wasn't about to give up now! "Permafrost! Snow! At least help me out here, Aiden!"