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theideaguy) wrote2014-09-15 10:29 pm
theideaguy) wrote2014-09-15 10:29 pm
Plan D | [Action/Text]
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[Ever since the event ended, Sokka has not been in the best of moods. The university shift has messed with his head in some pretty violent ways, and the current shift isn't treating him much better. While he certainly struggled with coping with university classes and the whole thought of being in school again (which, to be honest, there wasn't much of a school to be had i the Southern Water Tribe before the war ended), it's girl issues that have got him down... and namely the sneaking sense that somehow he's betrayed or jilted Suki, his girlfriend from back home who isn't here. All because, for some reason, the recent Shift made him fall head over heels (actually, that's an understatement) for Asami.
Not to mention the fact that he's seeing ghosts of Suki (and even Yue) practically everywhere in Luceti, there's no real safe haven. But the least safe haven is House 56... because everyone he knows—Asami included—are all there. And even if it wasn't his fault (a lot of people have been saying they've been acting weird), well... it certainly doesn't help that some of his dreams aren't of Suki.
So Sokka is spending A LOT of time not at home. For the most part, he will be at the Smithy, Seventh Heaven (no, he's not eating at home right now), the village square, or at the beach. If you run into him, you might notice he's not his usualloud extroverted self and definitely has three shades of guilt written across his face.]
[Action / Smithy / Locked to Leon and Jane Foster]
[One of the primary projects Sokka has been working on in his spare time is figuring out how Poké Balls work. He remembers quite well that Crystal broke one a long time ago, and thanks to Ash and Jane Foster, he's come up with a plan to try to actually create Poké Balls so that, maybe... just maybe... he can understand them enough to fix them. Not that he's told Crystal any of this, mind, but it's a project of passion for the time being trying to reverse engineer technology.
Granted, he's not gotten far yet. However, if someone were to invade upon the inner sanctums of the forge, one might find Sokka in the finishing touches of molding and assembling two metallic half-spheres together, complete with a clasp and a release button. It's not a functional ball by any means; though there's clearly an effort to try to somehow power it inside (there's some wires sticking out of it for good measure). There's also a couple of obviously failed attempts to create two perfect half-spheres. At least his latest creation resembles the real thing.]
[Action / House 56]
[Because Sokka is beating himself up on the inside, he's avoiding confronting the problem, and that means sneaking in and out of the house at a couple of odd hours. The door to his room is locked, and generally he isn't doing lunch or dinner at Avatar House like he usually does. Instead, there's a series of tied together sheets sticking out of his window during the daytime hours.
It's not that Sokka doesn't want to talk to anyone there.It's just that Sokka doesn't want to talk to anyone there. It's that Sokka would prefer to reason it out himself before confronting the situation, but honestly... given how tired he looks, given how little sleep he's been getting, maybe it's a good idea for a few good friends to actually talk with him. Were someone going to be mean and remove the makeshift ladder to his room, he's going to go up the slide and have to pick the lock to his room, and that's... going to take a small bit of time.]
[Text / Locked against Asami]
So hypothetically, let's say that someone has a girlfriend waiting for them back home. And that that girlfriend isn't here in Luceti. And hypothetically, let's also say that, well, maybe due to forces completely beyond your control, like maybe during a shift, that person happened to get into a rather... deep relationship with someone else.
So then (hypothetically mind!), is that considered cheating?
Even more so, is it considered cheating if that person is still having dreams about that new relationship? That they weren't responsible for?
Oh yeah, and this person is also seeing ghosts or spirits of both this current and his former girlfriends everywhere here. Wherever he goes. As he's going to work, as he's eating lunch, at the beach. When he wakes up they're in his bed. Sometimes it seems like they want him to follow them, but then they turn around a corner and disappear.
I'm going insane.
It's driving this person insane. Hypothetically.
[Good save, Sokka. I'm sure they're not going to figure it out.]
EDIT: [Action / House 56 (a day or two later) / locked to Asami]
[After doing a lot of thinking and a lot of talking, Sokka has at least come to a few decisions about where things were. He still didn't entirely know where he felt, and he especially didn't where Asami was after it was all said and done with, but he did know deep down that he had to resolve this whole thing with her, partially for his own sake (and also so that he didn't feel like he had to keep sneaking through the house to avoid awkward meet-ups).
And so finally, instead of climbing up through the window, he comes into the front door and... hoping that he's lucky to catch her at home, knocks on Asami's door. While during the shift he practically could come in uninvited, he wasn't going to do that here.]
Hey, Asami, you in?
[Ever since the event ended, Sokka has not been in the best of moods. The university shift has messed with his head in some pretty violent ways, and the current shift isn't treating him much better. While he certainly struggled with coping with university classes and the whole thought of being in school again (which, to be honest, there wasn't much of a school to be had i the Southern Water Tribe before the war ended), it's girl issues that have got him down... and namely the sneaking sense that somehow he's betrayed or jilted Suki, his girlfriend from back home who isn't here. All because, for some reason, the recent Shift made him fall head over heels (actually, that's an understatement) for Asami.
Not to mention the fact that he's seeing ghosts of Suki (and even Yue) practically everywhere in Luceti, there's no real safe haven. But the least safe haven is House 56... because everyone he knows—Asami included—are all there. And even if it wasn't his fault (a lot of people have been saying they've been acting weird), well... it certainly doesn't help that some of his dreams aren't of Suki.
So Sokka is spending A LOT of time not at home. For the most part, he will be at the Smithy, Seventh Heaven (no, he's not eating at home right now), the village square, or at the beach. If you run into him, you might notice he's not his usual
[Action / Smithy / Locked to Leon and Jane Foster]
[One of the primary projects Sokka has been working on in his spare time is figuring out how Poké Balls work. He remembers quite well that Crystal broke one a long time ago, and thanks to Ash and Jane Foster, he's come up with a plan to try to actually create Poké Balls so that, maybe... just maybe... he can understand them enough to fix them. Not that he's told Crystal any of this, mind, but it's a project of passion for the time being trying to reverse engineer technology.
Granted, he's not gotten far yet. However, if someone were to invade upon the inner sanctums of the forge, one might find Sokka in the finishing touches of molding and assembling two metallic half-spheres together, complete with a clasp and a release button. It's not a functional ball by any means; though there's clearly an effort to try to somehow power it inside (there's some wires sticking out of it for good measure). There's also a couple of obviously failed attempts to create two perfect half-spheres. At least his latest creation resembles the real thing.]
[Action / House 56]
[Because Sokka is beating himself up on the inside, he's avoiding confronting the problem, and that means sneaking in and out of the house at a couple of odd hours. The door to his room is locked, and generally he isn't doing lunch or dinner at Avatar House like he usually does. Instead, there's a series of tied together sheets sticking out of his window during the daytime hours.
It's not that Sokka doesn't want to talk to anyone there.
[Text / Locked against Asami]
So hypothetically, let's say that someone has a girlfriend waiting for them back home. And that that girlfriend isn't here in Luceti. And hypothetically, let's also say that, well, maybe due to forces completely beyond your control, like maybe during a shift, that person happened to get into a rather... deep relationship with someone else.
So then (hypothetically mind!), is that considered cheating?
Even more so, is it considered cheating if that person is still having dreams about that new relationship? That they weren't responsible for?
Oh yeah, and this person is also seeing ghosts or spirits of both this current and his former girlfriends everywhere here. Wherever he goes. As he's going to work, as he's eating lunch, at the beach. When he wakes up they're in his bed. Sometimes it seems like they want him to follow them, but then they turn around a corner and disappear.
It's driving this person insane. Hypothetically.
[Good save, Sokka. I'm sure they're not going to figure it out.]
EDIT: [Action / House 56 (a day or two later) / locked to Asami]
[After doing a lot of thinking and a lot of talking, Sokka has at least come to a few decisions about where things were. He still didn't entirely know where he felt, and he especially didn't where Asami was after it was all said and done with, but he did know deep down that he had to resolve this whole thing with her, partially for his own sake (and also so that he didn't feel like he had to keep sneaking through the house to avoid awkward meet-ups).
And so finally, instead of climbing up through the window, he comes into the front door and... hoping that he's lucky to catch her at home, knocks on Asami's door. While during the shift he practically could come in uninvited, he wasn't going to do that here.]
Hey, Asami, you in?
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I'm starting to notice that pattern. So what's this one for?
[Because he really has no idea what this sphere does]
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[He holds one up and demonstrates the button on the front, and the sphere pops open to reveal a simple metallic interior.]
It's called a Poké Ball. Apparently in these kids' world, they've got these animal things that they call Pokémon, and they can be captured with these things. Or... things that look like this. This one isn't working yet. And then they train them and use them for fighting.
I'm trying to figure out how to make these things based upon a broken one since one of the girls apparently has a broken one, but the first step is actually trying to build a working one. But the technology is really unlike anything from my world.
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[Don't mind him. He's had to hold funerals every time he stepped on a spider for the past few years.
Back to the technology though.]
Something that small. There must be some sort of spacial folding.
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You mean like it's bigger on the inside? Possibly, though I'm not entirely sure that's what's going on. When they're released and returned to their Poké Balls, they pretty much look like they transform into a beam of energy, so I'm not even sure that they actually exist in there.
And—okay, you're probably going to laugh at me being ignorant, but we don't have these in my world—they kind of sound vaguely like... "computers"? And that the animals are "data"? I don't know; I'm entirely guessing here, partially because I've only got what I've read since coming here to go on.
But from what I've heard, once a particular Ball has captured a creature, no other Ball is able to capture it until it's specifically released in the wild. So there's got to be something that tags a captured creature to a specific Ball. Some sort of mark that the capturing process does.
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[That would have been convenient. He knows hyperdrives.]
The creatures emerge unharmed? After being converted to energy?
[The only thing he could think of that converted matter to energy didn't really have an option for converting anything back.]
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[Sokka shrugs and scratches his head against that.]
The best I can figure is that there's got to be some inner lining somewhere in the metal that's used to hold the creature. But of course, the challenge is actually getting that to, you know, work.
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[He's acting on the assumption that the data thing is correct, of course]
There must be an electronic component of some sort.
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For right now, these are just shells. Actually, two shells. [He opens the Poké Ball wide, and once he does so, Sokka removes a shell that actually rested inside of it.]
Looking at the original, the inside was just finished metal, so the circuitry or whatever powers it has to be woven inside the Ball itself. And so... voila! Whatever I need to do can go between the two shells!
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[It's an interesting project.]
You never got a chance to see what was between the shells in the original?
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I wish I could. Unfortunately, the one I was building my replica off of was a momento. Even if it was pretty much permanently broken, I couldn't tear it open to get a look at it. I mean, I really think there's something in there, but I didn't want to risk breaking it just to satisfy my curiosity.
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[He understands sentimentality with machines. Completely.]
Is there anyone still here from the world those come from?
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Well... other than the fact that most of them are just kids... [He shrugs though and nods.] Still, it wouldn't hurt to ask.
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And I imagine, since this is their livelihood, that there's nothing more that they could be excited about, hmm? I'll have to reach out to them then. Someone might have heard something.
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[Assuming they go to school, of course]
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One would hope they go to school, but any world that sends their 10 year olds out into the world to start throwing tiny monsters at each other in order handle conflict resolution doesn't seem all that crazy smart.
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They do what?
[What kind of messed up universe considers that normal?]
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Hey, don't blame the messenger on this one. My universe makes a lot more sense than theirs does.
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That is a strange universe. What do the adults do?
[Apparently the answer is not "parent the children".]
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Well, okay, there was one older trainer who apparently helped run the league that let the 10 year olds run around the world, but he's not much that older than me. He might not be an adult by your standards.
[Not that Sokka is calling Han old; he's more so saying that he's a lot younger than Han is.]
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[Though that is definitely an advantage to droids everywhere.]
I'm not sure if an adult of any age overseeing it makes it better or worse.
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I just hope their world makes more sense to them than it does to us... and also that this world doesn't completely break them. If ten year olds are wandering around the world without their parents, they must live in some Everything-Is-Wonderful dreamworld or something.
[But they digress.]
At any rate, it makes all the more sense to at least look out for them since... well, they are still kids.
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[Happy go lucky worlds or dark ones. They're just kids. Which is why he'll stick to just missing his as long as he's here. He wants to miss them. Better than have them in this.]
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