Video

[alwayscomeback]

Who: Sokka and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Blue Fish
When: Sunday 5th

[Sokka keeps tabs on his crew a lot, but there's a few scant people outside of the Blue Fish he absolutely tried to check up on as and when he can. After the...weird hyperactivity effects he'd experienced wore off, he made to check up on exactly one of those people. And his search came up empty.

So, he turns on the video, stepping out of one of the shuttles and heading through the hallways of the Blue Fish, heading to the bridge]

I'm not sure who she knew all that much, so I'm making this public in case anyone's missed it and gets worried about her.

[He flops down into his captain's chair with a heavy sigh. This sucks.]

Korra's gone. Home, hopefully. Which is probably a better thing for her. Important Avatar business and all that.

[And then there was one. Again.]

Comments

[steeledskin]

[ -- like old prophecies of salt and smoke! sansa's eyes widen (just a little) but she manages to nod. she manages to accept, even if only in abstract, what sokka is telling her. ]

Tell me. Is she Aang? I do not understand. Does he become her?

[alwayscomeback]

I...yeah, kind of. I mean, she's her own person, too. But she's connected to Aang too, and all the other Avatars before them.

[Wow he hopes he's explaining this on any level of sanity and doesn't sound like a crazy person. ]

The Avatar can talk to their past lives- when they go into this trance. Ask their advice on things.

[steeledskin]

How fortuitous for them. [ that they should have a wealth of experience to call upon, should they need it. sansa isn't certain she believes it all -- not perfectly -- but she knows she'll get nowhere if she's stubborn and argumentative. ] So seeing her is at least a little like seeing your dear friend again.

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka isn't a hundred percent certain he completely believes it, either, and he's witnessed it. It's a bit much for anyone. ]

A little, yeah. She was familiar, but not at the same time. It was super weird.

[steeledskin]

I can't even imagine it. [ that's true, at least. sansa thinks of all the people she's ever cared about -- and then about the possibility of meeting them again, but in another's body. it sounds like something out of a dream.

or a mummer's tale. ] Is she brave and honourable like your friend was? Because she is the Avatar, too?

[ -- with a whole world depending on her. ]

[alwayscomeback]

She is! I mean, she's always willing to help people who need it. I'm pretty sure that's always an Avatar thing.

[It's strange to think of Aang in the past tense. He's fine, alive, back home. But one day...well, one day, that won't be the case, and it seems they'll all be alive for that. He kind of dreads it. Best not to dwell too much on it.]

[steeledskin]

-- Which do you suppose comes first? I wonder if one is helpful and brave first, and therefore they are the Avatar -- or whether being one makes a person helpful and brave. [ ... ] Do they take oaths, like knights?

[alwayscomeback]

They don't take oaths...I don't think? I mean, Aang said they decide if someone's the Avatar by bringing them a set of toys. the Avatar always picks these old toys that were owned by their previous lives...or something.

I don't quite get it all, it's a bit out of my depth.

[Far too much MAGIC involved, for him. ]

[steeledskin]

-- Toys?

[ she understands how today might be difficult for sokka. and yet she still can't quite hide her disdain. ] What should playthings have to do with such a calling? Such a duty?

[alwayscomeback]

I really wish I knew. Something about their past lives connection? It's weird.

I mean, they do check to see if the Avatar can bend all the elements, maybe it's to see if the connection to the past lives is still there? To know for sure?

[He shrugs. ]

I honestly don't understand half the Avatar stuff I've been told. It's insane.

[steeledskin]

I imagine a child might just as easily pick the 'right' toys by accident. [ children are like that, she presumes. ] But, as you say, they check for -- the elements.

[ 'bending' is much like witchcraft to her, too, so she avoids addressing it head-on. ]

[alwayscomeback]

That's what I always thought. But who knows, honestly? It's all weirdo spirit-y Avatar stuff. Not the kind of thing I get into all that much. I'm there to swing a sword and make the plans. I leave the weird stuff to the rest of them.

[steeledskin]

It must require you to put a great deal of faith in them. In Aang, and in Korra.

[alwayscomeback]

It does. Not all the world has that faith, but the Avatar can't let that stop them trying to bring some peace to the world, even when people stand against them. They're always gonna be needed.

[steeledskin]

-- What do they do when kings and lords oppose them?

[alwayscomeback]

Do what's right, from what I've seen with Aang. He usually tries to remain as neutral as he can.

[steeledskin]

Such neutrality must come at great risk to their own safety. Kings care so little for those who refuse to take sides.

[alwayscomeback]

Boy do they. I mean, it's good that we have a strong ally in the Fire Lord, and my dad's a pretty big deal in the South Pole, so he has at least two leaders on his side. Yay for him.

[steeledskin]

[ that's right. sokka and katara's father is a chieftain -- a leader. which makes sokka, by extension, an heir and political figure in his own right. sometimes, she forgets it. but when she remembers it makes her smile. ]

Are there any who oppose him?

[alwayscomeback]

[And soon, when he goes home, Sokka will learn his father has an even stronger claim- to the whole South itself. For better or...possibly worse. ]

Aang? Sometimes, but that's just unavoidable. He does what he can for peace.