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[alphatar]

Hi. My name’s. Korra. I’m the Avatar.

[There’s an awkward pause before she says her name. The cadence in her words is a bit off, a combination of never using the network before (or not that she can recall) and the unknown expectation of who will answer.]

Some of you may know me, I guess?

[Guh, she hates trying to cover it and just tackles the heart of the message.]

Look. I can’t remember anything since I was ghosted. [Or whatever the hell people are calling it.] Not this city, this turtle, or anyone.

But a doctor said that if I just hang around familiar things and people, even scents, then it might help me remember some things. I just, can’t force myself to remember them. So if you recognize me or know something else that could help I’d be grateful.

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[alphatar]

[Her eyes widen at ‘reincarnation’ and her mouth goes slack at ‘cycle’.

She just stays like that for a moment while staring at the younger boy.]

I…have no idea what you just said.

[12goingon113]

[His arrow furrows. What's the best way to break this down to its most elemental point...]

When I die I become you, and when you die, we'll become someone else, someone from the Earth Kingdom.

[alphatar]

Oh, I know what reincarnation means. I mean, how does that even work if we’re here?

Alive.

Talking to each other.

[Maybe you don’t know how reincarnation works, Aang. Really, she has no idea what an Avatar is besides some title and bending elements. Or that people come from different points in time for that matter.]

[12goingon113]

[Oh great, put the poor kid on the spot why don't you!]

Well...time is an illusion, so it kind of only stands to reason that this makes sense in light of that. Also, I used to talk to my...er our past life Roku all the time back when I was home.

[alphatar]

Uh-huh.

So I'm talking to my past life like you talk to yours and we all just have big parties forever, because it’s not really forever since time isn’t real.

[see: icon]

[12goingon113]

Yes...no....I don't know. I don't know how any of this works, because all the stuff I needed to learn was lost when the Fire Nation...it doesn't matter.

[alphatar]

[Fire Nation she recognizes since Mako half that and half Earth Kingdom.]

What did the Fire Nation do?

[12goingon113]

[He looks up at her with utter devastation in his eyes. He doesn't answer right away, he just holds her gaze with his own. His word choice is succinct, and his delivery near dispassionate.]

They took everything from me, and nearly destroy the world doing it.

[alphatar]

[Memories or no, seeing a boy with that kind of hurt is not something she ever wants to see. Her features soften before becoming laden with a pained look from the sympathy she felt.]

I'm so sorry, I didn't know.

[I doesn’t help, but she feels it must be said. Some kind of admittance.]

I’m a firebender.

[It’s muttered, her face still winced at the thought of an entire nation doing something that destructive. Why it felt like it was necessary to mention is because of how closely she feels connected to Fire and how it was the first element she used after apparently losing her memories.]

[12goingon113]

I know. You're the Avatar. We're all firebenders.

[whether we like it or not... is left unsaid, though heavily implied.]

[alphatar]

But I feel it. I know he told me I’m from the Southern Water Tribe, but it’s just something I really-

[She just gestures helplessly with her hands to describe how her very core just resonates with Fire.]

It’s not even something I remember, just something that’s there.

[After a pause, she blinks a few times and looks at Aang.]

We?

[12goingon113]

[He nods.

Aang never had that connection with fire, and truth be told that lack of connection helps to fuel his fear of it. But Pahtik was right, the Avatar is a firebender and to deny that fact is a lie internally told.

His expression shifts. If she is the next Avatar after him, maybe the ease of which she wields fire has something to do with the difficulty he's had with it in the past...]

I'm the Avatar before you...I think.

[alphatar]

Before me, how?

[Now she’s just stumped and it’s not making any sense.]

Like I said earlier, we’re both right here.

…right?

[12goingon113]

[Monkeyfeathers, this is frustrating. He wasn't anywhere near this frustrating to Roku...was he?]

We wouldn't be if we weren't here. If you were home, I'd already be dead.

[His eyes widen after those words come out. It...it's one thing to know a thing, and it's another to blurt it out that way.]

[alphatar]

[Then it clicks. Sort of. Time being an illusion makes more sense when she applies it to being on the turtle, and to what he just said.]

...then maybe I did hear you. But not you-you. The you back when you- died. [Wince.] Because there's only supposed to be one Avatar back home, right?

[It’s an honest question, all of this she’s just trying to piece together from what Mako had told her along with what Aang’s been saying.]

[12goingon113]

[He nods again.]

That's what the monks told me.

[alphatar]

[…monks.]

Hey! [She pointed at Aang suddenly.]

I have clothes just like your Air Nomad clothes! [It might sound like an off the wall thing to mention to most, but that was a sudden memory that just popped out of nowhere.]

It should be in my closet. [Something she never bothered with, but now she remembers seeing it in there from before visiting the museum.]

[12goingon113]

[They're not even in the same room, and yet when she points at him he leans back as if to avoid her hand.]

You do? Can you airbend?

[alphatar]

Yeah and, yeah! Don’t go anywhere.

[Slamming her hands onto the desk in triumph, Korra is out of that chair and skidding to a stop in her room. Fetching the airbender clothing, she’s right back in her seat. All the hubbub catches Naga’s attention.]

See! [She holds up the yellow and red threads.] If we’re firebenders, then we’re also airbenders, right?

[12goingon113]

[Aang's eyes go wide, and they stay that way. It's been so long since he's seen someone else with those colors.

Not the mock ups worn by the pretenders awaiting transport to Ba Sing Se, but...actual Air Nomad training robes exactly like his. And in a great deal better shape than the ones he's wearing now, which are patched up versions of their former glory thanks to his kedan friends.

He's speechless. Utterly, totally, speechless.]

[alphatar]

[This is the first time she’s touched them. Well, the first time since she forgot everything ever. After giving them a rub with her fingers, she notices Aang being stock still and incredibly quiet.]

Yeah, I know. I’m thinking the same thing.

“What if they don’t fit me.” I’ll go find out.

[With that same energy, she’s off screen and back in her bedroom to change. When she comes back, she’s wearing the full outfit.]

Wow, perfect fit. [They had to be tailor made, the quality is too good otherwise.]

It feels real- [She visibly searches for the word, her eyes darting around as if it’s hiding somewhere in the room.]

free.

[12goingon113]

[Eventually he manages to string some words together.]

No one's worn those in over a hundred years. Well, no one but me. If you have them, it means you're in training, but haven't mastered air yet.

[alphatar]

[Her brow furrows and she sits down again.]

That’s- wow, that’s a long time. [Now she can’t help but wonder who made her the clothes.] I guess I should start practicing it.

…again?

[12goingon113]

[He tries to keep eye contact with her, but his attention keeps getting pulled back to the robes.]

Might not be a bad idea. I...I could help, if...if you wanted.

[Someone to practice airbending with...
Aang allows himself to hope.]

[alphatar]

[Her eyes are up here Aang, GOSH.]

Sure! Right now I need all the help I need, and since bending's the only thing I can remember, maybe doing more of it will help with other things.

[Talking with Aang gave one memory and small and insignificant as it was, it was still progress.]