Welcome to Republic City!

[cyclicalitymods]

It was a bright and sunny normal day in Republic City. Children were playing, spirits were chirping about, and everything was going along like normal. Well at least that's what everyone seemed to think. That is until so many people seemed to be appearing out of nowhere. For some reason Republic City seemed to be more lively and the crowds bigger.

The spirits have grown restless as if something important was about to change, and to try to fix that change, the spirits with their big long tree like limbs dragged people into the world left and right. Even the vines covering Republic City seemed to help. Although the spirits had the best intentions in mind, some people were more affected by the grab than others. There's talk that people in this city don't even know what this place is. People who have never heard of the words "bender" or "non-bender."

Welcome to Republic City! And to those who already live here: Happy Saturday. Please make yourselves at home and don't mind a little spirit gunk. It's mostly harmless. Go enjoy yourself a classic mover. Maybe you're the athletic type. If that's the case, come watch a few Pro-bending matches or form your own team. Just watch out for any Satomobiles. They can be deadly no matter how pretty the driver is.

Please remember to enjoy your stay and don't cause too much trouble. The Republic City Police don't need more riffraff to take care of. And don't stray too far. To make the the peace is kept, there's a huge spirit barrier around the perimeter of the city. It seems pretty strong, but it won't be able to last forever. Still, it's worrying. Radio signals and telegraphs don't seem to be getting past it.

[ OOC: The game is officially open! From this point on, feel free to make any posts you want or tag into this. Please remember to tag your posts with Canon: Character. Finally, although the game has no real network, you're free to respond with prose or brackets, whatever you're comfortable with. With that said, have fun! ]

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[lordhotman]

Zuko opened his mouth as if to say something. What does she mean by that?! He is Lord Zuko, but that causes him to pause. That must mean that she doesn't recognize him for who he is, but rather that he just looks similar to her? Is there some imposter? What's going on here? He then thinks better of saying anything and closes his mouth with a frown.

"Uh... right."

But something isn't right here, and it's probably not a good idea to go announcing himself as the Fire Lord anyway until he understand what's going on beter.

"What's so great about this city?"

[yangarang]

Though Yang wouldn't have chastised him for it (maybe just laughed a little at most), it really was best he didn't just out and announce he was Fire Lord. Especially when you considered that the current Fire Lord was a woman. She wasn't going to pressure the situation either, but if he wanted to ask her questions she wasn't going to keep him in the dark on anything.

"Well, I guess that depends on who you ask." She turned to look out at the city, it was big and had so much to offer to so many people. "The best part about it? It was founded on the idea that anyone from any nation could live together in harmony." She doesn't bother to point out that the very guy he was dressed as was one of it's founders. "Anyone can move from any nation and start a new life and follow their dreams. There's jobs for about anyone here too."

Not that she cared for just any job, Yang dreamed of joining a Pro-Bending team herself. "My sister and myself came here because she's a brand new Airbender. The Fire Nation is no place for someone just learning airbending. If it wasn't for Republic City, I'm not really sure what we'd do."

[lordhotman]

Zuko listened with great interest as Yang explained. It's amazing that such a city was able to exist in their world. A place where all the separate nations could come together. It brought to mind the Harmony Restoration movement, and what he experienced in Yu Dao. He had wondered if a place like this could be possible, and apparently, it was.

But then there's something in what she says that brings all these thoughts to a hault.

"Wait... how can there be airbenders from the Fire Nation?"

[yangarang]

"You're really not from here, are you?" She chuckles. Yang was pretty sure everyone who was anyone knew about the air benders. After all, they had begun cropping up at random all over the place.

"Well, she wasn't always an airbender. Actually, her and our uncle are the only non-benders in the family. She couldn't even make a spark if her life depended on it." Not to say she couldn't protect herself, it just so happened that the family were also highly trained in martial arts. "It was the Harmonic Convergence, she wasn't the only one either. A lot of non-benders started airbending, though she was the only one on our island."

[lordhotman]

Zuko rubbed at the back of his neck, looking away. "No, I'm not."

He then listened in confusion as she went to explain about he airbenders. How was this even possible? Airbenders just popping out of nowhere?

"What's Harmonic Convergence?"

And how in the world could it make non-benders into airbenders?

[yangarang]

"To be honest, I don't know a lot about it except what we got in the news. Something about the planets aligning and the spirit portals," she shrugs, wishing she could offer more specifics than that.

"Anyway, that's where all these vines came from, and the whole spirit world thing. Rumor has it that's where everyone is coming from." She motions around to the vines that have taken root around them. By this point she's pretty sure it's where this guy is from as well. "Avatar Korra left the worlds opened and here we are. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think the whole airbender thing is a part of it."