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tushanshu2013-06-06 07:09 am
emasculates) wrote in tushanshu2013-06-06 07:09 am
Entry tags:
- † aisha al-fadhil,
- † asbel lhant,
- † ava ayala,
- † bean,
- † charles xavier,
- † clara oswald,
- † clark kent,
- † damian wayne,
- † dick grayson,
- † enjolras,
- † fenris,
- † inara serra,
- † jack frost,
- † jason grace,
- † javert,
- † johan gustav dååhd,
- † korra,
- † mark grayson,
- † michaelangelo,
- † peggy carter,
- † peter parker (animated),
- † prussia,
- † qilby,
- † stocking anarchy,
- † tarrlok,
- † temeraire,
- † una persson,
- † victor borkowski
[audio]
[Her tone is blunt, sharp, faintly accented. No preamble.]
We are here to fight a war. How many of you are remotely prepared?
[She's guessing like three. But then again, she has high standards for preparedness.]
We are here to fight a war. How many of you are remotely prepared?
[She's guessing like three. But then again, she has high standards for preparedness.]
permavid/audio
[Her tone is sharp, focused. Potential weapons, yes, good.]
I am called Aisha.
permavid/audio
[The name doesn’t ring any bells at all. Definitely someone from her previous stay on Tu Vishan. Losing those memories was still hard for to get over, but she’s coping a lot better now than when she first learned about it.]
What about you? Which kind of fight are you prepared for?
permavid/audio
[She says that frankly, as she assumes it's how she arrived here. Unless of course she's simply gone mad on that last battlefield and this is one (remarkably) extended hallucination after the warhead detonated, perhaps while she lies dying there.]
Explain this 'spirit world'.
[She's a virulent atheist, Korra, spirituality is just not really her jam.]
There is no fight I am not prepared for. It is in my blood.
permavid/audio
The Spirit World co-exists with the physical world, parallel but on a different plane. I mean there are some spots throughout the physical world that have a strong spiritual connection like the north pole, but usually the physical world can’t see or interact with the Spirit World and vice-versa.
Usually. There are some things that I’ve been told have happened in the past; like the spirit: Wan Shi Tong and his legendary library in the Si Wong desert.
[Of course this all sounds absolutely normal to Korra since that tale came from her waterbending master Katara.]
The Avatar is a bridge, a connection, from the physical to the Spirit World and is the only person capable of going there. [As far as she knew.] But since I haven’t actually been there yet, I really couldn’t say what I can do in the Spirit World. The only spiritual contact I’ve had has been with the past Avatars and they are kind of- a part of me; I guess? [Never has she had to describe that stuff since most people either knew about the Spirit World or didn’t care about it at all.]
It’s a work in progress without a master to teach me. [She doesn’t sound too happy about that.]
I take it you’ve got nothing like that back home?
permavid/audio
No. I do not believe in religion or spirituality. Those that do are deluded.
permavid/audio
[Because the mature way to handle that is by being immature. Avatar logic.]
permavid/audio
With extreme prejudice. Each thing that exists has a weakness. We need only to find it, strike at it. Each war is like every other war.
permavid/audio
Yeah? What weakness is that? That spirit is going to be just like any other, immune to anything from the physical world. So unless you're one of the magic users or superheroes with freaky powers I don't see this being like every other war.
[Any fatigue from her workout is long since forgotten now.]
permavid/audio
Then those that can fight spirits become tools, and I use them. Either way, I intend to win.
permavid/audio
[Staring at the microphone for a brief moment, Korra can't stop herself from asking.] Didn't your parents teach you anything about that stuff?
[Having a tribal background, this questions isn't one that she doesn't have to ask that often.]
permavid/audio
War is about using people. Teams are a pleasant fiction, but they rarely function to their full potential in real life.
[Like the Losers, actually.]
My father was a warlord who kept children as slaves and who sent me to war at six years old, my mother has been dead more than thirty years. Who was meant to teach me, exactly?
permavid/audio
...I'm sorry. I-I didn't know. [As usual, Korra assumed everyone had wonderful parents like hers that were still alive, well, and supportive.]
Six? [Four years of age was her introduction to Avatar training, but it's not actual, life or death war.] Why would you even want to go to war now?
permavid/audio
War is my life. I enjoy it. Do not misplace your pity, little girl, no one has ever been able to make me do something I do not wish to do.
permavid/audio
You weren't kidding when you said you were prepared... If I find anything out about the creatures weakness, I'll post it up on the network. For you to use.
[Another lesson for Korra in how different Tu Vishan is from her home world.]
permavid/audio
Such information would not go to waste.