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deercountry2021-09-06 10:32 pm
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Avatar Arrival
Character Name: Korra log - OPEN
Who: Korra et al
What: What the characters are doing.
When: When the characters are interacting.
Where: Where the characters are interacting.
Content Warnings: None, will add if needed.
Washing Ashore - Closed to Team Avatar
She remembered floating in the water. Having been...herself, then something else, then herself again. But it all floated in front of her mind like leaves on the stream, there one moment and gone the next. Nothing she could focus on. She had, after a time, watched ashore. She had felt the water of a tide washing over her form, chill and...familiar. It felt like home, like the Pole; the cold water she had swam in when she was a child. It was not the sort of cold that bothered her, but it was strange. Where was the sun?
There had been greeters - or had supposed to be there - but their process was...interrupted. Because alongside Korra, the vast bulk of Naga had washed up. And while the mighty legs of the polar bear dog were still unsteady, her jaws were still powerful - and she drew herself with great effort over Korra, rearing back up as best she could, snarling at anybody who tried to approach. All the greeting committee were able to do was throw a cloak over her - and for a whole day, Naga kept up her watch.
And it was her face that Korra saw first as she smiled up into the strange sky. "Hey, girl," she said, reaching up to pet her face. "Thanks for taking care of me." She knew, instinctively, what had happened.
It took her some time to stand. More to get dressed. She looked through the pack, examined each object with a sigh. She'd been home. She'd been happy - she rolled the engagement rings she'd had made in her fingers, the key consideration of that - but something, and she had a sneaking idea what, had drawn her back in.
Finally, using a piece of driftwood until her legs were steady enough, she began to walk, her free hand holding onto Naga.
"Let's go find our family," she said.
Exploring - OPEN
In time, she rode Naga again. Once there had been food for both of them. She couldn't quite get her mind around this place - it was like Deerington but not...but she felt the same sense of the place. Like there was constantly something wrong. Something foreboding...
In the back of her mind, she felt it. The sense that she should...give up, accept the place. Face the future, turn from the past. It might even have worked, but she was still the Avatar - and the Avatar, even shorn from the direct memories of her predecessors, was a product of the past. To give it up would mean to...shed herself, in many ways.
And either out of stubbornness or will, Korra couldn't do that. Couldn't be that. She would not let this place lull her - she would find out what it was, what it was doing. If it was as malevolent as she had believed Deerington itself to be.
And thus, she explored. In the rest times, she worked on the driftwood she had found, out of some half-forgotten instinct. She could almost feel Aang smiling on her. She used fire, and water, and air to shape it, smooth it, add a shine. It was something to do while she thought, at first. But then it became something to finish.
She could be found many places, either on foot or riding astride Naga - the newly-made staff in her hand. She looked better than she had in Deerington - rested, fit, healed. In a word, ready.
Who: Korra et al
What: What the characters are doing.
When: When the characters are interacting.
Where: Where the characters are interacting.
Content Warnings: None, will add if needed.
Washing Ashore - Closed to Team Avatar
She remembered floating in the water. Having been...herself, then something else, then herself again. But it all floated in front of her mind like leaves on the stream, there one moment and gone the next. Nothing she could focus on. She had, after a time, watched ashore. She had felt the water of a tide washing over her form, chill and...familiar. It felt like home, like the Pole; the cold water she had swam in when she was a child. It was not the sort of cold that bothered her, but it was strange. Where was the sun?
There had been greeters - or had supposed to be there - but their process was...interrupted. Because alongside Korra, the vast bulk of Naga had washed up. And while the mighty legs of the polar bear dog were still unsteady, her jaws were still powerful - and she drew herself with great effort over Korra, rearing back up as best she could, snarling at anybody who tried to approach. All the greeting committee were able to do was throw a cloak over her - and for a whole day, Naga kept up her watch.
And it was her face that Korra saw first as she smiled up into the strange sky. "Hey, girl," she said, reaching up to pet her face. "Thanks for taking care of me." She knew, instinctively, what had happened.
It took her some time to stand. More to get dressed. She looked through the pack, examined each object with a sigh. She'd been home. She'd been happy - she rolled the engagement rings she'd had made in her fingers, the key consideration of that - but something, and she had a sneaking idea what, had drawn her back in.
Finally, using a piece of driftwood until her legs were steady enough, she began to walk, her free hand holding onto Naga.
"Let's go find our family," she said.
Exploring - OPEN
In time, she rode Naga again. Once there had been food for both of them. She couldn't quite get her mind around this place - it was like Deerington but not...but she felt the same sense of the place. Like there was constantly something wrong. Something foreboding...
In the back of her mind, she felt it. The sense that she should...give up, accept the place. Face the future, turn from the past. It might even have worked, but she was still the Avatar - and the Avatar, even shorn from the direct memories of her predecessors, was a product of the past. To give it up would mean to...shed herself, in many ways.
And either out of stubbornness or will, Korra couldn't do that. Couldn't be that. She would not let this place lull her - she would find out what it was, what it was doing. If it was as malevolent as she had believed Deerington itself to be.
And thus, she explored. In the rest times, she worked on the driftwood she had found, out of some half-forgotten instinct. She could almost feel Aang smiling on her. She used fire, and water, and air to shape it, smooth it, add a shine. It was something to do while she thought, at first. But then it became something to finish.
She could be found many places, either on foot or riding astride Naga - the newly-made staff in her hand. She looked better than she had in Deerington - rested, fit, healed. In a word, ready.
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"No. I haven't. And that worries me a little bit. I think...I think something prevented him from coming. That something didn't want him, and his specific knowledge, here."
She frowned a bit.
"I mean, if you want a captive population, you make sure only the prisoners you think will stay put make it, right?"
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"Would he have though? He was always traveling, that guy. I guess if you really think about it, once having the chance he'd be off on the next adventure, right?"
She didn't blame him. It hurt, sure, but she at least knew the Doctor would land on his feet and be amazing for someone else somewhere. That was how he was.
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"No, he'd have come. He and I...we were alike in a lot of ways. He'd never be able to rest, knowing people he cared about were potentially suffering, and he'd done nothing. Only thing that would stop him trying to crack back in would be if they - the Pthumerians - took his memories of us all."
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"So you think that happened? Oh. Then I guess that means he's fall in the same category as Margot, where they forget everything about us."
The girl had to turn away for this. She hadn't expected it to hit that hard, but of course it would: The Doctor had been there for her when she had hit a pretty hard bottom. She would always appreciate what he'd done for her in those last months in Deerington. When she hadn't seen him, she figured he'd just be busy doing his own thing.
It hadn't occurred to him that it might be her last time seeing him.
"It gets really hard to put the past behind you when it leaves all these holes in you."
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She sighed.
"Or he's out there, trying to find a way back in."
As for the last, well. She gave Luz's shoulder a gentle squeeze.
"It's the hardest thing I've ever had to figure out how to do. But that's what the future is for...find new things to fill you up all the more. Treasure what was, find what is to come."
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Once again, this was one of those moments where they way this place worked was a mystery.
Luz nodded quietly. "I guess he'd want me to do that too. If there was one thing the Doctor was keen on, it was making me stronger with his kind of nurturing. He really did try to make the best of a bad situation for me, you know? It had been right after Eda left and everything. I was kind of a wreck around then."
Luz was sure Korra remembered.
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Her lips pursed at the latter statement, though.
"I remember. He really did care about you."
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Luz wouldn't act like she always understood everything the Doctor did herself. What she did know was that this place was a lot less of a cheery spot now that he was gone.
"I cared about him too. I think maybe, with him gone, its his way of telling me I'll be stronger without him. Wish I felt that way right now."
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She fell silent, remembering a now-lost friend.
"He understood," she said, finally. "What it was like, being the Avatar. To wear the weight of many lives, all that time. I think we helped each other, with that."
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And she knew the Doctor had faith in them for that. Even as sad as she was, she also knew the Doctor had faith. There was no denying that.
"I'll be he did. Honestly, I wish I'd talked to him more."
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"You will be. And...maybe. I wish we could know. But he believed in all of us. But we'll remember him, and...maybe we won't think about the conversations we didn't have so much."
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"So you're doing ok? No big problems with your blood?"
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"I wouldn't get comfortable with that. I think more trouble's coming soon enough."
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"It always is," she finally replied, with a tired sort of smile. "The only constant is that chaos always arrives sooner or later."
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"You tell me if you have some chaos you need help with though, all right? I hear that pale blood is supposed to be helpful with that, and I'll gladly give blood to make sure you're ok. I MEAN that too, so don't go all tough on me."
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