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theideaguy) wrote2014-09-15 10:29 pm
theideaguy) wrote2014-09-15 10:29 pm
Plan D | [Action/Text]
[Action]
[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?
[Action]
[Ah well... that was just his luck, wasn't it?]
Ah well, we'll just have to figure out a way to do it from scratch then. At least find some way to power them through something that at least closely resembles whatever power looks like in your world.
[Action]
[ That's all that matters ok ]
Hmmm... well we use electricity in our world. When things like the power goes out electric Pokemon, like Pikachu, can generate electricity to help the power come back on?
[ Though who knows how that can help with Pokeballs, really. ]
[Action]
Generate electricity? [He'd certainly read about that and more or less figured out the gist of it.] Hmmm, well if we had some way of storing that electricity into tiny little things that could provide that power little by little over a long time, we could probably use something like that.
[Of course, once he figures out how to transmute real matter into energy and vice versa.]
[Action]
Like... a chip or something? Make you could like connect a cable to something that can use electricity and do it that way.
[ Ash does that even remotely makes sense to anyone but you who knows]
[Action]
[He pauses for a moment to consider something.]
Buuuut... just because yours might not doesn't mean ours has to. All we have to do is provide something that emulates that energy source, and we can improvise that, I imagine. Either using magic or by... using the electricity we have in our houses.
That could work!
[Hey, it at least made enough sense to Sokka?]
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[ Though Ash gave Sokka the top half tolook at not a bottom half so... ]
But if you can charge one up then maybe you'll have a working up! However ya end up doing it.
[ Because really he doesn't know. ]
[Action]
Well, don't you have other non-broken Poké Balls to take a peek at to see if it's got something to plug into? [After all, if the explanation Ash gave him was legit, he should have at least three functional Poké Balls. They can test this here and now without having to speculate.
[But still, Sokka feels like he's got a plan, even if it's a rudimentary and hand-wavey plan.]
[Action]
[ He's said this before but yeah. It would be bad if Pikachu wasn't his pokemon anymore. ]
And if I could I would let you see a Pokeball that hasn't been used but I don't think I've got one. Sorry.
[ He even looks sorry. He really wants to help you with this okay Sokka. ]
[Action]
I only want to look at one of them to see if it's got a plug. No experiments, no tinkering. Just looking! You can even hold it while I look!
[Action]
[ Forexample if the Pokeball doesn't want to open don't try to open it, and things like that. ]
[Action]
[Okay, that's not entirely true.
[But Sokka does take it and is extremely careful with it. He looks it over extremely closely, trying to see if there's anything that's an obvious sort of device or port or anything that you could jam into it. But even as he rotates the ball around, spinning about the seam, he just looks completely frustrated by it.]
Really? Nothing?! Ugh.
[He hands the Ball back and then just turns around and crosses his hands over his chest, looking similar to Snivy might.]
Nope, just like I thought. Nothing that I can find. It's just got to be internally powered and then assembled before shipped out. No on/off switch. No plug or port. Just a perfectly smooth device.
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I'm sorry. Maybe some other trainer could tell you how the pokeballs are powered better than I can. [ It's a shame Professor Oak isn't here. He would know! ]
[Action]
that Ash's world is primarily inhabited by crazy juveniles.]Yeah, maybe. Oh well, I'll let you know how it goes.