week one

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Week 1

[After the initial introduction of the Overseers, the Champions were left to their own devices in investigating the part of the ship they have access to to their hearts' content. However, the doors that Blaze Dudely and Rox came through are locked tight and cannot be unlocked via PIP.

On Wednesday morning, the same voice that awakened them the previous morning chirps at them again from their PIPs at 7 am on the dot.



Enjoy your week, Champions.]

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

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[newcycle]

[korra does not follow your persona rank system, deal w it]

Yeah.

And I mean the compound I grew up on-- where I learned most of my bending. They kept me there to protect me from an organization called the Red Lotus, though a lot of good that did.

[stillstands]

[Oh. Miki straightens up from where she was still crouched over the box, and brushes off the front of her unitard.]

You were hunted by someone?

[Being hunted is... certainly something she can empathise with.]

[newcycle]

Yeah. The Red Lotus.

"The natural order of the world is chaos."

[she sounds annoyed when she says it, after the conversation with Zaheer.]

They're... I don't know how to describe it. But they're a secret organization, and I still don't entirely understand their motives.

[stillstands]

A secret organisation?

[That sounds... oddly official.]

So you're someone important enough to have been targeted by an entire organisation. Are you royalty?

[It would make the whole 'never had to worry about food-slash-cook ever' thing mak a little more sense.]

[newcycle]

No, I'm the Avatar.

[she doesn't think of herself as royalty... even though it's sort of true, now.]

My job is to bring balance to the world.

[stillstands]

[... The point.

Miki.]

That doesn't mean a lot to me. What do you mean "bring balance to the world"? In what area, what field?

[Financial balance? Power balance...?]

[newcycle]

Well-- in everything, I guess.

Right now, I'm trying to bring back airbending.

That's... what I was working on, before I got kidnapped. And I was on a timeline, too...

[stillstands]

[God. Okay. That's a lot of information all at once. Let's pick this apart...]

First thing... what's airbending?

[newcycle]

[let's say that also she's long ago taken her ravioli off the burner-- because she pauses and...


airbends some wind to cool it off a little?]

That.

[stillstands]

[good plan batman.

...

... ?!]

Manipulating the air...?!

[newcycle]

Yeah.

The other elements are similar to that, too.

[stillstands]

[OTHER elements?]

So you can do that with fire, water, earth...? [She's counting it off on her fingers. Help her out, Korra, you guys got like four new thigs to mess with since Aang.]

[newcycle]

Yeah, and air.

[honestly korra's only good at metal bending out of that new subset and also

metalbending the ship was discouraged. OOPS.]

And I've got the Avatar state, too.

[stillstands]

The Avatar state.

[No, please. Explain.]

[newcycle]

It's... better shown than explained.

[so-- see her glow-y eyes.]

[stillstands]

[Ack.

Miki takes a steady step backwards, eyes wide.]

R-right. [It doesn't explain a lot, but... she can guess it's something to do with pure power? Power levels?]

So this is what the lotus group are targeting you for...? The fact you can manipulate so many different elements and do this shining thing.

[newcycle]

[avatar state: off]

I... guess. They view the Avatar as standing in their way of their ultimate goal, at least.

[stillstands]

[wax, on. wax, off.]

That "natural order of the world" thing you mentioned?

[newcycle]

Right! Because I'm supposed to bring balance to the world, and they don't agree with that.

[HUFFS. EATS A RAVIOLI and]

Oh. This is actually good.

[stillstands]

[That whole "balance to the world" thing is almost frustratingly vague. How on earth are you supposed to figure out what it is you're supposed to balance? ]

I guess you can't just opt out of it then. With the whole glowing thing...

[Oh right, she had food too. Heading back to the table and ... it's kinda cold but y'know what? She's still gonna eat it.] ]

Which one was that?

[newcycle]

[welcome to her life as the avatar. "figure it out" is the story of the decade for her.]

Not really. And I like being the Avatar.

[a pause]

Beef ravioli.

[stillstands]

[are they all not avatars wandering to the goals of their lives, really?]

I can see how making the elements your plaything would be a perk.

[Huh.]

It... definitely looks more appetising than mine. I'll have to try it next time. [Y'know. When it's actually hot as well.]