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[markofthebrave]

[Attention: The Universe

There is a teenage girl who has once again been made aware of your many injustices and is pissed. News at 11.

If you're drafted and she knows you, Katara is looking for you. Specifically Derek, Straw Hats, Ginko, and Katie. So she'll be stopping by the Straw Hat and Infinite Undiscovery House (and if she runs into that knight - well, he'd just better watch what he says) and making a few filters.

This, of course, is after she's gone to see Sokka with a very specific 'request.']


Good luck.



I need to see you before you go. Where are you?


[Of course, feel free to bump into her at any point as she wanders around town looking to make deliveries and say goodbye/offer advice.]


((OOC: Apparently, LJ has decided notifs are tasty and to eat them all. I'll be refreshing like a fiend, but if too much time passes just ping me!))

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All right.

[Distraction? She's up for it. She really, really hates this. It's like Dad going off all over again, except even harder in some ways - Dad could fight.]

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[After putting his stuff away, he grabs his coat and starts heading out the door.]

You know, I've got regular explosives too.

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[Following along, Katara shakes her head.]

I don't think so.

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Not exactly Ginko's style, right? Yeah.

[markofthebrave]

It's no good if he won't use it. And if he's in a melee... [Then whoever is with him... would be fighting them. And he'd have to kill them too.]

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Fair enough. But hey, good thing I always plan ahead, right? I've got dozens of those bombs under the house. [Don't you feel better going to bed like that now?]

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Yeah.

[She doesn't even blink at that. Preoccupied, much?]

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[...]

So the other day, Buffy asked me if she could see Momo, since he's the only animal from our world around here. I said, maybe, but lemur think about it! Huh, huh?

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[She blinks up at him, expression blank.]

Huh? Oh. Very funny, Sokka.

[Small little smile, and then she faces straight ahead again.]

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[He stops dead in his tracks as she walks on, a frown on his face. He starts to catch up.]

Yeah, I just came up with that one. [No, he'd been saving it for WEEKS since that conversation with Buffy and had yet to casually bring it into a conversation.]

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[Absent nod.

...what, like that requires an actual response? Her brow is furrowed - she's clearly not focused on the here-and-now.]

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[So he's noticed. He plods on silently, having failed in his duties of being an irreverent distraction. Drafts, drafts, drafts. He hated those.

Oh wait, another topic of discussion.]

I told Suki about what happened to me and Toph. Before. During February. It kind of slipped out... Oh! But don't worry, I didn't mention you!

[markofthebrave]

[OK, that DOES serve its purpose.]

What?

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Yeah, she was asking about me and Winry and I got kind of carried away telling her about the fountain and the juice and the kiss-inducing flowers...

[He could go on about this forever.]

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[...back up. She stops walking to stare at him.]

She was asking you about you. And Winry.

[Man, how did you manage to screw yourself over so terribly?]

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[Yeeeeeaaah.]

Well, my Avatar self kind of said some things that made her worried that maybe how he felt about Winry was how I felt about her.

[markofthebrave]

[Oh, now it all makes sense.]

Ugh, that jerk! I told him to behave around Suki.

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I know! Fortunately Suki knew he was no good right off. [He huffs and then adds a little quieter:] I'm just glad he didn't take advantage of Winry while he had the chance.

[markofthebrave]

Well, Suki's not an--

--wait, what?

[markofthewise]

[Oh. Oh, oops.]

Yeah uh... see, when the other Sokka ran into Winry? She wasn't exactly herself either... [And this is a tale he hasn't told Suki. Heck, he and Winry haven't even talked about this at all.]

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[Katara has a bad feeling about this. She raises her eyebrows. Go on.]

Okay...

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They went on a date! She made dinner, talking about this new job she had. It was uh, an interesting one anyway. She uh, wanted to make people happy. I mean, really happy. Anything it takes kind of happy. You know what I mean, right?

[She was a prostitute!]

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[markofthebrave]

Okay...

[Failing, at first, to see anything wrong with this...]

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[...but a world at war doesn't leave her quite that naive.]

Wait - what?

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[markofthebrave]

Oh, you've got to be kidding me!

[She's mad. Not at you, fortunately, but at the Malnosso. Messing with Winry like that? She might have thought it was consensual, but when she came back to herself...

...it would have been a thousand times worse than just messing around with someone because you thought you were in love with them.

It would have been rape.]