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eachdraidh2014-08-30 09:27 pm
bolincredible) wrote in eachdraidh2014-08-30 09:27 pm
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[ GOOD…… late night or super early morning, network. Witness the amazing Fire Ferrets in their natural habitat, if a bit sleep-mussed and underdressed. (Understatement, tbh.) Come on, if your pajamas aren’t “be shirtless” or “in a sports bra”, you’re just not doing things Republic City style in this weather.
The scene set in the rather large room is unnerving at best. Splashed against the background are scorch marks from recent firebending, and shadows are cast from the ripped and torn flooring — it looks like there was one hell of a fight. Off to the left, there’s a soft glow as Korra tries to heal a deep wound on her arm with her waterbending and Mako, holding a small flame in his hand for light, crouches over a dark, suspiciously person shaped thing on the floor. Next to it are two other suspiciously person shaped things, also not moving in a very “dead” fashion.
As Mako makes notes in a small logbook, he and Korra seem to be having something of a disagreement, with Korra hissing angrily and Mako trying to calm her down with steady, hushed tones. While they talk, he meticulously searches through the clothes on the things — let’s be honest, they’re corpses, three of them, lying on the bedroom floor — gathering the evidence he finds and apparently writing it down in his little book. He adds whatever he finds to a growing pile of trinkets... which at this point consists largely of knives, garotting rope, and other sketchy murderous tools. With a soft trill, the two cats who adopted Mako jump up on the bed, looking shaken and huddling protectively around a small green and gold snakelike creature. Naga, on the other hand, seems to be licking something from her lips with her long tongue, looking quite proud of herself, tail absently tapping on the mattress behind the kittens.
Bolin, looking suitably confused and sporting an oddly smug Pabu-scarf, is taking up the foreground and accepting the responsibility of having his priorities in place. Unlike some people, wow. ]
Uhhhh. Hey. So my name’s Bolin. Nice to meet you if I haven’t already met you. Nice to see you again if I have? [ You know, whichever. ] Got a quick question for anyone who could answer, it’d be great to have it cleared up: is there like a... running history of people getting a pet back for a boon, only then a month later it turns out that their pet can also grow about eight feet and tackle an assassin? Just. Just wondering.
[ He stops. Glances back at Mako and Korra. Purses his lips, and turns back. ]
Okay, so, one more question. About the assassin thing. Like… are they also a thing with a running history here?
[ in the background, the dead body rummaging and healing krew has finished their argument, and in the ensuing silence, you can hear their last snippy comments before the feed ends. ]
At least no one was kidnapped.
[ Mako says, completely deadpan. Korra’s eyes narrow and she shoots back: ]
Or arrested, huh Officer?
[ WOW, RUDE, KORRA. ]
The scene set in the rather large room is unnerving at best. Splashed against the background are scorch marks from recent firebending, and shadows are cast from the ripped and torn flooring — it looks like there was one hell of a fight. Off to the left, there’s a soft glow as Korra tries to heal a deep wound on her arm with her waterbending and Mako, holding a small flame in his hand for light, crouches over a dark, suspiciously person shaped thing on the floor. Next to it are two other suspiciously person shaped things, also not moving in a very “dead” fashion.
As Mako makes notes in a small logbook, he and Korra seem to be having something of a disagreement, with Korra hissing angrily and Mako trying to calm her down with steady, hushed tones. While they talk, he meticulously searches through the clothes on the things — let’s be honest, they’re corpses, three of them, lying on the bedroom floor — gathering the evidence he finds and apparently writing it down in his little book. He adds whatever he finds to a growing pile of trinkets... which at this point consists largely of knives, garotting rope, and other sketchy murderous tools. With a soft trill, the two cats who adopted Mako jump up on the bed, looking shaken and huddling protectively around a small green and gold snakelike creature. Naga, on the other hand, seems to be licking something from her lips with her long tongue, looking quite proud of herself, tail absently tapping on the mattress behind the kittens.
Bolin, looking suitably confused and sporting an oddly smug Pabu-scarf, is taking up the foreground and accepting the responsibility of having his priorities in place. Unlike some people, wow. ]
Uhhhh. Hey. So my name’s Bolin. Nice to meet you if I haven’t already met you. Nice to see you again if I have? [ You know, whichever. ] Got a quick question for anyone who could answer, it’d be great to have it cleared up: is there like a... running history of people getting a pet back for a boon, only then a month later it turns out that their pet can also grow about eight feet and tackle an assassin? Just. Just wondering.
[ He stops. Glances back at Mako and Korra. Purses his lips, and turns back. ]
Okay, so, one more question. About the assassin thing. Like… are they also a thing with a running history here?
[ in the background, the dead body rummaging and healing krew has finished their argument, and in the ensuing silence, you can hear their last snippy comments before the feed ends. ]
At least no one was kidnapped.
[ Mako says, completely deadpan. Korra’s eyes narrow and she shoots back: ]
Or arrested, huh Officer?
[ WOW, RUDE, KORRA. ]
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Waterbending? I've never heard it called that before. [ Percy bobs a bit, rocking back and forth on his feet as he holds the locket. ] It looks pretty similar to what I can do.
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seriously who ever sent these guys? they're asking for it. ]
Wait, you can manipulate water?
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Yeah! Wow, I've never met another person who can do that.
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We have monsters and creatures and stuff that can manipulate water? And gods, too. But not humans. [ uhh- ] Er, she is a human, right? I mean, it's cool if you're not! I know lots of not-humans, I just assumed-
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Do you know Clarisse?
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he's heard about the whole thing where Clarisse instigated that huge battle, and he has to wonder if maybe it's not in his best interest to be admitting that he knows her in public spaces but.
whatever. ]
Yeah, she's a friend of mine from home. Why?
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Yup. Son of the sea god, Poseidon.
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Then you can just consider me like his sister.
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So you're.... a water goddess? [ huh. ]
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Better than a water goddess?
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[ of course korra would bounce back from this harrowing ordeal by.
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I can control all four elements and it's my duty to keep peace between the four nations and spirits.
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[ she calls them spirits, but... whatever. ]
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That's- Wow. [ he pauses, letting it sink in. ] Wow. That's... really impressive. I mean- You look like a regular teenager? [ then again, Artemis had looked like an adolescent girl, so maybe it's not so surprising. ]
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[ and that's kind of a draw back for her because if you take that away, she has no idea who she is. she's learning, though. slowly. ]
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[ because the whole thing is interesting to him, since he didn't find out until he was a pre-teen. so thinking that others know about their abilities and who they are from the get-go -- hard to fathom. ]
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Usually the spiritual leaders of any one nation try to find the kids who were born on the exact day the previous Avatar died and keep an eye on them as they grow up. When they reach a certain age, they perform a few tests like... putting down different toys in front of a kid and watching which ones they pick out. Stuff like that. Stuff that they had in all their past lives.
[ that's how they found aang after all ]
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That all changed when I tripped my dad with some accidental earthbending. [ ... ] And then set his coat on fire trying to catch him.
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[ phew, that's a lot, but Percy's clearly interested in learning more about it, because the more Korra talks, the better he seems to be paying attention. ]
So water, earth, and fire. Can you "bend" air as well? That makes up all the elements, right?
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[ but she's not saying that air gave her a lot of freakin' trouble, no she is not. ]
And yeah, that's exactly it. The Avatar Spirit has been around for at least ten thousand years.
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[ he knows that it felt like a lot for him at first, when he was claimed as a son of Poseidon. but- well, he's gotten at least a little more settled into the whole idea over the course of the last few years. plus, it helped that he stopped giving much of a damn about what the gods thought of him and his choices in the first place. ]
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gloss it over a little. ]
Well... it's not easy. But if it was easy, then everyone would be doing it, right?
[ just wait for your canon update korra ]
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[ yeah but if only he took being a demigod as seriously as Korra takes being the Avatar. ]
I'm sort of on a quest right now. But uh, would you want to meet up some time? Is that weird to ask? Just would be cool to hang out with someone in person who can do the water stuff like I can, since I've never really met anyone that could do it, other than my dad.
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