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thelegion2016-01-03 08:59 pm
whyarewehere) wrote in thelegion2016-01-03 08:59 pm
[video] Show Me Your Moves
[The camera bobs and judders as someone sets it up, catching flashes of a scruffy, unkempt face and pale arms and the sky for a moment.]
Okay so I've been thinking, we've got super powers here, right?
[The picture steadies pointing out at what appears to be a beach, but is more likely to just be a simulated section of beach on the Legion World. It falls over, and Grif swears as he rights it again.]
...Anyway. By super powers I mean amazing things you couldn't do before, because otherwise you're just from some world where you can do cool stuff most of us can't and that's not superpowers, that's just life being unfair to the rest of us.
[Satisfied that the comm is stable, Grif steps out in front of it as he continues.]
So, I want to see what you guys can do. And because I am all about being fair, I'm going first.
[He swings his arms a little, takes a couple breaths, then bolts to the waterline. He's nothing but a speed blur followed by a trail of thrashed sand. He stops at the surf and charges back just as quickly. At the end he's doubled over in front of the camera, hands on his knees, huffing and wheezing.]
Whoo!
[He laughs as he catches his breath, which makes it somewhat harder, and is grinning despite how much that tiny display of super speed seems to have taken out of him. In good shape, this guy is not.]
It's like... it feels like everything's normal speed to me when I do it and everything's all slowed down. It's crazy shit, man.
[Grif plunks down heavily in the sand and picks up the comm again, still visibly panting.]
So. That's me. Show me what you got.
((OOC: Feel free to threadhop each other and talk about powers if you like! Grif is encouraging sharing.))
Okay so I've been thinking, we've got super powers here, right?
[The picture steadies pointing out at what appears to be a beach, but is more likely to just be a simulated section of beach on the Legion World. It falls over, and Grif swears as he rights it again.]
...Anyway. By super powers I mean amazing things you couldn't do before, because otherwise you're just from some world where you can do cool stuff most of us can't and that's not superpowers, that's just life being unfair to the rest of us.
[Satisfied that the comm is stable, Grif steps out in front of it as he continues.]
So, I want to see what you guys can do. And because I am all about being fair, I'm going first.
[He swings his arms a little, takes a couple breaths, then bolts to the waterline. He's nothing but a speed blur followed by a trail of thrashed sand. He stops at the surf and charges back just as quickly. At the end he's doubled over in front of the camera, hands on his knees, huffing and wheezing.]
Whoo!
[He laughs as he catches his breath, which makes it somewhat harder, and is grinning despite how much that tiny display of super speed seems to have taken out of him. In good shape, this guy is not.]
It's like... it feels like everything's normal speed to me when I do it and everything's all slowed down. It's crazy shit, man.
[Grif plunks down heavily in the sand and picks up the comm again, still visibly panting.]
So. That's me. Show me what you got.
((OOC: Feel free to threadhop each other and talk about powers if you like! Grif is encouraging sharing.))
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[A pause. Then his voice goes soft.]
There aren't many left. They were hunted nearly to extinction. My uncle found the last two and told everyone he'd killed them so the rest of the world would leave them alone.
Then me and my friend Aang found them and were honored by them teaching us the true meaning of Firebending. We haven't told anyone else about them either.
[He pauses.]
Except for me telling you. Right now.
[Another pause.]
I'm Zuko, by the way. Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation.
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And thanks for that. They might the same kind of dragons I'm used to, but I have sort of a soft spot for dragons in general, if you couldn't tell.
[Toothless decides that now is a good time to lick Hiccup.]
Except when they do that. Seriously, bud, you know that doesn't wash out.
[Toothless definitely seems to know, judging by the strange, honking laugh he gives.]
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You've tamed yours?
[He thinks about the dragons back home.]
Or did he choose you?
[He can't imagine a dragon being truly tamed, only deigning to grace a human with its presence.]
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[A loaded question, not that he knew it.]
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It's more like I found him because he was hurt. Mostly because I was the idiot who did it in the first place.
It's a long story, but it basically boils down to the fact that my people only just stopped hunting dragons about five years ago.
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It...happens.
[Hurting and hunting down people that you realized you shouldn't be. It was strangely comforting to know he wasn't the only one in the universe to make the same mistake -- or the only one to become friends with people he'd hurt.]
My world is at war. It took me a long time to realize it was wrong, but I eventually became friends with the people who used to be my enemies.