Solid Water
"...It's ice. It's literally ice. I'm the god of ice, and you're surprised I made ice? What is wrong with you people?" -Vein, the god of ice, during the incident where the term 'solid water' was first coined.
Properties
Material Characteristics
Cold and clear, with a shimmering celeste core. It can come in any shape, but it is often a sphere or a cube.
Physical & Chemical Properties
Can freeze anything around it, cold to the touch, gives off a cool mist, and melts over time.
Compounds
Water. It isn't solid water if it isn't water. It's just that material but frozen.
Origin & Source
Solid water is most commonly found in Vein's room; he doesn't make it for anyone but Echinacea anymore after the initial freakout. Sometimes a piece or two will be randomly found around The Godship, but no one really knows where they come from. It's a fun scavenger hunt at this point.
History & Usage
History
Once upon a time, when the Cosmos was still fairly young, Vein and a few other gods, admittedly not the brightest, sat around a table, discussing matters of a dying planet that had lasted much shorter than expected. Quietly listening, Vein poured around an eighth of his water glass into one of his hands, formed it into a small brick, and froze it. As the glow of magically created ice began to show, one of the oldest gods present stood, pointed at the ice brick, of which Vein was making a miniature igloo with, and shouted that Vein had made 'solid water'. Not even Vein's protests could change their minds, and the term caught on, even with the older gods (who were, admittedly, still young in terms of the Godship now).
For a long time after that, Vein refused to create ice for anyone, forcing the gods who wanted ice to figure out how to make it the mortal way. Eventually, Echinacea came to Vein, asking him to place food in stasis in the coming weeks of and provide ice for the first, and future, occurrences of The Feast, specifically its drinks and some of its food items (albeit that list was much shorter than those of the drinks). The reasoning? All the freezers on the Godship, including the personal ones, could barely hold a fraction of the food she was creating, and the food and drinks would look much fancier and prettier all aglow. In exchange, Echinacea promised she would stop calling Vein's glowing ice solid water (a term she'd loathed in the first place), list it on menus as ice, and try to convince every god she could that it was ice, not solid water. Such a deal was impossible for Vein to refuse. Unfortunately, even though there was an incredible attempt made, the final promise Echinacea made failed horribly.
Hazards
All the dangers that come with ice, although light being temporarily burned into your eyes if you look directly at it has been added.
Reusability & Recycling
When it melts, it's just water. It can be frozen again by Vein or a freezer, but it won't have the signature glow of solid water if it is a freezer who did the task.

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