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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!))

Comments

[markofthebrave]

[Absent nod.

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

[markofthewise]

[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?

[markofthewise]

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.]

[markofthebrave]

[...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?]

[markofthewise]

[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.

[markofthewise]

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.]

[markofthebrave]

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

Okay...

[markofthewise]

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!]

1/3

[markofthebrave]

Okay...

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

[markofthebrave]

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

Wait - what?

3/4

[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.]

[markofthebrave]

Is she okay?

[Maybe 'you' didn't take advantage of her - but that didn't mean that no one else did.]

[markofthewise]

We haven't talked about it. She seems fine, but...

[He intends to talk to her about it, one way or another.]

I'm going to ask tomorrow.

[markofthebrave]

If she needs anything... if there's anything I can do... just let me know.

[Pause. And her brow furrows with a different kind of concern.] And he turned her down?

[markofthewise]

[he pauses, his eyes wandering in a sort of "maybe he did" kind of way before ultimately concluding:]

Yeah, yeah he did. Not exactly for the right reasons, but the end result was good enough.

[markofthebrave]

[She nods, not really wanting to discuss the other Sokka with him. Is he really what you wish you'd be like? How could he be so... ugh.]

So what did Suki say?

[markofthewise]

She got confused, a little overwhelmed by finding out everything, then I flirted with her and we made out.

[This is a better discussion than Avatar Sokka, right?]

[markofthebrave]

[Eyeroll.]

Of course you did.

[markofthewise]

[Don't knock it until you've tried it. With another boy. One that Sokka approves of. Which is probably no one in Luceti.]

That's what dating people do, Katara. They flirt and make out. We just happen to be good at it.

[markofthebrave]

[A quick grin.]

I'll have to keep that in mind!

[markofthewise]

[And while they're on this happy note, they're now in the Bat Cave basement. Sokka fetches the bombs from a drawer and sets half a dozen on a workspace.]

This should do the trick.