[ open ] .002 though I am empty, I still warn the sailors on their way

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Who: Katara
Broadcast: Written, Video
Action: Yes! Blue Fish and Planet
When: Message sent Monday, midmorning. Some backdated shuffle action.

[After giving it some thought, Katara decided to make an open network post. She wanted to write it out, but as part of her habit from living with Toph, she decided to both transcribe and say it aloud:]

I want to thank the person who put the memorial into place. If you get in touch with me, I can help you get the number to fill in.

I know that a lot of us have been pretty impacted by what we found here. I don’t know how long we’re usually on a planet, but I was thinking… it might be good to have some kind of remembering ceremony by the memorial? It feels important to find a way to show honor to the lives that were lost here. I don’t know what kind of funeral rites they would have preferred, and there’s no way to respectfully move them, so… maybe some fire and some music? Does anyone have any ideas?

I know that this might not be for them as much as it is for us, but… I think that’s important too.

(OOC: Please feel free to threadjack all up in this conversation; Katara would like to make this a community effort, because it feels like it’s something that’s needed to her.)



[The confetti is still as annoying as the last time it happened, but Katara is happy to be on her brother’s ship. She’ll want to wander around and meet everyone, though no doubt Sokka will soon join her to give her an Official Tour. (Did she really need to know every single detail about the ship and all its history? Probably not, but now she does, unless someone saves her.) She’ll spend some time in the kitchen and try to figure out what she needs to bring up from the planet, and then do the same thing in her new room.

Before she heads back down to the planet, she’s going to try to linger long enough to meet everyone.]


[Since the Blue Fish will likely be her permanent home as long as she’s on the fleet, that means that Katara will be doing what she can to take advantage of the free… everything. Her first stop is a hardware store where she picks up a wheelbarrow and several cans of water-based paint. The color - some shade of blue, though she wants something a little lighter too. She’ll be there pondering over choices for a bit.

She also has no qualms about stealing a good idea from the Vanquish when she sees it, and will pick up a chalkboard for the kitchen there as well. She spends a long time staring at a small electrically powered fountain for noise, trying to decide whether or not to get it. For now, she walks away.]

Hmm… maybe I should get different chair too?

[So feel free to find her, either at the hardware store or wheelbarrowing her way back to the shuttles! After dropping the paint off in the cargo hold, she’ll return once more to the planet for a bunch of canned fruits and vegetables and rice… and maybe go back for that fountain.]

Comments

blue fish.

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[If there's one thing Thor picked up in his time on Earth, it's that coffee is a fine beverage. It's worked its way into his daily routine at this point. He considers it a stroke of good fortune that there's plenty of actual coffee he can take from the planet, and he's already stashed a bunch of it into the kitchen.

He's on his way in there to make himself a cup when he comes across Katara poking through the cupboards.]

-- good morning! Here for a visit?

blue fish.

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[Oh! Thor! In Sokka's explanation about everything, he had mentioned that Thor was on the Blue Fish, hadn't he? Maybe? Probably.

She turns from the cabinet, balance ever-so-slightly off, and smiles at him. It feels a little strange - maybe she should have stayed on the Vanquish? But she didn't want to. So...] Actually, I transferred in today. I wanted to be on Sokka's ship.

[I hope that's not a problem. I hope that it's okay. I hope...

Ugh, this felt awkward.]

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[Thor evidently has no problem with it, because he looks pleased at the news.]

Really? Then I should be saying welcome instead.

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[It is strange for her to move in with strangers deliberately; strangers who are her brother's family. They have never had such separate families before. So Thor's welcome is a balm.]

Thanks. I'm a.. cook, apparently. [She makes a small face at that; she understands the necessity, but she worked too hard to become a master waterbender for this designation to do anything other than rankle a bit.] So I was just checking to see what the kitchen needed.

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[He just grins; the first time Loki was here, he was assigned as a cook, and Thor still finds it funny to this day.]

Well, we didn't have one of those before, so that's promising.

[Crossing fully into the kitchen, he pulls open the nearest cupboard and retrieves his bag of coffee.]

I know we keep a lot of meat frozen for when we're between planets, and there's the stuff that comes from the taps. [Which, gross. He shakes his head at the idea of it.] Sokka told me to collect things like salt while we're here.

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That's probably because he wants to go hunting and preserve more meat. [She sighs. He'd eat nothing but meat, and quiet happily, for the rest of his life if he could.] But it's good that you stock up for between planets. This, [an annoyed flick of a hand toward her augment] is giving me all kinds of recipes with the protein paste, but I'd rather not use it at all.

[Because. Gross. A glance at Thor.] What kinds of things do you like to eat?

[...let her guess - more meat?]

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The pastes are disgusting. [Said in a tone of friendly agreement. He avoids the pastes whenever he can.] Though they work well enough if we run out of real food. I've eaten worse.

As for me, I like meat as well. It's unfortunate that none of the beasts here are fit to be killed for meat. I don't really want to take the canned stuff from the market.

[Canned meat is an abomination that he would rather didn't exist.]

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Hmm... I mean... There's the "fresh meat" from the supermarkets, but they won't keep long... Unless you have a larger freezer area somewhere? Where's Sokka keeping the meat now?

[And also... They were going to need more than salt. Fruits and vegetables and spices, since they have the option...]

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A few places, I believe. For long term supplies it's better to get dried foods or the like, but we keep frozen meat when we can.

The canned stuff does keep well. I just don't like it much.

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I can't say I've ever had to try canned meat. [Making a small face at that, because Luceti has spoiled her.] ...but I saw a bunch of canned fruits and vegetables there too. It's a good idea to bring some of those on board.

[She smiles at him.] Thanks, Thor.

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I tried it just out of interest. I regret it.

[It tasted like sadness.]

Happy to help! What about you, though? Is there anything you think you need on the ship that we don't have yet?

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Well... the Vanquish had a blackboard in their kitchen where the cook could write what they were making, and a space for people to write what they were allergic to in order to avoid putting in any of those ingredients. I think that's a good idea. And maybe I'd make a space for people to mark off if they were planning on being back for dinner, so I know how much to make.

[She's clearly not thinking of personal things, at the moment, just the most effective way to do her... (sob) job. Not that it's not something she's done all her life. ...it's just that it's something she's done all her life.]

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[Thor raises an eyebrow at the idea of writing down allergies, purely because he has none and can't really conceive of the idea of having any.]

It's a good idea. I don't think any of us know what the other is doing in the kitchen most of the time.

[He just comes in, throws stuff in the oven and then takes it away again. No fuss no muss.]

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Oh, have you all been taking turns cooking? [Because dinner is a Family Thing for Katara, and she assumes that the ship operates similarly, if just for convenience sake, that people will want to come when the food's done.]

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Uh, maybe? I just make my own meals.

[He has no idea. He is the very definition of a useless bachelor.]

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Oh. [A blink.] The crew doesn't have dinner together?

[Not... as expected. But she supposed that it makes sense.]

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Sometimes! I don't think it's all the time though.

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Well... I guess that makes my job easier.

[Or even more useless.

Except being a cook wasn't useless, she knew how important this sort of thing was, she just...

Bleck.]

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I don't see why we couldn't start doing it, though. Especially when we're between planets.

[When they're in a system, it's harder to corral people into one place. Thor himself is liable to go traipsing off for days at a time without coming back to the ship when there's a planet available.]

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If... you think that's something people would like to do? [She shrugs a little.] It was a rule, back in Luceti. Family dinners, and everyone would show up or let me know if they couldn't, and we'd all touch base then. I'd cook, they'd clean. But... that was with my friends from my world. I don't think I'd want to impose that on a bunch of people I've barely met.

[...Sokka being the exception to this in every way, yes.]

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Well, maybe not as a rule. As a suggestion it wouldn't hurt. I know a number of people on the Blue Fish are from the same world already.

[Dorian, Leilani, Riona and Alistair ... he knows at least some of them transferred here to make that happen. The same as Katara.]

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Really? What world is that?

[...it's Earth, isn't it. It's almost always Earth.]

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It's called Thedas. I think there are also some others around on the other ships, but I don't know them.

[Finally he remembers what he came into the kitchen to do, moving to turn the kettle on.]

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[Huh. Her eyebrows raise. Not Earth? Who knew!]

I haven't heard of that one. How many people on the ship are from there?

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Four of them, so half the crew. Then there's you and Sokka from your world, myself from Asgard, and I'm not certain where Paine is from.