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driftfleet2018-03-31 12:10 pm
actually112) wrote in driftfleet2018-03-31 12:10 pm
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Action - First Arena
Who: Aang and YOU
Broadcast: None
Action: Red Fish and Planet
When: Right as Aang arrives
Red Fish
[Well, this is definitely not the arena Aang just left. Did they keep him dead and bring him back for another arena?
He's not sure, but he's going to wait until he actually can ask someone he recognizes. In the meantime, this arena seems to have powers, so he's going to take advantage of it.
He grabs a bag--possibly stealing it from someone's room, though it doesn't occur to him that people are really living in individual, undefended rooms--and stuffs it full of any food he recognizes in the kitchen, then any medical supplies that he recognizes in the medical bay, which... is way more than he remembers being able to recognize before.
It takes him a bit before he feels the space behind his ear, discovering a brand new implant in his head.]
Oh come on!
[That's the third time they stuck something in his body without asking!]
Planetside
[Aang doesn't spend much time in the town. He loads up on food and proper desert clothing before heading out into the desert.
He wants to make his own shelter and not depend on what the Capitol has provided. Chances are, something terrible is going to happen to those houses. Once he feels comfortably far away from the town, he drops his bag on the ground and stretches his legs and arms, warming up.
Then he takes a deep breath, centering himself, and then starts blasting the ground with fire.
The sand begins to glow red. Aang manages the heat carefully, keeping it contained or shooting upwards, careful of hurting himself or any animals that may be lurking nearby. As the fire keeps burning, the sand starts melting, and Aang begins bending it with one hand, making it rise and twist into something resembling a cave.
And then he shuts off the fire, a glowing red rough glass shelter left behind. He wipes sweat from his brow and drops into the right posture to start bending the sand to mostly bury the glass, where it will be protected from the sun and camouflaged from other tributes.]
Broadcast: None
Action: Red Fish and Planet
When: Right as Aang arrives
Red Fish
[Well, this is definitely not the arena Aang just left. Did they keep him dead and bring him back for another arena?
He's not sure, but he's going to wait until he actually can ask someone he recognizes. In the meantime, this arena seems to have powers, so he's going to take advantage of it.
He grabs a bag--possibly stealing it from someone's room, though it doesn't occur to him that people are really living in individual, undefended rooms--and stuffs it full of any food he recognizes in the kitchen, then any medical supplies that he recognizes in the medical bay, which... is way more than he remembers being able to recognize before.
It takes him a bit before he feels the space behind his ear, discovering a brand new implant in his head.]
Oh come on!
[That's the third time they stuck something in his body without asking!]
Planetside
[Aang doesn't spend much time in the town. He loads up on food and proper desert clothing before heading out into the desert.
He wants to make his own shelter and not depend on what the Capitol has provided. Chances are, something terrible is going to happen to those houses. Once he feels comfortably far away from the town, he drops his bag on the ground and stretches his legs and arms, warming up.
Then he takes a deep breath, centering himself, and then starts blasting the ground with fire.
The sand begins to glow red. Aang manages the heat carefully, keeping it contained or shooting upwards, careful of hurting himself or any animals that may be lurking nearby. As the fire keeps burning, the sand starts melting, and Aang begins bending it with one hand, making it rise and twist into something resembling a cave.
And then he shuts off the fire, a glowing red rough glass shelter left behind. He wipes sweat from his brow and drops into the right posture to start bending the sand to mostly bury the glass, where it will be protected from the sun and camouflaged from other tributes.]
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She hesitates for a moment.] Do you want to hear more about Luceti? Or would you like to tell me something about where you were. It doesn't have to be a serious something, and we don't have to talk about it right now if you still don't want to.
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[He's too wary to discuss the Capitol on camera, and he doesn't want to make her look at him in that pitiable way again.]
Did you make friends with anyone from other worlds while you were there?
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Most of my friends were from other worlds there. [ Heh. She smiles a little. ] One of them is even here, although she doesn't remember anything about Luceti. Her name is Nami and she's a pirate. At one point, her whole crew was there, and I was friends with most of them. Sanji, he was the cook, he had hair that would always cover one eye. [ She covers her eye with her hand for a moment. ] He was a little... weird about girls, but he was really smart and very kind. Chopper was actually a reindeer! But he had eaten a devil's fruit and that - changed him so that he was more like a person [- than like meat]. In fact, he was a doctor, and he taught me a lot. Brook was there too - he was a skeleton, and that was a little scary at first, but he was a musician, and a swordsman. You should have heard him play, Aang, he was amazing! He taught me how to play the koto... [ and she's sad she has to leave that behind ]. And Luffy, and Zoro, and Robin, and Franky were all there too, at one point. Luffy was their captain, he was [ ...how to describe Luffy ] ...made out of rubber.
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But the descriptions of her friends does make him smile a little bit.]
They sound like a lot of fun. If Luffy was made of rubber, how did he move around without flopping?
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[And she kicked his ass, thank you very much, but it was not an easy spar because Luffy is freakishly fast.] Does that make sense? It's kind of one of the those things you just have to see.
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[Although powers were disabled, it didn't change some of the different bodies people had, and strange powers revealed themselves in certain arenas. Aang still remembers the footage of the small man turning into a giant green monster.]
Capitolites would do really weird things to their bodies with surgery. They had a funny idea of fashion.
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There's another opening she can take, anyway. ]
What were some of your friends like?
[ Because of course Aang had friends. He's Aang. ]
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But he doesn't want to leave Katara hanging. He'll just talk about the friends who aren't in the Capitol's reach anymore... one way or another.]
There was Clementine. [He smiles, but it's a sad smile, not unlike the one he has when he talks to her about people from the Air Temples.] She was cool. She was always taking care of herself in the arenas, and we met up all the time. In her world, all the dead started walking around to eat the living, so the Capitol wasn't so bad for her. She won the game once, but it was only a mini-round, so they didn't count her as a Victor.
And there was Hiccup. He trained dragons where he came from. His people sounded a little like the Water Tribe because they were mostly sea-faring and lived in the middle of the ice and snow, but they rode dragons too. And there was Korra. She was my next life. I'm supposed to be this big waterbender from the Southern Tribe after I die.
And... there was Bucky. [His expression shifts a little bit, but not so much that it's clear why.] He kind of took care of me for a while. He... had a lot of problems, but he was getting better. I didn't mind anymore when I touched him.
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I knew Hiccup in Luceti. He was a Viking and an inventor. He had a prosthetic leg. He was very kind. [ But... speaking about Korra... he sounded so casual about his death and 'next life'. She gives a flicker of a smile. ] And I knew Korra too. That's strange, isn't it?
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[Although his eyebrows go up when she admits to knowing Korra.]
You knew Korra? [He props his head on his fist, his curiosity plain on his face.] What'd you think of her?
[Admittedly, there's some vanity in that question. He hopes Katara liked Korra, because Korra is him, in a way. Just a him that is much more aggressive and also good at metalbending.]
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Korra was living representation of Aang's death.
Korra had been evidence of her future, written in stone, a future where she'd faded away.
Korra had been brash, and arrogant, and powerful. She'd been careless, with her power, with her privilege, with her words. She'd seemed... vulnerable, for all of that, and uncertain.
Truthfully, Katara hadn't gotten to know Korra very well; she'd been too busy dealing with a sudden influx of grandchildren. And so Katara had been careful to not form an opinion on Korra, out of fear that it would be unfair, or negative. ]
Actually, I didn't know her very well. She and Asami lived in a different house; they didn't really come around very often once I'd taught them how to cook. What did you think of her?