Sokka the 24th - [Action]

[markofthewise]

[Today Sokka has excused himself from work, because really, Edward is a frigging beast and he's not too happy about the new couch just yet, so hanging out here with nothing to do is kind of pointless. So today he's working hard on one of his other, more important projects. Namely, building a few more canoes, now that he's determined the prototype to be perfectly safe. So Sokka is over beside House 56 (facing House 57 and the road to the barracks), sawing the wood for the second canoe in his 'fleet'.

If you're one of the people who agreed to help him, feel free to already be there doing so. Or if you just happen to be out and about in this obscure part of Luceti, feel free to gawk.]

Comments

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Me? I was an acrobat in the Fire Nation Circus. Probably the best one they ever had.

[markofthewise]

... a circus. I guess that kind of figures. [Although it makes him wonder...]

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

What do you mean it figures?

[markofthewise]

Err, I mean, you are a pretty good acrobat!

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Yeah. One day I coulda even been the Ringmaster, I bet.

[markofthewise]

Yeah, probably. [Although he can't imagine you actually managing anything.] How did you meet Azula, then? She doesn't seem to be too fond of us 'peasants'.

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not a peasant. My dad's a noble-guy, so I went to the Royal Fire Academy for Girls.

That's where I met Azula.

[markofthewise]

[That earns a stare.]

... what, really? You don't... act... like a noble.

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Well I did run away from home. I didn't want to be another boring noble girl

[markofthewise]

Really? Why? Being a noble can't be that bad.

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Maybe if I had been an only child it wouldn't have been. But when you're just the seventh copy of the same noble girl, you kinda want something different.

[markofthewise]

[Wait. Wait. WAIT.

Didn't he read about this in a book!? Or was it in school? He never knew that...]

Your parents CLONED YOU!?

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Uh...

I might as well have been. I have six sisters, actually. And we all look very creepily similar.

[markofthewise]

... oh. [So that's a no on the cloning.]

That's a lot of sisters. One is enough as it is.

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Our parents just sorta treated us like we were one person.

[markofthewise]

... that's pretty rough. I guess I can't blame you for leaving.

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

It kinda sucked. My sisters were great and all, but I wanted to be me, Ty Lee, not a copy of somebody else.

[markofthewise]

Well if it helps, I've never met your sisters. So you're the only Ty Lee I know of.

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

It does. But anyway, Azula just tracked me down at the circus, and convinced-- bullied me into helping her.

[markofthewise]

Oi. That's Azula for you. [But the conversation keeps coming back to her and she's not a happy conversation piece.]

You know, I've never been to a circus. What's it like?

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Really? Ours was the greatest! We had animals, and there were a bunch of performers other than me. We always played to a full house. Hearing everyone gasp at the same time was pretty funny.

[markofthewise]

Sounds pretty fun. Too bad I never had a chance to see it.

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

We played in Fire Nation and some places in the Earth Kingdom. I dunno if we ever woulda gone to the South Pole. We'd have to change everyone's outfits.

[markofthewise]

Well you know, when demons aren't razing grocery stores and people aren't falling in love with eachother randomly, Lucet is a pretty boring place. Maybe you'll get to perform again, sometime.

[standsonhands.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe...

What?