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]

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.