Appointments Post

[powdersup]

This post here is for personal conversations which should happen but one or both of us doesn't want to put up a new post/log and thus we will just thread it out here. This can be used to thread with Masaomi anytime and anywhere. This can either be in person (with action), or via the journal's call feature (voice and/or written).

When replying to this post please mark in the subject line when and how it is taking place EX:
[Action, March 11th]
[Voice, September 8th]
Written, June 10th]

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[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

[He makes his way there with just a brief chuckle at the absurd image of Asami sitting on the Sokka head. He hopes down and gives a slight wave, but he remains serious.]

Hello again. I'm sorry that you haven't been here long and we keep on just asking you questions about everyone else. [But seeing as how she's the closest thing to a responsible adult who knows the whole book as of that week...] But I have something else to ask you myself.

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

It's- [Okay. well no, it's not really okay. But she swallows and nods. Might as well see this though. It wouldn't be super right to refuse the Avatar, after all.] Alright, I'll try to answer.

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

[He takes a deep breath before continuing.]

It's something that could help us all with our future safety. I've heard that I'm going to be able to stop that Yakone guy. But... I have no idea how to resist his bending. [He doesn't want to name the actual form.] Do you know how I do it?

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

[She frowns. She only heard about it second hand. Didn't have the visions, didn't see it. Everyone else said it made sense, but Aang stopping him was history...] To be honest, no. I don't know the specifics - like I told Katara, I only know about it secondhand.

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

Oh, I... understand. I know you don't know firsthand, but I had to make sure there wasn't anything important that I was missing. You're the one who knows the most, unless Korra can get those memories here, too. There has to be some way...

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

...Can the Avatar connect to previous avatars here, Aang?

[She chooses not to bring up Korra's spiritual problems, not here.]

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

No, we need the Spirit World for that. Only the Avatar State is still possible here. [Pause] Do you think that'll stop Korra from getting the memories?

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

I'm not the Avatar, Aang. I don't know how it all works, particularly here.

[...] I just know Korra only got the memories from you. The ones related to Yakone, that is. [...] Or anyone else who was alive forty years ago might know.

[But there's no one like- oh well there's Lin...]

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

[UNTIL AC]

Right, right. I guess if I don't have those memories yet, and she's not connected to the Spirit World... maybe she won't. It'll be harder to get more details, Lin might... [He shakes his head vaguely because I have no idea how else to handwave this] but this is still helpful. Thank you, Asami.

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

I'll help however I can, Avatar Aang. [After all, she did give up... everything ever to help Korra. This is the same principle, she imagines.]

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

Thank you, Asami. Korra's lucky to have a great friend like you. [And good to know he didn't dry up the Avatar awesome friendship well in his lifetime.] And I'll gladly help you, too, whenever you need it.

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

[Korra doesn't know that yet though... and there's other things. A complicated little mix of expressions play out a moment, but she settles on gratitude and a little nod] That's an honor, Avatar Aang. Thank you.

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

It's no problem. Just think of me as an ordinary monk, it's not like I'm that big statue I keep hearing about. [He looks around a little nervously, wanting to make up for troubling her somehow. For once, he's not sure if the marble trick will cut it.] Do you want some ice cream or something?

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

[There's no way that's possible. She smiles though, and nods. ...And then thinks of something else] I heard that you recently went to the moon. Do you think you could tell me what outer space was like while we're at it?

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

Uh - yeah. [A bit unexpected - and recalling those few days dampens his mood.] It was... really weird. It's very dark and cold, and on the moon there's... the gravity's so loose that anyone can bounce around like an airbender. [If they had gone their under different circumstances... he might have loved it.] There's no air so you always have to wear a tight spacesuit. Except they also made little cities that are inside domes which have fake air so it's almost like normal there, but not really.

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

How can you make fake air? [She's following, hoping he's leading to ice cream to go with it. But she's curious now. She knows it was a draft but...]

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

[Have faith, Asami. Aang is surely steering her towards... whichever local venue supplies ice cream.]

That's science, you should ask Sokka that. Not even an Airbender can just make air. At least I think it was fake, but when I think about it they could have just brought air up from the planet. I was just too relieved to have some kind of air again to wonder how it got up there.

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

Taking it from the planet makes more sense to me than fake air but... I'm not that versed in "Shifting." Was it neat to be on the moon though? See the stars?

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

It... it was neat, aside from the reason we had to be there. Being out there, in space, on the moon I never could imagined it... it was so unreal and weird and cool, but... there's something you gotta know. Even if that air wasn't fake... the stars you see up there in the sky at night? They're... they're fake. Illusions made by Malnosso. Only the sun's real.

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

They... huh. [Head hang as she considers that, tutting] ...That's really strange.

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

It... it is. [It made him feel so small and alone. That and the lack of the Spirit World... there were things about this world he didn't want to think about. He frowns and glanced towards Asami as they proceed into the village.] This whole place is... it's really, really strange and I- I admit it's scary. I'm sorry we had to meet in a place like this, Asami.

[Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

[There's a pause here because she agrees, however... she probably should be in good humor. She pushes back a stray little thing of hair and-] The only other way we'd meet is if you were using Korra's body, Avatar Aang. I think this is actually a little less odd.

[Okay so it's not. But it's a joke]

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

That would be pretty weird. [A joke. He gives a light chuckle. Even if he instead feels a slight hope inside. He'd take that oddness if it meant he could see his grandchildren in person and to see Katara again - but it's way too early to think of stuff like that. And he does not know if that will ever happen.] But it might not be too weird. When Roku and Kyoshi possessed me in the past, I think they were able to look like themselves instead of me.

- [Action - July 10]

[powdersup]

Maybe it's being raised in Republic City talking, but that's hardly any more comforting. Too Spiritual for my blood.

[Also a joke]

[Action - July 10]

[savedtheworld]

I guess they keep all the spiritualness on Air Temple Island. But maybe you won't have to see anything weird like that. [Still he sees a chance to not dwell on his afterlife.] So what is it like living in Republic City?