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WHO Aaron
BROADCAST Fleetwide video
ACTION aboard the Marsiva
WHEN February 17th
WARNING actually a twelve year old, also please check permissions

This is all some kind of trick, right?

[ Hello, Drift Fleet. There's currently a very comfortable-looking young man on one of the Marsiva's hospitality couches eating some of the bland processed food and looking at the communicator that is obviously placed next to his plate on the coffee table in front of him. Comfortable-looking, maybe, but twitchy. ]

We're on a television show, in space, and that is very cool, yes. But it's a trick. Maybe we're actually in space, but we're stuck and I don't get stuck. So this is obviously some kind of... master plan by the government trying to cage people in. Forced labor or something.

[ The last part is mumbled as he eats more, chews, swallows. Takes a long drink from his cup. ]

What's the catch?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Yep. We've got people from all over, here.

What kinds of worlds? How many? What kind of war? Tell me more than just that.

I don't know, ask yourself, do a survey, or something. We've got a lot of people in the Fleet, now. I don't know everybody's life story.

The war I'm dealing with is just in my world. Long story short, one nation decided it was better than all the other nations and had a hostile takeover. We're trying to reclaim the balance. [There's so much more to it than that, but Sokka's applying some caution, until he knows the guy better.]

That's pretty lame. You don't have any idea the kind of people that are here? They could be from anywhere.

What kind of balance?

I know who my crew are, that's what's important.

As in, everyone living equally. No more war. No more terror.

Your crew? And no one else.

How's that going so far?

I know a couple of other people, those I've made friends with.

We haven't achieved it, yet. We have to defeat the Fire Lord, first.

[ Beat. ]

You guys are really bad at names, aren't you?

What do you mean? He's the lord of the Fire Nation. Fire Lord.

Yeah, but Fire Nation. Why doesn't it have a name? That's just what it is, right?

Fire Nation is the name. It's the name of their nation. It's like Water Tribe or Earth Kingdom, or Air Nomads. We've got this whole...elemental theme going on.

But, like... names. Like America or England or Russia or Australia or Italy or Mexico or France. Names.

...Are those names of people or places? Because I've never heard any of those.

Places! See, you don't name places after what they are, you just give them names.

We have places in the different kingdoms, you know.

Are they just as boring?

You say that like any of the names you just gave me aren't.

At least they've got personality.

So have ours. I'm getting a whiff of superiority off you and honestly? It's not endearing.

[ There's an eye roll to that. ]

It's just silly. What kind of places are they, anyway? Is the Fire Nation full of volcanoes or fire rain or something?

[ This is genuine curiosity here, do not disappoint him. ]

Whatever, man.

It has some volcanoes? But it's named after the people who live there. Some people in my world can bend the elements. The people of the Fire Nation can bend fire. Uh...that means they can create and control it? Like a weapon.

It's all...WATCHA!!! [He waves his hands in a motion he's seen Zuko do countless times before. Nothing happens, of course.] And stuff.