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cyclicality2014-11-11 12:37 pm
abitofawildman) wrote in cyclicality2014-11-11 12:37 pm
[001] Monthly Catch All
If you could go back in time forty-five some odd years ago, and ask a teenage Bumi what the worst possible outcome of his life could be, he'd tell you:
Trapped at an Air Temple, pretending to be an airbender.
Bumi thinks a lot about this now, as he holds down Air Temple Island as if it were a fort.
With Tenzin and Pema no where to be found, and Jinora and Korra off to a Spirit Portal, Bumi is the highest ranking officer on deck, as horrifying for all involved as that is.
The spirits, it seems, are not without a sense of humor.
1) The Radio Room
With the Barrier down communications that were once off-line are now once again operational, and Bumi spends a few hours here several times a day. Information pours in from the Air Temples and he's been trying to reach the Water Tribes in an effort to find his brother and sister.
Looking to find family, or possibly a crash course in Morse Code? Then this is a good place for you.
2) The kitchen
People need to eat, and Bumi is more than skilled at making the most of limited provisions.
The menu is Hot and A Lot. The ingredients are both vegetarian and...less so.
(Don't worry, he's using separate cooking implements for the meat goods.
3) The meditation pavilion
He's never really been all that fantastic at meditation, or at least the kind of it that involves sitting still and keeping his mind clear, but at this point even Bumi is willing to try just about anything.
4) About town
Times are getting tougher, but there's still a lot to trade and be traded for, and so Bumi finds himself on various logistical missions getting for the Island things that it cannot produce for itself.
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Trapped at an Air Temple, pretending to be an airbender.
Bumi thinks a lot about this now, as he holds down Air Temple Island as if it were a fort.
With Tenzin and Pema no where to be found, and Jinora and Korra off to a Spirit Portal, Bumi is the highest ranking officer on deck, as horrifying for all involved as that is.
The spirits, it seems, are not without a sense of humor.
1) The Radio Room
With the Barrier down communications that were once off-line are now once again operational, and Bumi spends a few hours here several times a day. Information pours in from the Air Temples and he's been trying to reach the Water Tribes in an effort to find his brother and sister.
Looking to find family, or possibly a crash course in Morse Code? Then this is a good place for you.
2) The kitchen
People need to eat, and Bumi is more than skilled at making the most of limited provisions.
The menu is Hot and A Lot. The ingredients are both vegetarian and...less so.
(Don't worry, he's using separate cooking implements for the meat goods.
3) The meditation pavilion
He's never really been all that fantastic at meditation, or at least the kind of it that involves sitting still and keeping his mind clear, but at this point even Bumi is willing to try just about anything.
4) About town
Times are getting tougher, but there's still a lot to trade and be traded for, and so Bumi finds himself on various logistical missions getting for the Island things that it cannot produce for itself.
5) Other
Create your own, for hours of fun!
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What's there to take? We're in the future. There's buildings that are way too big and stuff that flies. Anybody even looking at the others, especially Aang and Katara, knows they're going to have kids. --You know, whenever Twinkletoes gets around to actually telling her he likes her in my time.
[She wiped at her nose with the back of one hand.] Just not me. I'm not doing kids.
Just so you know, though: Whatever you've got up your sleeve about my future, you can stuff it. I don't want to know.
Also, as far as you're concerned? I'm still Yin. Call me Toph in private if you want, but I'm not advertising.
[A blink in turn.] Yeah, he knows. I didn't exactly find this place myself. The underground part, I mean.
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Aunt Toph was never someone to cross. Not as bluntly as that. Not that she was ever Aunt Toph to begin with. Always just Toph, though occasionally Sifu Toph worked in a pinch, but only when trying really hard to kiss up.]
Noted.
[It's here that Bumi puts down his hands, though one does raise back up to stroke thoughtfully at his beard.]
And...I've got to say, for a terrible liar, Aang's done a great job of keeping you secret.
I didn't think he had it in him, honestly.
[And then in an instant, the entire thread of Bumi's thoughts turn left and he's off on a new mental path. One that is bold, enterprising, searching a distant horizon for possibility...and that sounds a bit more Wang Firey than anyone strictly ought to.]
Well, I don't know where we go from here, but...you're more than welcome to bunk here with us. Though, I've got to warn you: I don't run things around here like Tenzin would. Everyone's got a job to do, and no one coasts for free. I don't care what people say about airbender hospitality.
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I'm here to camp out with Aang and wait for my bending to come back.
[She won't go back into that dark place where it might not. She won't.]
[She can't.]
I pull my own weight.
[She's learned to, over time, on a team. Though technically he could take that statement either way.]
As for Aang . . . [She snorts.] Yeah. Well. As long as it didn't come up in conversation, he could probably keep it down.
[As for what they were talking about before she learned who he was . . . she'll distract him from it. Keep away. Because the truth is . . . she can't ever agree.]
[She'd rather bury it again. And hope they both don't remember.]
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A smile which only grows wider when he manages to make her laugh.
Who's distracting who again? Never, don't answer that...in the end it doesn't matter.]
He's a good kid, that one. Very different from how the world remembers him, that's for sure. I'm kind of looking forward to all the double-takes and slack jaws when he goes public.
[Because Bumi knows he will go public at some point. Either by choice or circumstance.
At that moment something occurs to Bumi, and he turns his attention back to BumJu.]
You knew who she was the entire time, didn't you.
[Have you ever heard the long suffering sigh of a very put-upon spirit before? No? Well you have now.]