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you know
if she were my REAL mom
i bet she wouldnt have kicked me out of the house with just one lunchbox for a THREE DAY FUCKIN SLOG
i mean what the fuck!
she didnt even present me with a lovingly handstitched sweater with which to brave the elements out here which i might add are somewhat less than ideal at the moment
i mean jesus
the shirt she packed me doesnt even have sleeves??
how much transdimensional video game relocation bullshit does a guy have to go through to get some partway decent parental supervision going on
youd think a franchise literally designed for four year olds would be more kid friendly
come on wheres the endless supply of crustless pb and js that oughta be in my inventory
where are my hard earned vanilla dunkaroos
even my little psychic helmet guy knows this is prime horseshit i can tell by the faint look of pity and abject confusion on the visible sliver of his face every time he looks at me
right little buddy
yeah he gets it
do i look like a young man with the know how to forage for edibles in the eight bit rainforest
of course not

[This is text. He doesn't look like anything, except red. Red and text. A lot of both.]

if you threw an apple at my face right now i probably wouldnt even recognize the fresh produce
thats how long ive been cooling my heels in fakey realchemized space ration hell
do they have apples here even
omfg if i literally bled for this shit and even the weird nintendo wet dream nerd bubble lacks the means to provide me a consolatory glass of aj for the travesty thats been my life im gonna
well im gonna just shut up and deal with it like i have for the past three years i guess
but youll all know im not happy about the situation

anyway
hey

a/s/l?

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What's wrong with always being a hero?

Uh, getting your ass murdered? Constantly? That usually tends to suck. Look, I'm not trying to crap all over the do-gooder lifestyle if that's your bliss, let's just accept that not all of us are cut out for it and move on.

Okay, okay, fair point. It's not for everybody.

Right.

...

Is it your thing? The hero thing?

Yeah, you could say that's definitely my 'thing'.

I'm Korra, by the way.

Dave. Strider.

[He pauses.]

You like it? Being the hero, and all. It works for you?

Which one do you go by?

Well...yeah. I can't imagine not doing it. It's kind of what I was born to do. Literally.

Dave.

[Strider's what they call him when they're mad at him for poor architectural planning in the middle of a firestorm.]

And you're okay with that? Like, with going along with that kind of prophecy stuff or whatever?

It's not a prophecy sort of thing, really. It's...a long story. But every generation in my world, an Avatar is born. That's someone who can do things other people can't, and is the reincarnation of the first Avatar, and it's a whole big thing. There've been hundreds. And that's me.

It's a huge honor. And I get to spend my life helping people and making the world better.

[Hopefully better.]

...Like the Dalai Lama. That's literally the backstory of the Dalai Lama.

Really?

[That's kind of cool, Korra's never heard of anything similar to the Avatar before.]

Can the Dalai Lama master all the elements, too? That's how we know who's the Avatar.

Uh, the elements? Like, hydrogen and plutonium? I'm pretty sure he was more of a spiritual leader, but, I dunno, maybe all those centuries of reincarnation gave him a leg up on science.

No like water, fire, earth, air...

In my world, there's this ability called bending. People born with it can control an element. There's waterbenders and firebenders and earthbenders and airbenders, but there weren't those for a long time. Another long story. Only the Avatar can bend all four elements.

Ohhh, so you're like a magic Dalai Lama.

[...]

That's cool. It's just those four, though? No, like. Spacebending? Or Timebending?

I guess?

Well, there's like subsets of bending. Some earthebenders can bend metal or lava - I can bend metal, but not lava. And some firebenders can bend lightning.

But it's just the four elements. Those are what keep everything in harmony and balance.

It's a good number, four. Nice, round number. Kind of leaves out a lot of the metaphysical stuff, though.

What do you mean?

Well, like. What about luck? Or healing? Or does that stuff just not happen.

Uh...I don't know what luck has to do with anything, but waterbending can do all kinds of healing.

Between the four elements, everything's covered. Either literally or symbolically.

Well, no, not totally. I don't see how any of that would cover some of the human Aspects, like Mind.

And definitely none of that addresses Time.

Oh no, it totally covers that kind of stuff. Uh...the spiritual and symbolic side of things was never my strong point, but I think water covers time and air would be mind.

One of my teachers could explain it way better.

Water covers Time? ...Huh. I always associated that shit more with Light...

Yeah like....flowing time, flowing water, a river only moves in one direction and carries everything floating in it along....

--Okay, but time definitely doesn't move in just one direction. Just so you know.

For most normal people, it does.

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