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☾ FIRST [video/action]
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[ Oh, look! A new video entry. It starts up and it's… upside down. Actually it's more like the picture is twirling, so even though it starts upside down it's slowly turning until it's right-side up for a moment, revealing a teenage girl staring at it suspiciously before the slow spinning starts up again as she turns the journal around in her hands. ]
If this really is a camera it's the smallest one I've ever seen. [ She finally comments, stopping the spinning so that she is sideways on the screen. ] And what good is it even supposed to do, anyway?! Is this some kind of mover thing? Can anyone see me? Can anyone-
[ The video suddenly freezes as if she'd paused it, then starts up again. ] -like I'm talking to a book. Great. I get kidnapped or lost or whatever and I'm talking to a book. This is just- [ It pauses for a few seconds again. ] -I can't believe- [ Pause. ] -who even- [ Pause. Finally after what seems like a longer pause the video finally starts playing again and Korra is finally facing the right way with the camera. She looks pretty panicked. ]
Okay, this book is weird. It started talking to me and there's all sorts of writing but why do I even have this? Who even are you people writing in here? This is ridiculous. I'm leaving. ...As soon as I find the exit.
[action]
[ Korra's managed to find her way to the actual village now, still wearing the white shirt and pants she arrived in but a little more focused and less panicked. This wasn't the weirdest thing that's ever happened to her after all! Well, it probably wasn't anyway, but she wasn't about to sit around comparing them. She'd woken up in a forest with a weird book and nothing else, not even her own clothing let alone an explanation. Flipping through the pages of the book had given her a few details (although not as many as there could have been considering she wasn't exactly patient enough to sit around and read thoroughly at the moment) but really the BEST way to figure something out was to get up and out and see what it was with your own eyes.
Sometimes, anyway.
Seeing buildings had been a huge relief but the closer she got to them the more she found herself pausing. Of course part of her wanted to run right in and start demanding answers. The biggest part, really. But there was another, much smaller part that was telling her to be cautious and patient about the situation to avoid doing anything reckless.
That part sounded an awful lot like Tenzin.
Sure, she wasn't the best at taking his advice back home but in this situation she had to grudgingly admit that maybe she should at least start out cautious. Which is why she's now slowly peeking around a building, one hand against the wall and the other held up as if expecting a fight at any second- ]
[ Oh, look! A new video entry. It starts up and it's… upside down. Actually it's more like the picture is twirling, so even though it starts upside down it's slowly turning until it's right-side up for a moment, revealing a teenage girl staring at it suspiciously before the slow spinning starts up again as she turns the journal around in her hands. ]
If this really is a camera it's the smallest one I've ever seen. [ She finally comments, stopping the spinning so that she is sideways on the screen. ] And what good is it even supposed to do, anyway?! Is this some kind of mover thing? Can anyone see me? Can anyone-
[ The video suddenly freezes as if she'd paused it, then starts up again. ] -like I'm talking to a book. Great. I get kidnapped or lost or whatever and I'm talking to a book. This is just- [ It pauses for a few seconds again. ] -I can't believe- [ Pause. ] -who even- [ Pause. Finally after what seems like a longer pause the video finally starts playing again and Korra is finally facing the right way with the camera. She looks pretty panicked. ]
Okay, this book is weird. It started talking to me and there's all sorts of writing but why do I even have this? Who even are you people writing in here? This is ridiculous. I'm leaving. ...As soon as I find the exit.
[action]
[ Korra's managed to find her way to the actual village now, still wearing the white shirt and pants she arrived in but a little more focused and less panicked. This wasn't the weirdest thing that's ever happened to her after all! Well, it probably wasn't anyway, but she wasn't about to sit around comparing them. She'd woken up in a forest with a weird book and nothing else, not even her own clothing let alone an explanation. Flipping through the pages of the book had given her a few details (although not as many as there could have been considering she wasn't exactly patient enough to sit around and read thoroughly at the moment) but really the BEST way to figure something out was to get up and out and see what it was with your own eyes.
Sometimes, anyway.
Seeing buildings had been a huge relief but the closer she got to them the more she found herself pausing. Of course part of her wanted to run right in and start demanding answers. The biggest part, really. But there was another, much smaller part that was telling her to be cautious and patient about the situation to avoid doing anything reckless.
That part sounded an awful lot like Tenzin.
Sure, she wasn't the best at taking his advice back home but in this situation she had to grudgingly admit that maybe she should at least start out cautious. Which is why she's now slowly peeking around a building, one hand against the wall and the other held up as if expecting a fight at any second- ]
[action] because what are timelines
...you know what? It's probably a good thing she will recognize him because the common sense is not strong in this one. Still, Korra will hear what should be a very familiar voice behind her:]
You don't have to sneak around.
[a few months in luceti means his hair is a little longer, and access to all the food he would ever want to eat means he's slightly less noodle-y, and he now has access to clothes like the shirt he is wearing today. But he's still Wan.]
[action] we just don't know
[ Wait. That was a familiar voice. A really familiar voice. Almost slowly she turns around and is faced with a (slightly different looking) Wan in a shirt with some weird creatures on it.
For a second she just stares at him dumbstruck. Literally, mouth hanging open and everything. Then she lets out a strange noise and puts a hand to her head. ]
I'm dead. Am I dead? [ a beat. ] What are you wearing?
[action] great, now this tag made ME dead. From laughter. I am tagging this from the grave.
Clothes-
[I mean really, what do you think he's wearing? And there is totally nothing wrong with his fashion choices. For they are functioning clothes, and he likes baby animals, and really those are the only two things that matter to him when it comes to picking out his outfits.]
But that's.. not the important part. You're not dead! You're in a village called luceti.
[action] i'm so glad there's such good wifi there because i'll be joining you in laughter-death
Alright, alright. Fine! I'm not dead, you're wearing… clothes- [ Although she gives him a weird look at that last part. ] -but what are you doing here? Were you kidnapped too, or are you here to get us out of here? Please tell me you're here to get us out of here. Because you don't look like you're here to get us out of here.
[action]
It's going to be okay...
[Wan is going to save the "welcome to luceti" speech until he is sure that telling her she's been kidnapped by a giant bird spirit and possibly is going crazy (ok, so that isn't what's going on but it's the only way he can make sense of the situation) won't give her a heart attack. Because clearly she is in the middle of some sort of breakdown.]
[action]
You… don't know who I am, do you. [ Not a question, more a statement. ] You're a real life person, probably from a different time than me. [ Just like Aang. Totally not a Spirty Past Avatar (™) but a real life current person. A real life current person with bad fashion. At least, this is the only thing she can think of at this moment considering her hasn't suddenly whisked her off on a helpful spirit field trip like the last time she saw him. ]
[action]
Let's go.
[It may not be a magical spirit field trip, but he is so taking her on a field trip. They can go get some cupcakes from the bakery or something.]
[action]
Uh, where exactly are we going to?
[action]
...but they are still getting something nice, because they totally deserve something nice. So he will just look back at her with a grin.]
A place. You'll find out soon.
[action]
I can't help but get the feeling I'm going to end up in some kind of trouble, here. [ It's only MOSTLY a joke. ]
[action] /edits this post 50 million times to tweak the wording I am sorry
[liar liar HE SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE.]
[action] THAT IS OKAY wording's a jerk
Usually the people who say they're never in trouble are the people who are always in trouble. Trust me on that one.
[action] matching icon? matching icon.
[but soon they will arrive at a quaint little bakery.]
[action] same expression 10000 years later what a world
[ When they arrive Korra goes right up to the glass, staring into the building. ]
Look at all that food! [ IT'S… SO BEAUTIFUL. ] I didn't even know I was hungry until just now.
[action] Wan's :\ smile is the real avatar legacy
[it's his treat, Korra! Even if everything it totally free.
Yeah, he's going to drag her into the bakery. There is a 99% chance this is the most hand holding he has ever done with a girl in his entire life.]
[action] only the avatar, master of the :/ can bring balance to the world
[ She's looking PRETTY SUSPICIOUS suddenly. Not at Wan but at the mysterious food and building in general as she gets dragged in. ] Is it safe? It's kind of weird how there are so many shops around here. [ It hasn't come up in her training but she feels like eating food found in a mystery location after being forcibly taken there might be something to be cautious about. ]
[action]
[And he is going to take a fruit pie because they are his favorite things in the bakery and he hasn't stolen one before it could even make it to the bakery in awhile.]
Besides they're not really shops, everything here is free.
[Isn't it great? Hands down his favorite thing about luceti (sorry friends).]
[action]
It does look really good… And it's free? You mean actually free, and not just free because we're not paying for it, right? [ The fact that the food might be free sounded even more suspicious, but she was really hungry and those fruit pies looked so good… Oh, whatever. How could things possibly get any worse? She ends her staredown of the pies by grabbing a red one and tearing into it. ]
[action]
[He says, before eating his own pie. He could have bothered explaining that if she had any money it's gone but he never had any money to begin with so he wouldn't really know this. Also it's pie time.]
[action]
This is really good.
[action]
[translation: he'd totally steal food anyways, not that this is something Korra doesn't know already.]
You have good taste, fruit pies are my favorite.
[action]
I can see why, they're seriously amazing. And that's not just the fact that I don't know how long it's been since I've eaten talking. [ Now she's taking the chance to look around at the rest of the selection. ] I can't believe they take the time to- what, kidnap us? And then they bake us cakes and pies.
[action]
[He would know. RIP: all of the baked goods that never actually made it to the bakery.]
[action]
[ She gives Wan a careful look. ] So you uh, know Aang?
[action]
[His voice softens when he says that, because living with a "family" and eating as much food as you want and getting to sleep on an actual bed... all of it was really great. Even if he got into trouble sometimes.
But now he is curious: Korra is asking like she already knows him...]
Do you know him too?
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