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[treasureling]

Who: Malak
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: On the Marsiva
When: 1/29

I - this is - [ Very clean. Very strange. Very frightening. But that he knows how to use this contraption must mean he is meant to be here.

He stops in front of the large windows. ]

Is this the realm of the Gods?

Where are my daughters?

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Where I come from, men take care of the children.

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Don't men not have a really important thing that babies kind of need? You know, that only women can give?

[treasureling]

Nursing doesn't last a baby's whole life.

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Well, no. But the women still do the raising. It's just how it is.

[treasureling]

It doesn't seem fair. Women already carry the child for nine months and then nurse her.

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I never said it was fair, it's just how it is. You don't have to tell me how capable women are. Most of the women closest to me are fighters.

[Though, he knows, a year ago he would have been different. He's grown, since then, seen the world, changed. He's a better person than the short-sighted little boy who grew up away from everything.]

[treasureling]

Then why is it how it is? None of you make any sense.

[alwayscomeback]

I don't know, it just is. Tradition, y'know?

[treasureling]

[ He takes a breath. Because he does know, and he's getting angry not because he doesn't understand but because it's all so unfamiliar and it makes him panicky. He would rather just be at the forge. He would rather be the calm and quiet one. ]

I'm sorry.

[alwayscomeback]

It's okay, man. It's hard, coming here and finding everyone comes from a different world to yours.

I think it's pretty cool you've got the ladies as warriors. My girlfriend? She comes from a whole group of women warriors, and I sure as heck wouldn't want to cross any of them.

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I - I don't know how it would work, otherwise.

Men are so emotional.

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Wait...so women don't get emotional at all?

[treasureling]

Women are steadier. Men get angry.

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[Yeah he is just going to laugh, loudly. ]

Wow, you should never meet my sister.

[treasureling]

I didn't say women never get angry.

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Katara is angry like...eighty per cent of the time.

[treasureling]

And would you ever tell her that she's like most women?

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Not if I want to keep my face, no.

[treasureling]

[ This makes him snort, a little. ]

I've known warriors like that. I think a close friend of mine was like that, once.

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Katara definitely is. You never want to get on her bad side. [Not even going to talk about how she can turn your body into a fricken PUPPET. He is endlessly glad Katara is as freaked out about her Blood Bending as everyone else is.]

[treasureling]

I'd try not to.

[alwayscomeback]

If she ever shows up, you can thank me for warning you.